Livres Anglais - page 92

This is the story of a lover's triangle... It was bad from the start. And it got worse in a hurry.

Christine is eating into his mind, burrowing into his unconscious.

Christine, blood-red, fat, and finned, is twenty. Her promise lies all in her past. Greedy and big, she is Arnie's obsession, a '58 Plymouth Fury. Broken down but not finished.

There is still power in her - a [...]
[lire la quatrième du livre Christine]

Le vocabulaire anglais du supérieur est destiné aux étudiants anglicistes de DEUG et de licence, ainsi qu'aux élèves de classes préparatoires littéraires et commerciales. Il s'adresse aussi à tous ceux qui veulent approfondir leur connaissance de la langue anglaise. Il vise à faciliter une acquisition progressive d'un anglais contemporain de bonne tenue.
[lire la quatrième du livre VOCABULAIRE ANGLAIS DU SUPERIEUR]

George Orwell's vivid memoir of his time living among the desperately poor and destitute, Down and Out in Paris and London is a moving tour of the underworld of society. 'You have talked so often of going to the dogs - and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them.' Written when Orwell was a struggling writer in his twenties, it documents his 'first contact with poverty'.
[lire la quatrième du livre Down and Out in Paris and London]

There is another 1985, somewhere in the could-have-been, where Thursday Next is a literary detective without squat, fear, or boyfriend. Thursday is on the trait of the villainous Acheron Hades, who has been kidnapping characters from works of fiction and holding them to ransom.
[lire la quatrième du livre The eyre affair]

Traduction révisée
[lire la quatrième du livre Gaspar Ruiz/Gaspar Ruiz]

A complex, intense American novel of family from the winner of the Nobel Prize for LiteratureWith an introduction by Richard HughesEver since the first furore was created on its publication in 1929, The Sound and the Fury has been considered one of the key novels of this century. Depicting the gradual disintegration of the Compson family through four fractured narratives, the novel explores [...]
[lire la quatrième du livre The Sound and the Fury]

The brilliant graphic novel behind the major new film starring Gemma Aterton (Quantum of Solace), Jason Flemyng (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels), Fabrice Luchini (In the House) and Mel Raido (Spooks)Gemma is the bored, pretty second wife of Charlie Bovery, the reluctant stepmother of his children and the bête-noire of his ex-wife. Gemma's sudden windfall and distaste for London take them [...]
[lire la quatrième du livre Gemma Bovery]

April is the cruellest month, breedingLilacs out of the dead land, mixingMemory and desire, stirringDull roots with spring rain . . .

Published in 1922, The Waste Land was the most revolutionary poem of its time, offering a devastating vision of modern civilisation which has lost none of its power as we enter a new century.
[lire la quatrième du livre The Waste Land and Other Poems]

This novel is at once a fascinating family saga and an astonishing evocation of a vast land and its people–a brilliant incarnation of the universal human comedy. Twenty-five years after its publication, Midnight’ s Children stands apart as both an epochal work of fiction and a brilliant performance by one of the great literary voices of our time.
[lire la quatrième du livre Midnight's Children]

'A modern classic.' Guardian'A near-perfect work of art.' Joyce Carol OatesSylvia Plath is a major cultural icon who continues to inspire new generations of female readers. The Bell Jar is one of the defining novels of the 20th century.I was supposed to be having the time of my life .

. .
[lire la quatrième du livre The Bell Jar]

'Comment situer Les filles du pasteur dans l'oeuvre de Lawrence ? Ce n'est qu'une nouvelle, mais Lawrence est un maître reconnu de ce genre. Dans la célèbre étude de 1953, Lawrence romancier, le critique F. R. Leavis lui consacre un chapitre entier.
[lire la quatrième du livre Les Filles du pasteur - Daughters of the Vicar]

Weakened by events in Darujhistan, the Malazan Empire teeters on the brink of anarchy. In the vast dominion of Seven Cities, in the Holy Desert Raraku, the seer Sha'ik gathers an army around her in preparation for the long-prophesied uprising named the Whirlwind. Unprecedented in its size and savagery, it will embroil in one of the bloodiest conflicts it has ever known: a maelstrom of fanaticism [...]
[lire la quatrième du livre Deadhouse Gates: Malazan Book of the Fallen 2]

Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student's capabilities. Christina, who works in an art gallery in Buenos Aires is waiting at the traffic lights on her motorbike. She notices two men with a gun in the car next to her.
[lire la quatrième du livre A picture to remember]

Lord of the Flies is an allegorical novel by Nobel Prize-winning author William Golding. It discusses how culture fails, using as an example a group of British schoolboys stuck on a deserted island who try to govern themselves with disastrous results.
[lire la quatrième du livre Lord of the Flies]

John Steinbeck's powerful evocation of the suffering and hardship caused by the Great Depression, and a panoramic vision of the struggle for the American Dream, The Grapes of Wrath includes a critical introduction by Robert DeMott in Penguin Modern Classics.

'I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags, I don't want him satisfied.
[lire la quatrième du livre The Grapes of Wrath]

Arthur Miller's extraordinary masterpiece, Death of a Salesman changed the course of modern theatre, and has lost none of its power as an examination of American life. 'A man is not an orange. You can't eat the fruit and throw the peel away'Willy Loman is on his last legs.
[lire la quatrième du livre Death of a Salesman : Certain Private [...]]

