Romans en anglais – CDI LFI Duras
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Romans en anglais – CDI LFI Duras
Romans en anglais – CDI LFI Duras Akinyemi, Rowena. Remember Miranda Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1998. 43 p. ; 20 cm. stage 1. ISBN 0-19-421691-8 Résumé : Cathy Wilson is driving to Norfolk, to begin her new job with the Harvey family. She's going to look after the two young children, Tim and Susan. Cathy meets the children's father, their grandmother, their aunt. She meets Nick, the farmer who lives across the field, but she doesn't meet Miranda, the children's mother, because Miranda is dead. She died two years ago and Cathy cannot learn anything about her. Everybody, remembers Miranda, but nobody wants to talk about her. Cote : 823 AKI Akinyemi, Rowena. The Witches of Pendle Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1994. 13x20 cm/ 56 p. Stage 1. ISBN 0194229572 Résumé : Witches are dangerous. They can kill you with a look, or a word. They can send their friend the Devil after you in the shape of a dog or a cat. They can make a clay picture of you, then break it and a few weeks later you are dead. Today, of course, most people don't believe in witches. But in 1612 everybody was afraid of them. Young Jennet Device in Lancashire knew a lot about them because she lived with the Witches of Pendle. They were her family. . . Cote : 823 AKI Akinyemi, Rowena. Under the Moon Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 13x20 cm/ 56 p. Stage 1. ISBN 0194229556 Résumé : It is the year 2522, and the planet Earth is dying. The Artificial Ozone Layer is only 300 years old, but it is breaking up fast. Now the sun is burning down on Earth with a white fire. There is no water. Without water, nothing can live. Trees die, plants die, animals die, people die. . . In a colony under the moon, people wait for news - news from home, news from the planet Earth. And in a spaceship high above Earth, a young man watches numbers on a computer screen. The numbers tell a story, and the young man is afraid. The planet Earth is burning, burning, burning. . . Cote : 823 AKI Alcott, Louise May. Little Women Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 13x20 cm/ 88 p. Stage 4. ISBN 0194230368 Résumé : When Christmas comes for the four March girls, there is no money for expensive presents and they give away their Christmas breakfast to a poor family. But there are no happier girls in America than Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy. They miss their father, of course, who is away at the Civil War, but they try hard to be good so that he will be proud of his 'little women' when he comes home. This heart-warming story of family life has been popular for more than a hundred years. Cote : 813 ALC Asimov, Isaac. I, Robot Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 13x20 cm/ 104 p. ISBN 0194230694 Résumé : A human being is a soft, weak creature. It needs constant supplies of air, water, and food; it has to spend a third of its life asleep, and it can't work if the temperature is too hot or too cold. But a robot is made of strong metal. It uses electrical energy directly, never sleeps, and can work in any temperature. It is stronger, more efficient - and sometimes more human than human beings. Isaac Asimov was one of the greatest science-fiction writers, and these short stories give us an unforgettable and terrifying vision of the future. Cote : 823 ASI Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1990. XXXVI-351 p. ; 19 cm. ISBN 0-19-282760-X 31 mars 2012 1 Résumé : La famille Bennet a cinq filles et leur mère espère trouver pour chacune d'elles un mari. Elisabeth la plus vivante et la plus indépendante rencontre Monsieur Darcy. Tout deux devront vaincre de nombreux obstacles avant de pouvoir s'épouser... Cote : 823 AUS Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice London : Penguin Books, 1999. 391 p. ; 20 cm. ISBN 0-14-081765-4 Résumé : La famille Bennet a cinq filles et leur mère espère trouver pour chacune d'elles un mari. Elisabeth la plus vivante et la plus indépendante rencontre Monsieur Darcy. Tout deux devront vaincre de nombreux obstacles avant de pouvoir s'épouser... Cote : 823 AUS Austen, Jane. Pride and prejudice Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008. 1 vol. (124 p.) : couv. ill. ; 20 cm. Oxford progressive english readers. Level 5. ISBN 978-0-19-545562-5 Cote : 823 AUS Austen, Jane. Sense And Sensibility Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 13x20 cm/ 104 p. Stage 5. ISBN 0194230732 Résumé : Sometimes the Dashwood girls do not seem like sisters. Elinor is all calmness and reason, and can be relied upon for practical, common sense opinions. Marianne, on the other hand, is all sensibility, full of passionate and romantic feeling. She has no time for dull common sense - or for middle-aged men of thirty-five, long past the age of marriage. True love can only be felt by the young, of course. And if your heart is broken at the age of seventeen, how can you expect ever to recover from the passionate misery that fills your life, waking and sleeping? Cote : 823 AUS Auster, Paul. Moon Palace London : Penguin Books, 1990. 307 p. ; 20 cm. ISBN 0-14-011585-4 Résumé : Les tribulations de Marco Stanley Fogg, tout autour de l'Amérique. Ce voyage initiatique nous emmène dans les avatars de la solitude. Cote : 813 AUS Austin, Jane. Sense and Sensibility Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1990. 343 p. ; 19 cm. ISBN 0-19-282761-1 Résumé : While the story centres on the personalities of the two sisters, whose contrasting temperaments are examined as they undergo comparable experiences in the loss of the men thy love, it rejoices also in a wealth of minor characters such as the comic Mrs Jennings and Sir John and Lady Middeton, drawn with consummate satiric skill. Cote : 823 AUS Bagley Desmond. The enemy Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1991. 107 p. ; 20 x 13 cm. stage 6. ISBN 0-19-421667-5 Résumé : On a beautiful summer evening in the quiet town of Marlow, young woman is walking home from church. She passes a man who is looking at the engine of his car. He turns round, smiles at her... and throws acid into her face. Then her farther, the scientist Georges Ashton disappears. And her sister, Penny, discovers that her husband-to-be, Malcom, is a government agent... Cote : 823 BAG Bagley Desmond. Wyatt's Hurricane Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 13x20 cm / 72 p. Stage 3. ISBN 0194230236 Résumé : Hurricane Mabel is far out in the Atlantic Ocean and moving slowly northwards. Perhaps it will never come near land at all. But if it hits the island of San Fernandez, many thousands of people 31 mars 2012 2 will die. There could be winds of more than 250 kilometres an hour. There could be a huge tidal wave from the sea, which will drown the capital city of St Pierre. Mabel will destroy houses, farms, roads, bridges . . . Only one man, David Wyatt, believes that Mabel will hit San Fernandez, but nobody will listen to him... Cote : 823 BAG Bagley Desmond. The Enemy Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 13x20 cm/ 120 p. Stage 6. ISBN 0194230864 Résumé : On a beautiful summer evening in the quiet town of Marlow, a young woman is walking home from church. She passes a man who is looking at the engine of his car. He turns round, smiles at her . . . and throws acid into her face. Then her father, the scientist George Ashton, disappears. And her sister, Penny, discovers that her husband-to-be, Malcolm, is a government agent. Why has Ashton disappeared, and why is Malcolm told to hunt for him? Who is George Ashton, anyway? Cote : 823 BAG Bassett, Jennifer. The Phantom of the opera Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1992. 44 p. ; 20 x 13 cm. stage 1. ISBN 0-19-422707-3 Résumé : It is 1880, in the Opera House in Paris. everybody is talking about the Phantom of the Opera , the ghost that lives somewhere under the Opera House. The Phantom is a man in black clothes. He is a body without head, he is a head without body. He has a yellow face, he has no nose, he has black holes for eyes. Everybody is afraid, the singers, the dancers, the directors, the stage workers. But who has actually seen him? Cote : 823 BAS Bassett, Jennifer. The Omega Files Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2002. 13x20 cm/ 56 p. Stage 1. ISBN 0194229602 Résumé : In EDI (the European Department of Intelligence in Brussels) there are some very secret files - the Omega Files. There are strange, surprising, and sometimes horrible stories in these files, but not many people know about them. You never read about them in the newspapers. Hawker and Jude know all about the Omega Files, because they work for EDI. They think fast, they move fast, and they learn some very strange things. They go all over the world, asking difficult questions in dangerous places, but they don't always find the answers. Cote : 823 BAS Bassett, Jennifer. One Way Ticket Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 13x20 cm / 56 p. Stage 1. ISBN 0194229505 Résumé : Tom Walsh had a lot to learn about life. He liked travelling, and he was in no hurry. He liked meeting people, anyone and everyone. He liked the two American girls on the train. They were nice and very friendly. They knew a lot of places. Tom thought they were fun. Tom certainly had a lot to learn about life. This is a collection of short stories about adventures on trains. Strange, wonderful, and frightening things can happen on trains - and all of them happen here. Cote : 823 BAS Bassett, Jennifer. William Shakespeare Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 20 X 13 cm/ 64 p. Stage 2. ISBN 0194229904 Résumé : William Shakespeare. Born April 1564, at Stratford-upon-Avon. Died April 1616. Married Anne Hathaway: two daughters, one son. Actor, poet, famous playwright. Wrote nearly forty plays. But what was he like as a man? What did he think about when he rode into London for the first time or when he was writing his plays Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet . . . or when his only son died? We know the facts of his life, but we can only guess at his hopes, his fears, his dreams. Cote : 823 BAS 31 mars 2012 3 Beah, ishmael. A long way home : memoirs of a boy soldier Harper perennial, 2007. 1 vol. (229-20 p.) : couv. ill. en coul. ; 20 cm. La couv. porte en plus : The true story of a child soldier". ISBN 978-2-00-724709-7 Résumé : The first-person account of a 26-year-old who fought in the war in Sierra Leone as a 12year-old boy. 'My new friends have begun to suspect that I haven't told them the full story of my life. "Why did you leave Sierra Leone?" "Because there is a war." "You mean, you saw people running around with guns and shooting each other?" "Yes, all the time." "Cool." I smile a little. "You should tell us about it sometime." "Yes, sometime."' This is how wars are fought now: by children, hoppedup on drugs and wielding AK-47s. There are more than fifty conflicts going on worldwide and it is estimated there are some 300,000 child soldiers fighting. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them. What is war like through the eyes of a child soldier? How does one become a killer? How does one stop? Child soldiers have been profiled by journalists, and novelists have struggled to imagine their lives. But until now, there has not been a first-person account from someone who came through this hell and survived. Ishmael Beah, now twenty-five years old, tells a riveting story: how at the age of twelve in Sierra Leone, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, he'd been picked up by the government army, and Beah, at heart a gentle boy, found he was capable of truly terrible acts. This is a rare and mesmerizing account, told with real literary force and heartbreaking honesty. Cote : 823 BEA Beckford, William / Jack, Malcolm. Vathek and other stories : a William Beckford reader London : Penguin Books, 1993. 1 vol. (xxxviii-314 p.) : couv. ill. en coul. ; 20 cm. Penguin classics. Contient : The long story (known as The vision). - Vathek, an Arabian tale. - Biographical memoirs of extraordinary painters. - Modern novel writing or the elegant enthusiast. - Azemia, a descriptive or sentimental novel. - Dreams, waking thoughts and incidents. - The journal of William Beckford in Portugal and Spain 1787-88. - Italy, with sketches of Spain and Portugal . - Recollections of an excursion to the monasteries of Alcobaça and Batalha. ISBN 978-0-14-043530-6 Résumé : Beckford's Gothic novel Vathek, an Arabian tale, was originally written in French when the author was twenty-one. Published in English in 1786, it was one of the most successful of the oriental tales then in fashion. This edition makes available to a new generation of scholars and general readers, the originality of Beckford's ideas, and the excellence of his prose. Cote : 823 BEC Bennet, Arnold. Stories from the Five Towns Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 13x20 cm/ 56 p. Stage 2. ISBN 0194229866 Résumé : Arnold Bennett is famous for his stories about the Five Towns and the people who live there. They look and sound just like other people, and, like all of us, sometimes they do some very strange things. There's Sir Jee, who is a rich businessman. So why is he making a plan with a burglar? Then there is Toby Hall. Why does he decide to visit Number 11 Child Row, and who does he find there? And then there are the Hessian brothers and Annie Emery - and the little problem of twelve thousand pounds. Cote : 823 BEN Binchy, Maeve. Dublin People Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 13x20 cm/ 120 p. Stage 6. ISBN 0194230848 Résumé : A young country girl comes to live and work in Dublin. Jo is determined to be modern and independent, and to have a wonderful time. But life in a big city is full of strange surprises for a shy country girl . Gerry Moore is a man with a problem - alcohol. He knows he must give it up, and his family and friends watch nervously as he battles against it. But drink is a hard enemy to fight… These stories by the Irish writer Maeve Binchy are full of affectionate humour and wit, and sometimes a little sadness. Cote : 823 BIN 31 mars 2012 4 Blackmore, R.D.Lorna Doone Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 13x20 cm/ 88 p. Stage 4. ISBN 0194230384 Résumé : One winter's day in 1673 young John Ridd is riding home from school, across the wild lonely hills of Exmoor. He has to pass Doone valley - a dangerous place, as the Doones are famous robbers and murderers. All Exmoor lives in fear of the Doones. At home there is sad news waiting for young John, and he learns that he has good reason to hate the Doones. But in the years to come he meets Lorna Doone, with her lovely smile and big dark eyes. And soon he is deeply in love…. Cote : 823 BLA Blyton, Enid. The Famous five. Five on a secret trail Knight Book, 1991. 143 p. ; 18 x 11 cm. ISBN 0-340-54889-4 Cote : 813 BLY Border, Rosemary. The Piano Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 13x20 cm/ 56 p. Stage 2. ISBN 0194229823 Résumé : One day, a farmer tells a farm boy to take everything out of an old building and throw it away. 'It's all rubbish,' he says. In the middle of all the rubbish, the boy finds a beautiful old piano. He has never played before, but now, when his fingers touch the piano, he begins to play. He closes his eyes and the music comes to him - and the music moves his fingers. When he opens his eyes again, he knows that his life is changed for ever . . . Cote : 823 BOR Border, Rosemary. The Lottery Winner Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 13x20 cm/ 56 p. Stage 1. ISBN 0194229459 Résumé : Everybody wants to win the lottery. A million pounds, perhaps five million, even ten million. How wonderful! Emma Carter buys a ticket for the lottery every week, and puts the ticket carefully in her bag. She is seventy-three years old and does not have much money. She would like to visit her son in Australia, but aeroplane tickets are very expensive. Jason Williams buys lottery tickets every week too. But he is not a very nice young man. He steals things. He hits old ladies in the street, snatches their bags and runs away. . Cote : 823 BOR Border, Rosemary. Ghost Stories Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 13x20 cm/ 104 p. Stage 5. ISBN 019423066X Résumé : After dinner we turned the lights out and played 'hide-and-seek'. In the dark, I touched a hand, a very cold hand. Now, because of the game, I had to hide in the dark with . . . with this cold person - not speaking, not knowing who it was. Slowly the others found us, hid with us, until we were all there - all thirteen. Thirteen? But there were only twelve people in the house! We touched each other in the dark, counting. Thirteen. Quickly, nervously, I lit a match to see . Cote : 823 BOR Borie, Jean. The Mirror of Ink London : Penguin Books, 2005. 