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George Orwell, Auteur ; Robert Colls, Préfacier, etc. ; Peter Hobley Davison, Auteur du commentaire | Penguin books | Penguin books | 2021A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality. Thus the stage is set for one of the most telling satiric fables ever p[...]
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Fifteen-year-old Daisy is sent from Manhattan to England to visit her aunt and cousins she’s never met: three boys near her age, and their little sister. Her aunt goes away on business soon after Daisy arrives. The next day bombs go off as Londo[...]
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'Some peolple are coming here today, now you will have a companion.' But young Edmund Hooper doesn't want anyone else in Warings, the rambling victorian house he shares with his widowed father. Nevertheless Charles Kingshaw and his mother are so[...]
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Charlotte Brontë, Auteur ; Charlotte Brontë, Préfacier, etc. | Penguin books | Penguin English library | 2012The Penguin English Library Edition of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë 'The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself' Passionate, poetic and revolutionary, Jane Eyre is a novel of naked emotiona[...]
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Rédigée entre 1603 et 1606, cette tragédie met en scène la figure légendaire du « roi de Bretagne » avant la conquête romaine. Elle doit son renom et son universalité à la profondeur de la description des souffrances humaines.
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"Winston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth in London, chief city of Airstrip One. Big Brother stares out from every poster, the Thought Police uncover every act of betrayal. When Winston finds love with Julia, he discovers that life does not[...]
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En Californie, dans les années 1930, deux amis travaillent rudement de ranch en ranch pour gagner modestement leur vie en dépit de la crise économique qui sévit dans tout le pays. George est un homme petit à l'esprit vif qui s'est promis de veil[...]
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Martin Stewart, Auteur | Penguin booksThe Danék is a wild, treacherous river, and the Fobisher family has tended it for generations - clearing it of ice and weed, making sure boats can get through, and fishing corpses from its bleak depths. Wulliam's father, the current Riverkeep, i[...]
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Thomas Hardy, Auteur | Penguin books"How could I be expected to know? I was a child when I left this house four months ago. Why didn't you tell me there was danger? Why didn't you warn me?" When Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy D'Urbe[...]
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The Call of the Wild is a short adventure novel by Jack London, published in 1903 and set in Yukon, Canada, during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush, when strong sled dogs were in high demand. The central character of the novel is a dog named Buck.
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Holden Caulfield is a seventeen- year-old dropout who has just been kicked out of his fourth school. Navigating his way through the challenges of growing up, Holden dissects the 'phony' aspects of society, and the 'phonies' themselves: the headm[...]
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Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantès is confined to the grim fortress of If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte Cristo and he becomes determined not only to escape, but also to un[...]
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Bill Masen undergoes eye surgery and awakes the next morning in his hospital bed to find civilization collapsing. Wandering the city, he quickly realizes that surviving in this strange new world requires evading strangers and the seven-foot-tall[...]
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Edgar Allan Poe, Auteur | Penguin booksOne evening, while they are engaged in reading, Usher suddenly tells the narrator that Madeleine has died and it is his plan to keep her body preserved for a fortnight in one of the house’s vaults. The narrator, remembering the feeling of doom t[...]
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The Outsiders is about two weeks in the life of a 14-year-old boy. The novel tells the story of Ponyboy Curtis and his struggles with right and wrong in a society in which he believes that he is an outsider. According to Ponyboy, there are two k[...]