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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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 . . . .
Les derniers rois de Thulé
Véritable trésor ethnologique, ce livre constitue d’abord une somme d’informations irremplaçable sur les Inuits du Groenland. Mais son succès international, jamais démenti au cours de ses multiples rééditions depuis 1951, tient aussi au talent de conteur de Malaurie qui sait immerger le lecteur, jusqu’au plus infime détail, avec une patience et un souci de vérité infinis, dans la vie de ce grand Nord mythique, de cette « Ultima Thulé » des anciens. Ce géographe et géologue de formation qui cite Rimbaud (« Quelle sorcière va se dresser sur le couchant blanc ? ») fait revivre dans un style alerte chasses au morse et à l’ours, festins de viande crue, soirées de fête dans la nuit polaire, grands raids en traîneaux par moins 60 °C sur la banquise et les glaciers, levers de soleil dans le blizzard, songes, légendes et séances de sorcellerie. Formidable leçon d’humanisme, ce chef-d’œuvre inclassable est également l’occasion d’une réflexion approfondie sur la fragilité d’un environnement et d’une culture menacés.
The Supernaturalist
En Anglais – In the future, in a place called Satelite City, fourteen-year-old Cosmo Hill enters the world, unwanted by his parents. He's sent to the Clarissa Frayne Institute for Parentally Challenged Boys, Freight class. At Clarissa Frayne, the boys are put to work by the state, testing highly dangerous products. At the end of most days, they are covered with burns, bruises, and sores. Cosmo realizes that if he doesn't escape, he will die at this so-called orphanage. When the moment finally comes, Cosmo seizes his chance and breaks out with the help of the Supernaturalists, a motley crew of kids who all have the same special ability as Cosmo-they can see supernatural Parasites, creatures that feed on the life force of humans. The Supernaturalists patrol the city at night, hunting the Parasites in hopes of saving what's left of humanity in Satellite City. Or so they think.
Culture and Society – 1780-1950
En Anglais – Acknowledged as perhaps the masterpiece of materialist criticism in the English language, this omnibus ranges over British literary history from George Eliot to George Orwell to inquire about the complex ways economic reality shapes the imagination.