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Duras Marguerite The Lover. Wartime Notebooks. Practicalities
Marguerite Duras was one of the leading intellectuals and novelist of post-war France, but her wartime writings were not published in full until after her death. The Wartime Notebooks trace Duras's formative experiences - including her difficult childhood in Indochina and her harrowing wait for her husband's return from Nazi internment - revealing the personal history behind her bestselling novels. The Lover is the best known of these; set in pre-war Indochina, its haunting tale of a tumultuous affair between an adolescent French girl and her wealthy Chinese lover is based on her own life. In spare and luminous prose, Duras evokes life on the margins in the waning days of France's colonial empire, and the passionate relationship between two unforgettable outcasts. Practicalities is a collection of small and intensely personal pieces Duras dictated near the end of her life. These deceptively simple meditations on motherhood, domesticity, sex, love, alcohol, writing, and more are witty, earthy, outspoken and surprisingly fresh and relevant to the same issues today.
3580 Руб.
Duras Marguerite The Lover
A sensational international bestseller, and winner of Frances' coveted Prix Goncourt, 'The Lover' is an unforgettable portrayal of the incandescent relationship between two lovers, and of the hate that slowly tears the girl's family apart. Saigon, 1930s: a poor young French girl meets the elegant son of a wealthy Chinese family. Soon they are lovers, locked into a private world of passion and intensity that defies all the conventions of their society. A sensational international bestseller, 'The Lover' is disturbing, erotic, masterly and simply unforgettable.
1435 Руб.
Duras Marguerite The Garden Square
A young woman, who works as a maid for a living, takes her charge out to play in a Parisian garden square. Sitting on a bench, she starts talking to a stranger, a travelling salesman, and their conversation gradually turns into an exchange of confidences, as she speaks of her desire for a more stable future and he of his feelings of rootlessness and disillusionment. As the afternoon wears on, the two sense an increasing connection between them. Understated and impressionistic, and consisting almost entirely of dialogue, The Garden Square is one of Marguerite Duras’s finest novels, which she also adapted for the stage.
2394 Руб.
Duras Marguerite The Easy Life
There's nothing to do about boredom, I'm bored, but one day I won't be bored anymore. Soon I'll know that it's not even worth the trouble. We'll have the easy life. Twenty-five-year-old Francine Veyrenattes, confined to the family farm, already feels that life is passing her by. But after Francine lets slip a terrible secret, culminating in the violent deaths of her brother and uncle, her world is shattered. Fleeing the farm for the seaside, Francine finds herself disintegrating. Lying in the sun with her toes in the sand, she restlessly wishes for things to be somehow easier, to have a life worth living. But then the calm and quiet is broken yet again – by another tragedy and a senseless death, in which Francine finds herself implicated. Cast out of paradise, and stranded between her home and the rest of the world, she must confront her rapidly dissolving sense of self if she is to find a way to survive.
3041 Руб.
Duras Marguerite Moderato Cantabile
A distressed young man murders the woman he loves in a cafe, watched by a large crowd. Fascinated by the crime she has witnessed, Anne Desbaresdes returns several times to the scene, forming a relationship with a man who also saw the murder, and drinking through the afternoon with him as he patiently answers her eager questions. Slowly, they find themselves being taken over by forces which threaten their own stability. Moderato Cantabile is a carefully woven tapestry of emotion, in which the characters’ inner lives are reflected by the story’s spaces and landscapes.
2223 Руб.
Marguerite Duras. Yves Saint Laurent
Yves Saint Laurent Icons of Fashion Design, acclaimed by the critics as an intoxicating book remains the most attractive homage to the uncrowned king of haute couture. Pictures taken by the world's leading fashion photographers trace the success of Saint Laurent's designs, which, since conquering the fashion world five decades ago, have caused sensation after sensation each year. The book also constitutes a high-quality review of fashion photography over a period of forty years, collecting 135 YSL dresses in images created by fashion photography's greatest 20th century heroes. Yves Saint Laurent was equipped with an infallible instinct for reading the aesthetic signs of the times, and this enabled him to have a profound effect on fashion in the second half of the 20th century.
6900 Руб.
Bowen Elizabeth The Heat of the Day
A tense thriller of suspicion, betrayal and espionage set in wartime London It is wartime London, and the carelessness of people with no future flows through the evening air. Stella discovers that her lover Robert is suspected of selling information to the enemy. Harrison, the British intelligence agent on his trail, wants to bargain, the price for his silence being Stella herself. Caught between two men and unsure who she can trust, the flimsy structures of Stella's life begin to crumble.
2605 Руб.
Duras Marguerite Un barrage contre le Pacifique
«Les barrages de la mere dans la plaine, c'etait le grand malheur et la grande rigolade a la fois, ca dependait des jours. C'etait la grande rigolade du grand malheur. C'etait terrible et c'etait marrant. Ca dependait de quel cote on se placait, du cote de la mer qui les avait fichus en l'air, ces barrages, d'un seul coup d'un seul, du cote des crabes qui en avaient fait des passoires, ou au contraire, du cote de ceux qui avaient mis six mois a les construire dans l'oubli total des mefaits pourtant certains de la mer et des crabes. Ce qui etait etonnant c'etait qu'ils avaient ete deux cents a oublier ca en se mettant au travail.»
2744 Руб.
