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"Rien n'est plus délicieux qu'un enfant !" dit l'énorme crocodile. Heureusement, ce n'est pas facile pour un crocodile de trouver un enfant à manger lorsque les autres animaux de la forêt s'en mêlent. Dès 5 ans
Paris, années 1920. Jake Barnes, journaliste américain, retrouve la belle et frivole Lady Ashley, perdue dans une quête effrénée d'amants. Nous les suivons, s'abîmant dans l'alcool, des bars parisiens aux arènes espagnoles, en passant par les ruisseaux à truites des Pyrénées. Leurs compagnons, Robert Cohn, Michael Campbell, sont autant d'hommes à la dérive, marqués au fer rouge par la Première Guerre mondiale. Dans un style limpide, d'une efficacité redoutable, Hemingway dépeint le Paris des écrivains de l'entre-deux-guerres et les fameuses fêtes de San Fermín. Ses héros, oscillant sans cesse entre mal de vivre et jouissance de l'instant présent, sont devenus les emblèmes de cette génération que Gertrude Stein qualifia de "perdue". (4e de couv.)
Considéré comme l'un des meilleurs livres jamais écrits sur la tauromachie, "Mort dans l'après-midi" offre un regard passionné sur ce sport par l'un de ses véritables aficionados. Il reflète la conviction de Hemingway que la tauromachie était plus qu'un simple sport et révèle une riche source d'inspiration pour son art. Le drame inégalé de la tauromachie, avec sa combinaison rigoureuse d'athlétisme et d'art, ainsi que son affichage nécessaire de grâce sous pression, a enflammé l'imagination de Hemingway. Il décrit et explique les aspects techniques de ce rituel dangereux et "l'intensité émotionnelle et spirituelle et la pure beauté classique qui peuvent être produites par un homme, un animal et un morceau de serge écarlate drapé sur un bâton." À travers ses yeux, la tauromachie devient un ballet richement chorégraphié, avec des interprètes allant d'amateurs maladroits à des maîtres d'une grande élégance et ruse. Un regard fascinant sur l'histoire et la grandeur de la tauromachie, "Mort dans l'après-midi" est aussi une contemplation plus profonde de la nature de la lâcheté et du courage, du sport et de la tragédie, animée tout au long par le commentaire acéré de Hemingway sur la vie et la littérature.
Green Hills of Africa is Ernest Hemingway's lyrical journal of a month on safari in the great game country of East Africa, where he and his wife Pauline journeyed in December 1933. Hemingway's well-known interest in - and fascination with - big-game hunting is magnificently captured in this evocative account of his trip. It is an examination of the lure of the hunt and an impassioned portrait of the glory of the African landscape and of the beauty of a wilderness that was, even then, being threatened by the incursions of man.
The Pulitzer Prize and Drama Critics Circle Award winning play—reissued with an introduction by Arthur Miller (Death of a Salesman and The Crucible), and Williams’ essay “The World I Live In.” It is a very short list of 20th-century American plays that continue to have the same power and impact as when they first appeared—57 years after its Broadway premiere, Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desireis one of those plays. The story famously recounts how the faded and promiscuous Blanche DuBois is pushed over the edge by her sexy and brutal brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski. Streetcar launched the careers of Marlon Brando, Jessica Tandy, Kim Hunter, and Karl Malden, and solidified the position of Tennessee Williams as one of the most important young playwrights of his generation, as well as that of Elia Kazan as the greatest American stage director of the ’40s and ’50s.
The tragic impact of the Vietnam War on a relationship between father and daughter. The father is an upstanding individual who believes in the American Dream, but his daughter has a different dream, to get America out of Vietnam and she kills innocent people to achieve it. For the father it is the end of the world, he has lost his daughter. By the author of Sabbath's Theater
"George, a disillusioned academic, and Martha, his caustic wife, have just come home from a faculty party. When a handsome young professor and his mousy wife stop by for a nightcap, an innocent night of fun and games quickly turns dark and dangerous. Long-buried resentment and rage are unleashed as George and Martha turn their rapier-sharp wits against each other, using their guests as pawns in their verbal sparring. By night's end, the secrets of both couples are uncovered and the lies they cling to are exposed."--Jacket
Williams' play about drifter Chance Wayne who returns to his hometown with a
faded movie star hoping to find the girl of his youth is a classic study of
the dream of recapturing youth and finding fame. This edition features an
extensive critical commentary and questions aimed at students of the play.
