Stephanson explores the origins of Manifest Destiny--the American idea of providential and historical chosenness--and shows how and why it has been invoked over the past three hundred years.
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Livres Anglais - page 93
A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse.
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![Le vagabond solitaire](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureL/E/9782070405473-vagabond-solitaire.jpg)
«Quel que soit l’endroit où je me trouve, dans une petite chambre pleine de mes pensées ou dans cet univers infini d’étoiles et de montagnes, tout est en moi. Il n’ya aucun besoin de solitude. Il faut donc aimer la vie pour ce qu’elle est et ne se faire aucune idée préconçue quoi qu’on ait en tête.
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![Stardust](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureS/T/9780755322824-stardust.jpg)
Young Tristan Thorn has lost his heart to the beautiful Victoria Forester and, to win her love, vows to bring her a star they see fall from the night sky. It is an oath that sends him over the town's ancient wall and into the mysterious land of Faerie - a world that is dangerous and strange beyond imagining...
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![Language Myths](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureL/A/9780140260236-language-myths.jpg)
A unique collection of original essays by 21 of the world's leading linguists. The topics discussed focus on some of the most popular myths about language: The Media Are Ruining English; Children Can't Speak or Write Properly Anymore; America is Ruining the English Language.
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![World of farming Français-anglais / English-french](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureW/O/9782950695901-world-farming-francais-anglais-english-french.jpg)
A la fois lexique, dictionnaire et outil de formation, WORLD OF FARMING se présente sous la forme d'un petit livre facile d'utilisation.
En permanence à vos côtés, dans votre bureau, votre cartable ou votre poche, il se révèlera être un soutien indispensable pour vos études, voyages, stages et échanges avec l'étranger.
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![The Rise of Endymion](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/H/9780553572988-rise-endymion.jpg)
But first they must embark on a final spectacular mission to discover the underlying meaning of the universe itself. They have been followed on their journey by the mysterious Shrike--monster, angel, killing machine--who is about to reveal the long-held secret of its origin and purpose.
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![The Alchemist](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/H/9780722532935-alchemist.jpg)
A global phenomenon, The Alchemist has been read and loved by over 62 million readers, topping bestseller lists in 74 countries worldwide. Now this magical fable is beautifully repackaged in an edition that lovers of Paulo Coelho will want to treasure forever. Every few decades a book is published that changes the lives of its readers forever.
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![Le fantôme des Cantervilles et autres contes](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureL/E/9782070403868-fantome-cantervilles-autres-contes.jpg)
Le fantôme des Canterville a fort à faire pour prouver à la famille Otis qu'il peut faire peur : entre les blagues des insupportables jumeaux et les pièges que lui tend le fils aîné, il n'a guère le temps de se montrer aussi terrifiant qu'il le souhaiterait...
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![The Woodlanders](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/H/9780140435474-woodlanders.jpg)
When country-girl Grace Melbury returns home from her middle-class school she feels she has risen above her suitor, the simple woodsman Giles Winterborne. Though marriage had been discussed between her and Giles, Grace finds herself captivated by Dr Edred Fitzpiers, a sophisticated newcomer to the area—a relationship that is encouraged by her socially ambitious father. Hardy's novel of [...]
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![The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings Boxed Set](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/H/9780261103566-hobbit-lord-rings-boxed.jpg)
Immerse yourself in Middle-earth with Tolkien's classic masterpiece, telling the complete story of Bilbo Baggins and the Hobbits' epic encounters with Gandalf, Gollum, dragons and monsters, in the quest to destroy the One Ring. When they were first published, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings became instant classics. Treasured by readers young and old, these works of sweeping fantasy, steeped [...]
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![Moon Palace](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureM/O/9780571142200-moon-palace.jpg)
So begins the mesmerising narrative of Marco Stanley Fogg - orphan, child of the 1960s, a quester by nature. Moon Palace is his story - a novel that spans three generations, from the early years of this century to the first lunar landings, and moves from the canyons of Manhattan to the cruelly beautiful landscape of the American West.
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![The God of Small Things](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/H/9780006550686-small-things.jpg)
The year is 1969. In the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India, fraternal twins Esthappen and Rahel fashion a childhood for themselves in the shade of the wreck that is their family.
