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It is often claimed that the French invented cinema. Dominating the production and distribution of cinema until WWI, when they were supplanted by Hollywood, the French cinema industry encompassed all genres, from popular entertainment to avant-garde practice. This Very Short Introduction opens up French cinema through focusing on some of its most notable works, using the lens of the New Wave decade (1958-1968) that changed cinema worldwide.

Are you sick and tired of not being able to learn French fast? Have you tried endless other ways of learning French but nothing seems to stick? Do you finally want to say goodbye to your tendency to "forget most of what you've studied" and discover something which works for you? If so, then you’ve come to the right place. This audiobook will give you the basic grammar rules, but also many fun exercises for you to practice; it will provide you with everything you need, especially if you are planning on traveling to France!

Quatre récits composent la trame de ce roman où Gabrielle Roy poursuit – en l’approfondissant – l’exploration de sa propre condition de femme et d’écrivaine qu’elle avait entreprise dans Rue Deschambault. Christine, cette fois, découvre les grands mystères de l’existence et de la création: le passage et l’éternité du temps, la suite des générations et des âges de la vie, les risques de l’errance, la dure nécessité de rompre si l’on veut accomplir son destin.

Learning French is easier than it seems. Not only will this audiobook give you the basic grammar rules, but it also contains many fun exercises for you to practice. If you’ve never studied French before, or if you’ve studied it but you need to go back to the basics to get better, this book will provide everything you need.

The Gods of H.P. Lovecraft: a brand new anthology that collects the 12 principal deities of the Lovecraftian Mythos and sets them loose. Featuring the biggest names in horror and dark fantasy, including many New York Times best sellers; full of original fiction; and individual commentary on each of the deities by Donald Tyson.

l fait chaud, la ville est insupportable en été, surtout après si longtemps à contempler alternativement les murs de la maison et l'écran de l'ordinateur. Diane et Claudine, on les comprend, souhaitent désespérément s’évader en nature, que leur rosé ne soit pas seul à prendre le frais. Sauf que des chalets à portée de leur budget, ça n’existe tout simplement pas. Survient le miracle Madeleine : leur vieille amie est prête à leur prêter sa petite cabane au bord d’un lac–du moment qu’elle peut sortir de sa résidence sur-réglementée et être de l’aventure.

This audiobook is ideal for beginners, new learners, and anyone who wants to brush up on their French skills. Our short stories are perfect to be listened to anywhere and anytime, perfect to fit in a busy lifestyle. They can be listened to in one sitting, allowing you to focus on the story and the new vocabulary without getting discouraged. In these stories, you will meet an array of engaging characters navigating real life situations: the purchase of a new dog, a movie night, an anniversary, a birthday surprise, a holiday between friends, or simple everyday family situations.

This audiobook is not a traditional language method or a grammar book; it is a collection of short pieces, different from one another in length, topic, and difficulty, which will allow you to explore the French language from a direct, practical, and fun perspective. Through this audiobook, you will able to learn new vocabulary, expressions, and constructions by reading very inspiring, original, and typically French stories!

Raconté par l'excellente comédienne Johanne Emond, ce deuxième volume, en livre audio, contient cinq petites histoires plus amusantes les unes que les autres.

From a variety of masterfully rendered perspectives, these six stories depict people at painful odds with the world around them. A wife can only surrender to a desert night by betraying her husband. An artist struggles to honor his own aspirations as well as society's expectations of him. A missionary brutally converted to the worship of a tribal fetish is left with but an echo of his identity. Whether set in North Africa, Paris, or Brazil, the stories in Exile and the Kingdom are probing portraits of spiritual exile, and man's perpetual search for an inner kingdom.

What listeners really don’t like are dull werewolf stories. So, we tasked the horror community with writing the weirdest, wildest, most creative, utterly bonkers tails (ha!) of lycanthropic lunacy possible.

In this essential trilogy of novellas by the winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature, French author Patrick Modiano reaches back in time, opening the corridors of memory and exploring the mysteries to be encountered there.

Amusant et facile à lire, ce cahier didactique Easy Spanish est inspiré de la célèbre histoire Le phare du bout du monde de Jules Verne. Traduite, revue et simplifiée pour une lectura facile et une compréhension utilisant des mots simples, des phrases brèves, du vocabulaire modéré et des exercices divertissants. Tout spécialement écrit dans un langage accessible, Easy Spanish est fait pour les débutants avec une première expérience ou les niveaux moyens.

"Elle était assise dans une bergère au coin de la cheminée, et ne paraissait pas le moins du monde prendre part à ce qui se passait autour d'elle..."

"Boule de Suif" est une nouvelle incontournable de la littérature française du XIXe siècle, écrite par Guy de Maupassant, maître du réalisme. "Le Horla" est une nouvelle fantastique emblématique de Guy de Maupassant, parue en 1887.

Son personnage, un jeune garçon de onze ans, y découvre les joies, les espoirs fous et les souffrances de l'amour, en s'éprenant d'une belle dame mariée. Jamais auparavant, sans doute, Dostoïevski n'avait parlé de l'enfance avec une telle profondeur.

“The wonderful cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris, one of the greatest achievements of European civilization, was on fire. The sight dazed and disturbed us profoundly. I was on the edge of tears. Something priceless was dying in front of our eyes. The feeling was bewildering, as if the earth was...

A crossroads for the people of Europe and the Mediterranean, Marseille is a city that does not discriminate. It embodies the down-and-dirty, tough-guy side of France, but what it lacks in sophistication, it makes up for in spirit. Still, in its shadows lurks a not-so-distant darkness....

Beneath the glitter of Mardi Gras lies the sleaze of Bourbon Street; under the celestial sounds of JazzFest, the nightmare screams of a city once at war within its neighborhoods, but after Hurricane Katrina, seemingly at war with nature and the rest of the country as well. New Orleans is a third world country in itself, a Latin, African, European (and often amoral) culture trapped in a Puritan nation.

25 Aventures dans l’Espace est le livre parfait pour stimuler l’imagination des jeunes curieux de 5 à 10 ans ! Ce recueil propose 25 histoires originales, drôles et magiques, dans lesquelles des enfants intrépides explorent l’univers, rencontrent des créatures étonnantes et résolvent des mystères interstellaires.