Another Country - format ePub

"J’aime l’Amérique plus que n’importe quel autre pays au monde, et, exactement pour la même raison, je tiens au droit de la critiquer en permanence." Dans ces essais écrits durant les années 1940 et...

"Certains échappaient à cette prison. La plupart y demeuraient. Ceux qui s'en échappaient laissaient toujours quelque chose d'eux-mêmes en arrière, comme certains animaux qui se coupent une patte et la...

1951, Baldwin est le premier Noir qui séjourne à Leukerbad (Haut Valais, Suisse). Les enfants crient «Neger!», les gens le dévisagent : qui est cet Américain qui ressemble aux indigènes d’Afrique dont...

The electrifying first novel from James Baldwin, whose life and words are immortalized in the Oscar-nominated film I Am Not Your Negro'I had to deal with what hurt me most. I had to deal with my father.'Drawing...

One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'Baldwin's ground-breaking second novel, which established him as one of the great American writers of his timeDavid, a young American in 1950s Paris,...

'The story of the negro in America is the story of America ... it is not a very pretty story'James Baldwin's breakthrough essay collection made him the voice of his generation. Ranging over Harlem in...

History comes to life! Meet George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Daniel Webster, and Abraham Lincoln. Exciting, fun, and educational, "Four Great Americans" is a turn-of-the-century classic of historical...

Dive into history with this classic collection of fascinating stories, retold by the master children’s author James Baldwin at the turn of the century. Meet Alexander the Great and his horse Bucephalus,...

È sera nel Greenwich Village e Rufus Scott, batterista jazz nero, si aggira da giorni senza meta e senza scopo per le strade di New York, una città feroce divisa in due da un fiume: da una parte i neri...

Non è mai troppo tardi per conoscere James Baldwin ma, se c’è un modo giusto per farlo, è con questo libro. Pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1963, La prossima volta il fuoco di James Baldwin colpisce...

Romanzo autobiografico e saggio a un tempo, Una strada senza nome – titolo tratto dal Libro di Giobbe – è un’opera a parte nel percorso letterario di James Baldwin che in queste pagine tesse e intreccia,...

David, un giovane newyorkese in fuga da se stesso, è approdato a Parigi nel tentativo di affrancarsi dalla propria educazione, e dalla vita da ragazzo perbene che sembra essergli stata cucita addosso....

In "Se la strada potesse parlare" James Baldwin ci racconta una struggente storia d'amore in un mondo fatto di dolore e ingiustizia. Attraverso gli occhi di Tish, una diciannovenne bella e innamorata,...

Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin is a collection of short stories that give a snapshot into the life of a legendary hero or an event in history. Hear how Alexander the Great tamed Bucephalus,...

Written for children, James Baldwin's history of Washington, Franklin, Webster, and Lincoln brings these men to life in a way that will be interesting for adults as well. The stories touch on the little...

Rufus Scott n’en pouvait plus de vivre dans le monde cruel et implacable des Blancs, humilié, abandonné de tous, écrasé par le poids d’une cité inhumaine. Par une nuit froide de novembre, il est allé...

Dans le Harlem des années cinquante, se nouent les destins de quatre adolescents : Julia l’enfant évangéliste qui enflamme les foules, Jimmy son jeune frère, Arthur le talentueux chanteur de gospel et...

En dépit des bouleversements psychologiques et sociaux qu'il exige, cet ouvrage ne veut que proposer la solution de bon sens au problème de la place des Noirs dans la société américaine. Malgré le ton...

Dans une maison du Sud de la France, à la tombée du jour, un homme se souvient. Jeune Américain installé à Paris pour fuir un père autoritaire et ses propres démons, David est fiancé à l’intrépide Hella....

Au soir de ses quatorze ans, dans une boutique désaffectée de Harlem, au milieu des prières et des trépignements cadencés de ses frères, au rythme hallucinant des tambourins, John Grimes traverse un moment...

" Ce que les Blancs doivent faire, c'est essayer de trouver au fond d'eux-mêmes pourquoi, tout d'abord, il leur a été nécessaire d'avoir un "nègre', parce que je ne suis pas un "nègre'. Je ne suis pas...

En dépit des bouleversements psychologiques et sociaux qu'il exige, cet ouvrage ne veut que proposer la solution de bon sens au problème de la place des Noirs dans la société américaine. Malgré le ton...

Les quatorze essais regroupés dans ce volume, publiés à l’origine dans divers journaux et revues, couvrent une période allant de 1960 à 1985. James Baldwin y évoque les marches pour les droits civiques,...

À l’occasion du centenaire de la naissance de James Baldwin, l’une des figures littéraires américaines les plus brillantes et incandescentes du XXe siècle, les Éditions Stock publient un recueil de textes...

États-Unis, années 1960. Au sommet de sa carrière, l’acteur noir américain Leo Proudhammer est terrassé par une crise cardiaque. Alors qu’il oscille entre la vie et la mort, il se remémore les choix qui...

« Mon amie Ava Gardner m’a demandé un jour si je pensais qu’elle pouvait incarner Billie Holiday au cinéma. Je dus lui répondre que, même si elle avait sans doute tout ce qu’il fallait pour ça - elle...

Dans le Harlem des années cinquante, se nouent les destins de quatre adolescents : Julia l’enfant évangéliste qui enflamme les foules, Jimmy son jeune frère, Arthur le talentueux chanteur de gospel et...

