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Pour qui sonne le glas
By Ernest Hemingway, Denise Van Moppès. 1961
La guerre d'Espagne. Un roman de l'engagement et de l'héroïsme. Un hommage à l'idéalisme de certains intellectuels européens des années…
1930 et à leur besoin de participer à l'action. L'oeuvre a été inspirée à l'auteur par son expérience de correspondant de guerre auprès de l'armée républicaine en Espagne. 1995, c1961.Les Plouffe
By Roger Lemelin. 1973
En 1938, à Québec, vit la famille Plouffe, colorée, drôle, contrastée : Théophile, le père, typographe et ancien champion cycliste,…
la soixantaine; Joséphine, bonne mère, mais autoritaire et qui ne badine pas avec la religion; Napoléon, plombier et timide avec les femmes; Ovide, ouvrier dans la chaussure mais qui ne rêve que d'opéra; Guillaume; Cécile... c1973.Heart of darkness
By Joseph Conrad. 1993
Marlow relates his journey into the centre of the Congo to find Kurtz. He finds that the farther he penetrates,…
the more compelling becomes his confrontation with the potential for inhumanity. 1993.Bonheur d'occasion (Québec 10/10. 6)
By Gabrielle Roy. 1983
Publié en 1945. Un grand classique de la littérature québécoise. Rappelons que "Bonheur d'occasion" raconte l'histoire d'un quartier pauvre de…
Montréal, Saint-Henri, et que les principaux personnages en sont une jeune serveuse de restaurant, un ouvrier de fonderie et un conscrit. c1945, 1983.The temptations of Big Bear (New Canadian library)
By Rudy Henry Wiebe, Robert Kroetsch. 1973
In 1876, Big Bear, a Plains Cree, refused to let the government push his people off their land and onto…
a reserve. While courageous, his stand brought starvation to his followers and tore apart the Cree community and eventually his own family. A fictional account of Big Bear's struggle and the culture and history of the Cree Indians. Winner of the 1973 Governor General's Award.The beautiful and damned
By F. Scott Fitzgerald. 1922
A story of the reckless life of the twenties in which Anthony Patch, grandson and heir apparent to millions, falls…
in love with and marries a glamour girl from Kansas City. Because of their extravagant style of living, their marriage fails, and Grandfather Patch decides against the intended inheritance. 1922.Two solitudes (New Press Canadian classics)
By Hugh MacLennan. 1945
The division between French and English Canadians is dramatically shown in this novel about two families -- one, French landowners…
in a small Quebec village; the other, English businessmen from Montreal. Winner of the 1945 Governor General's Award for Fiction.Lady Chatterley's lover
By D. H Lawrence. 1973
An earthy love story, once banned in the United States, of the affair between Lady Chatterley and her gamekeeper, Mellors.…
Married to an impotent, disabled husband, she is attracted to Mellors’s strength and independence from industrial society. Explicit descriptions of sex. 1973.The old man and the sea
By Ernest Hemingway. 1952
An old Cuban fisherman hooks a giant marlin after eighty-five days without a catch. He then fights a losing battle…
with sharks that deprive him of his triumph. Recorded in textbook format. Winner of the 1953 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. 1952.The grapes of wrath
By John Steinbeck. 1939
Depression farmers and their families are driven from the dust bowl of their Oklahoma farms to the promised land of…
California to find work. Winner of the 1940 Pulitzer Prize for the novel. Strong language. 1939.Le tour d'écrou
By Henry James, Mathieu Meyrignac. 2008
The call of the wild
By Jack London. 1903
Buck, a St. Bernard, is stolen and trained to be a sled dog in the Alaska gold fields. Abused by…
both men and dogs, Buck learns to fight ruthlessly until he finds in John Thornton a master he loves and respects. c1903.East of Eden
By John Steinbeck. 1995
A saga of two California families from the turn of the century through World War I. The Trasks, a mixture…
of gentleness and brutality, contrast with the Hamiltons, the author's own forebears, a well-adjusted, more tranquil family. 1995, c1952.The case-book of Sherlock Holmes (Oxford Sherlock Holmes)
By Arthur Conan Doyle. 1928
These are the last 12 stories Conan Doyle wrote about Holmes and Watson. They reflect the disillusioned world of the…
1920's in which they were written, and he can be seen to take advantage of new, more open conventions in fiction. 1928.The return of Sherlock Holmes (The Oxford Sherlock Holmes)
By Arthur Conan Doyle. 1917
Assumed dead after his terrible encounter with Professor Moriarty, Sherlock Holmes returns to astonish the world by telling the miraculous…
story of his escape and the succeeding years of deception. Together again, Holmes and Watson embark on thirteen further intriguing and dangerous adventures. 1917.