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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.Pat of Silver Bush
By L. M Montgomery. 1988
Patricia Gardiner loves her home, Silver Bush, on Prince Edward Island. All her experiences -- a bout with scarlet fever,…
her first romance, her aunt's wedding and her mother's illness -- are shared with her friends, Bets Wilcox, Jingle Gordon, and the mysterious old Judy Plum. Grades 5-8. c1988, originally published 1933.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, 1983.1984: a novel
By George Orwell. 1949
Ivanhoe
By Walter Scott, Elizabeth V DiSomma, Mary Louise McTiernan. 1987
England during the time of Richard I is the background for this novel of chivalry. Among the characters are Robin…
Hood, King Richard, and Rebecca and Rowena, two beautiful women who love Ivanhoe. First published in 1819. (Simple English classics series)Anne of Green Gables
By L. M Montgomery. 1977
When Anne Shirley 'erupts' into their lives, the Cuthberts little guess how fond they will become of the skinny, red-haired…
orphan. Both entertained and exasperated by her constant chatter and imaginings, they soon find it hard to remember what Green Gables was like without its irrepressible adopted daughter. Followed by "Anne of Avonlea". Grades 5-8. 1977, c1908. (Anne of Green Gables ; 1)The great Gatsby
By F. Scott Fitzgerald. 1953
The glitter and recklessness of the Jazz Age is the backdrop for this novel about Jay Gatsby's desperate attempt to…
recapture the past and, along with it, the love of Daisy Buchanan. Grade I braille.Le tour d'écrou
By Henry James, Mathieu Meyrignac. 2008
The story of Babar: the little elephant
By Jean De Brunhoff. 2008
After his mother is killed by a hunter, Babar avoids capture by escaping to the city, where he is befriended…
by the kindly Old Lady. He becomes educated and cultured and, upon his return to the great forest, is crowned King of the Elephants. Grades K-3. Original French edition published in 1931, first English edition 1933. Uniform title: Histoire de Babar, le petit éléphant.Rainbow Valley (Canadian favourites)
By L. M Montgomery. 1923
Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables. #1.)
By L. M Montgomery. 1908
A spirited orphan girl wins the hearts of Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert although they had expected a young boy. Followed…
by "Anne of Avonlea" Grades 5-8. Originally published in 1908. (Anne of Green Gables ; 1)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.