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![A Christmas carol](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureU/N/9782070403400-chant-noel.jpg)
An unkind, mean, lonely old man gets a surprise when he reaches the front door of his home on the night before Christmas. As he looks at the door knocker, lit turns into a face - the face of a friend who pas been dead for many years ! This is just the beginning of a long night in which Ebenezer Scrooge talks to pis dead friend, and meets three other ghosts.
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![Pas de visuel pour The Scarlet Letter](https://www.unitheque.com/Medias/Images/Unitheque-LibrairieH250.png)
This is a troubling story of crime, sin, guilt, punishment and expiation, set in the rigid moral climate of 17th-century New England. The young mother of an illegitimate child confronts her Puritan judges.
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![The Fellowship of the Ring - Part 1](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/H/9780261103573-fellowship-ring-part.jpg)
Sauron, the Dark Lord, has gathered to him all the Rings of Power – the means by which he intends to rule Middle-earth. All he lacks in his plans for dominion is the One Ring – the ring that rules them all – which has fallen into the hands of the hobbit, Bilbo Baggins.
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![Women's History: Britain 1850 - 1945](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureW/O/9780415238892-women-history-britain-1850-1945.jpg)
This textbook covers the key areas of women's lives in the period 1850-1945 and should be welcomed by students and teachers as an introduction to a formative period in women's history.
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![Endymion](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureE/N/9780553572940-endymion.jpg)
Two hundred and seventy-four years after the fall of the WorldWeb in Fall of Hyperion, Raoul Endymion is sent on a quest. Retrieving Aenea from the Sphinx before the Church troops reach her is only the beginning. With help from a blue-skinned android named A.
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![Antoine et Cléopâtre](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureA/N/9782080708953-antoine-cleopatre.jpg)
ATTENDANTNews, my good Lord, from Rome.ANTONYGrates me ! The sum.CLEOPATRANay, hear them, Antony :Fulvia perchance is angry ; or, who knowsIf the scarce-bearded Cæsar have not sentHis powerful mandate to you, "Do this, or this ;Take in that kingdom, and enfranchise that ;Perform't or else we damn thee".
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![Heart of darkness](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureH/E/9782070400041-heart-darkness.jpg)
Le capitaine Marlowe, qui commande un bateau destiné au commerce de l'ivoire, remonte le fleuve Congo pour s'enfoncer avec son équipage au cœur d'une Afrique primitive et sauvage. Sur sa route, il croise le mystérieux Kurtz, chef d'un comptoir perdu dans une jungle étouffante et entouré de ses hommes, cour cruelle et violente.
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![Mrs. Dalloway](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureM/R/9781853261916-mrs.-dalloway.jpg)
Virginia Woolf's singular technique in Mrs Dalloway heralds a break with the traditional novel form and reflects a genuine humanity and a concern with the experiences that both enrich and stultify existence. Society hostess, Clarissa Dalloway is giving a party.
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![L'homme à la lèvre tordue et autres aventures de Sherlock Holmes](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureL/9782070394586-homme-levre-tordue-autres-aventures-sherlock-holmes.jpg)
Les affaires les plus étonnantes – disparitions mystérieuses, séquestration inexplicable, chantage rocambolesque – vont requérir toute l’attention du plus fin limier de Londres : Sherlock Holmes. Il devra mobiliser sa légendaire puissance de déduction pour lever le voile sur cette série d’énigmes étranges et captivantes.
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![DOUBLE ASSASSINAT RUE MORGUE](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureD/O/9782070394913-double-assassinat-morgue.jpg)
Edgar Allan Poe et Charles Baudelaire sont, en France, indissociables. Rarement un écrivain et son traducteur ont été liés à ce point : ils se doivent mutuellement leur célébrité.
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![Tom Stoppard Plays 1](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/O/9780571177653-stoppard-plays.jpg)
A collection of Tom Stoppard plays which reflect a combination of the "frivolous" and the "serious" aspects of his talent.
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![HAROLD ET MAUDE](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureH/A/9782070393367-harold-maude.jpg)
Harold a dix-neuf ans et vit avec l'idée de la mort. Son obsession macabre le conduit à assister aux enterrements. Maude a soixante-dix-neuf ans, elle est amoureuse de la vie, des hommes et du monde entier. Lorsque la vieille dame indigne rencontre le jeune homme solitaire, c'est le début d'une histoire d'amour aussi folle que passionnée.
