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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En Anglais – One day Robbie is hit by a car while running after his dog, Lucky. Unconscious, Robbie lies in hospital, unable to speak, move or eat. But he can hear; he is aware. His friends and family try desperately to reach him – even Zola, his favourite Chelsea footballer, comes to see him. And still Robbie can’t ‘wake up’. Until one day, against hospital rules, Dad brings Lucky into the hospital. Can Lucky bring Robbie back to life ?
Man and Superman, Arms and the Man, …..
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.
Les Mercenaires
A ma connaissance, aucun mercenaire ne répond plus à la définition qu’en donne le Larousse : “soldat qui sert à prix d’argent un gouvernement étranger”.
Les merceniares que j’ai rencontrés et dont parfois j’ai partagé la vie combattent de vingt à trente ans pour refaire le monde. Jusqu’à quarante ans, ils se battent pour leurs rêves et cette image d’eux-mêmes qu’ils se sont inventée. Puis, s’ils ne se font pas tuer, ils se résignent à vivre comma tout le monde – mais mal, car ils ne touchent pas de retraite – et ils meurent dans leur lit d’une congestion ou d’une cirrhose du fois.
Jamais l’argent ne les intéresse, rarement la gloire, et ils ne se soucient que fort peu de l’opinion de leurs contemporains. C’est en cela qu’ils diffèrent des autres hommes.
Sister Carrie
En anglais – When a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does one of two things. Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better, or she rapidly assumes the cosmopolitan standard of virtue and becomes worse. The tale of Carrie Meeber’s rise to stardom in the theatre and George Hurstwood’s slow decline captures the twin poles of exuberance and exhaustion in modern city life as never before. The premier example of American naturalism, Dreiser’s remarkable first novel has deeply influenced such key writers as William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Saul Bellow, and Joyce Carol Oates. This edition uses the 1900 text, which is regarded as the author’s final version.