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Seras-tu là ?
0119.00 DHQui n’a jamais rêvé de revenir à cet instant décisif où le bonheur était possible ? Elliott, installé à San Francisco, est un chirurgien réputé et le papa comblé d’Angie. Il nagerait dans le bonheur le plus total si Ilena, la femme de sa vie, n’était pas morte trente ans auparavant. Mais, un jour, il fait une rencontre étrange : un homme lui donne l’opportunité de revenir en arrière. Désormais capable de naviguer entre deux années, 2006 et 1976, Elliott se rencontre lui-même quand il était jeune.
Et tente de convaincre son double de prendre des décisions différentes, avant de réaliser, trop tard, qu’on ne joue pas impunément avec les couloirs parallèles du temps. Ce face-à-face plein de tendresse ne manque pas de charme. -
L’outrage fait à Sarah Ikker
0100.00 DHSarah et Driss forment un couple parfait. Elle, fille de la bonne société Tangerine. Lui, l’étoile montante de la police. Jusqu’au jour où un intrus s’invite dans leur foyer, ligote, dénude et profane le corps de Sarah. L’outrage est de ceux qu’on ne lave pas facilement. Mais sur qui pèse-t-il le plus ? Sur Sarah, qui se mure dans le silence ? Ou bien sur son mari, qui s’estime à jamais bafoué ? Paranoïa, vengeance, quête de vérité… Que sauver d’abord ? L’honneur ? Ou les apparences ?1
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L’imposture des mots
090.00 DHLorsqu’en janvier 2001 Yasmina Khadra publie L’Écrivain et révèle sa véritable identité – il est commandant dans l’armée algérienne et s’appelle Mohammed Moulessehoul -, il ne s’attendait pas à devoir rendre des comptes sur son passé d’officier supérieur.
Yasmina Khadra a décrit mieux que quiconque les mécanismes de l’intégrisme qui menace notre monde et des organisations politico-financières qui détruisent son pays. Pourtant on lui demande de renier une institution dont il explique justement dans L’Écrivain le rôle capital qu’elle a joué dans son existence.
Face à cette déconvenue, Yasmina Khadra a réagi en écrivain. Sans aigreur ni amertume, il a choisi de raconter son désarroi à ses lecteurs, les seuls interlocuteurs qui lui paraissent dignes de le juger. On croise dans son livre Nietzsche, Kateb Yacine, ses maîtres de toujours. Mais aussi ses propres personnages qui le persécutent : Zane, l’abominable nain des Agneaux du Seigneur, Salah l’Indochine, l’immonde recruteur du GIA d’À quoi rêvent les loups et le regretté commissaire Llob.
Et surtout, au-delà de la confrontation avec la réalité du monde de l’édition jusque-là un peu mythifié, Yasmina Khadra se retrouvera face au commandant Moulessehoul. Lequel lui rappellera que, dans le jeu cruel qui a opposé le militaire et l’écrivain, il n’est pas facile de savoir qui a eu le plus à perdre. -
L’Homme rompu
070.00 DHFonctionnaire vertueux dans un monde corrompu, Mourad a toujours résisté aux tentations. Quitte à rester pauvre. Il endure patiemment le mépris de sa femme, les moqueries de ses collègues, mais un beau jour Mourad cède. Il accepte “une enveloppe”, puis une autre, et découvre les délices de l’argent facile. Et l’argent facile a un prix… On le soupçonne. On le traque. Cette nouvelle vie est-elle vraiment pour lui ?
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The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories
039.00 DHThe Turn of the Screw has been described by many critics as the most sophisticated and terrifying ghost story in the English language. It is considered one of the great intellectual “spook tales” of all time. The story concerns a naive young governess who is hired to take care of two children in a large mansion in the English countryside. Everything is going fine, until she discovers that the children are not as innocent as they seem. The governess believes they have been communing with the ghosts of the former valet and governess. The problem is no one else on the staff can see the ghosts. She alone suspects that the ghosts are controlling the young boy and girl for some evil purpose. The children are evasive when questioned, and the governess begins to fear that the souls of the two children may be in danger. Henry James manages to generate spine-tingling suspense in this mesmerizing tale.
