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Rosencrantz and
Guildenstern Are
Dead is an absur-
dist, existentialist
tragicomedy. The
play concerns the
misadventures and
musings of Rosen-
crantz and Guil-
denstern, two mi-
nor characters
from William Sha-
kespeare's Hamlet
who are childhood
friends of the
prince, focusing on
their actions with
the events of Ha-
mlet as back-
ground.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are
dead, Tom Stoppard
Julian, a recent
college graduate,
prepares to es-
cort his mother
to her weekly
weight-loss class
at the YMCA,
which she at-
tends to reduce
her high blood
pressure. He es-
corts her there
every week be-
cause she has re-
fused to take the
bus alone since
integration. Ju-
lian imagines mo-
ving to a house in
the country. He
declares that he
will one day make
money, even
though he knows
he never really
will. His mother
encourages him
to dream, saying
that it will take
time to establish
himself.
Nouveautés
Littérature anglophone rentrée 2012
Everything that rises must converge,
Flannary O'Connor
Lycée Marguer i t e de Navar re
Octobre-novembre
2012
Année 2012-2013
Orin, and Electra is his
daughter Lavinia. As an upda-
ted Greek tragedy, the play
features murder, adultery,
incestuous love and revenge.
The story is an update of
the Greek myth of Orestes
to the family of a Northern
general in the American Civil
War. Agamemnon is now Ge-
neral Ezra Mannon, Clytem-
nestra is his second wife
Christine, Orestes is his son
Angela Carter's salacious interpretation of the
folktale Bluebeard follows a young girl entering
into the bonds of marriage to the richest man in
France. Unfortunately, this fairytale has a sobe-
ring reality as she discovers her new husband's
secret sadism. She must struggle to overcome
her new understanding of the world's hidden
sexuality. This performance fuses musical, thea-
trical and creative talents with a stunning use of
physical theatre to represent the arduous jour-
ney of the familiar young heroine.
The bloody chamber and others stories, Angela Carter
The black cat and others stories, Edgar Allan Poe
Mourning becomes Electra, Eugène
O’Neill
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"The Black Cat" is one of Edgar Allan
Poe's most memorable stories. The tale
centers around a black cat and the sub-
sequent deterioration of a man.
sa montre à un énorme ca-
dran : peut-être lui suggé-
rer de la porter en guise
de ceinture ».
Version moderne du roman
d'Oscar Wilde :
"Le portrait de Dorian
Gray"
La rencontre entre un
homme et une femme est
toujours quelque chose
d’intense. Mais ce qui s’y
pense est encore plus no-
table : « Je me rappelle
avoir voulu faire quelque
chose en voyant à nouveau
Contents : Strangers on a
train, Early stories , A
mighty Nice Man, The still
point of the turning world,
Where the door is always
open and the welcome Mat
is out, Quiet night, In the
plaza, The great Card-
house, The baby phone,
The price of salt, Aona,
the jolly cave woman, Two
disagreeable pigeons, Not
one of us, Woodrow wilso-
n's necktie, The terrors of
basket weaving, The trou-
ble with Mrs blynns, the
trouble with the world
Selected novels and short stories, Patricia Highsmith
Dorian an imitation, Will Dorian
For Esmé with love and squalor, Jerome David Salinger
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Le drame débute lorsque le
père de Pi, de son vrai nom
Piscine Molitor, décide de
s'établir au Canada avec sa
famille et quelques ani-
maux qui feront partie de
son zoo. Pour le malheur de
Pi, le navire coule et il est
le seul rescapé humain qui
a trouvé refuge dans un
canot de sauvetage. Les
autres rescapés sont un
orang-outan, une hyène, un
zèbre et un tigre royal du
Bengale. S'ensuivra une
lutte pour la survie dans sa
forme la plus primitive, car
Pi doit non seulement subir
la faim, la soif et les élé-
ments, mais doit aussi as-
surer sa survie face à un
prédateur féroce.
