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Julia Kiss Band 16

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1, 2, 3, WER KRIEGT DIE BRAUT? von KRISTIN GABRIEL Mit Männern hat Annie nur Pech: Ihr erster Verlobter entpuppt sich als Gangster, der zweite verschwindet spurlos. Zusammen mit sexy Privatdetektiv Cole Rafferty macht sie sich auf die Suche und merkt: Er ist ihr Mr. Right! Doch plötzlich stehen Nummer 1 und Nummer 2 vor der Tür … WER KÜSST HIER WEN? von JULIE KISTLER Michael will es wissen: Die tolle Frau, die er gerade zärtlich küsst, kann unmöglich Cassie sein, denn die will doch seinen Bruder heiraten. Ist es ihre Zwillingsschwester Polly, die damals spurlos aus seinem Leben verschwand? Doch die Traumfrau schweigt - und genießt … SÜSS WIE SCHOKOLADE von DAWN ATKINS Weil Nathan seinen Job hinschmeißen will, soll Mariah kommen und ihn zur Vernunft bringen! Leider ist er immer noch so gefährlich attraktiv wie damals, als sie ihn beinahe geheiratet hätte … An die Ehe glaubt Mariah bis heute nicht, aber an Nathans heiße Küsse erinnert sie sich nur zu gut.

An Election

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When his city council representative is hit by a bus, David Sawyer decides to run for the newly-vacated seat. One problem: He's a human in an alien-majority district that hasn't voted in a human in half a century. Can Sawyer pull it off in a race that includes a politically smooth, physically gelatinous front runner, a carnivore whose entire platform is on the right to consume pets, and two literally bile-spewing sisters? A tale of aliens, politics and humor from the author of "Old Man's War" and "The Android's Dream".

Complete Works of William Shakespeare

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Complete Works of William Shakespeare is the standard name given to any volume containing all the plays and poems of William Shakespeare. Some editions include several works which were not completely of Shakespeare's authorship (collaborative writings), such as The Two Noble Kinsmen, a collaboration with John Fletcher, as well as Pericles, Prince of Tyre and/or Edward III. In their 2006-2007 season the Royal Shakespeare Company committed to the performance of the Complete Works in a single year. In 1987 Adrian Hilton acquired a Guinness World Record for reciting the Complete Works non-stop, enduring 5 days without sleep.

The Nostalgist

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The Nostalgist: A Tor.Com Original from Daniel H. Wilson. With EyesTM and EarsTM, everything can look and sound just fine, just like it used to be; it's a shock when they break down, though.This story has been adapted into a short film of the same name, directed by Giacomo Cimini and starring Lambert Wilson and Samuel Joslin.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

7 best short stories by B. M. Bower

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B. M. Bower, was an American author who wrote novels, fictional short stories, and screenplays about the American Old West. Her works, featuring cowboys and cows of the Flying U Ranch in Montana, reflected "an interest in ranch life, the use of working cowboys as main characters, the occasional appearance of eastern types for the sake of contrast, a sense of western geography as simultaneously harsh and grand, and a good deal of factual attention to such matters as cattle branding and bronc busting." For this book, the critic August Nemo selected seven short stories by this author: - The Lonesome Trail. - First Aid To Cupid. - When The Cook Fell Ill. - The Lamb. - The Spirit of the Range. - The Reveler. - The Unheavenly Twins

My Man Jeeves

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My Man Jeeves was written by P.G. Wodehouse and first published in 1919. ome of the finest examples of humorous writing found in English literature are woven around the relationship between these two men of very different classes and temperaments. Where Bertie is impetuous and feeble, Jeeves is cool-headed and poised. This collection, the first book of Jeeves and Wooster stories, includes "Absent Treatment," "Helping Freddie," "Rallying Round Old George," "Doing Clarence a Bit of Good," "Fixing It for Freddie," and "Bertie Changes His Mind." "Mr. Wodehouse's idyllic world can never stale."

Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #11

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The Cutting Edge of Modern Short FictionA three-time Hugo Award nominated magazine, this issue of Pulphouse Fiction Magazine offers up nineteen fantastic stories by some of the best writers working in modern short fiction.No genre limitations, no topic limitations, just great stories. Attitude, feel, and high-quality fiction equals Pulphouse."This is definitely a strong start. All the stories have a lot of life to them, and are worthwhile reading." —Tangent Online on Pulphouse Fiction Magazine, Issue #1Includes:"Tinker Henry and the Clockwork Whore" by Jim Gotaas"A Rough Day at Theophice" by Kathy and Jerry Oltion"Protagonist" by Steve Perry"Lost Friends" by R.W. Wallace"Death by Cookie" by Robert J. McCarter"Honor Thy Father" by Annie Reed"Market Street" by O'Neil De Noux"An Incursion of Mice" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch"Divinity School" by Kent Patterson"Yesterday, When I Was Twenty" by Angela Penrose"In All Your Sparkling Raiment Soar" by Robert Jeschonek"The Amazing RBG" by David H. Hendrickson"Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Boy" by Ray Vukcevich"Urine Deep Trouble" by Cèline Malgen"Vital Force" by P. D. Singer"Reunion Seeking" by Rob Vagle"Bravo and Jazz" by Ron Collins"The Last Backyard Defender" by J. Steven York"Down to the Last" by Lee Allred

The Family Gathering

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From the Bestselling Author of the hit Netflix series, Virgin River!An exceptional storyteller, #1 New York Times bestselling author Robyn Carr beautifully captures the emotionally charged, complex dynamics that come with being part of any family. Readers will laugh and shed a few tears as they discover what it means to be loved, supported and accepted by the people who mean the most.Having left the military, Dakota Jones is at a crossroads in his life. With his elder brother and youngest sister happily settled in Sullivan’s Crossing, he shows up hoping to clear his head before moving on to his next adventure. But, like every visitor to the Crossing, he’s immediately drawn to the down-to-earth people and the seemingly simple way of life.Dakota is unprepared for how quickly things get complicated. As a newcomer, he is on everyone’s radar—especially the single women in town. While he enjoys the attention at first, he’s really only attracted to the one woman who isn’t interested. And spending quality time with his siblings is eye-opening. As he gets to know them, he also gets to know himself and what he truly wants.When all the Jones siblings gather for a family wedding, the four adults are drawn together for the first time in a way they never were as children. As they struggle to accept each other, warts and all, the true nature and strength of their bond is tested. But all of them come to realize that your family are the people who see you for who you really are and love you anyway. And for Dakota, that truth allows him to find the home and family he’s always wanted.

A Cynic Looks at Life

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Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (born June 24, 1842; died sometime after December 26, 1913) was an American editorialist, journalist, short storywriter, fabulist, and satirist. Today, he is probably best known for his short story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" and his satirical lexicon The Devil's Dictionary. His vehemence as a critic, his motto "Nothing matters" and the sardonic view of human nature that informed his work all earned him the nickname "Bitter Bierce." Despite his reputation as a searing critic, Bierce was known to encourage younger writers, including poet George Sterling and fiction writer W. C. Morrow. Bierce employed a distinctive style of wri

PEN America 15: Maps

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In Maps, we wanted to explore how writers encounter and examine the fictional topographies of their lives. Forrest Gander, Billy Collins, and Susan Bernofsky, among many others contributed original pieces to our forum. Also featured in this issue are conversations with Amélie Nothomb, Dale Peck, Abdellah Taïa, and Buket Uzuner. Plus poetry, fiction, essays, drama, and graphic narratives from around the world. PEN America: A Journal for Writers and Readers is published by PEN American Center. Featuring fiction, poetry, conversation, criticism, and memoir, PEN America champions international authors and provides first-hand insight into the minds of contemporary writers through provocative symposia. In 2000, PEN America was named one of the Ten Best New Magazines by Library Journal. PEN America has been a finalist for the Utne Independent Press Award for international coverage, and work from recent issues has been selected for Best American Essays, Best American Stories, and the Pushcart Prize. ----- PEN American Center is the largest of the 141 centers of International PEN, the world's oldest human rights organization and the oldest international literary organization. International PEN was founded in 1921 to dispel national, ethnic, and racial hatreds and to promote understanding among all countries. PEN American Center, founded a year later, works to advance literature, to defend free expression, and to foster international literary fellowship. Its 3,400 distinguished members carry on the achievements in literature and the advancement of human rights of such past members as James Baldwin, Willa Cather, Robert Frost, Allen Ginsberg, Langston Hughes, Arthur Miller, Marianne Moore, Eugene O'Neill, Susan Sontag, and John Steinbeck. To learn more about PEN American Center, please visit: www.pen.org. PEN American Center welcomes readers and writers from all walks of life to join us in our mission to protect free expression and celebrate literature. To learn how to become a Professional or Associate Member of PEN, please visit: pen.org/join.

