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After the Sea Rose
de M.F.W Curran
Didier, 2015, p.69 (Paper planes teens)
Année 2041. La moitié de la Grande-Bretagne a disparu sous les flots. Le jeune Pete se trouve à bord de l’Orpheum Lass lorsque l’équipage est contraint de faire escale à Cannock… une île pas comme les autres… que de terrifiants occupants ont transformée en terrain de chasse…
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
de Lewis Caroll
Oxford university press, 1994, p.56 (Oxford Bookworms)
What strange things happen when Alice falls downthe rabbit-hole and into Wonderland! She has conversations with a caterpillar and the Chesshire Cat, goes to the Mad Hatter's party, plays croquet with the King and Queen of Hearts...
And then there where None
de Christie Agatha
HarperCollins, 2007, p.317
And Then There Were None is a mystery novel by English writer Agatha Christie, widely considered her masterpiece and described by her as the most difficult of her books to write.[2] It was first published in the United Kingdom by the Collins Crime Club on 6 November 1939, as Ten Little Niggers,[3] after the British blackface song, which serves as a major plot point.[4][5] The US edition was not released until December 1939; its American reprints and adaptations were all retitled And Then There Were None, the last five words in the nursery rhyme ("Ten Little Indians").[6]
In the novel, a group of people are lured into coming to an island under different pretexts, e.g., offers of employment, to enjoy a late summer holiday, or to meet old friends. All have been complicit in the deaths of other human beings, but either escaped justice or committed an act that was not subject to legal sanction. The guests and two servants who are present are "charged" with their respective "crimes" by a gramophone recording after dinner the first night, and informed that they have been brought to the island to pay for their actions. They are the only people on the island, and cannot escape due to the distance from the mainland and the inclement weather, and gradually all ten are killed in turn, each in a manner that seems to parallel the deaths in the nursery rhyme. Nobody else seems to be left alive on the island by the time of the apparent last death. A confession, in the form of a postscript to the novel, unveils how the killings took place and who was responsible. Wikipedia
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L'anglais sympa... en 50 points-clés
de Danièle Bertein
Clear Ways, 2005, 247 p.
Grammaire anglaise avec exercices corrigés
L'attrape-coeurs _ The Catcher in the Rye
de Jérôme David Salinger
Robert Laffont, 2018, 487 p. (pavillons poche)
Un garçon de la bourgeoisie new-yorkaise chassé de son collège trois jours avant Noël, décide de fuguer car il n'ose pas rentrer chez lui et affronter ses parents. Trois jours de vagabondage et d'aventures cocasses, sordides ou émouvantes, d'incertitude et d'anxiété, à la recherche de soi-même et des autres. L'histoire éternelle d'un gosse perdu qui cherche des raisons de vivre dans un monde hostile et corrompu.
Creepy Stories
de Edgar Allan Poe
Belin, 2020, 237 p. (Not so classic)
Vous avez peur du noir ? Les films d'horreur, très peu pour vous ? Lecteurs, reposez donc ce livre ! Car si vous pensiez connaître Edgar Allan Poe comme l'un des plus grand sauteurs du XIXe siècle, il est avant tout maître du suspens, roi de l'angoisse, empereur des ambiances macabres. Narrateurs fous, meurtriers pas comme les autres, maisons hantées ... Passez du côté obscur, si vous l'osez. Frissons garantis!
Frankenstein : in english
de Mary SHELLEY
Harrap's, 2016, 304 p. (Yes you can)
Un classique de l'épouvante, en VO avec des notes pour faciliter la compréhension (Présentation de l'éditeur)
Gulliver's Travels
de Jonathan Swift
Oxford university press, 1998, 371 (Oxford's World's Classics)
First published in 1726, this collection of Lemuel Gulliver’s fascinating voyages all over the world, has been loved, read and re-read by every child and adult familiar with the English language. The story appealing the children for its fictional quotient made of wonderful creatures ranging in size from a few inches to several feet, flying island, etc. and to adults for its keen representation of human nature and European society. The witty and satiric style of Jonathan Swift’s narrative has an universal appeal to every intelligent reader while the circumstances and surroundings aid in accomplishing the tale by providing the elements of fantasy and thrill.