64 p./ 11x18 cm. ISBN 0141022132 Cote : 863 BOR Boston, Lucy M. A Stranger at Green Knowe Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 20 x 13 cm/ 56 p. Stage 2. ISBN 0194229874 Résumé : When Ping sees Hanno in the zoo, he is excited, but also unhappy. Hanno is a magnificent African gorilla, big and black and much stronger than a man. But how can this wonderful wild animal live in a cage, behind bars and locked doors? Then Hanno escapes from the zoo. And a few days later his footprints are seen near Green Knowe, the old house deep in the English countryside where Ping is spending his holiday. Cote : 823 BOS 31 mars 2012 5 Boyd, William. The Blue Afternoon London : Penguin Books, 1994. 336 p./13x2x20 cm. ISBN 0140238255 Résumé : An L.A. architect is drawn into a transcontinental, turn-of-the-century murder mystery and love story in Boyd's sure-footed novel. Cote : 823 BOY Bradbury, Ray. The Martian chronicles LGF, 01/01/1991. 223 p. ; 17 x 11 cm. Le de poche, Lire en anglais, 8621. ISBN 2-253-05184-5, ISSN 0248-3653 Résumé : A la conquête de l'espace, des Terriens s'installent sur la planète Mars, où les indigènes aux yeux dorés communiquent par télépathie, apprennent les langues de la Terre en une fraction de seconde, où les arbres atteignent leur taille en une nuit, où l'espace-temps se déforme et joue des tours... Cote : 823.087 6 BRA Bradbury, Ray / Richelet, Annie. Short Stories = Nouvelles Pocket, 1996. 218 p. ; 18 x 11 cm. Langues pour tous. ISBN 2-266-07357-5 Résumé : Cinq nouvelles de science- fiction où se mêlent humour, poésie, satire, réflexion morale et critique. Cote : 813.01 BRA Briley, John. Cry Freedom Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 13x20 cm/ 120 p. Stage 6. ISBN 0194230813 Résumé : They said Steve Biko was a man of violence; then why did he talk of peace? They said he wanted revolution; so why did he talk of friendship? They said he died of hunger; why was his body broken and bruised? This is the story of a man's fight with the government of South Africa. It is the story of all people who prefer truth to lies. It is the story of all people who cry 'Freedom', and who are not afraid to die. Cote : 813 BRI Brink, André. An Act of Terror London : Vintage, 2000. 834 p. ; 20 cm. . ISBN 0-749-39931-7 Cote : 823 BRI Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre London : Penguin Books, 1994. 447 p. ; 18 cm. . ISBN 0-14-062011-7 Résumé : Après une enfance passée au pensionnat de Lowood, une sévère institution pour orphelines, Jane Eyre s'échappe et devient gouvernante au château de Thornfield. Elle vit auprès d'Adèle, la jeune pupille d'Edward Rochester... Cote : 823 BRO Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 13 x 20 cm/ 120 p. Stage 6. ISBN 0194230880 Résumé : Jane Eyre is alone in the world. Disliked by her aunt's family, she is sent away to school. Here she learns that a young girl, with neither money nor family to support her, can expect little from the world. She survives, but she wants more from life than simply to survive: she wants respect, and love. When she goes to work for Mr Rochester, she hopes she has found both at once. But the sound of strange laughter, late at night, behind a locked door, warns her that her troubles are only beginning. Cote : 823 BRO 31 mars 2012 6 Brontë, Emily. Wuthering Heights Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1995. 372 p. ; 19 cm. ISBN 0-19-282350-7 Résumé : The haunting intensity of Catherine Earnshaw's attachment to Heathcliff is the focus of a novel in which relations between men and women are described with an emotional and imaginative power unparalleled in English fiction. Cote : 823 BRO Brontë, Emily. Wuthering Heights Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 13x20 cm/ 104 p. Stage 5. ISBN 0194230759 Résumé : The wind is strong on the Yorkshire moors. There are few trees, and fewer houses, to block its path. There is one house, however, that does not hide from the wind. It stands out from the hill and challenges the wind to do its worst. The house is called Wuthering Heights. When Mr Earnshaw brings a strange, small, dark child back home to Wuthering Heights, it seems he has opened his doors to trouble. He has invited in something that, like the wind, is safer kept out of the house. Cote : 823 BRO Brontë, Emily / Costa, Marianne. Wuthering Heights Heinemann, 1995. 94 p. ; 20 x 13 cm. . Intermediate level. ISBN 0-435-27253-5 Résumé : The haunting intensity of Catherine Earnshaw's attachment to Heathcliff is the focus of a novel in which relations between men and women are described with an emotional and imaginative power unparalleled in English fiction. Cote : 813 BRO Brontë, Emily / West, Clare. Wuthering Heights Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1992. 90 p. ; 20 x 13 cm. stage 5. ISBN 0-19-422686-7 Résumé : The haunting intensity of Catherine Earnshaw's attachment to Heathcliff is the focus of a novel in which relations between men and women are described with an emotional and imaginative power unparalleled in English fiction. Cote : 813 BRO Brown, Pam. Charlie Chaplin Longman, 1988. 63 p. ; 21 x 15 cm. . ISBN 0-582-05717-5 Résumé : The famous live of Charlie Chaplin. He was one of the greatest comic film actors and directors of all time. Cote : 791.430 2 CHA Buchan, John. The Thirty-Nine Steps Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 13x20 cm/ 88 p. Stage 4. ISBN 0194230481 Résumé : 'I turned on the light, but there was nobody there. Then I saw something in the corner that made my blood turn cold. Scudder was lying on his back. There was a long knife through his heart, pinning him to the floor.' Soon Richard Hannay is running for his life across the hills of Scotland. The police are chasing him for a murder he did not do, and another, more dangerous enemy is chasing him as well - the mysterious 'Black Stone'. Who are these people? And why do they want Hannay dead? Cote : 823 BUC Burgess, Melvin. Junk Puffin, ISBN 0-141-31593-8 Cote : 823 BUR 31 mars 2012 7 Burnett, Frances Hodgson. The Secret Garden Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 13x20 cm/ 72 p. Stage 3. ISBN 0194230147 Résumé : Little Mary Lennox is a bad-tempered, disagreeable child. When her parents die in India, she is sent back to England to live with her uncle in a big, lonely, old house. There is nothing to do all day except walk in the gardens - and watch the robin flying over the high walls of the secret garden . . . which has been locked for ten years. And no one has the key. Cote : 823 BUR Cabot, Meg. The princess diaries : third time lucky New York : Macmillan Publishing Company, 2001. 1 vol. ( 212 p.) : ill., couv. ill. en coul. ; 18 cm. ISBN 978-0-330-43811-7 Cote : 813 CAB Carroll, Lewis. Through the Looking Glass Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 13x20 cm/ 72 p. Stage 3. ISBN 0194230198 Résumé : Grade 3-5-An abridgement of the classic story that makes it more accessible to young readers, while giving them a good taste of the original. Ross treats his material reverently, abridging Carroll's chattiness, but seldom changing his words. The full-color cartoons are unmistakably Ross's, but they stick closely to the composition and content of Tenniel's original black-and-white drawings, with some additional pictures (the nonsense of the last banquet, for instance, proves irresistible). This version has a modern air with the slightly oversized pages and sly, humorous artwork that fits the illogical craziness of the story surprisingly well. This con-artist Walrus is unforgettable, and the empty oyster shells with feet sticking straight up in the air are most memorable. Although one may occasionally miss the flowing, stream-of-consciousness style of Carroll or Tenniel's quintessential Tweedledee and Tweedledum, certainly Ross has done an admirable job of preserving the spirit of the masterpiece for the younger set. Cote : 823 CAR Carroll, Lewis. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 20 x 13 cm/ 56 p. Stage 2. ISBN 0194229645 Résumé : There, on top of the mushroom, was a large caterpillar, smoking a pipe. After a while the Caterpillar took the pipe out of its mouth and said to Alice in a slow, sleepy voice, 'Who are you?' What strange things happen when Alice falls down the rabbit-hole and into Wonderland! She has conversations with the Caterpillar and the Cheshire Cat, goes to the Mad Hatter's tea party, plays croquet with the King and Queen of Hearts. Cote : 823 CAR Cather, Willa. Alexander's Bridge Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1997. 107 p. ; 19 cm. ISBN 0-19-283214-X Résumé : Alexander Bartley, ingénieur de talent est déchiré entre ses obligations professionnelles et conjugales et sa passion pour une actrice irlandaise, Hilda Burgoyne. Cote : 823.1 CAT Chandler, Raymond. The high window London : Penguin Books, 1951. 120 p. ; 20 cm. ISBN 0-14-010893-9 Résumé : Cela commence par le vol d'une pièce rare appelé le Brasher Doubloon. Tout le monde sait qui l'a volée mais personne ne semble s'en soucier outre mesure. L'enquête menée par le détective Philip Marlowe semble facile, trop facile. Elle va cependant nous entraîner dans les quartiers malfamés d'un Los Angeles des années 40... Cote : 813 CHA Chandler, Raymond. The Big Sleep Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 20 x 13 cm/ 88 p. Stage 4. ISBN 0194230279 31 mars 2012 8 Résumé : General Sternwood has four million dollars, and two young daughters, both pretty and both wild. He's an old, sick man, close to death, but he doesn't like being blackmailed. So he asks private detective Philip Marlowe to get the blackmailer off his back. Marlowe knows the dark side of life in Los Angeles well, and nothing much surprises him. But the Sternwood girls are a lot wilder than their old father realizes. They like men, drink, drugs - and it's not just a question of blackmail. Cote : 813 CHA Chandler, Raymond. Goldfish Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2004. 20 x 13 cm / 72 p. Stage 3. ISBN 0194230260 Résumé : The Leander pearls were stolen nineteen years ago. The thief was caught, but the pearls were never found, and there is still a $25,000 reward for anyone who finds them. Then somebody comes to private detective Carmady with a story about a guy who knows where the pearls are hidden. Carmady agrees to talk to the guy who says he knows. But he finds him dead in his bed, with burned feet, and it seems there are quite a lot of people in Los Angeles who have heard the story, and who are out looking for the Leander pearls…. Cote : 813 CHA Childers, Erskine. The Riddle of the Sands Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2003. 20 x 13 cm/ 104 p. Stage 5. ISBN 0194230724 Résumé : When Carruthers joins his friend Arthur Davies on his yacht Dulcibella, he is expecting a pleasant sailing holiday in the Baltic Sea. But the holiday turns into an adventure of a different kind. He and Davies soon find themselves sailing in the stormy waters of the North Sea, exploring the channels and hidden sandbanks around the German Frisian Islands, and looking for a secret – a secret that could mean great danger for England. Cote : 823 CHI Christopher, John. Return to Earth Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 13x20 cm/ 56 p.. Stage 2. ISBN 0194229831 Résumé : As they walk through a park in the distant future, Harl and Ellen talk about their work and their lives. But they will never have a life together because their work as scientists is more important to them than their love. Harl plans to leave Earth, on a long and dangerous journey through space. Ellen plans to stay on Earth, to change the way the human mind works. When Harl returns to Earth, Ellen will be long dead . . . and the world will be a very different place. Cote : 823 CHR Clarke, Arthur C.The Songs of Distant Earth and Other Stories Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 20X13 cm/ 96 p. stage 4. ISBN 0194230465 Résumé : 'High above them, Lora and Clyde heard a sound their world had not heard for centuries the thin scream of a starship coming in from outer space, leaving a long white tail like smoke across the clear blue sky. They looked at each other in wonder. After three hundred years of silence, Earth had reached out once more to touch Thalassa . . and with the starship comes knowledge, and love, and pain. In these five science-fiction stories Arthur C. Clarke takes us travelling through the universe into the unknown, but always possible future. Cote : 823 CLA Clarke, Arthur C. / Reid-Thomas, Helen. Tales of ten worlds Heinemann, 1988. 63 p. ; 20 x 13 cm. . ISBN 0-435-27195-4 Résumé : Ten strange science fiction stories. Cote : 823 CLA 31 mars 2012 9 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor / Darras, Jacques. La ballade du vieux marin : et autres poèmes ; suivi d'extraits de l'Autobiographie littéraire Paris : Gallimard, 2007. 1 vol. (445 p.) : couv. ill. en coul. ; 18 cm. Poésie, 436. Texte en anglais et traduction française en regard. - Trad. de : "The rime of the ancient mariner". - Bibliogr. p. [405]-412. ISBN 978-2-07031923-7, ISSN 0768-0368 Cote : 821.7 COL Coleridge, Samuel Taylor / Fry, Paul H. The rime of the ancient mariner Bedford - St. Martin's, 2007. 1 vol. (x-358 p.) : couv. ill. en coul. ; 21 cm. . ISBN 0-312-11223-8 Cote : 821.7 COL Collectif. Thirteen modern english and american short stories LGF, 01/01/1988. 223 p. ; 17 x 11 cm. Le de poche, 8600. ISBN 2-253-04684-1, ISSN 0248-3653 Résumé : Des textes de Ray Bradbury, Truman Capote, Roald Dahl, Graham Greene, Somerset Maugham... Cote : 823.01 NOV Collectif. L'anglais par les chansons Pocket, 1989. 187 p. ; 18 x 11 cm. Langues pour tous. ISBN 2-266-02975-4 Résumé : Chants traditionnels de la Grande-Bretagne, d'Irlande et des Etats-Unis. Cote : 420 MAR Collins, William Wilkie. The Woman in White Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 13x20/ 120 p. Stage 6. ISBN 0194230961 Résumé : The woman in white first appears at night on a lonely heath near London and is next seen at a grave-side in Cumberland. Who is she? Where has she come from, and what is her history? She seems alone and friendless, frightened and confused. And it seems she knows a secret - a secret that could bring ruin and shame to a man who will do anything to keep her silent. This famous mystery thriller has excitement, suspense, romance, and a plot that twists and turns on every page. Cote : 823 COL Conrad, Joseph. Lord Jim Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 13x20 cm/ 88 p. Stage 4. ISBN 0194230376 Résumé : A hundred years ago a seaman's life was full of danger, but Jim, the first mate on board the Patna, is not afraid of danger. He is young, strong, confident of his bravery. He dreams of great adventures - and the chance to show the world what a hero he is. But the sea is no place for dreamers. When the chance comes, on a calm moonlit night in the Indian Ocean, Jim fails the test, and his world falls to pieces around him. He disappears into the jungles of south-east Asia, searching for a way to prove himself, once and for all . . . Cote : 823 CON Cookson, Catherine. Matty Doolin Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 20 X 13 cm/ 56 p. Stage 2. ISBN 0194229793 Résumé : Matty is fifteen and is leaving school in a few weeks' time. He wants to work with animals, and would like to get a job on a farm. But his parents say he's too young to leave home - he must stay in the town and get a job in ship-building, like his father. They also say he can't go on a camping holiday with his friends. And they say he can't keep his dog, Nelson, because Nelson barks all day and eats his father's shoes. But it is because of Nelson that Matty finds a new life. Cote : 823 COO 31 mars 2012 10 Dahl, Roald. Matilda London : Penguin Books, 2001. 229 p. ; 20 cm. ISBN 0-14-131136-3 Résumé : A cinq ans Matilda, sait lire et écrire, pourtant son existence est loin d'être facile entre une mère indifférente, passionnée de télévision et un père d'une franche malhonnêteté. Cote : 823 DAH Dahl, Roald. The Hitch-hiker : and other short stories LGF, 2000. 214 p. ; 17 x 11 cm. Le de poche, Lire en anglais, 8610. ISBN 2-253-05029-6, ISSN 0248-3653 Résumé : Cinq nouvelles qui distillent suspense et humour noir dans la langue de Shakespeare. Cote : 823.01 DAH Dahl, Roald / Blake, Quentin. Charlie and the chocolate factory Puffin, 2004. 1 vol. (155 p.) : ill., couv. ill. en coul. ; 15 cm. . ISBN 0-14-240108-0 Cote : 823 DAH Dahl, Roald / Yvinec, Henri. The Pincesse and the Poacher = La Princesse et le braconnier Paris : Gallimard, 1990. 