The Christmas Thief

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Mary Higgins Clark, America's Queen of Suspense, and her daughter, bestselling mystery writer Carol Higgins Clark, have again joined forces to create a suspenseful and humorous holiday tale. Alvirah Meehan, the lottery winner turned amateur sleuth, teams up with private investigator Regan Reilly to solve another Christmas mystery. In Deck the Halls, they rescued Regan's kidnapped father. This time they get in the middle of a case involving a beautiful eighty-foot blue spruce that has been chosen to spend the holidays as Rockefeller Center's famous Christmas tree. The folks who picked the tree don't have a clue that attached to one of its branches is a flask chock-full of priceless diamonds that Packy Noonan, a scam artist just released from prison, had hidden there over twelve years ago. An excited Packy breaks his parole and heads to Stowe, Vermont, to reclaim his loot. Once there, he is horrified to discover that his special tree will be heading to New York City the next morning. With a bumbling crew consisting of Jo-Jo, Benny, and an unsuccessful poet, Milo, he knows he has to act fast. What Packy does not know is that Alvirah and Regan are on a weekend trip to Stowe with Alvirah's husband, Willy; Regan's fiancé, Jack; Regan's parents, Luke and Nora; and Alvirah's friend Opal, a lottery winner who lost all her winnings in Packy's scam. On Monday morning when they're supposed to head home, they learn that the tree is missing, Packy Noonan may be in the vicinity, and Opal has disappeared. From two of America's beloved storytellers, The Christmas Thief is filled with suspense, comic characters, and holiday cheer, and is sure to delight its readers.

Doctor...to Duchess?

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Her duke in shining armor? GP Julia MacKenzie's life is finally back on track! Fighting to save St. Bryar's Clinic has helped her to forget her heartache and make way for a new future—on her terms. Until Julia falls into gorgeous Dr. Oliver Wyatt's arms—literally—and suddenly her whole world is turned upside down! Not only is Oliver the Duke-of-Breckonshire-in-waiting, he's the very man threatening to shut her practice down…and, even more worryingly, to steal her heart!

Anna Karenina

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Considered by some to be the greatest novel ever written, “Anna Karenina” is Tolstoy’s classic tale of love and adultery set against the backdrop of high society in Moscow and Saint Petersburg. A rich and complex masterpiece, the novel charts the disastrous course of a love affair between Anna, a beautiful married woman, and Count Vronsky, a wealthy army officer. Tolstoy seamlessly weaves together the lives of dozens of characters, and in doing so captures a breathtaking tapestry of late-nineteenth-century Russian society. As Matthew Arnold wrote in his celebrated essay on Tolstoy, “We are not to take Anna Karenina as a work of art; we are to take it as a piece of life.” The best novel ever written. —William Faulkner A perfect work of art. —Fyodor Dostoyevsky One of the greatest love stories in world literature. —Vladimir Nabokov To read him… is to find one’s way home… to everything within us that is fundamental and sane. —Thomas Mann

100 Books You Must Read Before You Die - volume 1

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This book,contains now several HTML tables of contents The first table of contents 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. This 1st volume of "100 Books You Must Read Before You Die" contains the following 50 works, arranged alphabetically by authors' last names: Alcott, Louisa May: Little Women Austen, Jane: Pride and Prejudice, Emma Balzac, Honoré de: Father Goriot Brontë, Anne: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Brontë, Charlotte: Jane Eyre Brontë, Emily: Wuthering Heights Burroughs, Edgar Rice: Tarzan of the Apes Butler, Samuel: The Way of All Flesh Carroll, Lewis: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Cather, Willa: My Ántonia Cervantes, Miguel de: Don Quixote Chopin, Kate: The Awakening Cleland, John: Fanny Hill Collins, Wilkie: The Moonstone Conrad, Joseph: Heart of Darkness, Nostromo Cooper, James Fenimore: The Last of the Mohicans Cummings, E. E: The Enormous Room Defoe, Daniel: Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders Dickens, Charles: Bleak House, Great Expectations Dostoyevsky, Fyodor: Crime and Punishment, The Idiot Doyle, Arthur Conan: The Hound of the Baskervilles Dreiser, Theodore: Sister Carrie Dumas, Alexandre: The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo Eliot, George: Middlemarch Fielding, Henry: Tom Jones Flaubert, Gustave: Madame Bovary, Sentimental Education Ford, Ford Madox: The Good Soldier Forster, E. M.: A Room With a View, Howards End Gaskell, Elizabeth: North and South Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von: The Sorrows of Young Werther Gogol, Nikolai: Dead Souls Gorky, Maxim: The Mother Haggard, H. Rider: King Solomon's Mines Hardy, Thomas: Tess of the D'Urbervilles Hawthorne, Nathaniel: The Scarlet Letter Homer: The Iliad & The Odyssey Hugo, Victor: The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Les Misérables Huxley, Aldous: Crome Yellow James, Henry: The Portrait of a Lady Lovecraf H.P: The Call of Cthulhu Shelley Mary: Frankenstein

