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Voilà qui ne serait pas beau ! Passer bravement de vie à trépas, élégamment, avec un sourire et une plaisanterie au coin de la lèvre, ah ! ceci était la bonne manière. Ce qui était révoltant

Roman d'aventures, suspense haletant, leçon de vie, au cœur de la nature hostile. Un classique.Dans le Grand Nord canadien, un homme, accompagné de son chien, tente de rejoindre ses compagnons. Mais il ne connaît pas tous les dangers du froid, et il n'a pas écouté les précieux conseils du vieux...

Certaines histoires ne peuvent être que véridiques et l’imagination féconde d’un écrivain ne saurait les avoir inventées de toutes pièces. De même, il semble impossible de mettre en doute la sincérité de certains individus. Julian Jones était de ceux-là. Plusieurs de mes lecteurs refuseront...

L’homme a, sur cette planète, domestiqué les animaux utiles, détruit ceux qui étaient nuisibles. Il a défriché la terre et l’a dépouillée de sa végétation sauvage. Puis, un jour, il disparaît, et le flot de la vie primitive est revenu sur lui-même, balayant l’œuvre humaine. Les...

Le chemin, à peine tracé, suivait ce qui avait été jadis le remblai d’une voie ferrée, que depuis bien des années aucun train n’avait parcourue. À droite et à gauche, la forêt, qui escaladait et gonflait les pentes du remblai, l’enveloppait d’une vague verdoyante d’arbres et d’arbustes....

Frank was an abusive and violent alcoholic. Terry was his eldest daughter. Frank’s ‘mistress’ was a dark and foreboding force throughout Terry’s life — while Frank was alive and well after his death. Terry suffered many beatings as a child and as an adult. Frank was very cruel. He had a warped...

A Publisher's Weekly Best Book of 2016   Frank Gold’s family, Hungarian jews, flee the perils of World War II for the safety of Australia, but not long after their arrival, thirteen-year-old Frank is diagnosed with polio. He is sent to a sprawling children’s hospital called The Golden Age, where...

This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. This book features a table of contents linked to every chapter. The book was designed for optimal navigation on the iPad, Nook, PDA, Smartphone, and other electronic readers. It is formatted to display on all electronic devices including eReaders, Smartphones and other Mobile Devices with a small display.

This investigation of literary history writing between 1770 and 1820 identifies the mode's distinction from canon formation as central to its cultural vitality. Using secret history, memoir and the novel, amongst other sources, it invites a re-thinking of literary history's place in late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century print culture.

An story of true origin. As to envision Earth through it's inhabitants. Stories reveals the lives of people. Their struggles to complete the dreams of their inner thoughts. Some? by any available means.

An old man walks along deserted railway tracks, long since unused and overgrown; beside him a young, feral boy helps him along. It has been 60 years since the great Red Death wiped out mankind, and the handful of survivors from all walks of life have established their own civilization and their own...

The history of civilisation is a history of wandering, sword in hand, in search of food. In the misty younger world we catch glimpses of phantom races, rising, slaying, finding food, building rude civilisations, decaying, falling under the swords of stronger hands, and passing utterly away...

American journalism has its moments of fantastic hysteria, and when it is on the rampage the only thing for a rational man to do is to climb a tree and let the cataclysm go by. And so, some time ago, when the word nature-faker was coined, I, for one, climbed into my tree and stayed there. I happened...