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Journaux intimes

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De la vaporisation et de la centralisation du Moi. Tout est là. D'une certaine jouissance sensuelle dans la société des extravagants. (Je pense commencer Mon coeur mis à nu n'importe où, n'importe comment, et le continuer au jour le jour, suivant l'inspiration du jour et de la circonstance, pourvu que l'inspiration soit vive).

All'avogadro si cominciava a ottobre

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Dopo aver osservato con particolare dedizione gli angoli più sconosciuti del nostro pianeta, l’antropologo Marco Aime ha cercato le origini di questa sua passione nei ricordi del quinquennio 1970/75, quando frequentava l’istituto tecnico Avogadro di Torino, una scuola per figli di operai che ambivano a diventare tecnici o impiegati. In questo libro dall’approccio ironico si raccontano i conflitti generazionali e le contestazioni politiche, ma anche la stupidità giovanile, l’istintiva voglia di trasgredire e il desiderio di vivere un’esperienza totale insieme ad altri compagni di viaggio. Un racconto che unisce la capacità di rievocare la memoria storica condivisa a un irresistibile ritmo narrativo, attraversato da una colonna sonora composta dai cantautori e dai più famosi gruppi pop e rock dell’epoca. Musica straordinaria catturata nel momento in cui entrava prepotentemente nel ciclo di formazione di uno studente. Una storia di anni plurali e di amicizia, quella più profonda, che lega per la vita, perché è cominciata nella gioventù. Sullo sfondo una Torino d’altri tempi, dove la Fiat, nonostante fosse chiamata “la feroce”, costruiva ancora auto. L’autobiografia di una torma agitata di giovani che, a differenza dei loro genitori, poterono accedere allo studio superiore e che perciò si sentirono protagonisti di un mondo da cambiare completamente. Prefazione di Andrea Bajani

The Story of My Life (The Complete Memoirs of Giacomo Casanova, Volume 9 of 12)

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A Venetian adventurer, author, and lifelong womanizer, the name of Casanova has become interchangeable with the art of seduction since the 18th century. In his most notable book, "Story of My Life," Casanova narrates countless tales of the people with whom he interacted: lovers, European royalty, clergymen, and artists such as Goethe, Voltaire, and Mozart. His writing demonstrates his talent for dialogue, while his life seems an inadvertent testament to skill in plot development. Casanova gambled, spied, translated, dueled, schemed, traveled, and observed people of all levels of society, having been born of two actors and becoming a self-made gentleman. He writes of his life without regret, recalling his adventures, from necromancy to imprisonment, with general honesty and the occasional embellishment, and always with a good humor. In this remarkable celebration of the senses, Casanova proves his talent for storytelling by revealing a refreshingly authentic view of the customs and everyday life of social 18th century Europeans, ultimately proving his claim that "I can say I have lived." In this edition you will find the ninth of twelve volumes of "The Complete Memoirs."

The Comfort of Crows (Reese's Book Club Pick)

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REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK“A beautiful love letter to nature and the world around us.”—Reese Witherspoon (Reese’s Book Club September ’24 Pick)THE PERFECT GIFT FOR NATURE LOVERS, BIRDERS, AND GARDENERS, WITH ORIGINAL COLOR ART THROUGHOUT * USA TODAY BESTSELLER * NATIONAL BESTSELLER * INDIE NEXT PICKFrom the beloved New York Times opinion writer: a luminous book that traces the passing of seasons, both personal and natural.In The Comfort of Crows, Margaret Renkl presents a literary devotional: fifty-two chapters that follow the creatures and plants in her backyard over the course of a year. As we move through the seasons—from a crow spied on New Year’s Day, its resourcefulness and sense of community setting a theme for the year, to the lingering bluebirds of December, revisiting the nest box they used in spring—what develops is a portrait of joy and grief: joy in the ongoing pleasures of the natural world, and grief over winters that end too soon and songbirds that grow fewer and fewer.Along the way, we also glimpse the changing rhythms of a human life. Grown children, unexpectedly home during the pandemic, prepare to depart once more. Birdsong and night-blooming flowers evoke generations past. The city and the country where Renkl raised her family transform a little more with each passing day. And the natural world, now in visible flux, requires every ounce of hope and commitment from the author—and from us. For, as Renkl writes, “radiant things are bursting forth in the darkest places, in the smallest nooks and deepest cracks of the hidden world.”With fifty-two original color artworks by the author’s brother, Billy Renkl, The Comfort of Crows is a lovely and deeply moving book from a cherished observer of the natural world.

