Livres de la collection - WORLD'S CLASSIC

Année : 12/2017

The Jungle Books can be regarded as classic stories told by an adult to children. But they also constitute a complex literary work of art in which the whole of Kipling's philosophy of life is expressed in miniature. They are best known for the `Mowgli' stories; the tale of a baby abandoned and brought up by wolves, educated in the ways and secrets of the jungle by Kaa the python, Baloo the bear, [...]
[lire la quatrième du livre The Jungle Books]

Année : 12/2017

Roderick Random (1748), Smollett's first novel, is full of the dazzling vitality characteristics of all his work, as well as of his own life. Roderick is the boisterous and unprincipled hero who answers life's many misfortunes with a sledgehammer. Left penniless, he leaves his native Scotland for London and on the way meets Strap, and old schoolfellow.

Together they undergo many adventures [...]
[lire la quatrième du livre The Adventures of Roderick Random]

Année : 06/2008