French Work

Every word Oscar Wilde published — the novel, the plays, the poems, the essays, the fairy tales, and the two masterpieces he wrote in disgrace — in a single authoritative edition. Oscar Wilde lived two lives simultaneously: the most celebrated wit in Victorian London, and a man whose inner life was at war with everything the society around him demanded. He understood, better than almost anyone before or since, that style is not decoration but argument — that how you say something is inseparable from what you are saying. He paid for that understanding with two years in Reading Gaol and...

The complete D'Artagnan saga in one unabridged volume. Five novels. Fifty years of French history. One immortal hero. For the first time in a single edition, all five novels of Alexandre Dumas's D'Artagnan Romances: The Three Musketeers — D'Artagnan arrives in Paris, befriends Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, and crosses swords with Cardinal Richelieu and the legendary Milady de Winter. Twenty Years After — The four friends reunite during the Fronde, divided across political lines, racing to save Charles I from the executioner's axe. The Vicomte de Bragelonne — A new generation rises. ...

Learning a new language as a hobby, like French, can be incredibly satisfying. You are learning a new skill, deepening your mind by learning about a new culture, and exercising your memory. But, did you ever realize that learning French can be a game-changer? As one of the most widely used languages in the world, the ability to speak French can offer new career opportunities as business becomes more global.

Did you know that over 220 million people around the world speak French? Now is the time to join them and tap into the countless opportunities that come with mastering this widely spoken language.

This short book considers a short (about thirty-seven page) speech given by the existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) in 1945. In this speech, "Existentialism is a Humanism," Sartre defended existentialism against its critics. I consider what lessons of wisdom we can take from Sartre's speech. But I do that in a critical way--not in the sense of being hostile or negative but in the sense of examining and weighing what Sartre says to see where I agree and where I disagree. Like him or not, Sartre is a great thinker who is worth considering even if you may reject some or all...

The Nine follows the true story of the author’s great aunt Hélène Podliasky, who led a band of nine female resistance fighters as they escaped a German forced labor camp and made a ten-day journey across the front lines of World War II from Germany back to Paris. This program includes a...

Bataille's first novel: a legendary shocker that uncovers the dark side of the erotic by means of forbidden obsessive fantasies of excess and sexual extremes. A classic of pornographic literature, Story of the Eye finds the parallels in Sade and Nietzsche and in the investigations of...

Gabriel Marcel (1889-1973) was a French philosopher prominent in the twentieth century. He is still known as a Christian existentialist although he later rejected that label. His father was a non-practicing Catholic; his mother's family was Jewish. Since his mother died when Marcel was a very young child, his maternal aunt raised him--at some point she converted to a liberal form of Protestantism. From this eclectic background, Marcel himself eventually converted to Catholicism as a mature man and thinker. The basic outline of his philosophy had already been set before his conversion. This ...

One of the founding works of modern science fiction — and one of the greatest adventure novels ever written. In 1866, ships of every nation begin to sink in deep ocean. A monstrous creature — vast, phosphorescent, faster than any vessel — is glimpsed in the waters of the world. The American government sends out the frigate Abraham Lincoln to hunt it down. On board: the French marine biologist Pierre Aronnax, his servant Conseil, and the Canadian harpooner Ned Land. What they find is not a creature. It is a submarine — the Nautilus — captained by a brilliant, embittered, ...

Build Real Connections — Créez de vraies connexions Félicitations. You’ve completed the first five books. You can describe experiences, express emotions, compare ideas, and tell stories about the past. Now it’s time to build deeper connections in French. French Vocabulary Builder B1.1: Connexions (Constructeur de vocabulaire français B1.1 : Connexions) is the sixth step in your journey. You move beyond everyday French into professional, educational, and media-based French. From Expression to Connection This is where French becomes broader and more sophisticated. You will learn to: ...

Late in the first volume of Proust's In Search of Lost Time, a boy cannot sleep. His mother comes to stay, and she reads to him. What she reads — in the lamplight, on the night that becomes for him one of the indestructible memories of childhood — is François le Champi. Decades later, seeing the same book in a library, the narrator is flooded by the return of everything that reading contained. Proust did not choose this book at random. He chose it because a story about a foundling who found belonging, read by a mother to a child who needed her presence, was the right vessel for the ...

