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Ira Levin

    27 août 1929 – 12 novembre 2007

    Ira Levin fut un maître du suspense et de l'horreur, dont les œuvres étaient réputées pour leur construction méticuleuse et leur atmosphère troublante. Souvent comparé à un 'horloger suisse', Levin tissait habilement des éléments de suspense, de terreur psychologique et de commentaire social dans des récits qui résonnaient avec les angoisses contemporaines. Sa capacité à exploiter les aspects les plus sombres de la nature humaine et de la société lui a valu la reconnaissance de la critique et un lectorat fidèle. Les histoires de Levin explorent fréquemment les limites de la moralité et la nature insidieuse du mal dans des contextes apparemment ordinaires.

    Ira Levin
    A Kiss Before Dying
    Veronica's Room
    Un bébé pour Rosemary
    Les femmes de Stepford
    Ces garçons qui venaient du Brésil. L'Esprit de famille. Dans le sillage des cygnes. Les écoliers du bout du monde
    Sliver
    • Critic's Choice, a Comedy

      • 136pages
      • 5 heures de lecture

      A play in three acts, Critic's Choice tells the story of theater critic Parker Ballantine whose second wife, Angela, writes a play which is produced on Broadway. The play is awful and Parker must decide whether or not to review the play honestly.

      Critic's Choice, a Comedy2021
    • A hugely popular stage and screen success, this ingeniously constructed play offers a rare and skilful blending of two priceless theatrical ingredients - gasp-inducing thrills and spontaneous laughter. Unknown dramatist Clifford Anderson has sent his new thriller to award-winning Broadway author Sidney for comment - or has he...-2 women, 3 men

      Death Trap2013
      3,7
    • Больше всего на свете Розмари мечтает о ребенке. Кажется, счастье совсем близко - они с мужем находят чудесную квартиру в старинном доме, Гай неожиданно получает работу. Но будущая мать с ужасом понимает, что за подарки судьбы придется заплатить непомерную цену: она уверена, что муж пожертвовал душой их неродившегося ребенка ради карьеры. Розмари не сомневается, что ее соседи - эксцентричная пожилая чета - слуги дьявола, и именно они вовлекли Гая в сатанинский заговор...

      Ребенок розмари (Rebenok rozmari)2005
    • 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 (Intermediate Level)2000
    • BlackBirds: The Boys from Brazil

      • 255pages
      • 9 heures de lecture

      Alive and hiding in South America, the fiendish Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele gathers a group of former colleagues for a horrifying project—the creation of the Fourth Reich. Barry Kohler, a young investigative journalist, gets wind of the project and informs famed Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman, but before he can relay the evidence, Kohler is killed. Thus Ira Levin opens one of the strangest and most masterful novels of his career. Why has Mengele marked a number of harmless aging men for murder? What is the hidden link that binds them? What interest can they possibly hold for their killers: six former SS men dispatched from South America by the most wanted Nazi still alive, the notorious "Angel of Death"? One man alone must answer these questions and stop the killings—Lieberman, himself aging and thought by some to be losing his grip on reality. At the heart of The Boys from Brazil lies a frightening contemporary nightmare, chilling and all too possible.

      BlackBirds: The Boys from Brazil1998
      3,7
    • The Boys from Brazil (Level 4 Reader)

      • 64pages
      • 3 heures de lecture

      It is 1974, but for Dr Mengele and his group of Nazis, World War II is not yet over. They have a terrible plan to conquer the world, but how does it involve a group of boys that come from different countries, yet all look exactly the same? Only one man can find out.

      The Boys from Brazil (Level 4 Reader)1998
      4,0
    • Der Kuß vor dem Tode.

      • 191pages
      • 7 heures de lecture

      Ihn zu lieben war einfach. Ihm zu vertrauen war tödlich. Seit dem vermeintlichen Selbstmord ihrer Schwester Dorothy will Ellen Kingship nur noch eines: das Geheimnis ihres Todes lüften. Und bald schon kommt sie zu der Gewissheit, das Dorothy ermordet worden ist.

