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On The Road»rank: 3129par: Jack Kerouac
Chroniques et points de vue:From :0n The Road, the most famous of Jack Kerouac's works, is not only the soul of the Beat movement and literature, but one of the most important novels of the century. Like nearly all of Kerouac's writing, 0n The Road is thinly fictionalized autobiography, filled with a cast made of Kerouac's real life friends, lovers, and fellow travelers. Narrated by Sal Paradise, one of Kerouac's alter-egos, 0n the Road is a cross-country bohemian odyssey that not only influenced writing in the years since its 1957 publication but ... |
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Walden; Or, Life in the Woods»rank: 8534par: Henry David Thoreau
Chroniques et points de vue:From :0n The Road, the most famous of Jack Kerouac's works, is not only the soul of the Beat movement and literature, but one of the most important novels of the century. Like nearly all of Kerouac's writing, 0n The Road is thinly fictionalized autobiography, filled with a cast made of Kerouac's real life friends, lovers, and fellow travelers. Narrated by Sal Paradise, one of Kerouac's alter-egos, 0n the Road is a cross-country bohemian odyssey that not only influenced writing in the years since its 1957 publication but ... |
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A Clockwork Orange»rank: 6135par: Anthony Burgess
Chroniques et points de vue:From :0n The Road, the most famous of Jack Kerouac's works, is not only the soul of the Beat movement and literature, but one of the most important novels of the century. Like nearly all of Kerouac's writing, 0n The Road is thinly fictionalized autobiography, filled with a cast made of Kerouac's real life friends, lovers, and fellow travelers. Narrated by Sal Paradise, one of Kerouac's alter-egos, 0n the Road is a cross-country bohemian odyssey that not only influenced writing in the years since its 1957 publication but ... |
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The Last Watch»rank: 696par: Sergei Lukyanenko
Chroniques et points de vue:From :0n The Road, the most famous of Jack Kerouac's works, is not only the soul of the Beat movement and literature, but one of the most important novels of the century. Like nearly all of Kerouac's writing, 0n The Road is thinly fictionalized autobiography, filled with a cast made of Kerouac's real life friends, lovers, and fellow travelers. Narrated by Sal Paradise, one of Kerouac's alter-egos, 0n the Road is a cross-country bohemian odyssey that not only influenced writing in the years since its 1957 publication but ... |
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A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present»rank: 296par: Howard Zinn
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Consistently lauded for its lively, readable prose, this revised and updated edition of A People's History of the United States turns traditional textbook history on its head. Howard Zinn infuses the often-submerged voices of blacks, women, American lndians, war resisters, and poor laborers of all nationalities into this thorough narrative that spans American history from Christopher Columbus's arrival to an afterword on the Clinton presidency. Addressing his trademark reversals of perspective, Zinn--a teacher, historian, and social activist for more than 20 years--explains, 'My point is not that ... |
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No Such Creature»rank: 4068par: Giles Blunt
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Consistently lauded for its lively, readable prose, this revised and updated edition of A People's History of the United States turns traditional textbook history on its head. Howard Zinn infuses the often-submerged voices of blacks, women, American lndians, war resisters, and poor laborers of all nationalities into this thorough narrative that spans American history from Christopher Columbus's arrival to an afterword on the Clinton presidency. Addressing his trademark reversals of perspective, Zinn--a teacher, historian, and social activist for more than 20 years--explains, 'My point is not that ... |
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Longing, The»rank: 5700par: Beverly Lewis
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Consistently lauded for its lively, readable prose, this revised and updated edition of A People's History of the United States turns traditional textbook history on its head. Howard Zinn infuses the often-submerged voices of blacks, women, American lndians, war resisters, and poor laborers of all nationalities into this thorough narrative that spans American history from Christopher Columbus's arrival to an afterword on the Clinton presidency. Addressing his trademark reversals of perspective, Zinn--a teacher, historian, and social activist for more than 20 years--explains, 'My point is not that ... |
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Mister Pip»rank: 2602par: Lloyd Jones
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Consistently lauded for its lively, readable prose, this revised and updated edition of A People's History of the United States turns traditional textbook history on its head. Howard Zinn infuses the often-submerged voices of blacks, women, American lndians, war resisters, and poor laborers of all nationalities into this thorough narrative that spans American history from Christopher Columbus's arrival to an afterword on the Clinton presidency. Addressing his trademark reversals of perspective, Zinn--a teacher, historian, and social activist for more than 20 years--explains, 'My point is not that ... |
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde»rank: 1270par: Robert Louis Stevenson
Chroniques et points de vue:From :The young Robert Louis Stevenson suffered from repeated nightmares of living a double life, in which by day he worked as a respectable doctor and by night he roamed the back alleys of old-town Edinburgh. ln three days of furious writing, he produced a story about his dream existence. His wife found it too gruesome, so he promptly burned the manuscript. ln another three days, he wrote it again. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was published as a 'shilling shocker' in 1886, and ... |
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Star Wars Millennium Falcon»rank: 3071par: James Luceno
Chroniques et points de vue:From :The young Robert Louis Stevenson suffered from repeated nightmares of living a double life, in which by day he worked as a respectable doctor and by night he roamed the back alleys of old-town Edinburgh. ln three days of furious writing, he produced a story about his dream existence. His wife found it too gruesome, so he promptly burned the manuscript. ln another three days, he wrote it again. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was published as a 'shilling shocker' in 1886, and ... |