Un essai - Étude approfondie d\'un grand texte classique ou contemporain par un spécialiste de l\'oeuvre : approche critique originale des multiples facettes du texte dans une présentation claire et rigoureuse. Un dossier - Bibliographie, chronologie, variantes, témoignages, extraits de presse. Éclaircissements historiques et contextuels, commentaires critiques récents. Une iconographie - Des illustrations

When a thirty-something portrait painter is abandoned by his wife, he holes up in the mountain home of a famous artist. The days drift by, spent painting, listening to music and drinking whiskey in the evenings. But then he discovers a strange painting in the attic and unintentionally begins a strange journey of self-discovery that involves a mysterious ringing bell, a precocious thirteen-year-old

Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

A brooding, contemporary novel of secrets, lost love, perfume and Provence

Leo Tolstoy\'s tragic Russian love story \"Anna Karenina\" is now the subject of a major new film adaptation from director Joe Wright (\"Atonement, Pride and Prejudice\"). Starring Keira Knightley (\"A Dangerous Method\") as \"Anna Karenina\", Jude Law (\"Sherlock Holmes\") as her husband Alexei, Aaron Johnson (\"Nowhere Boy\") as Count Vronsky, and also starring Matthew McFadyen, Andrea Riseborough

This Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition celebrates 200 years of Austen\'s beloved novel. With a beautiful cover designed by illustrator Dadu Shin and comprehensive notes sourced from the Jane Austen Collection, this is an edition to be treasured by students and collectors alike. With its imperfect but charming heroine and its witty and subtle exploration of relationships, Emma is often seen as Jane Austen\'s

Augusta Hope has never felt like she fits in. At six, she\'s memorising the dictionary. At seven, she\'s correcting her teachers. At eight, she spins the globe and picks her favourite country on the sound of its name: Burundi. And now that she\'s an adult, Augusta has no interest in the goings-on of the small town where she lives with her parents and her beloved twin sister, Julia. When an unspeakable

The little old lady is back! Martha Andersson and the League of Pensioners have left behind their dreary care home in Stockholm and headed for the bright lights of Las Vegas. This is their opportunity for a new lease of life and they plan to make the most of it. But before long they are up to their old tricks and with ingenious tactics, a pair of false teeth and a wheelchair each, they plot to outwit

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists tells the story of a group of working men in the fictional town of Mugsborough, and socialist journeyman-prophet Frank Owen who attempts to convince his fellow workers that capitalism is the real source of the poverty all around them. Owen\'s spirited attacks on the greed and dishonesty of the capitalist system, and support for a socialist society in which work

Being a blood spatter analyst who hates the sight of blood has always made Dexter\'s work for the Miami PD tough. But it means he\'s very neat when it comes to his out-of-hours hobby: murder. Of course, the fact Dexter only kills bad people helps too. Now Dex is facing a disturbing situation. He\'s used to blood at work, and blood when he\'s out with the dark passenger (the voice that guides him on

What if everything in life could be reduced to a simple formula? What if numbers were able to tell us which partners we were best matched with - not just in terms of attractiveness, but for a long-term committed marriage? Or if they could say which films would be the biggest hits at the box office, and what changes could be made to those films to make them even more successful? Or even who out of us

An ancient treasure stolen by Xerxes the Great . . . Discovered by Napoleon Bonaparte . . . The clues to its hidden location lost until now . . . Adventurers and treasure hunters Sam and Remi Fargo are on a wild-goose chase. Up to their waists in the Great Pocomoke Swamp in Maryland, they\'re hunting for lost gold. What they find instead is a small Second World War German U-boat. Inside the submarine

From Africa, Burma, and Czechoslovakia to Turkey, Vietnam, and Wales here are more than 150 of the world\'s best-loved folktales from more than forty countries and cultures. These tales of wonder and transformation, of heroes and heroines, of love lost and won, of ogres and trolls, stories both jocular and cautionary and legends of pure enchantment will delight readers and storytellers of all ages.

When Harriet Westaway receives an unexpected letter telling her she’s inherited a substantial bequest from her Cornish grandmother, it seems like the answer to her prayers. She owes money to a loan shark and the threats are getting increasingly aggressive: she needs to get her hands on some cash fast. There\'s just one problem - Hal\'s real grandparents died more than twenty years ago. The letter has

This is the third novel in Jeffrey Archer\'s compelling saga, the Clifton Chronicles. 1945. The vote in the House of Lords as to who should inherit the Barrington family fortune has ended in a tie. The Lord Chancellor\'s deciding vote will cast a long shadow on the lives of Harry Clifton and Giles Barrington. Harry returns to America to promote his latest novel, while his beloved Emma goes in search

James and Chantal are enjoying an evening of magic at the Blue Cat Club. Merlin the magician is clever and his tricks are exciting but are they dangerous too?

In the Sudan, decades of brutal misgovernment by the ruling Egyptian Khedive in Cairo precipitate a fierce and bloody rebellion and Holy War headed by a charismatic new religious leader, The Madhi or Expected One\". The British are forced to intervene to protect their national interests and to attempt to rescue the hundreds of British subjects stranded in the country. Along with hundreds of others,

Interior design helps to shape all aspects of our lives and has now come of age both intellectually and professionally. This text sets out to change and clarify the perceptions and misconceptions about contemporary interior design by examining some o f the key issues that define what it is, how it is different from architecture, what specific skills it requires and what design problems it solves. The