Titres dans Littérature et fiction

Chef-d’œuvre du grand écrivain et philosophe Voltaire, Candide, ou l'Optimisme, publié en 1759, est un conte qui suit les aventures de Candide, un jeune homme naïf, élevé dans une vision du monde optimiste. Ce principe de l'optimisme, enseigné par son mentor Pangloss, est sans cesse mis à l'épreuve dans une série de catastrophes et de malheurs : guerres, tremblements de terre, naufrages, et trahisons, dont la guerre de Sept Ans et le séisme de 1755 à Lisbonne.

Le feel-good de l'été ! Quand l'âge vous rend invisible, les secrets sont plus faciles à cacher... En rejoignant le Club senior local, Daphné comptait juste se faire des amis et enfin échapper à sa solitude forcée. Arthur cherchait un dérivatif à sa cleptomanie et un endroit chaud où...

Pour la première fois, toute l'équipe de One More Joke est partie de Paris pour aller faire son show à Bordeaux, devant 500 spectateurs girondins. Dans ce nouvel épisode de stand up qui a eu lieu dans la salle du Grand Parc, étaient invités des artistes locaux comme Baptiste Lecaplain ou encore Didou. Retrouvez l'humour cocasse de toute la bande et détendez-vous pendant 1h45 !

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. « Tous les animaux sont égaux, mais certains le sont plus que d'autres. » Quand les bêtes de Manor Farm chassent leur maître et prennent le pouvoir, elles rêvent d'un monde libre et juste, où chacun travaillerait pour tous. Mais à mesure que les...

“Funny and poignant... Craig Thomas is a big-hearted, empathetic writer who knows his characters inside and out." —Tom Perrotta, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Mrs. Fletcher and The Leftovers “Funny, real and moving all at once...[A] wonderful, heartfelt debut.”...

A monument to sloth, rant and contempt, a behemoth of fat, flatulence and furious suspicion of anything modern—this is Ignatius J. Reilly of New Orleans, noble crusader against a world of dunces. The ordinary folk of New Orleans seem to think he is unhinged. Ignatius ignores them, heaving his vast bulk through the city's fleshpots in a noble crusade against vice, modernity and ignorance. But his momma has a nasty surprise in store for him: Ignatius must get a job. Undaunted, he uses his new-found employment to further his mission.

Lemuel Gulliver, a slightly staid ship’s doctor, relates the tales of his astonishing travels. He encounters the tiny, warring Lilliputians; the giant, sceptical Brobdingnagians; the ludicrously intellectual Laputans; and the idealistic - if rather stolid - Houyhnhnms and their bestial servants, the Yahoos. An immediate best seller when it was first published in 1726, Gulliver’s Travels has remained a favourite ever since. It was an attack on the politics and society of Swift’s day, but it is also a polemical, inventive, surreal, vitriolic, and wonderfully imaginative masterpiece.

In this new romance from USA TODAY bestselling author Letizia Lorini, a crime podcast host must solve a chilling serial killer case while navigating an unexpected romance with her mysterious next-door neighbor. Scarlett Moore doesn’t do romance. She’s made a name for herself narrating gritty...

In his ninth and final novel, cultural observer, novelist, and poet Herman Melville gives us a picture of everything wrong with America in the decade preceding the Civil War. Evoking Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, this is a story of interlocking tales from a group of steamboat passengers...

Obituary writer Bud Stanley isn’t really living his best life. He’s fallen into a funk after a divorce. (She left him for another man, who, in fairness, was far more interesting.) He’s not doing his job well. He’s given up on dating. And he’s about to be fired for accidentally publishing his own obituary one mildly drunken night (though technically the company can’t legally fire a dead person). As Bud awaits his fate at work, he does the only logical thing: He goes to the wakes and funerals of total strangers to learn how to live again.

