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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Averroès et l'averroïsme	Ernest Renan	On the philosophy of Averroës, 1126-1198, Arab philospher.	OL1068546W
L’étranger	Albert Camus	L'Étranger est le premier roman publié d’Albert Camus, paru en 1942. Il prend place dans la tétralogie que Camus nommera « cycle de l’absurde » qui décrit les fondements de la philosophie camusienn…	OL1230613W
Apologie de David	Saint Ambrose, Bishop of Milan,Ambroise, saint, Évêque de Milan, m. 397	210 pages ; 20 cm	OL13312739W
E. M. Forster	Mike Edwards	"This guide seeks to explore creatively the fascination of Forster's writing and to show how interesting ideas can emerge from close reading of extracts from the novels. Detailed analysis brings out …	OL134556W
Poems	Percy Bysshe Shelley	A brief introduction to the life of Shelley, called the poet of "uncompromising spirit," and his most praised works, some extracted from the whole, others presented in full.	OL14853463W
Pygmalion and Three Other Plays (Doctor's Dilemma / Heartbreak House / Major Barbara / Pygmalion)	George Bernard Shaw	Contains: - Doctor's Dilemma - Heartbreak House - Major Barbara - [Pygmalion](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1066524W/Pygmalion)	OL15013904W
Uncle Tom's Cabin	Harriet Beecher Stowe	This unforgettable novel tells the story of Tom, a devoutly Christian slave who chooses not to escape bondage for fear of embarrassing his master. However, he is soon sold to a slave trader and sent …	OL152161W
Voltaire; a collection of critical essays	William F. Bottiglia	Voltaire's diverse literary career--playwright, letter-writer extraordinaire, novelist, historian, pamphleteer--is critically examined by internationally-known scholars.	OL153670W
William Faulkner	Frederick John Hoffman,Frederick J. Hoffman,Hoffman	A study of Faulkner's fiction, his approach to his characters, his uses of them, and their role in the general strategy of his fiction.	OL15425473W
Thomas Hardy	Harold Bloom	A collection of critical essays on Hardy, his novels, and poems with a chronology of events in the author's life.	OL16062355W
Federico Fellini	Marguerite R. Waller,Frank Burke	"Federico Fellini remains the best known of the postwar Italian directors. This collection of essays brings Fellini scholarship up to date, employing a range of recent critical approaches, including …	OL17992692W
Christianity in Bakhtin	Ruth Coates	The work of the great Russian theorist Mikhail Bakhtin has been examined from a wide variety of literary and theoretical perspectives. None of the many studies of Bakhtin begins to do justice, howeve…	OL1807298W
Reading Susan Sontag	Carl E. Rollyson,Carl Rollyson	"Each of the chapters in Reading Susan Sontag is devoted to one of her books and is divided into three sections: synopsis, Ms. Sontag's own views of her work, and critical commentary. Thus it moves f…	OL1861818W
Découvrir la psychanalyse	Edith Lecourt	Propose une initiation complète à la psychanalyse : après un rappel historique de la naissance et du développement freudien de la psychanalyse, il décrypte clairement ses concepts fondamentaux et dre…	OL19840553W
La part du diable	Jacques Cardinal	La Révolution tranquille a voulu rompre avec une Église jugée obscurantiste et rétrograde. Or, avec Le Saint-Élias (1972) - dont l'action se déroule à Batiscan dans le dernier tiers du xIxe siècle -,…	OL21852285W
Treasure Island	Robert Louis Stevenson	Traditionally considered a coming-of-age story, Treasure Island is an adventure tale known for its atmosphere, characters and action, and also as a wry commentary on the ambiguity of morality — as se…	OL24034W
Dom Juan, ou, Le festin de Pierre	Molière	Édition scolaire présentant l'intégrale de cette pièce longtemps censurée mettant en scène un héros mythique qui ne cesse de fasciner. Le texte est précédé de la rubrique "Avant la lecture", qui rest…	OL24202964W
L'École des Femmes	Molière	L'AUTEUR Le cocu imaginaire offre le premier modèle de ces personnages dont les souffrances vont constituer l'essence de la comédie. Celle-ci donne, avec Arnolphe et Agnès, l'image des rêves, des dés…	OL24315727W
Saul Bellow	John Jacob Clayton	332 pages ; 22 cm	OL2717725W
Ovid as an epic poet	Brooks Otis	This text provides a detailed study of Ovid's Metamorphoses.	OL2918648W