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Raymond Frézols, jeune ingénieur, propose au « roi du pétrole » de Pensylvanie, Ebenezer Curtiss, un moyen d'envoyer son pétrole en Europe via un tube de conduite sous-marin. Le projet est rapidement mis en route, mais l'industriel possède des ennemis. Le jeune ingénieur est, quant à lui, confronté aux lois de la physique... ainsi qu'à Madge, la fille d'Ebenezer... et à son passé.De New-York à Brest en sept heures, c'est le roman d'aventures poussé jusqu'à son extrême expression, à travers les péripéties les plus multipliées et une succession de surprises extraordinaires, même pour les lecteurs habitués à la merveilleuse imagination d'André Laurie. L'auteur de tant de récits attachants s'est surpassé dans ce merveilleux roman, que nous qualifierions volontiers de féerie scientifique, si la science ne nous avait appris à ne pas douter d'elle.Jean-François Paschal Grousset, né le 7 avril 1844 à Corte, et décédé le 9 avril 1909 à Paris, est un journaliste et un écrivain connu sont le nom d'André Laurie.
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Raymond Frézols, jeune ingénieur, propose au « roi du pétrole » de Pensylvanie, Ebenezer Curtiss, un moyen d'envoyer son pétrole en Europe via un tube de conduite sous-marin. Le projet est rapidement mis en route, mais l'industriel possède des ennemis. Le jeune ingénieur est, quant à lui, confronté aux lois de la physique... ainsi qu'à Madge, la fille d'Ebenezer... et à son passé.De New-York à Brest en sept heures, c'est le roman d'aventures poussé jusqu'à son extrême expression, à travers les péripéties les plus multipliées et une succession de surprises extraordinaires, même pour les lecteurs habitués à la merveilleuse imagination d'André Laurie. L'auteur de tant de récits attachants s'est surpassé dans ce merveilleux roman, que nous qualifierions volontiers de féerie scientifique, si la science ne nous avait appris à ne pas douter d'elle.Jean-François Paschal Grousset, né le 7 avril 1844 à Corte, et décédé le 9 avril 1909 à Paris, est un journaliste et un écrivain connu sont le nom d'André Laurie.
Author: Karen Kelton Publisher: ISBN: 9781937963200 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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This textbook includes all 13 chapters of Français interactif. It accompanies www.laits.utexas.edu/fi, the web-based French program developed and in use at the University of Texas since 2004, and its companion site, Tex's French Grammar (2000) www.laits.utexas.edu/tex/ Français interactif is an open acess site, a free and open multimedia resources, which requires neither password nor fees. Français interactif has been funded and created by Liberal Arts Instructional Technology Services at the University of Texas, and is currently supported by COERLL, the Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning UT-Austin, and the U.S. Department of Education Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education (FIPSE Grant P116B070251) as an example of the open access initiative.
