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Fyodor Dostoyevsky is a titanic figure among the world's great authors, and The Brothers Karamazov is often hailed as his finest novel. A masterpiece on many levels, it transcends the boundaries of a gripping murder mystery to become a moving account of the battle between love and hate, faith and despair, compassion and cruelty, good and evil.

Prince Lyov Nikolayevitch Myshkin is one of the great characters in Russian literature. Is he a saint or just naïve? Is he an idealist or, as many in General Epanchin's society feel, an "idiot"? Certainly his return to St. Petersburg after years in a Swiss clinic has a dramatic effect on the beautiful Aglaia, youngest of the Epanchin daughters, and on the charismatic but willful Nastasya Filippovna. As he paints a vivid picture of Russian society, Dostoyevsky shows how principles conflict with emotions - with tragic results.

A partir d'une quarantaine d'interviews exclusives et de multiples rencontres avec sa famille, ses proches, ses collaborateurs comme ses concurrents, Walter Isaacson a reconstitué d'une façon magistrale la vie, l'œuvre et la vision du monde d'un des plus grands innovateurs de notre XXIe siècle qui a su allier le plus haut degré de technicité avec le raffinement esthétique.

A century after it first appeared, Crime and Punishment remains one of the most gripping psychological thrillers. A poverty-stricken young man, seeing his family making sacrifices for him, is faced with an opportunity to solve his financial problems with one simple but horrifying act: the murder of a pawnbroker. She is, he feels, just a parasite on society. But does the end justify the means? Rodion Romanovitch Raskolnikov makes his decision and then has to live with it.

Also known as Demons, The Possessed is a powerful socio-political novel about revolutionary ideas and the radicals behind them. It follows the career of Pyotr Stepanovich Verkhovensky, a political terrorist who leads a group of nihilists on a demonic quest for societal breakdown. They are consumed by their desires and ideals, and have surrendered themselves fully to the darkness of their "demons". This possession leads them to engulf a quiet provincial town and subject it to a storm of violence.

From the 1948 US edition: This is the story of the most publicized jungle animal that ever lived. In his best-selling Man-Eater's of Kumaon, Jim Corbett told of his battles with many man-eating tigers. In this book he tells a sustained and climactic story of his hard-won battle with a single leopard. Leopards very rarely become man-eaters, but those few that do are the peers of the man-eating tigers in ferocity and possess an even greater cunning.

The #1 International Bestseller from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Stone Yard Devotional and The Natural Way of Things “The Big Chill with a dash of Big Little Lies . . . Knife-sharp and deeply alive.” —The Guardian (London) “An insightful, poignant, and fiercely honest novel...

This darkly funny, confessional memoir from the star of What Not to Wear tells all: from her posh upbringing and the dishy details of her career in fashion to her journey as a recovering alcoholic. The fact that Susannah Constantine made her name as a 'style guru' as part of “Trinny and...

Wake up feeling refreshed and renewed by adopting positive changes that will guarantee great sleep quality—even if you’ve been struggling to fall asleep for years! Do you lie in bed with your eyes wide open for what seems like an eternity? When you wake up, do you feel exhausted, despite the fact you got your seven to nine hours of ZZZs?

The great explorers were the celebrities of their day - the romance and danger of their daring expeditions captured the public imagination and the world's headlines to an extraordinary degree. Not all of them lived to tell the tale, of course, but those who emerged triumphant from jungle, desert, or polar wasteland were hailed as if returning from beyond the grave. Journalists vied for their stories and publishers rushed their firsthand accounts of exciting and dangerous journeys into print for a wide and voracious readership.

Le 7 février 2017, à 22 h 50, Mike Horn, seul et sans assistance, achève sa traversée de l'Antarctique. 5 100 km en 57 jours dans des conditions extrêmes qui l'ont poussé au bout de sa résistance. Un incroyable combat contre les éléments qui fait de cet aventurier le plus grand explorateur des temps modernes.

Un recueil de nouvelles auscultant les paradoxes de l'Amérique et abordant des thèmes tels que les souffrances individuelles et collectives, la vieillesse et la mort, la culpabilité, etc. Un homme qui revit sans cesse sa vie (et ses erreurs), un journaliste qui provoque la mort de ceux dont il prépare la nécrologie, une voiture qui dévore les badauds... 20 nouvelles précédées chacune d'une introduction du maître sur les coulisses de leur écriture.

Twelve little oddities - an assortment of the bizarre, unexpected, charming, unsettling, and downright peculiar. Into darkness or light, there are many ways to escape.

Après "Sacrés Français !", son impertinent best-seller, Ted Stanger récidive. À l'issue de dix années passées en France, notre Yankee parisien est retourné chez lui, dans l'Ohio, et nous livre ses impressions sur une Amérique qu'il ne reconnaît plus. Abordant des thèmes graves ou légers illustrés par de nombreuses anecdotes, il brosse sur le ton ironique et distancié qui le caractérise, le portrait de l'Amérique profonde.

En bonus exclusif, un entretien avec l'auteur. La dernière expédition de Mike Horn, Pole2Pole, consistait en une traversée du pôle Nord au pôle Sud, sans véhicule motorisé, en ski, en kayak et à bord de son voilier brise-glace. Cette aventure, achevée le 30 décembre 2019, est la plus extrême qu'il ait accomplie.

Ted Stanger frappe encore ! "Le plus français des Américains" jette cette fois son regard moqueur sur le monde des fonctionnaires et... des administrés. Ressortissant d'un pays où même la carte d'identité n'existe pas, il brosse le tableau à la fois drôle, ironique et impertinent de notre système administratif et de ses cinq millions d'agents.

Jonathan Bradley, cost-killer, est chargé de dégraisser une petite usine de robinetterie victime de la mondialisation. L'affaire est simple, mais il tombe sur un tas d'os : le code du travail, l'Urssaf, la CGT, la grève et ses piquets, le délégué syndical qui dit toujours non, les salariés peu conciliants.

Découvrez une vingtaine de petites leçons de vie, courtes et simples, pour retrouver l’être naturel qui respire en vous. Plus que jamais, nous ressentons le besoin de nous recentrer sur l’essentiel : l’air qui nous fait vivre, les arbres qui nous protègent, la mer qui nous enseigne l’immensité et la contemplation. Ce livre est le second ouvrage d’une collection qui nous réapprend à écouter les leçons de sagesse prodiguées par la nature.

Humans are fighting a war against alien invaders that spans thousands of millennia. Many generations have been preparing for such an epic conquest, though there are times when the stories of old have been lost, forgotten, or ignored. Those that come into the power to defend the planet, whether they have the prior knowledge of their role or not, all have one thing in common: The ability to infiltrate the enemy’s ranks and crush them from the inside. With powers that they may or may not know that they have, humans will have to fight for their right not to be a luxury food item....

Deux histoires de "Little Lou" : Little Lou raconte l'histoire d'un petit garçon qui a la musique dans la peau. Il descend tous les soirs au petit bar, le "Bird Nest", prendre des leçons de piano auprès du vieux Slim. À la mort de celui-ci, Lou hérite de son piano. Le "Bird Nest" est transformé en boîte de nuit. Un soir, des gangsters font irruption dans le bar, mais Lou est là...