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The bridge of San Luis Rey
Par Thornton Wilder. 1955
A Franciscan brother probes into the lives of five travellers who were hurled to their deaths when a bridge collapsed.…
He discovers that the accident occurred at a crucial moment for each. Winner of the 1928 Pulitzer Prize. 1955, c1928.Sodome et Gomorrhe (À la recherche du temps perdu. #4.)
Par Marcel Proust. 2006
Shane
Par Jack Schaefer. 1949
Roger Sudden (New Canadian library no. 85)
Par Thomas H Raddall. 1944
Roger Sudden, disillusioned with Bonnie Prince Charlie's rebellion, escapes England determined to fulfil his dreams of wealth and power. His…
adventures take him to Halifax and Louisbourg, and to the wilderness where the French, British and Indian forces are fighting. 1972.Anne of Windy Willows (Anne of Green Gables. #4.)
Par L. M Montgomery. 1936
Anne becomes a school teacher in Summerside, P.E.I. while waiting for Gilbert, now Dr. Blythe, and an island dream house.…
Sequel to "Anne of the Island" (BR71098). Followed by "Anne's house of dreams" (BR60788). Grades 4-7. 1936. (Anne of Green Gables ; 4)Le tour d'écrou
Par Henry James, Mathieu Meyrignac. 2008
Le côté de Guermantes (À la recherche du temps perdu. #3.)
Par Marcel Proust. 2017
- Monsieur, je vous jure que je n'ai rien dit qui pût vous offenser. - Et qui vous dit que…
j'en suis offensé, s'écria M. de Charlus avec fureur en se redressant violemment sur la chaise longue où il était resté jusque-là immobile, cependant que, tandis que se crispaient les blêmes serpents écumeux de sa face, sa voix devenait tour à tour aiguë et grave comme une tempête assourdissante et déchaînée... Pensez-vous qu'il soit à votre portée de m'offenser ? Vous ne savez donc pas à qui vous parlez ? Croyez-vous que la salive envenimée de cinq cents petits bonshommes de vos amis, juchés les uns sur les autres, arriverait à baver seulement jusqu'à mes augustes orteils ? Suite de "À l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs", suivi de "Sodome et Gomorrhe". 2017.Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu. #1.)
Par Marcel Proust. 1987
La jungle ((Collection 10/18 ; 954. L'appel de la vie))
Par Upton Sinclair. 1963
Le joueur d'échecs (Bibliothèque cosmopolite ; #24)
Par Stefan Zweig. 1985
The story of Babar: the little elephant
Par Jean De Brunhoff. 2008
After his mother is killed by a hunter, Babar avoids capture by escaping to the city, where he is befriended…
by the kindly Old Lady. He becomes educated and cultured and, upon his return to the great forest, is crowned King of the Elephants. Grades K-3. Original French edition published in 1931, first English edition 1933. Uniform title: Histoire de Babar, le petit éléphant.Renny's daughter (Whiteoaks of Jalna saga ; #14)
Par Mazo De la Roche. 1951
Renny's daughter travels to Ireland and becomes involved in a frustrating romance. Sequel to "Return to Jalna" (DC04270). Followed by…
"Variable winds at Jalna" (DC31472). 1951. (Whiteoaks of Jalna saga ; 14)The Dharma bums
Par Jack Kerouac. 1958
In 1955 two young men search for Truth the Zen way in their dissolute wanderings on America's West Coast. A…
story that celebrates the freedom of those who have opted out of conventional society. 1986, c1958.The wild palms
Par William Faulkner. 1939
Faulkner takes us down two paths, apparently unconnected. The title story is about two lovers in an ultimately disastrous affair.…
In the other, "Old Man," a convict accidentally freed during a flood struggles to save himself and a pregnant woman whose fate has been thrust into his hands. The stories alternate and never touch, until the very end. c1939.Intruder in the dust (Vintage International)
Par William Faulkner. 1991
Classic novel by the Nobel Prize-winning author about Lucas Beauchamp, an elderly African-American of immense dignity who is in a…
Mississippi jail charged with the murder of Vinson Gowrie, a white man. A mob assembles in anger, while evidence to prove Lucas's innocence is collected by two sixteen-year-old youths, one white and one African-American, and an elderly, aristocratic spinster. 1991.Bless the beasts and children
Par Glendon Swarthout. 1970
Six boys, neglected and scarred as a result of absentee parents or broken homes, become outcasts at an expensive summer…
camp in the canyon country of Arizona. Together they set out to rescue a group of doomed buffalo, a mission that takes on dangerous proportions. For senior high and older readersThe call of the wild
Par Jack London. 1903
Buck, a St. Bernard, is stolen and trained to be a sled dog in the Alaska gold fields. Abused by…
both men and dogs, Buck learns to fight ruthlessly until he finds in John Thornton a master he loves and respects. c1903.Colonel Effingham's raid
Par Berry Fleming. 1988
A satire about a retired officer who returns to his Georgia hometown to wage battles in a newspaper column, covering…
the war in Europe. However, he has lost touch with the people of Fredericksville, and his column fractures the community's serenity. First published in 1943. 1988.Islands in the stream
Par Ernest Hemingway. 1970
Under western eyes (Penguin classics)
Par Joseph Conrad. 1910