Résultats pour "Eden" dans Littérature, romans et fiction

"Martin Eden", le plus autobiographique des romans de Jack London, est le récit d'un écrivain né dans les bas-fonds, homme de rien basculé dans la bourgeoisie qui croit tenir sa revanche sur la vie... C'est aussi la rencontre d'un homme et d'une femme ; l'occasion enfin de découvrir le vrai visage de Jack London, une personnalité rare à la source de notre modernité. Son œuvre, dont "Martin Eden" est le point d'orgue, a fasciné des millions de lecteurs. Denis Podalydès nous offre une lecture vibrante et délicate, inoubliable.

"Un esprit de la forêt. Voilà ce qu'elle avait vu. Elle le répéterait, encore et encore, à tous ceux qui l'interrogeaient, au père de Lucy, à la police, aux habitants de la réserve. Quand on lui demandait, avec douceur, puis d'une voix de plus en plus tendue, pressante, s'il ne s'agissait pas plutôt de Lucy."

The masterpiece of Steinbeck’s later years, East of Eden is a sprawling epic in which Steinbeck created his most mesmerizing characters and explored his most enduring themes: the mystery of identity, the inexplicability of love, and the murderous consequences of love’s absence...

Martin Eden, Jack London’s semiautobiographical novel, is about a struggling young writer. It is considered by many to be the author’s most mature work. Personifying London’s own dreams of education and literary fame as a young man in San Francisco, Martin Eden’s impassioned but ultimately ineffective battle to overcome his bleak circumstances makes him one of the most memorable and poignant characters Jack London ever created.

Alba all'ultimo convegno a cui partecipa. Linguista, docente universitaria, correttrice di bozze, Alba è un'esperta - e un'amante - delle parole, e il tema delle lingue in pericolo di estinzione le sta a cuore, dal momento che l'islandese ne fa parte. Per questo interviene in conferenze in tutto il mondo, il che per lei, abitante di un'isola a nord del Circolo polare artico, significa per forza salire su un aereo. Di ritorno dal convegno, Alba fa una riflessione: per compensare la sua impronta di carbonio di quell'anno, dovrebbe piantare cinquemilaseicento alberi.

Vera Gallagher is chasing constant. For four years, her life was anything but normal. And the years before that she refuses to even remember. Dwelling on the past only hurts. Life is fragile, a lesson her mother taught her well. She’s determined not to waste a moment of her newfound freedom. Maybe some would consider her crush on Mateo Eden wasted time. Maybe some would call her a fool for loving a man who hasn’t once dropped a crumb of interest her way. Still, to Vera, it’s Mateo or nothing.

Earth’s rising oceans contain enormous islands of refuse, the Amazon rainforest is all but destroyed, and countless species edge towards extinction. Humanity’s last hope to save the planet lies with the Virgin Zones, 13 vast areas of land off-limits to people and given back to nature. Dylan leads a clandestine team of adventure racers, including his daughter Jenn, into Eden, the oldest of the Zones. Jenn carries a secret - Kat, Dylan’s wife who abandoned them both years ago, has entered Eden ahead of them.

Memphis Ward arrive à Quincy lors du cinquième pire jour de sa vie. Elle a besoin d'une douche, d'une collation et d'un peu de calme. Car déménager à travers le pays avec son nouveau-né est de loin la chose la plus folle qu'elle ait jamais faite. Mais peut-être faut-il un peu de folie pour se construire une bonne vie. Si laisser derrière elle le passé nécessite des milliers de kilomètres et une nouvelle ville, elle le fera pour son fils. Même si ça implique de renoncer au glamour de sa vie antérieure.

Winslow Covington croit en la vie, la liberté et l'application stricte de la loi. En tant que nouvelle cheffe de la police de Quincy, elle doit se faire accepter par la communauté. Cela signifie qu'elle doit gagner la bienveillance des Eden. Cependant, gagner les faveurs de la famille fondatrice de la ville aurait surement été plus simple si elle n'avait pas eu une aventure d'un soir avec le fils aîné, Griffin.

Want to know the fastest way to get screwed out of a football career? Get photographed in a compromising position in a gay bar. Yep, welcome to my life. My agent says he can fix my image. He wants me to become the poster boy for gay football players. Me? I just want back on the field. I'll do anything to play for the NFL again, even pretend to have a steady boyfriend. If only my fake boyfriend wasn't Noah Huntington III - the most arrogant, entitled rich guy in the world.

Earth has fallen under the influence of the Fermion Party, whose members believe humanity’s future lies in the metaverse, a simulated environment to which people can upload their consciousness to become immortal. As a simulant, one cannot get sick, grow old, or die. Human beings have no business risking their lives in the betaverse, where injury and illness can kill them. And those who wish to explore beyond the solar system blaspheme what the Fermions believe is the natural order.

