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Benoît Duteurtre
Benoît Duteurtre (1960-2024)

radio producer, journalist, music critic, radio personality, opinion journalist

  • University of Rouen

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Petite fille et la cigarette
Customer service
Requiem pour une avant-garde
L' opérette en France
Le voyage en France
Polémiques
Chemins de fer
La rebelle
Drôle de temps
L'été 76
En marche !
Les vaches
Gaieté parisienne
Les malentendus
Les pieds dans l'eau
L'ordinateur du paradis
Le retour du général
À propos des vaches
Sommeil perdu
Chemins de fer
À nous deux, Paris!
La nostalgie des buffets de gare
Service clientèle
Livre pour adultes
Dénoncez-vous les uns les autres
Ma belle époque
Pourquoi je préfère rester chez moi
La cité heureuse
La mort de Fernand Ochsé
Ballets roses
La petite fille et la cigarette
Françoise Gilot
Françoise Gilot (1921-2023)

painter, model, illustrator, art critic, visual artist

  • Beaux-Arts de Paris, University of Cambridge

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Françoise Gilot, an artist's journey =
Matisse and Picasso
Françoise Gilot
Francoise Gilot
Francoise Gilot: monograph 1940-2000
Picasso and Francoise Gilot
Vivre avec Picasso
Le regard et son masque
Interface
The Fugitive Eye
Francoise Gilot
Monograph
1946, Picasso et la Méditerranée retrouvée
F. Gilot; [exhibition] March 23--April 10, 1965, Findlay Galleries ... New York
Françoise Gilot, emblems and symbols
Dans l'arène avec Picasso
Monotypes
Artist's Journey
Paloma-Sphynx
Françoise Gilot
Françoise Gilot
Françoise Gilot dans l'arène avec Picasso
John Edgar Wideman
John Edgar Wideman (born 1941)

essayist, cultural critic

  • University of Pennsylvania, University of Oxford

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Edmund Gosse
Edmund Gosse (1849-1928)