Gulliver's Travels - thinkerviews.com
Hemingway's Chihuahua and other mysteries
de peter Flynn
Didier, 2011, p.109 (Paper planes teens)
Ten extraordinary stories about extraordinary people. Some are true, some are completely fictional. But which? Did Einstein truly exchange places with his chauffeur at a physics conference? Does Queen Elizabeth play poker with her servants? And, of course, did Ernest Hemingway really have a killer chihuahua? smartnovel.com
If I Stay : Live for Love
de Gayle Forman
Définitions, 2014, p.223
Mia is a very gifted cellist. She has everything she could ever want, a loving family, an adoring boyfriend, an amazing best friend, and an amazing career ahead of her in music. All of that changes suddenly. Mia and her family have a terrible car accident and Mia is rushed to the ICU. Mia is caught between life and death, and watches as family and friends come to visit her at the hospital she is in. Soon Mia realizes that she must make the most critical decision of her life - wake up to live a life more difficult than she ever could have imagined, or slip away and die. colleenworger.weebly.com
King Arthur
de Janet Hardy-Gould, Axel rator
Oxford university press, p.39 (Oxford Bookworms)
A very easy to read comic strip that turns around de legend of King Arthur
Looking for Alaska
de John Green
HarperCollins, 2006, p.268
Miles Halter is fascinated by famous last words–and tired of his safe life at home. He leaves for boarding school to seek what the dying poet Francois Rabelais called the “Great Perhaps.” Much awaits Miles at Culver Creek, including Alaska Young. Clever, funny, screwed-up, and dead sexy, Alaska will pull Miles into her labyrinth and catapult him into the Great Perhaps. Green was awarded the 2006 Michael L. Printz Award for Looking for Alaska. It is taught in many high school and college curricula and has been published in over 30 languages. A special 10th Anniversary edition of Looking for Alaska was released in 2015.johngreenbooks.com
Minority Report
de Philip k. Dick
Gollancz, 2002, p.290
Résumé: Imagine a future where crimes can be detected before they are committed, and criminals are convicted and sentenced for crimes before committing them. This is the scenario of Philip K. Dick's classic story, now filmed by Steven Spielberg, starring Tom Cruise.
In addition to MINORITY REPORT this exclusive collection includes nine other outstanding short stories by the twentieth century's outstanding SF master, three of which have been made into feature films.
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N or M ?
de Christie Agatha
The Agatha Christie Collection, 1964, 202 p.
After the outbreak of the Second World War and many years after they worked for British intelligence, middleaged Tommy and Tuppence Beresford feel useless and sidelined. Then Tommy is approached by a secret agent named Grant to go undercover once more. Grant tries to find German spies and fifth columnists but is hampered by traitors within British intelligence who follow and sabotage his work. Since Tommy has not been in the field for many years, nobody knows him and he can investigate unofficially.
Grant explains that another British agent was recently murdered but left a cryptic message on his deathbed: "N or M. Song Susie". Grant suspects that "Song Susie" stands for Sans Souci, a hotel in (fictional) seaside Leahampton (based on Bournemouth) and it is known that "N" and "M" are two top German spies, one male and one female. Tommy is to go to Sans Souci to investigate whether N, M or both are at the hotel and to figure out their identities.
Tommy is sent alone, however, Tuppence decides to join him on his mission whether invited or not. Through good sleuthing she learns where he is to be sent and actually arrives there before him. Working together, they begin a search for the master spies.
Both N and M's identities are revealed at the end of the book; "N" is a top German spy—who is shot by British intelligence at the book's conclusion as he threatens Tuppence's life—and "M" is his female co-conspirator. Wikipédia
Nelson Mandela
de Carl W Hart
MacMillan, 2009, p.79 (MacMillan Readers)
Here you'll find a short bibliography of Nelson Mandela, from his life has a lawyer until he became the famous activist of the ANC.
Newspaper Boy
de John Escott
MacMillan, p.31 (MacMillan Readers)
Two stories about Tony, a newspaper boy who wants to be a détective.
Paper Towns
de John Green
Bloomsbury, 2013, p.305
Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificently adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs back into his life–dressed like a ninja and summoning him for an ingenious campaign of revenge–he follows. After their all-nighter ends and a new day breaks, Q arrives at school to discover that Margo, always an enigma, has now become a mystery. But Q soon learns that there are clues–and they’re for him. Urged down a disconnected path, the closer he gets, the less Q sees of the girl he thought he knew.johngreenbooks.com
Pride and prejudice
de Jane Austen
Belin, 1981, 638 p. (Not so classic)
Élisabeth Bennet a quatre sœurs 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...
Roald Dahl : Three Selected Short Stories
de Roald Dahl
Magnard, 2002, 128 p. (Classiques & contemporains)
Slumdog Millionnaire
de Vikas Swarup
MacMillan, 2010, p.110 (MacMillan Readers)
Ram Mohammad Thomas has won a million rupees on a TV quizz show but how did he get there? The short tale of his survival life in the streets of Mumbai and Dehli to his final revenge.
Tales of Horror
de Bram Stoker
MacMillan, p.71 (MacMillan Readers)
Three stange and frightening short stories by the author of Dracula
The Hobbit
de John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
HarperCollins, 1998, p.364 (Collins Modern Classics)
Gandalf, the wizard proposes an adventure to Bilbo. Bilbo is a "stay-at-home" Hobbit and refuses to have anything to do with adventures.
Gandalf scratches a secret sign on Bilbo's door.
Shortly, a troop of 13 dwarves arrives at Bilbo's house with a treasure map. The map piques Bilbo's curiosity, and he is off on an adventure in search of the evil dragon Smaug who has stolen the Dwarve's treasure.
