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A lighthearted concoction of extraordinary events, told with affection and humor. ? The New York Times. "Oh, what an admirable cat is Elephi! (And what an admirable writer is Jean Stafford!) Don't you miss knowing Elephi. (Or Erik Blegvad's apt illustrations.)" ? Publishers Weekly. Elephi Pelephi Well Known Cat Formerly Kitten lives a comfortable life with a kind but dull couple who often leave him to his own devices. Being a cat with a high IQ,...
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Jean Stafford's third and final novel, The Catherine Wheel, is a mordant tour de force concerning the gradual disintegration of a woman under pressures both societal and self-imposed.
Katharine Congreve, a Boston society figure, is summering at her country house in Hawthorne, Maine, in the late 1930s, looking after the children of her cousin Maeve, as she does every year. Maeve and her husband, John Shipley, spend their summers in Europe, leaving...
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The stories in this book vary in mood from the title piece, a satirical examination of avant-garde intellectual life in New York through the eyes of a self-styled "rube," to the quietly affecting novella "The Home Front," about a German doctor in an American defense plant town. The backgrounds of the stories are equally varied: one is set in the Virgin Islands, two in Germany, one in Oklahoma and one in Maine, and one - "The Interior Castle" - in...
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Coming of age in pre-World War II California and Colorado brings tragedy to Molly and Ralph Fawcett in Jean Stafford's classic semi-autobiographical novel, The Mountain Lion, first published in 1947. Torn between their mother's world of genteel respectability and their grandfather's and uncle's world of cowboy masculinity, neither Molly nor Ralph can find an acceptable adult role to aspire to. As events move to their swift and inevitable conclusion,...
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A provocative story of class struggle, privilege, and poverty that put American author Jean Stafford on the map.
Growing up in a fishing village north of Boston between the wars, Sonie, the child of immigrants, is so poor that she must “sleep on a pallet made of old coats and comforters.” She can only dream of the feather beds and perfumed soap to be found in the great city across the bay. In the summers, while helping her mother...
Growing up in a fishing village north of Boston between the wars, Sonie, the child of immigrants, is so poor that she must “sleep on a pallet made of old coats and comforters.” She can only dream of the feather beds and perfumed soap to be found in the great city across the bay. In the summers, while helping her mother...
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This book displays at their height the wit, sensibility and psychological penetration that distinguish Miss Stafford's work. There are nine stories and a novella. They range in mood from the title story, a comic portrait of a resourceful child-criminal named Lottie Jump, to "The End of a Career," an elegiac and ironic tale of the declining years of a great beauty. In "A Reasonable Facsimile" Dr. Bohrmann, a retired professor philosophy, is unexpectedly...
11) L'avenir des marchés touristiques, 2e édition: De la veille stratégique aux scénarios prospectifs
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Le tourisme est une industrie aujourd'hui incontournable, mais toujours fragile puisque soumise aux influences politiques, économiques, sociales et climatiques. Être en mesure de déceler les tendances dominantes de ce secteur d'activité devient ainsi un enjeu crucial pour assurer sa vitalité. Cette deuxième édition propose une collecte de données actualisées sur le sujet, en plus d'offrir un contenu renouvelé à travers le prisme de l'analyse...
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