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Affiche du document Les carnets de Siegfried

Les carnets de Siegfried Benediction

Ed Bailie

2h17min12

  • Biopic
  • Drame
En 1914, le jeune Siegfried Sassoon, poète en devenir, est enrôlé dans l’armée britannique. De retour du front, révolté par ce qu’il a vu, il devient objecteur de conscience. Ses pamphlets pacifistes lui valent une mise au ban par sa hiérarchie, mais aussi une forme de reconnaissance artistique, lui ouvrant les portes d’une nouvelle vie mondaine. Mais dans cette société du paraître, Siegfried se perd, tiraillé entre les diktats de la conformité et ses désirs de liberté.
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Affiche du document Désobéissance

Désobéissance Disobedience

De Sebastián Lelio

1h53min55

  • Drame
Une jeune femme juive-orthodoxe, retourne chez elle après la mort de son père. Mais sa réapparition provoque quelques tensions au sein de la communauté lorsqu'elle avoue à sa meilleure amie les sentiments qu'elle éprouve à son égard...
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Affiche du document Tristram Shandy

Tristram Shandy

Laurence Sterne

19h04min30

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1526 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 19h04min.
Laurence Sterne’s most famous novel is a biting satire of literary conventions and contemporary eighteenth-century values. Renowned for its parody of established narrative techniques, Tristram Shandy is commonly regarded as the forerunner of avant-garde fiction. Tristram’s characteristic digressions on a whole range of unlikely subjects (including battle strategy and noses!) are endlessly surprising and make this one of Britain’s greatest comic achievements. A cast of strange characters populate this strangest of novels: gentle Uncle Toby, sarcastic Walter and of course, the pompous, garrulous Tristram himself. This edition is read by Anton Lesser in a tour de force performance.
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Affiche du document The Old Curiosity Shop

The Old Curiosity Shop

Charles Dickens

22h19min30

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1786 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 22h19min.
Death, innocence, sacrifice and corruption – The Old Curiosity Shop is vintage Dickens. Provoking an unprecedented outpouring of public grief when it was first published, it follows the story of Little Nell and her feckless grandfather. Forced to leave their magical shop of curiosities in London, they are pursued across the English countryside by the grotesquely evil dwarf Quilp. They escape – but at what cost? Part tragedy, part allegory, this is Dickens at his most intense; drawing on his own experiences, he weaves a story of extraordinary emotional power.
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Affiche du document Little Dorrit

Little Dorrit

Charles Dickens

1h08min51

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2803 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 1h9min.
William Dorrit has been a resident of the Marshalsea debtors prison for so many years that he has gained the nickname ‘The Father of the Marshalsea’. However, his suffering is eased by his close bond with youngest daughter Amy, or ‘Little Dorrit’. The dashing Arthur Clennam, returning to London after many years in China, enters their lives and the Dorrits’ fortunes begin to rise and fall. A biting satirical work on the shortcomings of nineteenth-century government and society.
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Affiche du document Great Expectations

Great Expectations

Charles Dickens

19h09min00

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1532 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 19h09min.
Narrated in the first person, Great Expectations tells the story of Philip Pirrip (known as Pip) from his disadvantaged start as an orphan in the Kent marshes to the improvement in his position following an anonymous allowance. Pip moves to London where, only after many trials, does he learn humility and the value of loyalty. Key Dickens characters abound – the convict Magwitch, the eccentric Miss Havisham and the pompous Pumblechook. Great Expectations was first published as a complete novel in October 1861 shortly after its serialisation in All The Year Round. Like David Copperfield, it drew on his early life, especially the trials of a boy who, about to enter his teen years, find himself challenged by tough life experiences. Among the many remarkable scenes is the famous meeting with Miss Havisham, surrounded by the mementos of her wedding day many years before. It remains one of Dickens’ most popular novels.
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Affiche du document The Odyssey

The Odyssey

Homer

12h45min45

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1021 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 12h46min.
The Trojan War is over and Odysseus, the cunning King of Ithaca, sets out for home, his wife Penelope and his son Telemachus. It proves a long, 10-year journey, fraught with dangers, from Polyphemus, the one-eyed Cyclops, and the seductive Sirens, to the love of Calypso on her all-too-comfortable isle. When he arrives in Ithaca, he has to contend with a group of suitors who have been pressing his wife to forget about her husband, admit she is a widow, and marry one of them. Anton Lesser, one of Britain’s finest audiobook stars, brings this great classic to life in the new and imaginative translation by Ian Johnston.
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Affiche du document The Iliad

