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Castle Rackrent
di Maria Edgeworth
During the 1790s with Ireland in political crisis Maria Edgeworth made a surprisingly rebellious choice in Castle Rackrent her first novel she adopted an Irish Catholic voice to narrate the decline of a family from her own Anglo Irish class Castle Rackrent s narrator Thady Quirk givesus four generations of Rackrent heirs Sir Patrick the dissipated spendthrift Sir Murtagh the litigating fiend Sir Kit the brutal husband and gambling absentee and Sir Condy the lovable and improvident dupe of Thady s own son Jason With this satire on Anglo Irish landlords Edgeworth pioneered the regional novel and inspired Sir Walter Scott s Waverly 1814 She also changed the focus of conflict in Ireland from religion to class and boldly predicted the rise of the Irish Catholic Bourgeoisie With her satire on Anglo Irish landlords in Castle Rackrent 1800 Maria Edgeworth pioneered the regional novel and inspired Sir Walter Scott s Waverley 1814 Politically risky stylistically innovative and wonderfully entertaining the novel changes the focus of conflict in Ireland from religion to class and boldly predicts the rise of the Irish Catholic bourgeoisie
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood
di Charles Dickens
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A Study in Scarlet
di Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Penguin English Library edition When Dr John Watson takes rooms in Baker Street with amateur detective Sherlock Holmes, he has no idea that he is about to enter a shadowy world of criminality and violence. Accompanying Holmes to an ill-omened house in south London, Watson is startled to find a dead man whose face is contorted in a rictus of horror. There is no mark of violence on the body yet a single word is written on the wall in blood. Dr Watson is as baffled as the police, but Holmes’s brilliant analytical skills soon uncover a trail of murder, revenge and lost love . . .
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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
di Lewis Carroll
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Love
di Angela Carter
“One day, Annabel saw the sun and moon in the sky at the same time. The sight filled her with a terror which entirely consumed her for she had no instinct for self-preservation if she was confronted by ambiguities.”
Annabel and Lee are married; Lee and Buzz are brothers. A quirky threesome, they have set up a household on the fringes on university life in the late sixties. Their hermetic existence is filled with drugs, sex, alchohol, intensity, and madness; their relationships with one another are haunting and complex.
Carter’s compelling tale carries echoes of Poe and Bronte into the very modern world of artists’ flats, psychiatrists’ offices, and generational conflicts. It is ultimately a tale of the search for loyalty and love in the midst of emotional starvation.
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The Nun’s Pries’s Prologue and Tale
di Geoffrey Chaucer
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The Last of the Mohicans
di J. F. Cooper
HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics.‘Death and honour are thought to be the same, but today I have learned that sometimes they are not.’Set in frontier America in the midst of the French-Indian war, as the French are attempting to overthrow an English fort, Cooper’s story follows Alice and Cora Munro, pioneer sisters who are trying to find their way back to their father, an English commander. Guided by an army major and Magua, an Indian from the Huron tribe, they soon meet Hawk-eye, a frontier scout and his Mohican Indian companions Chingachgook and Uncas.Magua is not all that he seems and the sisters are kidnapped. In The Last of the Mohicans, Cooper sets Indian tribe against Indian tribe and lays bare the brutality of the white man against the Mohicans.
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Oeuvres complètes: Tome 1
di Clément Marot
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Le mariage de Figaro
di Beaumarchais
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Le Jeu de l’amour et du hassard
di Pierre de Marivaux
Pour éprouver les sentiments de celui que son père lui destine, Silvia échange sa place avec sa servante Lisette. Mais ce qu’elle ignore, c’est qui Dorante, son prétendant, a eu la même idée et qu’il se présente à elle sous les traits de son valet Arlequin !… Dans cette comédie amoureuse, où les obstacles ne sont pas le fait d’un père autoritaire, de l’argent ou du milieu social, mais des cœurs mêmes, Marivaux explore les méandres du cœur humain et nous donne à entendre une voix féminine qui, par le jeu, veut éprouver l’amour en refusant le hasard.
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Le chercheur d’Afriques
di Henri Lopes
Au pays, il est le mal blanchi. Ici, il est le moricaud. Petit mulâtre aux yeux verts, André est fraîchement débarqué en France. Il y découvre le jazz moderne dont les rythmes réveillent en lui le souvenir des rives du Congo. Malgré ses efforts, il ne parvient pas à honorer la promesse faite à sa mère : approcher le docteur Leclerc, un ancien colon épris de l’Afrique auquel il ressemble étrangement…
Romancier congolais né en 1937, Henri Lopes a été Premier ministre dans son pays de 1973 à 1975. Le Grand Prix de la francophonie de l’Académie française lui a été décerné en 1993.