“There are words that are so familiar they obscure rather than illuminate the thing they mean, and ‘learning’ is such a word. It seems so ordinary, everyone does it. Actually it’s more of a black box, which Dehaene cracks open to reveal the awesome secrets within.”—The New York Times...

La capacité qui revêt le plus de valeur dans notre économie se fait de plus en plus rare. Celui qui la développe se donne les moyens d'accomplir de grandes choses. Le travail en profondeur, ou deep work, désigne une activité professionnelle menée dans un état de concentration absolue qui pousse nos capacités cognitives jusqu'à leurs limites. Ces efforts créent de la valeur, affinent nos compétences et sont difficiles à reproduire. En d'autres termes, le travail en profondeur est comme un superpouvoir dans notre économie toujours plus concurrentielle.

« Brutal et délicieux ! Les écrits d’Addison Cain m’épatent à chaque fois ! » Anna Zaires, auteure de best-sellers du New York Times Je suis possessif envers ma femelle, sans scrupules dans mon besoin de la voler à ceux qui oseraient la garder pour eux. Aucun guerrier ne peut égaler ma brutalité. Mais, pour elle, je serai doux comme un agneau. Je serai patient, je la couvrirai de cadeaux, je l’attirerai à moi. Elle a peur, alors je la réconforterai. Ma partenaire ne saura rien du monstre que je suis vraiment.

Bloomsbury presents Solidarity: The Work of Recognition by Dr. Rowan Williams, read by Niall Lucas. Celebrated thinker Rowan Williams explores the shared burdens and hopes that make solidarity possible. From its use as a rallying cry by the labour movement to its central place in struggles for...

George Sand was looking out of her window at Nohant when she began the preface that became one of the most important statements of artistic purpose she ever made. She was watching a ploughman at work in a spring field — his oxen, his small son walking beside him, the patient rhythm of the furrow — and thinking about a Holbein engraving: the medieval ploughman guided through his labor by Death itself, the skeleton driving the furrow alongside the man, the image of peasant life as unrelenting toil haunted by mortality. The scene outside the window was not the scene in the engraving. And ...

Lélia cannot love. Not because she has never tried — she has, with the totality that her nature demands — but because she has passed through the aspiration for the absolute and found, on the other side of it, only the permanent confirmation of its impossibility. She cannot be reached by Sténio, the young poet who loves her with a completeness that is destroying him. She cannot be consoled by Trenmor, the former gambler who has survived his own degradation and found in renunciation a stoic peace. She cannot be saved by Magnus, the fanatical priest whose religious obsession with her ...

Six mois s'étaient écoulés depuis que James avait quitté Cedar Key, bien que le souvenir de l'île persistât en lui, comme le sel qui persiste dans les joints d'un sac en toile. Il ne s'attendait pas à ce que le domaine en Normandie devienne un lieu qu'il habiterait aussi complètement. Il ne s'attendait pas à ce que son silence le façonne. Et il ne s'attendait pas à ce que le vignoble et le verger deviennent le décor d'un film basé sur un livre qu'il n'avait pas encore terminé. Mais Fabienne avait insisté. Elle avait insisté doucement, comme elle faisait tout — pas avec ...

World History - Modern History - French Revolution - Industrial Revolution - Russian Revolution - Digital Revolution - Political Upheaval - Social Transformation Four revolutions. Four turning points. One extraordinary journey through the forces that created the modern world. Why do some societies suddenly reject institutions that once seemed permanent? How can new ideas, machines, political movements, and technologies transform the lives of millions—while also creating conflict, inequality, uncertainty, and resistance? Great Revolutions Made Easy offers an accessible four-book ...

La pièce Les belles-sœurs de Michel Tremblay est née le 4 mars 1968 lors d'une lecture publique dans un minuscule théâtre de la métropole. Cinquante ans après sa création, le journaliste Mario Girard raconte l'histoire qui a entouré la naissance de cette oeuvre majeure de la dramaturgie québécoise. À partir de témoignages, de documents d'archives et de photographies, on découvre comment, un jour de 1965, l'idée est venue au jeune Tremblay d'écrire une pièce en joual rassemblant 15 femmes dans une cuisine autour d'un million de timbres-primes Gold Star.