86 p. ; 18 x 11 cm. Folio Bilingue, 9. ISBN 2-07-03816-4 Cote : 823.01 DAH Dainty, Peter. The Love of a King Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 20 X 13 cm/ 56 p. Stage 2. ISBN 0194229785 Résumé : All he wanted to do was to marry the woman he loved. But his country said 'No!' He was Edward VIII, King of Great Britain, King of India, King of Australia, and King of thirty-nine other countries. And he loved the wrong woman. She was beautiful and she loved him - but she was already married to another man. It was a love story that shook the world. The King had to choose: to be King, or to have love . . . and leave his country, never to return. Cote : 823 DAI Dean, Judith. Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 13x20 cm/ 56 p. Stage 1. ISBN 0194229378 Résumé : In a city in Arabia there lives a boy called Aladdin. He is poor and often hungry, but one day he finds an old lamp. When he rubs the lamp, smoke comes out of it, and then out of the smoke comes a magical jinnee. With the jinnee's help, Aladdin is soon rich, with gold and jewels and many fine things. But can he win the love of the Sultan's daughter, the beautiful Princess Badr-al-Budur? Cote : 823 DEA Defoë, Daniel. Robinson Crusoe Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 13x20 cm/ 56 p. Stage 2. ISBN 019422984X Résumé : I often walked along the shore, and one day I saw something in the sand. I went over to look at it more carefully . . . It was a footprint - the footprint of a man!' In 1659 Robinson Crusoe was shipwrecked on a small island off the coast of South America. After fifteen years alone, he suddenly learns that there is another person on the island. But will this man be a friend - or an enemy? Cote : 823 DEF Dexter, Colin. The Dead of Jericho Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 20 X 13 cm / 120 p. Stage 5. ISBN 0194230619 Résumé : Chief Inspector Morse is drinking a pint of beer. He is thinking about an attractive woman who lives not far away. The woman he is thinking of is hanging, dead, from the ceiling of her kitchen. On the floor lies a chair, almost two metres away from the woman's feet. Chief Inspector Morse finishes his pint, and orders another. Perhaps he will visit Anne, after all. But he is in no particular hurry. Meanwhile, Anne is still hanging in her kitchen, waiting for the police to come and cut her down. She is in no hurry, either. Cote : 823 DEX 31 mars 2012 11 Dibdin, Michael. The last Sherlock Holmes story Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1996. 59 p. ; 20 cm. ISBN 0-19-421675-6 Résumé : For fifty years after Dr Watson's death, a packet of papers, written by the doctor himself, lay hidden in a locked box. The papers contained an extraordinary report of the case of Jack the Ripper and the horrible murders in the East End of London in 1888. The detective, of course, was the great Sherlock Holmes - but why was the report kept hidden for so long? Cote : 823 DIB Dibdin, Michael. The Last Sherlock Holmes Story Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 13x20 cm. Stage 3. ISBN 0194230074 Résumé : In The Last Sherlock Holmes Story, Michael Dibdin pits the sleuth of Baker Street against the Butcher of Whitechapel--the archfiend Jack the Ripper. In doing so, he gives readers a Holmes possessed of greater and more disturbing depths than the one they thought they knew. Cote : 823 DIB Dick, Philip Kindred. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 13x20cm/ 120 p. Stage 5. ISBN 0194230635 Résumé : San Francisco lies under a cloud of radioactive dust. People live in half-deserted apartment buildings, and keep electric animals as pets because so many real animals have died. Most people emigrate to Mars - unless they have a job to do on Earth. Like Rick Deckard - android killer for the police and owner of an electric sheep. This week he has to find, identify, and kill six androids which have escaped from Mars. They're machines, but they look and sound and think like humans - clever, dangerous humans. They will be hard to kill. The film Blade Runner was based on this famous novel. Cote : 813 DIC Dickens, Charles. A Christmas Carol Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 13x20 cm/ 72 p. Stage 3. ISBN 0194230007 Résumé : Christmas is humbug, Scrooge says - just a time when you find yourself a year older and not a penny richer. The only thing that matters to Scrooge is business, and making money. But on Christmas Eve three spirits come to visit him. They take him travelling on the wings of the night to see the shadows of Christmas past, present, and future - and Scrooge learns a lesson that he will never forget. Cote : 823 DIC Dickens, Charles. Oliver Twist Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 13x20 cm/ 120 p. Stage 6. ISBN 0194230929 Résumé : London in the 1830s was no place to be if you were a hungry ten-year-old boy, an orphan without friends or family, with no home to go to, and only a penny in your pocket to buy a piece of bread. But Oliver Twist finds some friends - Fagin, the Artful Dodger, and Charley Bates. They give him food and shelter, and play games with him, but it is not until some days later that Oliver finds out what kind of friends they are and what kind of 'games' they play . . . Cote : 823 DIC Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 13x20 cm/ 104 p. Stage 5. ISBN 0194230678 Résumé : In a gloomy, neglected house Miss Havisham sits, as she has sat year after year, in a wedding dress and veil that were once white, and are now faded and yellow with age. Her face is like a death's head; her dark eyes burn with bitterness and hate. By her side sits a proud and beautiful girl, and in front of her, trembling with fear in his thick country boots, stands young Pip. Miss Havisham stares at Pip coldly, and murmurs to the girl at her side: 'Break his heart, Estella. Break his heart!'. Cote : 823 DIC 31 mars 2012 12 Dickens, Charles. David Copperfield Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 13x20 cm/ 104 p. Stage 5. ISBN 0194230600 Résumé : 'Please, Mr Murdstone! Don't beat me! I've tried to learn my lessons, really I have, sir!' sobs David. Although he is only eight years old, Mr Murdstone does beat him, and David is so frightened that he bites his cruel stepfather's hand. For that, he is kept locked in his room for five days and nights, and nobody is allowed to speak to him. As David grows up, he learns that life is full of trouble and misery and cruelty. But he also finds laughter and kindness, trust and friendship and love. Cote : 823 DIC Dickens, Charles. A Tale of Two Cities Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 13x20 cm/ 88 p. Stage 4. ISBN 0194230473 Résumé : 'The Marquis lay there, like stone, with a knife pushed into his heart. On his chest lay a piece of paper, with the words: 'Drive him fast to the grave. This is from JACQUES.' The French Revolution brings terror and death to many people. But even in these troubled times people can still love and be kind. They can be generous and true-hearted . . . and brave. Cote : 823 DIC Dickens, Charles / Benett, L. Great expectations Heinemann, 1993. 95 p. ; 20 x 13 cm. upper level. ISBN 0-435-27268-3 Cote : 823 DIC Dickens, Charles / Costa, Marianne. A Christmas Carol Heinemann, 1993. 62 p. ; 20 x 13 cm. elementary level. ISBN 0-435-27215-2 Cote : 823 DIC Dickens, Charles / Mowat, Ralph. A tale of two cities Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1994. 76 p. ; 20 x 13 cm. stage 4. ISBN 0-19-422727-8 Résumé : "The marquis lay there, like stone, with a knife pushed into his heart. On his chest lay a piece of paper, with the words : "Drive him fast to his grave. This is from Jacques." The French Revolution brings terror and death to many people. But even in these troubled times people can still love and be kind. They can be generous and true-harted...and brave. Cote : 823 DIC Dickens, Charles / Tarner, Margaret. Oliver Twist Heinemann, 1993. 63 p. ; 20 x 13 cm. intermediate level. ISBN 0-435-27250-0 Résumé : En anglais. Oliver Twist est orphelin. Depuis toujours, il ne connaît que les coups, la solitude et la faim. Dès l'âge de neuf ans, on l'a forcé à travailler. Alors Oliver s'est révolté. Il est parti, seul,à pied, jusqu'à Londres. Hélas, lui qui espérait vivre honnêtement, le voilà embrigadé dans une bande de voleur. Pour éviter de devenir un minable escroc, un seul moyen : s'enfuir. Il ne doit désormais compter que sur lui-même et la Providence. Cote : 823 DIC Doyle, Arthur Conan. The Hound of the baskervilles Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1994. XLIII-188 p. ; 19 cm. ISBN 0-19-282377-9 Cote : 823 DOY Doyle, Arthur Conan. The sign of four Heinemann, 1983. 63 p. ; 20 x 13 cm. intermediate level. ISBN 0-435-27241-1 Cote : 823 DOY 31 mars 2012 13 Doyle, Arthur Conan. Sherlock Holmes. Vol 3, The Adventure of the speckled band = La bande mouchetée ; The tree student = Les trois étudiants ; The "Gloria Scott Pocket, 06/1987. 256 p. ; 18 x 11 cm. Langues pour tous, 2716. ISBN 2-266-01987-2 Cote : 823.087 2 DOY Doyle, Arthur Conan. Sherlock Holmes And the Sport of Kings Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2003. 13x20 cm/ 56 p. Stage 1. ISBN 0194229629 Résumé : Horseracing is the sport of kings, perhaps because racehorses are very expensive animals. But when they win races, they can make a lot of money too – money for the owners, for the trainers, and for the people who put bets on them to win. Silver Blaze is a young horse, but already the winner of many races. One night he disappears from his stables, and someone kills his trainer. The police want the killer, and the owner wants his horse, but they can't find them. So what do they do? They write to 221B Baker Street, London, of course – to ask for the help of the great detective, S. Holmes. Cote : 823 DOY Doyle, Arthur Conan. The Hound of the Baskervilles Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 13x20 cm/ 88 p.Oxford Bookworms Library. Stage 4. ISBN 019423035X Résumé : Dartmoor. A wild, wet place in the Southwest of England. A place where it is easy to get lost, and to fall into the soft green earth which can pull the strongest man down to his death. A man is running for his life. Behind him comes an enormous dog - a dog from his worst dreams, a dog from hell. Between him and a terrible death stands only one person - the greatest detective of all time, Sherlock Holmes. Cote : 823 DOY Doyle, Arthur Conan / Colbourn, Stephen. The Hound of the baskervilles Heinemann, 1992. 63 p. ; 20 x 13 cm. elementary level. ISBN 0-435-27140-7 Cote : 823 DOY Doyle, Arthur Conan / West, Clare. Sherlock Holmes Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 13x20 cm/ 56 p. Stage 2. ISBN 0194229858 Résumé : Sherlock Holmes is the greatest detective of them all. He sits in his room, and smokes his pipe. He listens, and watches, and thinks. He listens to the steps coming up the stairs; he watches the door opening - and he knows what question the stranger will ask. In these three of his best stories, Holmes has three visitors to the famous flat in Baker Street - visitors who bring their troubles to the only man in the world who can help them. Cote : 823 DOY Doyle, Roddy. Paddy Clark Ha Ha Ha London : Vintage, 1998. 282 p. ; 20 cm. ISBN 0-74-939735-7 Résumé : Réalité d'une enfance dans le Dublin des années soixante décrite avec humour et sensibilité, à travers un petit Irlandais de dix ans, Paddy Clarke qui se trouve confronté aux déchirements familiaux. Cote : 823 DOY Duckworth, Michael. Voodoo Island Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 13x20 cm / 56 p. Stage 2. ISBN 0194229890 Résumé : Mr James Conway wants to make money. He wants to build new houses and shops - and he wants to build them on an old graveyard, on the island of Haiti. There is only one old man who still visits the graveyard; and Mr Conway is not afraid of one old man. But the old man has friends friends in the graveyard, friends who lie dead, under the ground. And when Mr Conway starts to build his houses, he makes the terrible mistake of disturbing the sleep of the dead . . . Cote : 823 DUC 31 mars 2012 14 Dumas, Alexandre / West, Clare. The three musketeers Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2003. 1 vol. (67 p.) : ill. en coul., couv. ill. en coul. ; 21 cm. Dominoes. Two. Level 2. ISBN 978-0-19-424887-7 Cote : 823 DUM Eliot, george. Silas Marner Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 13x20 cm/ 88 p. Stage 4. ISBN 0194230449 Résumé : In a hole under the floorboards Silas Marner the linen-weaver keeps his gold. Every day he works hard at his weaving, and every night he takes the gold out and holds the bright coins lovingly, feeling them and counting them again and again. The villagers are afraid of him and he has no family, no friends. Only the gold is his friend, his delight, his reason for living. But what if a thief should come in the night and take his gold away? What will Silas do then? What could possibly comfort him for the loss of his only friend? Cote : 823 ELI Emecheta, Buchi. The Bride Price Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 20 X 13 cm/ 104 p. Stage 5. ISBN 0194230597 Résumé : When her father dies, Aku-nna and her young brother have no one to look after them. They are welcomed by their uncle because of Aku-nna's 'bride price' - the money that her future husband will pay for her. In her new, strange home one man is kind to her and teaches her to become a woman. Soon they are in love, although everyone says he is not a suitable husband for her. The more the world tries to separate them, the more they are drawn together - until, finally, something has to break. Cote : 823 EME Escott, John. American crime stories Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1996. 101 p. ; 20 x 13 cm. Stage 6. ISBN 0-19-421686-1 Résumé : Seven short stories written by well-known writers such as Dashiel Hammett, Patricia Highsmith and Nancy Pickard. Cote : 813 ESC Escott, John. The Fly Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 13x20 / 120 p. Stage 6. ISBN 0194230872 Résumé : Flies are a nuisance. They are annoying when they buzz around you, but you can brush them away with your hand. After all, a fly is only about half the size of your fingernail. But suppose it wasn't. Catch a fly and look at it closely – at its head, its eyes, its legs. Now imagine that this thing was the size of a human being... These eight stories offer horror in many shapes and forms, in worlds full of monsters and evil spirits, where terror lies waiting in the shadows, and where the living and the dead dance hand in hand. Cote : 823 ESC Escott, John. As the Inspector Said and Other Stories Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 13x20 cm/ 72 p. Stage 3. ISBN 0194229955 Résumé : The murder plan seems so neat, so clever. How can it possibly fail? And when Sonia's stupid, boring little husband is dead, she will be free to marry her handsome lover. But perhaps the boring little husband is not so stupid after all . . . Murder plans that go wrong, a burglar who makes a bad mistake, a famous jewel thief who meets a very unusual detective . . . These five stories from the golden age of crime writing are full of mystery and surprises. Cote : 823 ESC Escott, John. Agatha Christie: Woman of Mystery Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 13x20 cm/ 56 p. Stage 2. ISBN 0194229637 31 mars 2012 15 Résumé : What does the name 'Agatha Christie' mean? To many people, it means a book about a murder mystery - a 'whodunnit'. 'I'm reading an Agatha Christie,' people say. 