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Première partie Autour de Mme Swann Dans cette première partie du roman, le narrateur parle de ses relations à Combray, entre autres celles eues avec M. de Norpois ou encore avec son idole littéraire Bergotte. Il va également pour la première fois au théâtre où il voit enfin l'actrice qu'il aime tant, la Berma, interprétant Phèdre de Racine. On y lit ses déceptions incomprises par les autres vis-à-vis de sa première vision théâtrale. Puis, il arrive à se faire introduire chez les Swann. Alors sont décrites ses relations avec Gilberte, Odette de Crécy et Charles Swann. Ce ...

The Death of Ivan Ilyitch is the story of a socially ambitious middle-aged judge who contracts an unexplained and untreatable illness. As Ivan Ilyitch is forced to face the death he fears, he asks himself whether the life he thought was so correct was, in fact, a moral life after all. Written after Tolstoy's religious conversion, the novella is widely considered to be one of his masterpieces. (Summary by Laurie Anne Walden)

This 1906 collection of memories of Oscar Wilde is by friends. Wilde said that his genius was his life; only his talent was in his works. (Summary by david wales)

Estate. L'estate sta finendo, l'estate è finita ma la coperta non è ancora gelata, quanto cazzo dura quest'estate, siamo a fine mese, ci dovrebbero essere le gocce di rugiada intorno a me, cerco il sole ed eccolo lì, caldo e spietato, la campagna non dorme, no, è piena di caldo e zanzare, e gli irrigatori fanno zip zip zip zip in continuazione, che l'acqua non c'è più, se l'è portata via il caldo, vaffanculo.