Mysteries for Halloween

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This meticulously edited ebook collection is formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices: Detective Stories: The Purloined Letter (Edgar Allan Poe) A Scandal in Bohemia (A. Conan Doyle) The Biter Bit (Wilkie Collins) The Safety Match (Anton Chekhov) The Black Hand (Arthur B. Reeve) Missing: Page Thirteen (Anna Katherine Green) Some Scotland Yard Cases (Sir Robert Anderson) The Rope of Fear (Thomas W. Hanshew and Mary E. Hanshew) Suspense Stories: The Birth Mark (Nathaniel Hawthorne) The Oblong Box (Edgar Allan Poe) A Terribly Strange Bed (Wilkie Collins) The Torture by Hope (Villiers de l'Isle Adam) The Mysterious Card (Cleveland Moffett) The Box with the Iron Clamps (Florence Marryat) My Fascinating Friend (William Archer) The Lost Room (Fitz-James O'Brien) The Great Valdez Sapphire (Anonymous) Ghost Stories: Thrawn Janet (Robert Louis Stevenson) The Horla (Guy de Maupassant) To Sura: A Letter (Pliny the Younger) The Beast with Five Fingers (William F. Harvey) Number 13 (Montague Rhodes James) Joseph: A Story (Katherine Rickford) Sister Maddelena (Ralph Adams Cram) The Man Who Went Too Far (E.F. Benson) The Phantom Rickshaw (Rudyard Kipling) The Apparition of Mrs. Veal (Daniel Defoe) Canon Alberic's Scrap-Book (M. R. James) The Haunted and the Haunters (Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton) The Silent Woman (Leopold Kompert) The Rival Ghosts (Brander Matthews) The Damned Thing (Ambrose Bierce) The Interval (Vincent O'Sullivan) Dey Ain't No Ghosts (Ellis Parker Butler) The Banshees of Ireland Some Real American Ghosts The Deserted House (E. T. A. Hoffmann) The Withered Arm (Thomas Hardy) The House and the Brain (Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton) The Roll-Call of the Reef (A. T. Quiller-Couch) The Open Door (Mrs. Margaret Oliphant) The Mysterious Sketch (Erckmann-Chatrian) Green Branches (Fiona Macleod) The Were-Wolf (H. B. Marryatt) Clarimonde (Théophile Gautier) The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral (M. R. James) Paranormal Psychic Stories Humorous Mystery Stories…

Bad Ass Moms

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This book is a real mother.To celebrate bad-ass moms everywhere, Crazy 8 Press has assembled a fantastic line-up of authors to create stories spanning numerous genres, including sci-fi, contemporary, historical, and fantasy. Since moms and badassery come in infinite forms, the authors were given only one criteria: that their story be about a bad-ass mother or mother figure, whatever that meant to them.From grandmas to new moms, biological moms to adoptive moms to mom figures, this collection features a fantastic range of stories. A human mom on the PTA of a school for supernatural kids. A new mom who adopts two babies with special powers. A hard-boiled detective who stumbles upon a mystery while looking for childcare. A grandma who fights back against an unsavory mayoral candidate. A witch who battles dark magic while wrangling her kids. An artificial intelligence who nurtures delinquent boys sent to her care. And much, much more.STORIES BY:Danielle Ackley-McPhail, Derek Tyler Attico, TE Bakutis, Russ Colchamiro, Paige Daniels, Kathleen O'Shea David, Peter David, Keith RA DeCandido, Mary Fan, Michael Jan Friedman, Robert Greenberger, Glenn Hauman, Heather E Hutsell, Kris Katzen, Paul Kupperberg, Karissa Laurel, TJ Perkins, Jenifer Purcell Rosenberg, Aaron Rosenberg, Joanna Schnurman, Hildy Silverman, and Denise Sutton.

