<b>Récit d’un amour passionné entre deux êtres d’exception</b> <br> <br> Alexandre Ivanovitch Ostermann-Tolstoï est issu d’une ancienne et noble famille russe et Maria Pagliari est la fille d’un notable de Frascati, petite cité des environs de Rome. <br> <br> Lui, le général de belle prestance, ami du tsar Alexandre ler et connu pour sa bravoure, lutte avec son peuple contre les troupes de Napoléon qui envahissent son pays. En 1813, durant la bataille de Kulm en Bohême, il perd son bras gauche emporté par un boulet de canon. Obligé de renoncer à la vie militaire, fêté comme un héros, il voyage et passe du temps en Italie. <br> Elle, admirée pour son intelligence et sa beauté, est mariée à un Romain de quarante-six ans son aîné. <br> <br> C’est dans la Ville éternelle qu’Alexandre et Maria se rencontrent. Bravant les interdits au prix de nombreux dangers, ils se laissent entraîner dans une relation dont les différentes étapes évoquées dans cet ouvrage nous font traverser une Europe déchirée par les guerres napoléoniennes, une Russie qui s’est battue contre les envahisseurs, une Italie qui se remet des invasions et pillages des Français. <br> <br><b>Le récit s’appuie sur de nombreux documents et se termine dans la Genève de James Fazy, une Genève qui se cherche politiquement</b> <br> <br> EXTRAIT <br> <br> Le 5 mai 1798, Girolamo, second fils de feu Antonio Pagliari et de Constanza née Grilli, prend pour femme Caterina, fille d’Antonio Rabotti-Tirolazzi, capitaine des cuirassiers du pape, et de Maria Anna, née Bianchi. Le mari est âgé de vingt-neuf ans, son épouse a vingt-sept ans. Tous deux appartiennent à la même petite ville de Frascati nichée à 20 kilomètres de Rome, sur le versant nord du Mont Cavo. Stendhal, dans ses <i>Voyages en Italie</i>, évoque ces lieux : « Je suis établi depuis un mois à Castelgandolfo ; je passe ma vie sur les bords du lac Albano et à Frascati. Ce serait être injuste envers ces sites délicieux que de les décrire en moins de vingt pages… ». <br> <br> CE QU’EN PENSE LA CRITIQUE <br> <br> - « Dissimuler de menus secrets de famille peut servir à les faire éclore en littérature. Merci aux ancêtres Budé de Claire Keller, qui l’ont propulsée sur les traces d’Alexandre Ostermann-Tolstoï (1771-1857), général russe haut en couleur, de sa maîtresse italienne et des enfants qu’il a eus d’elle. Et comme tous les chemins mènent à Genève, le mot « fin » apparaît devant un paysage genevois, après des heures de passionnante lecture. » <b>Benjamin Chaix, <i>Tribune de Genève</i></b> <br> <br> - « Découvrir dans son patrimoine familial un mystérieux portrait qui incite à découvrir une magnifique histoire d’amour secrète dormant dans des archives aux quatre coins de l’Europe, c’est l’extraordinaire aventure que retrace l’auteure au fil d’un scénario que lui envieront bien des romanciers ! Avec élégance et sens du spectacle, Claire Keller mêle les souvenirs, missives et documents divers qu’elle a pu retrouver aux détails ima...
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He aquí la introducción definitiva a las enseñanzas del Buddha, expresadas en sus propias palabras. El monje estadounidense Bhikkhu Bodhi, cuyas traducciones han recibido el mayor reconocimiento, nos presenta aquí una selección de discursos del Buddha del canon pali, el registro más antiguo que existe de lo que el Buddha enseñó. Dividido en diez capítulos temáticos, En palabras del Buddha revela la completa dimensión de los discursos del Buddha; desde la vida familiar o el matrimonio hasta la renuncia y el camino del conocimiento. Cada capítulo viene precedido por una introducción concisa e instructiva que guía al lector hacia una comprensión más profunda de los textos, que han sido traducidos directamente desde la lengua pali al español por Abraham Vélez de Cea, Aleix Ruiz Falqués y Ricardo Guerrero Diáñez para la edición de este libro. Tomados en su conjunto, estos textos dan testimonio elocuente de la amplitud y la inteligencia de las enseñanzas del Buddha, y señalan el camino de un sendero antiguo, pero siempre vital. Tanto estudiosos, investigadores o lectores no familiarizados con el budismo encontrarán indispensable esta presentación sistemática.
