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Affiche du document Dobryd : A Novel, New Edition with a Foreword by Peter McFarlane

Dobryd : A Novel, New Edition with a Foreword by Peter McFarlane

Ann Charney

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118 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 1h28min.
It is 1944 and Red Army soldiers have liberated the Polish town of Dobryd from Nazi occupation. After three years of hiding, a family are helped down from a hayloft and given bread. One of the soldiers picks up a four-year-old child and carries her outside. She looks around in wonder and feels, for the first time in her life, the fresh air of summer on her cheeks. So begins a young girl’s new life amid the ruins of World War II. While adults mourn what was lost forever, the narrator explores a world that had been forbidden to her, discovering the pleasures of the senses and the company of other children. Though resolutely thriving in the present and thrilled about what’s ahead, the young child also pieces together the past that the adults are determined to bury. In this powerful autobiographical novel about momentous events, Montreal writer Ann Charney tells an illuminating story of ordinary people committing appalling crimes and surviving unfathomable despair. Written with fierce candour and insight, it is a compelling story of the human spirit. Ann Charney is an award-winning Canadian novelist, short story writer, and journalist. Dobryd was first published in 1973 and was translated into many languages. Her work has been published in Canada, the U.S., France, Germany, and Italy. Ann Charney’s other books include Life Class, Rousseau’s Garden, Distantly Related to Freud and Defiance in Their Eyes. She has won Canadian National Magazine Awards both for her fiction and non-fiction and was made an officer of the Ordre des arts et lettres in France. Ann Charney lives in Montreal. Peter McFarlane is an author, journalist, editor, and arts administrator. His most recent book, which was inspired by Dobryd, is Family Ties, How a Ukrainian Nazi and a Living Witness link Canada to Ukraine today. Author of numerous articles, he is also the editor of several award-winning titles including Unsettling Canada. He lives north of Montreal. Reviews and Praise “Along with The Diary of Anne Frank . . . Dobryd will take its place as one of the truly significant insights into the effects of war.” Books in Canada “A tale told with great skill and simplicity; her book is a tour de force.” Maclean’s “A ‘marvelous’ autobiographical novel of a Jewish girl emerging from hiding in Poland after the defeat of the Nazis, and rediscovering freedom and hope.” Publishers Weekly “One of the best books on a European destiny in our century.” Stuttgarter Zeitung, Germany “Original and compelling, this book makes us believe in the possibility of happiness amid the terrors of war.” Frankfurter Neue Presse, Germany “A terrifying and inspiring story of war seen through the eyes of a child.” L’express, Belgium “An extraordinary testimonial to the strength of the human spirit, even in the worst times.” Flair, Belgium “The novel’s unsentimental, clear-eyed vision offers hope that, with luck, the human spirit can blossom under the most dreadful circumstances.” Mary Soderstrom
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Affiche du document The complete collection of Jessie R. Fauset. Illustrated : There Is Confusion, Plum Bun, The Chinaberry Tree and others

The complete collection of Jessie R. Fauset. Illustrated : There Is Confusion, Plum Bun, The Chinaberry Tree and others

Jessie Redmon Fauset

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556 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 6h57min.
The Complete Collection of Jessie R. Fauset brings together the major works of one of the most influential yet often overlooked voices of the Harlem Renaissance. This beautifully illustrated edition features her most acclaimed novels, including There Is Confusion, Plum Bun, The Chinaberry Tree, and other important writings that explore the complexities of race, gender, and identity in early 20th-century America. Fauset’s fiction is rich in psychological depth and social critique. In There Is Confusion, she challenges prevailing narratives about African American identity by focusing on a Black middle-class family's aspirations and personal struggles. It is a bold assertion of cultural pride and self-definition. Plum Bun tells the compelling story of a light-skinned African American woman who attempts to pass as white in pursuit of personal freedom and artistic ambition. Fauset examines the cost of such choices with sensitivity and nuance, making it one of the period’s most enduring novels. In The Chinaberry Tree, Fauset turns her attention to the legacies of family and social stigma, portraying women whose lives are shaped by secrets, judgment, and the pursuit of dignity. Fauset’s writing is notable for its elegance, emotional insight, and moral complexity. She was also a pioneering editor and mentor who helped launch the careers of Langston Hughes and other major figures. This collection is essential reading for anyone interested in African American literature, women’s voices, and the cultural rebirth of the Harlem Renaissance. The illustrations add historical depth and beauty to this tribute to a literary trailblazer. Contents: -There Is Confusion -Plum Bun: A Novel Without a Moral -The Chinaberry Tree: A Novel of American Life -Comedy, American Style
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Affiche du document A Little Princess AND The Secret Garden - Two Classics from Frances Hodgson Burnett! - Unabridged

A Little Princess AND The Secret Garden - Two Classics from Frances Hodgson Burnett! - Unabridged

