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(0)George Woodcock
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George Woodcock, critique littéraire, historien et anarchiste, a eu un accès privilégié à la complexe histoire personnelle de George Orwell, dont il fut un ami proche. Rassemblant souvenirs, lettres et divers témoignages, cette biographie situe l'œuvre d'Orwell dans son contexte personnel, politique et littéraire. Elle offre une perspective à la fois intimiste et documentée sur la vie et les écrits de cet esprit libre, ne faisant...
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Écrit dans les années 1960 puis revu et augmenté en 1989, ce livre monumental offre le récit de l'une des plus grandes aventures des xixe et xxe siècles, celle de l'anarchie. Woodcock y raconte le mouvement, ses victoires, ses défaites, mais il y expose surtout les idées des principales figures qui ont façonné la pensée libertaire, de William Godwin à Emma Goldman. Au-delà de l'engagement intellectuel, politique et moral de ces personnages...
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"'Whoever denies authority and fights against it is an anarchist,' said Sebastien Faure. The definition is tempting in its simplicity, but simplicity is the first thing to guard against in writing a history of anarchism. Few doctrines or movements have been so confusedly understood in the public mind, and few have presented in their own variety of approach and action so much excuse for confusion." These are the opening sentences of this book, which...
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After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the aging Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There the lives of two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. From the tranquil roads of London, they are drawn against their will to the vengeful, bloodstained...
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[2017]
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Puerto Rico is a tropical island infused with unique natural wonders - from the deepest sea-trench to the longest underground cave system; from a startlingly bright bioluminescent bay to vast rain forests that sometimes really do rain frogs. Explores the wildlife of Puerto Rico and documents attempts for conservation of manatees, parrots, and turtles.
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[2017]
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Helen Macdonald's bestseller H Is for Hawk told the story of a grieving daughter who found healing in training a goshawk. The goshawk is one of Mother Nature's own fighter jets, capable of finding and killing its prey with the speed of a lightning bolt. Now Macdonald digs deeper into the world of these raptors by following a family in the wild while raising and training a new goshawk of her own.
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