European Fiction

Frémeaux & Associés propose une anthologie d'"À la recherche du temps perdu". La quintessence du chef-d'œuvre de Marcel Proust est ici choisie avec soin et finesse par Paul Desalmand puis transmise, avec une justesse et une maîtrise de la langue remarquables, par Daniel Mesguich qui met tout son talent au service de la beauté et du sens du texte.

Written when women---and workers generally---had few rights in England, Agnes Grey exposes the brutal inequities of the rigid class system in mid-19th-century Britain. Agnes comes from a respectable middle-class family, but their financial reverses have forced her to seek work as a governess.

"Le Père Goriot", roman d'Honoré de Balzac publié en 1842, relate l'histoire d'Eugène de Rastignac, jeune aristocrate sans fortune monté à Paris, avide de reconnaissance sociale, dont le destin se trouve intimement lié à celui du Père Goriot, "un brave homme s'étant dépouillé pour ses filles et mourant comme un chien".

"The Happy Prince" is a short story by Oscar Wilde, about a swallow and a statue. The swallow who remained behind when his flock flew to Africa for the winter, befriends a golden and bejewelled statue of a prince. Witnessing the poverty and suffering in the city, the statue asks the swallow to take his jewels and use them to help the poor. One by the swallow takes the gemstones, and ultimately also the gold plating, stripping the statue bare. But because it waited so long, it succumbs to the cold of winter.

Sheriff Jeylend Folks used to have an easy beat. He was back in the small town he grew up in, had a lovely wife, and a faithful dog. He couldn’t be happier. Now, things are spiralling out of control, and he is way out of his comfort zone.

While she was out enjoying her senior prom, Sarah Brighwater's mother was murdered in their home. The serial killer was known to the police but never caught. Now, 15 years later, Sarah is an FBI agent in the Behavioral Science Unit tracking down killers like the one who killed her mother. When a new string of murders begins and bodies are dumped near her old home town, Sarah wonders about the reemergence of her lifelong tormentor. Could it be him?

Lawrence Karrier is the first to see the beauty while out on his morning run. A solitary thin cloud drifting down from the mountains and settling into the lake, like nothing he has ever seen before. Later in the day as the local factory empties and the bar fills up, the spectacle of a hundred such clouds against the evening sky beguiles the whole town. That is until someone is unfortunate enough to touch one.

There's a war in Europe. Everyone in the Three Societies must choose sides. I know whoses side I'm on. My own. Joining forces with the Guardians might be a huge mistake. But I'll do anything to find the last three rubies . . . And destroy them. The moment my plane touches down in Vienna, I'm in for a world of trouble. The Three Societies are divided into two factions, and you must choose a side. Just when I finally find love, my boyfriend and I are separated by our affiliations. And my ex keeps hanging around like there's something still between us.

Our fear of the Devil, whatever his temptations and rewards, is amplified by the thought of eternal damnation in his hell house service. In this volume our authors are all from Europe and see the Devil in ways that we recognise and yet are culturally distinct to the European mainland.

Howell Warren hasn't seen another human face for over five years. If he did, that person could die at any time. This is the world of the "Sleeping Sickness". As the world recovers from a devastating solar flare, society is just getting back on track when a strange phenomena begins. Violent dreams are coming true all over the world. Those featured in the dreams are killed in real life, showing terrible injuries like those in the dreams. No one is safe because no one can control their dreams.

It started out with a missing child, then came the slaughter of wild animals and now—what exactly? People are being brutally murdered in the town of Centerpoint and Sheriff Ted Colson has no idea who is behind it. He is unpopular and needs to get a handle on this soon. Some people feel it is the start of a new wave of evil over the town like that of almost two years previous, but Ted doesn't want to believe this. He can't believe this.

Something doesn't want the inhabitants of an isolated mountain town to leave. When local hermit Maul Thorndean disappears, Sheriff Joe Moorefield finds his cabin in a bewildering state. All of the surrounding trees have turned white and brittle and are leaning towards the cabin. There is blood on the floor but no sign of Maul. The dying of the trees spreads and soon the townspeople are encircled by ash grey trees with limbs that wont allow them to leave. That's when the people begin to disappear.

" À force d'écrire des nouvelles, je me suis lancée dans la rédaction d'un roman. Le premier est toujours un peu autobiographique. " Françoise Bourdin. Une histoire personnelle et authentique, d'une jeune femme dont la précocité littéraire laissait présager l'auteur à venir. Frédérique est une jeune fille pleine de fougue et passionnée de course hippique. À dix-sept ans, elle décide de fuir la relation fusionnelle mais compliquée qu'elle vit avec son premier amour, Joël.

New York, 1800. Three brutal murders. One impossible killer. The police have fingered David Stirling for the crimes, but Lord Muc—feared gang leader in the Five Points—doesn't believe a word of it, and sets out to prove the young man's innocence.

Judd Farnon had no choice but to risk death in escaping prison. If he stayed, he was a dead man. An old boarding house where if you are honest, no questions are asked offers him the start of a new life. While trying to forget his past and the events that put him in jail in the first place, Judd finds more and more people are showing up in his room at the boarding house claiming it as their own.

Elizabeth Gaskell, famed author of Cranford, is cherished for her incise social observations and portrayals of the changing nature of English life through the Industrial Revolution of the Victorian era. In Cousin Phillis, Paul Manning has only recently left home to work on the railway line for the dashing Mr Holdsworth. Lodging with an Independent Minister on the outskirts of London, he becomes acquainted with his distant cousins, where he is delighted to meet his genial relations, and not least his cousin Phyllis

When Ester and Jennifer, two best friends since high school, joined a group of European friends for Oktoberfest in Munich, Germany, they met and fell in love with the same handsome and charming man without each other knowing. Fast-forward 15 years to when Ester and Jennifer took a trip together to visit the Neuschwanstein Castle in Bavaria, Germany, and old secrets and unspoken feelings were finally exposed.

Corrupt elements of the South African Intelligence Services are stalking Morne Delport, a South African industrialist and his eclectic band of friends. When no one is watching, their phones are tapped, they are followed, and violence is sanctioned against them. They are in a race to save their countrymen, and forever separate themselves from the legacy of Apartheid, but powerful forces have other plans. They are watching and wanting their wealth for their own.

Alphonse Daudet schrieb leichtfüßige, lichtdurchflutete Prosa. Den literarischen Strömungen seiner Zeit schien er sich zu entziehen. Edmond de Goncourt, Gustave Flaubert und Emile Zola schätzten ihn als anregenden Gesprächspartner. Mit seinen Romanen begründete er seinen Ruhm. Seine heutige Bekanntheit beruht vor allem auf seinen Jugendwerken, den Briefen aus meiner Mühle (meist mit dem französischen Originaltitel Lettres de mon moulin bezeichnet) und vor allem Tartarin von Tarascon.

Les récits de Mme de Murat s’adressent à un public adulte, à même d’entrevoir derrière les voiles de l’humour ou du merveilleux, l’irrévérence et la transgression. Ce qui, dans sa vie réelle, suscite la désapprobation morale et sociale de ses contemporains (le choix de quitter un mari violent, de vivre seule à Paris, ses amours lesbiens) peut, dans ses fictions, se laisser dire, à travers les motifs récurrents du travestissement, du trouble de l’identité sexuelle, de l’inversion des rapports de domination entre hommes et femmes.