Résultats pour "Lucien" dans Littérature, romans et fiction

Lucien, auteur prolifique du IIe siècle apr. J.-C., est né à Samosate, aux confins orientaux de l'Empire romain. Dans les "Histoires vraies", un de ses ouvrages les plus célèbres, il invite le lecteur à un voyage extraordinaire sur la Lune, dans le ventre d'une baleine, sur une île peuplée des grands héros du passé et sur des récifs défendus par des monstres effrayants. Entre fantaisie et pastiche des grandes références littéraires et mythologiques, on peut voir dans les "Histoires vraies" le premier récit de science-fiction de la littérature occidentale.

"A crisp, twisting tale in the hands of a writer in the bloom of his abundant talents." — Graydon Carter A gifted yet financially disadvantaged artist falls victim to the manipulative control of his wealthy, enigmatic Harvard roommate in this incendiary novel from the author of Beautiful...

They wanted a son to fill the silence left by grief. What they brought home was something far older than childhood. When Rafe and Julia Volmer return from Mumbai with their five-year-old son's ashes, the void threatens to consume them. Six weeks later, they stand in a Portuguese orphanage, desperate for redemption, and find Lucien. Eight years old. Perfectly still. Perfectly quiet. The nuns say he was abandoned at a monastery. No birth certificate. No family history. No explanation for why other children refuse to look at him. The adoption is too fast. The paperwork has too many gaps.

Was für ein herrlicher Sommertag! Als eine Leiche gefunden wird, sinkt Lucien Lefevres Laune allerdings schnell unter den Gefrierpunkt. Da alle Kollegen im Urlaub sind, muss der Commissaire auf sein Feierabendritual - den geliebten Pastis - verzichten. Ausgerechnet in dem beschaulichen Küstenort Contis-Plage hat das Meer den Körper eines Mannes freigegeben, der erkennbar nicht freiwillig gestorben ist. Lefevre macht sich auf die Suche nach der Wahrheit. Und steht einer eingeschworenen Dorfgemeinschaft gegenüber, in der jeder seine eigenen Geheimnisse hat.

Set in a fractured world where justice has long decayed, Lucien Adrien Belland is summoned from obscurity and pulled into a path carved by something far older than war. He carries no banner, but the world recoils at his presence. His silence is not empty—but forged, watched, and waiting.

A nameless knight. A champion's fall. A squire caught between. When the mysterious Alaric challenges Ser Halden, an undefeated tournament champion who clawed his way up from nothing, their confrontation sparks more than rivalry. Halden's humiliating defeat leaves him keenly aware of the distance...

Strahlender Sonnenschein, azurblauer Himmel - farbige Wimpel flattern im Wind. In Hossegor an der französischen Atlantikküste ist internationales Publikum versammelt, jeder feuert sein Team der Surfweltmeisterschaft an. Der Jubel verwandelt sich in Entsetzen, als einer der Lokalmatadoren plötzlich über Schwindel klagt und wenig später tot im Sand liegt... Commisaire Lefevre glaubt nicht an einen Zufall und beginnt zu ermitteln.

Colette Viard ist die Gewinnerin der Kochshow "Le Grand Gourmet", die im französischen Fernsehen für Traumquoten sorgt. Mit dem Preisgeld eröffnet sie ihr eigenes Restaurant. Commissaire Lefevre, der zu den Gästen der Eröffnungsfeier gehört, will gerade eine Gabel des köstlich riechenden Fischgerichtes probieren, als ein Schrei die heitere Stimmung zerreißt. Raul Da Silva, der gefürchtete Restaurantkritiker, ringt um Luft. Als er schließlich vor aller Augen stirbt, ahnt Lefevre, dass ihm dieser Fall noch schwer im Magen liegen wird.

Delve into the mind of Critical Role’s most charming villain in this original novel that chronicles Lucien’s early life and his fateful meeting with the Mighty Nein. Lucien has always been able to spin a bad situation to his advantage. From his childhood on the dangerous streets of...

Lucien has always been able to spin a bad situation to his advantage. From his childhood on the dangerous streets of Shadycreek Run to his years living off the grid and learning blood magic from the Claret Orders, the charismatic blood hunter will find a way to get the upper hand. When Lucien is on a job in the frozen wastelands of Eiselcross with his fellow mercenaries, a rough-and-tumble crew called the Tombtakers, fate leads him to a mysterious journal in the ruins of an ancient city. The book speaks of the Somnovem, nine beings who can grant Lucien power beyond imagining.

