Livres Fiction - page 22

Miraculous inventions and unforgettable characters inhabit these pages: an elderly widow who finds the Holy Grail in a second-hand store...a frightened little boy who bargains for his life with a troll living under a bridge by the railroad tracks...a stray cat who battles nightly against a recurring evil that threatens his unsuspecting adoptive family.
[lire la quatrième du livre Smoke & Mirrors]

Né vieillard, pour la honte de ses parents et au grand scandale de l'hôpital, Benjamin parcourt en sens inverse le cycle de la vie humaine pour s'éteindre, bébé, au terme de soixante-dix années riches en événements... au cours desquelles il aura eu brièvement le même âge que son petit-fils.
[lire la quatrième du livre L'étrange histoire de Benjamin Button]

Follow Holmes as he solves the mystery of "The Blue Carbuncle", finds a missing fiancé in "A Case of Identity" and discovers the identity of a strange creature in "The Yellow Face".
[lire la quatrième du livre Sherlock Holmes Investigates - Three Stories of [...]]

From New York Times bestselling author David Morrell comes the novel upon which the box office superhit Rambo was based. First came the man: a young wanderer in a fatigue coat and long hair. Then came the legend, as John Rambo sprang up from the pages of First Blood to take his place in the American cultural landscape. This remarkable novel pits a young Vietnam veteran against a small town cop [...]
[lire la quatrième du livre First Blood]

Male, female, deft, fraudulent, constantly shifting: which of the `masquerade' of passengers on the Mississippi steamboat Fidèle is `the confidence man'? The central motif of Melville's last and most `modern' novel can be seen as a symbol of American cultural history.
[lire la quatrième du livre The confidence Man]

Stevenson's short novel, published in 1886, became an instant classic. It was a Gothic horror that originated in a feverish nightmare, whose hallucinatory setting in the murky back streets of London gripped a nation mesmerized by crime and violence.
[lire la quatrième du livre Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other [...]]

Born into poverty, Jack London led a knockabout existence before achieving success as one of the most popular authors of his era. In the course of his brief but active life, he sought adventure—as a hobo, prospector, sailor, and a dozen other occupations—along with self-education from the works of Marx, Darwin, Nietzsche, and Jung.
The vitality and variety of London's experiences are [...]
[lire la quatrième du livre To Build a Fire and Other Favorite Stories]

And now I found these fancies creating their own realities, and all imagined horrors crowding upon me in fact'. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym is an archetypal American story of escape from home and family which traces a young man's rite of passage through a series of terrible brushes with death during a fateful sea voyage.
[lire la quatrième du livre The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym and Related [...]]

A Midsummer Night's Dream is perhaps the best loved of Shakepeare's plays. It brings together aristocrats, workers, and fairies in a wood outside Athens, and from there the enchantment begins. Simple and engaging on the surface, it is none the less a highly original and sophisticated work, remarkable for both its literary and its theatrical mastery.
[lire la quatrième du livre A Midsummer Night's Dream: The Oxford Shakespeare]

Twelfth Night is one of the most popular of Shakespeare's plays in the modern theatre, and this edition places particular emphasis on its theatrical qualities throughout. Peopled with lovers misled either by disguises or their own natures, it combines lyrical melancholy with broad comedy.
[lire la quatrième du livre Twelfth Night, or What You Will: The Oxford [...]]

This innovative edition of Richard III emphasizes the play as a theatre work, and this understanding informs every aspect of the editing. The choice of the 1597 quarto text brings us close to the play as it would have been performed in Shakespeare's theatre.
[lire la quatrième du livre RICHARD III]

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines.
[lire la quatrième du livre The Wings of the Dove]

'Thus, gentle Reader, I have given thee a faithful History of my Travels for Sixteen Years, and above Seven Months; wherein I have not been so studious of Ornament as of Truth.
[lire la quatrième du livre Gulliver's Travels]

Streetwise George and his big, childlike friend Lennie are drifters, searching for work in the fields and valleys of California. They have nothing except the clothes on their back, and a hope that one day they’ll find a place of their own and live the American dream. But dreams come at a price.
[lire la quatrième du livre Of Mice and Men]

When David meets the sensual Giovanni in a bohemian bar, he is swept into a passionate love affair. But his girlfriend's return to Paris destroys everything. Unable to admit to the truth, David pretends the liaison never happened – while Giovanni’s life descends into tragedy.
[lire la quatrième du livre Giovanni's Room]

It is the lowest time for the Saxons. Defeated comprehensively by the Vikings who now occupy most of England, Alfred and his very small group of surviving followers retreat to the trackless marshlands of Somerset.
[lire la quatrième du livre The Last Kingdom Book 2]

Lily Bart, beautiful, witty and sophisticated, is accepted by 'old money' and courted by the growing tribe of nouveaux riches. But as she nears thirty, her foothold becomes precarious; a poor girl with expensive tastes, she needs a husband to preserve her social standing, and to maintain her in the luxury she has come to expect.
[lire la quatrième du livre The House of Mirth]

Let me tell you a story. No, wait, one's not enough.

