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En édition bilingue audio POLONAIS-FRANÇAIS + lecture audio intégrée: découvrez en français et en polonais ce sublime roman psychologique signé Boleslaw Prus, auteur de Le Pharaon. Puis à l'aide de votre smartphone (tablette, ou webcam), écoutez la lecture de ce livre dans sa version originale polonaise, en scannant le QR code au début de chaque chapitre.Le portrait psychologique d'une jeune fille de 13 ans, qui observe le monde entre conflits économiques et différends familiaux.Anielka (Angélique en français)est la fille d'un héritier, si fainéant et incapable qu'il pousse la famille à la débâcle. Sensible et perceptive, elle éprouve une profonde déception lorsqu'elle constate le fossé séparant les actions tenues de tous les discours moraux qu'on lui prodigue. De plus, voyant la maison tombée en ruine et l'avenir s'assombrir, la jeune Anielka veut ramener son père à la raison, à tout prix. Jusqu'à sa perte...

Egypt 1100 BCE - Old age and disease have weakened Pharaoh's already tenuous grip on power, allowing for Egypt's archpriests to take partial control of the government. But their heavy-handed policies have plunged the kingdom into financial straits and the debasement of human rights. Seeking to avert a crisis, 22-year-old Crown Prince Ramses issues directives to ease the peoples' suffering and at the same time to gain funds for what promises to be his own financially strapped reign. However, the entrenched High Council of Archpriests thwarts his efforts. Conflict ensues. The archpriests have but a few allies, the wealth of the temples, and an unusually smart organizing ability. The rest of the nation - the army, police, most government officials and even many of the younger priests - all side with the young ruler. Uneven as the odds are the outcome is far from certain, and the consequent power struggle threatens the kingdom with the collapse of the social order.The Throne of Osiris is a saga of intrigue and subterfuge-an epic account of crisis in government and the struggle for dominance. This classic tale offers a rich depiction of life in ancient Egypt, the structure of its society, its religious beliefs and traditions. With its numerous parallels to today's world, it is a study in the raw mechanisms of power and explores the attempts of the young to govern and to right society's wrongs.

Bołeslaw Prus is often compared to Chekhov, and Prus’s masterpiece might be described as an intimate epic, a beautifully detailed, utterly absorbing exploration of life in late-nineteenth-century Warsaw, which is also a prophetic reckoning with some of the social forces—imperialism, nationalism, anti-Semitism among them—that would soon convulse Europe as never before. But The Doll is above all a brilliant novel of character, dramatizing conflicting ideas through the various convictions, ambitions, confusions, and frustrations of an extensive and varied cast. At the center of the book are three men from three different generations. Prus’s fatally flawed hero is Wokulski, a successful businessman who yearns for recognition from Poland’s decadent aristocracy and falls desperately in love with the highborn, glacially beautiful Izabela. Wokulski’s story is intertwined with those of the incorrigibly romantic old clerk Rzecki, nostalgic for the revolutions of 1848, and of the bright young scientist Ochocki, who dreams of a future full of flying machines and other marvels, making for a book of great scope and richness that is, as Stanisław Barańczak writes in his introduction, at once “an old-fashioned yet still fascinating love story . . . , a still topical diagnosis of society’s ills, and a forceful yet subtle portrayal of a tragically doomed man."