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“baptiste frankinet”

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  • The Lesson

    by Eugène Ionesco

    by Baptiste Frankinet ...
    Translated by Olivier Brown ...
    What should we remember about The Lesson, the play between drama and burlesque? Find everything you need to know about this work in a complete and detailed reading sheet.You will find in this booklet:- A complete summary- A presentation of the main characters such as the student, the teacher and the maid- An analysis of the specificities of the work: a tragedy, the destruction of language, ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • How Fiction Works

    by James Wood ...
    In the tradition of E. M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel and Milan Kundera's The Art of the Novel, James Wood's How Fiction Works is a scintillating study of the magic of fiction--an analysis of its main elements and a celebration of its lasting power.Here one of the most prominent and stylish critics of our time looks into the machinery of storytelling to ask some fundamental questions: What do ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • How Proust Can Change Your Life

    by Alain De Botton ...
    Series series Vintage International
    A bestselling author draws on the work of one of history’s most important writers to show us how to best live life in a book that’s "delightfully original.... A self-help book in the deepest sense of the term" (The New York Times).Alain de Botton combines two unlikely genres—literary biography and self-help manual—in the hilarious and unexpectedly practical How Proust Can Change Your Life.Who ... Read more

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  • How to Take Your Time

    from How Proust Can Change Your Life

    by Alain De Botton ...
    Series series A Vintage Short
    Curiously practical—this no-nonsense blend of literary biography and self-help unravels how interesting life can be if only you could resist the impulse to rush through the mundane rituals of modern life. Every morning, Marcel Proust sipped his two cups of strong coffee with milk, ate a croissant from one boulangerie, dunking it in his coffee as he slowly read the day’s paper with great care ... Read more

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  • School Blues

    by Daniel Pennac ...
    Translated by Sarah Ardizzone ...
    Daniel Pennac has never forgotten what it was like to be a very unsatisfactory student, nor the day one of his teachers saved his life by assigning him the task of writing a novel. This was the moment Pennac realized that no-one has to be a failure for ever.In School Blues, Pennac explores the many facets of schooling: how fear makes children reject education; how children can be captivated by ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Public Enemies

    Dueling Writers Take On Each Other and the World

    by Michel Houellebecq, Bernard-Henri Lévy ...
    Translated by Miriam Rachel Frendo, Frank Wynne ...
    The international publishing sensation is now available in the United States—two brilliant, controversial authors confront each other and their enemies in an unforgettable exchange of letters.In one corner, Bernard-Henri Lévy, creator of the classic Barbarism with a Human Face, dismissed by the media as a wealthy, self-promoting, arrogant do-gooder. In the other, Michel Houellebecq, bestselling ... Read more

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  • This Little Art

    by Kate Briggs ...
    An essay with the reach and momentum of a novel, Kate Briggs's This Little Art is a genre-bending song for the practice of literary translation, offering fresh, fierce and timely thinking on reading, writing and living with the works of others. Taking her own experience of translating Roland Barthes's lecture notes as a starting point, the author threads various stories together to give us this ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Life lessons from Kierkegaard

    by Robert Ferguson ...
    Series Book 11 - School of Life
    The School of Life offers radical ways to help us raid the treasure trove of human knowledge' Independent on SundaySoren Kierkegaard was a Danish philosopher, theologian, literary stylist and social critic. Born in 1813 in Copenhagen, his philosophical work addressed living as a single individual and the importance of personal choice. A famously fierce critic of the idealist thinkers of his time, ... Read more

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  • Politics and the English Language

    Essay

    by George Orwell ...
    "Politics and the English Language" (1946) is an ESSAY by George Orwell criticising "ugly and inaccurate" contemporary written English.Orwell said that political prose was formed "to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." Orwell believed that, because this writing was intended to hide the truth rather than express it, the language used ... Read more

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  • Something to Declare

    by Julian Barnes ...
    Anyone who loves France (or just feels strongly about it), or has succumbed to the spell of Julian Barnes's previous books, will be enraptured by this collection of essays on the country and its culture.Barnes's appreciation extends from France's vanishing peasantry to its hyper-literate pop singers, from the gleeful iconoclasm of nouvelle vague cinema to the orgy of drugs and suffering that is ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • Charm: An Essay

    by Stephen Bayley ...
    Series series What Money Can’t Buy
    An informative, fun and rather charming essay on the nature and history of one of life’s most desirable assets, Charm, by renowned culture and design critic, Stephen Bayley.Aiming to wound, a schoolmaster wrote on future design-guru Stephen Bayley’s last ever school report “Charm alone will not get him through”. Bayley took this to mean that an affable, genial, outgoing nature was not enough to ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • What Every Novelist Needs to Know about Narrators

    by Wayne C. Booth ...
    Series series Chicago Shorts
    Wayne Booth transformed the study of fiction in the twentieth century and wrote some of the most influential and engaging criticism of our time. In What Every Novelist Needs to Know about Narrators, Booth tackles one of the most difficult issues writers of fiction face: the choice of which narrative approach to take in their work. With trademark Booth aplomb, he articulates the methods behind ... Read more

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