Lisez ces neuf nouvelles. Vous y découvrirez un écrivain extraordinairement sensible et extraordinairement habile - je voudrais dire: un romancier complet, comme on le dit d'un athlète, parce que, chez lui, l'intuition et le métier s'équilibrent dans une parfaite maîtrise, - et comme on le dit d'un spectacle, parce qu'il sait toucher à la fois notre cœur et notre imagination, et jouer, en virtuose incomparable, de toute la gamme de nos émotions : la tendresse et le rire, le frisson d'horreur, la pitié. Jean-Louis Curtis
Published in 1983 to phenomenal reviews, Blue Highways: A Journey into America became a cult classic on par with Jack Kerouac's On the Road and John Steinbeck's Travels with Charley. In this highly acclaimed, bestselling memoir, a 38-year-old laid-off college professor of Sioux and white blood drives around the U.S. on the "blue highways, " the rural back made that are colored blue on old maps. The places he discovers during his 13,000-mile journey are unexpected, sometimes mysterious, and often full of simply the wonder of the ordinary.-- Blue Highways received extraordinary reviews when it was first published.
Volně spojený cyklus dvanácti elegických povídek amerického autora českého původu tvoří jakýsi skupinový portrét tří generací mužů a žen obývajících podmanivé okolí jezera ve státě New York. Výjimečná schopnost zachytit ducha krajiny, jenž jako by spoluutvářel životní osudy jednotlivých postav, přitom není jediným pozoruhodným rysem této neobyčejně vyzrálé prvotiny: autorovo umění ponoru do skutečných i domnělých hlubin vnitřních životů jeho hrdinů je tu ukázkovým příkladem zdánlivě paradoxní schopnosti imaginativní prózy překonat v živosti a autenticitě samu skutečnost.
Winner of the IMPAC Award and Booker Prize nominee In this rich and compelling novel, written in language of astonishing poise and resonance, one of Australia's greatest living writers gives an immensely powerful vision of human differences and eternal divisions. In the mid-1840s a thirteen-year-old British cabin boy, Gemmy Fairley, is cast ashore in the far north of Australia and taken in by aborigines. Sixteen years later he moves back into the world of Europeans, among hopeful yet terrified settlers who are staking out their small patch of home in an alien place. To them, Gemmy stands as a different kind of challenge: he is a force that at once fascinates and repels. His own identity in this new world is as unsettling to him as the knowledge he brings to others of the savage, the aboriginal. "Breathtaking...To read this remarkable book is to remember Babylon well, whether you think you've been there or not." --The New York Times Book Review
Kishon und die Bibel - das ist eine höchst brisante Konfrontation, die von Kishon mit der gebührenden Ehrfurcht, aber auch mit seinem unverwechselbaren Humor dargeboten wird. Denn Humor, so der bekannte Satiriker, sei Gottes schönste Gabe und bringe die Menschen dem Universum näher. Aber nicht nur um die Ereignisse im Himmel und um Moses' Werk geht es in diesem köstlichen Buch, es geht wie immer bei Kishon vor allem um die unheilbaren Schwächen der „Krone der Schöpfung“.
" Ai été nommé garde-chasse honoraire et à cause des événements (la rébellion mau-mau), fais ici office de garde-chasse suppléant. C'est une vie de première classe ", écrit Hemingway depuis son camp de safari, au Kenya, en janvier 1954. Ecrit au lendemain des deux accidents d'avion survenus au Congo belge, mis en forme par son fils Patrick, ce roman inédit de Hemingway forme le contrepoint des récits africains et du premier safari que fit l'écrivain. Au pied du Kilimandjaro, en compagnie de sa quatrième femme, Mary, qui elle aussi est décidée à tuer son lion, Hemingway, promu gardien de réserve, est chargé de protéger les populations massaï et kamba. Aux descriptions magiques de cette Afrique, où une chose est vérité à l'aube et mensonge à midi, s'ajoute une brève rencontre africaine avec une jeune et ravissante Kamba. Dans ce récit, Hemingway mêle les souvenirs du Montana, du Michigan et du Paris de sa jeunesse avec des réflexions sur les écrivains et l'écriture. L'humour féroce alterne avec une nostalgie poignante.
