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A grumpy and miserly old man receives successive visits from the ghosts of his former business partner, Jacob Marley, then that of last Christmas and that of Christmas to come. They take turns showing him how his cruel behavior has affected those around him.

Version bilingue anglais-français de la suite des aventures fantastiques d'"Alice au Pays des Merveilles". Un récit de voyage dans un monde irréel que Lewis Carroll publia sept ans après son oeuvre majeure. Pour faciliter la lecture comparative des textes dans chacune des deux langues, les textes anglais et français figurent de manière juxtalinéaire sur une seule et même page.

The year is 1803, and Mark Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet have been married for six years. There are now two handsome and healthy sons in the nursery. But all this is threatened when, on the eve of the annual autumn ball, the guests are preparing to retire for the night when a chaise appears, rocking down the path from Pemberley's wild woodland.

A collection of stories that range from a child grappling with the death of a fallen priest, to a young woman's dilemma over whether to elope to Argentina with her lover, to the dance party at which a man discovers just how little he really knows about his wife.

When science student Victor Frankenstein creates a living creature to try and discover the secrets of life, he soon regrets his decision. Told through the correspondence of Robert Walton and his sister, Mary Shelley's classic story is a tale which warns us of the dangers associated with the pursuit of knowledge and man's attempts to change his destiny.

In this groundbreaking, bestselling graphic memoir, Alison Bechdel charts her fraught relationship with her late father. In her hands, personal history becomes a work of amazing subtlety and power, written with controlled force and enlivened with humor, rich literary allusion, and heartbreaking detail.Distant and exacting, Bruce Bechdel was an English teacher and director of the town funeral home, which Alison and her family referred to as the "Fun Home." It was not until college that Alison, who had recently come out as a lesbian, discovered that her father was also gay. A few weeks after this revelation, he was dead, leaving a legacy of mystery for his daughter to resolve.

"What do you think that is?' she asked me, again pointing with her stick; 'that, where those cobwebs are?" "I can't guess what it is, ma'am." "It's a great cake. A bride-cake. Mine!" Great Expectations, Dickens's funny, frightening and tender portrayal of the orphan Pip's journey of self-discovery, is one of his best-loved works. Showing how a young man's life is transformed by a mysterious series of events - an encounter with an escaped prisoner; a visit to a black-hearted old woman and a beautiful girl; a fortune from a secret donor - Dickens's late novel is a masterpiece of psychological and moral truth, and Pip among his greatest creations.

In January of 2021, a small padded envelope addressed to Detective Ralph Anderson is delivered to the Conrads, the Andersons' next door neighbors. The Anderson family is on an extended vacation in the Bahamas. Printed on this envelope, in large letters, is DO NOT FORWARD. HOLD FOR ARRIVAL. When Ralph opens the package, he finds a flash drive titled If It Bleeds, presumably referring to the old news trope which proclaims 'If it bleeds, it leads'. The drive holds a kind of report, or spoken word diary, from Holly Gibney. The final words are from an entry dated December 19th, 2020. She sounds out of breath. I have done the best I can, Ralph, but it may not be enough. In spite of all my planning there's a chance I won't come out of this alive...

«Je n'ai pas d'illusions. Je suis de ceux dont le regard perce les apparences et va jusqu'au néant». Plus qu'une simple photographie de la société du sud des États-Unis, l'oeuvre de Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964) révèle à coups de caricatures cinglantes, de personnages aussi cocasses que détestables, de scènes tragiques, parfois glaçantes, souvent cruelles, toujours exquises, ce qu'il y a de pire dans le genre humain. Quand la bêtise crasse s'invite à la fête...

'I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.' Meg, Jo, Amy and Beth - four "little women" enduring hardships and enjoying adventures in Civil War New England The charming story of the March sisters, Little Women has been adored by generations. Readers have rooted for Laurie in his pursuit of Jo's hand, cried over little Beth's death, and dreamed of travelling through Europe with old Aunt March and Amy. Future writers have found inspiration in Jo's devotion to her writing. In this simple, enthralling tale, both parts of which are included here, Louisa May Alcott has created four of American literature's most beloved women.

‘Well, Watson, we seem to have fallen upon evil days’ Sherlock Holmes: the quintessential British hero and the world's most popular detective. Through his powers of deduction, and with the help of his faithful companion Dr Watson, Holmes takes on all manner of devious criminals and dangerous villains û and wins. But the cases involving murder are the most dastardly of them allà

What makes a member of the government risk his career, reputation and marriage in just one unforgettable night ? What makes a corrupt businessman take over a big company and disrupt the London Stock-Exchange ? What is a powerful East-London villain planning to do ? Will the journalists of the Evening Post manage to put all the pieces of the puzzle together ? [Source : 4e de couverture]

England is fighting Napoleon on the continent, and officers look so dashing in their red coats. Mrs Bennet is desperate to see her five daughters all married. Any wealthy young man will do. They only have to get married to make her happy. If they don't, however, they'll soon hear about her poor nerves ! Find out how our delightful young heroines use their honour, understanding and sense of irony to catch a husband after their own heart.

When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited; he is indifferent to her good looks and lively mind. When she later discovers that Darcy has involved himself in the troubled relationship between his friend Bingley and her sister Jane, she is determined to dislike him more than ever.

The young women of Nightingale House are there to learn to nurse and comfort the suffering. But when one of the students plays patient in a demonstration of nursing skills, she is horribly, brutally killed. Another student dies equally mysteriously, and it is up to Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard to unmask a killer who has decided to prescribe murder as the cure for all ills.