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By Henri Barbusse. 1965
Éditions originale en feuilleton, 1916. Prix Goncourt, la même année. Le grand roman classique de celui qui voulait en finir…
avec le "mensonge guerrier." C'était au lendemain de la Première Guerre mondiale. 1965, 1916.By Virginia Woolf, M Lanoire. 1968
" Des vacances sur une île en Ecosse. Un enfant rêvant d'aller Au Phare. Sa mère, Mrs Ramsay, objet de…
l'admiration de tous. Une expédition Au Phare dix ans après. La guerre qui entre-temps a laissé un goût amer. Des survivants qui luttent pour combler le vide laissé par l'absence. Entre résurgences enfantines et souvenirs qui se délitent, Virginia Woolf passe au scalpel les tréfonds de la conscience, en évoquant au travers d'une oeuvre poétique les pensées, les délires et les fantasmes de ses personnages. " -- 4e de couv. Titre uniforme: To the lighthouseBy Antoine de Saint Exupéry. 2007
Un pilote d'avion fait la connaissance dans le désert d'un petit garçon venu d'ailleurs. Ce dernier lui fait le récit…
de ses rencontres sur toutes sortes de planètes. Il a découvert ainsi ce qui fait l'essentiel de la vie. Années 3-6. 2008, c1943.By D. H Lawrence. 1988
By George Orwell. 1981
By Ernest Hemingway. 1965
By L. M Montgomery. 1987
Handsome Eric Marshall arrives in Lindsay, Prince Edward Island to work as a substitute teacher before entering his family's business.…
He loses his heart to the mysterious and beautiful Kilmeny Gordon, but he must fight to win her love. Grades 5-8.By L. M Montgomery. 1937
Jane always has believed her father to be dead, but she accidentally learns that he is alive and living on…
Prince Edward Island. The summer that she spends with him at his cottage on Lantern Hill exposes Jane to a totally different way of life. Grades 5-8.By Thomas Pynchon. 2009
As the marijuana haze of the free love 1960s begins to fade, Doc Sportello drifts in and out of awareness.…
He hasn't seen his girlfriend in a long time. Then one day she shows up and rattles off a fantastic story about a plot to kidnap a billionaire land developer--and Doc can't help but get drawn in. 2009.By Thomas H Raddall. 1942
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.By Honoré De Balzac, David Bellos, Sylvia Raphael. 2013
Lisbeth Fischer, or Cousin Bette, feels she's been wronged - though much of what she perceives may only reside in…
her imagination. Seeking vengeance against the family of her beautiful cousin, Adeline, she leverages the uncontrollable sexual appetites of her cousin's husband as the linchpin of her plans. 2013, c1846. Uniform title: Cousine Bette.By Laura Ingalls Wilder. 2003
Story about a traditional farm family in upper New York State in the 1860s tells about work, school, and simple…
amusements and introduces nine-year-old Almanzo Wilder, who later married Laura Ingalls. Grades 4-7 and older readers. Originally published in 1933, c2003.By Edith Wharton, Doris Grumbach. 1993
A grim tale of retribution told so that it seems a transcription of real life. The three characters are a…
discouraged New England farmer, his hypochondriac wife, and a girl who still finds some joy in living. 1993, 1911.By Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol, Robert A Maguire. 2004
Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in a provincial town, visiting a succession of landowners and making each a strange offer.…
He proposes to buy the names of dead serfs still registered on the census, saving their owners from paying tax on them, and to use these souls as collateral to re-invent himself as a gentleman. 2004.By Sinclair Lewis. 1998
Satire of American middle-class city life. George F. Babbitt is a successful real estate man, a regular fellow, booster, Rotarian,…
Elk, and a Republican who moulds his opinions on those of the local newspaper and believes in a sound business administration in Washington. 1998.By Rebecca West. 1985
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.By Mazo De la Roche. 1958
Traces the activities of the Whiteoak family in the mid-fifties, a period climaxed by the 100th anniversary celebration of the…
oldest of the family residences. Sequel to "Variable winds at Jalna". 1973, c1958. (Whiteoaks of Jalna saga ; 16)By Rumer Godden. 1994
Beginning work in the orchards and opening a school and a dispensary for the Himalayan mountain people, the Sisters of…
Mary are dependent for help on the English agent, Mr Dean. But his charm and insolent candour are disconcerting. 1994, c1939.