Alors que Netflix diffuse une série inspirée des aventures d'Arsène Lupin, avec Omar Sy dans le rôle-titre, Archipoche publie, dans une élégante édition collector, les plus célèbres aventures du gentleman cambrioleur.Monocle, haut-de-forme, fleur à la boutonnière et revolver en poche : depuis son apparition en 1905, la silhouette d'Arsène Lupin a effrayé et diverti des générations de lecteurs. Dandy et bagarreur, scélérat et charmeur, ce gentleman a sévi dans plus d'une vingtaine d'œuvres, nées de l'imagination de Maurice Leblanc (1864-1941).Accusé de deux cambriolages et d'une escroquerie, il doit faire face en 1908 au redoutable détective Herlock Sholmès, venu d'outre-Manche faire la lumière sur ces affaires... au risque de causer sa perte !Dans L'Aiguille creuse, l'année suivante, il est cette fois confronté à la sagacité d'un jeune étudiant, Isidore Beautrelet, sur la piste du trésor des anciens rois de France. Une quête qui les mènera tous deux sur les falaises d'Étretat chères à Leblanc.
In this abridged retelling, the inimitable Ackroyd transforms Malory's 15th-century work into a dramatic modern story, vividly bringing to life a world of courage and chivalry, magic, and majesty.
BENEATH the shadow of St. Sulpice the ancient mansion of the d'Esparvieu family rears its austere three stories between a moss-grown fore-court and a garden hemmed in, as the years have elapsed, by ever loftier and more intrusive buildings, wherein, nevert
La segunda entrega de la trilogía de J. R. R. Tolkien El Señor de los Anillos.Empieza tu viaje a la Tierra Media.Edición revisada.La misión parece abocada al fracaso, pero la aventura épica que se inició con La Comunidad del Anillo continúa?La Compañía se ha disuelto y sus integrantes emprenden caminos separados. Frodo y Sam avanzan solos en su viaje a lo largo del río Anduin, perseguidos por la sombra misteriosa de un ser extraño que también ambiciona la posesión del Anillo. Mientras, hombres, elfos y enanos se preparan para la batalla final contra las fuerzas del Señor del Mal.«Entre las grandes obras de ficción imaginativa del siglo xx.» Sunday Telegraph«Una historia magníficamente contada, con todo tipo de color, movimiento y grandeza.» New Statesman
Washington Irving (1783--1859) was the first American literary artist to earn his living solely through his writings and the first to enjoy international acclaim. In addition to his long public service
The famous "Nick Adams" stories show a memorable character growing from child to adolescent to soldier, veteran, writer, and parent -- a sequence closely paralleling the events of Hemingway's life.
Un formidable retrato psicológico de uno de los clásicos más deslumbrantes de las letras eslavas.Fiódor Dostoievski es uno de los autores rusos más influyentes de todos los tiempos. Autor de novelas tan decisivas como Crimen y castigo, en El jugador describe la pasión por el juego, con sus alegrías y zozobras, sus cálculos y desenfrenos, mostrando así la fragilidad de la conducta humana y la incapacidad del hombre para mantenerse firme en sus convicciones. A partir de una trama divertida y excéntrica, la novela ofrece un magnífico estudio del espíritu eslavo, con todo lo que éste tiene de impetuoso e ingenuo.
The liberal hero, Balint, is at odds with the politics of his time; he lyrically describes the idyllic pre-industrial world of Hungarian Transylvania, later to fall into the hands of first the Nazis and then the Communists, his love for Adrienne, married to an unpleasant and dangerous lunatic, and a Proustian society helplessly bent on its own destruction. This is a novel hard to put down, a masterpiece of twentieth-century literature that deserves to be much more widely known. First published in English in the early 1990s by a small publisher, and a huge word-of-mouth success, this is the first edition in hardback, and in two rather than three volumes.