      Der Kuß vor dem Tode.1997
      3,9
    • Ira Levin returned to the horror of his 1967 groundbreaking novel Rosemary's Baby with this sequel set at the dawn of the new millennium. Thirty-three years ago, Rosemary gave birth to the Devil's child while under the control of a coven of witches. Now the year is 1999, and humanity dreads the approaching twenty-first century, desperately in search of a saviour for this troubled world. In New York City, Rosemary's son Andy is believed to be that saviour. But is he the force of good his followers accept him to be? Or is he his father's son? As the war between good and evil rages on, the fate of humanity hangs in the balance.

      Son of Rosemary1997
      2,5
    • BlackBirds: A Kiss Before Dying

      • 222pages
      • 8 heures de lecture

      For once frozen instant, as his hands shifted from cupping her heels to a flat grip against the soles of her shoes, their eyes met, stupefied terror bursting in hers, a cry rising in her throat. Then, with all his strength, he pushed against her fear-rigid legs. Her shriek of petrified anguish trailed down into the shaft like a burning wire. He closed his eyes. The scream died. Silence, then a godawful deafening crash.

      BlackBirds: A Kiss Before Dying1994
      3,7
    • V japonské restauraci v Americe se scházejí muži z organizace Kameradenwerk, aby projednali „obchodní záležitosti“. Jejich předseda, doktor Josef Mengele, známý svými pokusy na lidech za Hitlerovy vlády, představuje plán na zabití 94 mužů ve věku šedesáti pěti let, kteří jsou státními zaměstnanci. Diskutují detaily vražd, aniž by tušili, že jsou odposloucháváni. Mladík Barry Koehler si u servírky zaplatil odposlech a když slyší, co se chystá, okamžitě volá spisovateli Yakovu Liebermannovi, který přežil holocaust a usiluje o potrestání nacistů. Liebermann zprvu Barrymu nevěří, ale než se mu podaří situaci vysvětlit, telefon se odmlčí. Liebermann začne vyšetřovat zvláštní úmrtí státních zaměstnanců v Rakousku, ale dlouho nenachází žádnou souvislost. Až zjistí, že všichni mají syna, který se podobá mladému Hitlerovi. Dojde mu, že Mengele plánuje vytvořit podmínky pro vznik nového vůdce z geneticky shodných chlapců. Liebermannovi se nakonec podaří Mengeleho zabít, ale do té doby už několik mužů zemřelo a z jejich synů se stávají potenciální Hitleři…

      Hoši z Brazílie1994
      4,3
    • Sliver

      • 213pages
      • 8 heures de lecture

      214pages. poche. Broché.

      Sliver1991
      3,3
    • Joanna s deťmi a mužom sa presťahujú. Zisťuje, že manželky v meste sú neuveriteľne dokonalé a príde na hrôzostrašnú vec. Muži ich menia za vyrobenú náhradu. V druhom ústrednú dejovú os tvoria strhujúce osudy Leibermanna, ktorý sa na základe prerušeného telefonátu so zavraždeným priateľom usiluje vypátrať pozadie záhadných úmrtí mužov, súvisiacich s adopciou detí rovnakého výzoru s doktorom Mengelem...

      Stepfordské manželky. Chlapci z Brazílie1984
    • Veronica's Room

      • 56pages
      • 2 heures de lecture

      This chilling mystery thriller by the author of Rosemary's Baby explores the thin line between fantasy and reality, madness and murder. Students Susan and Larry find themselves as guests enticed to the Brabissant mansion by it's dissolute caretakers the lonely Mackeys. Struck by Susan's strong resemblance to Veronica Brabissant, long- dead daughter of the family for whom they work, the older couple gradually induce her to impersonate Veronica briefly to solace the only living Brabissant, her addled sister who believes Veronica alive. Once dressed in Veronica's clothes, Susan finds herself locked in the role and locked in Veronica's room. Or is she Veronica, in 1935, pretending to be an imaginary Susan?