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The Hound Of The Baskervilles
039.00 DHThe Baskerville family curse tells of how a terrifying, supernatural hound roams the moors around Baskerville Hall and preys on members of the family in revenge for a ghastly crime committed by one of their ancestors. When Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead in the grounds, with a large animal footprint near his lifeless body, the locals are convinced that the hound is back. It is up to Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson to uncover the truth and keep the new heir to the hall safe from danger.
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Tess of the D’Urbervilles
039.00 DHess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman is a novel by Thomas Hardy. It initially appeared in a censored and serialised version, published by the British illustrated newspaper The Graphic in 1891 and in book form in 1892. Like much of Hardy’s work, the novel focuses partly on the declining rural society of the Victorian era, and also addresses class issues, as Tess’ father’s aspiration to transcend his class sets in motion a disastrous series of events. Though now considered a major nineteenth-century English novel and possibly Hardy’s fictional masterpiece, Tess of the d’Urbervilles received mixed reviews when it first appeared, in part because it challenged the sexual morals of late Victorian England.
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Robinson Crusoe
039.00 DHThis is an outstanding Christian book is presented as an autobiography of the title character (whose birth name is Robinson Kreutznaer). Daniel Defoe published Robinson Crusoe on April 25, 1719. An interesting fact is that the original title was 374 characters long: The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver’d by Pyrates
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Five Children and It
039.00 DHLike Nesbit’s The Railway Children, the story begins when a group of children move from London to the countryside of Kent. The five children – Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane, and their baby brother, known as the Lamb – are playing in a gravel pit when they uncover a rather grumpy, ugly, and occasionally malevolent Psammead, a sand-fairy with ability to grant wishes.
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Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Stories
039.00 DHHow thin is the line between good and evil?
Dr Jekyll has been experimenting with his identity. He has developed a drug which separates the two sides of his nature and allows him occasionally to abandon himself to his most corrupt inclinations as the monstrous Mr Hyde. But gradually he begins to find that the journey back to goodness becomes more and more difficult, and the risk that Mr Hyde will break free entirely from Dr Jekyll’s control puts all of London in grave peril.
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Dickens at Christmas
039.00 DHIt is said that Charles Dickens invented Christmas, and within these pages you’ll certainly find all the elements of a quintessential traditional Christmas brought to vivid life: snowy rooftops, gleaming shop windows, steaming bowls of punch, plum puddings like speckled cannon balls, sage and onion stuffing, miracles, magic, charity and goodwill.
This Vintage Classics edition gathers together not only Dickens’ Christmas Books (‘A Christmas Carol’, ‘The Chimes’, ‘The Battle of Life’,’The Cricket on the Hearth’ and ‘The Haunted Man’) but also stories that Dickens wrote for the special seasonal editions of his periodicals All the Year Round and Household Words, and a festive tale from The Pickwick Papers.
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Pollyanna
039.00 DHWhen her father dies, Pollyanna is sent to live with her stern Aunt Polly. She is poor, orphaned and alone but Pollyanna just feels lucky to have an aunt at all. The truth is that her dear father, before he died, taught her a trick for life – the ‘Glad Game’ – the aim of which is to find the good in every bad situation. Before long, Pollyanna’s sunny outlook has brightened up the whole town. But when a horrible accident occurs can the Game save Pollyanna?
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Homage to Catalonia
039.00 DHBoth a memoir of Orwell’s experiences during the Spanish Civil War and a heartfelt tribute to those who died, Homage to Catalonia is an extraordinary first-hand record of him time on the frontline. Written with all of the depth, passion and deep human understanding that defines Orwell’s writing this is a vivid account of the battles that were faced by ordinary working people as they fought for both their lives and their ideologies.
Although Orwell was himself near-fatally wounded he finds both bleak and comic notes in his experience which is recorded with such clarity and depth that this short work has become one of his best known.
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Gulliver’s Travels
039.00 DHIn the course of his famous travels, Gulliver is captured by miniature people who wage war on each other because of religious disagreement over how to crack eggs, is sexually assaulted by giants, visits a floating island, and decides that the society of horses is better than that of his fellow man. Swift’s tough, filthy and incisive satire has much to say about the state of the world today and is presented here in its unexpurgated entirety.
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