On this adventure they are accosted by trolls and orcs. In the caves of the Misty Mountains, Bilbo meets Gollum and acquires a ring.
A great battle ensues in which the dragon is deafeated, the dwarves regain their treasure. Thorin Oakenshield accuses Bilbo Baggins of treachery, later forgives him and commends Bilbo's bravery and courage. Thorin dies in this novel.
The dragon is defeated, and they return home. Bilbo returns to the Shire and settles in for a nice retirement. enotes.com
The Old Man and the Sea
de Ernest Hemingway
Le Livre de Poche, 1991, p.191 (Lire en anglais)
The Old Man and the Sea tells the story of a battle between an aging, experienced fisherman, Santiago, and a large marlin. The story opens with Santiago having gone 84 days without catching a fish, and now being seen as "salao",[a] the worst form of unluckiness. He is so unlucky that his young apprentice, Manolin, has been forbidden by his parents to sail with him and has been told instead to fish with successful fishermen. The boy visits Santiago's shack each night, hauling his fishing gear, preparing food, talking about American baseball and his favorite player, Joe DiMaggio. Santiago tells Manolin that on the next day, he will venture far out into the Gulf Stream, north of Cuba in the Straits of Florida to fish, confident that his unlucky streak is near its end.
On the eighty-fifth day of his unlucky streak, Santiago takes his skiff into the Gulf Stream, sets his lines and, by noon, has his bait taken by a big fish that he is sure is a marlin. Unable to haul in the great marlin, Santiago is instead pulled by the marlin, and two days and nights pass with Santiago holding onto the line. Though wounded by the struggle and in pain, Santiago expresses a compassionate appreciation for his adversary, often referring to him as a brother. He also determines that, because of the fish's great dignity, no one shall deserve to eat the marlin.
On the third day, the fish begins to circle the skiff. Santiago, worn out and almost delirious, uses all his remaining strength to pull the fish onto its side and stab the marlin with a harpoon. Santiago straps the marlin to the side of his skiff and heads home, thinking about the high price the fish will bring him at the market and how many people he will feed.
On his way in to shore, sharks are attracted to the marlin's blood. Santiago kills a great mako shark with his harpoon, but he loses the weapon. He makes a new harpoon by strapping his knife to the end of an oar to help ward off the next line of sharks; five sharks are slain and many others are driven away. But the sharks keep coming, and by nightfall the sharks have almost devoured the marlin's entire carcass, leaving a skeleton consisting mostly of its backbone, its tail and its head. Santiago knows that he is entirely unlucky now, and defeated, tells the sharks of how they have killed his dreams. Upon reaching the shore before dawn on the next day, Santiago struggles to his shack, carrying the heavy mast on his shoulder, leaving the fish head and the bones on the shore. Once home, he slumps onto his bed and falls into a deep sleep.
A group of fishermen gather the next day around the boat where the fish's skeleton is still attached. One of the fishermen measures it to be 18 feet (5.5 m) from nose to tail. Pedrico is given the head of the fish, and the other fishermen tell Manolin to tell the old man how sorry they are. Tourists at the nearby café mistakenly take it for a shark. The boy, worried about the old man, cries upon finding him safe asleep and at his injured hands. Manolin brings him newspapers and coffee. When the old man wakes, they promise to fish together once again. Upon his return to sleep, Santiago dreams of his youth — of lions on an African beach. en.wikipedia.org
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Under Control
de Collectif LLCE writers
Plumes au bout des doigts, 2023, 179 p.
In the near future, Earth and Humanity are threatened. Will human beings cause their own failure ? Will the world fall apart ?
Vox
de Christina Dalcher
HQ, 2019, 388 p.
Jean McClellan spends her time in almost complete silence, limited to just one hundred words a day. Any more, and a thousand volts of electricity will course through her veins. Now the new government is in power, everything has changed. But only if you're a woman. Almost overnight, bank accounts are frozen, passports are taken away and seventy million women lose their jobs. Even more terrifyingly, young girls are no longer taught to read or write. For herself, her daughter, and for every woman silenced, Jean will reclaim her voice. This is only the beginning...
Diary of a wimpy kid, 1. Diary of a Wimpy Kid
de Jeff Kinney
puffin books, 2007, 217 p.
Greg, 12 ans, tient son journal : vie quotidienne d'un adolescent, accompagné de ses dessins.
Diary of a wimpy kid, 3. The Last Straw
de Jeff Kinney
puffin books, 2007, 216 p.
Greg, 12 ans, tient son journal : vie quotidienne d'un adolescent, accompagné de ses dessins.
Harry Potter. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
de J.K Rowling
Bloomsbury, 2014, 331
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone is the first book in a seven-part series about the powerful young wizard Harry Potter. In this book, he's orphaned and sent to live with his aunt and uncle. Years later, he receives an acceptance letter from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, where he will have many dangerous and fantastic adventures.