In this volume you will find the
following stories : To The Man
On The Trail, The White Si-
lence, In A Far Country, The
Wisdom Of The Trail, An Odys-
sey Of The North, The Law Of
Life, The God Of His Fathers,
B'tard, The League Of The Old
Men, Love Of Life, The Wit Of
Porportuk, To Build A Fire, All
Gold Canyon, The Apostate,
South Of The Slot, The China-
go, A Piece Of Steak, Mauki,
Koolau The Leper, The Strength
Of The Strong, War, The Mexi-
can, Told In The Drooling Ward,
The Water Baby, and The Red
One.
High in the Spanish Sierra,
a guerrilla band prepares
to blow up a vital bridge.
Robert Jordan, a young
American, has been sent to
handle the dynamiting.
There he finds the intense
comradeship of war. And
there he finds Maria who
has escaped from Franco’s
rebels.
Life of Pi, Yann Martel
To build a fire and other stories, Jack London
For whom the bell tolls, Ernest Hemingway
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truit une cabane et orga-
n ise son existence
seul...jusqu'au jour où il
rencontre Vendredi...
On Christmas Eve, young Pip,
an orphan being raised by his
sister and her husband, en-
counters a frightening man in
the village churchyard. The
man, a convict who has esca-
ped from a prison ship, sca-
res Pip into stealing him some
food and a file to grind away
his leg shackle. This incident
is crucial: firstly, it gives Pip,
who must steal the goods
from his sister's house, his
first taste of true guilt, and,
secondly, Pip's kindness
warms the convict's heart.
Seul survivant après le
naufrage du vaisseau sur
lequel il a embarqué, il
échoue sur une île déserte.
Après avoir emporté de
l'épave les armes et les
outils qui peuvent lui être
nécessaires, iI se cons-
Il raconte la vie de Bridget
Jones, une célibataire
trentenaire vivant à Lon-
dres et travaillant dans
l'édition. Elle se bat avec
souvent beaucoup d'hu-
mour pour donner un sens à
sa vie dans le contexte des
années 1990, et à ses
aventures amoureuses avec
son patron Daniel Cleaver
puis avec l’avocat spécia-
liste des droits de
l'homme, Mark Darcy.
Bridget Jones's diary, Helen Fielding
Great expectations, Charles Dickens
Robinson Crusoé, Daniel Defoe
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Liste officielle
Anglais renforcé
Mmes Francesh et
Chambalu
without her. As he grows
older, he defends her
against his father's occasio-
nal violence. Eventually, he
leaves their Nottinghams-
hire home for a job in Lon-
don, where he begins to rise
up into the middle class. He
is engaged, but he detests
the girl's superficiality.
The refined daughter of a
"good old burgher family,"
Gertrude Coppard meets a
rough-hewn miner at a
Christmas dance and falls
into a whirlwind romance
characterized by physical
passion. But soon after her
marriage to Walter Morel,
she realizes the diffi-
culties of living off his
meagre salary in a rented
house. The couple fight
and drift apart and Walter
retreats to the pub after
work each day. Gradually,
Mrs. Morel's affections
shift to her sons beginning
with the oldest, William.
As a boy, William is so at-
tached to his mother that
he doesn't enjoy the fair
An Ideal Husband opens du-
ring a dinner party at the
home of Sir Robert Chiltern
in London's fashionable Gros-
venor Square. Sir Robert, a
prestigious member of the
House of Commons, and his
wife, Lady Chiltern, are hos-
ting a gathering that includes
his friend Lord Goring, a dan-
dified bachelor and close
friend to the Chilterns, his
sister Mabel Chiltern, and
other genteel guests.
The stories were written
when Irish nationalism was at
its peak, and a search for a
national identity and purpose
was raging ; at a crossroads
of history and culture, Ire-
land was jolted by various
converging ideas and influen-
ces. They centre on Joyce's
idea of an epiphany: a mo-
ment where a character ex-
periences self-understanding
or illumination. Many of the
characters in Dubliners later
appear in minor roles in
Joyce's novel Ulysses.
Sons and lovers, David herbert Lauwrence
An ideal husband, Oscar Wilde
Dubliners, James Joyce
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who lives in the remote
moorland farmhouse called
"Wuthering Heights."
The curious tale of a man
who begins his life as an
apparent septuagenarian
and grows younger every
year much to the bewilder-
ment and consternation of
he and his family.
