A travers les aventures de Jacques et de son maître, cavaliers à la destination inconnue, Diderot nous livre un exemple savoureux de la littérature d'idées des philosophes des Lumières.

Mole, Ratty and Badger fear the worst when Toad, their rich, silly friend, becomes obsessed with fast cars. Despite their best efforts, Toad's latest fad lands him in jail. He manages to escape by wearing a disguise, only to discover his home has been taken over by a gang of weasels and stoats. But Toad and his three friends hatch a daring plan to retake Toad Hall from the intruders....

Beautiful World, Where Are You is a new novel by Sally Rooney, the bestselling author of Normal People and Conversations with Friends Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if he?d like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend, Eileen, is getting over a breakup, and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since...

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE The #1 New York Times bestselling worldwide sensation with more than 18 million copies sold, hailed by The New York Times Book Review as a painfully beautiful first novel that is at once a murder mystery, a coming-of-age narrative and a celebration of nature. For years, rumors of the Marsh Girl have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet...

Octubre de 1874. Gabriel Camarasa acaba de regresar con su familia a Barcelona tras varios años de exilio en Londres. Durante su primer día en la Escuela de Arquitectura de la Lonja, conocerá a un joven que está ya en su segundo año de estudios: Antoni Gaudí.  Gaudí es un enigma para el joven Camarasa. Posee unos conocimientos de arquitectura muy superiores a los que cabría esperar en...

An illustrated book on the refugee crisis that will break your heart in under 48 pages, from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns, and And the Mountains Echoed. "Intensely moving. . .Powerfully evocative of the plight in which displaced populations find themselves."- Kirkus, STARRED Review "Hosseini's story, aimed at readers of all ages, does...

Una conspiración política en la corte de Madrid pone en peligro el trono de Felipe V, el cual es defendido por personajes como el conde de Santillana, mientras intervienen figuras históricas como la reina Luisa Gabriela de Saboya, la princesa de los Ursinos y el cardenal Portocarrera.

Isabelle jest mujer viuda que vive en pueblecito cerca de Boston con su única hija, Amy, de 16 años. La relación entre madre e hija es tensa y la comunicación prácticamente inexistente. Cuando un nuevo profesor de matemáticas llega al pueblo, la vida de Amy da un giro radykalny: el profesor y la alumna empiezan una relación que despierta la sexidad de Amy. Y, poco a poco, Amy descubre un...

Historical prose translation of the famous Polish verse epic. In the book, Tadeusz tells the story of two feuding noble families; it takes place in a fictional idyllic village, in 1811 and 1812, after the division of Poland-Lithuania between Russia, Prussia, and Austria. --- "No European nation of our day has such an epic as Pan Tadeusz. In it Don Quixote has been fused with the Iliad....

Wo waren Sie, als David Hasselhoff die Mauer niedergesungen hat? Popsongs erzählen Geschichten: von der ersten Liebe, dem ersten Rausch und der ersten eigenen Wohnung. Und manchmal auch die Geschichte eines ganzen Landes und seiner Bewohner, ihrer Ängste und Sehnsüchte. Maik Brüggemeyer hat zehn Songs ausgewählt, in denen sich die wichtigsten Momente der deutschen Geschichte...

Traditionally attributed to Lao Tzu, an older contemporary of Confucius (551 - 479 BC), it is now thought that the work was compiled in about the fourth century BC. An anthology of wise sayings, it offers a model by which the individual can live rather than explaining the human place in the universe. The moral code it encourages is based on modesty and self-restraint, and the rewards...

Ein elegantes Hotel an der Ostsee, ein verruchtes Varieté in Berlin, eine starke Frau, die ihren Weg geht, und ein Geheimnis, das alles in Gefahr bringt.Rügen, 1924. Weiß und prächtig steht es an der Uferpromenade von Binz: das imposante Grand Hotel der Familie von Plesow. Vieles hat sich hier abgespielt, und es war nicht immer einfach, trotzdem blickt Bernadette voller Stolz auf ihr erstes...

Billy Milligan can be anyone he wants to be . . . except himself. Out of control of his actions, Billy Milligan was a man tormented by twenty-four distinct personalities battling for supremacy over his body-a battle that culminated when he awoke in jail, arrested for the kidnap and rape of three women. In a landmark trial, Billy was acquitted of his crimes by reason of insanity...

Sylvia Plath's only novel is an account of a young woman's breakdown - her attempted suicide, hospitalization and recovery.

From global phenomenon C. S. Pacat comes the first novel in her critically acclaimed Captive Prince trilogy-includes an exclusive bonus story! Damen is a warrior hero to his people, and the rightful heir to the throne of Akielos. But when his half brother seizes power, Damen is captured, stripped of his identity, and sent to serve the prince of an enemy nation as a pleasure...

A timeless short story collection for awakening the warrior within and becoming the hero of your own story—From the inspiring and internationally bestselling author Paulo Coelho. Learn to dream big and live boldly with Warrior of the Light, a treasure trove of wisdom from Paulo Coelho, the renowned author behind The Alchemist. This eternal and philosophical guide is more than...

In The Last Wolf, a philosophy professor is mistakenly hired to write the true tale of the last wolf of Extremadura, a barren stretch of Spain. His miserable experience is narrated in a single, rolling sentence to a patently bored bartender in a dreary Berlin bar. In Herman, a master trapper is asked to clear a forest's last 'noxious beasts.' Herman begins with great zeal,...

The buttoned-up world of the British upper classes is exploded by the brilliance, wit and audacity of Saki's bomb-like stories. In 'The Open Window' an imaginative teenager gives a visitor the fright of his life. In 'The Unrest Cure' the ordered home of a respectable country gent is rocked to its core. And 'Laura' expresses the hope of revenge via reincarnation. For punchlines, twists, satire...

Flo is sick of Tokyo. Suffering from a crisis in confidence, she is stuck in a rut, her translation work has dried up and she's in a relationship that's run its course. That's until she stumbles upon a mysterious book left by a fellow passenger on the Tokyo Subway. From the very first page, Flo is transformed and immediately feels compelled to translate this forgotten novel, a decision which...

Join Big Panda and Tiny Dragon as they set off on an extraordinary adventure in this companion to the global bestselling phenomenon Big Panda and Tiny Dragon. Although content in their temple high up in the mountains, Tiny Dragon realises that something feels incomplete. So it is that they decide to make a journey together, to new and distant lands. As they encounter dangers and challenges,...