Boris Ford Ordre des livres

A brilliant new work that returns Richard Ford to the hallowed territory that sealed his reputation as an American master: the world of Frank Bascombe, and the landscape of his celebrated novels The Sportswriter, the Pulitzer Prize and PEN/Faulkner winning Independence Day, and The Lay of the Land. In his trio of world-acclaimed novels portraying the life of an entire American generation, Richard Ford has imagined one of the most indelible and widely discussed characters in modern literature, Frank Bascombe. Through Bascombe—protean, funny, profane, wise, often inappropriate—we’ve witnessed the aspirations, sorrows, longings, achievements and failings of an American life in the twilight of the twentieth century. Now, in Let Me Be Frank with You, Ford reinvents Bascombe in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. In four richly luminous narratives, Bascombe (and Ford) attempts to reconcile, interpret and console a world undone by calamity. It is a moving and wondrous and extremely funny odyssey through the America we live in at this moment. Ford is here again working with the maturity and brilliance of a writer at the absolute height of his powers.

The distinguished modern American master and Pulitzer Prize-winning author returns with this haunting and elemental novel about a young man forced by catastrophic circumstance to reconcile himself to a world that has been rendered unrecognizable.

There was always the - is this it? - issue. It made him think of his father again. His father had been a New Yorker and had New Yorker ways. His father always felt there should be more, more for Henry and his brothers. More than they had. To accept, to not overreach, was to accept defeat.

This is the ninth volume in the Penguin Guide to Literature, and comprises an account of American literature from its colonial origins to the heterogeneous, distinctive voices of today. The first part of this book, which includes an essay on the relevant social and historical context, takes the reader from James Fenimore Cooper, the first American writer to achieve international status as a novelist, through to the early 20th-century and the works of Henry James and Edith Wharton and includes essays on Hawthorne, Poe, Melville, Twain and Whitman.

Yeats - Zola - Evelyn Waugh - Oscar Wilde - Virginia Woolf - Siegfried Sassoon - G.B. Shaw - Wilfred Owen - Ezra Pound - D.H. Lawrence; C.P. Snow.

Social and cultural setting - The literary scene - George Orwell - Patrick White - Doris Lessing - Iris Murdoch

Useful reference for a study of Shakespeare's theatre.; Social setting - Elizabethan Renaissance - Shakespeare and his age - Jacobean tragedy and prose - Spenser and The faerie queen - Sidney - Daniel - Ralegh - Words and music in Elizabethan England - Marlowe - Ben Jonson - Chapman - Middleton

Sets the literature of 1800-1837 in its social and intellectual context. Includes essays on William Blake - George Crabbe - Robert Burns ; Walter Scott - Jane Austen - Romanticism - John Clare - William Cobbett - William Wordsworth - Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Percy Bysshe Shelley; John Keats - George Byron - Landscape painting

The Victorian social and political scene - Literary scene -Charles Dickens - Thackeray and Trollope - Tennyson - Robert Browning - Bronte sisters - George Eliot - Language and literature in the Victorian period - Matthew Arnold - Gerard Manley Hopkins - Hardy's tales - Aspects of Victorian architecture.