The short story, <i>Franny</i>, takes place in an unnamed college town and tells the tale of an undergraduate who is becoming disenchanted with the selfishness and inauthenticity she perceives all around her. The novella, <i>Zooey</i>, is named for Zooey Glass, the second-youngest member of the Glass family. As his younger sister, Franny, suffers a spiritual and existential breakdown in her parents' Manhattan living room -- leaving Bessie, her mother, deeply concerned -- Zooey comes to her aid, offering what he thinks is brotherly love, understanding, and words of sage advice. Salinger writes of these works: <i>"FRANNY came out in The New Yorker in 1955, and was swiftly followed, in 1957 by ZOOEY. Both stories are early, critical entries in a narrative series I'm doing about a family of settlers in twentieth-century New York, the Glasses. It is a long-term project, patently an ambiguous one, and there is a real-enough danger, I suppose that sooner or later I'll bog down, perhaps disappear entirely, in my own methods, locutions, and mannerisms. On the whole, though, I'm very hopeful. I love working on these Glass stories, I've been waiting for them most of my life, and I think I have fairly decent, monomaniacal plans to finish them with due care and all-available skill."</i>
'Subtle, funny and furious' Observer. What if a lookalike stranger stole your
name, hijacked your biography, and went about the world pretending to be you?
Startlingly, Philip Roth meets a man in Jerusalem called Philip Roth who has
been touring Israel - riding high on the author's reputation - preaching a
bizarre reverse-exodus of the Jews, encouraging them to return to their
ancestral homes in Europe. Roth decides to stop him, even if that means
impersonating the impersonator. Operation Shylock is at once spy story,
political thriller, meditation on identity and unfathomable journey through a
volatile, frightening middle-east.
The last book-length work of fiction by J. D. Salinger published in his lifetime collects two novellas about "one of the liveliest, funniest, most fully realized families in all fiction" (New York Times). These two novellas, set seventeen years apart, are both concerned with Seymour Glass--the eldest son of J. D. Salinger's fictional Glass family--as recalled by his closest brother, Buddy. "He was a great many things to a great many people while he lived, and virtually all things to his brothers and sisters in our somewhat outsized family. Surely he was all real things to us: our blue-striped unicorn, our double-lensed burning glass, our consultant genius, our portable conscience, our supercargo, and our one full poet..."
"BY COMMON CONSENT, THIS IS ONE OF THE FINEST DRAMAS IN THE WHOLE RANGE OF is the way Brooks THE AMERICAN THEATER Atkinson described Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller. The name of Willy Loman, the central character, has become as familiar as Babbitt. The story of Willy's life is the poignant, sometimes humorous, ultimately tragic story of a man steeped in the go-getter gospel who never got beyond his own day-dream world. The drama of his downhill struggle is the heart-wrenching drama of wishful dreamers everywhere. The play reads as absorbingly as it performs, and has already taken a permanent place in our written literature.
--back cover
Dva půvabné, na sebe navazující romány ironizují snobství americké lepší společnosti. V románu Páni mají radši blondýnky (1925) líčí autorka formou fingovaného deníku, psaného záměrně neumělým, chybujícím jazykem, život naivní, půvabné lehkomyslné ženy, „dámy z povolání“, která ve světě, jemuž vládnou peníze, zpeněžuje své mládí, půvab a zábavnou prostořekou bezprostřednost. Satira na věčné soupeření mezi oběma pohlavími, jejímž terčem jsou bohatí, leč důvěřiví páni z kruhů amerických obchodníků a anglických aristokratů a snobské společnosti kolem literatury a filmu. Román Ale žení se s brunetkami (1927) vypráví o životě její přítelkyně, která byla příliš upřímná a jejíž cesta za úspěšným sňatkem byla proto daleko složitější....
For Spenser, that most unorthodox of private detectives, no case is ever straightforward and the theft of a 14th-century illuminated manuscript proves no exception. His investigation soon leads him into organized crime, dope-pushing, theft, radical politics, adultery and murder.
Bratři Machalovi cestovali po místech, kde žil E. Hemingway, hovořili s těmi, kdo velkého amerického spisovatele poznali. Rekonstruují jeho pohnutý život - neukázněné mládí, osobní vztahy k rodičům, čtyřem manželkám, přátelům a konečně i dramatický závěr spisovatelova bytí.
2. část trilogie, která navazuje na 1. část Vesnice a bude pokračovat 3. částí Panské sídlo. Doslov: Eva Masnerová Druhý díl Faulknerovy volné trilogie začíná ve chvíli, kdy Flem Snopes, reprezentant nastupujících dravých ekonomických sil na americkém Jihu počátku 20. století, přijíždí do Jeffersonu...