Wonder Women

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A fun and feminist celebration of the forgotten women in science, technology, and beyond—from the bestselling author of The Fangirl’s Guide to the Galaxy. You may think you know women’s history pretty well. But have you ever heard of: • Alice Ball, the chemist who developed an effective treatment for leprosy—only to have the credit taken by a man? • Mary Sherman Morgan, the rocket scientist whose liquid fuel compounds blasted the first U.S. satellite into orbit? • Huang Daopo, the inventor whose weaving technology revolutionized textile production in China—centuries before the cotton gin? Smart women have always been able to achieve amazing things, even when the odds were stacked against them. In Wonder Women, author Sam Maggs tells the stories of the brilliant, brainy, and totally rad women in history who broke barriers as scientists, engineers, mathematicians, adventurers, and inventors. Plus, interviews with real-life women in STEM careers, an extensive bibliography, and a guide to women-centric science and technology organizations—all to show the many ways the geeky girls of today can help to build the future. Table of Contents: Women of Science Women of Medicine Women of Espionage Women of Innovation Women of Adventure

Entre el mundo y yo

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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2015 de No ficción.Una carta de un padre a su hijo. Una profunda reflexión sobre la realidad social de la Norteamérica actual que recoge grandes temas universales como la discriminación, la desigualdad y el activismo necesario para combatirlas.«Éste es tu país, tu mundo, tu cuerpo, y debes encontrar la manera de vivir con todo ello.»«La que quiero para ties que seas un ciudadano consciente de este mundo terrible y hermoso»

Joseph Conrad: The Complete Novels and Novellas + A Biography of the Author (Book House Publishing)

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This book contains several HTML tables of contents.The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC that lists all the chapters and sub-chapters of that specific work.Here you will find the complete novels and novellas of Joseph Conrad in the chronological order of their original publication.- Almayer's Folly- An Outcast of the Islands- The N****r of the Narcissus- Heart of Darkness- Lord Jim- The Inheritors (with Ford Madox Ford)- Typhoon- The End of the Tether- Romance (with Ford Madox Ford)- Nostromo- Gaspar Ruiz- The Secret Agent- The Duel- The Nature of a Crime (with Ford Madox Ford)- Under Western Eyes- Chance- Victory: An Island Tale- The Shadow Line- The Arrow of Gold- The Rescue

Städtebilder

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Dieses e-book entspricht dem Erstdruck in Buchform: Walter Benjamin; >Städtebilder<; erschienen im Suhrkamp Verlag; 1963. Aus Copyright Gründen fehlt das Nachwort von Peter Szondi. Inhalt: Moskau (1927) Auswahl: Berlin und Moskau - Erste Eindrücke - Winter - Bettler - Trambahn und Schlitten - Weihnachten - Blumen - Plakate und Firmenschilder - Dörfer in der Stadt - Kirchen - Kneipen und Theater - Weimar (1928) - Marseille (1929) - San Gimignano (1929) - Nordische See (1930) - Auswahl: Berliner Kindheit um Neunzehnhundert (1950) - Tiergarten - Siegessäule - Abreise und Rückkehr - Steglitzer Ecke Genthiner - Markthalle Magdeburger Platz - Blumeshof 12 - Die Farben - Hallesches Tor - Loggien.

Mom & Me & Mom

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A moving memoir about the legendary author’s relationship with her own mother.Emma Watson’s Our Shared Shelf Book Club Pick!The story of Maya Angelou’s extraordinary life has been chronicled in her multiple bestselling autobiographies. But now, at last, the legendary author shares the deepest personal story of her life: her relationship with her mother. For the first time, Angelou reveals the triumphs and struggles of being the daughter of Vivian Baxter, an indomitable spirit whose petite size belied her larger-than-life presence—a presence absent during much of Angelou’s early life. When her marriage began to crumble, Vivian famously sent three-year-old Maya and her older brother away from their California home to live with their grandmother in Stamps, Arkansas. The subsequent feelings of abandonment stayed with Angelou for years, but their reunion, a decade later, began a story that has never before been told. In Mom & Me & Mom, Angelou dramatizes her years reconciling with the mother she preferred to simply call “Lady,” revealing the profound moments that shifted the balance of love and respect between them. Delving into one of her life’s most rich, rewarding, and fraught relationships, Mom & Me & Mom explores the healing and love that evolved between the two women over the course of their lives, the love that fostered Maya Angelou’s rise from immeasurable depths to reach impossible heights.Praise for Mom & Me & Mom“Mom & Me & Mom is delivered with Angelou’s trademark good humor and fierce optimism. If any resentments linger between these lines, if lives are partially revealed without all the bitter details exposed, well, that is part of Angelou’s forgiving design. As an account of reconciliation, this little book is just revealing enough, and pretty irresistible.”—The Washington Post “Moving . . . a remarkable portrait of two courageous souls.”—People“[The] latest, and most potent, of her serial autobiographies . . . [a] tough-minded, tenderhearted addition to Angelou’s spectacular canon.”—Elle “Mesmerizing . . . Angelou has a way with words that can still dazzle us, and with her mother as a subject, Angelou has a near-perfect muse and mystery woman.”—Essence

