Author's now classic novel made into a movie features Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt.
Les Chroniques des vampires Séries
Cette saga relate la vie immortelle et les dilemmes moraux complexes d'un noble français du XVIIIe siècle transformé en vampire. Plongez dans sa longue histoire, remplie de passion, de trahison et d'une quête de sens dans un monde en perpétuel changement. La série offre un regard introspectif sur le surnaturel, explorant les thèmes de l'immortalité, de l'identité et de la lutte éternelle entre le bien et le mal.
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The vampire Lestat
- 550pages
- 20 heures de lecture
#1 New York Times Bestselling author - Surrender to fiction's greatest creature of the night - Book II of the Vampire Chronicles The vampire hero of Anne Rice’s enthralling novel is a creature of the darkest and richest imagination. Once an aristocrat in the heady days of pre-revolutionary France, now a rock star in the demonic, shimmering 1980s, he rushes through the centuries in search of others like him, seeking answers to the mystery of his eternal, terrifying exsitence. His is a mesmerizing story—passionate, complex, and thrilling. Praise for The Vampire Lestat “Frightening, sensual . . . Anne Rice will live on through the ages of literature. . . . To read her is to become giddy as if spinning through the mind of time, to become lightheaded as if our blood is slowly being drained away.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Fiercely ambitious, nothing less than a complete unnatural history of vampires.”—The Village Voice “Brilliant . . . its undead characters are utterly alive.”—The New York Times Book Review “Luxuriantly created and richly told.”—The Cleveland Plain Dealer
Ramses the Great lives but having drunk the elixir of life he is now Ramses the Damned, doomed to wander the Earth seeking to quell hungers for food, for wine and for women. When he awakens in the drawing room of a house in Edwardian London he becomes infatuated with a beautiful shipping heiress.
Le voleur de corps
- 541pages
- 19 heures de lecture
Vampire impie, ne croyant ni en Dieu ni au diable, ivre d'amour et de sensualité, Lestat a été pendant des siècles un prince courtisé dans le monde ténébreux et flamboyant des morts vivants. Mais aujourd'hui, à l'aube d'un nouveau millénaire, au cœur des jungles de néon de l'Amérique contemporaine ou dans l'immensité désolée du désert de Gobi, le doute le ronge, une obsession le tenaille: Redevenir un mortel. Regarder le soleil en face. Regarder la mort en face. Impossible? Peut-être pas... C'est du moins ce que prétend le mystérieux inconnu qui se livre avec lui à un diabolique jeu de cache-cache, de Miami à Amsterdam, de La Nouvelle-Orléans aux Caraïbes.
Lui qui se vantait de ne croire ni à Dieu ni au Diable doit, cette fois, se déterminer. Choisir son camp. Ou choisir de ne pas choisir... Vampire impie, ivre d'amour, de sensualité et de métaphysique, Lestat cherche dans les rues enneigées de New York Dora, une jeune prédicatrice aussi belle que charismatique. Fille d'un des gros bonnets de la drogue, elle est peut-être, n'ayons pas peur du mot, une... sainte. Déchiré entre ses appétits vampiriques et sa passion débordante pour la jeune femme, Lestat ne se préoccupe pas autant qu'il le devrait de cette étrange impression d'être observé. Et se trouve bientôt confronté aux adversaires les plus énigmatiques qu'il ait jamais connus.
Armand le vampire
- 538pages
- 19 heures de lecture
Au chevet de Lestat, plongé dans un profond coma, David Talbot, l'archiviste du Talamasca, rencontre Armand, peut-être le plus mystérieux et sans conteste le plus séduisant des vampires. Il entreprend de lui faire raconter l'histoire de sa vie. Une histoire cruelle et flamboyante qui nous mène des steppes de la Russie à Constantinople et à la Venise de la Renaissance, où il est recueilli par Marius, un peintre qui vit avec faste et dont il ignore qu'il s'agit d'un vampire... Mais Marius, dont le mode de vie et la tolérance suscitent la haine des autres vampires, sera brûlé sous les yeux d'Armand. Commence alors pour celui-ci une errance de plusieurs siècles qui le conduit à Londres, Paris et enfin New York, où, grâce à deux enfants et à la magie de la musique, il pourra enfin entrevoir une forme de rédemption.
