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About a Boy
- Auteur : Nick Hornby
- Editeur : Penguin Books 1998 307 p.
Too cool! At thirty-six, he's as hip as a teenager. He's single, child-free, goes to the right clubs and knows which trainers to wear. He's also found a great way to score with women: attend single parents' groups full of available (and grateful[...]Animal farm : a fairy story
- Auteur : George Orwell
- Editeur : Penguin Books 1989 113 p.
When the downtrodden beasts of Manor Farm oust their drunken human master and take over management of the land, all are awash in collectivist zeal. Everyone willingly works overtime, productivity soars and for one brief, glorious season, every b[...]Animal farm : a fairy story
- Auteur : George Orwell
- Editeur : Penguin Books 1987 94 p.
When the downtrodden beasts of Manor Farm oust their drunken human master and take over management of the land, all are awash in collectivist zeal. Everyone willingly works overtime, productivity soars and for one brief, glorious season, every b[...]Animal farm : a fairy story
- Auteur : George Orwell
- Editeur : Penguin Books 1989 113 p.
When the downtrodden beasts of Manor Farm oust their drunken human master and take over management of the land, all are awash in collectivist zeal. Everyone willingly works overtime, productivity soars and for one brief, glorious season, every b[...]Brave New World
- Auteur : Aldous Huxley
- Editeur : Penguin Books 1999 119 p.
It is the year AF 632 and the breeding and conditioning of humans by scientific methods have created world wide stability and happiness. Or have they? John brings passion to the New World and the values of the New World are thrown into perspective.Cry, the Beloved Country
- Auteur : Alan Paton
- Editeur : Penguin Books 2001 92 p.
When Reverend Kumalo sets off for Johannesburg, he hopes to find his son and his brother. What he finds is that in their struggle to survive city life under apartheid, his relatives have lost sight of honesty, love and respect - with terrible co[...]La dernière fugitive
- Auteur : Tracy Chevalier
- Editeur : Quai Voltaire, Penguin Books Collection : Folio 2013 373 p.
Quand Honor Bright se décide à franchir l'Atlantique pour accompagner, au coeur de l'Ohio, sa soeur promise à un Anglais récemment émigré, elle pense pouvoir recréer auprès d'une nouvelle communauté le calme de son existence de jeune quaker : br[...]A dry white season
- Auteur : André Brink
- Editeur : Penguin Books 1979 316 p.
Ben du Toit is an ordinary, decent, harmless man, unremarkable in every way - until his sense of justice is outraged by the death of a man he has known. His friend died at the hands of the police. In the beginning it appears a straightforward ma[...]Farewell, my lovely
- Auteur : Raymond Chandler
- Editeur : Penguin Books Collection : Penguin Readers 1991 61 p.
Private detective Philip Marlowe is in trouble. He witnesses a murder and knows who the killer is but for some reason the police do not want to find the murderer. Marlowe intends to discover why ...Ginger, you're barmy
- Auteur : David Lodge
- Editeur : Penguin Books 1984 217 p.
National Service: two years of square-bashing, kit layout, shepherd’s pie ‘made from real shepherds’, PT and drill, relieved only by the occasional lecture on VD. Conscription has made Jonathan Browne and Mike ‘Ginger’ Brady prisoners of the B[...]Girl with a Pearl Earring
- Auteur : Tracy Chevalier
- Editeur : Dutton, Penguin Books 2001 232 p.
Griet, the young daughter of a tilemaker in seventeeth century Holland, obtains her first job, as a servant in Vermeer’s household. Tracy Chevalier shows us through Griet’s eyes, the complicated family, the society of the small town of Delft, an[...]La jeune fille à la perle
- Auteur : Tracy Chevalier
- Editeur : Quai Voltaire, Penguin Books Collection : Folio 2000 313 p.
La jeune et ravissante Griet est engagée comme servante dans la maison du peintre Vermeer. Nous sommes à Delft, au dix-septième siècle, l'âge d'or de la peinture hollandaise. Griet s'occupe du ménage et des six enfants de Vermeer en s'efforçant [...]Kiss kiss
- Auteur : Roald Dahl
- Editeur : Penguin Books 1962 230 p.
If you want to know what happens when a baby is fed on bee's royal jelly... when Mrs Bixby pawns her ravishing mink coat... when mr Pearl's brain lives on, in a basin, after death....Matilda
- Auteur : Roald Dahl
- Editeur : Penguin Books 1999 40 p.
Matilda is a very clever little girl, but her parents don't like her. One day Miss Trunchbull, the horrible headmistress at her school, attacks her and Matilda finds out she has extraordinary powers to protect herself. Now she isn't afraid of an[...]Maus : A Survivor's Tale : My Father Bleeds History and Here My Troubles Began
- Auteur : Art Spiegelman
- Editeur : Penguin Books 2003 295 p. : ill.
A son struggles to come to terms with the horrific story of his parents and their experiences during the Holocaust and in postwar America, in an omnibus edition of Spiegelman's two-part, Pulitzer Prize-winning.
