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Le dernier rodéo Séries

Cette saga épique retrace la vie tumultueuse d'un rebelle à travers des moments clés de l'histoire irlandaise. Des rues rudes de Dublin à la lutte pour la liberté, le récit explore les sacrifices personnels et les morales complexes au cœur d'un soulèvement national. Soyez témoin d'un parcours de l'orphelinat à une icône de la résistance, où l'amour et la loyauté font face à une pression incessante. C'est une histoire puissante d'identité, de tradition et de la recherche de sa place dans un monde défini par le conflit.

The Dead Republic
Oh, Play That Thing
A Star Called Henry

Ordre de lecture recommandé

  1. A Star Called Henry

    Schulausgabe für das Niveau B2, ab dem 6. Lernjahr. Ungekürzter englischer Originaltext mit Annotationen

    • 351pages
    • 13 heures de lecture

    Der Name Henry Smart steht für eine untergegangene Welt, deren Legenden und Mythen bis heute die irische Seele berühren und das Stadtbild Dublins prägen. Irgendwo zwischen einem übermächtigen Sternenhimmel und den düsteren Kanälen der Stadt muss der kleine Henry in einem Dubliner Armenviertel das Leben und die Liebe lernen. Schließlich pfeift er auf alles, was anderen heilig ist: Himmel und irische Erde, Kirche und Wahrheit, Familie, Ehre und Bildung, Hunger und Krieg, Macht und Angst, Leben und Tod. Abiturempfehlung zum Themenbereich Ireland

    A Star Called Henry1
    3,9

  2. Oh, Play That Thing

    • 384pages
    • 14 heures de lecture

    It's 1924, and New York is the centre of the universe. Henry Smart, on the run from Dublin, falls on his feet. He is a handsome man with a sandwich board, behind which he stashes hooch for the speakeasies of the Lower East Side. He catches the attention of the mobsters who run the district and soon there are eyes on his back and men in the shadows. It is time to leave, for another America- Chicago is wild and new, and newest of all is the music. Furious, wild, happy music played by a man with a trumpet and bleeding lips called Louis Armstrong. His music is everywhere, coming from every open door, every phonograph. But Armstrong is a prisoner of his colour; there are places a black man cannot go, things he cannot do. Armstrong needs a man, a white man, and the man he chooses is Henry Smart.

    Oh, Play That Thing2
    3,2

  3. The Dead Republic

    • 336pages
    • 12 heures de lecture

    At the end of the second volume of Roddy Doyle's trilogy about Henry Smart, Henry, having lost a leg in a railway accident, crawls into the Utah desert to die, only to be found by John Ford, who is filming a Western. Ford sees a kindred spirit in Henry, a former boy volunteer in the 1916 Easter Rising and a hitman for Michael Collins, and decides to make a film about his life, appointing him as 'IRA consultant' for The Quiet Man. The narrative picks up in 1951 as Henry returns to Ireland for the first time since his escape in 1922, accompanied by Ford and stars John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara. Ford's intense meetings aim to extract Henry's essence for Hollywood. A decade later, now a school caretaker in Dublin and known as 'Hoppy Henry' due to his wooden leg, Henry becomes a hero after a bomb blast leaves him legless. The Provos embrace him as a symbol of resilience, and as the peace process unfolds in secrecy, Henry discovers new roles to play. Through three compelling novels, Doyle captures the entirety of Ireland's twentieth-century history and crafts a remarkable character in Henry Smart.

    The Dead Republic3
    3,5