http://www.scribd.com/people/view/282485-tmborn This a feed for documents on Scribd written by tmborn 30 Fri, 02 May 2008 11:53:11 GMT Fri, 02 May 2008 11:53:11 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/2833417/maupassant-guy-de-contes-normands-et-parisiens **SOMMAI RE La couverture de cet ouvrage a été réalisée avec l'aimable collaboration de la Comédie-Française. Photographie : Philippe Sohiez. Maupassant et ses Contes Les Contes d'hier à aujourd'hui 4 6 CONTES NORMANDS ET PARISIENS (Choix de textes intégraux) UNE PARTIE DE CAMPAGNE MADEMOISELLE FIFI LA VEILLÉE HISTOIRE VRAIE LA REMPAILLEUSE PIERROT Aux CHAMPS LES SABOTS EN MER SAINT-ANTOINE REGRET DÉCORÉ! LA FICELLE LE VIEUX LE PROTECTEUR LA PARURE L'AVEU LA BÊTE À MAÎT'BELHOMME AMOUR LES EPINGLES 11 27 43 50 57 66 74 82 Crédits photographiques : pp. 4, 8, 10 (Maupassant photographié par Fri, 02 May 2008 11:53:11 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/2833417/maupassant-guy-de-contes-normands-et-parisiens http://www.scribd.com/doc/2833357/marivaux-lile-des-esclaves *Ce livre vous est proposé par Tàri & Lenwë A propos de nos e-books : ! Nos e-books sont imprimables en double-page A4, en conservant donc la mise en page du livre original. L’impression d’extraits est bien évidemment tout aussi possible. ! Nos e-books sont en mode texte, c’est-à-dire que vous pouvez lancer des recherches de mots à partir de l’outil intégré d’Acrobat Reader, ou même de logiciels spécifiques comme Copernic Desktop Search et Google Desktop Search par exemple. Après quelques réglages, vous pourrez même lancer des recherches dans tous les e-books simultanément ! ! Nos e-books sont Fri, 02 May 2008 11:51:19 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/2833357/marivaux-lile-des-esclaves http://www.scribd.com/doc/2833324/gustave-flaubert-memoires-dun-fou Février 2001 Mémoires d'un fou Gustave FLAUBERT *À toi, mon cher Alfred, ces pages sont dédiées et données. Elles renferment une âme tout entière. Est-ce la mienne? Est-ce celle d'un autre? J'avais d'abord voulu faire un roman intime où le scepticisme serait poussé jusqu'aux dernières bornes du désespoir, mais, peu à peu, en écrivant, l'impression personnelle perça à travers la fable, l'âme remua la plume et l'écrasa. J'aime donc mieux laisser cela dans le mystère des conjectures. Pour toi, tu n'en feras pas. Seulement, tu croiras peut-être en bien des endroits que l'expression est forcée et Fri, 02 May 2008 11:50:25 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/2833324/gustave-flaubert-memoires-dun-fou http://www.scribd.com/doc/2833303/beigbeder-frederic-windows-on-the-world Frédéric Beigbeder Windows on the World «Vous connaissez la fin: tout le monde meurt. Certes, la mort arrive à pas mal de gens, un jour ou l'autre. L'originalité de cette histoire, c'est que tous ses personnages vont mourir en même temps et au même endroit. Est-ce que la mort crée des liens entre les êtres ? » Le seul moyen de savoir ce qui s'est passé dans le restaurant situé au 107e étage de la tour nord du World Trade Center, le 11 septembre 2001, entre 8 h 30 et 10 h 29, c'est de l'inventer. F. B. Prix Interallié 2003. *Ce livre vous est proposé par Tari & Lenwë A propos de nos e-books : Fri, 02 May 2008 11:49:47 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/2833303/beigbeder-frederic-windows-on-the-world http://www.scribd.com/doc/2833279/beigbeder-frederic-vacances-dans-le-coma « Les Chiottes » : tel est le nom du night-club branché que l'on inaugure place de la Madeleine. Marc Marronnier, jeune chroniqueur mondain, s'y rend à l'invitation de son vieux copain Joss, le DJ le plus demandé de New York à Tokyo, virtuose du sampler digital. Top models de la veille ou du lendemain, visages liftés, stylistes à la