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M. Jean-Paul G. POTET
Spiffies and Loonies is a situational comedy developed into 88 episodes. It departs from the typical ones, in which the plot hinges on the emotional and irrational decisions made by…
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This book is the list of printed documents I have collected about the Philippines in general and the Tagalog language in particular. The entries are followed by an index of…
Ce livre est le rapport romance de voyages aux Philippines attribue au personnage de Quentin Cumber, surnomme Cucumber "Concombre". C'est aussi une satire des milieux francais de la recherche en…
Under the influence of the lyrical drama of Medieval Japan called "Noh (Nogaku)", William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) wrote ten short plays to be performed for small elite audiences. These plays…
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This is a modest digest of what should be known about the life and deeds of Koxinga (Zheng Chenggong), the Ming military mandarin who founded Chinese Taiwan, and belonged to…
This book is the translation and the analysis of the Paglayonan manuscript of ten folios from the collections of the Newberry Library. The document is a compilation of official deeds…
The few, and generally obsolete Tagalog words of Arabic and/or Persian origin that can be found in old and modern dictionaries are fragments from a period when they must have…
Tagalog, spoken in Manila and the surrounding provinces, Luzon, Philippines, is a major language of the western branch of the Austronesian family. The bulk of this book is devoted to…
A parallel sitcom in English and French targeted at teenagers and adults who want to brush up and improve their French. The text is cut up into short, easy-to-remember segments…
Mrs. Mabel Van Moo is an insane, overweight, middle-aged character that belongs to the theater of the grotesque, where only caricatures are admissible. The scenes of the situational comedy Spiffies…
This is a collection of the scenes from the situational comedy Spiffies and Loonies in which intervenes Mrs. Hazel Twittle, a fiftyish prude and a dimwit that belongs to the…
An amazing English-French bilingual from the U.S., all-American boy Everett B. Cummings is recruited at 18 by the C.I.A. to pose as a Frenchman at the University of Burgundy in…
Percival Stuffington, nicknamed "Stuffie", is a good-for-nothing, a womanizer and a crook. He belongs to the theatre of the grotesque. His ignorance and dishonesty is exposed when he poses as…
