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En 1818, l 'auteur de ce livre avait seize ans et il paria qu'il écrirait un volume en quinze jours. Il fit Bug-Jargal. C'est un roman d'aventures décrivant les péripéties de Léopold d'Auvernay, jeune officier de l'armée française, qui part pour Saint-Domingue, colonie française à l'époque, pour retrouver sa promise, fille d'un colon français, et l'épouser. Cependant la veille de son mariage les esclaves, menés par le mystérieux Bug-Jargal, se révoltent contre la domination des colons, et sa future épouse se fait enlever par un esclave, de qui Léopold pensait être l'ami. Commence ensuite pour Léopold une course-poursuite à travers l'île pour retrouver sa bien-aimée et pour assouvir sa vengeance…

First English translation of an amazing debut novella by a major and incredibly prolific Japanese author.Bullfight is a Japanese modern classic, a tense story about post-war Japan and its people struggling to come to terms with a new epoch — available now in English for the first time. Three years after the end of the Second World War, Tsugami, the editor-in-chief of a newspaper, decides to organize a bullfight. But things are not as simple as Tsugami assumes: there are all kinds of logistical problems to overcome, and he has to go into an unwelcome alliance with a shady businessman. Tsugami's private life is also difficult, and as the bullfight approaches he must decide whether or not to remain with his lover Sakiko. .Bullfight won the prestigious Akutagawa Prize in 1949, and Yasushi Inoue was consequently assured a place in the Japanese canon. This novel is translated by Michael Emmerich, who has translated much Japanese literature, including Hiromi Kawakami and Banana Yoshimoto. Pushkin Press will be publishing further works by Inoue, including the epistolary novel The Hunting Gun and the story collection The Counterfeiter.Contains a previously unpublished preface by Inoue himself.

Set in the days of the Empire, with the British ruling in Burma, Burmese Days describes both indigenous corruption and Imperial bigotry, when ‘after all, natives were natives ? interesting, no doubt, but finally only a subject people, an inferior people with black faces’. Against the prevailing orthodoxy, Flory, a white timber merchant, befriends Dr Veraswami, a black enthusiast for Empire. The doctor needs help. U Po Kyin, sub-divisional Magistrate of Kyauktada, is plotting his downfall. The only thing that can save him is European patronage: membership of the hitherto all-white Club. While Flory prevaricates, beautiful Elizabeth Lackersteen arrives in Upper Burma from Paris. At last, after years of ‘solitary hell’, romance and marriage appear to offer Flory an escape from the ‘lie’ of the ‘pukka sahib pose’.

Burning Daylight is a novel by Jack London, published in 1910, which was one of the best-selling books of that year and it was London's best-selling book in his lifetime. The novel takes place in the Yukon Territory in 1893. The main character, nicknamed "Burning Daylight" was the most successful entrepreneur of the Alaskan Gold Rush. The story of the main character was partially based upon the life of Oakland entrepreneur "Borax" Smith.

У комедiï "Сто тисяч" викривається патологiчна зажерливiсть багатiя Герасима Калитки, який добре розумiє, що його багатство створюється працею наймитiв, ïх нещадною експлуатацiєю, проте шкодує для них поживноï страви, навiть шматка хлiба.

Альфред Андерш (1914 — 1980) занимает видное место среди тех писателей ФРГ для которых преодоление прошлого, искоренение нацизма всегда было главной общественной и творческой задачей. В том его избранных произведений вошли последний роман «Винтерспельт», в котором выражен объективный взгляд на историю, на войну, показана обреченность фашизма, социальная и моральная повесть «Отец убийцы, (1980), которую можно назвать литературным, духовным и политическим завещанием писателя, и рассказы разных лет.

When a young man goes from the demands and rigors of the army to a luxurious and serene country living, his mind is bound to wander where it should t. Such is the fate of Alexei Alexeyevich Fedyashev, who becomes so absorbed in his newfound idleness that he falls in love with an old portrait. When the famous conjurer and medium Count Cagliostro accidentally ends up at Fedyashev's escape, the young man begs him to bring his dream to reality. Be careful what you wish for, is the lesson young Alexei has yet to learn...

When Henry Roth published Call It Sleep, his first novel, in 1934, it was greeted with critical acclaim. But in that dark Depression year, books were hard to sell, and the novel quickly dropped out of sight, as did its twenty-eight-year-old author. Only with its paperback publication in 1964 did the novel receive the recognition it deserves. Call It Sleep was the first paperback ever to be reviewed on the front page of The New York Times Book Review, and it proceeded to sell millions of copies both in the United States and around the world.Call It Sleep is the magnificent story of David Schearl, the “dangerously imaginative” child coming of age in the slums of New York.

"A breakthrough in prose and poetical writing…This book should be on all readers' and writers' desks and in their minds." — Maya AngelouFirst published in 1923, Jean Toomer's Cane is an innovative literary work-part drama, part poetry, part fiction-powerfully evoking black life in the South. Rich in imagery, Toomer's impressionistic, sometimes surrealistic sketches of Southern rural and urban life are permeated by visions of smoke, sugarcane, dusk, and fire; the northern world is pictured as a harsher reality of asphalt streets. This iconic work of American literature is published with a new afterword by Rudolph Byrd of Emory University and Henry Louis Gates Jr. of Harvard University, who provide groundbreaking biographical information on Toomer, place his writing within the context of American modernism and the Harlem Renaissance, and examine his shifting claims about his own race and his pioneering critique of race as a scientific or biological concept.

"Capitães da Areia" é um romance de autoria do escritor brasileiro Jorge Amado, publicado em 1937. O livro retrata a vida de um grupo de menores abandonados, chamados de "Capitães da Areia", ambientado na cidade de Salvador dos anos 1930.

Un honnête garçon qui sert comme brigadier dans un régiment de dragons à Séville tombe amoureux de la gitane Carmen. Celle-ci lui ayant préféré un certain Lucas, rencontré lors d'un combat de taureau, il va, par amour pour elle, commettre le pire.

Recit des amours tragiques de Don José Lizarrabengoa, jeune homme basque, brigadier de cavalerie et de Carmen, belle bohémienne, sensuelle et manipulatrice, dont la soif de liberté entrainera leur fin dramatique.Texte intégral.