2. část trilogie, která navazuje na 1. část Vesnice a bude pokračovat 3. částí Panské sídlo. Doslov: Eva Masnerová Druhý díl Faulknerovy volné trilogie začíná ve chvíli, kdy Flem Snopes, reprezentant nastupujících dravých ekonomických sil na americkém Jihu počátku 20. století, přijíždí do Jeffersonu...
The publishing house Megali focuses on making historical works accessible by reproducing them in large print, catering specifically to individuals with impaired vision. This initiative emphasizes the importance of inclusivity in literature, allowing a broader audience to engage with historical texts.
Dobrodružné až detektivní povídky, jejich námětem je oslava mužnosti, statečnosti a spravedlnosti: Plantážník z Malaty, Společník, Hostinec u dvou čarodějnic, Kvůli dolarům.
Bernard Malamud's second novel, originally published in 1957, is the story of Morris Bober, a grocer in postwar Brooklyn, who "wants better" for himself and his family. First two robbers appear and hold him up; then things take a turn for the better when broken-nosed Frank Alpine becomes his assistant. But there are complications: Frank, whose reaction to Jews is ambivalent, falls in love with Helen Bober; at the same time he begins to steal from the store. Like Malamud's best stories, this novel unerringly evokes an immigrant world of cramped circumstances and great expectations. Malamud defined the immigrant experience in a way that has proven vital for several generations of writers.
Sylvia Barrett arrives at New York City’s Calvin Coolidge High fresh from earning literature degrees at Hunter College and eager to shape young minds. Instead she encounters broken windows, a lack of supplies, a stifling bureaucracy, and students with no interest in Chaucer. Her bumpy yet ultimately rewarding journey is narrated through an extraordinary collection of correspondence—sternly worded yet nonsensical administrative memos, furtive notes of wisdom from teacher to teacher, “polio consent slips,” and student homework assignments that unwittingly speak from the heart. An instant bestseller when it was first published in 1964, Up the Down Staircase remains as poignant, devastating, laugh-out-loud funny, and relevant today as ever. It timelessly depicts a beleaguered public school system redeemed by teachers who love to teach and students who long to be recognized.
Nová, do značné míry autobiografická hra, děj se odehrává v mysli ústřední postavy, v jejích myšlenkách. Na scénu staví asi čtyřicetiletého právníka, jenž se rozborem nejvýznamnějších skutečností svého života snaží dopátrat se pravdy o své vině na tom, co udělal on i společnostkolem něho. Přeložili Luba a Rudolf Pellarovi za jazykové spolupráce Hildy Lassové.
The hero-narrator is a sixteen-year-old native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. He leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and spends three days underground in New York City. Holden is both simple and complex, making it difficult to draw definitive conclusions about him or his story. He is captivated by beauty, almost to the point of being overwhelmed by it. The novel features various voices—children's, adults', and underground—but Holden's voice stands out as the most eloquent. He expresses a poignant blend of pain and pleasure, transcending his vernacular while remaining true to it. Most of his pain is kept to himself, while he shares the pleasure with the reader who can appreciate it. J.D. Salinger's classic tale of teenage angst and rebellion was published in 1951 and has been recognized as one of the best English-language novels of the 20th century. It has faced challenges for its use of profanity and depiction of sexuality, becoming a must-read for teenage boys in the 1950s and 60s.
Written in 1915, The Shadow-Line is based upon events and experiences from twenty-seven years earlier to which Conrad returned obsessively in his fiction. A young sea captain's first command brings with it a succession of crises: his sea is becalmed, the crew laid low by fever, and his deranged first mate is convinced that the ship is haunted by the malignant spirit of a previous captain. This is indeed a work full of "sudden passions", in which Conrad is able to show how the full intensity of existence can be experienced by the man who, in the words of the older Captain Giles, is prepared to "stand up to his bad luck, to his mistakes, to his conscience." A subtle and penetrating analysis of the nature of manhood, The Shadow-Line investigates varieties of masculinity and desire in a subtext that counters the tale's seemingly conventional surface.
Le bouquiniste Jacob Mendel est un vieil homme érudit au moment du déclenchement de la Première Guerre mondiale. Ne lisant pas les journaux, il ignore la guerre qui fait rage en Europe... ce détachement du monde est-il sans risque dans une époque où l'engagement semble de rigueur ?
