Why does an old builder leave all his money to a young lawyer? Who gives a government document to enemy spies? How is a young man tricked into taking a new job? What can a foreign king do when a beautiful woman from his past appears? Who can answer all these questions?
F. H. Cornish Ordre des livres (chronologique)






Un jour
- 621pages
- 22 heures de lecture
Dexter, un homme séduisant et insouciant, et Emma, une femme charmante mais complexée, se rencontrent le 15 juillet 1988. Au fil des années, ils vivent une relation tumultueuse faite de retrouvailles et de séparations, réalisant finalement qu'ils sont le plus heureux ensemble. L'histoire se déroule jusqu'en 2004.
Oscar Wilde's brilliant play makes fun of the English upper classes with light-hearted satire and dazzling humour. It is 1890's England and two young gentlemen are being somewhat limited with the truth. To inject some excitement into their lives, Mr Worthing invents a brother, Earnest, as an excuse to leave his dull country life behind him to pursue the object of his desire, the ravishing Gwendolyn. While across town Algernon Montecrieff decides to take the name Earnest, when visiting Worthing's young ward Cecily. The real fun and confusion begins when the two end up together and their deceptions are in danger of being revealed.
"En 1827, dans les Alpes, Antoine Bertet a été guillotiné pour avoir assassiné Mme Michoud de la Tour, qu'il aimait ... Ce fait divers - qu'il modifiera peu - va être pour Stendhal (1783-1842) le point de départ de Le rouge et le Noir, chronique du XIXe s., son chef-d'œuvre, est l'un des plus grands romans de son siècle, par sa rigueur d'écriture, la limpidité de son style et l'exactitude psychologique de ses héros, doublée d'une description sociale aussi lucide qu'acide. Selon Émile Zola, "personne n'a possédé à un degré pareil la mécanique de l'âme."--Page 4 de la couverture
Dr No, a sinister recluse with mechanical pincers for hands and a sadistic fascination with pain, holds James Bond firmly in his steely grasp. Bond and Honey Rider, his beautiful girl Friday, have been captured trespassing on Dr No's secluded Caribbean island. Soon, they are fighting for their lives in a murderous game of Dr No's choosing.
Shifting into overdrive
- 61pages
- 3 heures de lecture
"Joey, Dawson, Pacey and Jen - four teenagers living in the small town of Capeside. The friends attend the same high school. And they have the same problems - life, love, school work and parents. Jen and Joey are going to a party - in New York. Dawson and Pacey want to go too. They decide to drive to the city and suprise the girls. And that is when the fun starts!" - back cover.
Jurassic Park
- 508pages
- 18 heures de lecture
Que s'est-il donc passé sur Isla Nublar, durant ces deux jours d'août 1989, pour obliger l'armée à venir "faire le ménage" ? Le programme dont cette île est le théâtre avait pourtant tout du paradis scientifique: un immense complexe naturel où s'ébattent, aux yeux de tous, les plus féroces sauriens du Jurassique, génétiquement ramenés à la vie... Quelques jours avant le chaos, le paléontologue Alan Grant et Ian Malcolm, mathématicien de renom, chargés de délivrer une caution universitaire au projet, embarquent pour ce bout de terre perdu au large du Pacifique. Bientôt, le petit groupe invité par le créateur du parc doit se rendre à l'évidence: au cœur d'une jungle primitive et farouchement hostile, l'être humain n'est plus l'espèce dominante, mais la proie... Et la science se révèle vite impuissante face à la sauvagerie d'un écosystème disparu, un monde oublié qui cherche à reprendre ses droits. Dès lors, l'évolution impose sa loi, unique, éternelle, terrifiante ; survivre...
Oxford Children's Classic: A Christmas Carol
- 162pages
- 6 heures de lecture
Whether it's a thrilling ghost story or a magical Christmas read you're after, A Christmas Carol is the perfect choice. Not only does this edition contain the complete unabridged text of A Christmas Carol, it also features other Christmas stories written by Charles Dickens and lots of extra material for you to enjoy.
