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As-tu déjà eu envie d'écrire un livre ? D'ouvrir une librairie ? De faire carrière en littérature ? Es-tu un(e) passionné(e) de lecture ?Preface est un podcast de discussion avec des auteurs et autrices de romans, de fictions, de polars, d'essais, de romans graphiques mais aussi avec d'autres personnes qui gravitent autour de la discipline de l'écriture comme des éditeurs et éditrices, des critiques littéraires, des libraires. L'objectif de ce podcast est de donner la parole à ces personnes qui se cachent derrière les histoires que nous lisons mais aussi de démystifier et de ...

The Vampire Archives is the biggest, hungriest, undeadliest collection of vampire stories, as well as the most comprehensive bibliography of vampire fiction ever assembled. Dark, stormy, and delicious, once it sinks its teeth into you there’s no escape.

Here, collected in one volume and chosen by the author himself, are favorites such as "What Kind of Day Did You Have?", "Leaving the Yellow House", and a previously uncollected piece, "By the St. Lawrence". With his larger-than-life characters, irony, wisdom, and unique humor, Bellow presents a sharp, rich, and funny world that is infinitely surprising. With a preface by Janice Bellow and an introduction by James Wood, this is a collection to treasure for longtime Saul Bellow fans and an excellent introduction for new listeners.

Nightwood, Djuna Barnes's strange and sinuous tour de force novel unfolds in the decadent shadows of Europe's great cities, Paris, Berlin, and Vienna - a world in which the boundaries of class, religion, and sexuality are bold but surprisingly porous. The outsized characters who inhabit this world are some of the most memorable in all of fiction.

Un grand roman sur le racisme, la violence, les combats pour les droits civiques, la place du Gospel, et l’amitié dans une langue crue, imagée et inoubliable.

“The first English translation in more than fifty years of Alessandro Manzoni’s masterpiece, a work of foundational Italian literature on par with the Divine Comedy and the Decameron.”—The Wall Street Journal “An exemplary historical novel” (The New Yorker) from the father of modern...

Victor Hugo publie en 1827 sa pièce Cromwell qu'il présente comme le premier drame romantique. S'inspirant de l'art théâtral de Shakespeare, il propose une démarche nouvelle débarrassée des conventions passéistes de la tragédie, dont principalement celle de l'unité de temps, de lieu et d'action. Le drame raconte une histoire réelle, les héros sont humains et le vil côtoie le noble.

From the craft of writing, barriers to entry, and sociocultural influences, TAP explores how authors are forged.

Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer. Born and educated in Edinburgh, Stevenson suffered from serious bronchial trouble for much of his life, but continued to write prolifically and travel widely in defiance of his poor health. As a young man, he mixed in London literary circles, receiving encouragement from Andrew Lang, Edmund Gosse, Leslie Stephen and W. E. Henley, the last of whom may have provided the model for Long John Silver in Treasure Island.

Parfois, on pense trouver refuge, alors que le cauchemar ne fait que commencer. C'est ce dont Luis a fait l'expérience, le jour où il a débarqué sur une plage en apparence déserte, après avoir échappé à la police à coups de rame désespérés. Alors qu'il pensait avoir trouvé refuge sur une île inhabitée, ses explorations lui dévoilent en réalité un lieu étrange, dominé par une villa à la fois somptueuse et inquiétante.

Compiled, edited, and newly revised by Ralph Ellison’s literary executor, John F. Callahan, this Modern Library Paperback Classic includes posthumously discovered reviews, criticism, and interviews, as well as the essay collections Shadow and Act (1964), hailed by Robert Penn Warren as “a...

Inspector Rudge does not encounter many cases of murder in the sleepy seaside town of Whynmouth. But when an old sailor lands a rowing boat containing a fresh corpse with a stab wound to the chest, the Inspector's investigation immediately comes up against several obstacles. The vicar, whose boat the body was found in, is clearly withholding information, and the victim's niece has disappeared. There is clearly more to this case than meets the eye - even the identity of the victim is called into doubt.

Véritable manifeste sur le conflit d'intérêts, fable moraliste sur la corruption, Topaze constitue l'une des l'œuvres majeures de Marcel Pagnol. Pièce de théâtre de l'Académicien, elle fut d'abord portée à l'écran dans une interprétation de Louis Jouvet, puis dans une deuxième avec Amaury pour, enfin, être réalisée une troisième fois par Marcel Pagnol lui-même, avec Fernandel dans un Topaze jubilatoire.

In 1938, British statesman The Rt. Hon. Winston S. Churchill, a former military officer and member of the House of Commons, penned his Arms and the Covenant, published in the United States as While England Slept; a Survey of World Affairs, 1932–1938. The book is a powerful collection of his speeches warning that England was not at all prepared for the inevitability of war with Germany. While England Slept is published here in its original classic form with the preface and notes by Churchill’s son, Randolph S. Churchill.

“Sink your teeth in” (People) to the scariest, hungriest, undeadliest collection of vampire tales ever assembled—with stories from Stephen King, Dan Simmons, Bram Stoker, and many more.

While almost all of Marguerite Duras's novels have been translated into English, her debut The Impudent Ones (Les Impudents) has been a glaring exception - until now. Fans of Duras will be thrilled to discover the germ of her bold, vital prose and signature blend of memoir and fiction in this intense and mournful story of the Taneran family, which introduces Duras' classic themes of familial conflict, illicit romance, and scandal in the sleepy suburbs and southwest provinces of postwar France.

Largely autobiographical, Christ in Concrete opens with the dramatic Good Friday collapse of a building under construction, crucifying in concrete an Italian construction worker, whose death leaves his pregnant wife and eight children impoverished. His oldest son, Paul, at just 12 years old, must take over his father’s role—and his job.

After serving in the First World War, Milne wrote a number of well-received plays, but his greatest triumph came when he created Winnie-the-Pooh, Piglet, Tigger, Eeyore, and, of course, Christopher Robin, the adventurous little boy based on his own son. Goodbye Christopher Robin inspired the film directed by Simon Curtis and starring Domhnall Gleeson, Margot Robbie, and Kelly Macdonald. It offers the listener a glimpse into the relationship between Milne and the real-life Christopher Robin, whose toys inspired the magical world of the Hundred Acre Wood.

"Only when the world is your world is burning and you can do nothing, will you ever understand our pain"