Theodore Dreiser
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.
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La Reine morte
La Reine morte est une pièce de théâtre d'Henry de Montherlant écrite en 1942 et représentée pour la première fois le 8 décembre 1942 à la Comédie-Française dans une mise en scène de Pierre Dux avec Jean-Louis Barrault et Madeleine Renaud. C'est une des pièces les plus connues de l'auteur, qui développe le thème classique de l'amour contrarié par la raison d'État. Cette pièce est librement inspirée de l'histoire des rois de Portugal Alphonse IV et Pierre Ier et d'Inés de Castro, d'après le drame espagnol Reinar después de morir, Régner après sa mort, de Luis Velez de Guevara.
Dans ce deuxième volume de LA LUMIERE DES JUSTES, qui peut se lire comme un roman séparé, la belle et ardente Sophie, jeune aristocrate française aux idées républicaines, est devenue la barynia, l’épouse du barine, du seigneur russe Nicolas Ozareff qu’elle a suivi dans son pays. Sa vie à Kachtanovka, immense domaine où les paysans serfs sont parqués dans de misérables villages, constitue pour Sophie une extraordinaire expérience. Indignée par l’injustice de certaines coutumes russes, elle n’hésite pas à affronter son beau-père, hallucinante figure de vieillard despotique mais qui finit par céder au charme de la jeune Parisienne au point de jalouser son propre fils. Dévouée à tous, Sophie apprend à lire au petit moujik Nikita, qui l’adore en secret. Mais est-elle assez attentive aux sentiments que Nicolas, désœuvré, sent naître en lui pour la belle Daria Philippovna ?
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. …