Firkin and the Grey Gangsters is a collection of four tales in which animals are the heroes. Firkin is a young red squirrel who leads his people in a battle against a horde of grey squirrelinvaders from America. The Sheep who wasn't a Sheep and The White Drake get into the minds of other intelligent farm animals living in rural Scotland.
It is 1934. Five children escape from a cruel orphanage, run away and steal a boat, which they sail around the Outer Hebrides where they explore uncharted new islands.
Le premier volume du roman en sept parties de Proust, "À la recherche du temps perdu", "Du côté de chez Swann" est le début prometteur de l'œuvre la plus marquante de Proust. Un homme mûr, sans nom, se remémore les détails de son existence banale et idyllique en tant que garçon sensible et intuitif à Combray. Pendant un certain temps, l'histoire est narrée à travers son esprit d'enfant dans une prose belle et presque onirique. Dans une section ultérieure du volume, le narrateur évoque la romance douloureuse de son voisin, Monsieur Swann. Il retourne à son enfance, où il commence une passion tout aussi désespérée pour la petite fille de Swann, Gilberte. À travers un récit fragmenté, Proust examine l'importance thématique de la mémoire, du temps et de l'art qui relient et entrelacent les souvenirs du protagoniste. Considéré comme l'un des romans les plus significatifs du vingtième siècle, Proust dépeint finalement la volatilité de la vie humaine dans cette vaste contemplation de la réalité et du temps.
When the night falls, the unnamed narrator finds it difficult to reign in his galloping thoughts. Night for him means profound loneliness and also the only time when his thoughts and memories come back unbidden, often waking him up in the middle of the night. His thoughts involuntarily go back his past, his country home in Combray and the people who once populated that time... "For a long time I used to go to bed early. Sometimes, when I had put out my candle, my eyes would close so quickly that I had not even time to say "I'm going to sleep." And half an hour later the thought that it was time to go to sleep would awaken me; I would try to put away the book which, I imagined, was still in my hands, and to blow out the light; I had been thinking all the time..." Marcel Proust (1871-1922) was a French novelist, critic, and essayist best known for his monumental novel À la Recherche du Temps Perdu (1913-1927). He is considered by English critics and writers to be one of the most influential authors of the 20th century. Charles Kenneth Scott Moncrieff (1889-1930) was a Scottish writer, most famous for his English translation of most of Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu, which he published under the Shakespearean title Remembrance of Things Past.