18 books like Terre des hommes

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The journals of André Gide, 1889-1949 André Gide · 1939 · 1280p · ≈ 42h · Challenging "Le Journal d’André Gide peut être considéré comme la pièce maîtresse de l’écrivain. Texte original, transgressif à plus d’un titre par rapport à la morale courante – les tabous de la sexualité, les idées reçues, les lieux communs, les idéologies, la religion – à la fois sérieux et drôle, grave et léger, rapide et lent – il reste d’une ampleur et d’une amplitude insoupçonnées. Cette anthologie,… Shares: French Personal narratives, French Authors, World War II, Authors

Meḿoires de guerre Charles de Gaulle · 1940 · 340p · ≈ 11h · Challenging Originally published in three separate volumes covering three distinct periods, this single edition encompasses all the personal writings by one of this century's most prominent generals and statesmen from the fall of France in 1940 to the aftermath of World War II in 1946. The first section, "The Call to Honor," recounts the confusion and despair triggered by Hitler's blitzkrieg invasion of… Shares: French Personal narratives, Foreign relations, World War II, Biography & Memoir

Blue Yonder Alan Savage · 2005 · 234p · ≈ 7h · Moderate A family drama encompassing both world wars. Having earned a medal at the Battle of the Somme in 1916, Sergeant Mark Bayley, 4th Hussars, is posted back to England and volunteers for the Royal Flying Corps, becoming an ace with 23 'kills' to his credit, before being shot down over the German lines in March 1918. While in a prison hospital he falls in love with German nurse Karolina von Bitterman.… Shares: Air pilots, World War II

Une mort tres douce Simone de Beauvoir · 1964 · ★ 4.1 · 123p · ≈ 4h · Moderate La journée du mardi se passa bien. La nuit, maman fit des cauchemars. On me met dans une boîte, disait-elle à ma sœur. Je suis là, mais je suis dans la boîte. Je suis moi, et ce n'est plus moi. Des hommes emportent la boîte! Elle se débattait: Ne les laisse pas m'emporter! Longtemps Poupette a gardé la main posée sur son front: Je te promets. Ils ne te mettront pas dans la boîte. Elle a réclamé… Shares: French Authors, Authors, Biography & Memoir

Les confessions Jean-Jacques Rousseau · 1782 · ★ 3.6 · 674p · ≈ 22h · Demanding Je forme une entreprise qui n'eut jamais d'exemple, et dont l'execution n'aura point d'imitateur. Je veux montrer a mes semblables un homme dans toute la verite de la nature; et cet homme, ce sera moi. Moi seul. Je sens mon coeur, et je connais les hommes. Je ne suis fait comme aucun de ceux que j'ai vus; j'ose croire n'etre fait comme aucun de ceux qui existent. Si je ne vaux pas mieux, au moins… Shares: French Authors, Authors, Biography & Memoir

Words Jean-Paul Sartre · 1964 · ★ 3.7 · 214p · ≈ 7h · Moderate The book, consisting of Sartre distancing himself from writing and making his farewells to literature was very successful for the author and was hailed nearly unanimously as a "literary success"[citation needed]. In November of the same year, 1964, he refused the Nobel Prize for Literature awarded for his work, described as "rich in ideas and filled with the spirit of freedom and the quest for… Shares: French Authors, Authors, Biography & Memoir

Quand j'étais vieux Georges Simenon · 1970 · ★ 3.6 · 414p · ≈ 13h · Moderate 421 S. 18 cm Shares: French Authors, Authors, Biography & Memoir

The Huntress Kate Quinn · 2019 · ★ 4.5 · 560p · ≈ 18h · Moderate Instant New York Times Bestseller!"...compulsively readable historical fiction…[a] powerful novel about unusual women facing sometimes insurmountable odds with grace, grit, love and tenacity.” - Kristin Hannah, The Washington Post One of Marie Claire's Best Women’s Fiction Books of the YearOne of BookBub's Biggest Books of the Year“If you enjoyed “The Tattooist of Auschwitz,” read “The… Shares: Air pilots, World War II

