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Brookner Anita Hotel du Lac

'The Hotel du Lac was a dignified building, a house of repute, a traditional establishment, used to welcoming the prudent, the well-to-do, the retired, the self-effacing, the respected patrons of an earlier era' Into the rarefied atmosphere of the Hotel du Lac timidly walks Edith Hope, romantic novelist and holder of modest dreams. Edith has been exiled from home after embarrassing herself and her friends. She has refused to sacrifice her ideals and remains stubbornly single. But among the pampered women and minor nobility Edith finds Mr Neville, and her chance to escape from a life of humiliating loneliness is renewed…

Brookner Anita Hotel du Lac

Winner of the Booker Prize, the beautiful, romantic and gorgeously philosophical Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner is part of our Penguin Essential series which spotlights the very best of our modern classics 'The Hotel du Lac was a dignified building, a house of repute, a traditional establishment, used to welcoming the prudent, the well-to-do, the retired, the self-effacing, the respected patrons of an earlier era' Into the rarefied atmosphere of the Hotel du Lac timidly walks Edith Hope, romantic novelist and holder of modest dreams. Edith has been exiled from home after embarrassing herself and her friends. She has refused to sacrifice her ideals and remains stubbornly single. But among the pampered women and minor nobility Edith finds Mr Neville, and her chance to escape from a life of humiliating loneliness is renewed . . .

Brookner Anita Strangers

'He was haunted by a feeling of invisibility, as if he were a mere spectator of his own life, with no one to identify him in the barren circumstances of the here and now.' Paul Sturgis is a retired banker manager who lives alone in a dark little flat. He walks alone and dines alone, seeking out and taking pleasure in small exchanges with strangers: the cheerful Australian girl who cuts his hair, the lady at the drycleaners. His only relative, and only acquaintance, is a widowed cousin by marriage - herself a virtual stranger - to whom he pays ritualistic visits on a Sunday afternoon. Trying to make sense of his current solitary state, and fearing that his destiny may be to die among strangers, Sturgis trawls through memories of his failed relationships and finds himself longing for companionship, or at the very least a conversation. But then a chance encounter with a stranger - a recently divorced and demanding younger woman - shakes up his routine and when an old girlfriend appears on the scene, Sturgis is forced to make a decision about how (and with whom) he wants to spend the rest of his days . . .

Brookner Anita Latecomers

'No man is free of his own history' Hartmann and Fibich came to England on the kindertransport. As orphans of the war they were strangers in a strange land. Together, they survived. And in adulthood they have been unable to separate, sharing a successful business. Yet Hartmann's carefully polished manners conceal the past he refuses to think about. While Fibich, a mass of fears and neuroses, can do nothing but remember. Together these two men seek to build a future from the shaky foundations of their own pasts…

Brookner Anita Providence

Kitty Maule wants to be 'totally unreasonable, totally unfair, very demanding, and very beautiful.' Instead, she is clever, hesitant and too patient for her own good. For years, she has been in love with her colleague Maurice Bishop, a charming English lecturer who seems not to notice her feelings. But when there comes a chance to accompany Maurice to France on a study of French cathedrals, Kitty sees an opporunity to be the woman she has always wanted to be as well as at last make the man she wants fall in love with her. But why is that the closer she gets to Maurice, the more elusive he seems to become?

Kirkwood Carol The Hotel on the Riviera

By the sapphire blue waters of the French Riviera, a decades-long secret is about to be revealed… Wayward Greek heiress, Ariana Theodosis, inherits the Hotel du Soleil as part of a mysterious legacy. Captivated by its faded glamour, she hopes it offers her the chance to start again. Hotelier Gabriel du Lac’s family have owned the hotel for decades – and he has no intention of giving it up for a beautiful stranger. Madame du Lac has watched the rich and famous pass through the doors of the hotel for almost half a century, and she has kept its secrets too. As the past finally catches up with them all, will this summer reveal a forgotten secret, and change their lives forever…?

Brookner Anita Look At Me

'Once a thing is known it can never be unknown.' By day Frances Hinton works in a medical library, by night she haunts the room of a West London mansion flat. Everything changes, however, when she is adopted by charming Nick and his dazzling wife Alix. They draw her into their tight circle of friends. Suddenly, Frances' life is full and ripe with new engagements. But too late, Frances realises that she may be only a play thing, to be picked up and discarded once used. And that just one act in defiance of Alix's wishes could see her lose everything . . .

