Anouilhs Bearbeitung des Antigone-Stoffes ist ein Klassiker des modernen französischen Theaters und eines seiner meistdiskutierten Stücke. Die zentrale Auseinandersetzung zwischen der Titelheldin und Kreon über Leben und Tod, Staatsräson und individuelle Freiheit hat zu immer neuen Deutungsversuchen geführt und sich doch jeder abschließenden Festlegung entzogen. Ungekürzte und unbearbeitete Textausgabe in der Originalsprache, mit Übersetzungen schwieriger Wörter am Fuß jeder Seite, Nachwort und Literaturhinweisen.

Anatomie d'un mariage et d'une famille " les Berglund ", ce livre analyse les illusions, les déceptions et les compromis d'une génération de baby-boomers qui avaient rêvé un jour de changer le monde. Mais c'est aussi un acte d'accusation implacable à l'égard d'une nation qui a cessé depuis longtemps d'incarner ses propres valeurs.

A killer stalks a group of ten total strangers on an isolated island off the Devon coast, in a suspenseful story of murder and retribution set to a sinister nursery rhyme.

The Jungle book introduces Mowgli, the human founding adopted by a family of wolves. It tells of the enmity between him and the tiger Shere Khan, who killed Mowgli's parents, and of the friendship between the man-cub and Bagheera, the black panther, and Baloo, the sleepy brown bear, who instruct Mowgli in the Laws of the jungle.
The second jungle book countains some of the most thrilling of the Mowgli stories. It includes Red dog, in which Mowgli forms an unlikely alliance with the python Kaa, How fear came and Letting in the jungle as well as The spring running, wich brings Mowgli to manhood and the realisation that he must lease Bagheera, Baloo and his other friends for the world of man.
Lire la suite Fermer

Several months into his recovery from a near-fatal illness, novelist Sidney Orr enters a Brooklyn stationery shop and buys a blue notebook. It is September 18th, 1982, and for the next nine days Orr will live under the spell of this blank book, within a world of eerie premonitions.

On the hottest day of the summer of 1934, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her is Robbie Turner, her childhood friend who, like Cecilia, has recently come down from Cambridge.

By the end of that day, the lives of all three will have been changed for ever. Robbie and Cecilia will have crossed a boundary they had not even imagined at its start, and will have become victims of the younger girl's imagination. Briony will have witnessed mysteries, and committed a crime for which she will spend the rest of her life trying to atone.