Photobiography Akane Kawakami · 2013 · 204p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Why do photographs interest writers, especially autobiographical writers? Ever since their invention, photographs have featured as metaphors, as absent inspirations, and latterly as actual objects in written texts. In autobiographical texts, their presence has raised particularly acute questions about the rivalry between these two media, their relationship to the real, and the nature of the… Shares: French Authors, Biography & Memoir

Memoirs of an egoist Stendhal · 1927 · ★ 4.0 · 143p · ≈ 4h · Challenging Written in 1832, three years before The Life of Henry Brulard (which recounts the author?s boyhood and youth), Memoirs of Egotism forms the essential middle section of Stendhal?s intended autobiography. Along with Journals of Italy, these volumes comprise what Andr Gide has called one of the truly great autobiographies in any language. Unpublished until fifty years after the Stendhal?s death,… Shares: French Authors, Authors, Biography & Memoir

The Orton Diaries John Lahr · 1986 · ★ 4.5 · 304p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Fron December 1966 to his murder in August 1967, Joe Orton kept a series of diaries that prove to be one of the most candid and unfettered accounts of that remarkable era. They chronicle his life from his literary success to his sexual escapades. Shares: 20th Century, Biography & Memoir

Letters to a young poet Rainer Maria Rilke · 1656 · ★ 4.3 · 138p · ≈ 4h · Demanding Letters written to F.X. Kappus during the years 1903-1908. Chronicle of Rilkes's life for the years 1903-1908 (p. 81-123). Shares: 20th Century, Authors, Biography & Memoir

Apologie pour l'histoire ou Métier d'historien Marc Bloch · 1949 · ★ 4.1 · 179p · ≈ 5h · Challenging Apologie pour l'histoire ou Métier d'historien est un essai de Marc Bloch rédigé entre la fin de 1940 et les premiers mois de 1943. Inachevé, il est publié de manière posthume en 1949, à l’initiative de Lucien Febvre. Marc Bloch s'interroge sur ce qu'est l’histoire, et plus particulièrement sur le rôle et les méthodes de l’historien dans la construction de cette science. Shares: French Personal narratives, Biography & Memoir

Code Name Verity Elizabeth Wein · 2012 · ★ 4.3 · 347p · ≈ 11h · Moderate In 1943, a British fighter plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France and the survivor tells a tale of friendship, war, espionage, and great courage as she relates what she must to survive while keeping secret all that she can. Shares: Air pilots, World War II

Beyond Heaven's River Greg Bear · 1980 · ★ 3.3 · 256p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Yoshio Kawashita is a great warrior until aliens whisk him away during World War II. They put him on a desolate planet far from his home, where he is destined to remain forever, leaving him alone in his new hell. Then Anna Nestor appears. This empress does not see planets as homes for their inhabitants; she sees exploitable real estate. At first, Anna Nestor views Kawashita as a sideshow… Shares: World War II, Authors

A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway · 1964 · ★ 4.0 · 207p · ≈ 6h · Moderate A Moveable Feast is a 1964 memoir belles-lettres by American author Ernest Hemingway about his years as a struggling expat journalist and writer in Paris during the 1920s. It was published posthumously.[1] The book details Hemingway's first marriage to Hadley Richardson and his associations with other cultural figures of the Lost Generation in Interwar France. The memoir consists of various… Shares: 20th Century, Authors, Biography & Memoir

Victorian writing about risk Elaine Freedgood · 2000 · 231p · ≈ 7h · Moderate "In Victorian Writing about Risk, Elaine Freedgood explores the geography of risk produced by a wide spectrum of once-popular literature, including works on politic economy, sanitary reform, balloon flight, Alpine mountaineering and African exploration. The consolations offered by this geography of risk are precariously predicated on the stability of dominant Victorian definitions of people and… Shares: Foreign relations, Biography & Memoir

We Danced all Night Barbara Cartland · 1970 · 312p · ≈ 10h · Moderate The popular romance author recounts her experiences back in the 1920s, when life was carefree. Shares: Authors, Biography & Memoir

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