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En 1940, Julien Gracq a trouvé dans la Drôle de guerre une situation d'attente qui rejoint l'un de ses tropismes littéraires. Près de quinze ans après, dans Un balcon en forêt, c'est ce climat qu'il décrit, de façon réaliste, mais dans le cadre imaginaire d'une maison forte des Ardennes. ...

A group of rich, spoiled and idle young people heading off on a winter holiday are stranded at a railway station when their train is delayed by thick, enclosing fog. PARTY GOING describes their four-hour wait in a London railway hotel where they shelter from the grim weather and the throngs of worke...

When war breaks out, Roe volunteers for the Auxillary Fire Service in London, and is trained under a professional fire officer, Pye. The two men discover that a quite different link exists between them. In the apocalyptic atmosphere of the Blitz, the relationship between the two men develops. With a...

Illustrations de Rossi, Myrbach, etc. ...

An anthology of plays with an introduction by Edmund Gosse. ...

Headlong by Michael Frayn – shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Whitbread Novel Award – is a comic thriller set in the world of fine art, where a young philosophy lecturer risks his wealth and his sanity in the pursuit of an elusive masterpiece. ...

The Lusiads is a work of epic poetry by Portuguese writer Luís Vaz de Camões, the first Portuguese epic published in print. Probably begun in 1556 and completed in 1571, it was published in Lisbon on March 12, 1572, in the literary period of Classicism, or late Renaissance, three years after the a...

First published in 1572, The Lusiads is one of the greatest epic poems of the Renaissance, immortalizing Portugal's voyages of discovery with an unrivalled freshness of observation. At the centre of The Lusiads is Vasco da Gama's pioneer voyage via southern Africa to India in 1497-98. The first E...

When his father died, J. R. Ackerley was shocked to discover that he had led a secret life. And after Ackerley himself died, he left a surprise of his own―this coolly considered, unsparingly honest account of his quest to find out the whole truth about the man who had always eluded him in life. Bu...

Dans le désert, la montagne, la campagne, en ville, n importe ou, il m est vital de marcher. Marcher rejoindre le désert saharien, marcher pour visiter un ami, marcher pour me rendre au travail, marcher pour les courses, marcher pour marcher, mercher, c est ainsi! Marcher. Pourquoi? Pour être lib...

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André Gide considérait ce premier roman comme le véritable chef-d'oeuvre de Stendhal. Armance a été publié en 1827 en pleine période romantique. L'intrigue se situe à l'époque de la Restauration. Octave de Malivert, jeune homme plein de talent mais taciturne aime Armance de Zohiloff, qui pa...