Leon Garfield était un auteur britannique, surtout connu pour ses romans historiques pour enfants, bien qu'il ait également écrit pour adultes. Ses œuvres se caractérisent par des intrigues captivantes, souvent situées au XVIIIe siècle, mettant en scène des personnages d'origine modeste plongés dans des intrigues et des dilemmes moraux. Le style de Garfield, influencé par des auteurs tels que Dickens, présente un langage riche et des structures narratives complexes. Sa capacité à mêler l'aventure à de profondes questions éthiques a rendu ses livres durablement pertinents.
William fuit la maison après la mort de son père ; il porte un secret trop lourd pour ses douze ans. A travers le Vieux Londres, ses cabarets, ses ruelles hantés de mauvais garçons, il cherche en vain un inconnu : John Diamond n'est jamais au rendez-vous. Qui l'aidera ? Des hommes de loi, un nain bizarre, un petit clochard vivant sur un toit ? Et qui l'attendra dans la brume, sur un pont, après minuit ?
Roman - orphelin - pauvreté - vol.
12 Shakespearian plays presented afresh in narrative form.
A companion volume to the highly acclaimed Shakespeare Stories. It presents nine of Shakespeare's memorable dramas.
An experiment to see if a wolf will suckle an abandoned baby turns into a desperate situation for two boys when the child is recovered by well-meaning passersby
Life in eighteenth-century London was hard and especially so for the city's apprentices.
A young apprentice in eighteenth-century London begins a strange adventure when he inadvertently becomes involved with a wanted criminal and a girl who is reputedly mad.
History. Violence. Vengeance. "Whatever happened between Crooked Taylor and Major McCleod after they rode out of town can only be guessed at now." Crooked Taylor is a man full of hate, who will stop at nothing and spare no one to bring down his target. Major McCleod is just as determined to bring Crooked- the most wanted man west of the Mississippi- to a grim and brutal justice. The men leave a trail of hoofprints and victims in the desert behind them as fate escorts them into the frontier town of Aspirations, Texas, whose inhabitants find themselves drawn into the gunfire, and a fight for their lives.
"Leon Garfield is unmatched for sheer, exciting storytelling." --Lloyd Alexander This brilliant, picaresque novel follows the adventures of an illiterate young ragamuffin known only as Smith. Smith picks the pocket of a stranger, only to witness immediately the strangers murder. Smiths booty from the theft is an Important Document, no doubt worth quite a lot to somebody, which is proved by the pursuit of Smith by two very shady characters. Smith artfully dodges them and winds up in the odd company of a wealthy blind man, who takes Smith into his home and provides him with an education. But this new comfort is lost when Smith himself is suspected of the very murder he witnessed. Smith was a "Boston Globe--Horn Book" Honor Book, winner of the Phoenix Award, and a Carnegie Honor Book.
The most famous of Shakespeare's plays retold as short and easy-to-read stories.
