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• Editura: GALLIMARD

Homme en colère, moraliste à l'esprit corrosif, Cioran place le désespoir au cœur de sa pensée. Dans un style incisif et décapant, il livre ses aphorismes et réflexions sur le temps, la mort, la religion et la condition humaine: « Le plus grand exploit de ma vie est d'être encore en vie ».Une vision d& ... plus

• Editura: GALLIMARD

« Ah, George, quel amour ! jamais homme n'a aimé comme je t'aime. Je suis perdu, vois-tu, je suis noyé, inondé d'amour  ; je ne sais plus si je vis, si je mange, si je marche, si je respire, si je parle  ; je sais que j'aime, je meurs d'amour, d'un amour sans fin, sans ... plus

• Editura: GALLIMARD
• Data publicatie:: August 2010

Des chansons de geste de Chrétien de Troyes au spleen de Baudelaire, en passant par les fables de La Fontaine, Patrick Poivre d'Arvor nous propose dans cette anthologie une sélection des plus beaux poèmes, incontournables ou oubliés, de la littérature française. ... plus

• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 29/10/1992

Edward Lear, the 20th child of a London stockbroker, entered the household of Lord Stanley as little more than a servant, but his sense of humour soon made him welcome above stairs and he began to amuse the children with comic drawings and rhymes. This book was first published in 1846. ... more

• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 01/09/2016

2016 marks the 150th birthday of Beatrix Potter, making it the perfect time to pay tribute to the beloved author/illustrator with ACelebration of Beatrix Potter! With illustrious tales of characters like Peter Rabbit, Squirrel Nutkin, and Jemima Puddle-Duck, Beatrix Potter established herself as one of the most cherished and influential author/illustrators of ... more

• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 07/08/2008

Rediscover the delight and innocence of childhood in these classic poems from celebrated author, Robert Louis Stevenson. From make-believe to climbing trees, bedtime stories to morning play and favourite cousins to beloved mothers.Here is a very special collection to be treasured for ever. & ... more

• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 29/10/1992

Stevenson's gift as an author and poet for children lay partly in his lack of condescension towards them, and he preserved a large element of the child in his own personality. He wrote many of these poems whilst ill in bed, and the illustrations were first published shortly after his death. ... more

• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 21/08/2014

Perhaps one of the most popular of Stevenson's works, A Child's Garden of Verses, first published in 1885, is regarded universally as an outstanding example of the greatest recollections of childhood in verse. We are delighted to announce the republication of this fine facsimile edition. Featuring the superb illustrations of Charles Robinson, and in ... more

• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 07/09/2006

Spike Milligan's publishing career began over forty years ago when Silly Verse for Kids was published in 1959. His poems were inspired by listening to his own children, and subsequently his grandchildren, and marvelling at the way they could invent new words or incorporate sound effects into their everyday language. Spike did not regard children as small ... more

• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 06/11/2014

A Christmas Carol has had an enduring influence on the way we think about the traditions of Christmas ever since it was first published in December 1843. Dickens's story of solitary miser Ebenezer Scrooge, who is taught the true meaning of Christmas by the three ghosts of Christmas past, present and future, has been adapted into countless film and stage versions and is today the most fam ... more

• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 04/08/2016

A Christmas Carol is one of Charles Dickens' most loved books - a true classic and a Christmas time must-read. Ebenezer Scrooge is a mean, miserable, bitter old man with no friends. One cold Christmas Eve, three ghosts take him on a scary journey to show him the error of his nasty ways. By visiting his past, present and future, Scrooge learns to love Chr ... more

• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 07/08/2008

A Christmas Carol is one of Charles Dickens' most loved books - a true classic and a Christmas time must-read. Ebenezer Scrooge is a mean, miserable, bitter old man with no friends. One cold Christmas Eve, three ghosts take him on a scary journey to show him the error of his nasty ways. By visiting his past, present and future, Scrooge learns to love Chr ... more

• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 06/10/1994

The most popular of all ghost stories was first published on 17 December 1843, and by Christmas Eve 6, 000 copies had been sold at a published price of five shillings. The story of Scrooge, a miser who becomes a different man when he is presented with visions of past, present and future by Marley's ghost, was an immediate success and has remainded so eve ... more

• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 26/02/2015

'It is a most wonderful comfort to sit alone beneath a lamp, book spread before you, and commune with someone from the past whom you have never met...'Moonlight, sake, spring blossom, idle moments, a woman's hair - these exquisite reflections on life's fleeting pleasures by a thirteenth-century Japanese monk are delicately attuned to nature and the senses.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Pen ... more

• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 03/07/2014

A Puffin Book - stories that last a lifetime. Puffin Modern Classics are relaunched under a new logo: A Puffin Book. There are 20 titles to collect in the series, listed below, all with exciting new covers and fun-filled endnotes. Philippa Pearce's poignant story of a young boy who longs for a pet dog.In A DOG SO SMALL young Ben Blewitt is  ... more