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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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]
Discover Angela Carter’s classic feminist retelling of favourite fairy tales interwoven by a master of seductive, luminous storytelling.
From familiar fairy tales and legends - Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, Beauty and the Beast, vampires and werewolves - Angela Carter has created an absorbing collection of dark, sensual, fantastic stories.
‘Magnificent set pieces of [...]
[lire la quatrième du livre The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories]
Continuing the story begun in The Hobbit, all three parts of the epic masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings, in one paperback. Features the definitive edition of the text, fold-out flaps with the original two-colour maps, and a revised and expanded index. Sauron, the Dark Lord, has gathered to him all the Rings of Power - the means by which he intends to rule Middle-earth.
[lire la quatrième du livre The Lord of the Rings]
Original text along with facing-page translation. The fourteenth-century poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is one of the greatest classics of English literature, but one of the least accessible to most twentieth-century readers. This new edition of the poem offers the original text together with a facing-page translation; editor James Winny provides a non-alliterative and sensitively literal [...]
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The inspiration for the new film from Oscar award-winning director Barry Jenkins'Achingly beautiful' Guardian Harlem, the black soul of New York City, in the era of Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles. The narrator of Baldwin's novel is Tish nineteen, and pregnant. Her lover Fonny, father of her child, is in jail accused of rape.
Flashbacks from their love affair are woven into the compelling [...]
[lire la quatrième du livre If Beale Street Could Talk]
Set in San Francisco, this is the story of Martin Eden, an impoverished seaman who pursues, obsessively and aggressively, dreams of education and literary fame.
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Herman Melville s'est inspiré, pour écrire Benito Cereno, d'un fait divers : des esclaves noirs, transportés à bord d'un galion espagnol, s'étaient révoltés, avaient massacré les Blancs, à l'exception du commandant, Don Benito Cereno, et de quelques matelots qu'il fallait épargner pour pouvoir être ramenés en Afrique.
[lire la quatrième du livre BENITO CERENO]
Lire en anglaisCollection dirigée par Henri YvinecLa collection s'adresse à tous ceux qui désirent découvrir ou redécouvrir le plaisir de lire dans leur langue d'origine les oeuvres des plus grands auteurs contemporains.Notes en anglais en regard du texte, lexique bilingue en fin de volume dispensent d'un recours fastidieux au dictionnaire.
[lire la quatrième du livre ENGLISH CRIME STORIES OF TODAY]
Poet, pattern-designer, environmentalist and maker of fine books, William Morris (1834-96) was also a committed socialist and visionary writer, obsessively concerned with the struggle to achieve a perfect society on earth. News From Nowhere, one of the most significant English works on the theme of utopia, is the tale of William Guest, a Victorian who wakes one morning to find himself in the year [...]
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When a traveller in north central Massachusetts takes the wrong fork at the junction of the Aylesbury pike just beyond Dean's Corners he comes upon a lonely and curious country. The ground gets higher, and the brier-bordered stone walls press closer and closer against the ruts of the dusty, curving road.
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A controversial tale of friendship and tragedy during the Great Depression They are an unlikely pair: George is small and quick and dark of face; Lennie, a man of tremendous size, has the mind of a young child. Yet they have formed a family, clinging together in the face of loneliness and alienation.
[lire la quatrième du livre Of Mice and Men]
FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE GOLDFINCHTruly deserving of the accolade Modern Classic, Donna Tartt's bestseller The Secret History is a remarkable achievement- both compelling and elegant, dramatic and playful.
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When the vicar's wife went off with a young and penniless man the scandal knew no bounds. Her two little girls were only seven and nine years old respectively. And the vicar was such a good husband. True, his hair was grey. But his moustache was dark, he was handsome, and still full of furtive passion for his unrestrained and beautiful wife.
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A bold mix of realism, allegory, adventure, and progressive politics, this collection features Jack London’s most profound and moving literary works
The Call of the Wild, London’s elemental masterpiece about a dog learning to survive in the wilderness, sees pampered pet Buck snatched from his home and set to work as a sled-dog during the Klondike Gold Rush.
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You are walking through the streets of London. It is getting dark and you want to gel home quickly. You enter a narrow side-street. Everything is quiet, but as you pass the door of a large, windowless building, you hear a key turning in the lock. A man tomes out and looks at you. You have never seen him before, but you realize immediately that he hales you.
[lire la quatrième du livre The strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde]
The bestselling Meg and Mog stories are perfect for sharing or reading alone. Children love exploring the colours, sounds and shapes.
'A brilliant coordination of text and pictures' Sunday Times.
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In this fourth book of The Malloreon, Garion and his companions continue their desperate search for Zandramas, the child of dark and abductor of Garion's baby son, Geran.
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The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it, To Kill A Mockingbird became both an instant bestseller and a critical success when it was first published in 1960. It went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and was later made into an Academy Award-winning film, also a classic.
[lire la quatrième du livre To kill a mockingbird]