poet, librarian, literary critic, art historian, translator, literary historian

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Father and son
Critical kit-kats
Some Diversions of a Man of Letters
Coventry Patmore
Portraits and sketches
Northern studies
Silhouettes
Henrik Ibsen
Gray
The Jacobean poets
Life of William Congreve
Sir Thomas Browne
Studies in the literature of Northern Europe
The life of Algernon Charles Swinburne
Seventeenth century studies
A history of eighteenth century literature (1660-1780)
Books on the table
Gossip in a library
From Shakespeare to Pope
More books on the table
A short history of modern English literature
Aspects and impressions
Jeremy Taylor
Leaves and fruit
On viol and flute
Father and son, a study of two temperaments
French profiles
French profiles
The naturalist of the sea-shore
Raleigh
English odes
Sir Henry Doulton: the man of business as a man of imagination
NORTHERN STUDIES
French profiles
Seventheenth-century studies
In russet & silver
The secret of Narcisse
The future of English poetry
Firdausi in exile, and other poems
Father and son
King Erik
Malherbe and the classical reaction in the seventeenth century
Questions at issue
Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France
A history of eighteenth century literature (1600-1780)
Inter arma
The life and letters of John Donne, dean of St. Paul's
Robert Browning; personalia
Portraits from life
The Life & Letters of John Donne
Robert Browning
On Viol and Flute
Hypolympia
The life of Philip Henry Gosse, F.R.S
Ibsen
The unequal yoke (1886)
The Unfortunate Traveler Or, The Life Of John Wilton
The life of Philip Henry Gosse ..
The continuity of literature
America: the diary of a visit, winter 1884-1885
The continuity of literature, presidential addresses, 1922
Silhouettes
Two visits to Denmark 1872, 1874
The life of Algernon Charles Swinburne
Firdausi in exile
Life and writings of William Congreve
The library of Edmund Gosse
Modern English literature
New poems
Henrik Ibsen / by Edmund Gosse, with essays on Ibsen by Edward Dowden and James Huneker
Two visits to Denmark
Selected essays
Some diversions of a man of letters
Thomas Hardy O.M
The collected poems of Edmund Gosse
The life and letters of John Donne, dean of St. Paul's
Sir Walter Raleigh
Thomas Hardy, O.M. and Sir Edmund Gosse, Litt.D
Critical kit-kats
From Shakespeare to Pope an Inquiry into the Causes and Phenomena of the Rise of Classical Poetry in England
The Life And Letters Of John Donne, Dean Of St. Paul's V2
The Collected Essays Of Edmund Gosse - Portraits And Sketches
Robert Browning; personalia / by Edmund Gosse
Father and son
English Literature An Illustrated record in Eight Volumes Volume IV-Part 1 From the age of ..
The autumn garden
Collected poems
Seventeenth Century Studies - Collected Essays of Edmund Gosse
The Life And Letters Of John Donne, Dean Of St. Paul's V1
The Milton manuscripts at Trinity
Portraits and Sketches
Seventeenth Century Studies: An Inquiry Into the Causes and Phenomena of the ..
Firdausi in exile and other poems
Memoir of Thomas Lodge
Notes (no.13 of a series) by Mr. Edmund Gosse on the pictures and drawings of Mr. Alfred W. Hunt
Swinburne
Browning's centenary, Tuesday, May 7th, 1912
Life of William Congreve
Two visits to Denmark
French Profiles
Three French moralists and the gallantry of France
Littérature anglaise
Biographical notes on the writings of Robert Louis Stevenson
British portrait painters and engravers of the eighteenth century
Three French moralists
The Life Of Swinburne
Thomas Hardy
Cecil Lawson
Ibsen
Thomas Gray
The rose of Omar
Robert Browning: personalia
French profiles
The unknown lover
Jeremy Taylor / by Edmund Gosse
Restoration plays
Tallemant des Réaux
From Shakespeare to Pope
Modern English Literature (Appleton Dollar Library)
The Milton manuscripts at Trinity
A Norwegian ghost story
From Shakespeare To Pope; An Inquiry Into The Causes And Phenomena Of The Rise Of Classical Poetry In England
Synnove Solbakken
Modern English Literature: A Short History
Correspondence with Scandinavian writers
Conventry Patmore
Leaves and fruit
Transatlantic dialogue
Restoration plays
A catalogue of a portion of the library of Edmund Gosse
Critical kit-kats. --
The life of Philip Henry Gosse, F.R.S
A history of eighteenth century literature (1660-1780). -
Inter arma: being essays written in time of war
A critical essay on the life and works of George Tinworth
English literature
Wo di hai
Henrik Ibsen
Gray
History Of Eighteenth Century Literature, 1660-1780, A (BCL1-PR English Literature)
Sir Thomas Browne
Jeremy Taylor
Undine
Restoration plays
Father and son
In russet & silver
Two pioneers of romanticism
A critical essay on the life and works of George Tinworth
Gray (English Men of Letters)
Life of William Congreve
Raleigh
English literature
Firdawsī dar tabʻīd
The Oxford book of Scandinavian verse
A short history of modern English literature
English literature
Sir Edmund Gosse
Ibsen
English odes
The naturalist of the sea-shore
A visit to the friends of Ibsen
The life and letters of John Donne
A catalogue of the works of Algernon Charles Swinburne in the library of Mr. Edmund Gosse
Modern English literature
Collected essays
Gossip in a library
A history of eighteenth century literature (1660-1780)
Alexander Pope; Samuel Johnson; Gray
Critical kit-kats
Wolcott Balestier
A history of eighteenth century literature (1660-1780)
Father and son
Studies in the literature of northern Europe
Coventry Patmore
Restoration plays from Dryden to Farquhar
A History of Eighteenth Century Literature Sixteen Sixty to Seventeen Eighty
Memoir of Thomas Lodge
The collected poems of Edmund Gosse
In russet & silver
Yingguo wen xue
Father and son
An address to the Fountain club, 1923
Malherbe and the classical reaction in the seventeenth century
Sir Edmund Gosse's correspondence with Scandinavian writers
Swinburne
Restoration plays
Northern studies
The Allies' fairy book
Henry Fielding
Robert Browning
Life of William Congreve (Bcli-Pr English Literature Series)
The influence of democracy on literature
Essays From The Chap-Book
Seventeenth century studies
Aspects & Impressions (George Eliot, Henry James, Samuel Butler, Congreve, Swinburne, Rousseau, Ibsen)
Gossip in a library
Henrik Ibsen
Restoration plays
The Mermaid club
Jubilé de Paul Bourget
The Jacobean poets
Restoration plays for Dryden to Farquhar
Silhouettes
Dick Gregory
Dick Gregory (1932-2017)

comedian, social activist, social critic, entrepreneur, athletics competitor, politician, autobiographer, political activist

  • Southern Illinois University Carbondale

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Fernanda Pivano
Fernanda Pivano (1917-2009)

journalist, translator, blogger, essayist, literary critic, scholar of English

  • University of Turin, Turin Conservatory "Giuseppe Verdi"

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I miei quadrifogli
Altri amici, altri scrittori
Amici scrittori
Dopo Hemingway
Beat & pieces
Fernanda Pivano
Hemingway
De André il corsaro
Allen Ginsberg: Beat & Pieces
I miei amici cantautori
The beat goes on
Fernanda Pivano
La mia kasbah
Beat Bible
Kerouac in Milan, 1966
Un po' di emozioni
I miei quadrifogli
Pagine americane
Beat hippie yippie
Diari, 1917-1973
L' altra America negli anni Sessanta
Viaggio americano
Cos'è più la virtù
C'era una volta un beat
Poesia degli ultimi americani
Album americano
La balena bianca e altri miti
Mostri degli anni venti
I miei amici cantautori
America rossa e nera
Francesco Pignatelli
Philippe Lançon
Philippe Lançon (born 1962)

journalist, literary critic

  • Centre de formation des journalistes

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Oreste Pivetta
Oreste Pivetta (born 1949)

journalist, literary critic

  • Polytechnic University of Milan

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