page, décadents de tout poil se pressent sur la piste, entre dance music et pilules d'ecstasy. « Le fric permet la fête qui permet le sexe. » Marc, lui, sait bien qu'il ne pense qu'à l'amour. Il le rencontrera à l'aube avec le visage le plus inattendu... Chroniqueu Fri, 02 May 2008 11:49:11 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/2833279/beigbeder-frederic-vacances-dans-le-coma http://www.scribd.com/doc/2833268/beigbeder-frederic-nouvelles-sous-ecstasy Frédéric Beigbeder Nouvelles sous ecstasy Dans les années 1980, une nouvelle drogue fit son apparition dans les milieux noctambules : le MDMA, dit «ecstasy». Cette «pilule de l'amour» provoquait d'étranges effets: bouffées de chaleur, envie de danser toute la nuit sur de la techno, besoin de caresser les gens, grincements de dents, déshydratation accélérée, angoisse existentielle, tentatives de suicide, demandes en mariage. C'était une drogue dure avec une montée et une descente, comme dans les montagnes russes ou les nouvelles de certains écrivains américains. L'auteur de ce livre n'en consom Fri, 02 May 2008 11:48:55 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/2833268/beigbeder-frederic-nouvelles-sous-ecstasy http://www.scribd.com/doc/2833185/the-oxford-thesaurusan-az-dictionary-of-synonyms The Oxford Thesaurus An A-Z Dictionary of Synonyms INTRO Introduction =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=In its narrowest sense, a synonym is a word or phrase that is perfectly substitutable in a context for another word or phrase. People who study language professionally agree that there is no such thing as an ideal synonym, for it is virtually impossible to find two words or phrases that are identical in denotation (meaning), connotation, frequency, familiarity, and appropriateness. Indeed, linguists have long noted the economy of language, which sug Fri, 02 May 2008 11:46:36 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/2833185/the-oxford-thesaurusan-az-dictionary-of-synonyms http://www.scribd.com/doc/2832589/George-Orwell-Animal-Farm Animal Farm by George Orwell (bm) I Mr. Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night, but was too drunk to remember to shut the popholes. With the ring of light from his lantern dancing from side to side, he lurched across the yard, kicked off his boots at the back door, drew himself a last glass of beer from the barrel in the scullery, and made his way up to bed, where Mrs. Jones was already snoring. As soon as the light in the bedroom went out there was a stirring and a fluttering all through the farm buildings. Word had gone round during the day that old Major, the pri Fri, 02 May 2008 11:29:20 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/2832589/George-Orwell-Animal-Farm http://www.scribd.com/doc/2832482/beckett-samuel-waiting-for-godot Waiting for Godot tragicomedy in 2 acts By Samuel Beckett *Estragon Vladimir Lucky Pozzo a boy ACT I A country road. A tree. Evening. Estragon, sitting on a low mound, is trying to take off his boot. He pulls at it with both hands, panting. He gives up, exhausted, rests, tries again. As before. Enter Vladimir. ESTRAGON: (giving up again). Nothing to be done. VLADIMIR: (advancing with short, stiff strides, legs wide apart). I'm beginning to come round to that opinion. All my life I've tried to put it from me, saying Vladimir, be reasonable, you haven't yet tried everything. And I resumed Fri, 02 May 2008 11:26:11 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/2832482/beckett-samuel-waiting-for-godot http://www.scribd.com/doc/2832398/Orhan-Pamuk-My-Name-is-Red **My Name is Red Orhan Pamuk *2 You slew a man and then fell out with one another concerning him. —Koran, “The Cow.” The blind and the seeing are not equal. —Koran, “The