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These six stories, written at the height of Camus' artistic powers, all depict people at decisive, revelatory moments in their lives. Translated by Justin O'Brien.
Part adventure story, part extreme sports, "Born to Run" is a riveting tale about one journalist's quest to discover the secrets of the world's greatest distance runners--a reclusive Indian tribe living deep in the Copper Canyon of northern Mexico.
First published in 1970 by Morrison, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature, the novel tells the story of 11-year-old Pecola Breedlove, the nightmare at the heart of her yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfillment.
"Écoute-moi bien, fille... Tu es la personnalité la plus forte de la famille. Je te prédis que la volonté de ton mari se brisera sur la tienne." Ophélie cache des dons singuliers : elle peut lire le passé des objets et traverser les miroirs. Fiancée de force à l'un des héritiers d'un clan du Pôle, elle quitte à regret le confort de sa famille. La jeune femme découvre ainsi la cour du Seigneur Farouk, où intrigues politiques et familiales vont bon train. Loin de susciter l'unanimité, son entrée dans le monde devient alors l'enjeu d'un complot mortel. Les fiancés de l'hiver est le premier tome de la saga La Passe-miroir.
It surprises no one that the charming but wayward Vadinho dos Guimaraes-a gambler notorious for never winning--dies during Carnival. His long suffering widow Dona Flor devotes herself to her cooking school and her friends, who urge her to remarry. She is soon drawn to a kind pharmacist who is everything Vadinho was not, and is altogether happy to marry him. But after her wedding she finds herself dreaming about her first husband's amorous attentions; and one evening Vadinho himself appears by her bed, as lusty as ever, to claim his marital rights.
"Il n'y a que deux catégories de femmes dans l'entourage de notre seigneur Farouk. Celles qui cèdent leurs charmes et celles qui cèdent leurs services. Si vous ne participez pas à son plaisir, vous ne survivrez pas longtemps ici." Promue vice-conteuse par Farouk, Ophélie découvre à ses dépens les complots qui couvent sous les plafonds dorés de la Citacielle. Entre les menaces anonymes qui la visent, l'ambiguïté de son fiancé Thorn et ces inquiétantes disparitions à la cour, la jeune fille est contrainte d'enquêter : quelles vérités se cachent derrière les illusions du Pôle ?
In this modern classic, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author explores the incomprehensible depths of madness and captures the insanity of violence in our time or any other.Patrick Bateman moves among the young and trendy in 1980s Manhattan. Young, handsome, and well educated, Bateman earns his fortune on Wall Street by day while spending his nights in ways we cannot begin to fathom. Expressing his true self through torture and murder, Bateman prefigures an apocalyptic horror that no society could bear to confront.
Ein wunderbarer Liebes- und Entwicklungsroman von Japans Kultautor Haruki Murakami, voller Märchen und Mythen und schwebend zwischen Traum und Wirklichkeit. "Kafka on the Shore" is powered by two remarkable characters: a teenage boy, Kafka Tamura, who runs away from home either to escape a gruesome oedipal prophecy or to search for his long-missing mother and sister; and an aging simpleton called Nakata, who never recovered from a wartime affliction and now is drawn toward Kafka for reasons that, like the most basic activities of daily life, he cannot fathom.§As their paths converge, and the reasons for that convergence become clear, Haruki Murakami enfolds readers in a world where cats talk, fish fall from the sky, and spirits slip out of their bodies to make love or commit murder. Kafka on the Shore displays one of the world's great storytellers at the peak of his powers.
The macabre, witty, "New York Times"-bestselling series--and inspiration for the #1 Showtime series, "Dexter"--continues as the darkly lovable killer matches wits with a sadistic "artiste" who is creating bizarre murder tableaux of his own all over Miami.
A master teacher gives actors everywhere the benefit of his vast experience, helping them to build up a solid foundation of skills they can use to create characters with truthful and compelling inner lives.
Bestselling author de Botton considers how individuals' private homes and public edifices influence how they feel, and how dwellings could be built in such a way as to promote a sense of happiness.
Socrates, Plato, Descartes, Spinoza, Mesmer, William James, Pavlov, Freud, Piaget, Erikson, and Skinner. Each of these thinkers recognized that human beings could examine, comprehend, and eventually guide or influence their own thought processes, emotions, and resulting behavior. The lives and accomplishments of these pillars of psychology, expertly assembled by Morton Hunt, are set against the times in which the subjects lived. Hunt skillfully presents dramatic and lucid accounts of the techniques and validity of centuries of psychological research, and of the methods and effectiveness of major forms of psychotherapy. Fully revised, and incorporating the dramatic developments of the last fifteen years, "The Story of Psychology "is a graceful and absorbing chronicle of one of the great human inquiries--the search for the true causes of our behavior.
Newly translated and unabridged in English for the first time, Simone de Beauvoir's masterwork is a powerful analysis of the Western notion of "woman," and a groundbreaking exploration of inequality and otherness. This long-awaited new edition reinstates significant portions of the original French text that were cut in the first English translation. Vital and groundbreaking, Beauvoir's pioneering and impressive text remains as pertinent today as it was sixty years ago, and will continue to provoke and inspire generations of men and women to come.