The Portable Abraham Lincoln

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Celebrate the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth with this new edition of his greatest speeches and writings Abraham Lincoln endowed the American language with a vigor and moral energy that has all but disappeared from today's public rhetoric. Lincoln's writings are testaments of our history, windows into his enigmatic personality, and resonant examples of the writer's art. The Portable Abraham Lincoln contains the great public speeches - the first debate with Stephen Douglas, the "House Divided" speech, the Gettysburg Address, the Second Inaugural Address - along with less familiar letters and memoranda that chart Lincoln's political career, his evolving stand against slavery, and his day-to-day conduct of the Civil War. This edition includes a revised introduction, updated notes on the text, a chronology of Lincoln's life, and four new selections of his writing.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau — Volume 10

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The book is being addressed by Jean-Jacques Rousseau himself. The extraordinary degree of strength a momentary effervescence had given me to quit the Hermitage, left me the moment I was out of it. I was scarcely established in my new habitation before I frequently suffered from retentions, which were accompanied by a new complaint; that of a rupture, from which I had for some time, without knowing what it was, felt great inconvenience. I soon was reduced to the most cruel state. The physician Thieiry, my old friend, came to see me, and made me acquainted with my situation. The sight of all the apparatus of the infirmities of years, made me severely feel that when the body is no longer young, the heart is not so with impunity.

7 500 signes

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«Ton regard, aussi bien celui du romancier que celui du journaliste, sur tout sujet qui t'intéresse, chaque semaine. Tu as 7 500 signes pour le faire. Tel est le contrat. Un signe, c'est aussi bien une virgule, un blanc entre deux mots, qu'un guillemet ou un point d'exclamation, et, naturellement, des lettres qui forment des mots, lesquels traduisent une pensée ou proposent une image. On prend des notes, on interroge, on fouille des archives, on consulte plusieurs ouvrages, on e-maile à des correspodants (amis et contacts aux États-Unis, en province, en Asie), on rencontre tel ou telle, on voyage. La plupart du temps, on dépasse le compte : 9 000, voire 10 000 signes. Alors, on rabote, on essaie de conserver ce que l'on croit être l'essence même d'un papier, et on n'oublie pas la phrase qu'un vieux routier prononça à l'adresse du grand écrivain Tom Wolfe, lorsqu'il faisait ses débuts dans la presse du New York des années 60 : Arrête-toi quand ça devient emmerdant. En vérité, pour bien exercer ce métier, il ne faut jamais être emmerdant. Jamais.»

The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

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Casanova was an Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice. His autobiography, is regarded as one of the most authentic sources of the customs and norms of European social life during the 18th century. He has become so famous for his often complicated and elaborate affairs with women that his name is now synonymous with "womanizer". He associated with European royalty, popes and cardinals, along with luminaries such as Voltaire, Goethe and Mozart. He spent his last years in Bohemia as a librarian in Count Waldstein's household, where he also wrote the story of his life. Included here are all six volumes.

Memoirs of Thomas Boston

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Thomas Boston (1676 – 1732) was a Scottish Presbyterian pastor and theologian who preached the free offer of the Gospel against the hyper-Calvinism of his day

An Autobiography

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Theodore Roosevelt is often ranked among the greatest presidents in American history. His achievements as President include “trust-busting” many of the monopolistic corporations that dominated the economy and mistreated workers, settling a labor dispute to avert a national energy crisis, establishing the United States Forest Service and five National Parks, negotiating a treaty allowing the construction of the Panama Canal, and mediating the end of the Russo-Japanese war while winning the Nobel Peace Prize in the process.But the presidency was only one of the many positions he held during his lifetime. He was also a cattle rancher in North Dakota, a colonel in the United States Army, the Minority Leader of the New York State Assembly, the New York City Police Commissioner, the Assistant Secretary of the Navy, the Governor of New York, and the Vice President of the United States.This autobiography provides insight into the unshakable beliefs and morals that made up the man who remains one of the most famous Americans in history.

