Author: Gerald Durrell
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504043324
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 560
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National Bestseller: The complete trilogy that inspired Masterpiece production The Durrells in Corfu in one volume. The tales of a naturalist and his family, who left England for the Greek island of Corfu—where they interacted with fascinating locals of both human and animal varieties—these memoirs have become beloved bestsellers and inspired the delightful series that aired on PBS television. Included in this three-book collection are: My Family and Other Animals: Ten-year-old Gerald Durrell arrives on sun-drenched Corfu with this family and pursues his interest in natural history, making friends with the island’s fauna—from toads and tortoises to scorpions and geckos—while reveling in the joyous chaos of growing up in an unconventional household. Birds, Beasts and Relatives: Written after a boyhood spent studying zoology, this memoir is part nature guide, part coming-of-age tale, and all charmingly funny memoir. The Garden of the Gods: In the conclusion of the trilogy, Durrell shares more tales of wild animals and his even wilder family, including his mother, Louisa, and his siblings Lawrence, Leslie, and Margo, in the years before World War II. “[Durrell’s] books have an unfailing charm. . . . It is a tribute to his skill that one never tires of his accounts” (Chicago Tribune). This ebook features an illustrated biography of Gerald Durrell including rare photos from the author’s estate.
Author: Electre
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ISBN: 9782765408475
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 2148
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Author: comte Th Du Moncel
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Category : Microphone
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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Author: Émilie Beaumont
Publisher: Fleurus
ISBN: 2215113979
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 60
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Funny and lovely Picture Books for Little Ones! Mommy's tummy is growing ... Soon, the family will get bigger ! But how long it is to wait for the baby ... A little book to teach your child all he must know about his little brother or sister. Discover Fleurus charming picture books with simple images and texts to develop children's knowledge of the world around them.
Author: Colin Dann
Publisher: Arrow
ISBN: 9780091761585
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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Badger who lives alone is injured. Will the other animals be able to find him before winter takes it's toll. 10 yrs+.
Author: Michel Foucault
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1784786403
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 485
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Three decades after his death, Michel Foucault remains one of the towering intellectual figures of the last half-century. His works on sexuality, madness, the prison, and medicine are enduring classics. From 1971 until his death in 1984, Foucault gave public lectures at the famous Collge de France. These seminal events, attended by thousands, created the benchmarks for contemporary social enquiry. The lectures comprising Abnormal begin by examining the role of psychiatry in modern criminal justice, and its method of categorising individuals who "resemble their crime before they commit it." Building on the themes of societal self-defence developed in earlier works, Foucault shows how defining "normality" became a prerogative of power in the nineteenth century, shaping the institutions-from the prisons to the family-meant to deal with "monstrosity," whether sexual, physical, or spiritual. The Collge de France lectures add immeasurably to our appreciation and understanding of Foucault's thought.
Author: James Patty
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813171938
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 282
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" Salvator Rosa (1615–1673) was a colorful and controversial Italian painter, talented musician, a notable comic actor, a prolific correspondent, and a successful satirist and poet. His paintings, especially his rugged landscapes and their evocation of the sublime, appealed to Romantic writers, and his work was highly influential on several generations of European writers. James S. Patty analyzes Rosa’s tremendous influence on French writers, chiefly those of the nineteenth century, such as Stendhal, Honoré de Balzac, Victor Hugo, George Sand, and Théophile Gautier. Arranged in chronological order, with numerous quotations from French fiction, poetry, drama, art criticism, art history, literary history, and reference works, Salvator Rosa in French Literature forms a narrative account of the reception of Rosa’s life and work in the world of French letters. James S. Patty, professor emeritus of French at Vanderbilt University, is the author of Dürer in French Letters . He lives in Nashville, Tennessee.
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Category : Canadian periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 1666
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Author: Colin Dann
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ISBN: 9780008726621
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Category : Immigrants
Languages : en
Pages : 4
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