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On the Makaloa Mat

On the Makaloa Mat

Jack London

Les prairies numeriques
2020
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On the Makaloa Mat/Island Tales By Jack LondonUnlike the women of most warm races, those of Hawaii age well and nobly. With no pretence of make-up or cunning concealment of time's inroads, the woman who sat under the hau tree might have been permitted as much as fifty years by a judge competent anywhere over the world save in Hawaii. Yet her children and her grandchildren, and Roscoe Scandwell who had been her husband for forty years, knew that she was sixty-four and would be sixty-five come the next twenty-second day of June. But she did not look it, despite the fact that she thrust reading glasses on her nose as she read her magazine and took them off when her gaze desired to wander in the direction of the halfdozen children playing on the lawn. It was a noble situation-noble as the ancient hau tree, the size of a house, where she sat as if in a house, so spaciously and comfortably house-like was its shade furnished noble as the lawn that stretched away landward its plush of green at an appraisement of two hundred dollars a front foot to a bungalow equally dignified, noble, and costly. Seaward, glimpsed through a fringe of hundred-foot coconut palms, was the ocean beyond the reef a dark blue that grew indigo blue to the horizon, within the reef all the silken gamut of jade and emerald and tourmaline. And this was but one house of the half-dozen houses belonging to Martha Scandwell. Her town-house, a few miles away in Honolulu, on Nuuanu Drive between the first and second "showers," was a palace. Hosts of guests had known the comfort and joy of her mountain house on Tantalus, and of her volcano house, her mauka house, and her makai house on the big island of Hawaii. Yet this Waikiki house stressed no less than the rest in beauty, in dignity, and in expensiveness of upkeep. Two Japanese yard-boys were trimming hibiscus, a third was engaged expertly with the long hedge of nightblooming cereus that was shortly expectant of unfolding in its mysterious night-bloom. In immaculate ducks, a house Japanese brought out the teathings, followed by a Japanese maid, pretty as a butterfly in the distinctive garb of her race, and fluttery as a butterfly to attend on her mistress. Another Japanese maid, an array of Turkish towels on her arm, crossed the lawn well to the right in the direction of the bath-houses, from which the children, in swimming suits, were beginning to emerge. Beyond, under the palms at the edge of the sea, two Chinese nursemaids, in their pretty native costume of white yee-shon and-straight-lined trousers, their black braids of hair down their backs, attended each on a baby in a perambulator. And all these, servants, and nurses, and grandchildren, were Martha Scandwell's. So likewise was the colour of the skin of the grandchildren-the unmistakable Hawaiian colour, tinted beyond shadow of mistake by exposure to the Hawaiian sun. One-eighth and one-sixteenth Hawaiian were they, which meant that seven-eighths or fifteen-sixteenths white blood informed that skin yet failed to obliterate the modicum of golden tawny brown of Polynesia. But in this, again, only a trained observer would have known that the frolicking children were aught but pure-blooded white.
Echec Et Mat

Echec Et Mat

Jean Marc Truchet

Jean Marc Truchet
2018
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A partir de diffZrentes sources gure contestables, ce document reprend, dZveloppe et analyse la pZriode situZe entre 1934 et 1939 aussi bien en France qu en Espagne, puis examine le dZroulement de l Zvolution politique et gZostratZgique de la France comme du monde depuis ces dates jusqu en ce dZbut du XXI sicle. L on constate immZdiatement que les bons et les mZchants ne sont pas nZcessairement ceux que l on pense, tant la presqu ile IbZrique que l Hexagone, passrent trs prs d une mise sous tutelle par Staline mais Zgalement toutes leurs colonies. Autrement dit, travers la guerre civile espagnole, mais Zgalement le Front Populaire simultanZment engagZ en France dans la mesure o l ex-Union SoviZtique aurait pu Ztablir une domination stable, ce sont prs des deux tiers du monde qui ainsi Ztaient conquis sans entreprendre un conflit armZ gZnZralisZ Un document passionnant, mais qui parfois fait aussi trs froid dans le dos
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Octave Feuillet

Prodinnova
2020
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« ... Monsieur le duc d'Albuquerque, si ce n' tait pas trop d'honneur pour un pauvre capitaine d'aventure comme moi, de croiser l' p e avec un grand seigneur comme vous tes, je vous dirais, moi, que vous m'insultez...
Shakh i mat

Shakh i mat

Ali Hazelwood

Mann, Ivanov i Ferber
2025
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Mellori Grinlif brosila shakhmaty, kogda oni razrushili ee semju. No chetyre goda spustja ona vse zhe soglashaetsja prinjat uchastie v blagotvoritelnom turnire i sluchajno obygryvaet Nolana Sojera - dejstvujuschego chempiona i nastojaschego "bed boja" v mire shakhmat. Proigrysh Nolana novichku shokiruet vsekh, a gromkaja pobeda otkryvaet Mellori dveri k denezhnomu prizu, kotoryj tak ej neobkhodim. Mellori somnevaetsja, stoit li idti na sdelku s sovestju, no Sojer serezno nameren otygratsja i ne zhelaet vypuskat zagadochnuju sopernitsu iz polja zrenija. Vstupaja v bolshuju igru, Mellori izo vsekh sil staraetsja ogradit svoju semju ot togo, chto kogda-to ee razrushilo, i zanovo ne vljubitsja v shakhmaty. Odnako vskore ponimaet, chto ne mozhet perestat dumat o Sojere, ved on ne tolko umen, no i chertovski privlekatelen...Perevodchik: Kuznetsova Olga