Samuel Butler Livres

The book explores the concept of unconscious memory, a topic that has held significance throughout human history. Alpha Editions has republished this classical work in a modern format, ensuring its preservation for future generations. The text has been reformatted and retyped for clarity, providing a readable experience without relying on scanned copies of the original work.

Erewhon, set in a thinly disguised New Zealand, ended with the escape of its protagonist from the native Erewhonians by balloon. In the sequel, narrated by his son John. Higgs returns to Erewhon and meets his former lover Yram, who is now the mother of his son George. He discovers that he is now worshipped as "the Sunchild." He finds himself in danger from the villainous Professors Hanky and Panky, who are determined to protect Sunchildism from him. With George's help Higgs escapes from their clutches and returns to England.

Pâris a enlevé la belle Hélène. Son mari Ménélas et tous les Grecs rassemblés crient vengeance et font le siège de Troie depuis neuf ans. Le divin Homère entonne alors le premier chant de l'Iliade. Il y en aura vingt-quatre, tous plus beaux les uns que les autres, tous centrés sur la colère d'Achille. Le roi des rois, Agamemnon, lui a enlevé sa compagne, l'esclave Briséis. En pleine bataille, Achille se retire sous sa tente, affaiblissant les rangs des Achéens. Il n'en sortira qu'à la mort de son ami Patrocle, pour combattre Hector. On ne sait si Homère est bien l'auteur de tous ces chants, mais cette épopée a traversé les siècles par sa démesure et sa beauté. Au combat des hommes se superpose celui des dieux et des déesses. Tous sont nobles, héroïques et généreux mais Homère, réaliste, montre aussi leurs faiblesses. Cette histoire faite de larmes et de sang est le symbole de la destinée humaine ballottée par le hasard. Achille le sait bien, lui dont les exploits dépendent de la fantaisie des dieux.

Ulysse, héros grec de la guerre de Troie, celui dont la ruse a permis de mettre fin à un siège de dix ans, voudrait regagner son île d'Ithaque, où l'attendent sa femme Pénélope et son fils Télémaque. Mais les dieux ne l'entendent pas ainsi.Sur le chemin du retour, il doit affronter le Cyclope, la magicienne Circé, les Sirènes au chant mortel, les monstres Charybde et Scylla, et bien d'autres encore...Aidé de la déesse Athéna, Ulysse parviendra-t-il à retrouver son palais et à se débarrasser des prétendants qui convoitent sa femme et ses biens ? Toutes les clés pour comprendre l'œuvre et le thème associéAvant de lire l'œuvre• L'essentiel sur l'auteur• Le contexte d'écriture de l'œuvreAu fil de l'œuvre• Des questionnaires sur les passages clés : compréhension et étude de la langue• L'enregistrement audio de ces extraits lus par un comédienLe dossier BIBLIOCOLLÈGE• L'essentiel sur l'œuvre• La structure de l'œuvre• Les personnages de l'œuvre• Le genre de l'œuvre• L'œuvre dans l'histoire des arts• Des films, des documents et des livres associés à l'œuvreLe GROUPEMENT DE TEXTES. Thème : Les monstres - Monstres effrayants et fascinants.

Following the great success of the very first Gothic Fantasy, deluxe edition short story compilations, Ghosts, Horror and Science Fiction, this latest in the series is packed with tales set in bleak and paradisiacal worlds of boundless imagination from classic authors and exciting budding contemporary writers.

"One of the time bombs of all literature" (V.S. Pritchett). Written in the 1880s and not published until 1903 after Butler's death, the semi-autobiographical story of the Pontifex family savages the bourgeois Victorian family and its values. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Erewhon (an anagram for "nowhere") is a faraway land where sickness is a punishable crime, criminals receive compassionate medical treatment, and machines are banned (for fear they'll evolve and become the masters of man). Butler's entertaining and thought-provoking Utopian novel takes aim at such hallowed institutions as family, church, and mechanical progress; its remarkable prescience in anticipating future sociological trends adds a special relevance for today's readers.

The Way of All Flesh traces four generations of the Pontifex family. The story is narrated by Overton, godfather to the central character Ernest. Beginning in the late eighteenth century, story traces Ernest's emergence from previous generations of the Pontifex family. John Pontifex was a carpenter; his son George rises in the world to become a publisher; George's son Theobald, pressed by his father to become a minister, is manipulated into marrying Christina, the daughter of a clergyman; the main character Ernest Pontifex is the eldest son of Theobald and Christina. Ernest has an antagonistic relationship with his hypocritical and domineering parents. His aunt Alethea is aware of this relationship, but dies before she can fulfill her aim of counteracting the parents' malign influence on the boy. However, shortly before her death she secretly passes a small fortune into Overton's keeping, with the agreement that once Ernest is twenty-eight, he can receive it.