L'amour maternel est-il un instinct qui procéderait d'une nature féminine, ou bien relève-t-il largement d'un comportement social, variable selon les époques et les moeurs ? Tel est l'enjeu du débat qu'étudie Elisabeth Badinter, au fil d'une très précise enquète historique menée avec lucidité mais non sans passion.L'Amour en plus , un livre passionnant, dérangeant.

The Myth of Motherhood: An Historical View of the Maternal Instinct

Politics & Social Sciences

Francine Du Plessix Gray

Élisabeth Badinter

Social Sciences

Souvenir Press Ltd.

“A novel of extraordinary richness and power. Sensual, witty, vividly evocative in every sentence. A fine book which achieves the real texture of life so often absent from fiction, and as such is not only entirely satisfying but resonantly memorable. ―William StyronLovers and Tyrants is at once an erotic, urgent, and beautifully written novel that established Francine du Plessix Gray as one of the most brilliant and exuberant fiction talents to emerge in America’s literary history. This is the story of Stephanie, whose life we follow from her extraordinary childhood in France, through her father's mysterious disappearance, her emigration with her mother to America, her private schooling in New York, her tempestuous sexual relationships with a European nobleman, her marriage to an American, her children, and ultimately, her self-liberation. Every phase of Stephanie’s life illustrates our painful ambivalence toward the irreconcilable poles of love and liberation, security and freedom.

Lovers and Tyrants

Literature & Fiction

Literary

W.W.Norton&Company

The acclaimed author of Rage and Fire provides a definitive portrait of the complex life and times of one of the twentieth century's most profound thinkers and describes her diverse roles as intellectual, activist, union organizer, philosopher, and mystic. 17,500 first printing.

Simone Weil (Penguin Lives)

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Viking Adult

Follows the life, loves, and desperations of Stephanie, from her childhood in France through her schooling, affairs, and marriage in the United States and an unconventional relationship with a younger man, to her confrontation with death

Lovers And Tyrants

Simon&Schuster

Edmund, Claire, and Sophie, friends--and sometimes lovers--for thirty years, travel to the Soviet Union, hoping to plan for the last third of their lives and to resolve the struggles and confusions of the previous three decades

World Without End

“A novel of extraordinary richness and power. Sensual, witty, vividly evocative in every sentence. A fine book which achieves the real texture of life so often absent from fiction, and as such is not only entirely satisfying but resonantly memorable. ―William StyronLovers and Tyrants is at once an erotic, urgent, and beautifully written novel that established Francine du Plessix Gray as one of the most brilliant and exuberant fiction talents to emerge in America’s literary history. This is the story of Stephanie, whose life we follow from her extraordinary childhood in France, through her father's mysterious disappearance, her emigration with her mother to America, her private schooling in New York, her tempestuous sexual relationships with a European nobleman, her marriage to an American, her children, and ultimately, her self-liberation. Every phase of Stephanie’s life illustrates our painful ambivalence toward the irreconcilable poles of love and liberation, security and freedom.

Pocket

First published to rave reviews in 1967, this compelling novel follows Stephanie from her childhood in France, through her father's mysterious disappearance, her emigration to America, her adolescence in New York, her marriage, her children, and ultimately her self-liberation, with each phase illustrating the painful ambivalence toward the irreconcilable poles of love and freedom.

Lovers Tyrants

Part anthology, part social history, this book explores the relationship between popular song and the events in Britain over the last 400 years that rise to it. On subjects as diverse as crime, war, love, disarmament, politics, and industry, song has always been a vehicle for the expression of popular feeling, often as the voice of the minority or oppressed.  Concentrating on the overlapping categories of oral songs, street ballads, and the work of singer/songwriters who employ a traditional idiom, the book presents fifty-four songs in full (forty with music), quotations from many others, a bibliography and discography, and numerous illustrations including facsimile ballads, engravings, and photographs of contemporary scenes.

The Sound of History: Songs and Social Comment

Pimlico

SIMONE WEIL (0)

A thoughtful and compelling biography of an enigmatic figure and early feminist

Simone Weil

Philosophy

BOOKS-ON-TAPE, INC.

Esteemed biographer and novelist Francine du Plessix Gray is a Pulitzer Prize finalist and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. In The Queen's Lover, Gray crafts a sweeping tale about the infamous affair between Marie Antoinette and Swedish nobleman Count Axel Von Fersen. In 1774, the 19-year-old Dauphine of France meets the handsome Count at a masquerade ball in Paris, igniting a decades-long romance that lasts into the French Revolution.

The Queen's Lover, Unabridged CDs

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The Myth of Motherhood: An Historical View of the Maternal Instinct

Lovers and Tyrants

Simone Weil (Penguin Lives)

Lovers And Tyrants

World Without End

Lovers and Tyrants

Lovers Tyrants

The Sound of History: Songs and Social Comment

Simone Weil

The Queen's Lover, Unabridged CDs