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Alan Sheridan

Alan Sheridan

·4.08·30,553 Ratings
“ This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor...Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each guest honorably. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond. ” ― Rumi
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  • Écrits: A Selection

    1982·
    ·3.83·261 Ratings
    Genius and charismatic leader of a psychoanalytic movement that in the 1950s and 1960s provided a focal point for the French intelligentsia, Jacques Lacan attracted a cult following. Ecrits is his most important work, bringing together twenty-seven articl
  • One Deadly Summer

    1997·
    ·4.02·239 Ratings
    ‘A master of psychological suspense ’ New York Times Beautiful newcomer, Elle, has turned the head of every man in the village. But it’s Fiorimond, the local mechanic, who wants her more.After just one date she moves in with him and his family. As F
  • The Pasteurization of France

    1993·
    ·4.08·134 Ratings
    What can one man accomplish, even a great man and brilliant scientist? Although every town in France has a street named for Pasteur, was he alone able to stop people from spitting, persuade them to dig drains, influence them to undergo vaccination? Pasteu
  • The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie: Three Novels

    1997·
    ·4.38·2,796 Ratings
    These three internationally acclaimed novels have confirmed Agota Kristof's reputation as one of the most provocative exponents of new-wave European fiction. With all the stark simplicity of a fractured fairy tale, the trilogy tells the story of twin brot
  • The Spectacle of the Scaffold

    2008·
    ·3.69·121 Ratings
    Foucault’s writings on power and control in social institutions have made him one of the modern era’s most influential thinkers. Here he argues that punishment has gone from being mere spectacle to becoming an instrument of systematic domination over
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