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Ben Elton

    3 mai 1959

    Ben Elton est célébré pour sa perspective incisive et pleine d'esprit sur la société, qu'il capture avec une précision remarquable dans ses œuvres. Son écriture se caractérise par une acuité satirique et un talent pour tisser l'humour avec un commentaire social plus profond, créant des pièces à la fois divertissantes et stimulantes. Elton a été acclamé pour son approche narrative innovante, évidente tant dans ses pièces de théâtre que dans ses romans à succès international. Sa voix unique et son sens inébranlable de l'ironie en font une force narrative distinctive.

    Ben Elton
    The First Casualty
    Time and Time Again
    Two brothers
    Upstart Crow
    Blackadder
    Popcorn
    • Popcorn

      • 281pages
      • 10 heures de lecture
      3,5(6499)Évaluer

      Bruce Delamitri réalise des films où les tueurs ont la vedette. Pas de ces séries B où de joyeux drilles massacrent à tour de bras, mais des films spectaculaires, d'un réalisme effrayant. A Hollywood, ses héros trash sont devenus des icônes en 35 mm. Wayne et Scout, eux, sont de vrais tueurs. Un couple de déjantés en quête de sensations fortes. Deux Bonnie et Clyde sans états d'âme qui terrorisent l'Amérique. Une nuit, après que le monde entier a assisté à son triomphe lors de la cérémonie des Oscars, Delamitri est pris en otage par ces deux tueurs-nés. Piégé dans sa villa de Beverly Hills, il découvre que ces fans d'un genre très spécial ont imaginé un scénario dont il sera, sous peu, la victime...

      Popcorn
    • Blackadder

      • 480pages
      • 17 heures de lecture
      4,5(165)Évaluer

      The complete Blackadder scripts by Richard Curtis, Ben Elton, Rowan Atkinson and John Lloyd. Twenty-six years ago, Edmund Blackadder made his first appearance on our screens. Comedy has never been the same since (nor indeed has history). Gathered here - in this twenty-sixth anniversary commemorative edition - are the complete scripts of Blackadder's adventures and, mostly, misadventures. Blackadder, Blackadder II, Blackadder the Third and Blackadder Goes Forth. Every word, every lie, every cunning plan and cock-up. From medieval nastiness, through Elizabethan and Regency glory, to the mud and sautéed rats of the First World War, Blackadder and his oafish underling Baldrick can be most definitely blamed for ruining England's reputation as a country with a great history. This historical record has been set down by Mr Richard Curtis, Mr Ben Elton, Mr Rowan Atkinson and Mr John Lloyd. Richard Curtis is the writer/director behind Four Weddings and a Funeral, Love Actually and The Boat That Rocked) and Ben Elton is the bestselling author and writer of The Young Ones, The Man From Auntie and The Thin Blue Line. The character of Blackadder was played by Rowan Atkinson, who is the star of the Mr Bean TV series and films, and Johnny English. The four Blackadder series, produced by John Lloyd, won numerous BAFTAs and also an EMMY.

      Blackadder
    • Upstart Crow

      • 368pages
      • 13 heures de lecture
      4,3(40)Évaluer

      This does indeed deserve comparisons with Blackadder Radio TimesA knockabout, well-researched take on the working and domestic life of Shakespeare. William Shakespeare - brought to life on screen by the inimitable David Mitchell - is at the start of his career.

      Upstart Crow
    • Berlin 1920 Two babies are born. Two brothers. United and indivisible, sharing everything. Twins in all but blood. As Germany marches into its Nazi Armageddon, the ties of family, friendship and love are tested to the very limits of endurance. And the brothers are faced with an unimaginable choice....Which one of them will survive? Ben Elton's most personal novel to date,Two Brothers transports the reader to the time of history's darkest hour.

      Two brothers
    • Itâe(tm)s the 1st of June 1914 and Hugh Stanton, ex-soldier and celebrated adventurer is quite literally the loneliest man on earth. No one he has ever known or loved has been born yet. Perhaps now they never will be. Stanton knows that a great and terrible war is coming. A collective suicidal madness that will destroy European civilization and bring misery to millions in the century to come. He knows this because, for him, that century is already history. Somehow he must change that history. He must prevent the war. A war that will begin with a single bullet. But can a single bullet truly corrupt an entire century? And, if so, could another single bullet save it?

      Time and Time Again
    • The First Casualty

      • 419pages
      • 15 heures de lecture
      3,9(4853)Évaluer

      Flanders, June 1917: a British officer and celebrated poet, is shot dead, killed not by German fire, but while recuperating from shell shock well behind the lines.

      The First Casualty
    • HIGH SOCIETY is a story or rather a collection of interconnected stories that takes the reader on a hilarious, heart breaking and terrifying journey through the kaleidoscope world that the law has created and from which the law offers no protection.

      Hight Society
    • Doris Wallace, bitchy queen of the tabloid press, is on the verge of a glorious venture in TV. She's not going to let anything get in her way, not even the silly cow suing her for libel. Any skeletons she may have in her cupboard are, like her bondage gear, firmly locked up - or so she thinks.

      Silly Cow
    • (Vocal Selections). This West End production is a rock musical centering around the music of Queen, with a book by Ben Elton. It has served as an audience favorite, becoming the longest-running musical of all-time at London's Dominion Theatre in 2012. This vocal selections folio features 25 songs arranged for piano, voice and guitar including the title tune, plus: Another One Bites the Dust * Bohemian Rhapsody * Crazy Little Thing Called Love * Fat Bottomed Girls * I Want It All * I Want to Break Free * Killer Queen * Radio Ga Ga * Somebody to Love * Under Pressure * We Are the Champions * and more.

      We Will Rock You: The Musical by Queen and Ben Elton
    • Small, well appointed future. Semi detached. If the end of the world is nigh, then surely it's only sensible to make alternative arrangements. Certainly the Earth has its points, but what most people need is something smaller and more manageable. Of course there are those who say that's planetary treason, but who cares what the weirdos and terrorists think? Not Nathan. All he cares is that his movie gets made and that there's somebody left to see it.

       This Other Eden