These three great plays by one of the founding fathers of the theatre of the absurd, are alive and kicking with tragedy and humour, bleakness and farce. In "Rhinoceros" we are shown the innate brutality of people as everyone, except for Berenger, turn into clumsy, unthinking rhinoceroses. "The Chairs" depicts the futile struggle of two old people t...more
Bilbo Baggins, a respectable, well-to-do hobbit, lives comfortably in his hobbit-hole until the day the wandering wizard Gandalf chooses him to take part in an adventure from which he may never return.
A fantasy of the future that sheds a blazing critical light on the present--considered to be Aldous Huxley's most enduring masterpiece. "Mr. Huxley is eloquent in his declaration of an artist's faith in man, and it is his eloquence, bitter in attack, noble in defense, that, when one has closed the book, one remembers."--Saturday Review of Literatur...more
Qui donc à Paris égorge les vieilles dames de Belleville et transforme les papys en junkies ? Tous les soupçons convergent vers Benjamin Malaussène, bouc émissaire de son état, dont la sympathique famille s'est enrichie de quelques membres. Les héros du précédent épisode, Au bonheur des ogres, sont là, avec quelques nouveaux venus : le...more
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