François Mauriac
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Language
English
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Description
The Nobel Prize—winning author of Thérèse Desqueyroux shares fascinating insights through correspondence with Albert Camus, Jean Cocteau, and others.
Best known as France's great Catholic novelist, François Mauriac was also a playwright, poet, critic, journalist, and member of the Académie Française. He was an influential public intellectual who criticized the Catholic church for supporting Francisco Franco and opposed French rule in Vietnam....
2) Proust's way
Author
Language
English
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Description
The thinking and suffering of the author of Remembrance of Things Past are intimately exposed in these letters to Mauriac.
Author
Series
Pour mon plaisir volume 2. sér., VII
Publisher
B. Grasset
Pub. Date
[1932]
Language
Français
Author
Series
Livre de poche volume 138
Language
Français
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Description
François Mauriac's masterpiece and one of the greatest Catholic novels, 'Thérèse Desqueyroux' is the haunting story of an unhappily married young woman whose desperation drives her to thoughts of murder.
6) Le sagouin
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Language
Français
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Description
In this novel, Mauriac deals predominantly with "the remains of the provincial nobility, impoverished and almost ossified by ineffectuality and pride" and the radical village teacher who tried to save them from themselves.
10) Night
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"Wiesel's account of his time in concentration camps during the Holocaust with updated front and back matter to include speeches and essays commemorating his recent death"--
"A memorial edition of Elie Wiesel's seminal memoir of surviving the Nazi death camps, with tributes by President Obama and Samantha Power. When Elie Wiesel died in July 2016, the White House issued a memorial statement in which President Barack Obama called him 'the conscience...
14) The unknown sea
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Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
[1948]
Language
English
Description
The Unknown Sea follows the fate of the Revolu family after the financial failure and suicide of its patriarch. Oscar Revolu's death hurls his family, once poised to enjoy lives of success and happiness, into disgrace and destitution. His wife Lucienne is left to generate some semblance of order for the estate, unassisted by their sons-Julien becomes a neurotic recluse and Denis remains haunted by the specter of his father's death, even as he approaches...
Author
Series
I grandi della Letteratura volume 82
Publisher
Fratelli Fabbri
Pub. Date
1970.
Language
Italiano
Author
Publisher
Pellegrini & Cudahy
Pub. Date
[1952]
Language
English
Description
The characters in this novella are a young couple in love, but hindered by the opposition of the girl's mother. They can only meet with the connivance of her governess, the ugly Agathe (the 'Galigai' of the novel). Loved by no one, Agathe will cooperate for a price...engagement to the young man's best friend. Utterly repulsed by the thought, yet bound inextricably to his adored friend, whose requests for help persuade him on...and confounded by his...