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| | | | Antoine de Saint Exupéry - Le Petit Prince
Dans cette fable charmante, avec la plus belle dedicace de l'histoire de la literature, l'auteur raconte ses souvenirs de sa rencontre avec "un petit bonhomme tout à fait extraordinaire", habitant d'une autre planète qui n'est pas plus grande qu'une maison. Peu à peu nous apprenons l'étrange histoire de cette créature miniscule - le petit prince - et comment il a commencé ses voyages vers sept planètes, qui l'ont apporté enfin à la Terre. En ce dernier lieu il apprend, grâce à un renard, le secret le plus important de sa vie...Browse this book on line or download it in HTML, PDF, RTF, ASCII, TXT, DOC or XML format |
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| | | | Henry D. Thoreau - Walden
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion..."Browse this book on line or download it in HTML, PDF, RTF, ASCII, TXT, DOC or XML format |
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| | | | Jack Kerouac - On The Road
Jack Kerouac's classic novel of freedom and longing defined what it meant to be 'Beat' and has inspired every generation since its initial publication more than forty years ago. Sal Paradise, a young writer from New York City, ventures to cities around the country, staying with old friends, making new friends, and doing everything he can to stay alive and move on. His mentor and friend, Dean Moriarty, often travels with Sal, always talking, laughing, and being his insane self...Browse this book on line or download it in HTML, PDF, RTF, ASCII, TXT, DOC or XML format |
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| | | | Oliver Sacks - Risvegli
Per dieci anni, fra il 1917 e il 1927, una grave epidemia di encefalite letargica (malattia del sonno) invase il mondo. Quasi cinque milioni di persone furono colpite dal male. Poi l'epidemia scomparve, improvvisamente e misteriosamente come era sopraggiunta. Una minuscola frazione dei malati sopravvisse, in una sorta di perpetuo torpore, fino al 1969, quando un nuovo farmaco, la L-dopa, permise di risvegliarli. Oliver Sacks, fra il 1969 e il 1972, somministrò questo farmaco a più di duecento malati al Mount Carmel Hospital di New York. Risvegli racconta le storie di venti di loro...Browse this book on line or download it in HTML, PDF, RTF, ASCII, TXT, DOC or XML format |
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