Que signifie ce nom "Candide" : innocence de celui qui ne connaît pas le mal ou illusion du naïf qui n'a pas fait l'expérience du monde ? Voltaire joue en 1759, après le tremblement de terre de Lisbonne, sur ce double sens. Il nous fait partager les épreuves fictives d'un jeune homme simple, confronté aux leurres de l'optimisme, mais qui n'entend pas désespérer et qui en vient à une sagesse finale, mesurée et mystérieuse. Candide n'en a pas fini de nous inviter au gai savoir et à ...

When David meets the sensual Giovanni in a bohemian bar, he is swept into a passionate love affair. But his girlfriend's return to Paris destroys everything. Unable to admit to the truth, David pretends the liaison never happened - while Giovanni's life descends into tragedy. This book introduces love's fascinating possibilities and extremities.

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize Named 'one of the greatest novels of all time' by the ObserverWith a new introduction by Amanda CraigFreda and Brenda are friends spending their days in an Italian-run wine-bottling factory in North London. When a works outing materialises it offers promise for Freda, but terror for Brenda. Unexpected passions run high on the chilly day of liberty and their lives are never the same again.

Beryl Bainbridge dazzles readers in this offbeat, haunting yet hilarious...

With an Introduction and Notes by Merry M. Pawlowski, Professor and Chair, Department of English, California State University,Bakersfield. Virginia Woolf's singular technique in Mrs Dalloway heralds a break with the traditional novel form and reflects a genuine humanity and a concern with the experiences that both enrich and stultify existence.

Society hostess, Clarissa Dalloway is giving a party. Her thoughts and sensations on that one day, and the interior monologues of others whose lives a...

Le Mariage de Figaro connut en 1784 un triomphe sans précédent. Figaro, valet frondeur qui entend se marier avec Suzanne, y défie son maître Almaviva, qui essaie de son côté par tous les moyens d’obtenir les faveurs de sa fiancée. Cette comédie allègre souleva l’indignation mais aussi l’enthousiasme. Car jamais auparavant on n’avait traité si hardiment des grands, de leurs mœurs et de leurs privilèges ; mais jamais non plus on n’avait si subtilement dépeint la course au...

Engaging, authoritative, and affordably priced, The Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms is a comprehensive reference that clearly and accessibly defines hundreds of important literary and critical terms from classical times to the present, making them real and relevant to twenty-first century students through examples drawn from contemporary literary and popular culture.

Le jeune prince de Motordu habite un magnifique chapeau. Avec ses coussins, il y joue aux tartes dans la grande salle à danger. Un jour, une jeune institutrice, la princesse Dézécolle, l'invite à retourner en classe pour remettre le langage à l'endroit. Dès 4 ans.

Cal has very few choices in life. He can continue working at the abattoir that sickens him, or join the ranks of the unemployed. He can brood on his past or try to plan a future with Marcella.

Cal is a haunting love story set against the fear and violence of Ulster, where tenderness and innocence must struggle to survive.

One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World''The best-loved book by our best-loved novelist' IndependentWith its 'light and bright and sparkling' dialogue, its romantic denouement and its lively heroine, Pride and Prejudice is Jane Austen's most perennially popular novel. The love story of Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy, who misjudge, then challenge and change each other, is also a novel about the search for happiness and self- knowledge in a world of strict social rules, where...

The Student's Book takes students from the traditional practice of grammar forms through to topic-based practice exercises. Grammar is clearing presented and explained at each level with review sections assessing student understanding and providing extra practice. The CD-ROM contains a glossary, extra practice for each unit and printable tests.