Therese Raquin is a clinically observed, sinister tale of adultery and murder among the lower orders in nineteenth-century Paris. Zola\'s dispassionate dissection of the motivations of his characters, mere \'human beasts\' who kill in order to satisfy their lust, is much more than an atmospheric Second Empire period-piece. Many readers were scandalized by an approach to character-drawing which seemed

« mes yeux, l épicier, dont l omnipotence ne date que d un sicle, est une des plus belles expressions de la société moderne. N est-il donc pas un tre aussi sublime de résignation que remarquable par son utilité; une source constante de douceur, de lumire, de denrées bienfaisantes? Enfin n est-il plus le ministre de l Afrique, le chargé d affaires des Indes et de l Amérique? Certes, l épicier est tout

Seventeen-year-old River doesn\'t know what to do with himself when Penny, the girl he adores, dumps him. He lives in LA, where nobody walks anywhere, and Penny was his ride; he never bothered getting a license. He\'s stuck. He\'s desperate. He\'s lonely. One afternoon he does the unthinkable - he starts walking, and stumbles on a support group for teens with addictions. He fakes his way into the meetings

Scott Fitzgerald’s third novel was published in 1925 and has justifiably become a 20th century literary classic. In this Reader you will find: - Focus on… - CAE-style activities - Glossary of difficult words - Test yourself - Comprehension activities Tag Love Society “Gatsby?” asked Daisy urgently. “What Gatsby?” Could it be the same young army lieutenant whom Daisy Fay met five years ago – and who

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize. In a small East Anglian town, Florence Green decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop. Hardborough becomes a battleground. Florence has tried to change the way things have always been done, and as a result, she has to take on not only the people who have made themselves important, but natural and even supernatural forces too. Her fate

From the No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of It Ends With Us and November 9 comes a moving and haunting novel of family, love, and the power of the truth. \'Not every mistake deserves a consequence. Sometimes the only thing it deserves is forgiveness.\' The Voss family is anything but normal. They live in a repurposed church, newly baptized Dollar Voss. The once cancer-stricken mother lives

Achieving Victory Over a Toxic World is author Dr. Mark Schauss\'s inspirational story not just about his daughter Tasya\'s battle with epilepsy but a guidebook as to how to deal with today\'s toxic environment. Health should be more than the lack of disease, it should be about living a vibrant life, full of energy and hope. This book was written with that in mind. The book delves into the history

STUNNING ADVERTISING, is a hard-hitting book on publicity. Remembering such as the Benetton campaigns some years ago, a company which opted for publicity without taboos in which we were presented with images opposing aids, hunger, and racism... we thought of doing this book. Selecting only those campaigns which provoked a sensation in the way we act. Those which leave us speechless, or those which

Spinning directly out of X-MEN: SCHISM, the X-Men are split in two. In the oversized debut issue of the new ongoing flagship X-series, Wolverine takes one half of the X-Men back to Westchester to start over again with a new school, a new student body and a lot of surprises up his sleeve. But when the new Hellfire Club decides they don\'t like what the ol\' Canucklehead has started, and decide to burn

Energetic and cosmopolitan, the Batrakani family fate is entwined with that of their adopted land, Egypt, as it is caught in the upheavals of the 20th century. Georges Bey Batrakani is the patriarch of this family of Greek Catholic, French-speaking Syrians, living in a Muslim Cairo run by the British. He is driven by the need to achieve the wealth necessary for the luxury he craves. His chosen method

Over 40 years ago, a group of five Englishmen - and one wayward American - rewrote the rules of comedy. MONTY PYTHON\'S FLYING CIRCUS, an unheralded, previously unseen half-hour show of sketches, hilarities, inanities and animations, first appeared on the BBC late one night in 1969. Its impact has been felt on the world ever since. From its humble beginnings, it blossomed into the most influential

It is midnight, October 31st 1758 and Giacomo Casanova has escaped from a Venetian prison after sixteen months consigned to darkness and the underworld. Shaking off the enforced solitude, Casanova makes his way to Bolzano - the small village where he was dealt a cruel hand. A place full of memories, Bolzano was the scene of a moonlit duel fought with the Duke of Parma when Casanova and he were both

This is the third novel in Jeffrey Archer\'s compelling saga, the Clifton Chronicles. 1945. The vote in the House of Lords as to who should inherit the Barrington family fortune has ended in a tie. The Lord Chancellor\'s deciding vote will cast a long shadow on the lives of Harry Clifton and Giles Barrington. Harry returns to America to promote his latest novel, while his beloved Emma goes in search

A kártyacsomag 52 praktikus, egyszerűen megvalósítható, önfejlesztő pszichológiai gyakorlatot tartalmaz, hogy a stresszt kordában tartsd. Segít, hogy felismerd és tudatosítsd magadban a számodra legmegfelelőbb stresszkezelési módszereket és technikák at, amelyekkel elviselhetőbbé teheted feszültségekkel teli életed. A kártyák könnyen kezelhetők és a paklit bárhová magaddal viheted, bárhol használhatod,

In Melbourne in the late 1940s, a young conservative poet named Christopher Chubb decides to teach his country a lesson about pretension and authenticity. But over the ensuing years his audacious act of literary ventriloquism takes on a much darker resonance. Having fled Melbourne for the seedy, sweaty streets of Kuala Lumpur, Chubb finds himself, just as Frankenstein was, haunted and pursued by his

Frankie Stein and co. are back in this hilarious second instalment from the halls of Monster High.

Shadow Harold, master thief, and his band of companions have reached the deep catacombs of Hrad Spein, where Harold must go in alone to face unknown horrors and retrieve the Horn that will save Siala. He is magically bound to the Key with which the dark elves sealed Hrad Spein, and the Master\'s servant, the sorceress Lafresa, is close behind him. Harold and his companions must face H\'san\'kors, evil

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This deeply personal work, follows the changing fortunes of the Mau-Tempo family - poor, landless peasants not unlike the author\'s own grandparents. Saramago charts the lives of the family in Alentjo, southern Portugal, as national and international events rumble on in the background - the coming of the republic in Portugal, the First and Second World Wars, and an attempt on the dictator Salazar\'s