Author: Carol Higgins Clark Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 074324673X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 274
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Carol Higgins Clark, bestselling author of Fleeced and co-author with Mary Higgins Clark of He Sees You When You're Sleeping, returns in top form in her new Regan Reilly mystery, blending her talent for intriguing locales, eccentric characters, and fast-paced suspense laced with humor. In Jinxed, smart, saucy sleuth Regan Reilly faces a new challenge—the case of the missing wedding guest. Regan, an L.A.-based private detective, returns to her office after a vacation with her beau, Jack "no relation" Reilly. Their tour of the wineries in Napa Valley and Santa Barbara County is cut short when Jack has to fly back to New York City, where he is the head of the Major Case Squad of the NYPD. Their last stop had been at Altered States, a run-down winery owned by three siblings who are all former hippies—Lilac, Earl, and Leon Weldon. Not knowing how soon it would be put to use, Regan leaves her business card behind. Within minutes of being back to work, Regan gets an excited call from Lilac. The Weldon family has been invited to the wedding of ninety-three-year-old Lucretia Standish, a former silent-screen star. Lucretia's maid, Phyllis, clues Lilac in on the fact that Lucretia plans to give the Weldons $2 million each—if they all show up at the wedding. The wedding is two days away, and there is only one problem: Lilac's daughter, Whitney, a.k.a. Freshness, a young actress, has taken off on one of her go-with-the-flow weekends. Whitney is out of touch and goes where the wind blows. If it doesn't blow her back into town by Sunday morning, the Weldon family will be out $8 million. Regan's job is to find Whitney. But unbeknownst to Regan, there's someone else on the hunt. Lucretia's fiancé, the much younger Edward Fields, has hired an accomplice in crime to locate Whitney and keep her away from the wedding. He wants to say "I do" to Lucretia and her millions before Whitney can protest. When Edward finds out that Regan Reilly has been hired to find the missing Whitney, he gives the order to get rid of her as well. As in her previous novels, Carol Higgins Clark has created a novel that is both exciting and vastly entertaining. As no less a master of suspense than Nelson DeMille has said, "Clark's writing is elegantly clear and concise, her characters are witty and engaging, and her plots and pacing are perfect." And in Jinxed, she is at her very considerable best.
Author: Douglas W. Alden Publisher: Susquehanna University Press ISBN: 9780945636366 Category : Reference Languages : en Pages : 476
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This series of bibliographical references is one of the most important tools for research in modern and contemporary French literature. No other bibliography represents the scholarly activities and publications of these fields as completely.
Author: Marion Brunet Publisher: Bitter Lemon Press ISBN: 1912242273 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 151
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The story takes place in the suffocating atmosphere of a social housing estate in the south of France. Sixteen-year-old Céline and her sister Jo, fifteen, dream of escaping to somewhere far from their daily routine, far from their surly, alcoholic father and uncaring mother, both struggling to make ends meet. That summer Celine falls pregnant, devastating news that reopens deep family wounds. Those of the mother Severine whose adolescence was destroyed by her early pregnancy and subsequent marriage with Manuel. Those of Manuel, grandson of Spanish immigrants, who takes refuge in alcoholism to escape the open disdain of his in-laws. Faced with Celine’s refusal to name the father, Manuel needs a guilty party and Saïd, a childhood friend of the girls and conveniently Arab, seems to fit the role perfectly. In the suffocating heat of summer Manuel embarks on a drunken mission of revenge. A dark and upsetting account of an ailing society, filled with silent and murderous rage.
Author: Valerie Raoul Publisher: ISBN: Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 198
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Unlike other forms of fictional first-person narrative such as the memoir or epistolary novel, the French fictional journal or diary-novel has received inadequate critical attention. This is the first full-length analysis devoted to its particular features. Valerie Raoul bases her study on the premise that the interest of the fictional journal lies in its subjugation of one set of conventions, those of the diary, to another set, those of the novel, and the interference of each of those 'codes' in the function of the other. In this context she discusses more than fifty novels or short stories wholly or partly in diary form and written in France between 1800 and the present. In the first part of the book she deals with the fictivity of the diary-novel. Philippe Lejeune's work on the functioning of autobiography serves as a point of comparison to elucidate the distinctive reading pact involved in this aspect of first-person fiction. The second part analyses the internal communication model: on this intradiegetic level the fictional diarist is narrator, actor, and narrate. In the third part, an abstract model is developed to illustrate the functioning of the fictional journal as a bi-textual form of communication, in which the internal communications process is a mise en abyme of the external one between author, character, and reader. The personal narcissism of the 'intimiste' is seen to give way in the fictional 'journal intime' to narcissistic fiction, since diary-novels are always the narration of the production of a 'recit.' This book is an important investigation into the very nature of fiction and the meaning of the activity of writing. It not only fills an important gap in the appreciation of French prose, but also adds to the comprehension of personal narrative in particular and narrative discourse in general.
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