When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality. But gradually a cunning, ruthless elite among them, masterminded by the pigs Napoleon and Snowball, starts to take control. Soon the other animals discover that they are not all as equal as they thought. They find themselves hopelessly ensnared as one form of tyranny is replaced with another.

Orwell’s chilling `fairy story’ is a timeless and devastating satire of idealism betrayed by power and corruption.

Plongez dans la version originale et intégrale
d’une grande satire du stalinisme qui résonne encore aujourd’hui face à la montée des extrêmes.

Avec la collection NOT SO CLASSIC, lire en anglais devient un vrai plaisir grâce à :

• des notes de vocabulaire en marge (en français et en anglais)
• un dossier complet pour comprendre l’œuvre, ses personnages, ses grands thèmes et son contexte
• des quiz pour mémoriser l’essentiel, de façon ludique
• des activités pour progresser en anglais, grâce au texte d’un auteur d’exception

Animal Farm (Not So Classic) – George Orwell – 9791035810306

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When Kino, a poor Indian pearl-diver, finds ‘the Pearl of the world’ he believes that his life will be magically transformed. He will marry Juana and their son Coyotito will be able to attend school. Obsessed by his dreams, Kino is blind to the greed and even violence the pearl arouses in him and his neighbours.

Written with lyrical simplicity, The Pearl sets the values of the civilized world against those of the primitive and finds them tragically inadequate.

The Pearl – John Steinbeck – 12.90 € – 9780140772883

Section américaine Jules Guesde

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He did not belong to me at all, he belonged to Rebecca…

Everyone knows that Maxim de Winter was obsessed with his glamorous wife – and devastated by her tragic death. So when he proposes to a shy, anxious young woman after a whirlwind meeting in the South of France, no one is more surprised than the new bride herself. But when they reach Manderley, his beautiful, isolated Cornish mansion, the second Mrs de Winter begins to realise that every inch of her new home – and everyone in it – still belongs to Rebecca.

Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier – 9780349019253

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Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf’s fourth novel, offers the reader an impression of a single June day in London in 1923. Clarissa Dalloway, the wife of a Conservative member of parliament, is preparing to give an evening party, while the shell-shocked Septimus Warren Smith hears the birds in Regent’s Park chattering in Greek. There seems to be nothing, except perhaps London, to link Clarissa and Septimus.

She is middle-aged and prosperous, with a sheltered happy life behind her; Smith is young, poor, and driven to hatred of himself and the whole human race. Yet both share a terror of existence, and sense the pull of death. The world of Mrs Dalloway is evoked in Woolf’s famous stream of consciousness style, in a lyrical and haunting language which has made this, from its publication in 1925, one of her most popular novels.

Mrs Dalloway – Viriginia Woolf – 9780199536009

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Professor Aronnax, his faithful servant Conseil and Canadian harpooner Ned Land are held prisoners aboard the fantastic submarine, the Nautilus, by its enigmatic and charismatic commander, Captain Nemo: ‘That terrible avenger, a perfect archangel of hatred.’And so begins a hazardous and eventful voyage which leads them from the lost city of Atlantis, to the South Pole, hunting in underwater forests and to an encounter with a ferocious giant squid.

Published in 1870, the novel continues to fascinate and engage the reader, presenting as it does an incredible journey into a mysterious world of excitement and danger!

20 000 Leagues Under the Sea – Jules Verne – 9781853260315 – 6.90€

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Hunting for evidence of the occult, Dr Montague invites three participants to Hill House: Theodora, his lovely assistant; Luke, set to inherit the estate; and Eleanor a fragile young woman with a troubled past. As The House takes hold, Jackson plumbs the depths of the human condition, asking the electric question: will any of them make it out?

This definitive horror novel blurs the lines between reality and imagination, between dream and nightmare. Beautiful, atmospheric and utterly terrifying, Jackson’s magnum opus examines the shadows that lurk not just in cobwebbed corners, but in the facets of our very minds.

Retrouvez toutes les éditions Clothbound.

The Haunting of Hill House – Shirley Jackson – 9780241689646

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In 1878, Robert Louis Stevenson was suffering from poor health, struggling to survive on the income derived from his writings, and tormented by his infatuation with Fanny Osbourne, a married American woman. His response was to embark on a journey through the Cevennes with a donkey, Modestine, and a notebook, which he later transformed into this wonderful tale.

Just a few months after publication, Stevenson was off again – this time crossing the Atlantic and the breadth of America in the hope of being re-united with Fanny, an experience he recorded in The Amateur Emigrant.

Both pieces are classics of travel writings, which reveal as much about Stevenson‘s character as the landscape he travels through.

Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes and the Amateur Emigrant – Robert Louis Stevenson – 9780141439464

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