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UN RELATO FASCINANTE E INSÓLITO DE LOS GRANDES HITOS DE LA MÚSICA CLÁSICA El autor nos acerca –con inusual maestría– a los grandes nombres de la música clásica a través de un apasionante viaje musical en torno a las curiosidades que encierran las grandes obras y los compositores que las crearon. Se trata, pues, de una notable recreación de piezas muy destacadas y representativas de grandes compositores y una serie de anécdotas vitales en relación con su familia, amantes, personas que los emplearon, directores de teatros, intérpretes, etc. El libro resultará esencial para el melómano, al narrar con gran agudeza, amenidad e ingenio, cómo se crearon y se desarrollaron obras maestras de la música, enhebrando su relación con el compositor a lo largo de diversas etapas de su vida. * Un mito alimentado por el cine: la Misa de Réquiem de Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. * Dos cráneos en la tumba de Joseph Haydn. * La tragedia del Sussex: el infortunio del matrimonio Granados. * El éxito a cañonazos: La victoria de Wellington de Ludwig van Beethoven. * George Sand y Frédéric Chopin, un pésimo invierno en Mallorca. * ¿Por qué y para quién compuso Mozart el canon «Lámeme el culo»? * Música en tiempos del terror nazi: Cuarteto para el fin de los tiempos, de Olivier Messiaen. * 1917, la Revolución rusa y un año crucial para Rachmáninov y su proceso creativo. Incluye códigos QR y una lista de Spotify con algunos de los fragmentos más hermosos para escuchar mientras se lee el libro.
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Once upon a time, two brothers wished to preserve their German folklore in a collection of tales that they believed had been handed down for generations. When they began in 1812 they had just 86 stories that rather harshly reflected the difficult life of European peasantry. Subsequent editions would grow to hold over 200 tales. As time passed, the Brothers Grimm found that their collection of fairy tales, with all of its royalty, magical creatures, and brave adventures, entranced those who read them. This compilation of fairy tales which includes the complete canon of over 200 tales has become a beloved set of classical stories the world over. Presented here in this edition is the faithful translation of Margaret Hunt.
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A Study in Scarlet is an 1887 detective novel written by Arthur Conan Doyle. The story marks the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, who would become the most famous detective duo in popular fiction. The book's title derives from a speech given by Holmes, a consulting detective, to his friend and chronicler Watson on the nature of his work, in which he describes the story's murder investigation as his "study in scarlet": "There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it." The story, and its main characters, attracted little public interest when it first appeared. Only 11 complete copies of the magazine in which the story first appeared, Beeton's Christmas Annual for 1887, are known to exist now and they have considerable value. Although Conan Doyle wrote 56 short stories featuring Holmes, A Study in Scarlet is one of only four full-length novels in the original canon. The novel was followed by The Sign of the Four, published in 1890. A Study in Scarlet was the first work of detective fiction to incorporate the magnifying glass as an investigative tool.
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La relación entre la escritura y el género femenino está signada por la lucha entre el disciplinamiento y la transgresión, entre las prohibiciones y los espacios asfixiantes. Durante siglos, por haber sido excluidas del sistema educativo, salvo aquellas pertenecientes a la aristocracia o a ciertos sectores de la burguesía urbana, las mujeres en Europa fueron el componente mayoritario del pueblo analfabeto o escasamente alfabetizado. Por eso es necesario establecer una historia alternativa que reconozca aquellas voces que sufrieron años de indiferencia, desprecio y desconfianza. El canon ignorado, de Tiziana Plebani, se propone comprender esa maraña de tensiones para confeccionar un mapa revelador de las prácticas cotidianas y las ambiciones literarias de las mujeres entre los siglos xiii y xx. No es una historia lineal ni sosegada sino repleta de divisiones, divergencias y rupturas. Es una tierra de conflictos, pero también de alianzas, de padres que a pesar de todo quisieron ofrecer instrucción y oportunidades a sus hijas, y de textos femeninos que iluminaron la mente y el corazón del universo masculino. De esta manera, Tiziana Plebani pone en relieve la defensa de las mujeres por el derecho a la escritura en una sociedad en donde escribir era un privilegio.