The King family is bound together by a hatred as vast as their oil-rich Texas ranch and the purse strings of a fortune held by the cold matriarch of their wealthy clan. When Helen King's eldest son Howard is shot to death in his Dallas home, there is no shortage of suspects. As the police close in on the killer, family peacekeeper Matthew faces an unwanted choice: loyalty to a family that's never understood love, or saving his own skin.

When Persephone Lancaster receives a marriage proposal from the ill-tempered Duke of Kielder, she refuses - and then reconsiders. The obscene sum of money he's offering Persephone would save her family from ruin. With her characteristic optimism, she travels to the far reaches of Northumberland to wed a greatly feared stranger. Lodged deep in a thick forest infested with wild dogs, the Duke's castle is as cold and forbidding as the Duke himself, a man with terrible scars on his body and his soul.

Working undercover at a strip club is not my usual kind of job. If it weren’t a great opportunity to show the Mike Bravo team I can run my own op, I wouldn’t have agreed to it. When my boss asks me to befriend the biggest gossip in the establishment, the person who knows everything, I’m even more reluctant. Because that happens to be one of the dancers. The only dancer to catch my attention in all the wrong ways. I need to be professional or I will never prove I’m leadership material. Only problem is, the guy with the stage name Lemon makes me want to be anything but professional.

Als sich der junge Eman vor seinen Eltern outet, endet das in einer familiären Katastrophe, die ihn allein und obdachlos zurücklässt. In seinem Herzen ist er überzeugt, sein Schicksal durch seine homosexuelle Neigung herausgefordert zu haben, also beschließt er, dieser abzuschwören. Nach Jahren auf der Straße erhält er überraschend ein Jobangebot von dem geheimnisvollen Major, wodurch seine Entscheidung auf die Probe gestellt wird. Die Klientel von dessen Agentur Your secret Wish besteht nämlich zu einem Großteil aus queeren Kunden und auch die Angestellten sind fast ausschließlich schwul.

You know what's not fun? Going on a Fiji vacation with four other couples. Especially when recently single. What's even worse is when a past hook-up arrives unannounced. Not only do we have a history, but he's 10 years younger and a famous rock star. Most importantly, he's my friend's little brother. Being trapped on an island with Jet Jackson is going to be sweet torture because all I want is another chance. I just don't think he's going to give it to me.

On a hot, muggy afternoon in Eden, a tiny, rural town deep in southeast Louisiana, two boys make a grim discovery: They unearth the decades-old remains of a child, strands of hair and clothing still attached to the bones. Meanwhile on the other side of the country, in California, forty-one-year-old Evelyn Yates, a single mother is struggling to maintain psychological equilibrium despite problems with alcohol, a difficult teenage daughter, and her own traumatic past.

Ein brandneuer Horror-Öko-Thriller vom Bestsellerautor des Netflix-Hits "The Silence". In einer Zeit, in der die steigenden Ozeane riesige Müllinseln enthalten, der Amazonas-Regenwald fast komplett zerstört ist und zahllose Arten vom Aussterben bedroht sind, wurden die Virgin Zones eingerichtet, um gegen die Veränderung anzukämpfen. Diese dreizehn gewaltigen, für die Menschen verbotenen und der Natur zurückgegebenen Landflächen sollten zur grünen Lunge der Welt werden.

Erstmals im Hörspiel: Der spannende Roman des Nobelpreisträgers, bekannt durch die berühmte Verfilmung mit James Dean. Es ist die Geschichte zweier ungleicher Brüder, die um die Liebe des Vaters buhlen und derselben Frau ins Netz gehen. Wir lauschen den Kämpfen des Adam Trask, hören vom Verrat seines Brudes Charles und seiner Frau Cathy, schlüpfen in die Köpfe der Söhne Caleb und Aron und fiebern am Totenbett der Versöhnung entgegen. Über 40 namhafte Schauspieler und Schauspielerinnen und meisterhafte Soundcollagen entführen uns ins Amerika des Wilden Westens bis zum Ersten Weltkrieg.

In 2063, Earth's overheated climate and war-ravaged cities are near breaking point. A new habitable planet is discovered within reach, but the first two missions have failed to return. This is the story of the third mission to Eden. What really awaits the crew of four as they make the long journey to this supposedly uninhabited virgin planet, and what is the link to the secret 900-year-old sect known as Alicians back on Earth? While Blake leads the Eden mission, a young researcher named Micah discovers a terrible truth that threatens the very existence of humanity.