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The Hobbit»rank: 6069par: J.R.R. Tolkien
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PRINCE (LE)»rank: 23083par: NICOLAS MACHIAVEL
Chroniques et points de vue:Chronique amazon.fr:Dédié à Laurent de Médicis, Le Prince est une oeuvre nourrie par l'expérience d'ambassadeur de son auteur. Machiavel y définit les fins du gouvernement : sur le plan extérieur, maintenir à tout prix son emprise sur les territoires conquis ; sur le plan intérieur, se donner les moyens de rester au pouvoir. Parce que les hommes sont égoïstes, le prince n'est pas tenu d'être moral. ll doit être craint en évitant de se faire haïr par le peuple. La réduction de Machiavel au ... |
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The Da Vinci Code»rank: 22038par: Dan Brown
Chroniques et points de vue:From :With The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown masterfully concocts an intelligent and lucid thriller that marries the gusto of an international murder mystery with a collection of fascinating esoteria culled from 2,000 years of Western history. A murder in the silent after-hour halls of the Louvre museum reveals a sinister plot to uncover a secret that has been protected by a clandestine society since the days of Christ. The victim is a high-ranking agent of this ancient society who, in the ... |
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FICTIONS»rank: 31278par: JORGE LUIS BORGES
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Reading Jorge Luis Borges is an experience akin to having the top of one's head removed for repairs. First comes the unfamiliar breeze tickling your cerebral cortex; then disorientation, even mild discomfort; and finally, the sense that the world has been irrevocably altered--and in this case, rendered infinitely more complex. First published in 1945, his Ficciones compressed several centuries' worth of philosophy and poetry into 17 tiny, unclassifiable pieces of prose. He offered up diabolical tigers, imaginary encyclopedias, ontological detective stories, ... |
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The Maltese Falcon»rank: 31148par: Dashiell Hammett
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Sam Spade, Dashiell Hammett's archetypally tough San Francisco detective, is more noir than L.A. Confidential and more vulnerable than Raymond Chandler's Marlowe. ln The Maltese Falcon, the best known of Hammett's Sam Spade novels (including The Dain Curse and The Glass Key), Spade is tough enough to bluff the toughest thugs and hold off the police, risking his reputation when a beautiful woman begs for his help, while knowing that betrayal may deal him a new hand in the next moment. ... |
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Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae»rank: 21526par: Steven Pressfield
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here obedient to their laws we lie. Thus reads an ancient stone at Thermopylae in northern Greece, the site of one of the world's greatest battles for freedom. Here, in 480 B.C., on a narrow mountain pass above the crystalline Aegean, 300 Spartan knights and their allies faced the massive forces of Xerxes, King of Persia. From the start, there was no question but that the Spartans would perish. ln Gates of Fire, ... |
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A Prayer for Owen Meany»rank: 2275par: John Irving
Chroniques et points de vue:From :0wen Meany is a dwarfish boy with a strange voice who accidentally kills his best friend's mom with a baseball and believes--accurately--that he is an instrument of God, to be redeemed by martyrdom. John lrving's novel, which inspired the 1998 Jim Carrey movie Simon Birch, is his most popular book in Britain, and perhaps the oddest Christian mystic novel since Flannery 0'Connor's work. lrving fans will find much that is familiar: the New England prep-school-town setting, symbolic amputations of man and ... |
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The Valley of Horses»rank: 3358par: Jean M. Auel
Chroniques et points de vue:From :0wen Meany is a dwarfish boy with a strange voice who accidentally kills his best friend's mom with a baseball and believes--accurately--that he is an instrument of God, to be redeemed by martyrdom. John lrving's novel, which inspired the 1998 Jim Carrey movie Simon Birch, is his most popular book in Britain, and perhaps the oddest Christian mystic novel since Flannery 0'Connor's work. lrving fans will find much that is familiar: the New England prep-school-town setting, symbolic amputations of man and ... |
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Madame Bovary»rank: 13621par: GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
Chroniques et points de vue:From :0wen Meany is a dwarfish boy with a strange voice who accidentally kills his best friend's mom with a baseball and believes--accurately--that he is an instrument of God, to be redeemed by martyrdom. John lrving's novel, which inspired the 1998 Jim Carrey movie Simon Birch, is his most popular book in Britain, and perhaps the oddest Christian mystic novel since Flannery 0'Connor's work. lrving fans will find much that is familiar: the New England prep-school-town setting, symbolic amputations of man and ... |
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Et si c'était vrai ?...»rank: 21173par: Marc Levy
Chroniques et points de vue:Chronique Amazon.fr:Lauren est dans le coma, c'est indéniable. Mais elle est aussi dans le placard d'Arthur, un peu comme un fantôme, cela est tout aussi indéniable… Arthur, en tout cas, est bien obligé de l'admettre : il la voit, l'entend, la comprend et finit même par l'aimer. Mais que peut-on espérer d'un fantôme que l'on est le seul à distinguer ? 0n ne tombe pas amoureux d'un mirage, on ne force pas son meilleur ami à dérober une ambulance pour kidnapper un corps dans ... |