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A new translation of Bassani's moving novel of childhood friendship and the unexpected loss of innocence. The years lived since then have not, in the end, been of any use: I haven't managed to remedy the suffering which has remained there like a hidden wound, secretly bleeding. In the fourth book of the Romanzo di Ferrara cycle, Bassani paints a moving portrait of a 1930s childhood in which even the familiar classroom and playground dramas begin to reflect the sinister forces at work in fascist Italy.

Having spent some time in Rome, Antonio - the handsomest young man in Catania - returns to his native town with the reputation of being a playboy and with a long list of amorous adventures behind him. To please his father, Antonio agrees to marry the beautiful Barbara. A year after their marriage however - scandal erupts. Barbara is still a virgin! The bride's family attempt to annul the marriage and Antonio's honour seems irrevocably lost.

'I felt the powerful strength of my family overrunning me like a heavy rush of water' For André, a young man growing up on a farm in Brazil, life consists of 'the earth, the wheat, the bread, our table and our family'. He loves the land, fears his austere, pious father who preaches from the head of the table as if it is a pulpit, and loathes himself, as he starts to harbour shameful feelings for his sister Ana.

Handsome would-be poet Lucien Chardon is poor and naive, but highly ambitious. Failing to make his name in his dull provincial hometown, he is taken up by a patroness, the captivating married woman Madame de Bargeton, and prepares to forge his way in the glamorous beau monde of Paris. But Lucien has entered a world far more dangerous than he realized, as Madame de Bargeton's reputation becomes compromised and the fickle, venomous denizens of the courts and salons conspire to keep him out of their ranks.

Ten-year-old Randal Thane is distressed to be taken from his mother, his governess and his home and sent to prep school. But once there, he discovers an adult world he had never before imagined, and falls unwillingly but entirely under the spell of a charismatic older boy, Felton, who will introduce him to all the pleasures, pains and perplexities of first love. A unique, enchanting and complicated coming-of-age story about the passion between two young boys, In the Making is widely hailed as G. F.

Since its original publication in 1936, Gone With the Wind—winner of the Pulitzer Prize and one of the bestselling novels of all time—has been heralded by readers everywhere as the great American novel. Widely considered the great American novel, and often remembered for its epic film version, Gone With the Wind explores the depth of human passions with an intensity as bold as its setting in the red hills of Georgia. A superb piece of storytelling, it vividly depicts the drama of the Civil War and Reconstruction.

Marcel Pagnol Jean de Florette Au village des Bastides Blanches, on hait ceux de Crespin. C'est pourquoi lorsque Jean Cadoret, le Bossu, s'installe à la ferme des Romarins, on ne lui parle pas de la source cachée. Ce qui facilite les manœuvres des Soubeyran, le Papet et son neveu Ugolin, qui veulent lui racheter son domaine à bas prix... Jean de Florette (1962), premier volume de L'Eau des collines, marque, trente ans après Pirouettes, le retour de Pagnol au roman. C'est l'épopée de l'eau nourricière sans laquelle rien n'est possible.

En plein cœur des révolutions des années 1840, à Paris, le jeune Frédéric Moreau, à dix-huit ans, ne pense qu'à sa bien-aimée, Madame Arnoux. Mais que faire lorsque celle pour qui l'on vit est inaccessible ? Que faire lorsqu'elle est l'épouse du directeur d'un grand quotidien et une mère de famille dévouée ? Frédéric sent sa passion se faner, et l'argent vient à manquer. Alors, pour se consoler, il s'enivre d'une autre, Rosanette ; mais chaque fois une irrépressible pensée le renvoie à celle qui le fait rêver...

« La Chute » est un roman d'Albert Camus publié à Paris chez Gallimard en 1956, découpé en six parties non numérotées. Camus y écrit la confession d'un homme à un autre, rencontré dans un bar d'Amsterdam. Le roman devait primitivement être intégré au recueil « L'Exil et le Royaume » qui sera publié en 1957 et qui constitue la dernière œuvre « littéraire » publiée par Camus. La particularité de ce roman tient au fait que l'homme qui se confesse est le seul à parler, durant tout l'ouvrage.

Marcel Pagnol La Gloire de mon père Un petit Marseillais d'il y a un siècle : l'école primaire ; le cocon familial ; les premières vacances dans les collines, à La Treille ; la première chasse avec son père... La Gloire de mon père, dès sa parution, en 1957, est salué comme marquant l'avènement d'un grand prosateur. Joseph, le père instituteur, Augustine, la timide maman, l'oncle Jules, la tante Rose, le petit frère Paul, deviennent immédiatement aussi populaires que Marius, César ou Panisse.