Creator.” To God belongs the East and the West. *3 I AM A CORPSE I am nothing but a corpse now, a body at the bottom of a well. Though I drew my last breath long ago and my heart has stopped beating, no one, apart from that vile murderer, knows what’s happened to me. As for that wretch, he felt for my pulse and listened for my breath to be sure I was dead, then kicked me in the midriff, carried me to the edge of the well Fri, 02 May 2008 11:23:20 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/2832398/Orhan-Pamuk-My-Name-is-Red http://www.scribd.com/doc/2059329/Rushdie-Salman-The-Satanic-Verses Salman Rushdie (1947-) The Satanic Verses (1988) Default THE SATANIC VERSES by Salman Rushdie Copyright Salman Rushdie, 1988 All rights reserved VIKING Published by the Penguin Group Viking Penguin Inc., 40 West 23rd Street, New York, New York 10010, U.S.A. Penguin Books Ltd, 27 Wrights Lane, London W8 5TZ, England Penguin Books Australia Ltd. Ringwood, Victoria, Australia Penguin Books Canada Ltd, 2801 John Street, Markham, Ontario, Canada L3R 1B4 Penguin Books (N.Z.) Ltd, 182-190, Wairau Road, Auckland ro, New Zealand Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England Sat, 09 Feb 2008 15:44:47 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/2059329/Rushdie-Salman-The-Satanic-Verses http://www.scribd.com/doc/2059318/Oxford-University-Press-Common-Errors-In-English-Usage Common Errors in English Common Errors in English Go to list of errors. What is an error in English? The concept of language errors is a fuzzy one. I’ll leave to linguists the technical definitions. Here we’re concerned only with deviations from the standard use of English as judged by sophisticated users such as professional writers, editors, teachers, and literate executives and personnel officers. The aim of this site is to help you avoid low grades, lost employment opportunities, lost business, and titters of amusement at the way you write or speak. But isn’t one person’s mistak Sat, 09 Feb 2008 15:37:11 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/2059318/Oxford-University-Press-Common-Errors-In-English-Usage http://www.scribd.com/doc/2059284/Bill-Bryson-A-Walk-In-The-Woods A WALK IN THE WOODS REDISCOVERING AMERICA ON THE APPALACHIAN TRAIL by Bill Bryson Not long after I moved with my family to a small town in New Hampshire I happened upon a path that vanished into a wood on the edge of town. A sign announced that this was no ordinary footpath but the celebrated Appalachian Trail. Running more than 2,100 miles along America's eastern seaboard, through the serene and beckoning Appalachian Mountains, the AT is the granddaddy of long hikes. From Georgia to Maine, it wanders across fourteen states, through plump, comely hills' whose very names--Blue Ridge, Smokies Sat, 09 Feb 2008 15:20:56 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/2059284/Bill-Bryson-A-Walk-In-The-Woods http://www.scribd.com/doc/2059283/Bill-Bryson-The-Lost-Continent THE LOST CONTINENT-Travels in Small-Town America Bill Bryson PART I EAST CHAPTER 1 I COME FROM Des Moines. Somebody had to. When you come from Des Moines you either accept the fact without question and settle down with a local girl named Bobbi and get a job at the Firestone factory and live there forever and ever, or you spend your adolescence moaning at length about what a dump it is and how you can't wait to get out, and then you settle down with a local girl named Bobbi and get a job at the Firestone factory and live there forever and ever. Hardly anyone ever leaves. This is because Des Moi Sat, 09 Feb 2008 15:20:39 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/2059283/Bill-Bryson-The-Lost-Continent http://www.scribd.com/doc/2059281/Bill-Bryson-Notes-From-A-Small-Island