Caitlin Thomas
Leftover life to kill
En anglais – One of the most daring and uninhibited confessions ever written – a candid self-searching story by the widow of the poet Dylan Thomas
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En Anglais – CHERUB agents are all seventeen and under. They wear skate tees and hemp, and look like regular kids. But they're not. They are trained professionals who are sent out on missions to spy on terrorists and international drug dealers. CHERUB agents hack into computers, bug entire houses, and download crucial documents. It is a highly dangerous job. For their safety, these agents DO NOT EXIST. Mainstream animal protection groups have always stayed within the law, but a new band of radical liberationists argues that if humans and animals are equal, then it's right to kill or threaten one human in order to save the lives of many animals. In a new mission, James and the other CHERUB agents must go up against the most radical group yet in a daring and violent attempt to save hundreds of lives… including their own.
Shaw on Theatre
60 years of collected letters, speeches, and articles. Contains:Appendix to The Quintessence of Ibsenism, A Dramatic Realist to his Critics, Preface to The Theatrical « World » of 1894, How to Lecture on Ibsen, The Problem Play-A Symposium, The Censorship of the Stage in England, On Being a Lady in High Comedy, Why Cyril Maude Did Not Produce You Never Can Tell, How to Make Plays Readable, The Dying Tongue of Great Elizabeth, Letters to Louis Calvert on Playing Undershaft, What Is the Finest Dramatic Situation?, Mr. Trench’s Dramatic Values, On the Principles that Govern the Dramatist, To Audiences at Major Barbara, On Cutting Shakespear, Lord Grey, Shakespear, Mr Archer, and Others, I Am a Classic But Am I a Shakespear Thief?, Letter to J.T. Grein, Shakespear: A Standard Text, On Clive Bell’s Article, The Art of Rehearsal, Shakespear and the Stratford-upon-Avon Theatre: A Plea for Reconstruction, On Printed Plays, John Barrymore’s Hamlet, Theatres and Reviews Then and Now, The Colossus Speaks, Playhouses and Plays, Mr. Shaw on Mr. Shaw, Bernard Shaw Talks about Actors and Acting, Speech as Guest of Honor at London Critics Circle Annual Luncheon, On Gordon Craig’s Henry Irving, My First Talkie, Gordon Craig and the Shaw-Terr Letters, Arms and the Man on the Screen, Too True to be Good, An Aside, Dramatic Antiquities at Malvern, Playwrights and Amateurs, The Simple Truth of the Matter, This Year’s Program, Saint Joan Banned.
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 livre du Bonheur
Le livre du Bonheur rassemble en fait deux écrits de Marcelle Auclair, publiés en 1938 et et en 1951 : Le Bonheur est en vous et La pratique du Bonheur. Le second est, à la demande des lecteurs et surtout des lectrices du premier, une suite du précédent. M. Auclair les réunit en 1959. Il s’agit, sous la forme de chapitres extrêmement brefs (une page, une page et demie, deux pages…), de conseils très pratiques, avec de nombreux exemples à l’appui, pour accéder au bonheur. Car M. Auclair prétend que le bonheur relève d’une « science », et que faute de cette science, beaucoup de gens sont inutilement malheureux. En fait, en lisant, on s’en rend compte rapidement : le livre est un des premiers – et des meilleurs – exemples de « pensée positive ». L’idée de base est que la pensée crée, la parole crée. Elles « forment des vibrations toutes puissantes ». Penser joie, amour, paix…, cela donne la joie, l’amour, la paix. Penser que personne ne vous aime est la meilleure façon d’arriver à ce sort malheureux. Si on voulait être méchant, on dirait que Marcelle Auclair, c’est du Dr Coué. C’est en partie vrai. Mais sa culture, sa vivacité, son intelligence vont bien plus profond que les aphorismes superficiels et grossiers de Coué. Ou encore, son côté Coué est transcendé par sa finesse, et ses exemples pris dans la vie courante. Au total, on aime ou on n’aime pas, mais le livre a gardé une incroyable jeunesse : il aurait pu avoir été écrit dans les années 90. Un livre sur le bonheur basé sur la pensée positive, avec des conseils pratiques et de nombreux exemples pour y parvenir. C’est la bible du bonheur !