In 1801, Mr. Lockwood, a
rich man from the south of
England, rents Thrush-
cross Grange in the north
of England for peace and
recuperation. Soon after
his arrival, he visits his
landlord, Mr. Heathcliff,
Alice is feeling bored while
sitting on the riverbank with
her sister, when she notices
a talking, clothed White Rab-
bit with a pocket watch run
past. She follows it down a
rabbit hole when suddenly
she falls a long way to a
curious hall with many locked
doors of all sizes. She finds a
small key to a door too small
for her to fit through, but
through it she sees an at-
tractive garden. She then
discovers a bottle on a table
labelled "DRINK ME", the
contents of which cause her
to shrink too small to reach
the key which she has left on
the table. A cake with "EAT
ME" on it causes her to grow
to such a tremendous size
her head hits the ceiling.
Alice's adventures in Wonderland - Through the looking-glass,
Carroll Lewis
The curius case ok Benjamin Button, Francis Scott Key
Fitzgerald
Wuthering heights, Emily Brontë
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others (but most of all, her-
self) from her reality, and an
attempt to make herself still
attractive to new male sui-
tors.
In autumn 1943, the unnamed
narrator becomes friends
with Holly Golightly, who
calls him "Fred", after her
older brother. The two are
both tenants in a brownstone
apartment in Manhattan's
Upper East Side. Holly (age
18-19) is a country girl tur-
ned New York café society
girl. As such, she has no job
and lives by socializing with
wealthy men, who take her to
clubs and restaurants, and
give her money and expensive
presents.
The play presents Blanche
DuBois, a fading but still-
attractive Southern belle
whose pretensions to virtue
and culture only thinly mask
alcoholism and delusions of
grandeur. Her poise is an illu-
sion she presents to shield
Willy Loman returns home
exhausted after a cancelled
business trip. Worried over
Willy's state of mind and re-
cent car "crash," his wife
Linda suggests that he ask
his boss Howard Wagner to
allow him to work in his home
city so he will not have to
travel. Willy complains to Lin-
da that their son, Biff, has
yet to make good on his life.
Despite Biff's promise as an
athlete in high school, he
flunked senior year math and
never went to college.Biff
and his brother, Happy, who
is also visiting, reminisce
about their childhood toge-
ther.
Death of a Salesman - Certain private conversations in two acts
and a requiem, Artur Miller
Breakfast in Tiffany's, Truman Capote
A streetcar named desire, Tennesse Williams
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"Souls Belated" a tragedy
of mores, focuses on cha-
racters overcome by the
demands of convention,
while "The Pelican" and
The muse's tragedy" both
present women whose rea-
lities differ from their pu-
blic personae. "Expiation"
is a satiric, revealing story
about the publishing indus-
try, featuring a writer de-
termined to increase the
sales of her first novel.
A Haunted House is story with mea-
ning, by portraying to us the treasure
of life. When two ghosts are sear-
ching through their old house,looking
for their "Treasure", the treasure or
meaning is revealed to us.
Short Stories, Edith Wharton
A Haunted House and other short stories, Virginia Woolf
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"The Tell-Tale Heart" is a story written by Edgar Allan
Poe and first published in 1843. The narrator, the mur-
derer, tells the story of when he murdered an old man
with a "vulture eye", and insists that he is not insane,
not mad.
Sethe et sa fille Denver essayent de reconstruire
leur vie après avoir échappé à l'esclavage. Un jour
une jeune fille se présente à leur porte, elle prétend
s'appeler Beloved, or Beloved est la seule inscription
sur la tombe du bébé que Sethe a tué des années au-
paravant, afin de lui épargner une vie d'esclavage
The Tell-tale heart and others stories, Edgar Allan Poe
Beloved, Toni Morrisson
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Mr Loveday's little outind and
other early stories, Evelyn
Waugh In this unique collection of Waugh's early short stories,
some of which became the inspirations for his novels,
Waugh displays his unique talent for comedy and narration.
'Mr Loveday's Little Outing' is a blackly comic tale of a
mental asylum and its favourite resident, while 'Cruise'
sees a hilarious series of letters from a nave young woman
as she travels with her family. These witty and immacula-
tely crafted stories display the finest writing of a master
of satire and comic twists.