A Mercy - format ePub

« Le 124 était habité de malveillance. Imprégné de la malédiction d'un bébé... »À Bluestone Road, près de Cincinnati, vers 1870, les meubles volent, la lumière allume au sol des flaques de sang, des gâteaux...

« Ils tuent la jeune Blanche d’abord. Avec les autres, ils peuvent prendre leur temps. » Fondée dans les années 1950 dans l’Oklahoma, la communauté noire de Ruby a été bâtie loin du monde des Blancs...

Nés de la dernière génération d’esclaves affranchis du sud des États-Unis, Violette et Joe Trace, la cinquantaine et sans enfants, sont installés depuis plusieurs années à Harlem, elle coiffeuse et lui...

Sethe is now miles away from Sweet Home, the farm where she was kept as a slave.Unable to forget the unspeakable horrors that took place there, she is haunted by the violent spectre of her dead child,...

Read the searing first novel from the celebrated author of Beloved, which immerses us in the tragic, torn lives of a poor black family in post-Depression 1940s Ohio. Unloved, unseen, Pecola prays each...

Four young women are brutally attacked near an all-black town in rural Oklahoma.The inevitability of this attack, and the attempts to avert it, lie at the heart of Paradise. Spanning the birth of the...

Into a white millionaire's Caribbean mansion comes Jadine. Then there’s Son.Jadine is sophisticated, beautiful, a black American graduate of the Sorbonne. Son is a black fugitive from small-town Florida...

Lured South by tales of buried treasure, Milkman embarks on an odyssey back home.As a boy, Milkman was raised beneath the shadow of a status-obsessed father. As a man, he trails in the fiery wake of a...

'Extravagantly beautiful... Enormously, achingly alive... A howl of love and rage, playful and funny as well as hard and bitter' New York TimesAs young girls, Nel and Sula shared each other's secrets...

Joe Trace – in his fifties, door-to-door salesman, erstwhile devoted husband – shoots dead his eighteen-year-old lover.At the funeral, his determined, hard-working wife, Violet, who is given to stumbling...

An exploration of race from one of the twentieth century’s primary chroniclers of the African American experience.Is who we are really only skin deep? In this searing, remonstrative book, Toni Morrison...

A stirring exploration of war, race and belonging from the Nobel-prize winning author of Beloved.An angry and self-loathing veteran of the Korean War, Frank Money finds himself back in racist America...

An incisive and thought-provoking collection of essays on a defining American experience, curated by the Nobel-prize winning author of Beloved.Toni Morrison contributes an introduction and brings together...

A haunting and affecting meditation on love from the Nobel-prize winning author of Beloved. May, Christine, Heed, Junior, Vida – even L – all are women obsessed with Bill Cosey. He shapes their yearnings...

'A beautiful and important book' The Times On the day that Jacob, an Anglo-Dutch trader, agrees to accept a slave in lieu of payment for a debt from a plantation owner, little Florens's life changes...

Le jeune soldat Frank Money rentre aux États-Unis en proie à de violentes crises d’angoisse. La guerre de Corée vient de se terminer, et il lui faut reprendre une vie normale désormais, tenter de dépasser...

On le surnomme « Laitier » parce que sa mère a continué de lui donner le sein en cachette jusqu’à ses trois ou quatre ans. Son vrai nom, c’est Macon Mort, le même que son père. Il vit dans le Nord, dans...

Vers 1680, l’Amérique n’est encore qu’aux prémices de son histoire coloniale. Parmi les utopistes du Nouveau Monde, il y a Jacob Vaark, fermier et négociant d’origine hollandaise. Sa femme Rebekka a perdu...

« Comment est-ce qu’on fait ? Je veux dire, comment est-ce qu’on fait pour que quelqu’un vous aime ? » Mal aimée, la jeune Pecola Breedlove rêve d’être vue autrement et de recevoir une plus grande attention....

Sethe et sa famille vivent avec le fantôme de Beloved depuis des années. Car Sethe a tué sa petite fille de deux ans — pour que jamais elle ne soit esclave comme elle. Depuis, la guerre de Sécession s’est...

Plus d’une quarantaine de textes de Toni Morrison sont réunis dans ces pages. Des textes écrits durant plusieurs décennies et qui, chacun à sa façon, attestent de la généreuse intelligence de Toni Morrison....

Toni Morrison analyse les mécanismes à l’oeuvre dans le racisme qui ont permis d’établir et de perpétuer la domination d’une seule catégorie d’individus. Dans sa quête de réponses, l’autrice se replonge...

C’est l’histoire de jeunes gens venus voir une vieille femme, aveugle et sage, descendante d’esclave, noire et américaine. Ils disent tenir un oiseau entre leurs mains. L’aïeule ne sait s’il est vivant...

Amérique 1950 : le « White only » s’applique partout : bus, hôtels, culture ; pour un soldat noir, voyager d’un État à l’autre est une odyssée. C’est dans un pays au bord de l’implosion que, de retour...

Un milliardaire de Philadelphie a pris sa retraite dans une île des Caraïbes. Sa femme, ancien prix de beauté, supporte mal ce qu'elle vit comme une relégation. Les rapports avec son mari se dégradent...

« Je l'ignore. J'ignore si l'oiseau que vous tenez est vivant ou mort, mais je suis sûre d'une chose : il est entre vos mains. Il est entre vos mains. » Toni Morrison, née en 1931 dans une famille d'ouvriers...

Nel Wright et Sula Peace sont deux petites filles noires, deux meilleures amies qui grandissent dans une bourgade de l’Ohio au lendemain de la Première Guerre mondiale. Ensemble, elles rêvent d’une autre...

Dans son onzième roman, qui se déroule à l’époque actuelle, Toni Morrison décrit sans concession des personnages longtemps prisonniers de leurs souvenirs et de leurs traumatismes. Au centre du récit,...

Twyla et Roberta ont huit ans lorsqu’elles se rencontrent au foyer de St-Bonaventure. Quatre mois durant, les deux fillettes resteront inséparables, avant que la vie ne les éloigne. Au fil des années,...

Playing in the Dark puise son origine dans une série de conférences sur le roman américain, données par Toni Morrison à l’université de Harvard. La lauréate du prix Nobel analyse le rôle attribué aux...

Pre-order Beth's epic new novel, SWEPT AWAY, now! 'Beth O'Leary is that rare, one-in-a-million talent who can make you laugh, swoon, cry and ache all in the same book' EMILY HENRYTiffy and Leon share...

"'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,...

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 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,...

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!...

The inspiration for the new Netflix series, Lupin, starring Omar Sy. Leblanc's creation, Gentleman thief Arsène Lupin, is everything you would expect from a French aristocrat—witty, charming, brilliant,...

The most famous by far of all twentieth-century political allegories, Animal Farm is the account of a group of barnyard animals who revolt against their vicious human master, only to submit to a tyranny...

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...

2 March 1810 . . . Today, I fell in love.At the age of ten, Miranda Cheever showed no signs of Great Beauty. And even at ten, Miranda learned to accept the expectations society held for her—until the...

"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...

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...

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...

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,...