      Veronica's Room1981
      4,0
    • Thriller New Revised Edition 2 male, 2 female Interior Set This chilling mystery thriller by the author of Rosemary's Baby explores the thin line between fantasy and reality, madness and murder. Students Susan and Larry find themselves as guests enticed to the Brabissant mansion by it's dissolute caretakers the lonely Mackeys. Struck by Susan's strong resemblance to Veronica Brabissant, long- dead daughter of the family for whom they work, the o

      Veronica's room : a thriller in two acts1981
      4,0
    • De jongens uit Brazilië

      • 233pages
      • 9 heures de lecture

      Een Oostenrijkse nazi-jager komt in Zuid-Amerika op het spoor van de beruchte oorlogsmisdadiger Dr. Mengele, die een maniakaal plan heeft ontworpen om het Derde Rijk te doen herrijzen.

      De jongens uit Brazilië1977
      3,9
    • The Boys from Brazil

      • 268pages
      • 10 heures de lecture

      The classic thriller of Dr. Josef Mengele's nightmarish plot to restore the Third Reich.

      The Boys from Brazil1976
      4,0
    • “Ohne Zweifel das spannendste Buch des Jahres.” – New York Times. Die sechs Männer mit den Diplomatenkoffern haben präzise Anweisungen – termingerechte Liquidation. Und sie werden sich hüten, zu viele Fragen zu stellen. Ein Mann jedoch möchte den Auftraggeber der Killer schon seit Jahrzehnten finden: der Nazijäger Jakob Liebermann, der durch einen Zufall von dem Plan erfährt. Seine Nachforschungen bleiben zunächst ohne Erfolg, aber dann dämmert ihm, was es mit der gnadenlosen Mördermission auf sich hat. Es geht nicht nur um das Schicksal von vierundneunzig unauffälligen Bürgern, sondern um die Zukunft der ganzen Welt …

      Die Boys aus Brasilien. Roman.1976
      3,0
    • The Stepford wives

      • 208pages
      • 8 heures de lecture

      "All the beautiful people live in idyllic Stepford, Connecticut, an affluent, suburban Eden populated with successful, satisfied husbands and beautiful, dutiful wives. For Joanna Eberhart, newly arrived with her husband and two children, it all seems too good to be true - from the sweet Welcome Wagon lady to all those cheerful, friendly faces in the supermarket checkout lines. But beneath the town's flawless surface, something is sordid and wrong - something abominable, with its roots in the local Men's Association. And it may already be too late for Joanna to save herself from being devoured by Stepford's hideous perfection."--Cover.

      The Stepford wives1972
      3,9
    • The story is set in a seemingly perfect global society. Uniformity is the defining feature; there is only one language and all ethnic groups have been eugenically merged into one race called “The Family.” The world is ruled by a central computer called UniComp that has been programmed to keep every single human on the surface of the earth in check. People are continually drugged by means of regular injections so that they will remain satisfied and cooperative. They are told where to live, when to eat, whom to marry, when to reproduce. Even the basic facts of nature are subject to the UniComp’s will—men do not grow facial hair, women do not develop breasts, and it only rains at night.

      This Perfect Day1971
      3,9
    • Dva psychologické romány o mladých amerických ženách, jimž "civilizaci nemocné" prostředí působí neurózy. První líčí depresi budoucí matky ve skličujícím velkoměstském prostředí New Yorku, která přechází v šílensví. Druhý vypráví o ženě, již požadavek přizpůsobit se stereotypu středostavovské paničky působí psychickou poruchu.

      Rosemary má děťátko. Stepfordské paničky1967
      4,4
    • Rosemary's Baby

      • 319pages
      • 12 heures de lecture

      Young wife Rosemary Woodhouse is drawn into a nightmare when she is selected by a coven to bear the son of Satan.

      Rosemary's Baby1967
      4,1
    • A Kiss Before Dying

      • 288pages
      • 11 heures de lecture

      Ira Levin's award-winning first novel reissued with a new introduction by Chelsea Cain.

      A Kiss Before Dying1961
      4,1