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Né par l'oreille gauche de sa mère, le géant Gargantua mange avec grand appétit, boit beaucoup et emporte les cloches de Notre-Dame... avant de restaurer la paix et de fonder une abbaye. Dans ce roman d'une richesse inépuisable, Rabelais mêle gaieté ...

Ella Marge a 17 ans en 1965. Issue d'une famille juive aisée de Rouen, ses parents, survivants de la Shoah, sont traumatisés par la guerre. Ella et son frère Sébastien font partie de la deuxième génération, nés après l'innommable mais souffrant des s ...

"Moby Dick" by Herman Melville is a literary masterpiece that follows the obsessive quest of Captain Ahab to hunt down the great white whale, Moby Dick. Set in the 19th century, the novel explores themes of obsession, revenge, and the human struggle ...

À l’approche de Noël, Asle se rend à Bjørgvin, une ville côtière de Norvège, pour préparer sa prochaine exposition. L'avant-veille, il a retrouvé son homonyme – son sosie, son double – qui a échappé de peu à la mort. Sous la neige qui ne cesse de tom ...

The Scarlet Letter: A Romance is a work of historical fiction by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne, published in 1850. Set in the Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony during the years 1642 to 1649, the novel tells the story of Hester Prynne, who concei ...

Mehdi Azzam a grandi à Vitry. Elevé durement par son père, il se réfugie dans le sport. Très vite repéré, il devient un bon joueur de foot. Appelé en équipe de France, sa cote flambe puis se tasse brusquement pendant son séjour en Angleterre. A l'étr ...

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. The st ...

George Orwell's "1984" portrays a dystopian society where Winston Smith rebels against the oppressive Party. Through constant surveillance and manipulation of history, the Party suppresses individuality and independent thought. Winston's defiance and ...

With no introduction needed for the iconic and one of the most loved authors, Dickens; the book comes as a realization of one's own deeds that are done in ignorance, ambition, anger or outright selfishness. It is through the catharsis of the main cha ...

One of the most celebrated and important modernist novels in English, Mrs Dalloway (1925) is perhaps Virginia Woolf’s best novel. Originally titled ‘The Hours’, a title that Michael Cunningham would retrieve and use for his 1998 novel based on Mrs Da ...