A collection of lyrics, poems, notebook sketches, and self-portraits maps the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee's singular creative journey through the weeks just prior to his death. "The Flame is the final work from Leonard Cohen, the revered poet and musician whose fans span generations and whose work is celebrated throughout the world. Featuring poems, excerpts from his private notebooks, lyrics, and hand-drawn self-portraits, The Flame offers...

"When it comes to the trials and triumphs of becoming a grown up, journalist and former Sunday Times dating columnist Dolly Alderton has seen and tried it all. In this book, she vividly recounts falling in love, wrestling with self-sabotage, finding a job, throwing a socially disastrous Rod-Stewart themed house party, getting drunk, getting dumped, realising that Ivan from the corner shop is the only man you've ever been able to rely on, and finding...

Dans les années 1890, Gertrude, une jeune fille aveugle et orpheline de sa tante qui vient de mourir, est recueillie par un pasteur qui lui offre de vivre avec sa femme, Amélie, et ses cinq enfants dans une petite chaumière du Jura neuchâtelois, en Suisse. Dans son journal, le pasteur raconte l'éducation protestante qu'il offre à Gertrude, dont il finit par tomber amoureux. Son fils Jacques tombe également amoureux de Gertrude. Lorsque le pasteur...

L'Assommoir est un roman d'Émile Zola publié en feuilleton dès 1876 dans Le Bien public, puis dans La République des Lettres, avant sa sortie en livre en 1877 chez l'éditeur Georges Charpentier. C'est le septième volume de la série Les Rougon-Macquart. L'ouvrage est totalement consacré au monde ouvrier et, selon Zola, c'est « le premier roman sur le peuple, qui ne mente pas et qui ait l'odeur du peuple ». L'écrivain y restitue la langue...

David Huerta cree en el talante subversivo de la gente que lee libros. La certeza de que hay algo revolucionario en la relación del lector con la página escrita anima esta colección de ensayos y reseñas, publicados entre 2001 y 2008 en el suplemento Hoja por Hoja, ejemplos nítidos de cómo se pueden colocar las obras del ayer en la coyuntura presente o de qué debe hacerse para convertir un párrafo aislado, un verso huérfano, en la clave para...

"Un personnage rapporte la longue confidence que Michel, « l'immoraliste », a faite devant quelques amis. Érudit peu concerné par la chair, celui-ci a jadis épousé, sans réel amour, une femme dévouée, Marceline, qui éprouve pour lui des sentiments plus vifs. Au cours de leur voyage de noces en Afrique du Nord, il tombe gravement malade et lutte contre la mort à Biskra, en Algérie. La contemplation des jeunes garçons pleins de santé...

A riveting look at the story of World War II and the Holocaust through the diaries of Dutch citizens, firsthand accounts of ordinary people living through extraordinary times Based on select writings from a collection of more than two thousand Dutch diaries written during World War II in order to record this unparalleled time, and maintained by devoted archivists, The Diary Keepers illuminates a part of history we haven't seen in quite this way before,...

The novel tells of a young man named Dorian Gray, the subject of a painting by artist Basil Hallward, who is greatly impressed by Dorian's physical beauty and becomes strongly infatuated with him, believing that his beauty is responsible for a new mode in his art. Talking in Basil's garden, Dorian meets Lord Henry Wotton, a friend of Basil's, and becomes enthralled by Lord Henry's world view. Espousing a new kind of hedonism, Lord Henry suggests that...

Classics. Mark Twain's tale of a boy's picaresque journey down the Mississippi on a raft conveyed the voice and experience of the American frontier as no other work had done before. When Huck escapes from his drunken father and the 'sivilizing' Widow Douglas with the runaway slave Jim, he embarks on a series of adventures that draw him to feuding families and the trickery of the unscrupulous 'Duke' and 'Dauphin'. Beneath the exploits, however, are...

"Seven Seas is pleased to present Pride and Prejudice, an all-new, illustrated edition of Jane Austen’s most famous novel, now brought to life in a unique way featuring manga-styled artwork that will appeal to readers and fans of all ages. Alongside Jane Austen’s original, unadulterated text, this edition includes over 120 delightful black-and-white full-page illustrations, four color inserts, and gorgeous wrap-around cover art. Elizabeth...