Peut-être aucune autre ville européenne n'a autant captivé l'imagination poétique que Paris. Les poèmes de Paris couvrent un large éventail de temps, de la Renaissance à nos jours, et comprennent non seulement le panthéon des poètes français classiques, de Ronsard à Baudelaire, en passant par Mallar...
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Bruce Chatwin's bestselling novel traces the fortunes of Kaspar Utz, an enigmatic collector of Meissen porcelain living in Cold War Czechoslovakia. Although Utz is allowed to leave the country each year, and considers defecting each time, he always returns to his Czech home, a prisoner of the Commun...
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Haven't you got something better to do? Our streets are filled with down-facing zombies, blocking up the pavements. We'd rather Instagram our food than eat it. We've forgotten how to have real actual conversations . And in the bedroom... well, that's no place for Candy Crush Saga. It's time...
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A guide to beautiful part of the world, Brittany. It includes unique cutaways, floorplans and reconstructions of the must-see sites, and street-by-street maps of all the fascinating cities and towns. It also helps you to discover everything region-by-region; from local festivals and markets to day t...
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On an expedition in the Canadian Rockies at the end of the nineteenth century, Dr Edward Byrne slips and falls almost 60 feet into a crevasse on the Arcturus Glacier. While trapped, hanging upside down and wary that the slightest movement could send him plunging deeper into the abyss, Byrne notices ...
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Somerset Maugham is the acknowledged master of the short story, and his full range is represented in this collection. In acclaimed stories such as 'Rain', 'The Letter', 'The Vessel of Wrath' and 'The Alien Corn', Maugham illustrates his wry perception of human weakness and his genius for evoking com...
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In 1913, when she was 54 years old, Daisy Bates went to live in the deserts of South Australia. And there she stayed, with occasional interruptions, for almost 30 years. She left a detailed record of her life in her letters, her published articles, her book THE PASSING OF THE ABORIGINES, and in note...
Martin Urban is a quiet bachelor with a comfortable life, free of worry and distractions. When he unexpectedly comes into a small fortune, he decides to use his newfound wealth to help out those in need. Finn also leads a quiet life, and comes into a little money of his own. Normally, their path...
Tired of walking in the dream I have returned to the country where I was born half a century ago' - The Higgins family is now dispersed; the third son of four brothers is himself the father of three sons in a family also dispersed, and our author 'looking for the quietness that Julian Sorel found in...
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