Dust Tracks on a Road

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“Warm, witty, imaginative. . . . This is a rich and winning book.”—The New Yorker From Zora Neale Hurston, one of the most important African American writers of the twentieth century, comes her riveting autobiography—now available in a limited Olive Edition.First published in 1942 at the height of her popularity, Dust Tracks on a Road is Zora Neale Hurston’s candid, funny, bold, and poignant autobiography—an imaginative and exuberant account of her childhood in the rural South and her rise to a prominent place among the leading artists and intellectuals of the Harlem Renaissance.As compelling as her acclaimed fiction, Hurston’s very personal literary self-portrait offers a revealing, often audacious glimpse into the life—public and private—of an extraordinary artist, anthropologist, chronicler, and champion of the Black experience in America. Full of the wit and wisdom of a proud, spirited woman who started off low and climbed high, Dust Tracks on a Road is a rare treasure from one of literature’s most cherished voices.

Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life

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A memoir in bite-size chunks from the author of the viral Modern Love column “You May Want to Marry My Husband.” “[Rosenthal] shines her generous light of humanity on the seemingly humdrum moments of life and shows how delightfully precious they actually are.” —The Chicago Sun-Times How do you conjure a life? Give the truest account of what you saw, felt, learned, loved, strived for? For Amy Krouse Rosenthal, the surprising answer came in the form of an encyclopedia. In Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life she has ingeniously adapted this centuries-old format for conveying knowledge into a poignant, wise, often funny, fully realized memoir. Using mostly short entries organized from A to Z, many of which are cross-referenced, Rosenthal captures in wonderful and episodic detail the moments, observations, and emotions that comprise a contemporary life. Start anywhere—preferably at the beginning—and see how one young woman’s alphabetized existence can open up and define the world in new and unexpected ways. An ordinary life, perhaps, but an extraordinary book.

The Life of Amerigo Vespucci

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This eBook edition of "The Life of Amerigo Vespucci" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Amerigo Vespucci was an Italian explorer, navigator and cartographer who first demonstrated that Brazil and the West Indies did not represent Asia's eastern outskirts as initially conjectured from Columbus' voyages, but instead constituted an entirely separate landmass hitherto unknown to Europeans. Colloquially named the New World, this second super continent came to be known as "Americas", deriving its name from Americus, the Latin transcription of Vespucci's first name. Learn more about the man who gave his name to the new continent, read his personal letters, diaries and what his contemporaries wrote about him. Table of Contents: Biography of Amerigo Vespucci by Frederick A. Ober Life of Vespucci by Clements R. Markham Letter of Amerigo Vespucci to a "Magnificent Lord" Letter of Amerigo Vespucci to Lorenzo Pietro F. di Medici Evidence of Alonso de Hojeda respecting his Voyage of 1499 Account of the Voyage of Hojeda, 1499-1500, by Navarrete Letter of the Admiral Christopher Columbus to his Son Letter of Vianelo to the Seigneury of Venice Letter of Naturalization in Favour of Vespucci Appointment of Amerigo Vespucci as Chief Pilot Chapters from Las Casas, which discuss the Statements of Vespucci: Evidence respecting the Voyage of Pinzon and Solis Las Casas on the Voyage of Pinzon and Solis

The Story of My Life (The Complete Memoirs of Giacomo Casanova, Volume 6 of 12)

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Jane Eyre

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Jane Eyre /ˈɛər/ (originally published as Jane Eyre: An Autobiography) is a novel by English writer Charlotte Brontë. It was published on 16 October 1847 by Smith, Elder & Co. of London, England, under the pen name "Currer Bell." The first American edition was released the following year by Harper & Brothers of New York. Primarily of the bildungsroman genre, Jane Eyre follows the emotions and experiences of its eponymous character, including her growth to adulthood, and her love for Mr. Rochester, the byronic master of fictitious Thornfield Hall. In its internalisation of the action – the focus is on the gradual unfolding of Jane's moral and spiritual sensibility and all the events are coloured by a heightened intensity that was previously the domain of poetry – the novel revolutionised the art of fiction. Charlotte Brontë has been called the 'first historian of the private consciousness' and the literary ancestor of writers like Joyce and Proust. The novel contains elements of social criticism, with a strong sense of morality at its core, but is nonetheless a novel many consider ahead of its time given the individualistic character of Jane and the novel's exploration of classism, sexuality, religion, and proto-feminism.

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