Lucien is a marine engineer on a Canadian tanker. While on one-month leave in Halifax, he meets Olivia, a brilliant philosophy student at Dalhousie University, who takes an immediate dislike to him. What begins as mutual antipathy changes when they discover how compatible their oddities are. Charged by Olivia not to say he loves her, Lucien returns to sea and to a job characterized by its plodding predictability. Here he discovers that not everything in his life is foreseeable, including his feelings for Olivia. This is a fascinating and different work of fiction.

London has fallen. With the city breached and no sanctuary left, Cassius Jones is thrust into the chaos of a dying world. Monsters roam free, factions fracture, and the University lies in ruins. Cassius must navigate shifting allegiances and the complex politics of the teras—hybrids and...

Kidnapping : Péripéties et Révélations d'une Victime raconte l'histoire d'un journaliste enlevé à son domicile, à Port-au-Prince, Haïti, par un puissant gang. Libéré au bout de quelques jours de séquestration, l'otage partage cette amère expérience et révèle les facettes souterraines du fonctionnement de l'une des plus grandes cellules de kidnapping de la capitale haïtienne.

Come prowl the lonely, sometimes violent streets of American's most exotic city, the city that care forgot, New Orleans, with a lone-wolf private-eye named Lucien Caye. Unlike most 40s PIs, Caye rarely drinks, doesn't smoke or wear a hat (it messes up his hair). He's six feet tall with wavy, dark brown hair and standard-issue Mediterranean-brown eyes, a sly smile and a clever mind that often gets him into trouble. Caye lives and works in the run-down New Orleans French Quarter of the late 1940s.

Paris, 1999. Mona kommt als Studentin für ein Semester in die Stadt ihrer Träume. Noch am Tag ihrer Ankunft lernt sie Thibauld kennen. Eigentlich kann sie den arroganten Schönling nicht leiden. Doch etwas an seinem verträumten Wesen und seinem ganz eigenen Blick auf die Welt lässt sie nicht los. Und so stürzt sie sich in einen Strudel der Gefühle, voller Glücksmomente und Enttäuschungen.

Paris, 2019. Mona kehrt zurück an den Ort, der einen Sommer lang ihr Zuhause war – und blickt unversehens in ein Paar funkelnder Augen.

Before you come with me, away from Silver Hollow, away from The Union, and away from all that is safe and comfortable, take a moment to look around you. Know that just because you can’t see it doesn’t mean it’s not there. Also remember I did as much research as I could going into this story and consulted a number of people and read expert materials on firearms, Antarctic research facilities, and botany. All mistakes are mine, and mine alone. All creative license taken on many items is all mine as well.

"Le théâtre d'Edmond Rostand tient une place unique pour son temps dans l'histoire de la littérature française. Certains ont dit que le poète était le représentant d'un des derniers rameaux du Romantisme. Ce n'est pas tout à fait exact. Rostand a créé un genre et s'est montré si original qu'il n'a pas eu de successeur et n'a pas vieilli."

A witty and powerful exploration of the nature of love, young people in crisis, and the secrets that change and destroy relationships, family dynamics and, ultimately, lives. Left of the bang: a military term for the build-up to an explosion. For failing concert pianist Tamsin Jarvis, the pressure is mounting. She thought she was happy with her adoring schoolteacher boyfriend, Callum, but when Chris comes into their lives, that starts to change. In a few months Chris will be gone, leaving for his first tour of Afghanistan.

Les heures de Roc-du-Cap sont comptées. Damian Ragellan reçoit la plus haute distinction militaire de l’armée. Il devient Arcaporal à dix-sept ans. Du jamais vu. Personne ne sait d’où provient son talent exceptionnel pour le combat. Pas même lui. Mais ça n’a plus d’importance. Dans une semaine, la cité qu’il a juré de protéger pourrait disparaître à jamais. Une maladie mortelle décime la population à une vitesse effarante. Les infectés connaissent leur destin : des larmes noires déchireront leur visage jusqu’aux os.

When a team of scientists discovers the deadly consequences of a human gene they dub “the evolution gene", they quickly realize that the human race is on the brink of extinction. As pandemic after pandemic ravages the world, symptomatic of the looming eradication of all humankind, this team heads to the Amazon for one last chance to save humanity.