Read Around Europe Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in Europe.
Best books from Europe (2975)
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Sans famille by Hector Malot, Christine Ferreira FR
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Un des premiers romans dont le héros est un enfant. Les aventures de Rémi, l'enfant trouvé, se passent dans la France du XIXe siècle. Une histoire émouvante qui nous touche encore aujourd'hui... Et qui finit bien. -- [l'Éditeur].
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A Plea for the Animals : The Moral, Philosophical, and Evolutionary Imperative to Treat All Beings with Compassion by Matthieu Ricard EN
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Every cow just wants to be happy. Every chicken just wants to be free. Every bear, dog, or mouse experiences sorrow and feels pain as intensely as any of us humans do. In a compelling appeal to reason and human kindness, Matthieu Ricard here takes the arguments from his best-sellers Altruism and Happiness to their logical conclusion: that compassion toward all beings, including our fellow animals, is a moral obligation and the direction toward which any enlightened society must aspire. He chronicles the appalling sufferings of the animals we eat, wear, and use for adornment or "entertainment,"... continue
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FILLE, nom féminin 1. Personne de sexe féminin considérée par rapport à son père, à sa mère. 2. Enfant de sexe féminin. 3. (Vieilli.) Femme non mariée. 4. Prostituée. Laurence Barraqué grandit avec sa soeur dans les années 1960 à Rouen. "Vous avez des enfants ? demande-t-on à son père. - Non, j'ai deux filles" , répond-il. Naître garçon aurait sans doute facilité les choses. Un garçon, c'est toujours mieux qu'une garce. Puis ... continue
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Annapurna by Maurice Herzog EN
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Provides an account of the author's conquest of the Himalaya peak, and the difficulties that arose afterward
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Can killing be an act of love? Hypnotic, gruesome, and exultant, Joy Sorman's macabre ballet whirls from industrial slaughterhouses to the boutique butcher shops of Paris. Pim is a delicate youth--stringy, solemn, and prone to bouts of unexplained weeping. When he enrolls in trade school as an apprentice butcher, his mentors have low expectations, but his lanky body conceals a peculiar flame: a passionate devotion to animals. In an industry that strives to distance the chopping block from the dinner plate, his ardor might seem like a handicap, but Pim rises through the knife-wielding ranks wit... continue
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Alex, une jeune femme de 35 ans, belle et attirante, essaie des perruques dans un magasin du boulevard de Strasbourg. Quelques heures plus tard, elle est enlevée par un inconnu qui la suivait, jetée dans une camionnette et séquestrée dans un hangar désaffecté. Le ravisseur a organisé sur place un théâtre de tortures qu'elle va subir jusqu'à l'horreur. Alex parvient à se libérer avant que la police ne la retrouve, et n'identifie son tortionnaire, suicidé sur le périphérique. Dès lors, l'énigme d'Alex et de son passé ne peut plus lâcher le lecteur, qui la découvre du point de vue de la victime e... continue
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night flight by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry EN
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Fasten your seatbelt to experience the spectacle and solitude of flying high in the Andes in this novel from the author of The Little Prince. No writer has equaled Saint-Exupéry in describing the perilous and poetic experience of flying, in submission to what he calls “those damn elemental divinities—night, day, mountain, sea and storm.” In this gripping, beautifully written novel inspired by his experience as a pilot in South America, he tells of the brave men who pilot night mail planes from Patagonia, Chile, and Paraguay to Argentina in the early days of commercial aviation. They are impell... continue
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The colours and scents of the Parisian world provide the backdrop to this book and its observations on the loss of childhood magic, the insecurity of solitude and the stresses and strains between husbands, wives, lovers and mistresses.
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She Came to Stay by Simone de Beauvoir EN
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Set in Paris on the eve of World War II, and sizzling with love, anger and revenge, "She Came to Stay" explores the changes wrought in the soul of a woman and a city soon to fall.