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A midsummer night's dream

Matthews, Andrew

Publié en 2000

Livre
Fiction
Roman

The course of true love never did run smooth... A magical retelling of Hermia, Helen, Demetrius and Lysander's classic story - and of the impish fairy Puck, who meddles in their tangled web of love with hilarious consequences... With notes on Love and Magic in A Midsummer Night's Dream.

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Antony and Cleopatra

Matthews, Andrew

Publié en 2000

Livre
Fiction
Roman

A wonderful retelling of Shakespeare's thrilling tale of love torn apart by history. With notes on Shakespeare and the Globe theatre and Love and Death in Anthony and Cleopatra. The tales have been retold using accessible language and with the help of Tony Ross's engaging black-and-white illustrations, each play is vividly brought to life allowing these culturally enriching stories to be shared with as wide an audience as possible.

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The children of the New forest

Captain Marryat

Publié en 1996 Oxford University Press

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Fiction
Roman

England in 1647, King Charles is in prison, and Cromwell's men are fighting the King's men. There are dangerous time for everybody

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Otto in the times of the warrior

Charlotte Haptie

Hachette

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Fiction
Roman

You will save my life. You will be my hero

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The snow merchant

Sam Gayton

Publié en 2011

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Fiction
Roman

Lettie Peppercon lives in a house on stilts near the wind-swept

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I Coriander

Gardner, Sally

Publié en 2005

Livre
Fiction
Roman

The story is told by Coriander, daughter of a silk merchant in 1650s London. Her idyllic childhood ends when her mother dies and her father goes away, leaving Coriander with her stepmother, a widow who is in cahoots with a fundamentalist Puritan preacher. She is shut away in a chest and left to die, but emerges into the fairy world from which her mother came, and where time has no meaning. When she returns, charged with a task that will transform her life, she is seventeen. This is a book filled with enchantments -- a pair of silver shoes, a fairy shadow, a prince transformed into a fox - that contrast with the heartbreaking loss and cruelty of Coriander's life in the real world. With its brilliantly realized setting of old London Bridge, and underpinned by the conflict between Royalists and Puritans, it is a terrific page turner, involving kidnapping, murder and romance, and an abundance of vivid characters.

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The frog Castle

Jostein Gaarder

Publié en 1999

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Fiction
Roman

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The phantom Tollbooth

Norton Juster

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Fiction
Roman

When Milo receives a mysterious and intriguing package throught the post, all his previous feelings of boredom are banished

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Langue : Français