At the approach of the first millennium, the Christians of Europe did not seem likely candidates for future greatness. Weak, fractured, and hemmed in by hostile nations, they saw no future beyond the widely anticipated Second Coming of Christ. But when the world did not end, the peoples of Western Europe suddenly found themselves with no choice but to begin the heroic task of building a Jerusalem on earth. In "The Forge of Christendom," Tom Holland masterfully describes this remarkable new age, a time of caliphs and Viking sea kings, the spread of castles and the invention of knighthood. It was one of the most significant departure points in history: the emergence of Western Europe as a distinctive and expansionist power.
At the age of 23, James Frey woke up on a plane to find his front teeth knocked out and his nose broken. He had no idea where the plane was headed nor any recollection of the past two weeks. An alcoholic for ten years and a crack addict for three, he checked into a treatment facility shortly after landing. There he was told he could either stop using or die before he reached age 24. This is Frey's acclaimed account of his six weeks in rehab.
Presenting the latest research by biologists, anthropologists, archaeologists, and historians, Mann shows how the post-Columbian network of ecological and economic exchange fostered the rise of Europe, devastated imperial China, convulsed Africa, and for two centuries made Mexico City--where Asia, Europe, and the new frontier of the Americas dynamically interacted--the center of the world. In this history, Mann uncovers the germ of today's fiercest political disputes, from immigration to trade policy to culture wars. In 1493, Mann has again given readers an eye-opening scientific interpretation of our past, unequaled in its authority and fascination.
The book that has shaped modern dog training and ownership with its unique and scientifically sound recognition of the "cultural" differences between dogs and humans. Dogs can't read so you need to in order to really understand your dog.
A fascinating exploration of the science of the impossible--from death rays and force fields to invisibility cloaks--revealing to what extent such technologies might be achievable decades or millennia into the future.
Drawing on archival materials, public speeches, personal correspondence, and accounts by family and close associates, acclaimed bestselling historian and biographer Brands offers a compelling and intimate portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt's life and career.
In these ten arresting stories filled with exuberant imagination and emotional depth, debut author Russell takes readers to the ghostly and magical swamps of the Florida Everglades.
Twenty-five years have passed since the events of "Less Than Zero." Clay Easton, now a successful screenwriter, returns to L.A. where he's helping to cast his latest movie. But the more things have changed, the more they stay the same, and Clay is soon drifting around in his familiar old circle.
In a thought-provoking and impassioned new study, the author of The End of Faith continues his battle against rigid adherence to the Christian religious literalism that is transforming America, refuting the essential beliefs, tenets, and certainties of fundamentalist Christianity in terms of sexual morality, intelligent design, and other key topics.
Ilheus in 1925 is a booming town with a record cacao crop and aspirations for progress, but the traditional ways prevail. When Colonel Mendonca discovers his wife in bed with a lover, he shoots and kills them both. Political contests, too, can be settled by gunshot... No one imagines that a bedraggled migrant worker who turns up in town-least of all Gabriela herself-will be the agent of change. Nacib Saad has just lost the cook at his popular cafe and in desperation hires Gabriela. To his surprise she turns out to be a great beauty as well as a wonderful cook and an enchanting boon to his business. But what would people say if Nacib were to marry her? Lusty, satirical and full of intrigue, "Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon" is a vastly entertaining panorama of small town Brazilian life.
Elia Kazan was the twentieth century's most celebrated director of both stage and screen, and this monumental, revelatory book shows us the master at work. Kazan's list of Broadway and Hollywood successes--"A Streetcar Named Desire, Death of a Salesman, On the Waterfront," to name a few--is a testament to his profound impact on the art of directing. This remarkable book, drawn from his notebooks, letters, interviews, and autobiography, reveals Kazan's method: how he uncovered the "spine," or core, of each script; how he analyzed each piece in terms of his own experience; and how he determined the specifics of his production. And in the final section, "The Pleasures of Directing"--written during Kazan's final years--he becomes a wise old pro offering advice and insight for budding artists, writers, actors, and directors.
Unterschiedliche kreative Weihnachtsdekorationen zu vier Farbthemen und verschiedenen Wohnstyles nimmt das neue Buch "Geliebte Weihnacht" in den Blick. Die beiden Floristen Doreen Neumann und Michael Sutmöller stellen zahlreiche adventliche und weihnachtliche Dekorationen für das eigene Zuhause vor. Die dabei entstandenen Ideen sind neu und innovativ, lassen aber auch das Traditionelle nicht aus den Augen. Vom Adventskranz in der angesagten reduzierten Form, über Lichterideen bis zu alternativen Weihnachtsbaumkreationen zeigen sie die Vielfalt professioneller und zeitgemäßer Floristik. Genaue Anleitungen, Werkstoff- und Materialangaben helfen bei der eigenen Umsetzung. Im Hinblick auf berufliche Anwendungen werden die farblichen und stilistischen Gemeinsamkeiten zusammengefasst, die auch floristikbegeisterten Kreativen als Inspiration dienen. Das Buch ist das unentbehrliche Must-have für alle, die sich auf die Weihnachtssaison vorbereiten und einstimmen wollen.