La tercera entrega de la trilogía de J. R. R. Tolkien El Señor de los Anillos.Empieza tu viaje a la Tierra Media.Edición revisada.La última parte del viaje de Frodo y Sam, el espectacular final de la épica historia creada por J. R. R. Tolkien.Los ejércitos del Señor Oscuro van extendiendo cada vez más su maléfica sombra por la Tierra Media. Hombres, elfos y enanos unen sus fuerzas para presentar batalla a Sauron y sus huestes. Ajenos a estos preparativos, Frodo y Sam siguen adentrándose en el país de Mordor en su heroico viaje para destruir el Anillo de Poder en las Grietas del Destino.«Un final triunfante? un gran trabajo, tanto en la concepción como en la ejecución.» Daily Telegraph«Un trabajo extraordinariamente imaginativo, parte saga, parte alegoría, y emocionante en su totalidad.» The Times
Dumas séduit, fascine, intéresse, amuse, enseigne.Victor Hugo.Tout le monde connaît la verve prodigieuse de M. Dumas, son entrain facile, son bonheur de mise en scène, son dialogue spirituel et toujours en mouvement, ce récit léger qui court sans cesse et qui sait enlever l’obstacle et l’espace sans jamais faiblir. Il couvre d’immenses toiles sans jamais fatiguer ni son pinceau, ni son lecteur.Sainte-Beuve.Les Trois Mousquetaires… notre seule épopée depuis le Moyen Âge.Roger Nimier.Les Trois Mousquetaires forment le plus divertissant des romans d’aventures. Leurs personnages, Athos, Porthos, Aramis et d’Artagnan, sont sortis des bibliothèques pour descendre dans la rue. Ils ont enseigné l’insolence et l’amitié à beaucoup de jeunes Français qui ont aussi découvert les fatalités de l’amour en rêvant aux belles épaules de Milady et à ses regards de perdition.Kléber Haedens.
"Agatha Christie taught me many important lessons about the inner workings of the mystery novel before it ever occurred to me that I might one day be writing mysteries myself."--Sue Grafton, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the K
Colette, prodded by her first husband, Willy, began her writing career with Claudine at School, which catapulted the young author into instant, sensational success. Among the most autobiographical of Colette's works, these four novels are dominated by the child-woman Claudine, whose strength, humor, and zest for living make her seem almost a symbol for the life force. Janet Flanner described these books as "amazing writing on the almost girlish search for the absolute of happiness in physical love . . . recorded by a literary brain always wide awake on the pillow."
A spellbinding novel of literary and psychological suspense about the dark secrets that surface after the shocking disappearance of a charismatic, mercurial teacher at an elite boarding school-by bestselling author.
Brand-new revised and expanded hardback edition of this best-selling graphic novel based on the enchanting prelude to The Lord of the Rings.Fully painted in colour, it contains a carefully abridged version of Tolkien’s tale of the hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, who is whisked off by the wizard Gandalf on an adventure to recover stolen treasure.
La femme de trente ans, qui est-elle ? Mariée, elle est au sommet de sa vie, car c'est là qu'elle prend sa liberté, c'est-à-dire un amant, ce dont Balzac la félicite, mais que la société punit cruellement. Voici donc l'un des romans les plus engagés de Balzac, dans lequel il dénonce la condition des femmes, mariées à des hommes dont elles découvrent trop tard les défauts, et vieilles déjà à la moitié de leur vie. L'auteur constate l'échec du mariage d'amour et, avec ces enfants nés sans amour, l'échec de la maternité. Cette histoire sombre, où la sexualité joue un rôle étonnamment moderne, est traitée avec une grande liberté de ton : le roman historique croise le roman-feuilleton, et jusqu'aux histoires de pirates. C'est aussi un véritable essai, où la peinture psychologique mène à la revendication politique et sociale. À rebours d'une politique des âges de la vie figée, Balzac montre qu'à tout âge la femme a le droit d'aimer et d'être aimée, même en dehors du mariage, et d'être reconnue par la société pas seulement comme épouse et mère, mais comme femme.
Here Upton Sinclair offers us a novel about the Wall Street panic of 1907. He tells of a financial disaster brought on deliberately by powerful capitalists intent upon the ruin of their rivals - fundamentally evil people who live to out-maneuver one anothe
Das literarische Schaffen von Leo Tolstoi kreist immer wieder um die Frage nach dem rechten Leben. In seinen Geschichten ebenso wie seinen Romanen sind Menschen auf Abwegen unterwegs oder auf dem Pfad der Erkenntnis. Sie reißen das Ruder ihres Schicksals noch einmal herum oder gehen unerbittlich ihrem Unglück entgegen, kunstvoll gelenkt von dem großen und eigensinnigen russischen Literaten. Dieser Band versammelt Tolstois berühmteste Erzählungen, unter ihnen 'Herr und Knecht', 'Hadschi Murat', 'Der Tod des Iwan Iljitsch' und 'Die Kreutzersonate'.