'My literary hero is John Dos Passos' - Adam Curtis (filmmaker) 'A modernist masterpiece, capturing ... the fragmented lives it sketches, in a dazzling kaleidoscope of New York City in the 1920s' Christopher Hudson, Evening Standard'Dos Passos has invented only one thing, an art of story-telling. But that is enough to create a universe' Jean-Paul Sartre'The best modern book about New York'D.H.
[lire la quatrième du livre Manhattan Transfer]

Carson McCullers’ prodigious first novel was published to instant acclaim when she was just twenty-three. Set in a small town in the middle of the deep South, it is the story of John Singer, a lonely deaf-mute, and a disparate group of people who are drawn towards his kind, sympathetic nature.
[lire la quatrième du livre The Heart is a Lonely Hunter]

Notes du traducteur
[lire la quatrième du livre Le portrait de Mr W.H / The portrait of Mr W.H]

'To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness'

The Importance of Being Earnest is a glorious comedy of mistaken identity, which ridicules codes of propriety and etiquette.
[lire la quatrième du livre The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays]

'Lolita is comedy, subversive yet divine ... You read Lolita sprawling limply in your chair, ravished, overcome, nodding scandalized assent' Martin Amis, ObserverPoet and pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her, first carnally and then artistically, out of love, 'to fix once for all the perilous magic of nymphets'.
[lire la quatrième du livre Lolita]

Ce recueil de dix nouvelles anglaises et américaines d'auteurs contemporains de genres très divers - policier, humour, science fiction, etc. - a pour but d'encourager les élèves à la lecture suivie de textes intégraux en anglais, et de les mener peu à peu à l'autonomie et à la lecture pour le plaisir.
[lire la quatrième du livre 10 Short Stories Vol.1]

'Chronologiquement, c'est Jules Verne qui, avant Wells, met à l'honneur l'anticipation scientifique. Mais l'inspiration de chacun d'eux est de nature différente. Verne se sert d'une invention technologique dont il donne une version encore inconnue et dont il imagine, dans des intuitions visionnaires, un usage extraordinaire.
[lire la quatrième du livre Le pays des aveugles]

You know the authors' names. You recognize the title. You've probably used this book yourself.

This is The Elements of Style, the classic style manual, now in a fourth edition. A new Foreword by Roger Angell reminds readers that the advice of Strunk & White is as valuable today as when it was first offered.
[lire la quatrième du livre The Elements of Style]

HBO's hit series A GAME OF THRONES is based on George R R Martin's internationally bestselling series A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE, the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age. A STORM OF SWORDS: STEEL AND SNOW is the FIRST part of the third volume in the series. Winter approaches Westeros like an angry beast. The Seven Kingdoms are divided by revolt and blood feud.
[lire la quatrième du livre A Storm of Swords: Steel and Snow: Book 3 Part 1 [...]]

Harry Hole faces a new rising enemy.

‘A page-turner you won't want to put down’ Time Out

Harry knows he shouldn’t get involved.A report of a rare and unusual gun – a type favoured by assassins – being smuggled into the country sparks Detective Harry Hole's interest. Evil is closer to home than he knows.Then a former WW2 Nazi sympathizer is found with his throat cut.
[lire la quatrième du livre The Redbreast]

Pearson English Readers bring language learning to life through the joy of reading.   Well-written stories entertain us, make us think, and keep our interest page after page. Pearson English Readers offer teenage and adult learners a huge range of titles, all featuring carefully graded language to make them accessible to learners of all abilities.
[lire la quatrième du livre King Solomon's Mines.]

Powerful, brilliant, and ambitious, Dominic Davenport clawed his way up from nothing to become the King of Wall Street.

He has everything—a beautiful home, a beautiful wife, and more money than he could spend in a lifetime. But no matter how much he accumulates, he’s never satisfied.

In his endless quest for more, he drives away the only person who saw him as enough.
[lire la quatrième du livre King of Greed]

The cult classic that can still change your life...Let the dice decide! This is the philosophy that changes the life of bored psychiatrist Luke Rhinehart - and in some ways changes the world as well. Because once you hand over your life to the dice, anything can happen. Entertaining, humorous, scary, shocking, subversive, The Dice Man is one of the cult bestsellers of our time.
[lire la quatrième du livre The Dice Man]

Stephanson explores the origins of Manifest Destiny--the American idea of providential and historical chosenness--and shows how and why it has been invoked over the past three hundred years.
[lire la quatrième du livre Manifest Destiny: American Expansion and the [...]]

A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse.
[lire la quatrième du livre A Farewell To Arms]

«Quel que soit l’endroit où je me trouve, dans une petite chambre pleine de mes pensées ou dans cet univers infini d’étoiles et de montagnes, tout est en moi. Il n’ya aucun besoin de solitude. Il faut donc aimer la vie pour ce qu’elle est et ne se faire aucune idée préconçue quoi qu’on ait en tête.
[lire la quatrième du livre Le vagabond solitaire]

Young Tristan Thorn has lost his heart to the beautiful Victoria Forester and, to win her love, vows to bring her a star they see fall from the night sky. It is an oath that sends him over the town's ancient wall and into the mysterious land of Faerie - a world that is dangerous and strange beyond imagining...
[lire la quatrième du livre Stardust]

A unique collection of original essays by 21 of the world's leading linguists. The topics discussed focus on some of the most popular myths about language: The Media Are Ruining English; Children Can't Speak or Write Properly Anymore; America is Ruining the English Language.
[lire la quatrième du livre Language Myths]

A la fois lexique, dictionnaire et outil de formation, WORLD OF FARMING se présente sous la forme d'un petit livre facile d'utilisation.

En permanence à vos côtés, dans votre bureau, votre cartable ou votre poche, il se révèlera être un soutien indispensable pour vos études, voyages, stages et échanges avec l'étranger.
[lire la quatrième du livre World of farming Français-anglais / [...]]

But first they must embark on a final spectacular mission to discover the underlying meaning of the universe itself. They have been followed on their journey by the mysterious Shrike--monster, angel, killing machine--who is about to reveal the long-held secret of its origin and purpose.
[lire la quatrième du livre The Rise of Endymion]