'I'm not sure who the murderer is - I think it's… ' But they are usually wrong, because it is not easy to guess the murderer's name before the end of the book. But who was Agatha Christie? What was she like? Was her life quiet and unexciting, or was it full of interest and adventure? Was there a mystery in her life, too? Cote : 823 ESC Escott, John. American Crime Stories Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 13x20 cm/ 120 p. Stage 6. ISBN 0194230791 Résumé : 'Curtis Colt didn't kill that liquor store woman, and that's a fact. It's not right that he should have to ride the lightning - that's what prisoners call dying in the electric chair. Curtis doesn't belong in it, and I can prove it.' But can Curtis's girlfriend prove it? Murder has undoubtedly been done, and if Curtis doesn't ride the lightning for it, then who will? These seven short stories, by well-known writers such as Dashiel Hammett, Patricia Highsmith, and Nancy Pickard, will keep you on the edge of your seat. Cote : 823 ESC Escott, John. Dead Man's Island Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 20 X 13 cm/ 56 p. Stage 2. ISBN 0194229688 Résumé : Mr Ross lives on an island where no visitors come. He stops people from taking photographs of him. He is young and rich, but he looks sad. And there is one room in his house which is always locked. Carol Sanders and her mother come to the island to work for Mr Ross. Carol soon decides that there is something very strange about Mr Ross. Where did he get his money from? How can a young man buy an island? So she watches, and she listens - and one night she learns what is behind the locked door. Cote : 823 ESC Escott, John. Goodbye Mr Hollywood Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 20 X 13 cm/ 56 p. Stage 1. ISBN 0194229424 Résumé : Nick Lortz is sitting outside a cafe in Whistler, a village in the Canadian mountains, when a stranger comes and sits next to him. She's young, pretty, and has a beautiful smile. Nick is happy to sit and talk with her. But why does she call Nick 'Mr Hollywood'? Why does she give him a big kiss when she leaves? And who is the man at the next table - the man with short white hair? Nick learns the answers to these questions three long days later - in a police station on Vancouver Island. Cote : 823 ESC Escott, John. The Sister Love and Other Crime Stories Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2005. 20 X 13 cm/ 56 p. Stage 1. ISBN 0194233065 Résumé : Some sisters are good friends, some are not. Sometimes there is more hate in a family than there is love. Karin is beautiful and has lots of men friends, but she can be very unkind to her sister Marcia. Perhaps when they were small, there was love between them, but that was a long time ago. They say that everybody has one crime in them. Perhaps they only take an umbrella that does not belong to them. Perhaps they steal from a shop. Perhaps they get angry and hit someone, perhaps they kill... Cote : 823 ESC Fitzgerald, Francis Scott. The Great Gatsby Heinemann, 1979. 79 p. ; 20 x 13 cm. intermediate level. ISBN 0-435-27234-9 Résumé : No one knew where Jay Gatsby had come from or how he had become so rich. Everyone in New York went to the parties in Gatsby's beautiful house on Long Island. But he was interested in only one person, Daisy Buchanan. He would do anything to please her. Cote : 813 FIT 31 mars 2012 16 Fitzgerald, Francis Scott / Miller, Henry / Charyn, Jerome. New York stories = Nouvelles newyorkaises Paris : Gallimard, 2007. 1 vol. (167 p.-[8] p. de pl.) ; ill., couv. ill. ; 18 cm. Folio Bilingue, 146. Réunit les textes français et anglais de : "Rags Martin-Jones et le prince de Galles" / Francis Scott Fitgerald, trad. de : "Rags Martin-Jones and the prince of Wales" par Suzanne Mayoux. "Le 14e district" / Henry Miller, trad. de "The fourteeth ward" par Henri Fluchère. "Chante, Shaindele, chante" / Jerome Chryn, trad. de : "Sing, Shaindele, sing" par Anne Rabinovitch. - Texte anglais avec traduction française en regard. ISBN 978-2-07-034088-0, ISSN 1151-9495 Résumé : New York, ville où se mêlent ambition, plaisir et légèreté selon Fitzgerald, un labyrinthe où la folie et le rêve se côtoient dans l'univers de Miller, un monde de jeunesse et de dynamisme pour Charyn - trois écrivains américains offrent leur vision très personnelle de cette ville au magnétisme irrésistible. [Source : 4ème de couv.]. Cote : 813 FIT Fitzhugh, Louise. Harriet the spy Yearling classic, 2002. 1 vol. (300 p.-16 p. de pl.) : couv. ill. en coul. ; 20 cm. . ISBN 978-0-440-41679-1 Résumé : Harriet M. Welsch is a spy. In her notebook, she writes down everything she knows about everyone, even her classmates and her best friends. Then Harriet loses track of her notebook, and it ends up in the wrong hands. Before she can stop them, her friends have read the always truthful, sometimes awful things she’s written about each of them. Will Harriet find a way to put her life and her friendships back together? [Source : 4ème de couv.]. Cote : 813 FIT Foreman, Peter. The Mystery of Allegra Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 13x20 cm/ 56 p. Stage 2. ISBN 0194229807 Résumé : Allegra is an unusual name. It means 'happy' in Italian, but the little girl in this story is sometimes very sad. She is only five years old, but she tells Adrian, her new friend, that she is going to die soon. How does she know? And who is the other Allegra? The girl in a long white nightdress, who has golden hair and big blue eyes. The girl who comes only at night, and whose hands and face are cold, so cold . . . Cote : 823 FOR Forester, Cecil B. The African Queen Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2004. 13x20 cm/ 88 p. Stage 4. ISBN 0194230562 Résumé : Images of Bogart and Hepburn only enhance the tale of this unlikely pair during their determined assault against the Germans. Michael Kitchen presents a vivid narrative of overwhelming African heat, discomfort and maddening insects. His easy tone switches deftly from Charlie's patient excuses to Rose's impassioned schemes. The pace of the reading flows resignedly like the Lumbasi River and then boils with the fervor of their plan. Cote : 823 FOR Forester, Cecil B.Mr. Midshipman Hornblower Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 13x20 cm/ 88 p. Stage 4. ISBN 0194230414 Résumé : 'Hornblower fired. There was a small cloud of smoke, but no bang. This is death, he thought. My pistol was the unloaded one.' But Horatio Hornblower does not die. He survives the duel with Simpson, learns to overcome his seasickness, and goes on to risk his life many times over. It is 1793, Britain is at war with France, and life on a sailing ship of war is hard and dangerous. But the hardest battles are fought by Hornblower within himself. Cote : 823 FOR Foster, Margaret. Mothers' boys London : Penguin Books, 1995. 313 p. ; 20 cm. ISBN 0-14-024180-9 31 mars 2012 17 Résumé : Un soir, rentrant de chez lui Joe Kennedy est attaqué par surprise. Léo, le petit fils de Sheila Armstrong habituellement calme est retrouvé avec un couteau. La mère de Joe ne peut gérer les douleurs incessantes de son fils. Sheila ne peut s'empêcher quant à elle de reprocher les actes de Léo. Les sentiments de culpabilité des deux femmes, les rapprochent involontairement ; elles confrontent alors leurs émotions complexes que la maternité peut entraîner. Cote : 823 FOR Foulds, David. The merchant of Venice and other stories from Shakespeare's plays Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2006. 1 vol. (92 p.) : couv. ill. ; 20 cm. Oxford progressive english readers. Level 3. ISBN 978-0-19-597144-6 Cote : 823 FOU Foulds, David. Othello and other stories from Shakespeare's plays Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008. 1 vol. (108 p.) : couv. ill. ; 20 cm. Oxford progressive english readers. Level 4. ISBN 978-0-19-545553-3 Cote : 823 FOU Francis, Dick. Reflex Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 13x20 cm/ 88 p. Stage 4. ISBN Reflex Résumé : Longtime jockey Philip Nore suspects that a racetrack photographer's fatal accident was really murder--and unravels some nasty secrets of corruption, blackmail, and murder. Cote : 823 FRA Gage, Nicholas. Eleni London : Harvill Press, 1983. 470 p. ; 20 cm. ISBN 1-86046-346-0 Résumé : En 1948 dans un village grec, une paysanne, Eleni est arrêtée torturée puis tuée. Elle est l'une des cent cinquante-huit mille victimes de la guerre civile grecque qui ravagea son pays au sortir de la deuxième guerre mondiale. Le crime d'Elena est d'avoir aidé un enfant à s'échapper de leur village occupé par la guerilla communiste. Son fils Nicholas Gage avait alors huit ans... Cote : 813 GAG Galsworthy, John. The Forsyte saga : the man of property, in chancery and to let Wordsworth classics, 2001. 1 vol (724 p.) : couv. ill. en coul. ; 20 cm. ISBN 978-1-84022-438-2 Résumé : The Forsyte Saga initially centres on Soames Forsyte - a successful solicitor living in London with his beautiful wife Irene. A pillar of the late Victorian upper middle class, materially wealthy, his appears to be a golden existence endowed with all the necessary possessions for a 'Man of Property' but beneath this very proper exterior lies a core of unhappiness and brutal relationships. When The Forsyte Saga was shown on television in 1967 it was hugely successful. The nation was gripped by the masterful visual telling of the Forsyte family's troubled story and adapted its activities to suit the next transmission. The Forsyte Saga comprising The Man of Property, In Chancery and To Let, is here produced by Wordsworth for the first time in a single volume. Cote : 823 GAL Gaskell, Elizabeth. Cranford Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 20 X 13 cm/ 88p. Stage 4. ISBN 0194230295 Résumé : Life in the small English town of Cranford seems very quiet and peaceful. The ladies of Cranford lead tidy, regular lives. They make their visits between the hours of twelve and three, give little evening parties, and worry about their maid-servants. But life is not always smooth - there are little arguments and jealousies, sudden deaths and unexpected marriages . . . Mrs Gaskell's timeless picture of small-town life in the first half of the nineteenth century has delighted readers for nearly 150 years. Cote : 823 GAS 31 mars 2012 18 Gibbons, Stella. Cold Comfort Farm Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 20 X 13 cm/ 136 p. Stage 6. ISBN 0194230805 Résumé : The farm lies in the shadow of a hill, and the farmyard rarely sees the sun, even in summer, when the flowering sukebind hangs heavy in the branches. Here live the Starkadders - Aunt Ada Doom, Judith, Amos, Seth, Reuben, Elfine . . . They lead messy, untidy lives, full of dark thoughts, moody silences, and sudden noisy quarrels. That is, until their attractive young cousin arrives from London. Neat, sensible, efficient, Flora Poste cannot bear messes (they are so uncivilized). She begins to tidy up the Starkadders' lives at once . . . Cote : 823 GIB Gilbert, Harry. The Star Zoo Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 13x20 cm/ 72 p. Stage 3. ISBN 0194230163 Résumé : In our world today a hummingbird is a small, brilliantly coloured bird that lives in the tall trees of tropical forests. In the far distant future, Hummingbird (Hummy for short) is a girl of sixteen who lives somewhere in the Galaxy, on a planet called Just Like Home. She has the name 'Hummingbird' in big letters on all her clothes, but she has never seen a real hummingbird. She has never seen any living animal or bird at all. The Book of Remembering says that there were once many animals on a planet called Earth, but that was before the Burning, a long, long time ago . . . Cote : 813 GIL Godwin, William / Hindle, Maurice. Things as they are, or, the adventures of Caleb Williams London : Penguin Books, 2007. 1 vol. (lxv-384 p.) : couv. ill. en coul. ; 20 cm. Penguin classics. Titre de couv. : "Caleb Williams". ISBN 978-0-14-144123-8 Résumé : When honest young Caleb Williams comes to work as a secretary for Squire Falkland, he soon begins to suspect that his new master is hiding a terrible secret. But as he digs deeper into Falkland's past and finally unearths the guilty truth, the results of his curiosity prove calamitous when - even though Caleb has loyally sworn never to disclose what he has discovered - the Squire enacts a cruel revenge. A tale of gripping suspense and psychological power, William Godwin's novel creates a searing depiction of the intolerable persecution meted out to a good man in pursuit of justice and equality. Written to expose the political oppression and corrupt hierarchies its author saw in the world around him, Caleb Williams (1794) makes a radical call to end the tyrannical misuses of power. Cote : 823 GOD Golding, William. Lord of the Flies London : Faber and Faber, 1954. 225 p. ; 20 cm. ISBN 0-571-19147-9 Résumé : Durant la seconde guerre mondiale, un avion s'écrase sur une île du Pacifique. Il transportait des collégiens britanniques. Pas un adulte n'a survécu. Rescapés de ce désastre, les enfants décident de s'organiser et d'abord d'élire un chef. Ce sera Ralph. Cote : 811 GOL Grahame, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 20x13 cm/ 74 p. stage 3. ISBN 0194230228 Résumé : Down by the river bank, where the wind whispers through the willow trees, is a very pleasant place to have a lunch party with a few friends. But life is not always so peaceful for the Mole and the Water Rat. There is the time, for example, when Toad gets interested in motor-cars - goes mad about them in fact . . . The story of the adventures of Mole, Rat, Badger, and Toad has been loved by young and old for almost a hundred years. Cote : 823 GRA Greene, Graham. Travel with my Aunt London : Penguin Books, 1972. 264 p. ; 18 x 11 cm. ISBN 0-14-003221-5 31 mars 2012 19 Résumé : Henry Pulling, a retired bank manager, meets his septuagenarian Aunt Angusta for the first time in over fifty years at what he supposes to be his mother's funeral. Soon after, she persuades Henry to abandon his life to travel her way... Cote : 823 GRE Greene, Graham. The Quiet American London : Penguin Books, 207 p. ; 18 x 12 cm. ISBN 0-14-018500-3 Cote : 823 GRE Hannam, Joyce. The Death of Karen Silkwood Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 13x20 cm/ 56 cm. Stage 2. ISBN 019422970X Résumé : This is the story of Karen Silkwood. It begins with her death. Why does her story begin where it should end? Certain people wanted her death to be an ending. Why? What were they afraid of? Karen Silkwood had something to tell us, and she believed that it was important. Why didn't she live to tell us? Will we ever know what really happened? The questions go on and on, but there are no answers. This is a true story. It happened in Oklahoma, USA, where Karen Silkwood lived and worked . . . and died. Cote : 823 HAN Hannam, Joyce. Christmas in Prague Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 20 X 13 cm/ 56 p. Stage 1. ISBN 0194229386 Résumé : In a house in Oxford three people are having breakfast - Carol, her husband Jan, and his father Josef. They are talking about Prague, because Carol wants them all to go there for Christmas. Josef was born in Prague, but he left his home city when he was a young man. He is an old man now, and he would like to see Prague again before he dies. But he is afraid. He still remembers another Christmas in Prague, many long years ago - a Christmas that changed his life for ever... Cote : 823 HAN Hardy, Thomas. Tales from Longpuddle Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2003. 13x20 cm/ 56 p. Stage 2. ISBN 0194229939 Résumé : Tony Kytes is a favourite with the girls but he's not terribly clever. If you meet an old girlfriend and she asks for a ride home in your wagon, do you say yes? And then if you meet the girl you are planning to marry, what do you do? Very soon, Tony is in a great muddle, and does not know how to escape from it. These stories are set in an English country village of the nineteenth century, but Hardy's tales of mistakes and muddles and marriages belong in any place, at any time. Cote : 823 HAR Hardy, Thomas. The Three Strangers And Other Stories Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2003. 13x20 cm / 72 p. Stage 3. ISBN 0194230252 Résumé : On a stormy winter night, a stranger knocks at the door of a shepherd's cottage. He is cold and hungry, and wants to get out of the rain. He is welcomed inside, but he does not give his name or his business. Who is he, and where has he come from? And he is only the first visitor to call at the cottage that night... In these three short stories, Thomas Hardy gives us pictures of the lives of shepherds and hangmen, dukes and teachers. But rich or poor, young or old, they all have the same feelings of fear, hope, love, jealousy... Cote : 823 HAR Hardy, Thomas. The Withered Arm Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2004. 20 x13 cm/ 56 p. stage 1. ISBN 0194232492 Résumé : She did nothing for months, and patiently bore her disfigurement as before. But her woman's nature, craving for renewed love, through the medium of renewed beauty (she was but twenty-five), was ever stimulating her to try what, at any rate, could hardly do her any harm. 