Lindsay Swift
Brook farm
En Anglais – The definitive study of one of America’s most unusual experiments in establishing the ideal society. Introduction by Joseph Schiffman
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Adam Runaway
En Anglais – “It is 1721 and young Adam Hanaway, devastated by his father’s sudden death, leaves England to seek his fortune in Lisbon, where his uncle is a successful merchant. But almost nothing turns out as Adam planned. His family’s welcome is cool, and Adam’s rise to the top is thwarted by Bartolomeu Gomes, his uncle’s treacherous clerk.” “As Adam attempts to overcome these obstacles he is handicapped by a certain personal trait. Not, he insists, that he is a coward exactly, but he is inclined to boldly put himself in dangerous situations and then at the last minute run away from them – hence the nickname given to him by friends who had observed this failing once too often.” “While Adam’s mother and sisters wait in England for him to rescue them from poverty, Adam is preoccupied with more compelling women: the beautiful, older half-Portuguese lady Maria Beatriz Hutchinson; the spoiled, rich Gabriella Lowther; and his charming young cousin Nancy. But Adam commits a social faux pas so severe he forever ruins his chances for making a good match – yet no one dares tell him what he has done wrong!” “Adam certainly has a lot to learn. …
Boule de suif
Rouen, occupé par les Prussiens, durant la guerre de 1870. Des bourgeois tentent de fuir la ville en diligence. Parmi eux se trouve une prostituée, celle qu’on surnomme Boule de suif. Tous vont abuser de sa générosité et la forcer à céder au chantage sexuel d’un Prussien. Maupassant dresse ici un portrait inégalé de l’hypocrisie et de la lâcheté humaines. Il condamne sans appel la guerre et la classe dirigeante, paternaliste et profiteuse. Il nous communique toute sa tendresse pour une fille au grand coeur, symbole d’une résistance vouée à l’échec.
La maison Tellier
Fermé pour cause de première communion : un tel avis, sur la porte d’une maison close, n’est pas chose courante, et les habitués de la maison Tellier, de Fécamp, n’en reviennent pas. Pendant ce temps, Madame et ses cinq pensionnaires vont retrouver à la campagne, le temps d’une fête, leurs émois et leur innocence de petites filles.
The black country
En Anglais – When members of a prominent family disappear from a coal-mining village—and a human eyeball is discovered in a bird’s nest—the local constable sends for help from Scotland Yard’s new Murder Squad. Fresh off the grisly 1889 murders of The Yard, Inspector Walter Day and Sergeant Nevil Hammersmith respond, but they have no idea what they’re about to get into. The villagers have intense, intertwined histories. Everybody bears a secret. Superstitions abound. And the village itself is slowly sinking into the mines beneath it. Not even the arrival of forensics pioneer Dr. Bernard Kingsley seems to help. In fact, the more the three of them investigate, the more they realize they may never be allowed to leave . . . .