When Adela Quested and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, they quickly feel trapped by its insular and prejudiced 'Anglo-Indian' community. Determined to escape the parochial English enclave and explore the 'real India', they seek the guidance of the charming and mercurial Dr Aziz, a cultivated Indian Muslim. But a mysterious incident occurs while they are exploring the Marabar caves with Aziz, and the well-respected doctor soon finds himself at the centre of a scandal that rouses violent passions among both the British and their Indian subjects. A masterful portrait of a society in the grip of imperialism, A Passage to India compellingly depicts the fate of individuals caught between the great political and cultural conflicts of the modern world. In his introduction, Pankaj Mishra outlines Forster's complex engagement with Indian society and culture. This edition reproduces the Abinger text and notes, and also includes four of Forster's essays on India, a chronology and further reading.

When Adela Quested and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, they quickly feel trapped by its insular and prejudiced 'Anglo-Indian' community. Determined to escape the parochial English enclave and explore the 'real India', they seek the guidance of the charming and mercurial Dr Aziz, a cultivated Indian Muslim. But a mysterious incident occurs while they are exploring the Marabar caves with Aziz, and the well-respected doctor soon finds himself at the centre of a scandal that rouses violent passions among both the British and their Indian subjects. A masterful portrait of a society in the grip of imperialism, A Passage to India compellingly depicts the fate of individuals caught between the great political and cultural conflicts of the modern world. In his introduction, Pankaj Mishra outlines Forster's complex engagement with Indian society and culture. This edition reproduces the Abinger text and notes, and also includes four of Forster's essays on India, a chronology and further reading.

Toujours en quête d'aventures extravagantes, le prince Florizel et son compagnon, le colonel Geraldine, rencontrent un soir un étrange jeune homme qui les convie à une soirée du Club du suicide. Les deux amis découvrent avec horreur et fascination un diabolique jeu de cartes où le seul gain est la mort... Une histoire aussi inquiétante qu'ironique par l'auteur de L'étrange cas du Dr Jeckyll et M. Hyde.

Toujours en quête d'aventures extravagantes, le prince Florizel et son compagnon, le colonel Geraldine, rencontrent un soir un étrange jeune homme qui les convie à une soirée du Club du suicide. Les deux amis découvrent avec horreur et fascination un diabolique jeu de cartes où le seul gain est la mort... Une histoire aussi inquiétante qu'ironique par l'auteur de L'étrange cas du Dr Jeckyll et M. Hyde.

Cette nouvelle édition de Faërie contient - outre « Du conte de fées », où Tolkien expose sa conception du merveilleux, les trois nouvelles Feuille, de Niggle, Le Fermier Gilles de Ham et Smith de Grand Wootton ainsi qu’une introduction de Christopher Tolkien - des textes de J.R.R. Tolkien réunis pour la première fois : « Le Retour de Beorhtnoth », dialogue (encore inédit en français) sur la guerre et l'héroïsme, dans la lignée de la poésie anglaise médiévale, accompagné de réflexions de Tolkien qui font écho au Seigneur des Anneaux ; « Mythopoeia », véritable art poétique et texte fondamental pour comprendre Tolkien ; enfin, une traduction révisée des Aventures de Tom Bombadil (accompagnée du texte anglais), précédée d’une importante introduction de J.R.R. Tolkien, qui intègre ce recueil dans le cycle de la Terre du Milieu.

This classic vampire story has inspired generations of authors, from Bram Stoker to Charlaine Harris. A young English gentleman of means, Aubrey is immediately intrigued by Lord Ruthven, the mysterious newcomer among society’s elite. His unknown origin and curious behavior tantalizes Aubrey’s imagination. But the young man soon discovers a sinister character hidden behind his new friend’s glamorous facade.   When the two are set upon by bandits while traveling together in Europe, Ruthven is fatally injured. Before drawing his last breath, he makes the odd request that Aubrey keep his death and crimes secret for a year and a day. But when Ruthven resurfaces in London—making overtures toward Aubrey’s sister—Aubrey realizes this immortal fiend is a vampyre.   John William Polidori’s The Vampyre is both a classic tale of gothic horror and the progenitor of the modern romantic vampire myth that has been fodder for artists ranging from Anne Rice to Alan Ball to Francis Ford Coppola. Originally published in 1819, many decades before Bram Stoker’s Dracula, and misattributed to Polidori’s friend Lord Byron, The Vampyre has kept readers up at night for nearly two hundred years.