'What came by a spell will go by a spell surely,' she would say. Whenever her imagination pictured the act 31 mars 2012 20 she shrank in terror from the possibility of it: then the words of the conjuror, 'It will turn your.blood,' were seen to be capable of a scientific no less than a ghastly interpretation; the mastering desire returned, and urged her on again. Cote : 823 HAR Hardy, Thomas. Tess of the D'urbervilles Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 13x20 cm/ 120 p. Stage 6. ISBN 0194230945 Résumé : A pretty young girl has to leave home to make money for her family. She is clever and a good worker; but she is uneducated and does not know the cruel ways of the world. So, when a rich young man says he loves her, she is careful - but not careful enough. He is persuasive, and she is overwhelmed. It is not her fault, but the world says it is. Her young life is already stained by men's desires, and by death. Cote : 823 HAR Hardy, Thomas. Far from the Madding Crowd Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 13x20 cm/104 p. Stage 5. ISBN 0194230643 Résumé : Bathsheba Everdene is young, proud, and beautiful. She is an independent woman and can marry any man she chooses - if she chooses. In fact, she likes her independence, and she likes fighting her own battles in a man's world. But it is never wise to ignore the power of love. There are three men who would very much like to marry Bathsheba. When she falls in love with one of them, she soon wishes she had kept her independence. She learns that love brings misery, pain, and violent passions that can destroy lives . . . Cote : 823 HAR Hardy, Thomas / West, Clare. Far from the madding crowd Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1992. 91 p. ; 20 x 13 cm. stage 5. ISBN 0-19-422687-5 Résumé : Bathsheba Everdene is young, proud and beautiful. She is an independent woman and can marry any man she chooses - if she chooses. In fact she likes her independence, and she likes fighting her own battles in a man's world. But it is never wise to ignore the power of love... Cote : 823 HAR Hardy-Goulg, Janet. Henry VIII and his six wives Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 1 vol (56 p.) : ill., portraits ; 20 cm. Oxford Bookworms Library. Stage 2. ISBN 0-19-422975-0 Résumé : There were six of them - three Katherines, two Annes, and a Jane. One of them was the King's wife for twenty-four years, another for only a year and a half. One died, two were divorced, and two were beheaded. It was a dangerous, uncertain life. After the King's death in 1547, his sixth wife finds a box of old letters - one from each of the first five wives. They are sad, angry, frightened letters. They tell the story of what it was like to be the wife of Henry VIII of England. Cote : 823 HAR Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 13x20 cm/ 88 p. Stage 4. ISBN 0194230430 Résumé : Scarlet is the colour of sin, and the letter 'A' stands for 'Adultery'. In the 1600s, in Boston, Massachusetts, love was allowed only between a husband and a wife. A child born outside marriage was a child of sin. Hester Prynne must wear the scarlet letter on her dress for the rest of her life. How can she ever escape from this public shame? What will happen to her child, growing up in the shadow of the scarlet letter? The future holds no joy for Hester Prynne. Cote : 813 HAW Hemingway, Ernest. A farewell to Arms Arrow Books, 1994. 294 p. ; 18 cm. . ISBN 0-09-991010-1 Cote : 813 HEM 31 mars 2012 21 Hemingway, Ernest. The northern woods = Les forêts du Nord Paris : Gallimard, 2008. 99 p. : ill. en coul.Folio Bilingue, 157. ISBN 978-2-07-035695-9 Résumé : La jeunesse et l'adolescence de Nick Adams dans le Michigan, à la frontière canadienne, un Etat peuplé d'Indiens. Cote : 813 HEM Henry, O. New yorkers Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1996. 73 p. ; 20 x 13 cm. stage 2. ISBN 0-19-422679-4 Résumé : Five short stories. A housewife, a tramp, a lawyer, a waitress, an actress - ordinary people living ordinary lives in New York at the beginning of this century. The city has changes greatly since that time, but its people are much the same. Some are rich, some are poor, some are happy, some are sad... Cote : 813 HEN Herbert, James. The secret of Crikley Hall Pan books, 2006. 1 vol. (632 p.) : couv. ill. en coul. ; 18 cm. ISBN 978-0-330-45210-6 Cote : 823 HER Hergé. Tintin. 22, Tintin and the Picaros Casterman, 1976. 62 p. ; 30 cm. , 22. ISBN 2-203-40353-5 Cote : BD HER Hergé. Tintin. 02, Tintin in America Casterman, 1973. 62 p. ; 30 x 23 cm. ISBN 2-203-40332-2 Cote : BD HER Hergé. Tintin. 16, In Tibet Casterman, 1962. ISBN 2-203-40349-7 Cote : BD HER Higgins, Colin / Fillion, Jeanne. Harold and Maude = Harold et Maude Paris : Gallimard, 1995. 301 p. ; 18 x 11 cm. Folio Bilingue, 53. ISBN 2-07-039336-4 Résumé : Harold et Maude font connaissance lors d'un enterrement d'un homme dont ils ignorent l'un et l'autre l'identité. Harold a dix-neuf ans, fils d'une veuve richissime qui rêve de le marier. Mais Harold est totalement étranger aux préoccupations de sa mère. En dépit de son âge, il vit avec l'idée de la mort. Cette obsession le conduit entre autre a assister aux enterrements. Maude, soixante-dix neuf ans, est avant tout amoureuse de la vie, des hommes, du ciel et de la terre... Cote : 813 HIG Hill, Reginald. Deadheads Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 13x20 cm/ 120 p. Stage 6. ISBN 0194230821 Résumé : An English rose garden on a summer's day. A small boy watches with interest as his greataunt cuts the deadheads off the rosebushes with a sharp knife. What could be more peaceful, more harmless? Young Patrick grows up to be a calm, pleasant man, with a good job, a wife and two children, and the best rose garden for miles around. When somebody tells the police that Patrick Aldermann is killing people, Chief Superintendent Dalziel thinks it's probably all nonsense. But Inspector Pascoe is not so sure . . . Cote : 823 HIL Hope, Anthony. The Prisoner of Zenda Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 13x20 cm/ 72 p. Stage 3. ISBN 0194230120 Résumé : 'We must leave for Zenda at once, to find the King!' cried Sapt. 'If we're caught, we'll all be killed!' So Rudolf Rassendyll and Sapt gallop through the night to find the King of Ruritania. But the 31 mars 2012 22 King is now a prisoner in the Castle of Zenda. Who will rescue him from his enemies, the dangerous Duke Michael and Rupert of Hentzau? And who will win the heart of the beautiful Princess Flavia? Cote : 823 HOP Ishiguro, Kazuo. The Remains of the Day London : Faber and Faber, 1999. 258 p. ; 18 cm. ISBN 0-571-20073-7 Résumé : Stevens, majordome anglais épris d'une ancienne collègue, miss Kenton, se rappelle les années passées avec elle. Cependant, en refusant de laisser transparaître ses sentiments, Stevens aurait-il gâché sa vie? Cote : 823 ISH James P.D. Innocent House London : Penguin Books, 2005. 64 p./ 11x18 cm. ISBN 0141022574 Cote : 823.087 2 JAM James, Henry. Washington Square Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 13x20 cm/ 88 p. Stage 4. ISBN 019423052X Résumé : Catherine Sloper, fille d'un médecin réputé de la haute bourgeoisie new-yorkaise, est une riche héritière. Un coureur de dot se présente, irrésistible aux yeux de la jeune fille, dont il gagne le cœur tambour battant. Presque aussi vite, l'œil froid du docteur a détecté l'imposteur, l'arriviste. Il mettra l'amoureux en fuite en déshéritant sa fille. Avec Washington Square, Henry James (18431916) achève sur un chef-d’œuvre le cycle de ses romans traditionnels, et le changement qui interviendra dans son style sera, de toute évidence, le fruit de sa double expérience, inlassablement enrichie, d'homme et d'écrivain. Cote : 813 JAM James, M. R. Unquiet Grave Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 13 x 20 cm/ 96 p. Stage 4. ISBN 0194230511 Résumé : If you find a locked room in a lonely inn, don't try to open it, even on a bright sunny day. If you find a strange whistle hidden among the stones of an old church, don't blow it. If a mysterious man gives you a piece of paper with strange writing on it, give it back to him at once. And if you call a dead man from his grave, don't expect to sleep peacefully ever again. Read these five ghost stories by daylight, and make sure your door is locked. Cote : 823 JAM James, M. R. / Colbourn, Stephen. Room 13 and other Ghost stories Heinemann, 1989. 63 p. ; 20 x 13 cm. elementary level. ISBN 0-435-27192-X Résumé : Five short stories about ghosts, evil spirits and creatures of the night. Cote : 823 JAM Jerome K. Jerome. Three Men in a Boat Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 13x20 cm / 88 p. Stage 4. ISBN 019423049X Cote : 823 JER Jhabvala Prawer, Ruth. Heat and Dust Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 20 X 13 cm/ 104 p. Stage 5. ISBN 0194230686 Résumé : Heat and dust - these simple, terrible words describe the Indian summer. Year after year, endlessly, it is the same. And everyone who experiences this heat and dust is changed forever. We often say, in these modern times, that sexual relationships have changed, for better or for worse. But in this book we see that things have not changed. Whether we look back sixty years, or a hundred and sixty, we see that it is not things that change, but people. And, in the heat and dust of an Indian summer, even people are not very different after all. Cote : 823 JHA 31 mars 2012 23 Joyce, James. A portrait of the artist as a young man London : Penguin Books, 1965. 275 p. ; 18 cm. ISBN 0-14-028273-4 Cote : 823 JOY Kérouac, Jack. The Subterraneans London : Penguin Books, 2001. 163 p. Modern Classics. ISBN 978-0-141-18489-0 Cote : 813 KER King, Stephen. The breathing method London : Penguin Books, 1994. 51 p. ; 20 x 13 cm. level 3. ISBN 0-14-081436-1 Résumé : Story from "Different seasons". There is a strange club in New-York where men tell each other stories. The years pass but no one looks older. One night a doctor tells the story of a young woman who gives birth to her baby - in the most horrible way. Cote : 813 KIN Kipling, Rudyard. The Man who would be King and other stories Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1987. 300 p. ; 19 cm. ISBN 0-19-281674-8 Cote : 823 KIP Kipling, Rudyard. The Jungle Book Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 13x20 cm/ 56 p. Stage 2. ISBN 0194229777 Résumé : In the jungle of Southern India the Seeonee Wolf-Pack has a new cub. He is not a wolf - he is Mowgli, a human child, but he knows nothing of the world of men. He lives and hunts with his brothers the wolves. Baloo the bear and Bagheera the panther are his friends and teachers. And Shere Khan, the man-eating tiger, is his enemy. Kipling's famous story of Mowgli's adventures in the jungle has been loved by young and old for more than a hundred years. Cote : 823 KIP Kureishi, Hanif. The Buddha of Suburbia London : Faber and Faber, 1999. 284 p. ; 18 cm. . ISBN 0-571-20043-5 Résumé : Dans le Londres du début des années soixante-dix, entre blousons noirs vieillissants, rockers et skinheads, Karim, né de père pakistanais et de mère anglaise, se cherche, multiplie les exploits sexuels et se débat dans les relations familiales complexes. Cote : 823 KUR Lawrence D.H.Love Among the Haystacks Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2004. 13x20 cm/ 56 p. Stage 2. ISBN 0194229947 Résumé : It is hay-making time on the Wookey farm. Two brothers are building the haystack, but thinking about other things – about young women, and love. There are angry words, and then a fight between the brothers. But the work goes on, visitors come and go, and the long hot summer day slowly turns to evening. Then the sun goes down, covering the world with a carpet of darkness. From the hedges around the hayfield comes the rich, sweet smell of wild flowers, and the hay will make a fine, soft bed ... Cote : 823 LAW Leather, Sue. Desert, Mountain, Sea Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 20 X 13 cm/ 88 p. Stage 4. ISBN 0194230317 Résumé : Three different parts of the world, but all of them dangerous, lonely places. Three different women, but all of them determined to go - and to come back alive! Robyn Davidson walked nearly 3,000 kilometers across the Australian desert - with a dog and four camels. Arlene Blum led a team of ten women to the top of Annapurna - one of the highest mountains in the world. Only eight came down again. Naomi James sailed around the world alone, on a journey lasting more than 250 days. Cote : 823 LEA 31 mars 2012 24 Lewis, Matthew / Maclachlan, Christopher. The monk : a romance London : Penguin Books, 2007. 1 vol. (xxxviii-385 p.) : couv. ill. en coul. ; 20 cm. Penguin classics. ISBN 978-0-14-043603-7 Résumé : Ambrosio, the worthy superior of the Capuchins of Madrid, falls to the temptations of Matilda, a fiend-inspired wanton who, disguised as a boy, has entered his monastery as a novice. Ambrosio then falls in love with one of his penitents and finally kills her in order to escape detection. However, he is discovered, tortured by the Inquisition and sentenced to death. Although extravagant in its mixture of the supernatural, the terrible, and the indecent, the book contains scenes of great effect. The novel is a prime example of 18th century Gothic, written partly in response to Walpole and Radcliffe and enjoyed a considerable contemporary vogue. Cote : 823 LEW Lindop, Christine. Ned Kelly, a True Story Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2005. 13x20 cm/ 56 p. Stage 1. ISBN 0194233073 Résumé : When he was a boy, he was poor and hungry. When he was a young man, he was still poor and hungry. He learnt how to steal horses, he learnt how to fight, he learnt how to live - outside the law. Australia in the 1870s was a hard, wild place. Rich people had land, poor people didn't. So the rich got richer, and the poor stayed poor. Some say Ned Kelly was a bad man. Some say he was a good man but the law was bad. This is the true story of Australia's most famous outlaw. Cote : 823 LIN Lively, Penelope. The Whispering Knights Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 20 X 13 cm/ 88 p. Stage 4. ISBN 0194230546 Résumé : 'I don't know that you have done anything wrong,' Miss Hepplewhite said. 'But it is possible that you have done something rather dangerous.' William and Susie thought they were just playing a game when they cooked a witch's brew in the old barn and said a spell over it, but Martha was not so sure. And indeed, the three friends soon learn that they have called up something dark and evil out of the distant past . Cote : 823 LIV Lodge, David. Author! Author! London : Penguin Books, 2005. 288 p./ 13x2x20 cm. ISBN 0141018224 Résumé : Lodge's (Thinks) meticulously researched but disappointingly tepid "docu-novel" opens in 1915, with Henry James on his death bed, and quickly establishes the context of this take on the great Anglo-American writer's life: James's conflicted jealousy about his friend George Du Maurier's success with the now virtually forgotten novel Trilby, his chaste relationship with the American novelist Constance Fenimore Woolsey, and the fateful evening of January 5, 1895, when his play Guy Domville premiered in London and James was humiliated by the booing from the cheap seats. Why does a man who believes that the theater was noteworthy for "its vulgarity and aesthetic crudity" aspire to be a playwright? For the banal reason that "it was for an author the shortest road to fame and fortune." It may be Lodge's point that James sublimated his desires for love or sex into a longing for acclaim and wealth, but the James of this novel—the second this year to deal with his theatrical career, after Colm Tóibín's The Master—is petty, priggish and egocentric in the extreme (his reaction to the apparent suicide of Woolsey: "what he really dreaded was finding some evidence that she had done it on account of him"). Even if this portrayal is accurate—and given the author's scholarly credentials, there's no reason to doubt it—it makes for a singularly undramatic story. Cote : 823 LOD Lodge, David. Scenes of Academic Life London : Penguin Books, 2005. 64 p./ 11x18 cm. ISBN 014102254X Cote : 823 LOD 31 mars 2012 25 London, Jack. The Call of the Wild White Fang Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1990. 362 p. ; 19 cm. ISBN 0-19-282709-X Cote : 813 LON London, Jack. Call of the Wild Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 13x20 cm/ 72 p. Stage 3. ISBN 0194229971 Résumé : When men find gold in the frozen north of Canada, they need dogs - big, strong dogs to pull the sledges on the long journeys to and from the gold mines. Buck is stolen from his home in the south and sold as a sledge-dog. He has to learn a new way of life - how to work in harness, how to stay alive in the ice and the snow . . . and how to fight. Because when a dog falls down in a fight, he never gets up again. Cote : 813 LON Ludlum, Robert. The Bourne identity Bantam books, 1980. 1 vol (535 p.) : ill., couv. ill. en coul. ; 18 cm. . ISBN 978-0-553-26011-3 Cote : 813 LUD MacLean, Alistair. Night Without End Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2003. 