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Roman Blood
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Avant-gardes du XXe siècle: arts & littérature, 1905-1930
Caesar's Commentaries: On the Gallic War and On the Civil War
Les bûchers de Bocanegra
The Songs of the Kings
Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories: Volumes I and II
The Hobbit
Vent d'Est, Vent d'Ouest.
The Nobel Prize winner first novel. Written in 1925, it tells of the clash of the modern occident values and the traditional ancestral Chinese values. This is the story of a woman raised in the old China's traditions who is wed to a young Chinese man educated in the West. Both have to find a balance between East and West between the old and the modern to built a life. Interesting sociological point of view, a simple but not simplistic style and a love story that grew out of respect and the desire to work things out, to find a way to be happy together. Something that we in our fast, rapid, consume and discard world we have forgotten.
