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"Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South is the story of Margaret Hale, the daughter of a local priest in Hampshire, whose father decides to leave his country church after a serious crisis of faith. All the events that follow happen in the fictional industrial English town named Milton to which the Hale family has moved. Thus, part of the narrative focuses on the juxtaposition between industrial areas and the countryside. Margaret is very critical of...
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Regarded as one of the foremost playwrights of the nineteenth century, Ibsen tells the story of the idealist Doctor Thomas Stockmann, the medical officer of a recently opened spa in a small town in southern Norway, who finds that the water is seriously contaminated. He notifies members of the community and initially receives support and thanks for the discovery. Threatened by the possible impact of such a revelation, his brother, the town mayor, conspires...
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The Cherry Orchard (1903) is Russian playwright and short story writer Anton Chekhov's final play. It was first performed at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1904, directed by acclaimed actor Konstantin Stanislavski-who also played the role of Leonid Gayev, the bizarre and uninspired brother of Madame Ranevskaya. It has since become one of twentieth century theater's most important-and most frequently staged-dramatic works.
After five years of living in...
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"In this stirring rumination, Wallace Shawn considers justice, inequality, blame, revenge, eleventh-century Japanese court poetry, decadence, Beethoven, the relationship between the Islamic world and the West--and the possibility that a better world could be created."--Back cover.
5) La Question ouvrière à la fabrique néerlandaise de levure et d'alcool: Essai de solution pratique
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Extrait : "Cherchons la prospérité en rendant les autres prospères ! Cherchons le bonheur, en rendant les autres heureux ! Travaillons dans notre propre intérêt et dans l'intérêt de l'humanité entière, en travaillant pour le bien-être de nos ouvriers ! Sacrifions dans ce but un peu de nos loisirs ; hasardons un peu de notre argent ; et, enfin, mettons-y un peu de dévouement : ça ne nuira ni à notre cœur, ni à notre bourse."
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À la suite de la rédaction de ses deux romans les plus importants, Guerre et paix et Anna Karénine, l'auteur russe Léon Tolstoï a vécu une crise spirituelle qui l'a amené à dénoncer les privilèges dont jouissait sa classe sociale et les richesses matérielles afférentes, et à accueillir la vie champêtre du paysan. Dans la secte persécutée des Doukhobors, qui rejetaient aussi le militarisme et les rituels...
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Extrait : "La plupart des arguments qui militent en faveur de l'éducation ont été si souvent développés, qu'en prenant la parole pour traiter ce sujet devant vous, je ne peux que faire appel à votre jugement et à votre bon sens pour en attester l'importance, persuadé qu'il n'est pas besoin de mon propre témoignage pour affermir et fortifier vos sentiments et vos convictions à cet égard."
À PROPOS DES ÉDITIONS LIGARAN
Les éditions LIGARAN...
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An unsung classic of nineteenth-century Russian literature, Karolina Pavlova's A Double Life alternates prose and poetry to offer a wry picture of Russian aristocratic society and vivid dreams of escaping its strictures. Pavlova combines rich narrative prose that details balls, tea parties, and horseback rides with poetic interludes that depict her protagonist's inner world-and biting irony that pervades a seemingly romantic description of a young...
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The theme of the peasantry is central throughout most of Tolstoy's long career. His obsession with this class is seen not just as a matter of social or humanitarian concern, but as a response to the questions of "how to live a good life" and "what is the meaning of life that an inevitable death will not destroy?" These questions plagued him his entire life.
The letters he exchanged with the four major peasant sectarian writers (Bondarev, Zheltov,...
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