12 results for 'capric'

Winner of the PEN/Faulkner award for fiction in 2003, The Caprices is a collection of stories artfully told across the theatre of the Pacific Campaign of World War II. An Anglo-Indian cavalryman, his...

Seven short stories by the Prix Goncourt winner--"the most distinctive voice of his generation . . . master magician of the contemporary French novel" (The Washington Post). France's preeminent...

Dans Les Caprices de Marianne, en 1833, Musset nous présente les deux visages d'une jeunesse désenchantée; d'un côté, le ténébreux Coelio, habité par un désespoir amoureux; de l'autre, son ami...

Author explores the sources of his early life in New York and undertakes to define a view of his country.

The bestselling, award-winning author of Bad Land realizes a lifelong dream as he navigates the waters of the Mississippi River in a sixteen-foot motorboat, producing yet another masterpiece of...

In her first collection of stories since her PEN/Faulkner-winning The Caprices, Sabina Murray confronts the manipulation, compassion, ambition, and controversy surrounding some of the most intrepid...

«Il faut être très court, et un peu salé, sans quoi les ministres et madame de Pompadour, les commis et les femmes de chambre, font des papillotes du livre.» Brièveté et mordant, telles sont les...

The remarkable story of Josef Hartinger, the German prosecutor who risked everything to bring to justice the first killers of the Holocaust and whose efforts would play a key role in the Nuremberg...

Sabina Murray's first book since she won the PEN/Faulkner Award for The Caprices seduces with its dark delight in her taboo subject. When we meet Katherine, the winning-and rather...

"This is a study of French words and phrases which, untranslated, have entered the English lexicon. Historians calculate that English, since 1500, has borrowed more words from French than from any...

"This is a study of French words and phrases which, untranslated, have entered the English lexicon. Historians calculate that English, since 1500, has borrowed more words from French than from any...