“Autobiographical without being an autobiography, confessional without disclosing his private self, The Summing Up, written when Maugham was sixty-four, is an inimitable expression of a personal credo. It is not only a classic avowal of a...
Éditions Actes Sud, 2011
Markowicz, André
“En Russie, depuis deux cents ans, chaque écrivain, chaque courant, chaque époque peut se retrouver dans Pouchkine, car celui-ci est un miroir, le lieu de la reconnaissance de toute personne de langue...
“An absorbing account of the conspiracy to kill King James I by his handsome lover, the Duke of Buckingham, an historical crime that has remained hidden for 400 years.
The rise of George Villiers from minor gentry to royal power seemed to defy...
Between the ages of 15 and 30 Beatrix Potter kept a secret diary written in code. When the code was cracked by Leslie Linder more than 20 years after her death, the diary revealed a remarkable picture of upper middle-class life in late Victorian...