Few readers need any introduction to the work of the most influential poet of the twentieth century. In addition to the title poem, this selecion includes "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", "Gerontion", "Ash Wednesday", and other poems from Mr. Eliot's early and middle work. "In ten years' time," wrote Edmund Wilson in Axel0s Castle (1931), "Eliot has...
A tidewater morning/Un Matin de Virginie. Trois histoires de jeunesse. Toujours présent en filigrane dans ses ½uvres, William Styron l'est ici au premier degré. Un matin de Virginie se compose de trois longues histoires reliées par la chaîne de la mémoire. Paul à vingt ans dans les Marines, Paul à dix et treize ans dans le village de son enfance ne sont...
The road/La route. Un cataclysme inconnu a dévasté le monde. Des incendies géants ont ravagé les villes et les campagnes tandis que la faune a disparu. Ce qui ressemble à un hiver nucléaire masque en permanence le soleil et des cendres recouvrent le paysage. L'humanité a presque disparu, les quelques survivants se terrent tels des bêtes ou, ayant...
When Ishmael sets sail on the whaling ship Pequod one cold Christmas Day, he has no idea of the horrors awaiting him out on the vast and merciless ocean. The ship's strange captain, Ahab, is in the grip of an obsession to hunt down the famous white whale, Moby Dick, and will stop at nothing on his quest to annihilate his nemesis.
Set in New England just after the end of the Civil War, Mourning Becomes Electra is O'Neill's three part reworking of themes from Greek tragedy. This adaptation of Aeschylus' Oresteia by one of America's greatest playwrights is a landmark in the history of theatre.
A delicious tale of big dreams on a small island, from the international bestselling author and winner of the PRIX DES ÉTUDIANTS. Meterena likes movies about love. And after fourteen years with Pito, the father of her three children, she wants a ring on her finger and a framed wedding certificate on the wall. But Pito does not like movies about love. He...
The crucible/Les Sorcières de Salem. En 1692, Abigaïl Williams, une jeune femme habitant Salem dans le Massachusetts, est servante chez d'honnêtes fermiers, les Proctor. Très vite, Abigaïl tombe amoureuse de John Proctor qui en fait sa maîtresse. Élisabeth, sa femme, découvre leur relation et la chasse de la maison. Pour se venger, la jeune fille, âgée de...
This startling new novel by Albert Wendt takes the form of a fast-moving allegorical thriller. Who are the all-powerful Tribunal and President? Who are the Hunters and the Hunted, and the allies from the depths of the city? Set in a future New Zealand where only the Citizen who asks no questions can achieve happiness, a renegade hero seeks to rescue his...