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Le Desert (Folio Ser .: No 1670)
J. M. G. Le Clezio
Gallimard Education, 1987
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La Symphonie Pastorale (Folio Ser .: No 18) 9 reviews
Andre Gide
Gallimard Education, 1972
Un émouvant roman
Un roman émouvant avec un amour difficile, voire impossible, entre le narrateur, pasteur dans le Jura, et une orpheline aveugle, Gertrude. Le pasteur rencontre Gertrude dans une ferme. La jeune femme se trouve dans un état physique lamentable et le pasteur décide de l'emmener chez lui pour faire son éducation. Il passe beaucoup de temps avec elle, lui apprend à lire. Le mécontentement de sa femme ...
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Terre Des Hommes 3 reviews
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Gallimard Education, 1999
The Best Book I have ever read
The adventures of the pilot and his friends on the various points of the earth is a very beautiful narrative. The best book from Antoine de St. Exupery!
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Du Cote De Chez Swann (Collection Folio) 2 reviews
Marcel Proust
Gallimard Education, 2001
At last! A readable copy.
This is not a literary review (We all know what Swann's Way is about), but my way of expressing relief that at last I have a readable copy of it. Out goes my old Folio paperback with its miniscule print -- Hooray!
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Rue Des Boutiques Obscures
Patrick Modiano
Gallimard Education, 1982
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Poesies Une Saison En Enfer Illuminations1 review
Arthur Rimbaud
Gallimard Education, 1998
a solid rendering of a french master
This work provides a very thorough, readable compilation of Rimbaud's best. A thoughtful introduction and timeline help place the poems in a larger context.
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Voyage Au Bout De LA Nuit (Folio)
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Gallimard Education, 2000
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Le Paysan De Paris (Folio)
Louis Aragon
Gallimard Education, 1998
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La Vie Devant Soi (Collection Folio)2 reviews
Romain Gary, Emile Ajar
Gallimard Education, 1998
Il faut aimer
When I read it for the first time 12 years ago it left a deep impact on me. And now it doesn't stop touching me. This is one of the most amazing books I've ever read. It would be also interesting to know about the author,Roman Gary(also known as Emile Azar) I highly recommend this book and hope you have time to think about life, childhood and love... as the author said at the end of the book, ...
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Paroles5 reviews
Jacques Prevert
Gallimard Education, 1989
Prévert is one of the truly gifted poets of this century
Jacques Prévert is able to communicate so much by saying so little. His poems are simple yet somehow manage to touch people on levels much deeper than one would think. To not have experienced Prévert is to have truly missed out on one of the truly gifted poets of this century.
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Indiana8 reviews
George Sand
Gallimard Education, 1989
One of the largely forgotten great novels
George Sand's Indiana dramatizes and explores a wide variety of concerns in the nineteenth century with a brilliance one rarely finds in a first novel: Arranged marriages, what it means to be a Creole, colonialism and plantation profiteering, slavery, the beginnings of the deterioration of Old Europe, and the rise of the businessman. In terms of narrative style, this may be one of the most ...
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Femmes (Collection Folio)
Philippe Sollers
Gallimard Education, 1991
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Vacances Du Petit Nicolas, Les6 reviews
Rene Goscinny, Jean-Jacques Sempe
Gallimard Education, 1999
You will laugh your head off and never want to put it down!
This book is by far the best book in the "Le Petit Nicolas" series. It humorously captures all of the little (and big) things that make travelling with children such a tiring and hilarious adventure. The funniest chapter is called "La Plage, c'est chouette" and I have never laughed so hard as when I read the chapter. The vocab wasn't too tricky and I would recommend this book to anyone ...
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Lettre a Laurence
Jacques De Bourbon Busset
Gallimard Education, 1999
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LA Goutte D'or (Collection Folio) 1 review
Michel Tournier
Gallimard Education, 1986
A real Tournier-story.
The reason I chose to review this book is because Michel Tournier has personally visited our school last year to talk with us about his books, his life and his view on life in general. To prepare for his visit we read 'La goutte d'or' in class and we found (even more after Tournier's visit) that it is a very characteristic Tournier-story. This story about Idriss, a nomadic boy who discovers ...
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Romans De LA Table Ronde: Erec Et Enide Cliges Lancelot, Yvain (Folio Series : No.696)
de Troyes Chretien
Gallimard Education, 1991
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Gargantua (Folio Ser. : No.773)3 reviews
Francois Rabelais
Gallimard Education, 1965
Fabulous
I was gonna compare this one to Don Quixote to see another reviewer beat me to it! Well I shall anyway. Both are one of the first examples of novels, both are extremely long, both are successful and funny satires of society (in this case of the 16th century) at large. The difference is this book is much less philosophical and more slapstick. It has less high concepts and more toilet jokes. But ...
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Antigone (Collection Folio)
Jean Cocteau
Gallimard Education, 1998
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Confession D'Un Enfant Du Siecle (Folio)2 reviews
Alfred De Musset
Gallimard Education, 1999
excellent livre de De musset.
lE LIVRE de de Musset incarne le génie litéraire de son auteur qui est l'un des grands as du romantisme francais .De musset , qui s'est longtemps imposé par son style maniériste , fait montre ici de sa capacité de se réapproprier l'éspace vécu pour en livrer le cru d'une facon admirable et plein de résonances littéraires qui classent parmi les plus grands poétes et écrivains francais
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Montaillou, Village Occitan de 1294 a 13241 review
Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
Gallimard Education, 1982
Something special
I can't compare this book to anything I read before. The author made something extraordinatu. He showed us one specific village, how it existed 700 years ago and I cannot think this is history. i read about people living there as if they 'd still be living. The reconstruction is magnificent. We learn about specific families, their loves, gossips, joys and problems. We even know what they ate and ...
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