Industry, honesty, and an eye for the ladies are ever apparent in this candid self-portrait, from his humble birth in 1706 to the beginnings of his greatness in 1757.
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Auteur: Franklin, BenjaminSommaire: -
Auteur: Franklin, BenjaminSommaire:Words of wisdom from America's shrewdest observer of man and his ways.
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Auteur: James, HenrySommaire:
Julianna and her niece are marking time in a villa in Venice. A literary editor obsessed with the work of a long-dead poet, Jeffrey Aspern, comes into their lives to try to ferret out his papers...
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Auteur: Ransom, John L.Sommaire:
Ransom was 20 when he was captured and made prisoner of war in 1863 at Andersonville, Georgia. In prison, he was surrounded by death, disease and cruelty, but he survived to write this true...
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Auteur: Paine, ThomasSommaire:
This pamphlet, which Paine published in 1776, put into print the word every man was thinking but no man dared say: Independence!