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Brook farm
En Anglais – The definitive study of one of America’s most unusual experiments in establishing the ideal society. Introduction by Joseph Schiffman
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The Golden Egg
En Anglais – In The Golden Egg, as the first leaves of autumn begin to fall, Vice Questore Patta asks Brunetti to look into a minor shop-keeping violation committed by the mayor's future daughter-in-law. Brunetti has no interest in helping his boss amass political favors, but he has little choice but to comply. Then Brunetti's wife, Paola, comes to him with a request of her own. The mentally handicapped man who worked at their dry cleaner has just died of a sleeping pill overdose, and Paola loathes the idea that he lived and died without anyone noticing him, or helping him.Brunetti begins to investigate the death and is surprised when he finds nothing on the man: no birth certificate, no passport, no driver's license, no credit cards. As far as the Italian government is concerned, he never existed. Stranger still, the dead man's mother refuses to speak to the police, and assures Brunetti that her son's identification papers were stolen in a burglary.
Tibère
Tibère est-il un méconnu ? voire un homme calomnié ? On se le représente, d’après Tacite, méfiant et cruel, perché sur son flot rocheux de Capri comme un vieil aigle cruel, prompt à fondre sur ses adversaires, réels ou présumés, pour les déchirer. Est-ce là la véritable image que l’Histoire doit garder de lui ?. Woilhelm Gollub, un des maîtres de la jeune école artistique d’Allemagne, rompt avec les jugements tout faits. Il nous montre un Tibère modeste, laconique et secret, plus humain qu’un vain peuple ne pense, un chef surtout passionné de son métier d’empereur, embrassant les questions dans leur ensemble, mais sachant aussi contrôler les détails, un prince qui avait au plus haut degré le sens de ses responsabilités, de ses devoirs d’état. Si Tibère fut à maintes reprises sévère jusqu’à l’apparente cruauté, ne serait-ce pas tout simplement en vertu de la fatalité qui pèse sur tous les dictateurs ? M. Gollab n’aurait-il pas pensé à tels ou tels de nos dictateurs modernes, que l’Histoire juge aussi avec sévérité ? Ce portrait d’un homme va loin dans l’analyse des conditions où s’exerce les gouvernements des hommes.
Il poeta
En italien – Jack McEvoy fa il reporter di nera. La morte è il suo mestiere. Ma questa volta la morte gli porta una storia che non avrebbe mai voluto scrivere e un mistero che vuole risolvere a tutti i costi. Là fuori, in agguato, c'è un serial killer astuto e feroce, un perverso assassino, un meticoloso discepolo del male. Le sue vittime sono tutte poliziotti, agenti della omicidi. E il suo biglietto da visita è un verso di Edgar Allan Poe. La sua vittima è stata il fratello di McEvoy e la sua prossima… potrebbe essere lui stesso.