First published in 1953, this is Bradbury's prophetic dystopian vision of a weird but too distant future where happiness is allocated on a four-walled TV screen, where individuals, eccentrics and scholars are outcasts of society and where books are burnt by a special task-force.
Awe and exhiliration--along with heartbreak and mordant wit--abound in Lolita , Nabokov's most famous and controversial novel, which tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. Lolita is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America. Most of all, it is a meditation on love--love as outrage and hallucination, madness and transformation.
Sethe, an escaped slave living in post-Civil War Ohio with her daughter and mother-in-law, is haunted persistently by the ghost of the dead baby girl whom she sacrificed, in a new edition of the Nobel Laureate's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Reader's Guide available.
Patrick Bateman is twenty-six and works on Wall Street; he is handsome, sophisticated, charming and intelligent. He is also a psychopath. Taking us to a head-on collision with America's greatest dream - and its worst nightmare - this work is a black comedy about a world we all recognize but do not wish to confront.
Terrible events occur at an isolated hotel in the off season, when a small boy with psychic powers struggles to hold his own against the forces of evil that are driving his father insane.
Siddhartha, sorti en France en 1925, est une profession de foi individualiste contre toutes les doctrines, une condamnation de la puissance, de l'argent, un éloge de la vie contemplative en Inde. Avec ce roman initiatique, Hesse est devenu dans les années 1960 l'un des maîtres à penser de la jeunesse occidentale.
Moby Dick, la terrible baleine blanche ! Depuis qu'elle l'a privé d'une jambe, le capitaine Achab s'est juré de se venger. Ignorant tous les présages funestes, il entraîne pendant de longs mois l'équipage du Pequod dans une folle poursuite à travers les océans.
Emma Bovary yearns for a life of luxury and passion of the kind she reads about in romantic novels. But life with her country doctor husband in the provinces is unutterably boring, and she embarks on love affairs to realize her fantasies. This new translation by Margaret Mauldon perfectly captures Flaubert's distinctive style.
The Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Sula presents the story of embittered Korean War veteran Frank Money, who struggles against trauma and racism to rescue his medically abused sister and work through identity-shattering memories. Reprint. 100,000 first printing.
Set during a year that begins with France's fall to the Nazis in June 1940 and ends with Germany turning its attention to Russia, this work falls into two parts. The first part is a depiction of a group of Parisians as they flee the Nazi invasion; and the second follows the inhabitants of a rural community under occupation.
" eureka street entremêle, avec une virtuosité digne de ses maîtres hugo et dickens, les destins d'une ribambelle d'habitants de belfast qui tentent de survivre dans une ville où la menace terroriste est permanente.
Il y a chuckie, le gros protestant paumé qui devient millionnaire en brassant des affaires aussi légales qu'extravagantes. il y a sa chère mère qui découvre sur le tard, au grand désespoir de son fils, le bonheur saphique. il y a jake le catho, dont les filles brisent systématiquement le coeur. il y a roche, le gavroche des rues de belfast. il y a aoirghe, la fanatique républicaine au caractère impossible.
Et aussi max, l'américaine qui voulait fuir à belfast la violence yankee. robert mcliam wilson est prodigieux de drôlerie et d'humanité quand il suit à la trace ses personnages qui ne savent jamais s'ils sont tragiques ou comiques. ( ... ) eureka street est un grand livre et son auteur un formidable écrivain. belfast peut lui dresser une statue. " gilles anquetil, le nouvel observateur
Offers detailed coverage of some of the best Paris attractions. This work helps readers discover Paris' highlights with detailed coverage ranging from the city's magnificent galleries and the iconic Eiffle Tower, to the Left Bank cafes of Saint-Germain and Monparnasse.
Qui a tué le roi Hamlet ? Sa veuve, la reine Gertrude ? Son frère Claudius, devenu roi en épousant la veuve ? Le jeune prince Hamlet, visité par le fantôme de son père, les soupçonne tous deux... "Il est admis par tous qu'Hamlet est plus vivant qu'un homme qui passe." Alfred Jarry.
Growing up in the home of a cruel aunt and a harsh charity school, Jane Eyre, an orphaned young woman, accepts employment as a governess at Thornfield Hall and soon finds herself in love with her employer, the enigmatic Rochester. Reprint. 17,500 first printing.
From Tessa Hadley, bestselling author of Late in the Day and The Past , comes a compulsive new novel about one woman''s sexual and intellectual awakening in 1960s London 1967. While London comes alive with the new youth revolution, the suburban Fischer family seems to belong to an older world of conventional stability: pretty, dutiful homemaker Phyllis is married to Roger, a devoted father with a career in the Foreign Office. Their children are Colette, a bookish teenager, and Hugh, the golden boy. But when the twenty-something son of an old friend pays the Fischers a visit one hot summer evening, and kisses Phyllis in the dark garden after dinner, something in her catches fire. Newly awake to the world, Phyllis makes a choice that defies all expectations of her as a wife and a mother. Nothing in these ordinary lives is so ordinary after all, it turns out, as the family''s upheaval mirrors the dramatic transformation of the society around them. With scalpel-sharp insight, Tessa Hadley explores her characters'' inner worlds, laying bare their fears and longings. Daring and sensual, Free Love is a compulsive, irresistible exploration of romantic love, sexual freedom and living out the truest and most meaningful version of our lives. ''She has such great psychological insights into human beings, which is rare. She is one of the best fiction writers writing today.'' Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ''Tessa Hadley recruits admirers with each book. She writes with authority, and with delicacy: she explores nuance, but speaks plainly; she is one of those writers a reader trusts.'' Hilary Mantel
A guide to Berlin which offers a full-colour introduction and gives an insight into many of Berlin's highlights from museums to galleries and the cities' lively nightlife. It includes colour inserts throughout and features maps of any guide, allowing you to chose where to go and what to see, inspired by dozens of photos.
A 24-page, full-colour introduction gives an insight into many of Prague's highlights, from the spectacular castle complex to the cobbled back streets and secret gardens of Mala Strana. This guide includes reviews of hotels and restaurants in every price range, plus the low-down on the best places to sample Czech beer.
