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By Homère. 1965
Ulysse, héros grec de la guerre de Troie, celui dont la ruse a permis de mettre fin à un siège…
de dix ans, voudrait regagner son île d'Ithaque où l'attendent sa femme Pénélope et son fils Télémaque. Mais les dieux ne l'entendent pas ainsi. Sur le chemin du retour, il doit affronter le Cyclope, la magicienne Circé, les Sirènes au chant mortel, les monstres Charybde et Scylla, et bien d'autres encore. 1965.By Molière. 1668
Dans cette grande comédie, Molière a affirmé son indépendance et son étrangeté. Ambiguïté, ironie, conventions bravées, plaisir de la fiction,…
féerie, et derrière tout cela, une réalité sordide. Harpagon est prisonnier d'une obsession qui nourrit les chimères d'un esprit déréglé. C'est aussi une figure moderne, malgré ce qu'il emprunte à la tradition comique. c1668.By Edmond Rostand. 1897
Désespéré par son fameux nez "qui d'un quart d'heure en tous lieux le précède", le Gascon Cyrano n'ose ouvrir son…
coeur à sa cousine Roxane, l'objet de sa passion. Cet homme de l'ombre aussi laid qu'éloquent prêtera donc, en secret, sa verve et sa voix à son rival plus beau, mais moins spirituel que lui... Cyrano de Bergerac, comédie héroïque créée le 28 décembre 1897, a ravi des générations de spectateurs et de lecteurs. De Constant Coquelin à Gérard Depardieu, les plus grands comédiens ont prêté leurs traits à ce personnage haut en couleurs, incarnation pittoresque du coq gaulois, poète fantasque et amoureux sublime. Dans cette oeuvre pleine de panache à l'origine d'un engouement populaire sans précédent, Rostand nous rappelle, sous couvert de légèreté, que l'on ne saurait vivre que de lyrisme et d'ivresse. 1897.By Les Barker. 2003
By Tom Wolfe. 2001
By Felix Dennis. 2002
By Ken Smith, Matthew Sweeney. 1997
Poetry that is testament to the transforming power of the imagination, poetry that catches the reader in the full glare…
of its light, challenging the isolation, stigma and myths of mental illness.By Christina Georgina Rossetti. 1970
By Charles Simic. 1995
By Carol Ann Duffy. 1993
By Julian Barnes. 1995
This is a collection of Julian Barnes's writing for "The New Yorker". Since 1990, Barnes has written a regular "Letter…
from London" which has covered such subjects as the Lloyd's insurance disaster, the rise and fall of Margaret Thatcher, the troubles of the Royal Family, etc. His essays aim to provide a portrait of 1990s Britain.By Jo Shapcott. 2000
A compendium from all three of Jo Shapcott's award-winning books of poetry, "Electroplating the baby", "Phrase book" and "My life…
asleep". It reveals her to be a writer of ingenious, politically acute and provocative imagination and justifies her as one of the most original and daring voices of her generation.By Derek Mahon, Peter Fallon. 1999
By Les Barker. 2003
By Charles Causley. 1992
Charles Causley, who has lived all his life on the Cornish coast, is best known for his devotion to the…
ballad tradition and to perfectly crafted, easily comprehended verse. This collection includes one hundred new poems. 1992. Uniform title: Poems.By John Agard. 1996
An embarrassing pimple? No spare cash? The heart-stopping thrill of being in love? Whatever it is, your secrets safe. Look…
inside this book, though, and you just might find a poem that describes exactly how you are feeling. Junior high readers.By Dick King-Smith. 1996
Find out, in these poems, what happens to the very dirty Gertie when the pong becomes too much. Then laugh…
out loud as you hear about: Wendy Watson-Wilberforce, who'll only ever eat tomato sauce; Miss Emily Berry, the strongest girl in the school; fearless Arthur Best, who sets off one day to climb Mount Everest; and many other wild and nutty characters. Grades 3-6.By Mike Harding. 1995
Mike Harding is best known as one of this country's leading entertainers, with frequent appearances on both television and radio.…
In this dynamic collection of poems he draws on the rhythm and metre of his musical background. His work is both thoughtful and sophisticated, often inspired by the Cumbrian hills where he now lives, and with an energy and verve all of its own. Grades 3-6.By Matthew Sweeney. 2000
This collection of the styles and tones of Matthew Sweeney provides a wide variety of verse, including haiku, sestinas, poems…
about foreign travel and verses beginning with a line by someone else.By Oscar Wilde, Stephen Calloway, David Colvin. 1997
A collection which showcases Wilde's fabulous verbal dexterity. Based on two books published during his lifetime, The Maxims of Oscar…
Wilde and Oscariana, and organized by subject. Includes many epigrams and sayings which ridiculed the conventional wisdom of Wilde's day and skewered its hypocrisies. 1997.