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<p>The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells, first serialized in 1897 by Pearson's Magazine in the UK and by Cosmopolitan magazine in the US. The novel's first appearance in hardcover was in 1898 from publisher William Heinemann of London. Written between 1895 and 1897,it is one of the earliest stories to detail a conflict between mankind and an extraterrestrial race.The novel is the first-person narrative of both an unnamed protagonist in Surrey and of his younger brother in London as southern England is invaded by Martians. The novel is one of the most commented-on works in the science fiction canon.</p> <p>Wells trained as a science teacher during the latter half of the 1880s. One of his teachers was T. H. Huxley, famous as a major advocate of Darwinism.</p> <p>The scientific fascinations of the novel are established in the opening chapter where the narrator views Mars through a telescope, and Wells offers the image of the superior Martians having observed human affairs, as though watching tiny organisms through a microscope. Ironically it is microscopic Earth lifeforms that finally prove deadly to the Martian invasion force. In 1894 a French astronomer observed a 'strange light' on Mars, and published his findings in the scientific journal Nature on the second of August that year. Wells used this observation to open the novel, imagining these lights to be the launching of the Martian cylinders toward Earth. American astronomer Percival Lowell published the book Mars in 1895 suggesting features of the planet's surface observed through telescopes might be canals. He speculated that these might be irrigation channels constructed by a sentient life form to support existence on an arid, dying world, similar to that which Wells suggests the Martians have left behind. The novel also presents ideas related to Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection, both in specific ideas discussed by the narrator, and themes explored by the story.</p> <p>Among the most significant works H. G. Wells: The Outline of History, </p> <p>The Country of the Blind, The Red Room, The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The First Men in the Moon, The Shape of Things to Come, When the Sleeper Wakes. </p>
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<p>The Waste Land is a poem by T. S. Eliot, widely regarded as one of the most important poems of the 20th century and a central work of modernist poetry. Published in 1922, the 434-line poem first appeared in the United Kingdom in the October issue of Eliot's The Criterion and in the United States in the November issue of The Dial. It was published in book form in December 1922. Among its famous phrases are "April is the cruellest month", "I will show you fear in a handful of dust", and the mantra in the Sanskrit language "Shantih shantih shantih".</p> <p>Eliot's poem loosely follows the legend of the Holy Grail and the Fisher King combined with vignettes of contemporary British society. Eliot employs many literary and cultural allusions from the Western canon, Buddhism and the Hindu Upanishads. The poem shifts between voices of satire and prophecy featuring abrupt and unannounced changes of speaker, location, and time and conjuring a vast and dissonant range of cultures and literatures.</p> <p>The poem's structure is divided into five sections. The first section, "The Burial of the Dead," introduces the diverse themes of disillusionment and despair. The second, "A Game of Chess," employs alternating narrations, in which vignettes of several characters address those themes experientially. "The Fire Sermon," the third section, offers a philosophical meditation in relation to the imagery of death and views of self-denial in juxtaposition influenced by Augustine of Hippo and eastern religions. After a fourth section, "Death by Water," which includes a brief lyrical petition, the culminating fifth section, "What the Thunder Said," concludes with an image of judgment.</p> <p>Among the most significant works by Eliot's: "Portrait of a Lady", "Preludes", "Whispers of Immortality", "Gerontion", "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", "The Hollow Men", "Ash Wednesday",Ariel Poems", "Journey of the Magi", "A Song for Simeon", "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats", "The Awefull Battle of the Pekes and the Pollicles", "Gus: The Theatre Cat", "Growltiger's Last Stand", "The Naming of Cats", "Burnt Norton", "East Coker", "The Dry Salvages", "Little Gidding", "Four Quartets".</p>
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