Ce roman raconte la vie d'un Christ (nain) des temps modernes et décrit avec brio le déclin moral et civique des Etats-Unis des années 1960. Selon Folch-Ribas l'oeuvre est "l'histoire de 40 ans d'une parfaite amitié entre deux êtres qui sont peut-être l'homme américain d'aujourd'hui et son créateur, son ange gardien" ou son fantôme
Mr Noon is a sardonic tale about the amorous adventures of Gilbert Noon, a young schoolmaster in Lawrence's home county of Nottinghamshire who gets entangled with a girl, loses his job, and decides to leave the country to escape the narrow provincial middle-class morality. It was first known as a long story posthumously published in A Modern Lover (1934) and collected in the volume called Phoenix II (1968). Lawrence in fact wrote a long continuation of the novel, but the manuscript disappeared for many years. The Cambridge edition brought the two parts together for the first time. It is like a sequel to Sons and Lovers, but much more straightforwardly autobiographical. The publication of the complete work added a new work of major importance to the canon of a great writer, and was widely hailed as a major literary event.
A phenomenal worldwide bestseller for over forty years, Richard Adams' spellbinding classic Watership Down is one of the best-loved animal stories of all time. Set in the beautiful English countryside of the Berkshire Downs, this stirring tale of adventure, courage and survival follows a small band of rabbits fleeing the destruction of their home by a developer. Led by a stout-hearted pair of brothers, Fiver and Hazel, they leave the safety of Sandleford Warren in search of refuge, skirting danger at every turn.
Transformed by Don Juan from a bent, gray-haired old woman into a sensual sorceress whose mission is to test Castaneda, Dona Soledad turns her mysterious and awesome powers against Castaneda in a struggle that nearly consumes him.
When a ten-year-old boy finds an old book of magic in a bookshop in Ireland, the forces of good and evil gather to do battle over it.
ALL'INIZIO... ... era F.lli Arnold (1905), il Grande Magazzino. Era la casa dei niomi, come si chiamano loro stessi, che avevano abbandonato la vita di campagna e si erano stabiliti sotto i pavimenti dell'umanità. Non che avessero niente a che fare con gli umani. Gli umani sono grossi, lenti e stupidi. I niomi vivono rapidamente. Per loro dieci anni sono come un secolo. Dato che vivevano nel Grande Magazzino da più di ottant'anni, si erano dimenticati che c'erano cose come il Sole, la Pioggia o il Vento. C'era solo l'Emporio, fondato dal leggendario F.lli Arnold (dal 1905) perché i niomi vi abitassero. Le loro piccole, rapide vite erano regolate dall'orario di chiusura e apertura. Le stagioni dell'anno erano i Saldi Invernali, le Collezioni Primavera, le Occasioni Estive e il Natale. E nell'Emporio arrivarono un giorno gli ultimi niomi che vivevano fuori. Loro sapevano che cos'erano il vento e la pioggia. Lo sapevano bene. Per questo cercavano di non averci più niente a che fare... Narratore appassionante, grande umorista, lucido osservatore delle contraddizioni del consumismo e della vita moderna, Terry Pratchett sarà una rivelazione per i lettori di tutte le età.
Anthony et Gloria, beaux, jeunes et doués, forment un couple obsédé par l'argent, prêt à tout pour recueillir la fortune considérable de leur grand-père, un milliardaire, ancien " requin " de Wall Street, qui subitement cherche à les déshériter. Dans l'atmosphère insouciante du New York de 1914, dans la frénésie de l'ivresse, la mélancolie des fêtes luxueuses d'un monde éphémère et fragile, l'amour et le mariage de ces deux jeunes " dieux ", qui ressemblent étrangement à Fitzgerald et Zelda, se dégradent lentement...
Jonathan Livingston, le célèbre goéland de Bach que l'on compare au ##Petit Prince##, vient de se poser, avec toute la grâce poétique qu'on lui connaît, dans une collection conçue pour les jeunes.
"Una straordinaria meditazione sulla morte e un'amara riflessione sulla perdita di tradizioni e valori antichissimi, nel racconto di un grande rappresentante della letteratura contemporanea." [dalla pagina web di Bompiani]
The classic novel of triumph, revenge, and friendship-now in a premium edition From the critically-acclaimed author of How Stella Got Her Groove Back comes this wise, down-to-earth story of a friendship between four African American women who lean on each other while "waiting to exhale"-waiting for that man who will take their breath away.
Lorsque le monde cesse de se diviser en bons et en méchants, il ne reste que le doute... Celui qui saisit les services de renseignements anglais le jour où, Gorbatchev régnant, un physicien russe tente de faire passer à l'Ouest une liasse de secrets militaires. Saxophoniste et éditeur, idéaliste déçu, Barley Scott Blair n'a rien de l'agent secret professionnel. C'est justement pour cela qu'on lui confie la tâche de remonter la piste. Une piste sur laquelle il rencontre Katia, et, avec elle, ce qu'il cherchait : l'amour. Bien des romans d'espionnage perdent tout intérêt quand s'estompe l'actualité qu'ils évoquent. A cet égard, l'auteur de Comme un collégien n'a rien à redouter. Tableau très averti des nouvelles mœurs de l'espionnage et du renseignement, ce roman superbement interprété à l'écran par Sean Connery et Michelle Pfeiffer est aussi et surtout une bouleversante histoire d'amour, humaine et vraie, dans un monde livré aux manipulations du désenchantement et du cynisme. La Maison Russie est un roman redoutable d'intelligence...
Gill Gamesh, John Baal, Rupert Mundys: If you've never heard of them, it's because of the Communist plot, and the capitalist scandal, that expunged the entire Patriot League from baseball memory. This novel turns baseball's status as national passtime and myth into an occasion for unfettered picturesque heroism and perfidy, and ebullient wordplay.
Albert Corde, dean of a Chicago college, is unprepared for the violent response to his expose of city corruption. Accused of betraying his city, as well as being a racist, he journeys to Bucharest, where his mother-in-law lies dying, only to find corruption rife in the Communist capital. Switching back and forth between the two cities, The Dean's December represents Bellow's "most spirited resistance to the forces of our time" (Malcolm Bradbury).
Publié pour la première fois en 1983 aux USA, ce roman fut écrit par Miller en 1941-42. Il y narre une odyssée du sexe sous les toits de Paris, traçant une galerie de portraits sexuels d'hommes et de femmes déclinant leurs fantasmes.
A darkly comic and ambitious sequel to the American classic Catch-22 . In Closing Time, Joseph Heller returns to the characters of Catch-22, now coming to the end of their lives and the century, as is the entire generation that fought in World War II: Yossarian and Milo Minderbinder, the chaplain, and such newcomers as little Sammy Singer and giant Lew, all linked, in an uneasy peace and old age, fighting not the Germans this time, but The End. Closing Time deftly satirizes the realities and the myths of America in the half century since WWII: the absurdity of our politics, the decline of our society and our great cities, the greed and hypocrisy of our business and culture -- with the same ferocious humor as Catch-22. Closing Time is outrageously funny and totally serious, and as brilliant and successful as Catch-22 itself, a fun-house mirror that captures, at once grotesquely and accurately, the truth about ourselves.
