I am sad to see no other reviews of this book on Amazon. This is a well written book full of essays written by Albert Camus for the french resistance paper Combat. Like the title suggests Albert Camus is faced 'Between Hell And Reason' with what he and the world was faced against. Much like Orwell's "Homage To Catalonia" we see the writer in his early age before his written his major works and going off into the abyss of war. We see them mold ideas which mostly are more radical and less complicated which they would use later to write "masterpieces".

The essays start with the liberation of Paris. The topics throughout the book go from self critique of the paper to responses of major figures in the war. My favorite essays were the ones that pointed out how false and fake the press were during the war. Camus however doesn't just criticize other figures and press, he self-critques his own paper Combat. Camus is very honest and isn't just filled with meaningless words. He really means what he says and doesn't say it if it's not true. Mostly when I read political essays and other works of the same nature, I mostly feel alienated and disagree but with "Between Hell And Reason" I could understand and really believe what Camus said. Very few political pieces do that to me.

This edition of "Between Hell And Reason" has a big introduction with translator's notes and footnotes for the essays. Anyone who wants to really study Albert Camus could use a lot from this edition of "Between Hell And Reason."

This book really is a classic coming-of-age novel. The winner of the French 'Best Novel of the Year' award in 1986, this book presents shockingly vibrant characters and real-life situations. The book is passionate, humourous, and risqué. The plotline is a little bit shocking at first, as it has to deal with a sixteen-year-old boy who takes a thirty-something married woman as his mistress. The relationships between the main characters are really well-portrayed and realistic. This book also provides an insight into French culture, for anyone who is intrested. The French in this book is also not too hard, so I would recommend it to anyone who is comfortable with their French, but not yet advanced enough to read the eighteenth-century classics.

This book was excellent! I loved it! If you are looking for a great adventure I want you to try this book. It is a tale of love, adventure, and revange. The main character is accused of trason, and is sentenced to a awful prison. He soon meets a prest who wants him to escape with him. They keep trying but soon only Edmund escapes. He wants to get all the people back who sent him to prison. He does at the end with the help of many people. The ending is a great surprise and a fabulous ending. Though it may be a little expecting. I have given it to my friends and they all have loved it. The movie was great too. Even if it was a bit different. Next time I read the Count I always feel excited and happy. Please try it! I am sure you will love it! Even though at time it is a bit grusome! It is a great book, and the author is great maybe I will be able to read the real version of the story one day! I reccomend it to any 11-13 year old who enjoys history and advanture, with a bit of revenge! You will truely enjoy this great book! I like it and you will to!

Koyre was one of the first historians to study the history of science philosophically, and he applies Husserl's insights on the "geometrization of space" to Galileo, supplying an historical supplement to Husserl's intuitive history. The transition of science from the "closed world to the infinite universe" is fascinating, and in the treatment of Galileo Koyre tells the story from the vantage of sublunar motion, artillery and bricks and bows and arrows. The supplanting of the distinction between "natural" and "violent" motion by motion per se and the geometrization of space is the destruction of the universe with a center circled by the visible divinities. The history of science is usually told as a story of idle theory replaced by experimentation, but Koyre shows that because the new science is based on an undemonstrable principle (inertia) and action at a distance, experimentation is superfluous: Galileo already knows the answers to the questions he puts to nature. Moreover, the introduction of force, which can only be demonstrated by equations (I've seen motion and distance, but never force), is not the triumph of observation but its supplanting. Koyre, by the way, was a teacher of Kuhn and Kojeve, who both turned Koyre's ideas into slogans and became world famous.

This is a must for Dumas fans. Joseph Balsamo is the first book in a series that capture the history of the French revolution in a novel that is truly of epic proportins.
Love, war, fantasy and politics are delicately woven into the fabric of the story. Highly recommended.

Farnoux's 'archaeology of a dream' - the French title of this splendid little book - is the primary source for the general reader interested in the historiography of excavations at Knossos and in Crete. But the real value lies, I believe, in the reconstructions he has comissioned of the palace, and in his choice of current discoveries in Crete. Strongly recommended for students and travellers alike.

If you have a command of French, and want to take a journey in what it truly means to love a woman, or be loved by a man, then this is a must read.

It is a story about an Englishman, on the verge of losing his wife and children, discovers a mythical island in the south pacific where people go to, and choose to be about loving their partner.

L'Ile des Gauchers, or Island of the Lefthanders is a fantastic journey into the human soul, and the true meaning of love.

Esta historia nos demuestra claramente la pasíón que un hombre puede llegar a sentir por una mujer, y lo que una mujer puede sacrificar por el amor de un hombre, también es un fiel reflejo de algunas de nuestras conductas; muestra en forma detallada como una sociedad y algunos preceptos morales pueden ser la causa de dejar a un lado a la persona que realmente se ama. En pocas palabras puedo opinar que esta novela es para personas que gustan del amor sin barreras, rayando en los límites de la pasión. Puedo comparar ésta novela con otra poco conocida y muy recomendable llamada 'Werther' de Goethe -primer novela escrita por este celebre autor alemán-, pues tambien es una historia de entrega y de amor, terminando en una tragedia irremediable. Ambas un reflejo de las vivencias de los autores así como de los sentimientos que los llevaron a escribirlas.

In some ways this is my favorite Dumas and thus I think that it ranks with the Count of Monte Cristo and the Three Musketeers. The action takes place during Henry III's reign and follows two intertwined plot lines: 1)the adventures of Chicot, the king's "jester," and 2) the love intriques of Bussy d'Amboise and the tragic Dame de Monsoreau. The political rivalries of the various aristocratic court factions is entertaining and interesting and, it is my impression, fairly accurate history. Though Chicot is an invention and the historical Bussy (a footnote character of the period) highly highly romanticised. Who cares if a small liberty or two are taken? Chicot is marvelously drawn, a wonderful character who both loves and despises his weak and highly flawed benefactor, Henry III. Chicot is clever, cunning, brave and morally decent but interested too in his own interests. He is also a proud but poor Gascon gentleman. He manipulates the king for his own amusment but also for good purpose. Were the book only about him it would be a great read. But even better, Dumas gives us Bussy d'Amboise, Louis de Clermont, Comte de Bussy, the brave, proud, handsome, man of honor who personafies the French aristrocratic (especially the post-Revolution, 19th Cent. Romantic notion of,) ethos. The romance between Bussy and La Dame (Diana) is romantic indeed: he is injured in a cowardly ambush (in which he defends himself magnificantly, of course) Diana nurses him but secretly and her identity remains a mystery for sometime. Poor Diana has a tragic situation and eventually, Bussy manages to find her etc... The ending is absolutely unforegettable and provides the basis for the sequal: The Forty-Five Guardsmen: an uneven story with some good moments, but sadly, inferior to this. Note: "La Dame" is the sequal to Marguerite de Valois (see film: La Reign Margot aka Queen Margot) I first read this when I was about 19 and it is still great, great fun 21 years later. If you like any Dumas, you'll like this alot.

I wish Dumas had written a cent-rilogy or something, because three just is not enough. You get history, romance, humor, and intellectual satisfaction. What more can you want? Start with La Reine Margot - start with a bang, the St. Barthélemy massacre, that leads into a love story, that becomes entangled in the Royal Court's intrigues. La Dame de Montsoreau introduces many fascinating characters - noble gentlemen and ladies, all beautiful and rich and young, ambitious, sentimental, loyal, treacherous... and finish off with Les Quarante-Cinq, which follows the path of the two other novels, with more fascinating plots. If you like historical fiction, or historical romance, or just plain history, you will wish there were more where this came from! (as in more in the Valois series)