Les aventures de Tom Sawyer
- 156pages
- 6 heures de lecture
Tom Sawyer, un garçon d'une dizaine d'années vivant près du Mississippi, adore l'école buissonnière. Avec ses amis et pour plaire à Becky, il se lance dans des aventures drôles et parfois dangereuses. Ce personnage universel incarne la liberté et l'amour de l'aventure, le tout avec l'humour vivant de Mark Twain. À découvrir dès 11 ans.
Si vous n'avez pas lu les aventures de Tom Sawyer, vous ne savez pas qui je suis ... alors vous avez là une occasion unique de me lire dans une nouvelle aventure
Dawson's Creek: Shifting Into Overdrive
- 64pages
- 3 heures de lecture
Joey, Dawson, Pacey and Jen - four teenagers living in the small town of Capeside. The friends attend the same high school. And they have the same problems - life, love, school work and parents. Jen and Joey are going to a party - in New York. Dawson and Pacey want to go too. They decide to drive to the city and surprise the girls. And that is when the fun starts!
The Beginning Of Everything Else
- 62pages
- 3 heures de lecture
It's the end of something simple. And the beginning of everything else. Sometimes life happens even when you're not sure you're ready for it. In Capeside, the sleepy New England coastal town where teenagers Joey, Dawson, Pacey, and Jen live, this year the river is running fast. Choices will be made, and chances will be taken. Promises will be broken, and desires revealed.
A Kiss Before Dying (Intermediate Level)
- 95pages
- 4 heures de lecture
A Kiss Before Dying not only debuted the talent of best-selling novelist Ira Levin to rave reviews, it also set a new standard in the art of mystery and suspense. Now a modern classic, as gripping in its tautly plotted action as it is penetrating in its exploration of a criminal mind, it tells the shocking tale of a young man who will stop at nothing--not even murder--to get where he wants to go. For he has dreams; plans. He also has charm, good looks, sex appeal, intelligence. And he has a problem. Her name is Dorothy; she loves him, and she's pregnant. The solution may demand desperate measures. But, then, he looks like the kind of guy who could get away with murder. Compellingly, step by determined step, the novel follows this young man in his execution of one plan he had neither dreamed nor foreseen. Nor does he foresee how inexorably he will be enmeshed in the consequences of his own extreme deed.
A Kiss Before Dying
- 96pages
- 4 heures de lecture
KISS BEFORE DYING (HEINEMANN ELT GUIDED READERS) (map)
Heinemann ELT Guided Readers Elementary: Love Conquers Death and Other Stories
- 63pages
- 3 heures de lecture
elementary reading stories for fun
The Signalman and The Ghost at the Trial
- 64pages
- 3 heures de lecture
1860 - England. Two frightening ghost stories.The SignalmanA visitor comes to a signal box next to a railway tunnel. The signalman tells the visitor about his important work. But the signalman also tells him a frightening story . Is the story true? Is there a ghost on the railway?The Ghost at the TrialGeorge Fotherley listens to a trail in a court of law. A man is accused of murder. Did the man murder his friend? Then George sees something strange at night. And he sees a strange man in the court. Why does the man always look at George? Why does the man never speak?
Speedy the Flying Camel
- 24pages
- 1 heure de lecture
A Beginner Level story in a series of ELT readers comprising a wide range of titles and divided into five levels: Starter Level, with about 300 basic words; Beginner (600); Elementary (1100); Intermediate (1600); and Upper (2200). Some of the titles are also available on cassette.
Le peintre Basil Hallward vient d'achever son meilleur tableau. Invité à se contempler, Dorian Gray, son modèle, fait alors un vœu insensé : que le portait vieillisse à sa place et que lui conserve éternellement sa jeunesse et sa beauté. Quelles ne sont pas sa stupeur et son effroi quand son vœu se réalise ! Le tableau devient alors le miroir de son âme... Le chef-d'œuvre d'Oscar Wilde, illustré par Tony Ross, grand humoriste contemporain.