Jižanské stromy divné ovoce nesou

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Román, který si nebere servítky! Percival Everett mistrně propojuje společenskou satiru, černý humor a krvavou americkou historii, která se znovu hlásí o slovo. Je cosi shnilého ve státě Mississippi – a nejen tam. Záhadné vraždy bělochů přitahují pozornost k tuctovému městečku Prachy. A dva detektivy, kteří je přijeli vyšetřovat, tu nevítají zrovna s otevřenou náručí. Na pozadí vyšetřování postupně vyvstává děsivý obraz rasového násilí, které se jako krev rozlévá po všech státech bývalého Jihu už desítky let. Sérii brutálních vražd spojuje přítomnost dalšího mrtvého těla – muže, který se velmi podobá Emmettu Tillovi, mladému černošskému chlapci, zlynčovanému ve stejném městě před 65 lety. Vypadá to, že oběti lynčů se po letech domáhají odepřené spravedlnosti samy, tedy jen s malou pomocí místní vědmy a jejích stoupenců, a dávají padouchům ochutnat jejich vlastní medicínu. Román Jižanské stromy divné ovoce nesou z pera amerického autora Percivala Everetta zpracovává téma černého svědomí Spojených států, a to s velkou dávkou černého humoru, okořeněného kapkou černé magie. Nestandardním způsobem předestírá palčivé a dosud neuzavřené otázky, které stále jitří americkou společnost. Kniha byla zařazena na shortlisty Booker Prize 2022 a Dublin Literary Award 2023. *** Percival Everett je profesor angličtiny a autor více než tří desítek knih. Debutoval v roce 1983 knihou Suder. V roce 2021 byl nominován na Pulitzerovu cenu za román Telephone. Obdržel cenu Amerického centra PEN klubu za beletrii a cenu Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. V roce 2022 získal v rámci cen National Book Critics Circle Awards ocenění Ivana Sandofa za celoživotní přínos. The Washington Post ho označil za „jednoho z nejodvážnějších experimentátorů mezi moderními americkými spisovateli“. Everett žije v Los Angeles a přednáší na Univerzitě Jižní Kalifornie. *** „Může se zdát, že humor nemá v románu o lynčování místo, ale Everett mistrovsky lavíruje mezi nepopsatelnou hrůzou a neskutečně směšnou komedií, takže si čtenář v jednu chvíli zakrývá rozesmátá ústa a vzápětí potlačuje výkřik.“ The New York Times „Jižanské stromy divné ovoce nesou je svižný román bohatý na dialogy, který svým humorem připomíná jak film BlacKkKlansman, tak groteskní drama pomsty v duchu snímků Hanebný pancharti a Nespoutaný Django Quentina Tarantina.“ Der Freitag „Tématem románu Jižanské stromy divné ovoce nesou je hanebnost lynčování, které po většinu 20. století bujelo na americkém Jihu – skvělá živná půda pro srdceryvné literární svědectví zakořeněného rasismu.“ The Telegraph „Genialita tohoto románu tkví v tom, že v době reakčního populismu přechází do protiútoku a formou strhujícího komediálního hororu se vyjadřuje k veskrze politickému tématu. Je to mocný apel a současně literární odplata.“ The Guardian „V tomto románu dosahuje Everettovo nevšední nadání pro hru se slovy, která vyvolává smích a zároveň bolí, svého vrcholu… Smyšlený příběh pomsty proměnil v mistrovský komediální horor. Čtenáři se budou smát, dokud jim bolest nevžene do očí slzy.“ Los Angeles Times „Palčivá satira, která je hluboce znepokojivá a naplňující zároveň.“ Booklist

Nostromo

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Nostromo, Joseph Conrad. Revised version of http://ota.ox.ac.uk/id/2123 . First edition published in 1904 . Text based on the HTML version at www.bibliomania.com. Converted to SGML by Sara Triggs of the OED North American Reading Program..

Le Mort d'Arthur

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The stories of King Arthur, Lancelot, Queen Guenever, and Tristram and Isolde seem astonishingly moving and modern. Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur endures and inspires because it embodies mankind's deepest yearnings for brotherhood and community, a love worth dying for, and valor, honor, and chivalry.

Contre bonne fortune...

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Son nom provoque à la fois nos rêves et notre envie, il symbolise la tradition et la réussite. Cet homme, Juif et capitaliste, assume les contradictions et les ambiguïtés de notre époque. Il parle. Il dit son enfance dans la splendeur du château de Ferrières ; sa jeunesse au temps des Années folles. Il dit la guerre et l’humiliation de la défaite ; l’aventure d’être torpillé dans l’Atlantique ; l’honneur d’être Français à Londres... Homme d’affaires, il découvre, avant d’autres, Georges Pompidou qui, à ses côtés, préside pendant sept ans aux destinées de sa banque. Il affirme sa solidarité active envers sa communauté, mais il pose sur Israël un regard personnel et lucide. Dans sa vie privée, une femme. Elle lui donne le goût du fabuleux, des fêtes, de la poésie... Avec humour et humeur, il escalade le mur d’argent, désarme un gangster, poursuit une casaque bleue et une toque jaune... Deux fois chassé de la rue Laffitte, il accuse : c’est une vie de travail, une dynastie, une légende que l’on veut abattre. Il relève le défi. Cet homme, c’est Guy de Rothschild.

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