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Raymond Williams
Culture and Society – 1780-1950
En Anglais – Acknowledged as perhaps the masterpiece of materialist criticism in the English language, this omnibus ranges over British literary history from George Eliot to George Orwell to inquire about the complex ways economic reality shapes the imagination.
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En Anglais – 1898. Most of Shaw’s early plays were either banned by the censor or refused production. With Plays: Pleasant and Unpleasant he sought a reading audience. He also began the practice of writing the challenging, mocking, eloquent prefaces to his plays, which were sometimes longer than the play itself. This volume contains the Unpleasant: Widowers’ Houses; The Philanderer; and Mrs. Warren’s Profession.
Le Dauphin perdu
Louis XVII, roi de France et de Navarre : telle est l’inscription que porte, dans la ville hollandaise de Delft, la tombe d’un horloger prussien, Karl Naundorff. Naundorff était-il Louis XVII ? L’énigme de « l’enfant du Temple », le mystère des prétendants au trône de France après la Restauration, l’étrange destinée de Naundorff le principal d’entre eux, voilà autant de problème qui ont toujours fasciné les historiens et le grand public et quxquels la récente exhumation des restes de Naundorff et le livre si discuté de Me Maurice Garçon viennent de donner un regain d’actualité. C’est dire le plaisir que chacun prendra à lire ce roman qui, basé sur les données historiques les plus authentiques, nous fait revivre avec émotion, dans les décors, les plus variés de l’Europe du siècle dernier, la vie vie étonnante et les amours de celui qui fut, nous démontre l’auteur, le vrai Louis XVII.
The Golden Egg
En Anglais – In The Golden Egg, as the first leaves of autumn begin to fall, Vice Questore Patta asks Brunetti to look into a minor shop-keeping violation committed by the mayor's future daughter-in-law. Brunetti has no interest in helping his boss amass political favors, but he has little choice but to comply. Then Brunetti's wife, Paola, comes to him with a request of her own. The mentally handicapped man who worked at their dry cleaner has just died of a sleeping pill overdose, and Paola loathes the idea that he lived and died without anyone noticing him, or helping him.Brunetti begins to investigate the death and is surprised when he finds nothing on the man: no birth certificate, no passport, no driver's license, no credit cards. As far as the Italian government is concerned, he never existed. Stranger still, the dead man's mother refuses to speak to the police, and assures Brunetti that her son's identification papers were stolen in a burglary.
Le quart de nuit
» Dans le grand silence qui suivit, la mèche d’un cierge dont la flamme rougeoyait, grésilla. Tous -les marins, Mrs Linsell, Mrs Shane, les amants- fixaient intensément du regard le visage durci aux yeux ouverts de Warvick, qui cependant paraissait exprimer une torture intérieure comme si l’homme eût été en proie à un débat. Ils l’entendirent murmurer : – On ne sait plus. On ne saura jamais ».