Notes from a small Island By Bill Bryson PROLOGUE             CHAPTER   ONE        CHAPTER   TWO        CHAPTER   THREE CHAPTER   FOUR        CHAPTER   FIVE        CHAPTER   SIX        CHAPTER   SEVEN        CHAPTER   EIGHT        CHAPTER   NINE        CHAPTER   TEN        CHAPTER   ELEVEN        CHAPTER   TWELVE        CHAPTER   THIRTEEN CHAPTER   FOURTEEN CHAPTER   FIFTEEN        CHAPTER   SIXTEEN        CHAPTER   SEVENTEEN CHAPTER   EIGHTEEN C Sat, 09 Feb 2008 15:20:18 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/2059281/Bill-Bryson-Notes-From-A-Small-Island http://www.scribd.com/doc/2059209/Rushdie-Salman-The-Satanic-Verses Salman Rushdie (1947-) The Satanic Verses (1988) Default THE SATANIC VERSES by Salman Rushdie Copyright Salman Rushdie, 1988 All rights reserved VIKING Published by the Penguin Group Viking Penguin Inc., 40 West 23rd Street, New York, New York 10010, U.S.A. Penguin Books Ltd, 27 Wrights Lane, London W8 5TZ, England Penguin Books Australia Ltd. Ringwood, Victoria, Australia Penguin Books Canada Ltd, 2801 John Street, Markham, Ontario, Canada L3R 1B4 Penguin Books (N.Z.) Ltd, 182-190, Wairau Road, Auckland ro, New Zealand Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England Sat, 09 Feb 2008 14:46:20 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/2059209/Rushdie-Salman-The-Satanic-Verses http://www.scribd.com/doc/2059205/Bill-Bryson-The-Life-and-Times-of-the-Thunderbolt-Kid **Contents TITLE PAGE DEDICATION FOREWORD AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS CHAPTER 1 • Hometown CHAPTER 2 • Welcome to Kid World CHAPTER 3 • Birth of a Superhero CHAPTER 4 • The Age of Excitement CHAPTER 5 • The Pursuit of Pleasure CHAPTER 6 • Sex and Other Distractions CHAPTER 7 • Boom! CHAPTER 8 • School Days CHAPTER 9 • Man at Work CHAPTER 10 • Down on the Farm CHAPTER 11 • What, Me Worry? CHAPTER 12 • Out and About CHAPTER 13 • The Pubic Years CHAPTER 14 • Farewell BIBLIOGRAPHY *ILLUSTRATION CREDITS ABOUT THE AUTHOR ALSO BY BILL BRYSON COPYRIGHT *FOOTNOTES *1 In fact, Sat, 09 Feb 2008 14:39:20 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/2059205/Bill-Bryson-The-Life-and-Times-of-the-Thunderbolt-Kid http://www.scribd.com/doc/2059203/Antoine-de-SaintExuperyTerre-des-hommes Édition du groupe « Ebooks libres et gratuits » TERRE DES HOMMES Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1939) *EN HOMMAGE À NOTRE AMI GUY QUI NOUS À QUITTÉ LE 30 JUIN 2004. Tes amis du groupe qui pensent à toi. *Table des matières Chapitre I La ligne.................................................................... 6 Chapitre II Les camarades ..................................................... 22 I................................................................................................... 22 II ........................................................................................ Sat, 09 Feb 2008 14:37:51 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/2059203/Antoine-de-SaintExuperyTerre-des-hommes http://www.scribd.com/doc/2059194/Barnes-Julian-Flauberts-Parrot Flaubert's Parrot Julian Barnes To Pat When you write the biography of a friend, you must do it as if you were taking revenge for him. Flaubert, letter to Enest Feydeau, 1872 Note I am grateful to James Fenton and the Salamander Press for permission to reprint the lines from 'A German Requiem' on page 115. The translations in this book are by Geoffrey Braithwaite; though he would have been lost without the impeccable example of Francis Steegmuller. J.B. 1: Flaubert's Parrot Six North Africans were playing boules beneath Flaubert's statue. Clean cracks sounded over the grumble of jammed traff Sat, 09 Feb 2008 14:32:43 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/2059194/Barnes-Julian-Flauberts-Parrot