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The Case-book of Sherlock Holmes | Livre | Fiction | Roman | 2012 | Français | Auteur : Doyle, Arthur Conan | Mot clef : Anglais | Résumé : Featuring the last 12 stories ever written about the infamous detective, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes contains some of Conan Doyle’s most villainous and unusual characters. The 1920s was a disenchanting era, and the darker mood of many of these stories reflects the environment at the time. Some even felt that the stories showed Conan Doyle exploring Spiritualism as it was an area he was interested in at the time and the mental derangement and physical disfigurements that crop up in many of the stories allude to the horrors of the First World War. The collection includes ‘The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire’, ‘The Adventure of the Creeping Man’ and ‘The Adventure of the Lion’s Mane’. Cote : R DOY

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Moby Dick | Livre | Fiction | Roman | 2013 | Français | Auteur : Melville, Herman | Mot clef : Anglais | Résumé : Few literary masterpieces cast quite as awesome a shadow as Herman Melville's Moby Dick. Captain Ahab's quest for the white whale is a timeless epic - a thrilling tale of vengeance and obsession, and a searing parable about humanity lost in a universe of moral ambiguity. Cote : R MEL

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Moby-dick | Livre | Fiction | Roman | 2012 | Français | Auteur : Melville, Herman | Mot clef : Anglais | Résumé : The Penguin English Library Edition of Moby-Dick by Herman Melville 'The frail gunwales bent in, collapsed, and snapped, as both jaws, like an enormous shears, sliding further aft, bit the craft completely in twain...' Moby-Dick is one of the most expansive feats of imagination in the whole of literature: the mad, raging, Shakespearean tale of Captain Ahab's insane quest to kill a giant white whale that has taken his leg, and upon which he has sworn vengeance, at any cost. A creation unlike any other, this is an epic story of fatal monomania and the deepest dreams and obsessions of mankind. The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War. Cote : R MEL

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The Call of the Wild | Livre | Fiction | Roman | 2016 | Français | Auteur : London, Jack | Mot clef : Anglais | Résumé : Deep in the forest a call was sounding, and . . . he felt compelled to turn his back upon the fire, and to plunge into the forest.’ Half St. Bernard, half sheepdog, Buck is stolen away from his comfortable life as a pet in California and sold to dog traders. He soon finds himself aboard a ship, on its way to Northern Canada. Surrounded by cruelty, Buck’s natural instincts and behaviour begin to emerge as he works as a mail carrying sled dog, scavenging for food, protecting himself against other dogs and sleeping out in the cold snow. Sold to a group of American gold hunters who are inexperienced living in the wilderness, the dogs are treated badly and as misfortune besets them, Buck is saved by John Thornton. Indebted to his new master, Buck remains by Thornton’s side, saving him from drowning and protecting him with fierce loyalty throughout their time together. However, Buck can not deny the strong lure of the wilderness around him. Exciting and action-packed, Call of the Wild explores the timeless relationship between man and dog, and the inevitable draw of primitive instincts that pull Buck away from civilization and humanity towards the lawless and harsh wilderness. Cote : R LON

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White Fang | Livre | Fiction | Roman | 2014 | Français | Auteur : London, Jack | Résumé : In Jack London's classic story of a wolf born in the wild, White Fang, the only survivor of a litter, is left orphaned, and has to find his way through a strange world governed and controlled by man, where meat is scarce and precio Cote : R LON

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The Phantom of the Opera | Livre | Fiction | Roman | 2011 | Français | Auteur : Leroux, Gaston | Mot clef : Anglais | Résumé : The classic French novel inspired by historical events at the Paris Opera during the nineteenth century, and inspiration for many stage and film adaptations. Cote : R LER

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Lady Chatterley's Lover | Livre | Fiction | Roman | 2013 | Français | Auteur : Lawrence, D H | Mot clef : Anglais | Résumé : With its four-letter words and its explicit descriptions of sexual intercourse, Lady Chatterley's Lover is the novel with which D.H. Lawrence is most often associated. First published privately in Florence in 1928, it only became a world-wide best-seller after Penguin Books had successfully resisted an attempt by the British Director of Public Prosecutions to prevent them offering an unexpurgated edition to the general public. The famous 'trial of Lady Chatterley' heralded the sexual revolution of the coming decades and signalled the defeat of Establishment prudery. Yet Lawrence himself was hardly a liberationist and the conservativism of many aspects of his novel would later lay it open to attacks from the political avant-garde and from feminists. The story of how the wife of Sir Clifford Chatterley responds when her husband returns from the war paralysed from the waist down, and of the tender love which then develops between her and her husband's gamekeeper, is a complex one open to a variety of conflicting interpretations. This edition of the novel offers an occasion for a new generation of readers to discover what all the fuss was about; to appraise Lawrence's bitter indictment of modern industrial society, and to ask themselves what lessons there might be for the 21st century in his intense exploration of the complicated relations between love and sex. Cote : R LAW

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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories | Livre | Fiction | Roman | 2012 | Français | Auteur : Irving, Washington | Mot clef : Anglais | Résumé : This collection of essays, sketches, and tales establishes Washington Irving's reputation. 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' and 'Rip Van Winkle' are classics of American fiction and display the author's ability to depict American landscapes and culture. Cote : R IR

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Le coeur de monsieur Gauguin | Livre | Fiction | Conte | 2004 | Français | Auteur : Croteau, Marie-danielle | Résumé : Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) --

Cote : C CRO | EAN : 9782895401834

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Far from the Madding Crowd | Livre | Fiction | Roman | 2010 | Français | Auteur : Hardy, Thomas | Mot clef : Anglais | Résumé : Bathsheba Everdene arrives in the small village of Weatherbury and captures the heart of three very different men; Gabriel Oak, a quiet shepherd, the proud, obdurate Farmer Boldwood and dashing, unscrupulous Sergeant Troy. The battle for her affections will have dramatic, tragic and surprising consequences. Cote : R HAR

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Contes du prince Ivan | Livre | Fiction | Conte | 1994 | Français | Auteur : Afanas?ev, Aleksandr Nikolaevi?

Cote : C AFA | EAN : 9782010207297

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Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde | Livre | Fiction | Roman | 2010 | Français | Auteur : Stevenson, Robert Louis | Mot clef : Anglais | Résumé : HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil.' After taking an elixir created in his laboratory, mild mannered Dr Jekyll is transformed into the cruel and despicable Mr Hyde. Although seemingly harmless at first, things soon descend into chaos and Jekyll quickly realises there is only one way to stop Hyde. Stevenson's quintessential novella of the Victorian era epitomizes the conflict between psychology, science and religious morality, but is fundamentally a triumphant study of the duality of human nature. Cote : R STE

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