Humbert Humbert - scholar, aesthete and romantic - has fallen completely and utterly in love with Lolita Haze, his landlady's gum-snapping, silky skinned twelve-year-old daughter. Reluctantly agreeing to marry Mrs Haze just to be close to Lolita, Humbert suffers greatly in the pursuit of romance; but when Lo herself starts looking for attention elsewhere, he will carry her off on a desperate cross-country misadventure, all in the name of Love. Hilarious, flamboyant, heart-breaking and full of ingenious word play, Lolita is an immaculate, unforgettable masterpiece of obsession, delusion and lust.
'The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again: but already it was impossible to say which was which...' Halas & Bachelor studio's classic and controversial 1954 animation of Animal Farm , George Orwell's chilling fable of idealism betrayed, was the first ever British animated feature film. This landmark illustrated edition of Orwell's novel was first published alongside it, and features the original line drawings by the film's animators, Joy Batchelor and John Halas.
Au lendemain de la Deuxième Guerre mondiale, Laurent Newman est un New-Yorkais bon teint, descendant d'une famille anglaise dont les racines remontent au XIXe siècle. Il est cadre à la direction du personnel dans la même société depuis une quinzaine d'années. Un jour, il est réprimandé par son chef pour avoir engagé une secrétaire " à l'air juif ", erreur qu'il impute à la mauvaise vue de Newman. Laurent achète donc sa première paire de lunettes. Celles-ci font ressortir son nez. Tout d'un coup sa vie bascule... On le prend pour un juif. Pressions, brimades, agressions, la spirale de la haine se met en place, Newman perd son travail et échappe de peu à un lynchage. D'autant qu'une sorte de " front " antisémite sévit dans son voisinage. Gertrude, sa femme, le pousse à adhérer au " front ". Newman refuse. De fait, peu à peu, il s'identifie davantage aux victimes qu'aux agresseurs. En se concentrant sur la subjectivité, les doutes et les émotions contrastées de son personnage, Arthur Miller livre un premier roman fascinant sur la confusion des sentiments, de l'identité et sur l'expérience des préjugés, ceux dont on est victime et ceux qu'on abrite en soi. Il annonce également la tonalité de ses futurs chefs-doeuvre : veine humaniste et acuité psychologique.
An official tie-in edition of Philip K. Dick's dazzling speculative novel to accompany the new TV series, executive produced by Ridley Scott. Philip K. Dick's acclaimed cult novel gives us a horrifying glimpse of an alternative world - one where the Allies have lost the Second World War. In this nightmare dystopia the Nazis have taken over New York, the Japanese control California and the African continent is virtually wiped out. In a neutral buffer zone in America that divides the world's new rival superpowers, lives the author of an underground bestseller. His book offers a new vision of reality - an alternative theory of world history in which the Axis powers were defeated - giving hope to the disenchanted. Does 'reality' lie with him, or is his world just one among many others? 'The most brilliant science fiction mind on any planet' Rolling Stone 'Dick's finest book, and one of the very best science fiction novels ever published' Eric Brown
22 novembre 1963, assassinat du président kennedy. faute d'élucidation crédible, le mystère est resté total et le drame est entré dans la légende américaine. don delillo a puisé dans la vérité historique tous les éléments d'un fantastique roman policier - agents secrets, activistes de droite et de gauche, mafiosi, stripteaseuses, trafiquants de drogue, cia, fbi, kgb, fidel castro... et un coupable désigné nommé oswald, né sous le signe de la balance (libra, en anglais), meurtrier idéal assassiné à son tour devant les caméras du monde entier. de ce personnage mystérieux, delillo a fait l'antihéros d'un roman saisissant qui prouvera une fois de plus que l'intuition d'un grand romancier peut nous emmener plus loin sur le chemin de la vérité que bien des enquêtes. né à new york en 1936, écrivain reconnu dans le monde entier, don delillo a reçu les plus prestigieuses distinctions dont the national book award et the pen / faulkner award. il a également obtenu the jérusalem prize 1999 pour l'ensemble de son oeuvre ainsi que the howells medal of the american academy of arts and letters pour son roman, outre-monde. la plus grande partie de l'oeuvre de don delillo est publiée en france par actes sud.
First published in 1957, this book attempts to tackle the conflict between homosexual and heterosexual love. It tells of David, a young man awakening to his true homosexual nature, through a relationship with a barman named Giovanni, as he awaits his fiancee's arrival from Spain.
When Cousin Lymon, a dwarf and a hunchback, arrives at Miss Amelia's store, he releases feelings of tenderness in Miss Amelia's hardened heart. Together they transform the store into a cafe. But their contentment is to be short lived, for Miss Amelia's estranged husband finds his way back to her.
Set in the rich farmland of the Salinas Valley, California, this often brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two families - the Trasks and the Hamiltons - whose generations hopelessly re-enact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel.
Audacious, controversial and hilarious, The Monkey Wrench Gang is Edward Abbey's masterpiece - a big, boisterous and unforgettable novel about freedom and commitment that ignited the flames of environmental activism. Throughout the vast American West, nature is being vicitimized by a Big Government / Big Business conspiracy of bridges, dams and concrete. But a motley gang of individuals has decided that enough is enough. A burnt-out veteran, a mad doctor and a polygamist join forces in a noble cause: to dismantle the machinery of progress through peaceful means, or otherwise.
Nightmarish and fiercely funny, William Burroughs' virtuoso, taboo-breaking masterpiece Naked Lunch follows Bill Lee through Interzone: a surreal, orgiastic wasteland of drugs, depravity, political plots, paranoia, sadistic medical experiments and endless, gnawing addiction. One of the most shocking novels ever written, Naked Lunch is a cultural landmark, now in a restored edition incorporating Burroughs' notes on the text, alternate drafts and outtakes from the original. 'A masterpiece. A cry from hell, a brutal, terrifying, and savagely funny book that swings between uncontrolled hallucination and fierce, exact satire' Newsweek ' Naked Lunch is a banquet you will never forget' J. G. Ballard
After seven years of marriage, the Lady Brenda Last is bored with country life at Hetton Abbey. She drifts into an affair with shallow young socialite, John Beaver, and forsakes her unsuspecting husband as she becomes involved with the glamorous Belgravia set.
An allegorical guide to living, the protagonist, simply called "the prophet", delivers spiritual, yet practical, homilies on a variety of topics central to daily life: love, marriage and children; work and play; beauty, truth, joy and sorrow, death and many more.
In 1963 John le Carre published his third book, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold . Written over a period of about five weeks in response to the fear and ugliness of the Berlin Wall, its bitter, devastating story crystallised the doubts and moral dilemmas of the time. It altered irrevocably our understanding of the Cold War, the shape of the spy novel, and John le Carre's writing career, propelling him to international fame.
