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The Girl from the Chartreuse
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 176

The Girl from the Chartreuse

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-11-24
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  • Publisher: Vintage

The owner of the bookshop THE VERB TO BE, is a red-haired giant imprisoned in an enormous body and his solitude. One wet afternoon, driving a vanload of new and second-hand books, �tienneVollard knocks down and seriously injures a little girl, �va. In the hospital, he meets �va's mother, Th�r�se, a struggling single parent who lacks maternal instincts and whose dream is to be faraway, alone. Both are haunted by guilt: Th�r�se because of her lateness in collecting her daughter, and Vollard because he did not manage to stop his car on time (even if he knows that he could not have avoided -va: indeed she seemed to throw herself in front of the car). Vollard visits �va regularly ...

The Girl from the Chartreuse
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 184

The Girl from the Chartreuse

Etienne Vollard, owner of the bookshop The Verb To Be, is a red-haired man imprisoned in an enormous body and his solitude. One wet afternoon, driving a vanload of books, he knocks down and seriously injures a little girl, Eva. In the hospital, he meets Eva's mother, Therese, a struggling single parent who lacks maternal instincts and whose dream is to be far away, alone. Both are haunted by guilt: Therese because of her lateness in collecting her daughter, and Vollard because he did not manage to stop his car on time (even if he knows that he could not have avoided Eva). Vollard visits Eva regularly while she is in a coma and reads books to her, while Therese spaces her visits out. When Eva...

Clara's Tale
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 322

Clara's Tale

Paul, a young Frenchman, meets Clara in the Bavarian village of Kehlstein during the 1960s. He is the son of a Resistance fighter, murdered in mysterious circumstances, she, the daughter of a doctor who had served in the Wehrmacht. Both were born at a time when Europe was at last at peace, yet they are both victims of history.

Subject Catalog
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1012

Subject Catalog

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: Unknown
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Orbis Terrarum, Ways of Worldmaking
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 402

Orbis Terrarum, Ways of Worldmaking

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2000
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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French XX Bibliography
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 276

French XX Bibliography

This series of bibliographical references is one of the most important tools for research in modern and contemporary French literature. No other bibliography represents the scholarly activities and publications of these fields as completely.

French XX Bibliography
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 360

French XX Bibliography

Provides the listing of books, articles, and book reviews concerned with French literature since 1885. This is a reference source in the study of modern French literature and culture. It contains nearly 8,800 entries.

Absentees
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 180

Absentees

An intellectually adventurous account of the role of nonpersons that explores their depiction in literature and challenges how they are defined in philosophy, law, and anthropology In thirteen interlocking chapters, Absentees explores the role of the missing in human communities, asking an urgent question: How does a person become a nonperson, whether by disappearance, disenfranchisement, or civil, social, or biological death? Only somebody can become a “nobody,” but, as Daniel Heller-Roazen shows, the ways of being a nonperson are as diverse and complex as they are mysterious and unpredictable. Heller-Roazen treats the variously missing persons of the subtitle in three parts: Vanishings...

Developing Core Literacy Proficiencies, Grade 6
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 659

Developing Core Literacy Proficiencies, Grade 6

The Developing Core Literacy Proficiencies program is an integrated set of English Language Arts/Literacy units spanning grades 6-12 that provide student-centered instruction on a set of literacy proficiencies at the heart of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). Reading Closely for Textual Details Making Evidence-Based Claims Making Evidence-Based Claims about Literary Technique (Grades 9-12) Researching to Deepen Understanding Building Evidence-Based Arguments The program approaches literacy through the development of knowledge, literacy skills, and academic habits. Throughout the activities, students develop their literacy along these three paths in an integrated, engaging, and empoweri...

Canadian Review of Comparative Literature
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 140

Canadian Review of Comparative Literature

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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