Yourcenar Marguerite Memoirs of Hadrian
Framed as a letter from the Roman Emperor Hadrian to his successor, Marcus Aurelius, Marguerite Yourcenar's Memoirs of Hadrian is translated from the French by Grace Frick with an introduction by Paul Bailey in Penguin Modern Classics. In her magnificent novel, Marguerite Yourcenor recreates the life and death of one of the great rulers of the ancient world. The Emperor Hadrian, aware his demise is imminent, writes a long valedictory letter to Marcus Aurelius, his future successor. The Emperor meditates on his past, describing his accession, military triumphs, love of poetry and music, and the philosophy that informed his powerful and far-flung rule. A work of superbly detailed research and sustained empathy, Memoirs of Hadrian captures the living spirit of the Emperor and of Ancient Rome. Marguerite de Crayencour (1903-88), who went by the inexact anagrammatic pen name 'Marguarite Yourcenar', was a Belgian-born French novelist and essayist, the first woman to be elected to the Academie francaise. Her first novel Alexis was published in 1929; in 1939 she was invited to America by her lover Grace Frick, where she lectured in comparative literature at Sarah Lawrence College in New York. When Memoires d'Hadrien was first published in 1951, it was an immediate success and met with great critical acclaim.
2607 Руб.
Hope Anna Wake
Remembrance Day 1920: A wartime secret connects three women's lives: Hettie whose wounded brother won't speak. Evelyn who still grieves for her lost lover. And Ada, who has never received an official letter about her son's death, and is still waiting for him to come home. As the mystery that binds them begins to unravel, far away, in the fields of France, the Unknown Soldier embarks on his journey home. The mood of the nation is turning towards the future - but can these three women ever let go of the past?
2608 Руб.
TecheiTulip / Magic copybooks, Large, For kids, Preschool
TecheiTulip offers a series of magic notebooks specially designed for preschool children. These notebooks provide an interactive and fun learning experience while developing various skills. Here are some of the key features of TecheiTulip magic notebooks:Interactive Learning: The notebooks promote interactive learning, allowing children to practice writing, drawing and other skills in a fun way. The notebook pages contain special patterns, lines or images that magically appear when written or drawn on with the included pen or marker.Skill Development: These notebooks are designed to develop basic skills in preschool children. They help improve hand-eye coordination, fine motor skills, pencil grip, writing skills, and creativity. Children can trace around the patterns, letters or images presented in the notebook to practice their writing or drawing skills.Large Size: The notebooks are large in size, which makes them more convenient for young children. The large pages have enough space for children to practice writing or drawing without feeling restricted.
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Duras Marguerite Yves Saint Laurent. Icons of Fashion Design & Photography
Yves Saint Laurent Icons of Fashion Design, acclaimed by the critics as an intoxicating book remains the most attractive homage to the uncrowned king of haute couture. Pictures taken by the world's leading fashion photographers trace the success of Saint Laurent's designs, which, since conquering the fashion world five decades ago, have caused sensation after sensation each year. The book also constitutes a high-quality review of fashion photography over a period of forty years, collecting 135 YSL dresses in images created by fashion photography's greatest 20th century heroes. Yves Saint Laurent was equipped with an infallible instinct for reading the aesthetic signs of the times, and this enabled him to have a profound effect on fashion in the second half of the 20th century.
11325 Руб.
Lively P. Moon Tiger
Claudia Hampton - beautiful, famous, independent, dying.But she remains defiant to the last, telling her nurses that she will write a history of the world and in the process, my own. And it is her story from a childhood just after the First World War through the Second and beyond. But Claudias life is entwined with others and she must allow those who knew her, loved her, the chance to speak, to put across their point of view. There is Gordon, brother and adversary; Jasper, her untrustworthy lover and father of Lisa, her cool conventional daughter; and then there is Tom, her one great love, found and lost in wartime Egypt.
714 Руб.
Lively P. Moon Tiger
Claudia Hampton - beautiful, famous, independent, dying.But she remains defiant to the last, telling her nurses that she will write a history of the world and in the process, my own. And it is her story from a childhood just after the First World War through the Second and beyond. But Claudias life is entwined with others and she must allow those who knew her, loved her, the chance to speak, to put across their point of view. There is Gordon, brother and adversary; Jasper, her untrustworthy lover and father of Lisa, her cool conventional daughter; and then there is Tom, her one great love, found and lost in wartime Egypt.
714 Руб.
Lively Penelope Moon Tiger
Claudia Hampton - beautiful, famous, independent, dying. But she remains defiant to the last, telling her nurses that she will write a 'history of the world… and in the process, my own'. And it is her story from a childhood just after the First World War through the Second and beyond. But Claudia's life is entwined with others and she must allow those who knew her, loved her, the chance to speak, to put across their point of view. There is Gordon, brother and adversary; Jasper, her untrustworthy lover and father of Lisa, her cool conventional daughter; and then there is Tom, her one great love, found and lost in wartime Egypt. Moon Tiger is a haunting story of loss and desire.
2177 Руб.
da Vinci Leonardo The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
This carefully edited collection of Leonardo da Vinci's original notebooks provides a representative selection of his genius and shows how he recorded his thoughts on a variety of topics. Selections from his work on anatomy, on the flight of birds, warfare, and of course, his stunning inventions, such as the flying machine, are included. The original drawings and diagrams from his notebooks are placed next to the relevant text so that the reader can see Leonardo's mind at work.
4244 Руб.