Louis Aragon

À la gloire de la femme aimée, Aragon, le dernier poète courtois, a composé ses plus merveilleux poèmes. "Ma place de l'étoile, à moi, est dans mon coeur, et si vous voulez connaître le nom de l'étoile, mes poèmes suffisamment le livrent." Pétrarque a chanté Laure, Ronsard Hélène, Lamartine Elvire, c'est à Elsa qu'Aragon donne ses poèmes qui sont au nombre des plus beaux chants d'amour qu'un poète ait écrits.

Discusses the life and work of French post-impressionist artist Henri Matisse.

For centuries Mira has been a nightwalker—an unstoppable enforcer for a mysterious organization that manipulates earth-shaking events from the darkest shadows. But elemental mastery over fire sets her apart from others of her night-prowling breed . . . and may be all that prevents her doom.The foe she now faces is human: the vampire hunter called Danaus, who has already destroyed so many undead. For Mira, the time has come to hunt . . . or be hunted.

The Adventures of Telemachus is the first critical edition of Tobias Smollett's 1776 translation of Bishop Fenelon's 1699 "mirror for princes," written especially for Duc de Burgogne, heir presumptive to Louis XIV. Both in its original French and its many translations, The Adventures of Telemachus was one of the most popular and revered works of the eighteenth century. During that time, more than ten English prose and poetry versions appeared, including this masterful prose translation by Smollett. Known for his novels Roderick Random and The Expedition of Humphry Clinker, Smollett was also a gifted translator. The Adventures of Telemachus was his final translation, and is one of the finest versions of the work. Long a disputed title in the Smollett canon, it is fully restored to his credit by Leslie A. Chilton.