Walter Goetz Livres

Abandonnant la chasse au tigre, le major W. Marmaduke Thompson décide d'explorer la jungle française et consigne ses observations sur les autochtones, leurs comportements, leurs manies, leurs qualités, leurs défauts...Les Carnets du major Thompson sont un des plus grands succès de ces dernières années.Traduit dans vingt-huit pays, ce chef-d'oeuvre d'humour fait l'objet d'éditions scolaires et universitaires en Grande-Bretagne, en Allemagne, en Suède, aux Etats-Unis, etc.

"If you want to succeed here you must be able to handle the English sense of humour."So proclaims George Mikes' timeless exploration of this curious phenomenon. Whether it's understatement, self-deprecation or plain cruelty - the three elements he identifies as essential to our sense of humour - being witty is a way of life here.Perfectly placed as an adopted Englishman himself, Mikes delivers his shrewd advice - helpfully divided into "Theory" and "Practice" - with comic precision. Drawing on a trove of examples from our rich comic canon, from Orwell (who said, "Every joke is a tiny revolution") to Oscar Wilde, this is the essential handbook for natives and foreigners alike.

For nineteenth-century Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt, the Italian Renaissance was nothing less than the beginning of the modern world - a world in which flourishing individualism and the competition for fame radically transformed science, the arts, and politics. In this landmark work he depicts the Italian city-states of Florence, Venice and Rome as providing the seeds of a new form of society, and traces the rise of the creative individual, from Dante to Michelangelo. A fascinating description of an era of cultural transition, this nineteenth-century masterpiece was to become the most influential interpretation of the Italian Renaissance, and anticipated ideas such as Nietzsche's concept of the 'Ubermensch' in its portrayal of an age of genius.