Unlock the more straightforward side of Kafka on the Shore with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!This engaging summary presents an analysis of Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami, which tells the story of 15-year-old Kafka as he runs away from home to escape from his famous sculptor father and search for his mother and sister. In parallel, Nakata, who was involved in a mysterious accident as a child that left him unable to read and write, but with the newfound ability to talk to cats, embarks on a similar voyage across the country. Unbeknownst to them, the two men are linked by a bloody murder, and they both become embroiled in a series of bizarre events that change the way they see the world. The novel showcases Murakami's signature blend of surrealist, dreamlike storytelling and close attention to real-world detail, and it remains among his best-known works.Find out everything you need to know about Kafka on the Shore in a fraction of the time!This in-depth and informative reading guide brings you:• A complete plot summary• Character studies• Key themes and symbols• Questions for further reflectionWhy choose BrightSummaries.com?Available in print and digital format, our publications are designed to accompany you on your reading journey. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time.See the very best of literature in a whole new light with BrightSummaries.com!
Au pied de la montagne Sainte-Geneviève à Paris, au détour de rues obscures se trouve la Maison Vauquer, "pension bourgeoise des deux sexes et autres". Loin des faubourgs nobles et bourgeois, elle abrite toutes les formes de la misère. S'y côtoient retraités, étudiants en droit et en médecine, jeunes et vielles filles rêvant mariage... Et parmi eux un forçat évadé, Jacques Collin (dit Vautrin ou Trompe-la-Mort), ainsi que le père Goriot, qui se ruine par amour pour ses filles, aussi ingrates qu'il est généreux. On entre dans la pension Vauquer avec Eugène de Rastignac, jeune provincial monté faire fortune à Paris. Avec lui, nous ferons le dur apprentissage des lois de la société : l'égoïsme et l'arrivisme sont partout, l'argent est roi, l'amour désintéressé est bien mal récompensé. Mais, une fois les illusions perdues, jaillit une force qui emporte tout : l'impérieux désir de vivre, la volonté de jouir de la ville et de prendre sa place à la table du jeu social. Féroce, drôle et émouvant, Le Père Goriot (1835) est le grand roman de Paris, la Babylone des ambitions modernes, la ville de toutes les conquêtes. "À nous deux maintenant !" La géniale architecture de La Comédie humaine se révèle ici, où l'on découvre Balzac en inventeur de l'hypertexte... Le Père Goriot est un roman-monde, où personnages et lieux sont interconnectés. Papa Goriot, maman Vauquer, Rastignac, Bianchon ou Vautrin sont à jamais, pour nous, les compagnons d'un voyage littéraire inoubliable.
Powers of Darkness is an incredible literary discovery: In 1900, Icelandic publisher and writer Valdimar smundsson set out to translate Bram Stoker's world-famous 1897 novel Dracula. Called Makt Myrkranna (literally, "Powers of Darkness"), this Icelandic
For the first time ever, a very special edition of the J.R.R. Tolkien's classic masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings, gorgeously illustrated throughout in color by the author himself and with the complete text printed in two colors, plus sprayed edges and a ribbon bookmark.Since it was first published in 1954, The Lord of the Rings has been a book people have treasured. Steeped in unrivaled magic and otherworldliness, Tolkien's sweeping fantasy and epic adventure has touched the hearts of young and old alike. More than 150 million copies of its many editions have been sold around the world, and occasional collectors’ editions become prized and valuable items of publishing.This one-volume, jacketed hardcover edition contains the complete text, fully corrected and reset, which is printed in red and black and features, for the very first time, thirty color illustrations, maps and sketches drawn by Tolkien himself as he composed this epic work. These include the pages from the Book of Mazarbul, marvelous facsimiles created by Tolkien to accompany the famous 'Bridge of Khazad-dum’ chapter. Also appearing are two removable fold-out maps drawn by Christopher Tolkien revealing all the detail of Middle-earth.Sympathetically packaged to reflect the classic look of the first edition, this new edition of the bestselling hardback will prove irresistible to collectors and new fans alike.
"Netochka Nezvanova - A Nameless Nobody" - tells the story of a childhood dominated by her stepfather, Efimov, a failed musician who believes he is a neglected genius. The young girl is strangely drawn to this drunken ruin of a man, who exploits her and drives the family to poverty. But when she is rescued by an aristocratic family, the abuse against Netochka's delicate psyche continues in a more subtle way, condemning her to remain an outsider - a solitary spectator of a glittering society. Conceived as part of a novel on a grand scale, "Netochka Nezvanova" remained incomplete after Dostoyevsky was exiled to Siberia for 'revolutionary activities' in 1849. With its depiction of the suffering, loneliness, madness and sin that affect both rich and poor in St Petersburg, it contains the great themes that were to dominate his later novels.