When Last The Vampire Lestat Was Seen, He Was Rising From The Dead In Present-Day New Orleans To Walk Again Among Anne Rice'S Unforgettable Undead. Now Lestat Lives Again, But In A Twilight World Of Music And Memory. His Charismatic Friend Louis De Pointe Du Lac Is Tortured By The Memory Of The Child Vampire, Claudia, Whom He Loved And Lost. He Calls On Merrick, Young And Gorgeous Mixed-Race By-Blow Of The Rich New Orleans Mayfair Clan. To Save Louis' Sanity, Merrick Must Use Her Black Witchcraft To Call Up The Ghost Of Claudia - However Dangerous This May Be. There Are Other Mayfair Spirits Who Will Not Lie Still, And Her Search Takes Her Close To The Edge, Through Blood And Terror, Ritual And Violence. Sweeping From New Orleans To The Brazilian Jungle And The Island Of Haiti, This Is Vampire Literature At Its Most Tantalising, Sexy And Irresistible.
Blood and Gold
- 752pages
- 27 heures de lecture
Here is the glorious and sinister life of Marius- patrician by birth, scholar by choice and one of the oldest vampires of them all. From his genesis in ancient Rome, to his present day meeting with Thorne, a Nordic vampire of snow and ice, we follow the story of this aristocratic killer.His is a tale that spans the breadth of time. When the Visigoths sack his city, Marius is there; with the resurgence of the glory of Rome, he is there, still searching for his lost love Pandora, he even entertains an obsession with Botticelli. So prevalent is Marius that it is he who gives the dark gift to the illustrious vampire Armand.Intertwined with the stories of Rice's magnificent Pantheon of the undead, haunted by Pandora and by his alter ego Mael and tracked by the ominous Talamasca, this account of Marius is the most wondrous and mind-blowing of them all.
Lestat is back, saviour and demon, presiding over a gothic story of family greed and hatred through generations, a terrifying drama of blood lust and betrayal, possession and matricide. Blackwood Farm with its grand Southern mansion, set among dark cypress swamps in Louisiana, harbours terrible blood-stained secrets and family ghosts. Heir to them all is Quinn Blackwood, young, rash and beautiful, himself a 'bloodhunter' whom Lestat takes under his wing. But Quinn is in thrall not only to the past and his own appetites but, even more dangerously, to a companion spirit, a 'goblin' succubus who could destroy him and others. Only the unearthly power of Lestat combined with the earthly powers of the Mayfair clan could hope to save Quinn from himself and his ghosts, or to rescue the doomed girl Quinn loves from her own mortality. Shocking, savage and richly erotic, this novel with the deceptively gentle title bring us Anne Rice at her most powerfully disturbing. Here are vampires and witches, men and women, demons and a doppelganger, caught up in a maelstrom of death and destruction, blood and fire, cruelty and fate.
Blood Canticle
- 400pages
- 14 heures de lecture
Lestat is back with a vengeance and in thrall to Rowan Mayfair. Both demon and angel, he is drawn to kill but tempted by goodness as he moves among the pantheon of Anne Rice's unforgettable characters. Julien Mayfair, his tormentor; Rowan, witch and neurosurgeon, who attracts spirits to herself, casts spells on others and finds herself dangerously drawn to Lestat; Patsy, country and western singer, who was killed by Quinn Blackwood and dumped in a swamp; Ash Templeton, a 5,000 year old Taltos whose genes live on in the Mayfairs. Now, Lestat fights to save Patsy's ghost from the dark realms of the Earthbound, to uncover the mystery of the Taltos and to decide the fate of Rowan Mayfair. Both of Anne Rice's irresistible realms - the worlds of Blackwood Farm and the Mayfair Witches - collide as Lestat struggles between his lust for blood and the quest for life, between gratification and redemption.