Brookner Anita A Start in Life

'Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature.' Ruth Weiss, an academic, is beautiful, intelligent and lonely. Studying the heroines of Balzac in order to discover where her own childhood and adult life has gone awry, she seeks not salvation but enlightenment. Yet in revisiting her London upbringing, her friendships and doomed Parisian love affairs, she wonders if perhaps there might not be a chance for a new start in life...

Brookner Anita The Bay Of Angels

'It was at Millie's party, on that Friday evening, that she met her second husband, my stepfather-to-be, and thus changed both our lives . . .' Zoe is delighted when her widowed mother marries Simon, a generous older man who owns a villa in Nice. However, the long enchanted visits to France she enjoys come to an abrupt end when Simon suffers a bad fall. Zoe and her mother, finding themselves surrounded by well-meaning strangers, must learn how and how not to trust appearances . . .

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Pamment Jason Le mystere du lac

Iris et Sam pourront-ils decouvrir la verite a temps pour maintenir leur propre amitie a flot Iris a soif d’aventures et ne reve que de quitter la minuscule ville de Bugden, ou il ne se passe jamais rien ! Tout l’inverse de son meilleur ami, Sam, qui aime plutot sa tranquillite. Mais lorsque la riviere locale s’asseche brutalement, les amis font une decouverte incroyable : une ville cachee et une histoire d’amitie oubliee.

Lamblin Christian Les monstres du Lac Noir

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De Troyes Chretien Le Chevalier de la Charrette

Collection dirigee par Michel Zink La collection Lettres gothiques se propose d’ouvrir au public le plus large un acces a la fois direct, aise et sur, a la litterature du Moyen Age. Un acces direct en mettant sous les yeux du lecteur le texte original. Un acces aise grace a la traduction en francais moderne proposee en regard, a l’introduction et a des notes nombreuses. Un acces sur grace au soin dont font l’objet la presentation du texte et son commentaire. La collection Lettres gothiques offre ainsi un panorama representatif de l’ensemble de la litterature medievale. Le roman du Chevalier de la Charrette, redige entre 1177 et 1179 par notre premier grand romancier, draine la legende de Tristan pour operer la transmutation qui ouvrira bientot aux grands secrets du Graal. La tour ou Lancelot entre en adoration du Precieux Corps de sa Reine enclot le mystere a partir duquel le roman medieval prend desormais un nouveau tour. C’est aussi la mise en ?uvre sublime de ce qu’il faut reconnaitre comme la plenitude d’un discours amoureux. Lequel s’autorise d’Alienor d’Aquitaine et de sa fille, Marie de Champagne, ainsi que des Dames du Midi. Une « haute parole » empruntee au roman en prose, du xiiie siecle, Lancelot du Lac en resume l’ethique avec des accents dignes de Freud : « Les hommes d’honneur partent en quete de la verite des merveilles qui les epouvantent. »

Proust Marcel A l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleur

Decor enchante de A la recherche du temps perdu, Balbec occupe une place centrale dans « l’edifice immense du souvenir » que construit Marcel Proust. Encore adolescent, sejournant au Grand Hotel avec sa grand-mere, le Narrateur rencontre les personnages qui marqueront sa vie. C’est l’apparition de Robert de Saint-Loup courant derriere son monocle, et du prodigieux Charlus qui, au premier regard, passerait pour un espion ou un fou. Sur la digue ou chahute une bande de jeunes estivantes, il a remarque la plus insolente d’entre elles, nommee Albertine. Il ignore alors vers quel enfer de soupcon et de jalousie va l’entrainer la jeune fille au polo noir. En 1919, a l’occasion du prix Goncourt, d’A l’ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs, le grand public decouvre Marcel Proust. Cent ans plus tard, sa renommee et son genie ne connaissent plus de frontieres.

Faulks Sebastian Girl At The Lion d'Or

Mid-1930s, Northern France. A mysterious young girl named Anne Louvet arrives at the seedy Hotel du Lion d'Or in the small French town of Janvilliers. She is seeking a job and a new life, far removed from the injustices of her past. At the hotel, Anne meets the cultured, rich and married Hartmann and begins anaffair with the married Great War veteran, revealing her secrets, fears and hopes to him. From award-winning author Sebastian Faulks, Girl at The Lion d'Or is a powerful story of love and conscience, will and desire. 'Beautifully written and extraordinarily moving' The Sunday Times