Most English translations of INFERNO are full of colorful, but meaningless language based on today's modern standards. Some translations are so elaborate that they are as difficult to read as the original Italian version. This translation uses the Longfell
This selection of Edgar Allan Poe's poetical works includes some of his best-known pieces, including the triumphant, gleeful 'The Bells', the tragic ode 'Annabel Lee' and his famous gothic tour de force, 'The Raven'. Some present powerful, nightmarish images of the macabre and bizarre, while others have at their heart a profound sense of love, beauty and loss. All are linguistic masterpieces that demonstrate Poe's gift for marrying rhythm, form and meaning.An American writer of primarily prose and literary criticism, Edgar Allen Poe never ceased writing poetry throughout his turbulent life, and is today regarded as a central figure of American literary romanticism. He died in 1849.
Greeted as a masterpiece when it was first published in 1966, Omensetter's Luck is the quirky, impressionistic, and breathtakingly original story of an ordinary community galvanized by the presence of an extraordinary man. Set in a small Ohio town in the 1890s, it chronicles - through the voices of various participants and observers - the confrontation between Brackett Omensetter, a man of preternatural goodness, and the Reverend Jethro Furber, a preacher crazed with a propensity for violent thoughts. Omensetter's Luck meticulously brings to life a specific time and place as it illuminates timeless questions about life, love, good, and evil.
Written as a long, tense and dramatic confession in which writer and man are gathered together in front of an ambivalent figure of authority, "Dearest Father" is a desperate attempt to retrace the origins of a turbulent and highly conflicted relationship between an unflinching parent and an extremely sensitive child.
From the acclaimed translator of "The Tale of Genji," a groundbreaking rendering of Japan's great martial epic The fourteenth-century "Tale of the Heike" is Japan's "Iliad"--a moving depiction of the late twelfth-century wars between the Heike and Genji clans. No work has had a greater impact on later Japanese literature, theater, music, film, and manga--indeed on the Japanese people's sense of their own past. It has also been a major source for medieval-Japan-based fantasy in English.With woodcuts by nineteenth-century artist Teisai Hokuba, a major student of the great Hokusai, Royall Tyler's stunning presentation of this touchstone of Japanese culture recreates the oral epic as it was actually performed and conveys the rich and vigorous language of the original.
"The Story of the Stone (c. 1760)", also known by the title of "The Dream of the Red Chamber", is the great novel of manners in Chinese literature. Divided into five volumes, of which "The Warning Voice" is the third, it charts the glory and decline of the illustrious Jia family (a story which closely accords with the fortunes of the author's own family). The two main characters, Bao-yu and Dai-yu, are set against a rich tapestry of humour, realistic detail and delicate poetry, which accurately reflects the ritualized hurly-burly of Chinese family life. But over and above the novel hangs the constant reminder that there is another plane of existence - a theme which affirms the Buddhist belief in a supernatural scheme of things.
Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey by Ingersoll Lockwood. The Baron Trump novels are two children's novels written in 1889 and 1893 by the American author and lawyer Ingersoll Lockwood. Lockwood published the first novel, Travels and adventures o
Perfect for longtime fans and new readers alike—a beautiful premium mass market boxed set of the first three novels in Frank Herbert's Dune Saga.In the far future, on a remote planet, an epic adventure awaits. Here are the first three novels of Frank Herbert’s magnificent Dune saga—a triumph of the imagination and one of the bestselling science fiction series of all time.Includes Books 1 - 3: DUNE • DUNE MESSIAH • CHILDREN OF DUNE
Let your imagination sink deep into more than a dozen classic tales of dark horror by an early master of the genre. The stories of H. P. Lovecraft have been a source of fascination for readers since they were published in the early twentieth century, a
Einer der größten Frauenromane des 19. Jahrhunderts - Effi Briest zwischen Instetten und seinem Herausforderer Crampas, die ergreifende Geschichte einer glücklosen Liebe und Ehe.
