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« La Peste » est un roman d'Albert Camus publié en 1947 qui permit en partie à son auteur de remporter le prix Nobel en 1957. Il appartient au cycle de la révolte qui rassemble trois œuvres de Camus : La Peste, L'Homme révolté et Les Justes. L'histoire se déroule dans les années 1940. Elle a pour théâtre Oran durant la période de l'Algérie française. Le roman raconte sous forme de chronique la vie quotidienne des habitants pendant une épidémie de peste qui frappe la ville et la coupe du monde extérieur.

Marcel Pagnol Le Château de ma mère Le plus beau livre sur l'amitié enfantine : un matin de chasse dans les collines, Marcel rencontre le petit paysan, Lili des Bellons. Ses vacances et sa vie entière en seront illuminées. Un an après La Gloire de mon père, Marcel Pagnol pensait conclure ses Souvenirs d'enfance avec ce Château de ma mère (1958), deuxième volet de ce qu'il considérait comme un diptyque, s'achevant sur la scène célèbre du féroce gardien effrayant la timide Augustine.

Dans une pension parisienne sordide sont réunies des personnes que rien ne semble lier : le jeune étudiant Rastignac qui ne cherche qu'à intégrer la haute société, le Père Goriot maintenant ruiné et le mystérieux Vautrin qui cache son passé. À travers ces personnages, Balzac tisse une vision réaliste de son époque et analyse la relation entre l'homme et l'argent. Ce roman a été adapté en bande dessinée par Philippe Thirault et Thierry Lamy (2009) et en téléfilm par Jean-Daniel Verhaeghe (2004), avec Charles Aznavour.

With ravishing beauty and unsettling intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an Italian villa at the end of World War II. Hana, the exhausted nurse; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the wary sapper, Kip: each is haunted by the riddle of the English patient, the nameless, burned man who lies in an upstairs room and whose memories of passion, betrayal, and rescue illuminate this book like flashes of heat lightning.

Featuring the character that inspired the AMC series Monsieur Spade starring Clive Owen. One of Time Magazine's 100 Best Mystery and Thriller Books of All Time. Detective Sam Spade is a private eye with his own solitary code of ethics. When his partner is killed during a stakeout, he is drawn into the hunt for a fantastic treasure with a dubious provenance—a golden bird encrusted with jewels.

An American classic and the inspiration for the Emmy Award-winning Netflix series. It's here, in the first volume of Patricia Highsmith's five-book Ripley series, that we are introduced to the suave Tom Ripley, a young striver seeking to leave behind his past as an orphan bullied for being a "sissy." Newly arrived in the heady world of Manhattan, Ripley meets a wealthy industrialist who hires him to bring his playboy son, Dickie Greenleaf, back from gallivanting in Italy.

Dashiell Hammett's classic The Thin Man introduced the world to Nick and Nora Charles, further made famous by the popular Thin Man films. With a new introduction by Denise Mina. Nick Charles seems to find trouble wherever he goes. He thinks his sleuthing days are behind him when Julia Wolf, a former acquaintance, turns up dead. Nick—thanks to some persuasion from his enchanting wife, Nora—finds himself falling back into old habits and making a few polite inquiries. The prime suspect, Julia’s lover and boss Clyde Miller Wynant, has vanished without a trace.

The Woman in White is credited with being the first of the sensation novels and one of the finest examples of the genre. A young woman's husband defrauds her of her fortune, her identity, and eventually her sanity. She is saved by her sister and a loyal man who loves her, and her two rescuers attempt to expose her husband. They meet a woman dressed all in white whose fate seems curiously intertwined with that of the young woman. In the tradition of the sensation novel, the story contravenes boundaries of class, identity, and the private and public spheres.

Kazuo Ishiguro's Booker Prize-winning masterpiece became an international bestseller on publication, was adapted into an award-winning film, and has since come to be regarded as a modern classic.   The Remains of the Day is a spellbinding portrayal of a vanished way of life and a haunting meditation on the high cost of duty.

A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick One of the most famous and beloved mysteries from the queen of suspense, Agatha Christie! More than 100 million copies sold and now a Lifetime TV movie. Ten people, each with something to hide and something to fear, are invited to a isolated mansion on Indian Island by a host who, surprisingly, fails to appear. On the island they are cut off from everything but each other and the inescapable shadows of their own past lives. One by one, the guests share the darkest secrets of their wicked pasts. And one by one, they die...