Pier Francesco Paolini Livres

Mr Noon is a sardonic tale about the amorous adventures of Gilbert Noon, a young schoolmaster in Lawrence's home county of Nottinghamshire who gets entangled with a girl, loses his job, and decides to leave the country to escape the narrow provincial middle-class morality. It was first known as a long story posthumously published in A Modern Lover (1934) and collected in the volume called Phoenix II (1968). Lawrence in fact wrote a long continuation of the novel, but the manuscript disappeared for many years. The Cambridge edition brought the two parts together for the first time. It is like a sequel to Sons and Lovers, but much more straightforwardly autobiographical. The publication of the complete work added a new work of major importance to the canon of a great writer, and was widely hailed as a major literary event.

Set in England's Downs, a once idyllic rural landscape, this stirring tale of adventure, courage and survival follows a band of very special creatures on their flight from the intrusion of man and the certain destruction of their home. Led by a stouthearted pair of friends, they journey forth from their native Sandleford Warren through the harrowing trials posed by predators and adversaries, to a mysterious promised land and a more perfect society.

ENTER THE SORCERESS! Back from the abyss, Castaneda encounter his greatest test on the journey towards impeccability and freedom: to outwit and overpower the sorcery of Doña Soledad, herself transformed from a defeated and meaningless life to a warrior, a hunter and a "stalker of power." Now the combat will begin. Now the journey will continue. Till the last danger is faced...the final paradox embraced.

When a ten-year-old boy finds an old book of magic in a bookshop in Ireland, the forces of good and evil gather to do battle over it.

Anthony et Gloria, beaux, jeunes et doués, forment un couple obsédé par l'argent, prêt à tout pour recueillir la fortune considérable de leur grand-père, un milliardaire, ancien " requin " de Wall Street, qui subitement cherche à les déshériter. Dans l'atmosphère insouciante du New York de 1914, dans la frénésie de l'ivresse, la mélancolie des fêtes luxueuses d'un monde éphémère et fragile, l'amour et le mariage de ces deux jeunes " dieux ", qui ressemblent étrangement à Fitzgerald et Zelda, se dégradent lentement...

" Mes frères ! s'écria Jonathan. Mille années durant, nous avons joué des ailes et du bec pour ramasser des têtes de poisson, mais désormais nous avons une raison de vivre : apprendre, découvrir, être libres !" Jonathan Livingston n'est pas un goéland comme les autres. Ses parents, les autres membres de son clan, ne voient pas plus loin que le bout de leurs ailes. S'ils volent, c'est uniquement pour se nourrir. Jonathan, lui, vole pour son seul plaisir. Et en volant toujours plus haut, toujours plus vite, il sait qu'il découvrira un sens plus noble à la vie. Effrayés par son audace, ses semblables le rejettent. Mais Jonathan va se faire de nouveaux amis...

The original Hagakure contains the teachings of the samurai-turned-priest Jōchō Yamamoto (1659-1719), and was for generations preserved as moral and practical instructions for daimyo and samurai of Saga Han, a large domain in northwestern Kyushu. It later became known all over Japan, and during the Second World War Jōchō’s precept ‘I found that the Way of the Samurai is death’, became a slogan to spur on Kamikaze pilots. But the Hagakure is not only about death. In this, his adaptation and interpretation of it, Yukio Mishima deals with its teachings on action, subjectivity, strength of character, passion and love, and delights in giving prolific examples of Jōchō’s practical advice from proper behavior at a drinking party to child rearing. In the Hagakure , the most important influence on his life – and his death – Mishima saw striking similarities between his criticisms of materialistic post-war Japan and Jōchō’s criticisms of the sumptuous decadence of his contemporaries; and it is this emphasis which gives it its immediacy.