"With an increasing distance from the twentieth century the New England poet, author, essayist, and stunningly profuse epistolary Howard Phillips Lovecraft is beginning to emerge as one of that tumultuous period s most critically fascinating and yet enigmatic figures," writes Alan Moore in his introduction to The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft. Despite this nearly unprecedented posthumous trajectory, at the time of his death at the age of forty-six, Lovecraft's work had appeared only in dime-store magazines, ignored by the public and maligned by critics. Now well over a century after his birth, Lovecraft is increasingly being recognized as the foundation for American horror and science fiction, the source of "incalculable influence on succeeding generations of writers of horror fiction" (Joyce Carol Oates). In this volume, Leslie S. Klinger reanimates Lovecraft with clarity and historical insight, charting the rise of the erstwhile pulp writer, whose rediscovery and reclamation into the literary canon can be compared only to that of Poe or Melville. Weaving together a broad base of existing scholarship with his own original insights, Klinger appends Lovecraft's uncanny oeuvre and Kafkaesque life story in a way that provides context and unlocks many of the secrets of his often cryptic body of work. Over the course of his career, Lovecraft "the Copernicus of the horror story" (Fritz Leiber) made a marked departure from the gothic style of his predecessors that focused mostly on ghosts, ghouls, and witches, instead crafting a vast mythos in which humanity is but a blissfully unaware speck in a cosmos shared by vast and ancient alien beings. One of the progenitors of "weird fiction," Lovecraft wrote stories suggesting that we share not just our reality but our planet, and even a common ancestry, with unspeakable, godlike creatures just one accidental revelation away from emerging from their epoch of hibernation and extinguishing both our individual sanity and entire civilization. Following his best-selling The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes, Leslie S. Klinger collects here twenty-two of Lovecraft's best, most chilling "Arkham" tales, including "The Call of Cthulhu," At the Mountains of Madness, "The Whisperer in Darkness," "The Shadow Over Innsmouth," "The Colour Out of Space," and others. With nearly 300 illustrations, including full-color reproductions of the original artwork and covers from Weird Tales and Astounding Stories, and more than 1,000 annotations, this volume illuminates every dimension of H. P. Lovecraft and stirs the Great Old Ones in their millennia of sleep."
Ray Bradbury's internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of twentieth-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. §Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. §Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television "family." But then he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn't live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television. §When Mildred attempts suicide and Clarisse suddenly disappears, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known. He starts hiding books in his home, and when his pilfering is discovered, the fireman has to run for his life.
The middle novel in The Lord of the Rings--the greatest fantasy epic of all time--which began in The Fellowship of the Ring, and which reaches its magnificent climax in The Return of the King. Nominated as one of America's be
"Ein Buch! Mir begannen die Knie zu zittern: ein BUCH! Vier Monate lang hatte ich kein Buch in der Hand gehabt, und schon die bloße Vorstellung eines Buches, in dem man aneinandergereihte Worte sehen konnte, Zeilen, Seiten und Blätter, eines Buches, aus dem man andere, neue, fremde, ablenkende Gedanken lesen, verfolgen, sich ins Hirn nehmen könnte, hatte etwas Berauschendes und gleichzeitig Betäubendes."(Auszug aus der "Schachnovelle")
2001: A Space Odyssey confirmed Arthur C. Clarke's reputation as one of the best-known and most influential science fiction writers ever. The book and the 1968 movie are icons of the modern age. Now comes a special trade paperback edition, with a new introduction by the author which sheds light on the powerful synergy between the book and the movie.
Frequently imitated and widely influential, H. P. Lovecraft reinvented the horror genre for the twentieth century. Discarding witches and ghosts, he envisaged mankind as an outpost of dwindling sanity in a chaotic and malevolent universe. S. T. Joshi makes his selection from the early tales of nightmares and madness to the overpowering cosmic terror of 'The Call of Cthulhu' . This is the first paperback edition to include the definitive corrected texts of these classics of American fantasy fiction.
Élisabeth Bennet a quatre soeurs et une mère qui ne songe qu’à les marier. Quand parvient la nouvelle de l’installation à Netherfield, le domaine voisin, de Mr Bingley, célibataire et beau parti, toutes les dames des alentours sont en émoi, d’autant plus qu’il est accompagné de son ami Mr Darcy, un jeune et riche aristocrate. Les préparatifs du prochain bal occupent tous les esprits… Jane Austen peint avec ce qu’il faut d’ironie les turbulences du coeur des jeunes filles et, aujourd’hui comme hier, on s’indigne avec l’orgueilleuse Élisabeth, puis on ouvre les yeux sur les voies détournées qu’emprunte l’amour…Collection Classiques dirigée par Michel Zink et Michel Jarrety.Traduction, introduction, notes et dossier de Sophie Chiari.
Pressured by her unscrupulous family to marry a wealthy man she detests, the young Clarissa Harlowe is tricked into fleeing with the witty and debonair Robert Lovelace and places herself under his protection. Lovelace, however, proves himself to be an untrustworthy rake whose vague promises of marriage are accompanied by unwelcome and increasingly brutal sexual advances. And yet, Clarissa finds his charm alluring, her scrupulous sense of virtue tinged with unconfessed desire. Told through a complex series of interweaving letters, "Clarissa" is a richly ambiguous study of a fatally attracted couple and a work of astonishing power and immediacy. A huge success when it first appeared in 1747, and translated into French and German, it remains one of the greatest of all European novels.
