Matilda is a little girl who is far too good to be true. At age five-and-a-half she's knocking off double-digit multiplication problems and blitz-reading Dickens. Even more remarkably, her classmates love her even though she's a super-nerd and the teacher's pet. But everything is not perfect in Matilda's world. For starters she has two of the m...more
In early nineteenth-century England, a spirited young woman copes with the suit of a snobbish gentleman as well as the romantic entanglements of her four sisters. Includes explanatory notes throughout the text, an introduction discussing the author and the background of the story, and a study guide.
C'est avec cet ouvrage explosif que William Faulkner fut révélé au public et à la critique. Auteur de la moiteur étouffante du sud des États-Unis, Faulkner a réellement bouleversé l'académisme narratif en plaçant son récit sous le signe du monologue intérieur, un monologue d'abord "confié" à un simple d'esprit passablement dépass...more
"Kim" is the story of Kim (Kimball) O'Hara, the orphaned son of a British soldier. Set against the backdrop of "The Great Game" a political conflict between Russia and Great Britain in central Asia, the novel traces the life of the title character from begging and errand running on the streets of Lahore to his schooling at a top English school in L...more