" The Marquis lay there, like stone, with a knife pushed into his heart. On his chest lay a piece of paper, with the words : Drive him fast to the grave. This is from Jacques. " The French Revolution brings terror and death to many people. But even in these troubled times people tan still love and be kind. They tan be generous and true-hearted... and brave.
Jonathan Harker, jeune notaire, est envoyé en Transylvanie pour rencontrer un client encore inconnu, le comte Dracula. L'homme qu'il découvre est une créature démoniaque, un mort-vivant qui se nourrit du sang de ses victimes.
Les ouvrages de la collection " Les Langues Modernes/Bilingue " vous proposent sous une forme très claire : - des textes d'écrivains étrangers de réputation internationale - une traduction fidèle et précise, sans être étroitement littérale - une introduction critique permettant d'approfondir le sens des textes - de nombreuses notes de caractère culturel qui prolongent cette introduction dans le détail, et des précisions linguistiques éclairant certains tours de traduction. La collection " Les Langues Modernes/Bilingue " entend permettre ainsi au plus grand nombre une authentique compréhension des littératures et par conséquent des cultures étrangères.
Le visiteur qui aborde le Louvre ne peut qu’être impressionné par la richesse des collections qui s’offrent à son regard. Ce guide s’est donné pour but non pas de tout montrer, mais de tout évoquer à travers un choix de près de six cents chefs-d’œuvre, depuis l’Antiquité jusqu’au milieu du XIXe siècle
Bequeathed a rare diamond by her late uncle, heiress Rachel Verinder has no idea it was stolen from an Indian temple or that it has a cursed history. When the diamond disappears on her eighteenth birthday, multiple suspects - including Rachel’s suitor, Franklin Blake - are implicated in its theft. Determined to prove his innocence, Franklin begins his own investigation. Did one of his fellow Englishmen steal the jewel? Or was it whisked back to India? The case, which unfolds through multiple narratives, takes startling twists and turns in pursuit of the truth. Widely considered the first great detective novel written in English, The Moonstone is one of Wilkie Collins’s most famous works.
Contemporary / British English Meet the Larkin family They enjoy a wonderful country life, never worrying about money, work -- or the law. But then, one day, a man arrives from the tax office. Is the taxman going to change the Larkin's lives? Or is his life going to change forever?
‘The Darling Buds of May, which came out in 1958, was the first of five Larkin novels and in it readers witness the transformation of Mr. Charlton from a undernourished and timid tax clerk to ‘Charlie’, a fully-converted member of the Larkin way of life: an easygoing celebration of nature, food, drink, and family. In the process, the reader is introduced to the Brigadier, Miss Pilchester, and Angela Snow. Setting the style for the series, the book ends with a grand celebration, and the announcement of the wedding of Charlie and Mariette. The novel was filmed with the title ‘The Mating Game’, and between 1991 and 1993, Yorkshire Television produced a highly-successful television series called ‘The Darling Buds of May’. This first book in the Larkin series was very successful, appearing first in the United States and then in Britain, where it sold 40,000 in the first two months. Many critics felt that Bates deserved better than to be remembered mostly for the Larkin novels, but they were very profitable. The immensely popular Larkin series of comic novels consisted of ‘The Darling Buds of May’, ‘A Breath of French Air’ (1959), ‘When the Green Woods Laugh’ (1960), ‘Oh! To Be in England’ (1963), and ‘A Little of What You Fancy’ (1970). Bates, speaking of how he was inspired to create the Larkins, recalled the real junkyard that he often passed near his home in Kent; and he remembered seeing a family -- a father, mother and many children, sucking at ice-creams and eating crisps in a "ramshackle lorry that had been recently painted a violent electric blue". He tried writing a brief tale based on the family, but soon decided that he couldn’t waste such a rich gallery of characters to a short story." Pop is a wonderful character who hates pomp, pretension and humbug; loves his family, but doesn’t hesitate to break a few rules... and his and the Larkins' secret is “that they live as many of us would like to live if only we had the guts and nerve to flout the conventions." See also the Pop Larkin Chronicles, which contains all five Larkin books.
