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Renowned Kafka scholar Jeremy Adler examines the life of the writer who probed the hostile side of modernity in darkly terrifying masterpieces that mirrored the turmoil of his own inner world. The illustrations in this volume include rarely seen drawings from Kafka's workbooks, images of the Prague environment that inspired his nightmarish works, photos of Kafka with friends and colleagues, and reproductions of letters, manuscripts, and first edition book jackets.

Ayn Rand made a profound impact as both a philosopher who founded a school of social thought, Objectivism, and as a novelist of penetrating insight and vision. Her works are founded on heroic ideals, demonstrating the maxim that, ?man's ego is the fountainhead of human progress.? The photos and illustrations in this volume have been hand-selected from the Ayn Rand Archives, and most have never been published. They include personal mementos of a Petersburg childhood, her family and their home on Nevsky Prospect; photos from her early years in America; personal papers, including her list of the twelve publishers who passed on "The Fountainhead"; original newspaper articles, film posters, notes, drawings, and much more.In a recent poll conducted by the Library of Congress and the Book-of-the-Month Club, Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" was voted the novel most influential to American readers. This latest volume of the acclaimed Overlook Illustrated Lives series gives her legions of fans an unprecedented chance to better understand the author they adore.

Mozart et SalieriPièce de théatre long d’un acte, qui est lui-même composé de quatre courtes scènes dans lesquelles Salieri, compositeur de la cour d’Autriche et qui a fait de sa vie l'étude de la musique, dévoile le secret de sa jalousie pour Mozart et ensuite parvient à l’empoisonner. Ce fut ce petit acte qui lança d’abord la pièce Amadeus de Peter Shaffer et ensuite le scénario du film de Milos Forman, qui travailla avec Shaffer pour l’adaptation cinématographique du filme. Une petite pièce délicieuse.La Dame de PiqueNouvelle bien développée et j’oserai même dire qu’elle est quasiment parfaite. Pouchkine nous enveloppe d’abord dans l’intrigue d’une comtess qui connaîtrait le secret pour gagner au jeu…. il s'agit d’une combinaison secrète de trois cartes qui permettent de gagner à chaque coup. Un soldat allemand ne peut résister à l’intrigue et en arrive à une véritable obsession. D’abord il séduira la demoiselle de compagnie de la comtesse pour pouvoir s’approcher d’elle. Puis les choses se compliquent. Histoire saisissante. J’ai adoré.PoésieMouais. Ca n’est pas ma tasse de thé, comme on dit. Autant que les nouvelles de Pouchkine paraissent être réellement vivantes, riches, émouvantes…. sa poésie m’est trop littéraire et m’a laissée totalement indifférente. La fille du capitaineC’est l’histoire romanesque d’un jeune militaire qui se retrouve au milieu de la révolte des Cosaques alors qu’il tombe amoureux de la fille du capitaine de la garnison où il a été envoyé. Pouchkine nous transporte dans les steppes Russes, au beau milieu de l’hiver, parmis les Cosaques rebelles… superbe histoire avec des personnages très riches. Les traductions sont de Mérimée et Dumas - je n’ai rien à leur reprocher et j’ai plutôt apprécié que ces deux messieurs et Pouchkine furent contemporains. Par contre, l'édition elle-même comporte plusieures fautes d’orthographe et de typographie. Pas très grave, mais on s’attend tout de même à mieux. 

In this adaptation of the autobiography "The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945,"

A true story about Frank Abagnale Jr. who, before his 19th birthday, successfully conned millions of dollars worth of checks as a Pan Am pilot, doctor, and legal prosecutor. An FBI agent makes it his mission to put him behind bars. But Frank not only eludes capture, he revels in the pursuit.

In World War II, the fall of Stalingrad will mean the collapse of the whole country. The Germans and Russians are fighting over every block, leaving only ruins behind. The Russian sniper Vassili Zaitsev stalks the Germans, taking them out one by one, thus hurting the morale of the German troops. The political officer Danilov leads him on, publishing his efforts to give his countrymen some hope. But Vassili eventually starts to feel that he can not live up to the expectations on him. He and Danilov fall in love with the same girl, Tanya, a female soldier. From Germany comes the master sniper König to put an end to the extraordinary skilled Russian sniper.

2001 film directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud

The story of Rick Blaine, a cynical world-weary ex-patriate who runs a nightclub in Casablanca, Morocco during the early stages of WWII. Despite the pressure he constantly receives from the local authorities, Rick's cafe has become a kind of haven for refugees seeking to obtain illicit letters that will help them escape to America. But when Ilsa, a former lover of Rick's, and her husband, show up to his cafe one day, Rick faces a tough challenge which will bring up unforeseen complications, heartbreak and ultimately an excruciating decision to make.

When a body is recovered at sea still alive, the mystery man (Damon) seems to have forgotten everything in life, including who he was. Eventually he begins to remember smaller details in life and soon finds out that his name was Jason Bourne. What he doesn't like is the gun and fake passports belonging to him. Now Bourne, and his new friend, Marie Helena Kreutz (Potente) travel from country to country in search of his new identity. But someone is not happy to see him alive, and is frantically trying to track him down.

During the Russian Revolution, Dr. Yuri Zhivago (Omar Sharif) is a young doctor who has been raised by his aunt and uncle following his father's suicide. Yuri falls in love with beautiful Lara Guishar (Julie Christie), who has been having an affair with her mother's lover, Victor Komarovsky (Rod Steiger), an unscrupulous businessman. Yuri, however, ends up marrying his cousin, Tonya (Geraldine Chaplin). But when he and Lara meet again years later, the spark of love reignites.

The story of Mary Decker and Zola Budd and their lives building up to the infamous 1984 Olympics 3000M race in which both of them collide.

Five desperate French soldiers during The Battle of the Somme shoot themselves, either by accident or with purpose, in order to be invalided back home. Having been "caught" a court-martial convenes and determines punishment to be banishment to No Man's Land with the objective of having the Germans finish them off. In the process of telling this tale each man's life is briefly explored along with their next of kin as Methilde, fiancée to one of the men, tries to determine the circumstances of her lover's death. This task is not made any easier for her due to a bout with polio as a child. Along the way she discovers the heights and depths of the human soul.

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