This November, Terry McMillan's landmark novel comes to the big screen via 20th-Century Fox with an all-star cast featuring Whitney Houston as Savannah, Angela Bassett as Bernardine, and Gregory Hines as Marvin. Directed by Forest Whitaker, with a musical score by pop sensation Babyface, this movie event is sure to expand McMillan's already huge following. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

John le Carré has earned worldwide acclaim with extraordinary spy novels, including The Russia House , an unequivocal classic. Navigating readers through the shadow worlds of international espionage with critical knowledge culled from his years in British Intelligence, le Carré tracks the dark and devastating trail of a document that could profoundly alter the course of world events. In Moscow, a sheaf of military secrets changes hands. If it arrives at its destination, and if its import is understood, the consequences could be cataclysmic. Along the way it has an explosive impact on the lives of three people: a Soviet physicist burdened with secrets; a beautiful young Russian woman to whom the papers are entrusted; and Barley Blair, a bewildered English publisher pressed into service by British Intelligence to ferret out the document's source. A magnificent story of love, betrayal, and courage, The Russia House catches history in the act. For as the Iron Curtain begins to rust and crumble, Blair is left to sound a battle cry that may fall on deaf ears.

Ce matin-là à Bombay, au Duckworth Club, Farrokh Daruwalla, chirurgien orthopédique et redresseur de torts, s'interroge sur la présence de vautours au-dessus du neuvième green. Il attend un acteur, faux Indien mais star du cinéma hindi, qu'il considère comme un fils. Comment lui annoncer que son frère jumeau, séparé à la naissance, est attendu comme missionnaire jésuite à Bombay ? Les quiproquos s'enchaînent, révélant que les polyglottes avec un double passeport peuvent jouer double jeu. John Irving nous présente un roman à la fois drôle et ambitieux, mettant en scène un héros sympathique, le Dr Daruwalla, qui, étranger en Inde et au Canada, nous fait découvrir Bombay dans toute sa complexité. Ses aventures nous plongent dans la ville, des cabarets aux palaces, des villas de Malabar Hill aux quartiers de Kamathipura, en passant par les studios de cinéma. La Grande Parade s'anime avec des jésuites, des médecins renommés, des travestis, des hijras, des transexuelles, des mendiants mutilés, des clowns nains, et même des chimpanzés racistes. Dans ce cirque coloré, le diabolique "assassin aux dumbos" pourrait bien se cacher parmi eux.

Gill Gamesh, John Baal, Rupert Mundys: If you've never heard of them, it's because of the Communist plot, and the capitalist scandal, that expunged the entire Patriot League from baseball memory. This novel turns baseball's status as national passtime and myth into an occasion for unfettered picturesque heroism and perfidy, and ebullient wordplay.

Albert Corde, dean of a Chicago college, is unprepared for the violent response to his expose of city corruption. Accused of betraying his city, as well as being a racist, he journeys to Bucharest, where his mother-in-law lies dying, only to find corruption rife in the Communist capital. Switching back and forth between the two cities, The Dean's December represents Bellow's "most spirited resistance to the forces of our time" (Malcolm Bradbury).

Publié pour la première fois en 1983 aux USA, ce roman fut écrit par Miller en 1941-42. Il y narre une odyssée du sexe sous les toits de Paris, traçant une galerie de portraits sexuels d'hommes et de femmes déclinant leurs fantasmes.

A darkly comic and ambitious sequel to the American classic Catch-22 . In Closing Time, Joseph Heller returns to the characters of Catch-22, now coming to the end of their lives and the century, as is the entire generation that fought in World War II: Yossarian and Milo Minderbinder, the chaplain, and such newcomers as little Sammy Singer and giant Lew, all linked, in an uneasy peace and old age, fighting not the Germans this time, but The End. Closing Time deftly satirizes the realities and the myths of America in the half century since WWII: the absurdity of our politics, the decline of our society and our great cities, the greed and hypocrisy of our business and culture -- with the same ferocious humor as Catch-22. Closing Time is outrageously funny and totally serious, and as brilliant and successful as Catch-22 itself, a fun-house mirror that captures, at once grotesquely and accurately, the truth about ourselves.