Livres Anglais - page 92

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[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]

A global phenomenon, The Alchemist has been read and loved by over 62 million readers, topping bestseller lists in 74 countries worldwide. Now this magical fable is beautifully repackaged in an edition that lovers of Paulo Coelho will want to treasure forever. Every few decades a book is published that changes the lives of its readers forever.
[lire la quatrième du livre The Alchemist]

Le fantôme des Canterville a fort à faire pour prouver à la famille Otis qu'il peut faire peur : entre les blagues des insupportables jumeaux et les pièges que lui tend le fils aîné, il n'a guère le temps de se montrer aussi terrifiant qu'il le souhaiterait...
[lire la quatrième du livre Le fantôme des Cantervilles et autres contes]

When country-girl Grace Melbury returns home from her middle-class school she feels she has risen above her suitor, the simple woodsman Giles Winterborne. Though marriage had been discussed between her and Giles, Grace finds herself captivated by Dr Edred Fitzpiers, a sophisticated newcomer to the area—a relationship that is encouraged by her socially ambitious father. Hardy's novel of [...]
[lire la quatrième du livre The Woodlanders]

Immerse yourself in Middle-earth with Tolkien's classic masterpiece, telling the complete story of Bilbo Baggins and the Hobbits' epic encounters with Gandalf, Gollum, dragons and monsters, in the quest to destroy the One Ring. When they were first published, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings became instant classics. Treasured by readers young and old, these works of sweeping fantasy, steeped [...]
[lire la quatrième du livre The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings Boxed Set]

So begins the mesmerising narrative of Marco Stanley Fogg - orphan, child of the 1960s, a quester by nature. Moon Palace is his story - a novel that spans three generations, from the early years of this century to the first lunar landings, and moves from the canyons of Manhattan to the cruelly beautiful landscape of the American West.
[lire la quatrième du livre Moon Palace]

The year is 1969. In the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India, fraternal twins Esthappen and Rahel fashion a childhood for themselves in the shade of the wreck that is their family.
[lire la quatrième du livre The God of Small Things]

An unkind, mean, lonely old man gets a surprise when he reaches the front door of his home on the night before Christmas. As he looks at the door knocker, lit turns into a face - the face of a friend who pas been dead for many years ! This is just the beginning of a long night in which Ebenezer Scrooge talks to pis dead friend, and meets three other ghosts.
[lire la quatrième du livre A Christmas carol]

This is a troubling story of crime, sin, guilt, punishment and expiation, set in the rigid moral climate of 17th-century New England. The young mother of an illegitimate child confronts her Puritan judges.
[lire la quatrième du livre The Scarlet Letter]

Sauron, the Dark Lord, has gathered to him all the Rings of Power – the means by which he intends to rule Middle-earth. All he lacks in his plans for dominion is the One Ring – the ring that rules them all – which has fallen into the hands of the hobbit, Bilbo Baggins.
[lire la quatrième du livre The Fellowship of the Ring - Part 1]

This textbook covers the key areas of women's lives in the period 1850-1945 and should be welcomed by students and teachers as an introduction to a formative period in women's history.
[lire la quatrième du livre Women's History: Britain 1850 - 1945]

Two hundred and seventy-four years after the fall of the WorldWeb in Fall of Hyperion, Raoul Endymion is sent on a quest. Retrieving Aenea from the Sphinx before the Church troops reach her is only the beginning. With help from a blue-skinned android named A.
[lire la quatrième du livre Endymion]

ATTENDANTNews, my good Lord, from Rome.ANTONYGrates me ! The sum.CLEOPATRANay, hear them, Antony :Fulvia perchance is angry ; or, who knowsIf the scarce-bearded Cæsar have not sentHis powerful mandate to you, "Do this, or this ;Take in that kingdom, and enfranchise that ;Perform't or else we damn thee".
[lire la quatrième du livre Antoine et Cléopâtre]

Le capitaine Marlowe, qui commande un bateau destiné au commerce de l'ivoire, remonte le fleuve Congo pour s'enfoncer avec son équipage au cœur d'une Afrique primitive et sauvage. Sur sa route, il croise le mystérieux Kurtz, chef d'un comptoir perdu dans une jungle étouffante et entouré de ses hommes, cour cruelle et violente.
[lire la quatrième du livre Heart of darkness]

Virginia Woolf's singular technique in Mrs Dalloway heralds a break with the traditional novel form and reflects a genuine humanity and a concern with the experiences that both enrich and stultify existence. Society hostess, Clarissa Dalloway is giving a party.
[lire la quatrième du livre Mrs. Dalloway]

Les affaires les plus étonnantes – disparitions mystérieuses, séquestration inexplicable, chantage rocambolesque – vont requérir toute l’attention du plus fin limier de Londres : Sherlock Holmes. Il devra mobiliser sa légendaire puissance de déduction pour lever le voile sur cette série d’énigmes étranges et captivantes.
[lire la quatrième du livre L'homme à la lèvre tordue et autres aventures [...]]

Edgar Allan Poe et Charles Baudelaire sont, en France, indissociables. Rarement un écrivain et son traducteur ont été liés à ce point : ils se doivent mutuellement leur célébrité.
[lire la quatrième du livre DOUBLE ASSASSINAT RUE MORGUE]

A collection of Tom Stoppard plays which reflect a combination of the "frivolous" and the "serious" aspects of his talent.
[lire la quatrième du livre Tom Stoppard Plays 1]

Harold a dix-neuf ans et vit avec l'idée de la mort. Son obsession macabre le conduit à assister aux enterrements. Maude a soixante-dix-neuf ans, elle est amoureuse de la vie, des hommes et du monde entier. Lorsque la vieille dame indigne rencontre le jeune homme solitaire, c'est le début d'une histoire d'amour aussi folle que passionnée.
Un roman excentrique, véritable hymne à la vie.
[lire la quatrième du livre HAROLD ET MAUDE]