Results for "Moral" in Literature & Fiction

Dans Les deux sources de la morale et de la religion, son dernier grand livre (1932), Bergson ne se contente pas d'établir la distinction entre le clos et l'ouvert comme critère absolu, en morale, mais aussi en religion (et même dans chaque religion) et en politique. Il en recherche le double fondement, dans la structure immuable de notre espèce, d'un côté dans les actes imprévisibles des grands hommes de bien ou des mystiques, de l'autre.

Playing with fire never felt so awkward . . . or so good. One minute I was covering a routine car accident for the paper. The next, I was staring up—way up—at the broadest shoulders I'd ever seen. Dane looked like he'd been carved out of granite . . . if granite could smirk and smell faintly...

Miles Morales has a lot going on, what with moving to a new neighborhood, dealing with the loss of his father, and the whole gaining superpowers thing. After a misunderstanding with the law, Miles questions what it means to be a hero when people are ready to believe the worst of you. Tempted by the power and freedom of his new abilities, Miles must decide what kind of Spider-Man he wants to be. When Vulture starts wreaking havoc across the city with his new accomplice Starling, Miles can't just sit back and watch. 

The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth, commonly referred to as the Jefferson Bible, was a book constructed by Thomas Jefferson in the later years of his life by cutting and pasting with a razor and glue numerous sections from the New Testament as extractions of the doctrine of Jesus. Jefferson's condensed composition is especially notable for its exclusion of all miracles by Jesus and most mentions of the supernatural, including sections of the four gospels that contain the Resurrection and most other miracles, and passages that portray Jesus as divine. - Summary by Wikipedia

Le cimentier Lafarge, fleuron de l’industrie française, est mis en cause devant les tribunaux pour avoir, dans la Syrie en guerre, maintenu coûte que coûte l’activité de son usine de Jalabiya jusqu’en septembre 2014, versant des millions de dollars à des groupes djihadistes, dont...

Cette édition de 1742 nous rapporte les contes de ma mère l'Oye adaptés par Charles Perrault et agrémentés de moralités.Pleines d'enseignements, ces histoires du temps passé, contées, en France, depuis le Moyen Âge, nous ferons encore rêver ou frissonner avec leurs jeunes filles et jeunes gens dans l'adversité, leurs princesses et leurs princes et, bien sûr, leurs fées.Retrouvons donc le petit Chaperon rouge, Cendrillon, le Chat botté, ... et redécouvrons d'où nous vient ce « Anne, ma soeur Anne, ne vois-tu rien venir ? »In this book, published in 1742, Charles Perrault ...

'Compulsively readable' SUNDAY TIMES 'A superior medical thriller' GUARDIAN 'Darkly gripping' OBSERVER You're trained to save the lives of others. But how far would you go to save your own? Olivia, Laura and Anjali couldn't be more different. Inseparable since the first day of medical school...

En avril 1957, lors de la première visite officielle d'Elizabeth II à Paris, une série d'événements laisse à penser à un sabotage. Au même moment, deux morts atroces ont lieu à proximité de Buckingham Palace. Lorsque l'un de ses proches est impliqué dans l'affaire, la reine mène l'enquête depuis Balmoral avec l'aide de sa secrétaire particulière adjointe, Joan McGraw.

Atwood triumphs with these dazzling, personal stories in her first collection since Wilderness Tips. In these ten interrelated stories Atwood traces the course of a life and also the lives intertwined with it, while evoking the drama and the humour that colour common experiences — the birth of...

Un día el erizo, sintiéndose un poco solo, agarra el papel y la pluma y, sin pensárselo dos veces, redacta una carta: "Queridos animales, […] os invito a todos a que vengáis a mi casa a visitarme". Pero, en realidad, él es un ser tímido, sensible y un poco cascarrabias, y pronto le invaden todos los temores. ¿Y si no viene nadie? ¿Y si vienen todos? Si el elefante aparece, ¿no lo romperá todo? ¿Será el erizo capaz de aguantar el croar de la rana? ¿Vendrán los animales por compromiso o porque de verdad les apetece?

