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Une ville évacuée, désertée, peu importe son nom. C'est Beyrouth, Saïgon, Kaboul ou Pristina. C'est quelques heures avant qu'elle ne tombe aux mains des insurgés. Une femme, libre par surprise. Un homme qui s'écarte de son chemin. Dans l'interstice laissé entre un monde qui disparaît et celui qui s'annonce ... more »

These twenty-five short chapters on Jewish Literature open with the fall of Jerusalem in the year 70 of the current era, and end with the death of Moses Mendelssohn in 1786. Thus the period covered extends over more than seventeen centuries. Yet, long as this period is, it is too brief. To do justice ... more »

One of the great cornerstones in the history of Christian thought, The City of God is vital to an understanding of modern Western society and how it came into being. Begun in A.D. 413 by Saint Augustine, the great theologian who was bishop of Hippo, the book's initial purpose was to refute the charge ... more »

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The condition of French society in the early half of the nineteenth century - the period covered by Balzac's novels - may be compared to that of a people endeavouring to recover themselves after an earthquake. Everything had been overthrown, or at least loosened from its base - religion, laws, customs ... more »

This little book is intended to serve as an elementary introduction to the study of Egyptian Literature. Its object is to present a short series of specimens of Egyptian compositions, which represent all the great periods of literary activity in Egypt under the Pharaohs, to all who are interested in ... more »

By a brief survey of present day Hopi culture and an examination into the myths and traditions constituting the unwritten literature of this people, this bulletin proposes to show that an intimate connection exists between their ritual acts, their moral standards, their social organization, even their ... more »

Henry Miller's best-known and most famous work (on anybody's top 100 list, and among this year's top 50 sellers), was first published by Girodias's father in 1934. The book itself was accepted by Jack Kahane in '31, but the economy and Kahane's legal struggles led him to continually delay launching the ... more »

The wide use of the author's History of English Literature, the favor with which it has been received in all parts of the United States, and the number of earnest requests for a History of American Literature on the same plan, have led to the writing of this book. It has not appeared sooner because the ... more »

To the Romans themselves, as they looked back two hundred years later, the beginnings of a real literature seemed definitely fixed in the generation which passed between the first and second Punic Wars. The peace of B.C. 241 closed an epoch throughout which the Roman Republic had been fighting for an ... more »

Henry Miller's brief yet vibrant account of his days in the Paris suburb. The work also features the author on the road with some intriguing adventures in the low countries. This title was first published by Olympia in 1956, and later made into a film with Miller's approval. more »