Entre 1979 et 1981, vingt-huit enfants, tous âgés entre 7 et 16 ans, tous noirs, tous issus de familles pauvres sont assassinés à Atlanta, Géorgie, dans le Sud profond des États-Unis.En juin 1981, un...

Si Beale Street pouvait parler, elle raconterait à peu près ceci : Tish, dix-neuf ans, est amoureuse de Fonny, un jeune sculpteur noir. Elle est enceinte et ils sont bien décidés à se marier. Mais Fonny,...

James Baldwin a écrit cette pièce en 1964 en réaction à l'assassinat de son ami Medgar Evers, militant des droits civiques, abattu devant son domicile du Mississippi le 12 juin 1963 par un suprémaciste...

"'There is a plot, Harry Potter. A plot to make most terrible things happen at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry this year.'" Harry Potter's summer has included the worst birthday ever, doomy...

The long-awaited explosive climax to the first arc of the Number One New York Times bestselling Stormlight Archive. Dalinar Kholin challenged the evil god Odium to a contest of champions with the future...

The Thought Police, Doublethink, Newspeak, Big Brother – 1984 itself: these terms and concepts have moved from the world of fiction into our everyday lives. They are central to our thinking about freedom...

Readers love The Ingredients for Happiness! ‘A gorgeous summer read’ ‘Uplifting, funny, romantic and charming’...

A spellbinding epic tale of ambition, anarchy and absolute power set against the sprawling medieval canvas of twelfth-century England, The Pillars of the Earth is Ken Follett's classic historical masterpiece.A...

One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Winston Smith rewrites history. It’s his...

"'Welcome to the Knight Bus, emergency transport for the stranded witch or wizard. Just stick out your wand hand, step on board and we can take you anywhere you want to go.'"When the Knight Bus crashes...

‘Addictive. A first-class page-turner.’ Lisa Hall, author of Between You and Me Can the past ever be forgotten? As soon as nurse Maura Lyle sets foot inside the foreboding Essen Grange,...

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP BESTSELLER#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE'An utterly mesmerising novel..I absolutely loved this book' Bernardine Evaristo,...

WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD FOR BEST ALL-TIME SERIES The Foundation series is Isaac Asimov’s iconic masterpiece. Unfolding against the backdrop of a crumbling Galactic Empire,...

The hauntingly prophetic classic novel. Over 1 million copies sold in the UK. Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to burn books, which are forbidden, being...

Is it ever too late to leave the friend zone? Friends-to-lovers TikTok sensation, The Cheat Sheet, is the rom-com that has readers laughing and rooting for these lovable best friends from the first page!...

“At once a scholar’s homage to The Iliad and startlingly original work of art by an incredibly talented new novelist….A book I could not put down.”—Ann Patchett“Mary Renault lives again!” declares Emma...

The story of Oliver Twist - orphaned, and set upon by evil and adversity from his first breath - shocked readers when it was published. After running away from the workhouse and pompous beadle Mr Bumble,...

"There it was, hanging in the sky above the school: the blazing green skull with a serpent tongue, the mark Death Eaters left behind whenever they had entered a building… wherever they had murdered…"...

Fame. Fashion. Friendship. Hollie can't catch a break. She's broke, she's back living with her family, and her career prospects are precisely zero. So when the chance arises for her and her best friend...

Jonathan Harker, a young London solicitor travels to Transylvania to help a rich nobleman, Count Dracula, purchase an estate in England. Dracula is planning to immigrate to England, and wants Harker to...

The story of the orphan Oliver, who runs away from the workhouse only to be taken in by a den of thieves, shocked readers when it was first published. Dickens's tale of childhood innocence beset by evil...

This ebook compiles Jule Verne's complete collection, including "Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", "Journey to the Interior of the Earth", "The Mysterious Island", "Around the World in Eighty Days",...

In the vast expanse of the treacherous ocean, a legendary tale unfolds, gripping the hearts of readers for generations to come. Immerse yourself in the thrilling world of "Moby Dick," a literary masterpiece...

As the interminable case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce grinds its way through the Court of Chancery, it draws together a disparate group of people: Ada and Richard Clare, whose inheritance is gradually being...

"Turning the envelope over, his hand trembling, Harry saw a purple wax seal bearing a coat of arms; a lion, an eagle, a badger and a snake surrounding a large letter 'H'."Harry Potter has never even heard...

"One of the strangest and most wonderful books in the world." —D. H. Lawrence "‘Moby-Dick’ is the book which I put down with the unqualified thought, 'I wish I had written that'…" —William Faulkner "What...

What The Lord of the Rings is to fantasy, Dune is to science fiction. Presenting one of the most influential works of all time, which has inspired countless other stories for more than half a century,...

An enchanting collection containing the first three novels in New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn’s beloved Bridgerton series set in Regency England—The Duke and I, The Viscount Who Loved Me,...

The Brothers Karamasov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving the “wicked and sentimental” Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov...

The series that inspired the Netflix show. This collection contains 38 Arsène Lupin stories (the biggest and greatest Arsène Lupin collection in the eBook world), including: - Arsène Lupin, Gentleman...

Mrs. Dalloway chronicles a June day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway–a day that is taken up with running minor errands in preparation for a party and that is punctuated, toward the end, by the suicide...

Mary Shelley began writing Frankenstein when she was only eighteen. At once a Gothic thriller, a passionate romance, and a cautionary tale about the dangers of science, Frankenstein tells the story of...

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