Jean Jean: 14802 books

A detective forever haunted by the night when he couldn’t save a young girl from trauma—now she’s a cop herself and he has to send her undercover to lure a murderer. “Tight suspense and great chemistry between the lead characters make Jean Brashear's [book] a page-turner.” ~RTBookclub...

A man who can’t walk away from trouble—and a woman who’s nothing but. “Jean Brashear's portrait of two wounded souls who find each other just when they most need someone is beautifully, gently drawn. Brashear's smooth style and attention to detail make [this] story quietly captivating.”...

(Originally published under the title Surrender) Newly-minted detective Jace Carroll's innocuous first case plunges her into a world of shifting realities. At the center of the tangled knot is the mesmerizing and mysterious Dante Sabanne, a wealthy recluse whose proficiency with ancient poisons,...

Les Fables de La Fontaine (30 Fables - Edition Entièrement Illustrée) - Jean de la Fontaine Table / La cigale et la fourmi* Le corbeau et le renard La laitière et le pot au lait La grenouille qui veut se faire aussi grosse que le boeuf Le rat de ville et le rat des champs. Le loup et l'agneau....

Les Fables de La Fontaine (Edition Intégrale ''243 Fables'' - Version Illustrée) * Inclus une courte biographie de Jean de la Fontaine. Descriptif : Les Fables choisies, mises en vers par M. de La Fontaine (ou plus simplement Fables de La Fontaine) consistent en trois recueils publiés...

‘Sticking closely to the known facts, Jean Teulé’s novelisation offers no easy explanations for what happened but the transformation from rural idyll to hell on earth is terrifyingly convincing.’ Financial Times A true story. Tuesday 16 August 1870, Alain de Monéys, makes his way to...

As Voltaire famously opined, Athaliah, Racine’s last play, is “perhaps the greatest masterwork of the human spirit.” Its formidable antagonists, Athaliah, queen of Judah, and Jehoiada, high priest of the temple of Jerusalem, are engaged in a deadly struggle for dominion: she, fiercely determined...

This is the third volume of a projected translation into English of all twelve of Jean Racine’s plays—only the third time such a project has been undertaken. For this new translation, Geoffrey Alan Argent has rendered these plays in the verse form that Racine might well have used had he been English:...

‘No matter how long I may look at an image, I shall never find anything in it but what I put there. It is in this fact that we find the distinction between an image and a perception.' - Jean-Paul Sartre L’Imagination was published in 1936 when Jean-Paul Sartre was thirty years old. Long...

This is the first volume of a planned translation into English of all twelve of Jean Racine’s plays—a project undertaken only three times in the three hundred years since Racine’s death. For this new translation, Geoffrey Alan Argent has taken a fresh approach: he has rendered these plays in...

The 17th century dramatist Jean Racine was considered, along with Molière and Corneille, as one of the three great playwrights of his era. The quality of Racine's poetry has been described as possibly his most important contribution to French literature and his use of the alexandrine poetic line is...

This is the second volume of a projected translation into English of all twelve of Jean Racine’s plays—only the third time such a project has been undertaken in the three hundred years since Racine’s death. For this new translation, Geoffrey Alan Argent has taken a fresh approach: he has rendered...

Ce double volume des Cahiers de Jean Giraudoux, consacré à Ondine, contient notamment des inédits de Paul Valéry : « Lettre à Jean Giraudoux, sur Simon le Pathétique », de Jean Giraudoux : « Lettre à une jeune fille qui devrait écrire », un témoignage de Louis Jouvet : « La décoration d'Ondine », ainsi que des essais et des études.

Sous ce titre un peu énigmatique, c'est un portrait moral en profondeur du " bonhomme " La Fontaine que nous présente Jean Giraudoux. Ces " cinq tentations " furent celle de la vie provinciale et bourgeoise du maître des Eaux et Forêts de Château-Thierry ; celle des femmes,...