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Sa majesté des mouches
By William Golding, Lola Tranec. 1984
Une bande de garçons de six à douze ans se trouve jetée par un naufrage sur une île déserte. Il…
faut s'organiser. On élit un chef mais bientôt un mécontent se porte à la tête d'une bande rivale. Voici l'aventure des sociétés humaines tragiquement mise en scène par des enfants. Quelques descriptions de violence. 1984, c1954. Titre uniforme: Lord of the flies.Siddhartha
By Hermann Hesse. 1980
Un jour vient où l'enseignement traditionnel donné aux brahmanes ne suffit plus au jeune Siddhartha et, quand des samanas passent…
dans la ville, il les suit en compagnie de son ami Govinda. Ainsi débute le cycle de son évolution, lent cheminement vers la maturité. 1980.The history of Mr Polly
By H. G Wells. 1910
Mr Polly has spent years as a respectable shopkeeper. His life has little to offer but more tedium and poverty.…
So he settles on the idea of suicide and plans a fire that will destroy him. But in the mayhem that ensues, he forgets to kill himself and finds a whole new world waiting for him. 1910.Voyage in the dark
By Jean Rhys. 1934
1914. Anna, 18 and independent both by circumstance and by character, has exchanged the West Indian island of her childhood…
for the cold, grey island of England, with its narrow streets and narrow rules. She comes to understand a world where people offer you no help unless there's something they want. 1934.Swann's way (In search of lost time ; #1)
By Marcel Proust. 1913
The narrator interrupts reminiscences about his childhood spent in late-nineteenth-century France to recall the affair which a friend of his…
family carries on with young Odette de Crecy. Followed by "Within a budding grove (DC31598). 1913. (In search of lost time ; 1) Uniform title: Du côté de chez Swann.Whiteoak harvest (Whiteoaks of Jalna saga ; #11)
By Mazo De la Roche. 1936
Relations between Renny and his wife Alayne have come to a crisis which threatens to end in tragedy. Finch and…
Sarah return from their honeymoon, and their married life takes a strange course, while the attachment between Wakefield and Pauline Lebraux has unexpected consequences. Uncle Ernest, now more than 80 years old, gets engaged to Alayne's aunt. Sequel to "The master of Jalna" (DC06776). Followed by "Wakefield's course" (DC31473). 1936. (Whiteoaks of Jalna ; 11)The ambassadors: an authoritative text, the author on the novel, criticism
By Henry James. 1983
A newspaper editor is sent to Paris by his wealthy fiancee to bring home her son. He is confronted with…
the conflict between American and European values. First published in 1903. 1983.Tarzan of the apes (Penguin twentieth-century classics)
By Edgar Rice Burroughs, John D Seelye. 1914
Lord and Lady Greystoke are cast ashore on the African coast after a shipboard mutiny. They later die in the…
jungle, but their infant son survives (nursed by a family of great apes) to become Tarzan. 1914.The building of Jalna (Whiteoaks of Jalna saga ; #1)
By Mazo De la Roche. 1945
Adeline, an impulsive bride with an Irish temper, and her husband, Captain Whiteoak, select Lake Ontario as the site of…
their home. The building of the house, the swimming and skating parties, and the jealousies and humour of the family are described. Followed by "Morning at Jalna" (DC31471). 1945. (Whiteoaks of Jalna saga ; 1)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.The trial
By Franz Kafka, Breon Mitchell. 1998
On his thirtieth birthday, Josef K., a conscientious bank official, is arrested in his lodgings on unstated charges. He is…
constantly thwarted in his attempts to clarify his situation, even in court. A new translation by Breon Mitchell based on the restored 1914 text. 1998. Uniform title: Prozess.Youth ; The end of the tether
By Joseph Conrad. 1975
Contains "Youth" and "The end of the tether." In "Youth," second mate Marlow dreams of seeing Bangkok. But the grim…
realities of life at sea cause troubles aboard the old steamer. The story is based on Conrad's first Asian voyage. In "The end of the tether," aging Captain Whalley buys a share in, and the right to command, a coastal steamer. The scene is set for conflict between Whalley's fine, elevated actions and the shipowner's anti-social behaviour. Originally published in 1902. 1975.Who has seen the wind
By W. O Mitchell, William Kurelek. 1947
Whiteoaks of Jalna (Whiteoaks of Jalna saga ; #8)
By Mazo De la Roche. 1929
Finch, the awkward, misunderstood musical genius of the family, is the centre of this novel. Events reach a climax when…
the eccentric old grandmother dies and leaves her fortune to him. Sequel to "Jalna" (DC31470). Followed by "Finch's fortune" (DC30892). 1929. (Whiteoaks of Jalna saga ; 8)To the lighthouse
By Virginia Woolf. 1927
A stream-of-consciousness novel about the Ramsays, an English family living in the Hebrides, Scotland. In the middle of the story…
there is an interlude of ten years, in which sea winds and caretakers have their way with the house. Afterwards, the tale resumes with the same characters changed and viewed from different angles. Textbook format. 1977, c1927.Tobacco Road
By Erskine Caldwell. 1932
The famous saga of Jeeter Lester and his shiftless family. Their ribald adventures along Tobacco Road, once a flourishing plantation,…
attract a lusty preacher, Sister Bessie. Explicit descriptions of sex. 1995, c1932.The metamorphosis: and other stories
By Franz Kafka, Joachim Neugroschel. 1994
First published in the early part of the twentieth century. The translator explains the origins of Kafka's Prague German in…
the introduction. In "Metamorphosis" - a three-part novella - a man awakens one morning from agitated dreams to find himself transformed into a monstrous insect. This collection also contains sketches, stories, and other short works by a writer known for his ability to capture the essence of the human condition in a short story. 1994.The Manchurian candidate
By Richard Condon. 1959
An American soldier, Raymond Shaw, is captured during the Korean War and brainwashed by his communist captors. Hypnotized to commit…
crimes on command, Shaw returns home where he is hailed as a hero, but the time-bomb in his subconscious involves him in political intrigue. 1959.The fire-dwellers
By Margaret Laurence. 1969