The story grew out of a map that led to imaginary treasure, devised during a holiday in Scotland by Stevenson and his nephew. The tale is told by an adventurous boy, Jim Hawkins, who gets hold of a treasure map and sets off with an adult crew in search of the buried treasure. Among the crew, however, is the treacherous Long John Silver who is determined to keep the treasure for himself. [...]
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![Pas de visuel pour The Cat in the Hat](https://www.unitheque.com/Medias/Images/Unitheque-LibrairieH250.png)
This classic book in a fantastic new format will make the perfect gift for Dr Seuss fans! When the Cat in the Hat steps in on the mat, Sally and her brother are in for a roller-coaster ride of havoc and mayhem! The Cat in the Hat is now available for the first time in picture book format.
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![The Sonnets and a Lover's Complaint](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/H/9780141192574-sonnets-lover-complaint.jpg)
Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. When this volume of Shakespeare's poems first appeared in 1609, he had already written most of the great plays that made him famous.
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![Elephant](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureE/L/9780099530350-elephant.jpg)
These seven stories were the last that Carver wrote. Among them is one of his longest, "Errand", in which he imagines the death of Chekhov, a writer Carver hugely admired and to whose work his own was often compared. This fine story suggests that the greatest of modern short-story writers may, in the year before his untimely death, have been flexing his muscles for a longer work.
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![The Odyssey](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/H/9780141192444-odyssey.jpg)
Confronted by natural and supernatural threats — shipwrecks, battles, monsters and the implacable enmity of the sea-god Poseidon — Odysseus must use his wit and native cunning if he is to reach his homeland safely and overcome the obstacles that, even there, await him.
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![No Country for Old Men](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureN/O/9780330511216-country.jpg)
Adapted by the Coen Brothers into an Academy Award winning film, No Country For Old Men is a dark and suspenseful novel from Cormac McCarthy, author of The Road. Llewelyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, stumbles upon a transaction gone horribly wrong.
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![Brisingr](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureB/R/9780552552127-brisingr.jpg)
It's been only months since Eragon first uttered "brisingr", an ancient language term for fire. Since then, he's not only learned to create magic with words — he's been challenged to his very core. Following the colossal battle against the Empires warriors on the Burning Plains, Eragon and his dragon, Saphira, have narrowly escaped with their lives.
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![The Godfather](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/H/9780099528128-godfather.jpg)
Tyrant, blackmailer, racketeer, murderer - his influence reaches every level of American society. Meet Don Corleone, a friendly man, a just man, a
reasonable
man. The deadliest lord of the Cosa Nostra. The Godfather.
A modern masterpiece,The Godfather is a searing portrayal of the 1940s criminal underworld.
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![Silence Of The Lambs](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureS/I/9780099532927-silence-lambs.jpg)
Dr. Lecter is a former psychiatrist with a grisly history, unusual tastes, and an intense curiosity about the darker corners of the mind. His intimate understanding of the killer and of Clarice herself form the core of The Silence of the Lambs—an ingenious, masterfully written book and an unforgettable classic of suspense fiction.
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![Carpentaria](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureC/A/9781845299484-carpentaria.jpg)
Set in the precariously settled coastal town of Desperance, Carpentaria is the unforgettable portrait of the powerful Phantom family, leader of the Westend Pricklebush people, and its battles with old Joseph Midnight’s renegade Eastend mob on the one hand, and the white officials of Uptown and the neighbouring Gurfurrit mine on the other.
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![Tales from the Perilous Realm](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/A/9780007280599-tales-from-perilous-realm.jpg)
The five tales are written with the same skill, quality and charm that made The Hobbit a classic. Largely overlooked because of their short lengths, they are finally together in a volume which reaffirms Tolkien's place as a master storyteller for readers young and old.
• Roverandom is a toy dog who, enchanted by a sand sorcerer, gets to explore the world and encounter strange and [...]
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![Selected Poems of T.S. Eliot](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureS/E/9780571247059-selected-poems-t.s.-eliot.jpg)
Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in St Louis, Missouri in 1888. He was educated at Harvard, at the Sorbonne in Paris, and at Merton College, Oxford. His early poetry was profoundly influenced by the French symbolists, especially Baudelaire and Laforgue. In his academic studies he specialised in philosophy and logic. His doctoral thesis was on F. H. Bradley. He settled in England in 1915, the year in [...]
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![Call Me By Your Name](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureC/A/9781843546535-call-your-name.jpg)
The sultry, sensual novel of obsession and desire that inspired the Oscar-winning major motion picture.
During a restless summer on the Italian Riviera, 17-year old Elio falls in love with his father's house guest, Oliver.
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![A Streetcar Named Desire](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureA/9780141190273-streetcar-named-desire.jpg)
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire is the tale of a catastrophic confrontation between fantasy and reality, embodied in the characters of Blanche DuBois and Stanley Kowalski. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Arthur Miller. 'I have always depended on the kindness of strangers'Fading southern belle Blanche DuBois is adrift in [...]
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![Post Office](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureP/O/9780753518168-post-office.jpg)
Henry Chinaski is a lowlife loser with a hand-to-mouth existence. His menial post office day job supports a life of beer, one-night stands and racetracks. Lurid, uncompromising and hilarious, Post Office is a landmark in American literature, and over 1 million copies have been sold worldwide. The new edition is augmented with an anecdotal introduction by the modern Welsh cult-literary author, [...]