In Thomas Ligotti's first nonfiction outing, an examination of the meaning (or meaninglessness) of life through an insightful, unsparing argument that proves the greatest horrors are not the products of our imagination but instead are found in reality. "There is a signature motif discernible in...

Logan vai escolher proteger aqueles que me machucaram? Ou vamos juntos assistir a todos os meus algozes queimando? Monstros geralmente não ganham finais felizes... Lana está prestes a concluir a vingança que planejou meticulosamente por anos. Vestida de vermelho, está pronta para deixar uma...

A single torn rail. A packed passenger train. And a wounded veteran who turns his own blood into a warning. In this searing tale of moral courage and social injustice, Semyon Ivanov—an ailing former soldier eking out a life as a railroad track-walker—discovers that his embittered neighbor...

Would you swap back? After years of suffering heartbreak and loss, they’d given up hoping for a miracle—until the day their baby boy was finally born. Now they can take their perfect child home … except he isn’t their baby. A mix-up at the hospital made two couples raise each other’s...

Truth isn’t a light that guides you home. It is a fire that consumes everything it touches. For Arthur Pendergast, a near-fatal brush with death strips away the social conventions keeping the modern world together. Granted an unwanted, supernatural foresight, he suddenly sees human nature unvarnished: luminous neon bars that rise, fall, and flicker with the weight of every hidden lie. Trapped in a collective delusion where he is the only one who can see the board, Arthur watches the pillars of his life crumble.

Le Operette morali sono una raccolta di ventiquattro componimenti in prosa, divise tra dialoghi e novelle dallo stile medio e ironico, scritte tra il 1824 ed il 1832. Riflessione filosofica ed empito poetico fanno sì che Leopardi, al pari di Schopenhauer e più tardi di Kafka, possa essere visto come un esistenzialista o almeno un precursore dell'EsistenzialismoI temi sono quelli cari al poeta: il rapporto dell'uomo con la storia, con i suoi simili e in particolare con la Natura, di cui Leopardi matura una personale visione filosofica.

In der Komödie "Moral" (1906) nimmt Ludwig Thoma die spießige Moralheuchelei des damaligen Bürgertums aufs Korn. Die Verhaftung der Madame Ninon de Hauteville (mit bürgerlichem Namen: Therese Hochstetter), einer Dame von zweifelhafter und zugleich eindeutiger Profession, erregt in der Stadt größtes Aufsehen. Man hat auch ihr Tagebuch beschlagnahmt, das gewisse pikante, für einige Honoratioren, äußerst peinliche Notierungen enthält. Der mit der Untersuchung des Falles beauftragte Assessor Ströbel, ein sehr pflichteifriger Beamter, betreibt seine Nachforschungen zuerst mit aller Energie, dann, angesichts der sich sogleich einstellenden Schwierigkeiten, mit zunehmender Unsicherheit.

One of the best-known poets of the Revolutionary War era, Phillis Wheatley made history with this collection, which was the first such work to be published from an African American woman. Celebrated on both sides of the Atlantic, Wheatley found admirers in the likes of Voltaire, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and John Paul Jones. 

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. He was sent to watch humanity. No one warned him it would watch him back. Gabriel Hale steps off a train in Meridian City with a plain dark coat, no luggage, and a single gift: when he truly looks at a person, every mask falls away. He is an angel sent...

Dass offenbar ein beachtlicher Teil der Manager mit traditionellen Vorstellungen von Moral und Sittlichkeit nicht mehr viel anzufangen weiß, kann vor allem der katholischen Kirche nicht gefallen. Gregor Ulrich Henckel Donnersmarck, 65, Abt des Stifts Heiligenkreuz, kennt das Managerleben aus eigener Erfahrung: Er studierte zunächst Welthandel in Wien und startete dann eine Karriere beim Logistikunternehmen Schenker in Frankfurt.