Charles - Libros y biografía

La "déconstruction" reste la marque de la philosophie de Derrida et elle est entrée dans le langage courant, sans doute en partie par son caractère ouvertement paradoxal. Cet ouvrage cherche à montrer...

Mr. Ory, a wealthy man in the city and the world, controls his family. Then his brother arrives needing a place to stay for a few days. Life for all begins to unravel.

Is love forever? Eternal? A mysterious coin from five thousand years ago finds its way through many lives. The nature of love, life, and death. All will discover.

Heiress Lady Moira Kirkwood will do anything it takes to marry a laird to take her north - far, far away from London and her domineering mother. Unfortunately, a pair of gentlemen overhear her jest about...

Charles Dancla (1817-1907) is considered to be the last great representative of the French Violin School. He was a composer, solo violinist at the Paris Opera and professor at the Paris Conservatoire...

Charles Dancla (1817-1907) is considered to be the last great representative of the French Violin School. He was a composer, solo violinist at the Paris Opera and professor at the Paris Conservatoire...

A man, Leroy Barnes, who just wants to live in a small town and do his job is harrassed by a dog and its owner. Leroy takes the entire matter into his own hands. A satiric and mutely dark short story.

In the near future, a fighter jet pilot assigned to protect the President's plane, shoots it down, blaming the President for the a world-wide nuclear war that has killed his parents and bride-to-be. The...

The Devil is worn out and living in poverty from being tracked by modern surveillance. He can no longer do his dirty deeds in secret. He seeks help from an insurance man to help him.

Raised in squalor in the marsh country of Kent, the orphan Pip is taken under the wing of the eccentric and reclusive Miss Havisham—only to blindly give his heart to the dowager's beautiful but ice-cold...

A man makes a genetic copy of himself, a clone. What he learns and finds out about his duplicate --- which is himself --- is not pretty.

Um Cântico de Natal tem como protagonista Ebenezer Scrooge, um pão-duro, proprietário de uma casa de contabilidade e empregador do pobre Bob Cratchit, seu escriturário. Scrooge evita fazer quaisquer gastos,...

"Grandes Esperanças" é considerado uma das obras-primas de Charles Dickens (1812-1870). Dividido em três partes, discutindo a bondade, a culpa e o desejo de seus personagens, o romance originalmente foi...

El llibre més personal d'un dels mites fundacionals de la modernitat, per primera vegada en català i amb il·lustracions del mateix Baudelaire.Als quaranta anys, el 1861, Charles Baudelaire va començar...

In 'Reflections on the Decline of Science in England, and on Some of Its Causes' by Charles Babbage, the author provides a critical analysis of the state of scientific research in England during the 19th...

In Charles Sumner's groundbreaking book, 'Freedom National: Slavery Sectional,' the author delves deep into the complex web of issues surrounding slavery in the pre-Civil War United States. Sumner's meticulous...

In 'Out of the Deep: Words for the Sorrowful', Charles Kingsley explores themes of hardship, loss, and resilience through a collection of poignant poems and reflective essays. Written in a lyrical and...

Charles Churchill's masterpiece, 'Gotham', is a satirical poem embodying the essence of 18th-century English literature. Written in heroic couplets, the work humorously critiques various societal issues,...

El llibre fundacional de la poesia moderna en una traducció esplèndida de Pere Rovira.Pocs llibres han marcat tant com Les flors del mal la història de la poesia. Charles Baudelaire, un dels primers que...

Consideradas o marco da poesia moderna, "As flores do mal" reúnem de modo exemplar uma série de motivos da obra de Baudelaire: a queda, a expulsão do paraíso, o amor, a morte, o tempo, o exílio e o tédio....

In the year 1972 in Orange County, Southern California, an ex-Nazi, Ulrich Kreitz, recruits a young man to the cause of Neo-Nazis. What Ulrich Kreitz does not know is that the new recruit, Heinrich Traupman,...

In the year 68 A.D., a young man, Divinius, a would-be prophet, meets the Roman general who murdered his father. Divinius wants revenge. Meanwhile, he is in love with a woman he feels he will never have....

O que aconteceria se os cristãos de uma igreja em certa cidade se comprometessem durante um ano inteiro a não fazer nada sem antes perguntar: Que faria Jesus em meu lugar? É esta a situação apresentada...

There may be something wrong with me.My therapist told me to stop drinking and wean off my meds. He advised me to confront my demons... namely my alcoholic father and my co-dependent mother. When the...

My name is John. The ghosts of those I failed to protect haunt me. The Gaunt Man,a new persistent hallucination, claws at the cracks of my sanity. I must keep ahead of all of these phantoms. I need to...

My name is John.A freak injury ended the only career I ever knew. I stepped off a plane in New England with the hopes of heading home, but a hitchhiking pit stop at a gas station trapped me in an island...

My name is John.I was a Marine Corps sniper once. Now it's a bit harder to know what I am. A series of shadowy events beyond my control have left me as something less than human… or, maybe, something...

This is a novel of historical fiction. The story of York, the black slave, an African American,  who was part of the Lewis and Clark expedition in the year 1804. The Corps of Discovery was trying to find...

Um romance inspirador sobre escolhas e sacrifícios durante a ocupação nazista. Na Paris de 1942, o talentoso arquiteto Lucien Bernard aceita uma encomenda que lhe renderá uma boa quantia de dinheiro,...

Miss Vanessa Claxton gave her heart to Lord Crispin Tilson when she was only seventeen. He did not ask for it, but it went willingly. A secret friendship on the cusp of young love, and then he was gone. Lord...