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![Sir Gawain and the Green Knight](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureS/I/9780571223282-gawain-green-knight.jpg)
Preserved on a single surviving manuscript dating from around 1400, composed by an anonymous master, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was rediscovered only 200 years ago, and published for the first time in 1839.
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![The Duchess of Malfi and Other play](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/H/9780199539284-duchess-malfi-other-play.jpg)
This volume offers John Webster's two great Jacobean tragedies, The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi, together with his brilliant tragicomedy, The Devil's Law-Case, and the comedy written with William Rowley, A Cure for a Cuckold. Webster is a radically and creatively experimental dramatist.
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![Nouvelles](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureN/O/9782266147897-nouvelles.jpg)
Édition bilingue français-anglais.
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.
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![Pas de visuel pour Sir Gawain and the Green Knight : A New Verse Translation](https://www.unitheque.com/Medias/Images/Unitheque-LibrairieH250.png)
One of the earliest great stories of English literature after ?Beowulf?, ?Sir Gawain? is the strange tale of a green knight on a green horse, who rudely interrupts King Arthur's Round Table festivities one Yuletide, challenging the knights to a wager.
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![The Custom of the Country](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/H/9780199555123-custom-country.jpg)
Edith Wharton's satiric anatomy of American society in the first decade of the twentieth century both appalled and fascinated its first reviewers. It follows the career of Undine Spragg, as she pursues her schemes and social ambitions in a world of shifting values, where triumph is swiftly followed by disillusion.
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![Smoke & Mirrors](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureS/M/9780755322831-smoke--amp;-mirrors.jpg)
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.
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![L'étrange histoire de Benjamin Button](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureL/9782266188838-etrange-histoire-benjamin-button.jpg)
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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![Sherlock Holmes Investigates - Three Stories of Detection](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureS/H/9788853007803-sherlock-holmes-investigates-three-stories-detection.jpg)
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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![The Martian Chronicles](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/H/9780006479239-martian-chronicles.jpg)
The strange and wonderful tale of man’s experiences on Mars, filled with intense images and astonishing visions.The classic work that transformed Ray Bradbury into a household name.
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![First Blood](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureF/I/9780755346677-first-blood.jpg)
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 [...]
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![The confidence Man](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/H/9780199554850-confidence.jpg)
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.
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![Interview with the Vampire](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureI/N/9780751541977-interview-with-vampire.jpg)
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Anne Rice, this sensuously written spellbinding classic remains 'the most successful vampire story since Bram Stoker's Dracula' (The Times)In a darkened room a young man sits telling the macabre and eerie story of his life - the story of a vampire, gifted with eternal life, cursed with an exquisite craving for human blood.
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![Knots And Crosses](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureK/N/9780752883533-knots-crosses.jpg)
And in Edinburgh, of all places. I mean, you never think of that sort of thing happening in Edinburgh, do you...?
That sort of thing is the brutal abduction and murder of two young girls. And now a third is missing, presumably gone to the same sad end.
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![Fahrenheit 451](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureF/A/9780006546061-fahrenheit.jpg)
Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to burn books, which are forbidden, being the source of all discord and unhappiness. Even so, Montag is unhappy; there is discord in his marriage.
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![Stone of Tears](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureS/T/9780752889795-stone-tears.jpg)
Superb fantasy novel from one of the most prolific and sucessful fantasy novelists around reissued in B Format with a new cover
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![Wizard's First Rule](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureW/I/9780752889801-wizard-first-rule.jpg)
One man, Richard Cypher, holds the key to the fate of three nations and of humanity. But until he learns the Wizard's First Rule his chances of succeeding in his task are slim. And his biggest problem is admitting that magic exists at all ...
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![Animal Farm](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureA/N/9780141036137-animal-farm.jpg)
Animal Farm : A Fairy Story by George Orwell - author of 1984, one of Britain's most popular novels - is a brilliant political satire and a powerful and affecting story of revolutions and idealism, power and corruption. "All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others". Mr Jones of Manor Farm is so lazy and drunken that one day he forgets to feed his livestock.
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![Diary Of A Wimpy Kid (Book 1)](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureD/I/9780141324906-diary-wimpy-book.jpg)
Jeff Kinney's Diary of a Wimpy Kid is a worldwide bestseller that is cracking kids up from New York to Newcastle! When Greg finds himself thrust into a new school where undersize weaklings like him share the corridors with other kids who are taller, meaner and already shaving, he decides to piggyback on the popularity of his friend Rowley and finally become cool.
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![Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureS/T/9780199536221-strange-case-jekyll-hyde-other-tales.jpg)
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.
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![To Build a Fire and Other Favorite Stories](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/O/9780486466569-build-fire-other-favorite-stories.jpg)
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 [...]
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![The Name of the Wind](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/H/9780575081406-name-wind.jpg)
The lyrical fantasy masterpiece about stories, legends and how they change the world. The Name of the Wind is an absolute must-read for any fan of fantasy fiction. 'This is a magnificent book' Anne McCaffrey'I was reminded of Ursula K.
Le Guin, George R. R. Martin, and J.
R. R.
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