Birth Of A Nation-Hood - format ePub

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,...

« 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...

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...

« 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...

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...

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...

« 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....

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...

Bill Cosey possédait autrefois un hôtel sur la côte Est qui connut son heure de gloire au lendemain de la Seconde Guerre mondiale ; tout ce que la communauté noire comptait d’artistes, d’hommes d’affaires...

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...

"Lulu Ann Bridewell est si noire de peau à la naissance que sa mère, Sweetness, n’éprouve pour elle que dégoût. Elle élève seule la fillette, avec dureté, répugnant à la toucher. Jusqu’au jour où Lulu...

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,...

In exploring everyday life and its intersections with death, this enduring collection of stories offers a naturalistic depiction of the working class in early twentieth-century Dublin. Joyce masterfully...

This ebook contains Oscar Wilde's complete works. This edition has been professionally formatted and contains several tables of contents. The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook)...

The most famous confidence-boosting book ever published; with sales of over 16 million copies worldwide Millions of people around the world have improved their lives based on the teachings of Dale Carnegie....

The instant number one Sunday Times bestseller and thrilling sequel to the global phenomenon, Fourth Wing! THE IRON FLAME PAPERBACK EDITION INCLUDES A BRAND NEW CHAPTER FROM XADEN'S POINT OF VIEW!'Yarros...

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,...

DON'T BE THE LAST TO DISCOVER THE SERIES THAT EVERYONE CAN'T STOP TALKING ABOUT: 'Pure escapism - think Hunger Games meets Fifty Shades' The Sun'We weren't expecting to become obsessed . . . but we very...

When her former governess finds happiness as the bride of a local widower, the brilliant and beautiful Emma Woodhouse — one of Jane Austen’s immortal creations — flatters herself that she alone has secured...

In 1855, Walt Whitman published — at his own expense — the first edition of Leaves of Grass, a visionary volume of twelve poems. Showing the influence of a uniquely American form of mysticism known as...

"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 Authorized King James Version of the Holy Bible is God’s providentially appointed Word for the whole world which reveals the name of the Father as “Jehovah”, and the name of His Son, “Jesus”, in whom...

The Wealth of Nations, is the magnum opus of the Scottish economist and moral philosopher Adam Smith. First published in 1776, the book offers one of the world's first collected descriptions of what builds...

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 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...

Meg is the eldest and on the brink of love. Then there’s tomboy Jo who longs to be a writer. Sweet-natured Beth always puts others first, and finally there’s Amy, the youngest and most precocious. Together...

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...

SOMETIMES WHEN YOU LOVE SOMEONE... YOU LIEThe bestselling author and creator of the hit Netflix drama Fool Me Once explores the dangers of obsession in this #1 bestselling suspense thriller. Six years...

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who first appeared in publication in 1887. He is the creation of Scottish born author and physician Sir Arthur Conan...

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",...

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...

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...

This volume collects the complete writings of Virginia Woolf: 8 novels, 3 'biographies,' 46 short stories, 606 essays, 1 play, her diary and some letters. Contents: THE NOVELS The Voyage Out Night...

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...

"The Power of Your Subconscious Mind" will open a world of success, happiness, prosperity, and peace for you. It is one of the most brilliant and beloved spiritual self-help works of all time which can...

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...

A funny, emotional and uplifting novel from the French Marian Keyes. 'Heartwarming' Good Housekeeping'A gorgeous story, charming and funny and poignant' Nicola Cornick For fans of Ruth Hogan, Veronica...

This collection gathers together the works by William Shakespeare in a single, convenient, high quality, and extremely low priced Kindle volume! The Comedies: A Midsummer Night's Dream All's Well That...