Barbara Wright Livres

Le narrateur rencontre, dans un autobus, un jeune homme au long cou, coiffe d'un chapeau orné d'une tresse au lieu de ruban. Le jeune homme échange quelques mots assez vifs avec un autre voyageur, puis va s'asseoir à une place devenue libre. Un peu plus tard, le narrateur rencontre le même jeune homme en grande conversation avec un ami qui lui conseille de faire remonter le bouton supérieur de son pardessus. Cette brève histoire est racontée quatre-vingt-dix-neuf fois, de quatre-vingt-dix-neuf manières différentes. Mise en images, portée sur la scène des cabarets, elle a connu une fortune extraordinaire. Exercices de style est un des livres les plus populaires de Queneau.

Set in the summer of 1898, the story follows 11-year-old Moses as he navigates personal and societal challenges. He grapples with a changing friendship, family tensions, and his mother's struggle with a hidden family secret. Amidst these trials, Moses bonds with his grandmother, learning about her past as a slave. Meanwhile, his father's newfound respect in their Wilmington community faces backlash from those resistant to political change, leading to dangerous consequences. Themes of growth, heritage, and social justice intertwine in this poignant narrative.

Set against the backdrop of the 1930s eastern Colorado, the narrative explores the struggles of a couple as they battle for their land and their love amidst adversity. With rich storytelling reminiscent of Willa Cather and John Steinbeck, it delves into themes of love, hardship, and resilience, painting a vivid portrait of rural life during a challenging era.

Set in a Victorian era that stifles female ambition, Anny, the daughter of author William Thackeray, navigates life after her father's death. Tasked with supporting her sister and their unstable mother, she grapples with unrequited love for Leslie Stephen, who ultimately marries her sister Minny. Finding solace on the Isle of Wight, Anny connects with her father's renowned friends, including poet Alfred Tennyson and photographer Julia Margaret Cameron, providing her a glimpse into a world of creativity and eccentricity.

This, the first biography in English of Eugène Fromentin, seeks to follow on earlier publications focusing on the literary works, the visual art and the correspondence of the nineteenth-century French painter, novelist, traveller and art critic. It gives an overview of the complex relationship between word and image in his writing and in his painting. In particular, Fromentin's correspondence emerges as the power-house of his creative imagination, the addressee frequently prefiguring the viewer or the reader of the finished work of art, in a blend of inter-disciplinary or inter-textual analogies, which sometimes reveal a surprising generative evolution from letters to literature and beyond.