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One very ordinary day, Maya Flowers sees a new commuter board her train. Maya knows immediately and irrevocably that he is 'the one'. But the beautiful man on the train always has his head in a book and never seems to notice Maya. Eventually she plucks up the courage to give the stranger a note asking him out for a drink. And so begins a story of missed opportunities and finding happiness where you least expect it.

L'empereur de Chine, qui ne quitte jamais les limites de son palais, ignore qu'il existe un peu plus loin, au-delà de ses jardins maniérés, des lacs profonds et des bois touffus que les gens du peuple connaissent bien.

"Des histoires comme ça" sont des histoires destinées aux enfants. Elles font partie des œuvres de Kipling les plus connues. De nombreuses histoires sont adressées à sa "mieux-aimée" car elles furent d'abord écrites pour la fille de Kipling, Joséphine... L'imaginaire côtoie l'insolite, pour le plus grand bonheur des enfants, qui trouveront ici matière à rêver, à penser, à questionner. On apprend enfin pourquoi le chameau n'a qu'une bosse, pourquoi le léopard a des tâches, et bien d'autres inventions poétiques toutes aussi fantaisistes.

Le jour de son anniversaire, un petit garçon reçut une boîte de 25 soldats de plomb. L'un d'entre eux était un peu différent des autres car il n'avait qu'une seule jambe. Les soldats furent rangés sur une table, où il y avait beaucoup d'autres jouets. Le soldat de plomb qui n'avait qu'une jambe remarqua parmi eux une danseuse, qui se tenait gracieusement sur une seule jambe, et la croyant unijambiste comme lui, il pensa que ce jouet lui ferait une femme merveilleuse.

Jane Eyre, the plain yet spirited governess, introduced a new kind of heroine in literature - one whose virtuous integrity, sharp intellect, and tireless perseverance broke through class barriers to win equal stature with the man she loved. Orphaned and subjected to cruelty at Lowood charity school, Jane nonetheless emerges unbroken in spirit and integrity. The story of how Jane becomes governess at Thornfield Hall, meets and loves Mr. Rochester, and discovers the impediment to their lawful marriage transcends melodrama.

Winner of the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2008, The Road Home is the best-selling story of Lev, a middle-aged migrant from Eastern Europe, who moves to London in search of work after losing his wife and job. Lev's London is awash with money, celebrity and complacency. The world Tremain creates is both convincing and poignant.

"I have been acquainted with the smell of death." So begins Clytemnestra's tale of her own life in ancient Mycenae, the legendary Greek city from which her husband, King Agamemnon, left when he set sail with his army for Troy. Clytemnestra rules Mycenae now, along with her new lover, Aegisthus, and together they plot the bloody murder of Agamemnon on the day of his return after nine years at war.

One of Katherine Mansfield's finest short stories, "Bliss" introduces us to Bertha, who experiences a sense of rapture as she reflects on her life. On her walk home one day, she is overwhelmed by a sense of bliss and contentment. However, her joy later turns to disappointment as she discovers her husband is having an affair with her new friend Pearl.

Rosie's always wanted a dog, and now the time is right, so she heads for her local rescue center. She meets Scruffy there and decides he's the perfect dog for her. But things aren't that straightforward - he's only just been brought in, and the shelter must try to find his owners before attempting to re-home him. A few weeks later, Rosie's patience is rewarded, and she's allowed to adopt Scruffy. But it soon becomes apparent that things aren't quite what they seem. How will Rosie react when she discovers there's more to her new pet than meets the eye?

London, 1938: Lizzie Larch is a 20-year-old hat maker in London's east end. She is happy and popular, but she carries a secret. Seven years ago she was viciously attacked and recovered in a private sanatorium where she miscarried a child. Lizzie has no memory of the night of the attack, but secrets cannot stay secret for too long. When she starts courting her boss' nephew, a shocking revelation surfaces; threatening to destroy their new-found happiness.

Even though Joyce Weaver always thought she was very open-minded about sex, to the point of telling her husband he could have sex with other women, should the opportunity arise, she was totally unprepared when that opportunity actually did arise, not only for him, but for her, too!

When Mrs. Dashwood is forced by an avaricious daughter-in-law to leave the family home in Sussex, she takes her three daughters to live in a modest cottage in Devon. For Elinor, the eldest daughter, the move means a painful separation from the man she loves, but her sister Marianne finds in Devon the romance and excitement which she longs for. The contrasting fortunes and temperaments of the two girls are portrayed by Jane Austen with her usual irony, humor, and profound sensitivity.

Découvrez les 15 plus beaux contes pour enfants, classiques, indispensables et indémodables, qui raviront petits et grands. Près de 3 heures d'écoute de nouveaux enregistrements des contes de Charles Perrault, Jean de La Fontaine, des frères Grimm et de Hans Christian Andersen : Barbe bleue, Cendrillon, La belle au bois dormant, Le petit poucet, Le petit chaperon rouge, Le chat botté, La petite fille aux allumettes, Hans le Balourd, La malle volante, Le crapaud, Le vilain petit canard, Le chêne et le roseau, Les 3 petits cochons, Le loup et les 7 chevreaux, Tom Pouce.

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Noonday by Pat Barker, read by Juliet Stevenson, Stephen Boxer, John Sackville, Anne Reid & Finlay Robertson. London, the Blitz, autumn 1940. Ambulance drivers Elinor Brooke and Kit Neville ferry injured survivors from bomb sites to hospitals while Elinor's husband, Paul, works as an air-raid warden.

April 1951. It is twenty years since the death of Rebecca, the beautiful first wife of Maxim de Winter. It is twenty years since the inquest, which famously - and controversially - passed a verdict of suicide. Twenty years since Manderley, the de Winters' ancient family seat, was razed to the ground. But Rebecca's tale is just beginning... This is Sally Beauman's companion to Daphne du Maurier's classic tale, Rebecca.

The Girls of Slender Means is the third Muriel Spark audio release of 2012, following The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and The Complete Short Stories. It is 1945; a time of cultural and political change, and also one of slender means. Spark's evocative and sharply drawn novel focuses on a group of women living together in a hostel in Kensington who face new challenges in uncertain times. The novel is at once dramatic and character-based, and shows Muriel Spark at the height of her literary powers.

In Joy's continuing journey of discovery, she finds that the more open she is to sex with other women, the more opportunities that present themselves. She delights in the warm, sensual softness of other women’s bodies and finds herself just as eager to please her female partners as they are to please her. It was also clear to her that, in the swinging lifestyle, which she has totally embraced, women enjoying women is not only accepted, but encouraged.

Based on a true story, The Less You Know the Sounder You Sleep is a tale of survival and self-determination, innocence and lies. 'We're waiting. I squeeze my eyes shut and dig my fingers into Masha's neck where I'm holding her. She digs hers into mine. The curtains slowly open. I can't see anything because the spotlight is on us, bright as anything and blinding me, but I can hear the gasp go up. They always gasp.'

Lucy Honeychurch, accompanied by her vigilant guardian, Charlotte Bartlett, makes her first foray into the world, touring Italy and discovering a country very different to the English countryside she was brought up in.

"L'enjeu du long périple de Charles Juliet se situe hors de la littérature : il s'agit d'atteindre, au prix d'une volonté intraitable et surpuissante, cet état de soi-même apaisé et réconcilié, ici nommé 'le soi'."
Citation de Jean-Pierre Siméon