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Insecure siblings fighting for their parents' attention; bickering spouses who can't stand to be together or apart; adultery and sexual experimentation; even the struggle to balance work and family: These are themes as much at home in our time as they were in the twelfth century. In James Goldman's classic play The Lion in Winter, domestic turmoil rises to an art form.

Flamboyante et tragique, la fresque d'une grande dynastie sicilienne au tournant du siècle. La gloire est éphémère et le destin parfois cruel. Après avoir régné en maîtres sur la Sicile et fait de Palerme l'un des phares commerciaux de l'Europe, la famille Florio se heurte aux coups du sort, dans un contexte politique et économique qui fragilise la toute jeune Italie, et en particulier le Sud.

A contemporary classic from a major writer of the Native American renaissance — "Brilliant, brutal and, in my opinion, Welch's best work." —Tommy Orange, The Washington Post One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years During his life, James Welch came to be regarded...

The ascension of Vladimir Putin - a former lieutenant colonel of the KGB - to the presidency of Russia in 1999 should have been a signal that the country was headed away from democracy. Yet in the intervening years - as America and the world's other leading powers have continued to appease him - Putin has grown into not only a dictator but a global threat. With his vast resources and nuclear weapons, Putin is at the center of a worldwide assault on political liberty.