20x13 cm/ 120 p. Stage 6. ISBN 0194230910 Résumé : On the Polar ice-cap, 640 kilometers north of the Arctic Circle, the deadly, icy winds can freeze a man to death in minutes. But the survivors of the crashed airliner are lucky - they are rescued by three scientists from a nearby weather station. But why did the airliner crash in the first place? Who smashed the radio to pieces? And why does the dead pilot have a bullet hole in his back? The rescue quickly turns into a nightmare: a race through the endless Arctic night, a race against time, cold, hunger - and a killer with a gun. Cote : 823 MCL Mailer, Norman. Why are we in Vietnam? Picador, 2000. 224 p./ 14x1x21 cm. ISBN 0312265069 Résumé : When Why Are We in Vietnam? was published in 1967, almost twenty years after The Naked and the Dead, the critical response was ecstatic. The novel fully confirmed Mailer's stature as one of the most important figures in contemporary American literature. Now, a new edition of this exceptional work serves as further affirmation of its timeless quality. Narrated by Ranald ("D.J.") Jethroe, Texas's most precocious teenager, on the eve of his departure to fight in Vietnam, this story of a hunting trip in Alaska is both brilliantly entertaining and profoundly thoughtful. Cote : 813 MAI Mansfield, Katherine. Short stories London : Everyman, 2000. 267 p. ; 20 cm. ISBN 0-460-87031-9 Cote : 823.1 MAN Mark, Jan. Too Old to Rock and Roll Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 13x20 cm/ 56 p. Stage 2. ISBN 0194229882 Résumé : Greg is a teenager with a problem - his father. After the death of Greg's mother in an accident, his father takes no interest in life at all. Greg tries hard to help him. His father is too old to rock and roll, of course . . . or is he? These short stories by Jan Mark look at life, love, and friendship through teenagers' eyes. Cote : 823 MAR Marryat, Captain. The Children of the New Forest Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 20x13 cm/ 64p. Stage 2. ISBN 019422967X 31 mars 2012 26 Résumé : England in 1647: King Charles is in prison, and Cromwell's men are fighting the King's men. These are dangerous times for everybody. The four Beverley children have no parents; their mother is dead and their father died while fighting for the King. Now Cromwell's soldiers have come to burn the house - with the children in it. The four of them escape into the New Forest - but how will they live? What will they eat? And will Cromwell's soldiers find them? Cote : 823 MAR Marshall, James Vance. Walkabout Heinemann, 1977. 1 vol (96 p.) : couv. ill. en coul. ; 20 cm. ISBN 0-435-12224-X Résumé : One of a series of top-quality fiction for schools, this is the story an adolescent girl and her eight-year-old brother, sole survivors of an air crash in the Australian desert. They meet an Aborigine boy who cannot speak any English but shows them how to stay alive. Cote : 823 MAR Maturin, Charles Robert. Melmoth the wanderer London : Penguin Books, 2004. 1 vol. (xxxi-659 p.) : couv. ill. en coul. ; 20 cm. Penguin classics. ISBN 978-0-14-044761-3 Résumé : Created by an Irish clergyman, Melmoth is one of the most fiendish characters in literature. In a satanic bargain, Melmoth exchanges his soul for immortality. The story of his tortured wanderings through the centuries is pieced together through those who have been implored by Melmoth to take over his pact with the devil. Influenced by the Gothic romances of the late 18th century, Maturin's diabolic tale raised the genre to a new and macabre pitch. Its many admirers include Poe, Balzac, Oscar Wilde and Baudelaire. Cote : 823 MAT Maugham, William Somerset. The Flip of a coin : and other short stories LGF, 07/1999. 289 p. ; 17 x 11 cm. Le de poche, 8612. ISBN 2-253-05037-7, ISSN 0248-3653 Résumé : L'ironie tendre de Maugham à travers 7 nouvelles choisies pour la lecture suivie. Cote : 823.01 MAU Maurier, Daphné du. Rebecca Arrow Books, 1992. 397 p. ; 18 cm. ISBN 0-09-986600-5 Résumé : Maxim de Winter vient de se marier avec une jeune fille. Mais le souvenir de sa précédente femme, Rebecca, s'impose à la nouvelle épousée. Dans la somptueuse demeure anglaise, le fantôme de Rebecca, morte noyée distille l'angoisse. Comment vivre, malgré cette lutte inégale? Cote : 823 MAU McBain, Ed. The King's Ransom Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 20 x 13 cm/ 112 p. Stage 5. ISBN 0194230716 Résumé : 'Calling all cars, calling all cars. Here's the story on the Smoke Rise kidnapping. The missing boy is eight years old, fair hair, wearing a red sweater. His name is Jeffry Reynolds, son of Charles Reynolds, chauffeur to Douglas King.' The police at the 87th Precinct hate kidnappers. And these kidnappers are stupid, too. They took the wrong boy - the chauffeur's son instead of the son of the rich tycoon, Douglas King. And they want a ransom of $500,000. Cote : 813 McB Miller, Judy L.Reason to Write: Strategies for Success in Academic Writing Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2001. 178 p./ 20x26 cm. ISBN 0194367711 Résumé : Guidelines, strategies, and practice in writing for academic success. Cote : 420.7 MIL Milne, John. Road to nowhere Heinemann, 1975. 63 p. ; 20 x 13 cm. elementary level. ISBN 0-435-27191-1 31 mars 2012 27 Résumé : The trouble at Um Khalid began with the workmen. When they built the new road, they forgot about the rains. Thez made a small passage for me, and animals. But they forgot about the water in the rainy season. That year, the rain began earlier than usual. And it rtained heavly. Only one man saw the danger...but he was too late. Cote : 823 MIL Milne, John. The black cat Heinemann, 1975. 63 p. ; 20 x 13 cm. elementary level. ISBN 0-435-27196-2 Résumé : An archeologist was found dead in a Cairo Hotel. The archeologist was called Pearson. The police are making enquiries. Cote : 823 MIL Montgomery, L.M.Anne of Green Gables Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 13x20 cm/ 56 p. Stage 2. ISBN 0194229653 Résumé : Marilla Cuthbert and her brother Matthew want to adopt an orphan, to help on the farm at Green Gables. They ask for a boy, but they get Anne, who has red hair and freckles, and who talks and talks and talks. They didn't want a girl, but how can they send a child back, like an unwanted parcel? So Anne stays, and begins a new life in the sleepy, quiet village of Avonlea in Canada. But it is not so quiet after Anne comes to live there . . . Cote : 813 MON Morrison, Toni. Beloved London : Vintage, 1987. 275 p. ; 20 cm. ISBN 0-099-76011-8 Résumé : Nous sommes en 1873 à Cincinnati dans l'Ohio, au nord du fleuve qui marquait autrefois pour les esclaves fugitifs, la frontière où commençait la liberté... Cote : 823 MOR Mowat, Ralph. A Pair of Ghostly Hands and Other Stories Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2002. 20X13 cm/ 80p. Stage 3. ISBN 019423018X Résumé : If you wake up in the night and hear a tap running somewhere in the house, what do you do? You get up, of course, and go and turn the tap off. A little later you hear the tap running again. You are alone in the house, and you know you turned the tap off. What do you do then? The ghosts in these stories all have unfinished business with the living world. They come back from the grave to continue their work, to keep a promise, to look for something they have lost. Sometimes they want to help people, sometimes they want to punish them - or kill them. Cote : 823 MOW Mowat, Ralph / Henry, O. New Yorkers Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 13x20 cm/ 56 p. Stage 2. ISBN 0194229815 Résumé : A housewife, a tramp, a lawyer, a waitress, an actress - ordinary people living ordinary lives in New York at the beginning of this century. The city has changed greatly since that time, but its people are much the same. Some are rich, some are poor, some are happy, some are sad, some have found love, some are looking for love. O. Henry's famous short stories - sensitive, funny, sympathetic - give us vivid pictures of the everyday lives of these New Yorkers. Cote : 813 HEN Nabb, Magdalen. Death of an Englishman Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 13x20 cm/ 88 p. Stage 4. ISBN 0194230309 Résumé : It was a very inconvenient time for murder. Florence was full of Christmas shoppers and half the police force was already on holiday. At first it seemed quite an ordinary murder. Of course, there are always a few mysteries. In this case, the dead man had been in the habit of moving his furniture at three o'clock in the morning. Naturally, the police wanted to know why. The case 31 mars 2012 28 became more complicated. But all the time, the answer was right under their noses. They just couldn't see it. It was, after all, a very ordinary murder. Cote : 823 NAB Nabokov, Vladimir. Cloud, Castle, Lake London : Penguin Books, 2005. 64 p./ 11x18 cm . ISBN 0141022353 Cote : 891 NAB Narayan, R.K. Swami and friends London : Vintage, 2000. 184 p. ; 20 cm. ISBN 0-099-28227-5 Cote : 823 NAR Nesbit, Edith. The Railway Children Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 13x20 cm/ 72 p. Stage 3. ISBN 0194230139 Résumé : 'We have to leave our house in London,' Mother said to the children. 'We're going to live in the country, in a little house near a railway line.' And so begins a new life for Roberta, Peter, and Phyllis. They become the railway children - they know all the trains, Perks the station porter is their best friend, and they have many adventures on the railway line. But why has their father had to go away? Where is he, and will he ever come back? Cote : 823 NES Nesbit, Edith. Five Children and It Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 20 X 13 cm/ 56 p. Stage 2. ISBN 0194229734 Résumé : When the children dug a hole in the gravel-pit, they were very surprised at what they found. 'It' was a Psammead, a sand-fairy, thousands of years old. It was a strange little thing - fat and furry, and with eyes on long stalks. It was often very cross and unfriendly, but it could give wishes one wish a day. 'How wonderful!' the children said. But wishes are difficult things. They can get you into trouble . . . Cote : 823 NES Orwell, George. Animal farm London : Penguin Books, 1951. 119 p. ; 18 x 11 cm. . ISBN 0-14-000838-1 Résumé : (V.O) Satire sur la situation politique de l'époque. L'histoire commence, quelques mois avant la révolte des animaux de la ferme du Manoir. Sage, l'Ancien, vieux cochon respecté derrière qui se cache Marx ou Lénine, fait part aux autres animaux de son rêve, vision utopique d'un monde nouveau, plus égal et plus juste, débarrassé de Jones fermier incompétent et buveur, de ses hommes de main et de l'engeance humaine en général qui les oppriment... Cote : 823 ORW Orwell, George / Quéval, Jean. Animal farm = La ferme des animaux PARIS CEDEX 07 : Gallimard, 1994. 269 p. ; 18 x 11 cm. Folio Bilingue, 38. ISBN 2-07-038780-1 Résumé : Satire sur la situation politique de l'époque. L'histoire commence, quelques mois avant la révolte des animaux de la ferme du Manoir. Sage, l'Ancien, vieux cochon respecté derrière qui se cache Marx ou Lénine, fait part aux autres animaux de son rêve, vision utopique d'un monde nouveau, plus égal et plus juste, débarrassé de Jones fermier incompétent et buveur, de ses hommes de main et de l'engeance humaine en général qui les oppriment... Cote : 823 ORW Orwell, George. Nineteen eighty-four London : Penguin Books, 1989. ISBN 0-14-027877-X Cote : 823 ORW Paretsky, Sara. Deadlock 31 mars 2012 29 Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 13x20 cm/ 120 p. Stage 5. ISBN 0194230627 Résumé : From Sara Paretsky, New York Times bestselling author, comes another V.I. Warshawski novel. When Chicago Black Hawks hockey legend Boom Boom Warshawski drowns in Lake Michigan, his private-eye cousin, the intrepid V.I. Warshawski, questions the accidental death report and rumors of suicide. Armed with a bottle of Black Label and a Smith and Wesson, V.I. follows a trail of violence and corruption to the center of the Windy City's powerful shipping industry. Dodging attempts on her life with characteristic grit and humor, V.I. wends her way through a maze of grain elevators and thousand-ton freighters to ferret out Boom Boom's killer. Cote : 813 PAR Peters, Ellis. A Morbid Taste for Bones Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2002. 13x20 cm/ 88 p. Stage 4. ISBN 0194230406 Résumé : Murder in the twelfth century is no different from murder today. There is still a dead body, though this time with an arrow through the heart instead of a bullet. There is still a need to bury the dead, to comfort the living - and to catch the murderer. When Brother Cadfael comes to a village in the Welsh hills, he finds himself doing all three of those things. And there is nothing simple about this death. The murdered man's daughter needs Cadfael's help in more ways than one. There are questions about the arrow. And the burial is the strangest thing of all . . . Cote : 823 PET Peyton, K.M. Who, Sir? Me, Sir? Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1995. 13X20 cm/ 74 p. Stage 3. ISBN 019423021X Résumé : Sam Sylvester is a teacher who wants his class to have ambition, and to do great things in life. So he enters them for a sporting competition against the rich students of Greycoats School. The team that he has chosen for the competition think Sam has gone crazy. 'Who, Sir? Me, Sir?' says little Hoomey, his eyes round with horror. 'We'll never beat Greycoats,' the others cry. 'Never in a million years!' But you don't know what you can do - until you try . . . Cote : 823 PEY Phan, Aimee. We should never meet : stories Picador, 2004. 1 vol (243 p.) : ill., couv. ill. en coul. ; 25 cm. ISBN 978-0-312-32267-0 Résumé : The eight linked stories that comprise Aimee Phan's chilling debut are inspired by "Operation Babylift," the evacuation of thousands of orphans from Vietnam to America weeks before the fall of Saigon. Moving effortlessly between the war-torn homeland and Orange County's "Little Saigon," Phan chronicles the journeys of four such orphans. Passionate and beautifully written, We Should Never Meet is an utterly fresh reconsideration of the Vietnam War for a new generation and heralds the arrival of one of "the very best of the new wave of Asian-American authors". [Source : 4ème de couv.]. Cote : 813 PHA Poe, Edgar Allan. The tell-tale heart and other writings Bantam classic, 1982. 1 vol. (436 p.) ; 18cm. ISBN 0-553-21228-1 Cote : 813 POE Poe, Edgar Allan. The black cat BookSurge Classics, 2004. 1 vol. (14 p.) ; 18cm. , 175. ISBN 1-59456-175-3 Cote : 813 POE Poe, Edgar Allan. Tales of Mystery and Imagination Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 13x20 cm/ 72 p. Stage 3. ISBN 0194230171 Résumé : The human mind is a dark, bottomless pit, and sometimes it works in strange and frightening ways. That sound in the night . . . is it a door banging in the wind, or a murdered man knocking inside his coffin? The face in the mirror . . . is it yours, or the face of someone standing 31 mars 2012 30 behind you, who is never there when you turn round? These famous short stories by Edgar Allan Poe, that master of horror, explore the dark world of the imagination, where the dead live and speak, where fear lies in every shadow of the mind . . . Cote : 823 POE Poe, Edgar Allan. The Murders in the Rue Morgue Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2002. 13x20 cm/ 56 p. Stage 2. ISBN 0194229920 Résumé : The room was on the fourth floor, and the door was locked - with the key on the inside. The windows were closed and fastened - on the inside. The chimney was too narrow for a cat to get through. So how did the murderer escape? And whose were the two angry voices heard by the neighbours as they ran up the stairs? Nobody in Paris could find any answers to this mystery. Except Auguste Dupin, who could see further and think more clearly than other people. The answers to the mystery were all there, but only a clever man could see them. Cote : 813 POE Poe, Edgar Allan. The Pit And the Pendulum And Other Stories Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2005. 13x20 cm/ 56 p. Stage 2. ISBN 0194233081 Résumé : In these stories by E.A. Poe, death whispers at you from every dark corner, and fear can send you mad... Cote : 813 POE Poe, Edgar Allan / Galloway, David D. The fall of the House of Usher and other writings : poems, tales, essays and reviews London : Penguin Books, 2003. 