I'll begin again?

Let me tell you stories of the months of the year, of ghosts and heartbreak, of dread and desire.
[lire la quatrième du livre Fragile Things]

When 17 year old Isabella Swan moves to Forks, Washington to live with her father she expects that her new life will be as dull as the town. But in spite of her awkward manner and low expectations, she finds that her new classmates are drawn to this pale, dark-haired new girl in town. But not, it seems, the Cullen family.
[lire la quatrième du livre Twilight]

Since it was first published, this famous study of the Black Problem in America has become a classic. Powerful, haunting and prophetic, it sounds a clarion warning to the world.
[lire la quatrième du livre The Fire Next Time]

--faber.co.uk
[lire la quatrième du livre A Fine Balance]

In the still of a snow-covered morning, a girl out riding her horse is hit by a 40-ton truck. Though horribly injured, both thirteen-year-old Grace Maclean and her horse Pilgrim survive. But the impact on their lives is devastating.

Grace is the only child of prominent New York magazine editor Annie Graves and her lawyer husband Robert. In a way that none of them at first understands, [...]
[lire la quatrième du livre The Horse Whisperer]

A gothic masterpiece of tempestuous passions and dark secrets, Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre is edited with an introduction and notes by Stevie Davis in Penguin Classics.

Charlotte Brontë tells the story of orphaned Jane Eyre, who grows up in the home of her heartless aunt, enduring loneliness and cruelty.
[lire la quatrième du livre Jane Eyre]

BBC2’s major Autumn 2015 TV show THE LAST KINGDOM is based on the first two books in the series.

Uhtred is an English boy, born into the aristocracy of ninth-century Northumbria. Orphaned at ten, he is captured and adopted by a Dane and taught the Viking ways.
[lire la quatrième du livre The Last Kingdom Book 1]

Language readers; Classic fiction (pre c 1945); ELT: learning material & coursework
[lire la quatrième du livre Wuthering Heights + audio CD]

But he also has a fiery temper. Determined not to be like his father, he refuses to show weakness to anyone - even if the only way he can master his feelings is with his fists. When outsiders threaten the traditions of his clan, Okonowo takes violent action. Will the great man's dangerous pride eventually destroy him?.
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[lire la quatrième du livre Things Fall Apart]

Days before his release from prison, Shadow's wife, Laura, dies in a mysterious car crash. Numbly, he makes his way back home. On the plane, he encounters the enigmatic Mr Wednesday, who claims to be a refugee from a distant war, a former god and the king of America.
[lire la quatrième du livre American Gods]

The Wave is based on a true incident that occured in a high school history class in Palo Alto, California, in 1969.
[lire la quatrième du livre The Wave]

In 1878, Robert Louis Stevenson was suffering from poor health, struggling to survive on the income derived from his writings, and tormented by his infatuation with Fanny Osbourne, a married American woman. His response was to embark on a journey through the Cevennes with a donkey, Modestine, and a notebook, which he later transformed into Travels with a Donkey. Just a few months after [...]
[lire la quatrième du livre Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes and the [...]]

As the country begins to fall apart under a military coup, Kambili and Jaja are sent to their aunt, a university professor outside the city, where they discover a life beyond the confines of their father’s authority. Books cram the shelves, curry and nutmeg permeate the air, and their cousins’ laughter rings throughout the house.
[lire la quatrième du livre Purple Hibiscus]

Beloved is a dense, complex novel that yields up its secrets one by one. As Morrison takes us deeper into Sethe's history and her memories, the horrifying circumstances of her baby's death start to make terrible sense.
[lire la quatrième du livre Beloved]

"Emma Woodhouse is a young woman in Regency England. She lives in Surrey in the village of Highbury with her father, a valetudinarian (one who is afraid they will become ill) who is principally characterized by excessive concern for the health and safety of his loved ones. Emma's friend and only critic is the gentlemanly Mr.
[lire la quatrième du livre Emma]

Emily Brontë's only novel, a work of tremendous and far-reaching influence, the Penguin Classics edition of Wuthering Heights is the definitive edition of the text, edited with an introduction by Pauline Nestor. Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange, situated on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights, the home of his landlord.
[lire la quatrième du livre Wuthering Heights]

Le mari idéal, c'est Sir Robert Chiltern : raffiné, talentueux et très riche, il mène une brillante. carrière politique, au grand bonheur de son épouse.
[lire la quatrième du livre Un mari idéal]

Scandalizing the establishment and read by others as a call-to-arms when it appeared in 1975, The Monkey Wrench Gang is a wildly funny and provocatively satirical book that ignited the flames of environmental activism.

'A terrific read - funny, perceptive, brutally honest, and extremely timely' - Eric Schlosser
[lire la quatrième du livre The Monkey Wrench Gang]

Then Algernon begins to fade. What will become of Charlie?
[lire la quatrième du livre Flowers for Algernon]