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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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En Anglais – Lucy Minor is the resident odd duck in the hamlet of Bury. He is a compulsive liar, a sickly weakling in a town famous for begetting brutish giants. Then Lucy accepts employment assisting the majordomo of the remote, foreboding Castle Von Aux. While tending to his new post as undermajordomo, he soon discovers the place harbours many dark secrets, not least of which is the whereabouts of the castle's master, Baron Von Aux. Thus begins a tale of polite theft, bitter heartbreak, domestic mystery, and cold-blooded murder. Undermajordomo Minor is an ink-black comedy of manners, an adventure, and a mystery, and a searing portrayal of rural Alpine bad behaviour, but above all it is a love story. And Lucy must be careful, for love is a violent thing.
Raboliot
Voici, à l’occasion de l’entrée au Panthéon de Maurice Genevoix, Raboliot, paru aux éditions Grasset en 1925. Pierre Fouques, dit Raboliot, est un chasseur fameux dans toute la Sologne. Les habitants de la région admirent son habileté, son courage et son art dans le maniement du fusil. La chasse n’est pas la seule passion de cet homme rustique et solitaire : il braconne, partout et à n’importe quelle saison, se moquant des institutions et de leurs règles.
Alors que personne n’ose le défier, que gardes-chasse et métayers enragent de voir cet anarchiste de la nature se comporter avec une telle désinvolture, une conjuration s’organise. Le gendarme Bourrel promet de le capturer. Les autorités tendent un piège au braconnier, il y échappe grâce à son intelligence. Raboliot fuit, se cache dans les bois où il prépare sa vengeance. Bientôt, les parties de chasse nocturnes tournent à la haine, au duel à mort…
Le portrait d’un bandit magnifique. Un héros de la liberté et de la nature. Le dernier résistant d’une société prête à tout pour imposer un ordre coercitif.
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.
Rome Houses
Anglais, Allemand, Italien, Espagnol – The streets of Rome may be filled with monuments to its imperial past but among the Renaissance palaces and Baroque basilicas, tombs and medieval bell towers, are several impressive examples of contemporary architecture and design. Packed with over 400 color illustrations that reveal a range of interior design styles both contemporary and classic, this addition to teNeues' highly regarded « Design Pocket » series allows the reader a rare glimpse into modern living in this most historic of European cities.