Frances Hodgson Burnett

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1285 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 16h4min.
Frances Hodgson Burnett is one of the most beloved writers of children's books in history. Two of her novels - "A Little Princess" and "The Secret Garden" - regularly find themselves near the top of any list of favorite children's books and they have both been adapted to the stage and screen dozens of times.In the first of these novels - "A Little Princess" tells the tale of young Sara Crewe, a young British girl who lives the life of a princess. Born to rich father who dotes on her, she enjoys all the trappings of wealth: carriages, fine clothing, servants...anything her heart desires. But when her father dies and his fortune dries up, Sara finds herself a penniless orphan, abused by her guardian and forced to work at menial jobs to scratch out an existence. In the second book, "The Secret Garden," Burnett continues this theme with the story of Mary Lennox, another British girl who is orphaned as a child and sent to live with her moody, enigmatic uncle at his sprawling estate in England. Mary learns that her uncle is a widower and has shut up a beautiful garden on his estate because it was a favorite of his dead wife and the girl becomes obsessed with finding this mysterious place and exploring it herself.These two books are both extraordinary novels of survival, friendship and the power of the human spirit and they are presented here in their original and unabridged format, just as it first appeared in print.
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Affiche du document Château en Limousin

Château en Limousin

Marcelle Tinayre

3h08min15

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251 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 3h08min.
Marcelle Tinayre (1870-1948) "La voiture, attelée en poste, descendit la pente d’un chemin creux. La pluie d’orage avait comblé les ornières, et l’eau boueuse qui giclait sous les roues criblait de taches la capote rabattue du briska. Enfoncé dans son manteau à pèlerine, le postillon retenait péniblement ses chevaux. Ce jour de plein été – 15 août 1839 – était brumeux et blanc, avec l’odeur automnale qui sort des bruyères mouillées. Toute l’humidité du pays corrézien, où le sol granitique fait sourdre tant de fontaines, semblait s’exhaler en vapeurs moites dans l’étroit vallon du Glandier. Au fond du briska, deux femmes étaient assises, coiffées de larges capotes qui masquaient leur profil. La plus âgée, Mme Joseph Pontier, quadragénaire au nez busqué, aux vifs yeux bruns, se consolait du silence de sa voisine en caressant un affreux petit chien jaunâtre, de l’espèce levrette, blotti dans son vaste giron. La plus jeune, hier Mlle Cappelle, aujourd’hui Mme Charles Lafarge, brune pâle aux grands yeux fiévreux, aux bandeaux noirs mi-cachés par le voile de gaze tombant de son chapeau cabriolet, était recrue de fatigue et de tristesse, à la dernière étape d’un dur voyage de trois jours, qui était, ô dérision ! son voyage de noces. En face d’elle, se tenait son mari, Charles Pouch-Lafarge, maître de forges au Glandier et maire de Beyssac, épais garçon de vingt-huit ans, d’une laideur camuse, éclairée de belles dents quand il riait de son gros rire. Mais il ne riait pas en approchant de sa maison, le « château » du Glandier, où sa mère et sa sœur attendaient la nouvelle épouse. Son air soucieux n’était pas l’air qui convient à un homme heureux, dans les premiers jours de la lune de miel. Il paraissait embarrassé et préoccupé." 1839. Marie Cappelle rêve du grand amour. Il est temps qu'elle se marie... Grâce à son oncle le baron Garat, gouverneur de la Banque de France, elle fait connaissance de Charles Lafarge, maître des forges et maire de Beyssac (Corrèze). Le mariage est décidé.. À travers le prisme de ce "Château en Limousin", Marcelle Tinayre explore les complexités de l'affaire Lafarge, une affaire criminelle retentissante à l'époque. Elle dresse le portrait d'une femme énigmatique face à une société patriarcale et à une justice en quête de vérité.
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Zaïda

Bernard Domeyne

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378 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 4h43min.
Espagne, XIe siècle : la péninsule est morcelée en une multitude d'États. Au Nord, quatre royaumes chrétiens : Aragon, Navarre, comté de Barcelone, et le puissant royaume de Castille et León. Au Sud, sur les ruines du califat omeyyade de Cordoue, sont nés plusieurs dizaines de principautés musulmanes, les taïfas, plus prompts à se battre entre elles qu'à lutter contre la puissance renaissante de la chrétienté. Dans cette Espagne compliquée où vont s'affronter, dans une lutte à mort, les ambitions rivales des Almoravides du Maroc, de l'émir de Séville – le prince-poète al-Mutamid – et du roi de Castille et León Alphonse VI, deux destinées vont se croiser : celle de Zaïda, jeune princesse mauresque, fille d'Itimad al-Rumaikiyya, favorite de l'émir de Séville, et celle d'Alphonse VI. Bientôt le roi de Castille et León s'empare de Tolède, et al-Andalus est conquise par les Almoravides. La princesse Zaïda choisit alors de s'exiler à la Cour d'Alphonse VI, au palais al-Hizam, théâtre d'une guerre feutrée entre clans rivaux : d'un côté les Bourguignons de la reine Constance et de Bernard de Sauvetat, archevêque-primat de Tolède ; de l'autre la belle maîtresse du roi, Chimène Nuñez de Guzman et les ricos homes de Castille... Zaïda saura-t-elle s'imposer alors que, sous couvert de religion, les ambitions se déchaînent ? Après « Sobheya, princesse de Cordoue » et « Arsinoé d'Afrique », Bernard Domeyne poursuit sa percée remarquée dans le roman historique. Cette saga rigoureusement documentée nous invite à suivre le destin hors norme de Zaïda, ex-princesse musulmane qui, convertie au catholicisme, deviendra la reine Marie-Isabelle, quatrième épouse d'Alphonse VI de Castille. Se consacrant une nouvelle fois à une figure féminine extraordinaire, l'auteur illustre avec brio le carrefour des cultures qui fit la richesse et la complexité de l'histoire de l'Espagne.
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