Nuit de Noël 1957. Un jeune pilote de la Royal Air Force s'égare au-dessus de la mer du Nord, sans carburant ni radio.Son seul espoir : un berger, cet avion chargé de guider les appareils en détresse. Ce n'est qu'une fois hors de danger que le jeune pilote comprend qu'il a vécu une bien étrange aventure...
Un conte de Noël onirique par l'un des maîtres du suspense.
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Ces quelques nouvelles plongent le lecteur dans les années 1920, que les Américains appellent Jazz Age et dont Francis Scott Fitzgerald est un des écrivains les plus représentatifs. Avec son regard tendre et désabusé, il recrée un monde brillant dans lequel ses héros portent tous une fêlure.
[lire la quatrième du livre Les enfants du jazz]
Jonathan Harker travels to a castle in Transylvania to sell a London house to a certain Count Dracula. He soon learns that this polite aristocrat is a vampire...
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The Monkey : Le singe. Ce n'est qu'un jouet fabriqué à Hong-Kong, un petit singe qui joue des cymbales. Mais si on le jette au fond d'un puits, il réapparaît dans un grenier. Et quand son mécanisme se déclenche... la mort frappe !Mrs Todd's Shortcut : Le raccourci de Mrs Todd.Mrs Todd a la passion des raccourcis.
[lire la quatrième du livre Nouvelles]
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The tale of the imprisonment and escape of Edward Dantes, taken from the classic novel The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas.
[lire la quatrième du livre The Treasure of Monte Cristo]
Lectura graduada con textos adaptados según el nivel de conocimiento de vocabulario y estructuras gramaticales de los alumnos. Incluye CD audio con la grabación completa de la lectura y actividades adicionales.
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After the death of her parents in India, Mary Lennox goes to live with an uncle in Yorkshire, England. Her life is sad and uneventful until she discovers the secret garden and the meaning of true friendship and happiness.
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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.
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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".
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Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead just outside his home, Baskerville Hall. Many of the Baskerville family have died mysteriously.
[lire la quatrième du livre The Hound of the Baskervilles.]
There is a bloody fight on the slave ship Amistad. Now, the courts must decide if they are murderers or men fighting for freedom. It is 1839. The slave ship, Amistad, is carrying African slaves to America. There is a bloody fight on the ship, and the Africans are free. But soon they are in prison in the US. Must they return to their [...]
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[lire la quatrième du livre Gulliver's Travels.]
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Comte italien, le «dernier des Valerii» épouse une jeune et riche Américaine aussi éprise de sa beauté virile que de son patrimoine, dont les vestiges – statues et sarcophages rongés de moisissures – ornent les jardins de sa villa romaine. Mais le jour où l'on déterre une statue de Junon, la vie du comte est bouleversée...
[lire la quatrième du livre Le dernier des Valerii]
He is not beautiful. His mother does not want him, children run away from him. People laugh at him, and call him 'The Elephant Man'. Then someone speaks to him - and listens to him! At the age of 27, Joseph Merrick finds a friend for the first time in his life. This is a true and tragic story . It is also a famous film.
[lire la quatrième du livre The Elephant Man]
The woman in white first appears at night on a lonely heath near London and is next seen at a grave-side in Cumberland. Who is she? Where has she come from, and what is her history? She seems alone and friendless, frightened and confused. And it seems she knows a secret - a secret that could bring ruin and shame to a man who will do anything to keep her silent.
[lire la quatrième du livre The Woman in White]
In 1918 in the peaceful province of Transkei, South Africa, the Mandela family gave their new baby son the name Rolihlahla - 'troublemaker'. But the young boy's early years were happy ones, and he grew up to be a good student and an enthusiastic sportsman.
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What do you find in these two countries at the end of the world? One is an enormous island, where only twenty million people live - and the other is two long, narrow islands, with ten sheep for every person.
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A human being is a soft, weak creature. It needs constant supplies of air, water, and food; it has to spend a third of its life asleep, and it can't work if the temperature is too hot or too cold. But a robot is made of strong metal. It uses electrical energy directly, never sleeps, and can work in any temperature. It is stronger, more efficient - and sometimes more human than human beings.
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Dartmoor. A wild, wet place in the south-west of England. A place where it is easy to get lost, and to fall into the soft green earth which can pull the strongest man down to his death. A man is running for his life. Behind him comes an enormous dog - a dog from his worst dreams, a dog from hell.
[lire la quatrième du livre The Hound of the Baskervilles]
What does the name "Agatha Christie" mean? To many people, it means a book about a murder mystery - a '"whodunnit'". "l'm reading an Agatha Christie," people say. "I'm not sure who the murderer is - I think it's . . ." But they are usually wrong, because it is not easy to guess the murderer's name before the end of the book.
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What can possibly happen to three friends and their dog when they take a peaceful boat trip on the River Thames ? Well, just about anything ! Their adventures as they visit historical sites on the beautiful River Thames make the reader laugh ! Read how ...
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In a wood outside Athens, four young people are following their dreams, while fairies play strange games with them. Their world seems unreal but is it really very different from our own?In a wood outside Athens, four young people are following their dreams, while fairies play strange games with them.
[lire la quatrième du livre A Midsummer Night's Dream]
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On the Road, first published in the United States in 1957, is the most famous of Jack Kerouac's many novels. The novel is semi-autobiographical and follows the wild adventures of Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty on their cross-country trips across America.
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