The vampire world is in crisis. Old vampires, roused from slumber in the earth are doing the bidding of a Voice commanding that they indiscriminately burn vampire-mavericks in cities across the globe, forcing a host of familiar characters must put aside their differences and fight for their survival. There's Louis de Pointe du Lac; the eternally young Armand; Mekare and Maharet, Pandora and Flavius; David Talbot, vampire and ultimate fixer from the secret Talamasca; and Marius, the true Child of the Millennia; and even the mysterious absent Lestat. Together, they embark on a search to discover who--or what--the Voice is, and discover the secret of its desires.
*** NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER *** "In my dreams, I saw a city fall into the sea. I heard the cries of thousands. I saw flames that outshone the lamps of heaven. And all the world was shaken..." At the novel's centre: the vampire Lestat de Lioncourt, hero, leader, irresistible force, irrepressible spirit, battling (and ultimately reconciling with) a strange otherworldly form that has taken possession of his undead body and soul. This ancient and mysterious power and unearthly spirit of vampire lore has all the force, history and insidious reach of the unknowable Universe. It is through this spirit, previously considered benign for thousands of vampire years and throughout the Vampire Chronicles, that we come to be told the hypnotic tale of a great sea power of ancient times; a mysterious heaven on earth situated on a boundless continent -- and of how and why this force came to build and rule the great legendary empire of centuries ago that thrived in the Atlantic Ocean. And as we learn of the mighty powers of this lost kingdom of Atalantaya, the lost realms of Atlantis, we come to understand its secrets, and how and why the vampire Lestat, indeed all the vampires, must reckon so many millennia later with the terrifying force of this ageless, all-powerful Atalantaya spirit.
Blood Communion
- 464pages
- 17 heures de lecture
SOON TO BE A MAJOR TV SHOW, FROM THE NETWORK BEHIND THE WALKING DEAD ' W hen I found Rice's work I absolutely loved how she took that genre and (...) made it feel so contemporary and relevant' Sarah Pinborough, bestselling author of Behind Her Eyes ' Rice wrote in the great tradition of the gothic' Ramsey Campbell, bestselling author of The Hungry Moon FROM INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR AND 'QUEEN OF THE UNDEAD', ANNE RICE The Vampire Chronicles continue with a riveting, rich saga - part adventure, part fairy tale - of Prince Lestat and the story of how he came to rule the vampire world From his ancestral chateau high up in the mountains of France, Prince Lestat grapples to instil a new ideology of peace and harmony among the blood-drinking community. Accustomed to welcoming the Undead from far and wide, one night he awakes to news of a ruthless attack by a group of maverick vampires. After fleeing to investigate the terror, Lestat learns of several new enemies who are intent on disrupting the harmony he tries so hard to maintain. But is Lestat strong enough to take on such evil alone or will sacrifices have to be made? Will his cry for peace be heard in a world riddled with violence?
Dans le même esprit
The mother of all vampires, Akasha, awakens after a 6,000 year slumber when she hears Lestat the vampire's music about her. She elevates herself to the level of the gods and vows to destroy Lestat.
The Vampire Chronicles Collection
- 1280pages
- 45 heures de lecture
The hypnotic, deeply seductive novels of Anne Rice have captivated millions of fans around the world. It all began a quarter of a century ago with Interview with the Vampire. Now, in one chilling volume, here are the first three classic novels of The Vampire Chronicles. INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE Witness the confessions of a vampire. A novel of mesmerizing beauty and astonishing force, it is a story of danger and flight, love and loss, suspense and resolution, and the extraordinary power of the senses. THE VAMPIRE LESTAT Once an aristocrat from pre-revolutionary France, now a rock star in the decadent 1980s, Lestat rushes through the centuries seeking to fathom the mystery of his existence. His is a mesmerizing story–passionate and thrilling. QUEEN OF THE DAMNED Akasha, the queen of the damned, has risen from a six-thousand-year sleep to let loose the powers of the night. She has a marvelously devious plan to “save” mankind–in this vivid novel of the erotic, electrifying world of the undead. --back cover