The Iliad

Homer

16h41min15

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1335 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 16h41min.
Perhaps the greatest poem of the Western world, The Iliad tells the story of fifty critical days towards the end of the Trojan war. Achilles has quarrelled with Agamemnon and sulks in his tent, while Hector brings his Trojans to the brink of victory; but fate will have the last word. Anton Lesser, one of Britain’s finest audiobook stars, brings this great classic to life in the new and imaginative translation by Ian Johnston.
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Affiche du document The Mayor of Casterbridge

The Mayor of Casterbridge

Thomas Hardy

12h19min30

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986 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 12h19min.
Michael Henchard, drunk at a country fair, sells his wife and baby daughter for five guineas. The following day, in despair and remorse, he forswears alcohol and sets out to redeem himself. In time, he becomes a respected merchant and eventually the mayor of the town. But Fate is not to be so easily appeased, and Henchard finds his past actions resonate through and destroy his plans for the future. One of the greatest novels in the English language, The Mayor of Casterbridge sees Thomas Hardy at his best, bringing landscape and richly imagined characters to life, and setting the hope of love against the forces of Providence.
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Affiche du document A Tale of Two Cities

A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens

14h41min15

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1175 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 14h41min.
‘It was the best of times and the worst of times’ In one of the most famous openings of any novel, Dickens masterfully presents the turmoil of the French Revolution which is the backdrop for a novel of love, patience, hope and self-sacrifice. It is read by Anton Lesser whose award-winning Dickens recordings in their abridged form have now resulted in the opportunity to read the full unabridged text. His singular characterisations led to him being chosen by Peter Ackroyd to play Dickens himself in the major TV account of the writer. One of Dickens’s most popular novels. The only unabridged version on CD. Stunningly read by Anton Lesser.
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Affiche du document Paradise Lost

Paradise Lost

John Milton

10h42min00

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856 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 10h42min.
‘Of Man’s First Disobedience, and the Fruit of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death into the World, and all our woe.’ So begins the greatest epic poem in the English language. In words remarkable for their richness of rhythm and imagery, Milton tells the story of man’s creation, fall and redemption – ‘to justify the ways of God to men.’ Here, unabridged, and told with exceptional sensitivity and power by Anton Lesser, is the plight of Adam and Eve, the ambition and vengefulness of Satan and his cohorts.
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Affiche du document A Christmas Carol

A Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens

3h12min45

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257 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 3h13min.
A Christmas Carol is the best-known and best-loved of Dickens’ ‘Christmas Books’, and the story of the miser Scrooge’s redemption has become as much part of the Christmas tradition as plum pudding and carols themselves. Will Tiny Tim live to see another Christmas? Can Scrooge recover his humanity and learn to love the fellow men he seems to despise? Dickens will make you laugh and make you cry as you follow Scrooge’s supernatural adventures on Christmas Eve…
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Affiche du document Othello

Othello

William Shakespeare

3h00min45

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241 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 3h1min.
This widely-studied play is one of the best sellers of the Shakespeare canon. This production is the sixth Shakespeare play in the series undertaken by Naxos AudioBooks in conjunction with Cambridge University Press.
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Affiche du document Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet

William Shakespeare

2h50min15

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227 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 2h50min.
Romeo and Juliet is the play which, in English literature at least, effectively invented the modern love story. Its charm and its power derive from the romantic setting (Verona, an Italian Renaissance city), the youthful innocence and ardour of the lovers, and (perhaps crucially) the excitement and drama created by the opposition which they have to contend with, an opposition which does not simply stem from the older generation but which is starkly present in the feud between their two families and which seems to be supported by the malignity of Fate. The wit, tenderness, dramatic variety and poetic beauty of this play continue to work their spell: it has proved a perennial favourite inspiring, even in our century, works such as the musical West Side Story.
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Affiche du document Hard Times

Hard Times

Charles Dickens

10h41min15

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855 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 10h41min.
Hard Times is Dickens’s most political novel. Set in the industrial north of England, in Coketown, he examines the lives of working people, who are taught by the capitalists Gradgrind and Bounderby to think only of the facts of life and not to indulge in imagination. Gradgrind’s own children have been so educated and as a result are dysfunctional and disconnected from their feelings. Only the travelling circus company of Sleary seems to offer any hope of humanity in Coketown. Hard Times is a deeply moving story written in anger to strike a blow for the victims of the dehumanising processes of industry.
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