Walt Whitman
Leaves of grass and selected prose
En anglais – … » I’ve been reading bits and pieces of this mammoth collection for decades. Though I haven’t finished every last page, I’ve completed the lion’s share of the famous sections and will keep whittling away on the rest. » …
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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. …
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 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 . . . .