Un roman excentrique, véritable hymne à la vie.
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![The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/H/9780099588115-bloody-chamber-other-stories.jpg)
Discover Angela Carter’s classic feminist retelling of favourite fairy tales interwoven by a master of seductive, luminous storytelling.
From familiar fairy tales and legends - Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, Beauty and the Beast, vampires and werewolves - Angela Carter has created an absorbing collection of dark, sensual, fantastic stories.
‘Magnificent set pieces of [...]
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![The Lord of the Rings](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/H/9780261103252-lord-rings.jpg)
Continuing the story begun in The Hobbit, all three parts of the epic masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings, in one paperback. Features the definitive edition of the text, fold-out flaps with the original two-colour maps, and a revised and expanded index. Sauron, the Dark Lord, has gathered to him all the Rings of Power - the means by which he intends to rule Middle-earth.
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![Sir Gawain and the Green Knight](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureS/I/9780921149927-gawain-green-knight.jpg)
Original text along with facing-page translation. The fourteenth-century poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is one of the greatest classics of English literature, but one of the least accessible to most twentieth-century readers. This new edition of the poem offers the original text together with a facing-page translation; editor James Winny provides a non-alliterative and sensitively literal [...]
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![If Beale Street Could Talk](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureI/F/9780140187977-beale-street-could-talk.jpg)
The inspiration for the new film from Oscar award-winning director Barry Jenkins'Achingly beautiful' Guardian Harlem, the black soul of New York City, in the era of Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles. The narrator of Baldwin's novel is Tish nineteen, and pregnant. Her lover Fonny, father of her child, is in jail accused of rape.
Flashbacks from their love affair are woven into the compelling [...]
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![Martin Eden](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureM/A/9780140187724-martin-eden.jpg)
Set in San Francisco, this is the story of Martin Eden, an impoverished seaman who pursues, obsessively and aggressively, dreams of education and literary fame.
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![BENITO CERENO](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureB/E/9782070388189-benito-cereno.jpg)
Herman Melville s'est inspiré, pour écrire Benito Cereno, d'un fait divers : des esclaves noirs, transportés à bord d'un galion espagnol, s'étaient révoltés, avaient massacré les Blancs, à l'exception du commandant, Don Benito Cereno, et de quelques matelots qu'il fallait épargner pour pouvoir être ramenés en Afrique.
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![ENGLISH CRIME STORIES OF TODAY](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureE/N/9782253057321-english-crime-stories-today.jpg)
Lire en anglaisCollection dirigée par Henri YvinecLa collection s'adresse à tous ceux qui désirent découvrir ou redécouvrir le plaisir de lire dans leur langue d'origine les oeuvres des plus grands auteurs contemporains.Notes en anglais en regard du texte, lexique bilingue en fin de volume dispensent d'un recours fastidieux au dictionnaire.
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![News from Nowhere and Other Writings](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureN/E/9780140433302-news-from-nowhere-other-writings.jpg)
Poet, pattern-designer, environmentalist and maker of fine books, William Morris (1834-96) was also a committed socialist and visionary writer, obsessively concerned with the struggle to achieve a perfect society on earth. News From Nowhere, one of the most significant English works on the theme of utopia, is the tale of William Guest, a Victorian who wakes one morning to find himself in the year [...]
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![HORREUR DE DUNWICH -BLINGUE-](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureH/O/9782070387816-horreur-dunwich--blingue-.jpg)
When a traveller in north central Massachusetts takes the wrong fork at the junction of the Aylesbury pike just beyond Dean's Corners he comes upon a lonely and curious country. The ground gets higher, and the brier-bordered stone walls press closer and closer against the ruts of the dusty, curving road.
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![Of Mice and Men](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureO/F/9780140177398-mice.jpg)
A controversial tale of friendship and tragedy during the Great Depression They are an unlikely pair: George is small and quick and dark of face; Lennie, a man of tremendous size, has the mind of a young child. Yet they have formed a family, clinging together in the face of loneliness and alienation.
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![The Secret History](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/H/9780140167771-secret-history.jpg)
FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE GOLDFINCHTruly deserving of the accolade Modern Classic, Donna Tartt's bestseller The Secret History is a remarkable achievement- both compelling and elegant, dramatic and playful.
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