1 vol (LVIII-488 p.) : couv. ill. en coul. ; 20 cm. Bibliogr. p. [LVI]-LVIII. Notes bibliogr. Index. ISBN 0-14-143981-5 Résumé : This selection of Poe's critical writings, short fiction and poetry demonstrates an intense interest in aesthetic issues and the astonishing power and imagination with which he probed the darkest corners of the human mind. "The Fall of the House of Usher" describes the final hours of a family tormented by tragedy and the legacy of the past. In the "Tell Tale Heart", a murderer's insane delusions threaten to betray him, while stories such as "The Pit and the Pendulum" and the "Cask of Amontillado" explore extreme states of decadence, fear and hate. Cote : 813 POE Prowse, Philip. Bristol murder Heinemann, 1973. 79 p. ; 20 x 13 cm. intermediate level. ISBN 0-435-27219-5 Résumé : The body of Mr. Robert Stevens was found in his home at 24 Devonshire, Bristol last night. There must have been a fight because a lot of the furniture was broken. Nothing was stolen. The police are looking for Mr. Stevens' nephew, John Stevens, aged 16, who lived with him... Cote : 823 PRO Radcliffe, Ann / Howard, Jacqueline. The mysteries of udolpho : a romance London : Penguin Books, 2007. 1 vol. (xxxix-653 p.) : couv. ill. en coul. ; 20 cm. Penguin classics. ISBN 978-0-14-043759-1 Résumé : This was the most popular novel of Radcliffe's time and Radcliffe's portrayal of her heroine's inner life raised the Gothic romance to a new level. The atmosphere of fear and the gripping plot continue to thrill today. This is the story of the orphaned Emily St Aubert who finds herself separated from the man she loves and confined within the Castle of Udolpho by her aunt's new husband, Montoni… Cote : 823 RAD Radcliffe, Ann / Miles, Robert. The Italian or the confessional of the black penitents : a romance London : Penguin Books, 2004. 1 vol. (xxxviii-505 p.) : couv. ill. en coul. ; 20 cm. Penguin classics. ISBN 978-0-14-043754-6 31 mars 2012 31 Résumé : From the first moment Vincentio di Vivaldi, a young nobleman, sets eyes on the veiled figure of Ellena, he is captivated by her enigmatic beauty and grace. But his haughty and manipulative mother is against the match and enlists the help of her confessor to come between them. Schedoni, previously a leading figure of the Inquisition, is a demonic, scheming monk with no qualms about the task, whether it entails abduction, torture - or even murder. The Italian secured Ann Radcliffe's position as the leading writer of Gothic romance of the age, for its atmosphere of supernatural and nightmarish horrors, combined with her evocation of sublime landscapes and chilling narrative. [Source : 4ème de couv.]. Cote : 823 RAD Ransome, Arthur. We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 20 X 13 cm/ 88 p. Stage 4. ISBN 0194230538 Résumé : The four Walker children never meant to go to sea. They had promised their mother to stay safely in the harbour, and to be home on Friday in time for tea. But there they are in someone else's boat, drifting out to sea in a thick fog. When the fog lifts, they can turn round and sail back to the harbour. But then comes the wind and the storm, driving them out even further across the cold North Sea . . . Cote : 823 RAN Rhys, Jean. Wide Sargasso Sea London : Penguin Books, 2000. 192 p./ 13x20 cm. ISBN 0141182857 Résumé : Wide Sargasso Sea is the story of Antoinette Cosway, a Creole heiress who grew up in the West Indies on a decaying plantation. When she comes of age she is married off to an Englishman, and he takes her away from the only place she has known--a house with a garden where "the paths were overgrown and a smell of dead flowers mixed with the fresh living smell. Underneath the tree ferns, tall as forest tree ferns, the light was green. Orchids flourished out of reach or for some reason not to be touched. The novel is Rhys's answer to Jane Eyre. Cote : 823 RHY Riddell, Chris. Ottoline and the yellow cat HarperCollins, 2008. 1 vol. (171 p.) ; couv. ill. en coul. ; 19 cm. ISBN 978-0-06-144879-9 Résumé : A string of daring burglaries has taken place in Big City, and precious lapdogs are disappearing. Who is behind this crime wave ? Cote : 813 RID Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the philosopher's stone Bloomsbury, 2000. 1 vol. (332 p.) : couv. ill. en coul. ; 18 cm. ISBN 0-7475-4955-9 Cote : 823 ROW Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban Bloomsbury, 1999. 1 vol. (468 p.) : couv. ill. en coul. ; 18 cm. ISBN 0-7475-4950-8 Cote : 823 ROW Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the philosopher's stone Bloomsbury, 2004. 1 vol. (332 p.) : couv. ill. en coul. ; 18 cm. ISBN 0-7475-7447-2 Cote : 823 ROW Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the chamber of secrets Bloomsbury, 1998. 1 vol. (366 p.) : couv. ill. en coul. ; 18 cm. ISBN 0-7475-4960-5 Cote : 823 ROW 31 mars 2012 32 Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban Bloomsbury, 2004. 1 vol. (468 p.) : couv. ill. en coul. ; 18 cm. ISBN 0-7475-7449-9 Cote : 823 ROW Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Bloomsbury, 2004. 800 p./ 11x5x18 cm. ISBN 0747574502 Cote : 823 ROW Rowling, J. K .Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Bloomsbury, 2004. 956 p./ 11x6x18 cm. ISBN 0747570736 Cote : 823 ROW Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Bloomsbury, 2006. 768 p./ 11x4x18 cm. ISBN 0747584664 Cote : 823 ROW Saki. Tooth and claw Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 1 vol. (72 p.) : couv. ill. en coul. ; 20 cm. Oxford Bookworms Library. Stage 3. ISBN 0-19-423020-1 Résumé : Conradin is ten years old. He lives alone with his aunt. He has two big secrets. The first is that he hates his aunt. The second is that he keeps a small, wild animal in the garden shed. The animal has sharp, white teeth, and it loves fresh blood. Every night, Conradin prays to this animal and asks it to do one thing for him, just one thing. This collection of short stories is clever, funny, and shows us 'Nature, red in tooth and claw'. In other words, it is Saki at his very best. Cote : 823 SAK Salinger, Jerome David. The catcher in the Rye London : Penguin Books, 1994. 192 p. ; 18 cm. . ISBN 0-14-023749-6 Résumé : Périple dans New York, d'un adolescent de bonne famille en révolte, H. Carfield, qui vient d'être renvoyé de son école, peu avant Noël. Ce seront trois journées d'errance où effaré et hagard ce gamin tendre et crâneur va porter un regard lucide et désenchanté sur le monde. Cote : 813 SAL Segal, Erich. Love Story Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 13x20 cm/ 72 p.. Stage 3. ISBN 0194230082 Résumé : This is a love story you won't forget. Oliver Barrett meets Jenny Cavilleri. He plays sports, she plays music. He's rich, and she's poor. They argue, and they fight, and they fall in love. So they get married, and make a home together. They work hard, they enjoy life, they make plans for the future. Then they learn that they don't have much time left. Their story has made people laugh, and cry, all over the world. Cote : 813 SEG Sewell, Anna. Black Beauty Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 13x20 cm/ 88 p. Stage 4. ISBN 0194230287 Résumé : When Black Beauty is trained to carry a rider on his back, or to pull a carriage behind him, he finds it hard at first. But he is lucky - his first home is a good one, where his owners are kind people, who would never be cruel to a horse. But in the nineteenth century many people were cruel to their horses, whipping them and beating them, and using them like machines until they dropped dead. Black Beauty soon finds this out, and as he describes his life, he has many terrible stories to tell. Cote : 823 SEW Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1980. 239 p. ; 19 cm.. ISBN 0-19-281532-6 31 mars 2012 33 Résumé : A student of natural philosophy learns the secret of imparting life to a creature constructed from bones he has collected in charnel-house. Cote : 823 SHE Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 1 vol. (72 p.) : couv. ill. en coul. ; 18 cm. Oxford Bookworms Library. Stage 3. ISBN 0-19-423003-1 Résumé : Victor Frankenstein thinks he has found the secret of life. He takes parts from dead people and builds a new 'man'. But this monster is so big and frightening that everyone runs away from him - even Frankenstein himself! The monster is like an enormous baby who needs love. But nobody gives him love, and soon he learns to hate. And, because he is so strong, the next thing he learns is how to kill . . . Cote : 823 SHE Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein London : Penguin Books, 2003. 352 p./ 13x2x20 cm. . ISBN 0141439475 Cote : 823 SHE Shelley, Mary / Tarner, Margaret. Frankenstein Heinemann, 1986. 63 p. ; 20 x 13 cm. elementary level. ISBN 0-435-27190-3 Résumé : A student of natural philosophy learns the secret of imparting life to a creature constructed from bones he has collected in charnel-house. Cote : 823 SHE Sillitoe, Alan. The loneliness of the Long Distance Runner London : Flamingo, 1994. 174 p. ; 20 cm. . ISBN 0-586-09241-2 Résumé : Monologue intérieur d'un délinquant juvénil convié par ses qualités d'athlète à un destin exceptionnelles. Autorisé à courir en dehors de la maison de redressement où il séjourne, Smith porte en lui les espoirs d'une bourgoisie bien pensante qui espère en faire un exemple de réhabilitation sociale. Mais lui, se demande pour qui et pour quoi il court... Cote : 823 SIL Spaventa, Lou. Writing to Learn McGraw-Hill Editions, 2004. 175 p./ 21x27 cm. ISBN 0071188282 Cote : 420.7 SPA Steinbeck, John / Paine, M.J. The pearl Heinemann, 1974. 95 p. ; 20 x 13 cm. intermediate level. ISBN 0-435-27237-3 Résumé : Kino's life was poor and simple until he found the largest pearl in the world. He thought that the pearl would bring happiness to his family. But instead of happiness, the pearl brought fear and danger. Cote : 813 STE Steinbeck, John / Paine, M.J. The red pony Heinemann, 1976. 63 p. ; 20 x 13 cm. elementary level. ISBN 0-435-27204-7 Résumé : When he was ten, Jody was given his first pony. Billy Buck knew all about ponies, so Jody always listened carefully. The boy and the man became good friends. But then Gabilan died... and Jody blamed Billy for Gabilan's death. Cote : 813 STE Steinbeck, John / Tarner, Margaret. The grapes of wrath Heinemann, 1978. 142 p. ; 20 x 13 cm. upper level. ISBN 0-435-27263-2 31 mars 2012 34 Résumé : In the 1930s in the central states of the USA. The Joad family are forced to leave their farm to find work picking fruit in California. But the farmers in California cannot pay the people who have come to pick the fruit.. In the souls of the people, the grapes of wrath were ripening... Cote : 813 STE Stevenson, Robert Louis. Kidnapped Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008. 1 vol. (124 p.) : couv. ill. ; 20 cm. Oxford progressive english readers. Level 5. ISBN 978-0-19-545559-5 Cote : 823 STE Stevenson, Robert Louis. Kidnapped: The Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751 Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 13x20 cm/ 72 p. Stage 3. ISBN 0194230066 Résumé : 'I ran to the side of the ship. "Help, help! Murder!" I screamed, and my uncle slowly turned to look at me. I did not see any more. Already strong hands were pulling me away. Then something hit my head; I saw a great flash of fire, and fell to the ground . . .' And so begin David Balfour's adventures. He is kidnapped, taken to sea, and meets many dangers. He also meets a friend, Alan Breck. But Alan is in danger himself, on the run from the English army across the wild Highlands of Scotland . . . Cote : 823 STE Stevenson, Robert Louis. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 1 vol. (88 p.) : couv. ill. en coul. ; 20 cm. Oxford Bookworms Library. Stage 4. ISBN 0-19-423032-5 Résumé : You are walking through the streets of London. It is getting dark and you want to get home quickly. You enter a narrow side-street. Everything is quiet, but as you pass the door of a large, windowless building, you hear a key turning in the lock. A man comes out and looks at you. You have never seen him before, but you realize immediately that he hates you. You are shocked to discover, also, that you hate him. Who is this man that everybody hates? And why is he coming out of the laboratory of the very respectable Dr Jekyll? Cote : 823 STE Stevenson, Robert Louis. Treasure Island Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 13x20 cm/ 88 p. Stage 4. ISBN 0194230503 Résumé : 'Suddenly, there was a high voice screaming in the darkness: "Pieces of eight! Pieces of eight! Pieces of eight!" It was Long John Silver's parrot, Captain Flint! I turned to run . . .' But young Jim Hawkins does not escape from the pirates this time. Will he and his friends find the treasure before the pirates do? Will they escape from the island, and sail back to England with a ship full of gold? Cote : 823 STE Stevenson, Robert Louis / Colbourn, Stephen. Treasure Island Heinemann, 1993. 63 p. ; 20 x 13 cm. elementary level. ISBN 0-435-27214-4 Résumé : Jim Hawkins tells the story of the journey on the ship, the Hispaniola, to Treasure Island. And he tells of the battle with the pirates to get Captain Flint's gold. Cote : 823 STE Stewart, Mary. The Moonspinners Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 13x20 cm/ 88 p. Stage 4. ISBN 0194230392 Résumé : When Nicola arrives in Crete a day early, she gets more than just an extra day of holiday. She comes to a village where no one can be trusted, and she becomes involved in a murder mystery that puts her own life in danger. This story is set in a small village in the mountains of Crete. This is an island where people have strong feelings, where arguments begin suddenly, and end quickly. And Nicola has arrived in the middle of an argument that could end very quickly - with a gun. 31 mars 2012 35 Cote : 823 STE Stewart, Mary. This Rough Magic Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 20 x 13 cm/ 104 p. Stage 5. ISBN 0194230740 Résumé : The Greek island of Corfu lies like a jewel, green and gold, in the Ionian sea, where dolphins swim in the sparkling blue water. What better place for an out-of-work actress to relax for a few weeks? But the island is full of danger and mysteries, and Lucy Waring's holiday is far from peaceful. She meets a rude young man, who seems to have something to hide. Then there is a death by drowning, and then another . . . Cote : 823 STE Stoker, Bram. Dracula Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 13x20 cm/ 56 p. Stage 2. ISBN 0194229718 Résumé : In the mountains of Transylvania there stands a castle. It is the home of Count Dracula - a dark, lonely place, and at night the wolves howl around the walls. In the year 1875 Jonathan Harker comes from England to do business with the Count. But Jonathan does not feel comfortable at Castle Dracula. Strange things happen at night, and very soon, he begins to feel afraid. And he is right to be afraid, because Count Dracula is one of the Un-Dead - a vampire that drinks the blood of living people. Cote : 823 STO Sutcliff, Rosemary. The Eagle of the Ninth Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 20x13 cm/ 96 p. Stage 4. ISBN 0194230333 Résumé : In the second century AD, when the Ninth Roman Legion marched into the mists of northern Britain, not one man came back. Four thousand men disappeared, and the Eagle, the symbol of the Legion's honour, was lost. Years later there is a story that the Eagle has been seen again. So Marcus Aquila, whose father disappeared with the Ninth, travels north, to find the Eagle and bring it back, and to learn how his father died. But the tribes of the north are wild and dangerous, and they hate the Romans . . . Cote : 823 SUT Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver's Travels Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 13x20 cm/ 88 p. Stage 4. ISBN 0194230341 Résumé : 'Soon I felt something alive moving along my leg and up my body to my face, and when I looked down, I saw a very small human being, only fifteen centimeters tall . . . I was so surprised that I gave a great shout.' But that is only the first of many surprises which Gulliver has on his travels. He visits a land of giants and a flying island, meets ghosts from the past and horses which talk. Cote : 823 SWI Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver's Travels London : Penguin Books, 2003. 336 p./ 13x2x20 cm. ISBN 0141439491 Cote : 823 SWI Tan, Amy. The Joy Luck Club Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 13x20 / 120 p. Stage 6. ISBN 0194230899 Résumé : There are so many things that a mother wishes to teach her daughter. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to keep hoping, when hope is your only joy. How to laugh for ever. This is the story of four mothers and their daughters - Chinese-American women, the mothers born in China, and the daughters born in America. Through their eyes we see life in preRevolutionary China, and life in downtown San Francisco; women struggling to find a cultural identity that can include a past and a future half a world apart. Cote : 813 TAN 31 mars 2012 36 Tey, Josephine. Brat Farrar Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 13x20 cm/ 104 p.. Stage 5. ISBN 0194230589 Résumé : 'You look exactly like him! You can take the dead boy's place and no one will ever know the difference. You'll be rich for life!' And so the plan was born. At first Brat Farrar fought against the idea; it was criminal, it was dangerous. But in the end he was persuaded, and a few weeks later Patrick Ashby came back from the dead and went home to inherit the family house and fortune. The Ashby family seemed happy to welcome Patrick home, but Brat soon realized that somewhere there was a time-bomb ticking away, waiting to explode. Cote : 823 TEY Thackeray, William. Vanity Fair Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 13x20 cm/ 120 p. Stage 6. ISBN 0194230953 Résumé : Greed, ambition, loyalty, betrayal, folly, wisdom...this novel is a satirical picture of English society during the napoleonic wars. Cote : 823 THA Tomalin, Claire. Young Bysshe London : Penguin Books, 2005. 64 p./ 11x18 cm. ISBN 0141022566 Cote : 823 TOM Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 13x20 cm/ 56 p. Stage 2. ISBN 0194229769 Résumé : Who wants to live in a house, wear clean clothes, be good, and go to school every day? Not young Huckleberry Finn, that's for sure. So Huck runs away, and is soon floating down the great Mississippi River on a raft. With him is Jim, a black slave who is also running away. But life is not always easy for the two friends. And there's 300 dollars waiting for anyone who catches poor Jim . . . Cote : 813 TWA Twain, Mark / Mowat, Ralph. Huckleberry Finn Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1994. 43 p. ; 20 x 13 cm. Stage 2. ISBN 0-19-422724-3 Résumé : Who wants to live in a house, wear clean clothes, be good, and go to school every day? Not young Huckleberry Finn, that's for sure. Cote : 813 TWA Tyler, Anne. The Accidental Tourist Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2004. 20 X 13 cm/ 104 p. Stage 5. ISBN 0194230775 Résumé : Everyday life in Baltimore, USA, is full of little problems – getting the washing done, buying groceries and dog food, avoiding the neighbours . . . After the death of his son and the departure of his wife, Macon's attempts to run his own life become increasingly odd – and more and more comical. Meanwhile, he has to get on with his work, writing tourist guides. Then his dog Edward starts to bite people, and he has to send for Muriel, the dog trainer. And day by day, Macon's life gets more and more complicated. Cote : 813 TYL Vicary, Tim. Chemical Secret Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 13x20 cm/ 72 p. Stage 3. ISBN 0194229998 Résumé : The job was too good. There had to be a problem - and there was. John Duncan was an honest man, but he needed money. He had children to look after. He was ready to do anything, and his bosses knew it. They gave him the job because he couldn't say no; he couldn't afford to be honest. And the job was like a poison inside him. It changed him and blinded him, so that he couldn't see the real poison - until it was too late. Cote : 823 VIC 31 mars 2012 37 Vicary, Tim. Skyjack! Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 13x20 cm/ 72 p. Stage 3. ISBN 0194230155 Résumé : When a large plane is hijacked, the Prime Minister looks at the list of passengers and suddenly becomes very, very frightened. There is a name on the list that the Prime Minister knows very well - too well. There is someone on that plane who will soon be dead - if the hijackers can find out who he is! And there isn't much time. One man lies dead on the runway. In a few minutes the hijackers will use their guns again. And the Prime Minister knows who they are going to kill. Cote : 823 VIC Vicary, Tim. Death in the Freezer Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 13x20 cm/ 56 p. Stage 2. ISBN 0194229696 Résumé : Ellen Shore's family is an ordinary American family, and Ellen is six years old when her brother Al is born. Her parents are very pleased to have a son, but Ellen is not pleased, because now baby Al comes first. And when they are adults, Al still comes first. He begins a rock band and makes records. Soon he is rich and famous - very rich, but he gives nothing to his sister Ellen. She has a difficult life, with three young kids and very little money. And she learns to hate her rich, famous, unkind brother . . . Cote : 823 VIC Vicary, Tim. Grace Darling Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 13x20 cm/ 56 p. Stage 2. ISBN 0194229742 Résumé : All they could hear was the wind, and the waves crashing on to the rocks. All they could see was the night. They could not see the ship, broken in two. They could not see the people holding on to the dark wet rock, slowly dying of cold. And they could not hear the cries for help - only the wind. How could they save the people on the rock? Was their wooden boat stronger than the iron ship? Were a man and his daughter stronger than the great waves that broke the ship in two? The Forfarshire was wrecked off the north-east coast of England in 1838. This is the true story of Grace Darling - a girl who became a famous heroine on that stormy night. Cote : 823 VIC Vicary, Tim. The Bronte Story Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 13 x 20 cm/ 72 p. Stage 3. ISBN 0194229963 Résumé : On a September day in 1821, in the church of a Yorkshire village, a man and six children stood around a grave. They were burying a woman: the man's wife, the children's mother. The children were all very young, and within a few years the two oldest were dead, too. Close to the wild beauty of the Yorkshire moors, the father brought up his young family. Who had heard of the Brontës of Haworth then? Branwell died while he was still a young man, but the three sisters who were left had an extraordinary gift. They could write marvellous stories - Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall . . . But Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë did not live to grow old or to enjoy their fame. Only their father was left, alone with his memories. Cote : 823 VIC Vicary, Tim. Pocahontas Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 13x20 cm/ 56 p. Stage 1. ISBN 0194229521 Résumé : A beautiful young Indian girl, and a brave Englishman. Black eyes, and blue eyes. A friendly smile, a laugh, a look of love. . . But this is North America in 1607, and love is not easy. The girl is the daughter of King Powhatan, and the Englishman is a white man. And the Indians of Virginia do not want the white men in their beautiful country. This is the famous story of Pocahontas, and her love for the Englishman John Smith. Cote : 823 VIC 31 mars 2012 38 Vicary, Tim. Mary Queen of Scots Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 13x20 cm/ 56 p. Stage 1. ISBN 0194229475 Résumé : England and Scotland in the 1500s. Two famous queens - Mary, the Catholic Queen of Scots, and Elizabeth I, the Protestant Queen of England. It was an exciting and a dangerous time to be alive, and to be a queen. Mary was Queen of Scotland when she was one week old. At sixteen, she was also Queen of France. She was tall and beautiful, with red-gold hair. Many men loved her and died for her. But she also had many enemies - men who said: 'The death of Mary is the life of Elizabeth. Cote : 823 VIC Vicary, Tim. The Coldest Place on Earth Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 20 X 13 cm/ 56 p. Stage 1. ISBN 0194229394 Résumé : In the summer of 1910, a race began. A race to be the first man at the South Pole, in Antarctica. Robert Falcon Scott, an Englishman, left London in his ship, the Terra Nova, and began the long journey south. Five days later, another ship also began to travel south. And on this ship was Roald Amundsen, a Norwegian. But Antarctica is the coldest place on earth, and it is a long, hard journey over the ice to the South Pole. Some of the travelers never returned to their homes again. This is the story of Scott and Amundsen, and of one of the most famous and dangerous races in history. Cote : 823 VIC Walpole, Horace. The castle of Otranto London : Penguin Books, 2010. 1 vol. ( 139 p.) : ill., couv. ill. en coul. ; 18 cm. Pocket penguin, 9. ISBN 978-0-141-19195-9 Résumé : A haunted castle and a ruined bloodline...Manfred, wicked lord of Otranto Castle, is horrified when his son is crushed to death on his wedding day. But rather than witness the end of his line, as foretold in a curse, he resolves to send his own wife to a convent and marry the intended bride himself. However, Manfred's lustful greed will be disturbed by the terrifying omens that now haunt his castle: bleeding statues, skeletal ghouls and a giant sword - as well as the arrival of the rightful prince of Otranto... [Source : 4ème de couv.]. Cote : 823 WAL Waugh, Evelyn. Decline and Fall Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 20 X 13 cm / 120 p. Stage 6. ISBN 019423083X Résumé : After a wild, drunken party, Paul Pennyfeather is forced to leave Oxford and begin a new life out in the wide world. His experiences take him from a boys' private school in Wales, where he meets some rather strange people, to a life of luxury in a grand country house and the Ritz Hotel, and then to seven years' hard labour in prison. Where will it all end? The black humour of this story about English society in the 1920s is as fresh today as it was when the novel was first written. Cote : 823 WAU Wesley, Mary. A Dubious Legacy Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2003. 20x13 cm/ 96 p. Stage 4. ISBN 0194230570 Résumé : Wesley's world is one of speculation about relationships, gossip, and innuendo. She explores forces that unite and divide friends and lovers. In 1944, Henry Tillotson brings his bride Margaret to his country house, where she takes to her bed and remains in self-indulgent isolation. Ten years later, two younger friends of Henry bring their girlfriends for the weekend. In the years that follow, the two couples marry and return regularly, their mundane lives punctuated by Margaret's eccentric. Cote : 823 WES 31 mars 2012 39 Wharton, Edith. The Age of Innocence London : Penguin Books, 1996. 330 p. ; 20 cm. ISBN 0-14-018970-X Résumé : En 1870, un jeune homme renonce à une comtesse originale et indépendante, pour une jeune fille. Mais pourra-t-il être heureux après avoir sacrifié l'amour sur l'autel des convenances? Cote : 823 WHA Wharton, Edith. Ethan Frome Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 20 X 13 cm/ 72 p. Stage 3. ISBN 0194230023 Résumé : Life is always hard for the poor, in any place and at any time. Ethan Frome is a farmer in Massachusetts. He works long hours every day, but his farm makes very little money. His wife, Zeena, is a thin, grey woman, always complaining, and only interested in her own ill health. Then Mattie Silver, a young cousin, comes to live with the Fromes, to help Zeena and do the housework. Her bright smile and laughing voice bring light and hope into the Fromes' house - and into Ethan's lonely life. Cote : 823 WHA Whitney, Norman. The stranger Heinemann, 1977. 63 p. : ill. ; 20 x 13 cm. elementary level. ISBN 0-435-27206-3 Résumé : Woodend was a small, quiet village with no shops, no visitors. Then a stranger came and opened The Corner Shop. That summer, visitors came to Woodend. And customers came secretly to the shop. They wanted help and the stranger helped them. Cote : 823 WHI Wilde, Oscar. The Canterville Ghost and other stories Heinemann, 1993. 63 p. ; 20 x 13 cm. elementary level. ISBN 0-435-27212-8 Résumé : Une famille américaine achète en Angleterre un château hanté. Bruits de chaînes et taches de sang terrorisent la région depuis des siècles... Mais, que peut un pauvre fantôme contre le bon sens d'un homme d'affaires, les détachants superactifs et la malice des enfants toujours prêts à lui jouer des tours ? Cote : 823 WIL Wilde, Oscar. The Canterville Ghost Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 13x20 cm/ 56 p. Stage 2. ISBN 0194229661 Résumé : There has been a ghost in the house for three hundred years, and Lord Canterville's family have had enough of it. So Lord Canterville sells his grand old house to an American family. Mr Hiram B. Otis is happy to buy the house and the ghost - because of course Americans don't believe in ghosts. The Canterville ghost has great plans to frighten the life out of the Otis family. But Americans don't frighten easily - especially not two noisy little boys - and the poor ghost has a few surprises waiting for him. Cote : 823 WIL Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 13x20 cm/ 72p. Stage 3. ISBN 0194230112 Résumé : 'When we are happy, we are always good', says Lord Henry, 'but when we are good, we are not always happy.' Lord Henry's lazy, clever words lead the young Dorian Gray into a world where it is better to be beautiful than to be good; a world where anything can be forgiven - even murder - if it can make people laugh at a dinner party. Cote : 823 WIL Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1981. 239 p. ; 19 cm. ISBN 0-19-281553-9 Cote : 823 WIL 31 mars 2012 40 Williams, Tennessee. The glass menagerie London : Penguin Books, 1988. 92 p. ; 20 cm. ISBN 0-14-010639-1 Résumé : Sur les instances pressantes de sa mère hystérique et anxieuse, Tom, magasinier dans une usine de chaussures, invite à dîner un collègue dans l'espoir qu'il tombera amoureux de sa soeur Laura, maladivement timide... Cote : 822 WIL Wodehouse, P. G. Short Stories = Nouvelles. Jeeves Takes charge = Jeeves occupez-vous de ça ; Uncle Fred Flits by = L'escapade de l'oncle Fred Pocket, 1990. 159 p. ; 18 x 11 cm. Langues pour tous. ISBN 2-266-02901-0 Résumé : Deux nouvelles où l'auteur pastiche la société anglaise. Cote : 823.01 WOD Wodehouse, P. G. Jeeves and Friends Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 20 X 13 cm/ 104 p. Stage 5. ISBN 0194230708 Résumé : Six famous stories by a great observer of the British upper classes. What on earth would Bertie Wooster do without Jeeves, his valet? Jeeves is calm, tactful, resourceful, and has the answer to every problem. Bertie, a pleasant young man but a bit short of brains, turns to Jeeves every time he gets into trouble. And Bertie is always in trouble. These stories include the most famous of P. G. Wodehouse's memorable characters. There are three stories about Bertie and Jeeves, and three about Lord Emsworth, who, like Bertie, is often in trouble, battling with his fierce sister Lady Constance, and his even fiercer Scottish gardener, the red-bearded Angus McAllister . . . Cote : 823 WOD Wright, Andrew. Creating Stories With Children Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2006. 144 p./ 21x27 cm. . ISBN 0194372049 Cote : 420.7 WRI Wright, Reg. Ear-rings from Frankfurt Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 20 X 13 cm/ 56 p. Stage 2. ISBN 0194229726 Résumé : Richard Walton is in trouble again. He has lost his job, and he has borrowed money from his sister, Jennifer - again. And now he has disappeared. Jennifer is looking for him, and so are the police. They both have some questions that they want to ask him. How did he lose his job? Why did he fly to Frankfurt? Who gave his girlfriend those very expensive gold ear-rings? Only Richard can answer these questions. But nobody can find Richard. Cote : 823 WRI Wright, Richard. Black Boy London : Vintage, 2000. 262 p. ; 20 cm. ISBN 0-099-28506-1 Résumé : A travers les yeux de l'enfant qu'il était Richard Wright, romancier noir du sud des EtatsUnis, raconte sa prise de conscience, de ses possibilités face au mépris des Blancs. (Version anglaise). Cote : 813 WRI Wyndham, John. Web Longman, 1991. 1 vol. (58 p.) : couv. ill. en coul. ; 20 cm. Penguin readers. Level 5. ISBN 0-582-41697-3 Cote : 823 WYN Wyndham, John. Meteor and Other Stories Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. 13x20 cm/ 120 p. Stage 6. ISBN 0194230902 Résumé : It was just a smooth round metal ball, less than a metre in diameter. Although it was still hot from its journey through the huge nothingness of space, it looked quite harmless. But what was it, exactly? A meteor, perhaps - just one of those pieces of rock from outer space that occasionally 31 mars 2012 41 fall down on to the planet Earth. But meteors don't usually make strange hissing sounds . . . In this collection of four of his famous science-fiction stories, John Wyndham creates visions of the future that make us think carefully about the way we live now. Cote : 823 WYN Wyndham, John. Chocky London : Penguin Books, 1970. 160 p./ 11x18 cm.. ISBN 0140031219 Cote : 813 WYN 31 mars 2012 42