We return to… Guy Secretan now disgustingly rich, nationally famous, and building a Swiss chalet-style mansion of alarming ambition. Mac MacCartney is thinking about leaving it again, while Caroline Todd contemplates whether she’ll ever get to be a mother. Martin Dear despite minimal effort, is somehow still not a doctor. Joanna Clore has served her time and is ready for action. Alan Statham is getting used to life working under Boyce, who is doing his level best to hold on to his department, his parking space, and his sanity. Sue White remains a law unto herself.

In a small, tidy apartment on the outskirts of the frenzied metropolis of Seoul lives Kim Jiyoung. A 30-something-year-old “millennial everywoman”, she has recently left her white-collar desk job - in order to care for her newborn daughter full-time - as so many Korean women are expected to do. But she quickly begins to exhibit strange symptoms that alarm her husband, parents, and in-laws: Jiyoung impersonates the voices of other women - alive and even dead, both known and unknown to her.

They’re back! The all-star cast multi-award-winning cult hit comedy returns, with more surreal goings-on in the lives and loves of the doctors and staff at East Hampton Hospital (warning: contains very little medical content).

Si vous aimez les citadins aussi pédants que sexy et les écureuils tout mignons... ce roman est pour vous ! Capucine, psychologue trentenaire, mène une vie parfaite en roucoulant auprès de son mari génial... Depuis quand ce spécimen existe-t-il ? Après une soirée mémorable, elle décide de tout quitter et en particulier son conjoint bien sous tous rapports (ou pas), pour vivre dans les montagnes auvergnates.

One of the very best science fiction novels of all time. An intelligent and thought provoking allegory for the Vietnam War. Private William Mandella is a reluctant hero in an interstellar war against an unknowable and unconquerable alien enemy. But his greatest test will be when he returns home...

It used to be: Make good grades, get good SAT scores, write a good essay, and you were on your way to a good college. Now? Kiss that world goodbye. Merit isn’t a sure thing. Connections are everything. And money talks– a lot. Enter Kelly Pritzker (Abbi Jacobson), a shrewd, New Jersey-based college “consultant” who isn’t above faking athletic profiles, seducing administrators, greasing palms, and juicing GPAs. When it comes to getting the under-qualified and uber-privileged into the Ivy League, Kelly’s the closest thing you’ll find to a guarantee...If you can afford her, that is.

À la Ferme du Manoir, les animaux, épuisés par l’exploitation, se révoltent contre leur propriétaire. Ils rêvent d’une communauté libre et juste, fondée sur l’égalité. Mais à mesure que les cochons prennent le contrôle, les idéaux de la révolution se déforment, les règles...

Inspired by the true story of a political murder that horrified Russians in 1869, Dostoevsky conceived of Demons as a "novel-pamphlet" in which he would say everything about the plague of materialist ideology that he saw infecting his native land. What emerged was a prophetic and ferociously funny masterpiece of ideology and murder in pre-revolutionary Russia.

Una narrazione disincantata e ironica denuncia il vuoto di valori che seguì la disfatta napoleonica. La cittadella descritta da Stendhal è in realtà molto diversa dalla vera cittadella di Parma e, invece, molto simile a Castel Sant'Angelo, dalla cui cella fuggì (calandosi con delle corde), nel Cinquecento, Alessandro Farnese, rinchiuso per aver rapito e sedotto una nobildonna romana. In seguito diviene cardinale e, poi, papa.

Succombez à cette romance tendre et pétillante ! Vous ne résisterez pas à l'envie d'enfilez vos santiags et de manger du chili con carne ! Raphaëlle est Parisienne, Canaan est Texan. Si l'une s'apprête à se marier, l'autre ne vit que pour son ranch et ses chevaux. Elle adore la ville et les sorties entre copines, il aime les grands espaces et la tranquillité. A priori, rien ne les destinait à collaborer. Et pourtant, sauver Clarendon's Hill, le ranch Gallagher, va leur faire découvrir qu'on a tous le droit à une seconde chance.