Rosencrantz and

Guildenstern Are

Dead is an absur-

dist, existentialist

tragicomedy. The

play concerns the

misadventures and

musings of Rosen-

crantz and Guil-

denstern, two mi-

nor characters

from William Sha-

kespeare's Hamlet

who are childhood

friends of the

prince, focusing on

their actions with

the events of Ha-

mlet as back-

ground.

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are

dead, Tom Stoppard

Julian, a recent

college graduate,

prepares to es-

cort his mother

to her weekly

weight-loss class

at the YMCA,

which she at-

tends to reduce

her high blood

pressure. He es-

corts her there

every week be-

cause she has re-

fused to take the

bus alone since

integration. Ju-

lian imagines mo-

ving to a house in

the country. He

declares that he

will one day make

money, even

though he knows

he never really

will. His mother

encourages him

to dream, saying

that it will take

time to establish

himself.

Nouveautés

Littérature anglophone rentrée 2012

Everything that rises must converge,

Flannary O'Connor

Lycée Marguer i t e de Navar re

Octobre-novembre

2012

Année 2012-2013

Orin, and Electra is his

daughter Lavinia. As an upda-

ted Greek tragedy, the play

features murder, adultery,

incestuous love and revenge.

The story is an update of

the Greek myth of Orestes

to the family of a Northern

general in the American Civil

War. Agamemnon is now Ge-

neral Ezra Mannon, Clytem-

nestra is his second wife

Christine, Orestes is his son

Angela Carter's salacious interpretation of the

folktale Bluebeard follows a young girl entering

into the bonds of marriage to the richest man in

France. Unfortunately, this fairytale has a sobe-

ring reality as she discovers her new husband's

secret sadism. She must struggle to overcome

her new understanding of the world's hidden

sexuality. This performance fuses musical, thea-

trical and creative talents with a stunning use of

physical theatre to represent the arduous jour-

ney of the familiar young heroine.

The bloody chamber and others stories, Angela Carter

The black cat and others stories, Edgar Allan Poe

Mourning becomes Electra, Eugène

O’Neill

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"The Black Cat" is one of Edgar Allan

Poe's most memorable stories. The tale

centers around a black cat and the sub-

sequent deterioration of a man.

sa montre à un énorme ca-

dran : peut-être lui suggé-

rer de la porter en guise

de ceinture ».

Version moderne du roman

d'Oscar Wilde :

"Le portrait de Dorian

Gray"

La rencontre entre un

homme et une femme est

toujours quelque chose

d’intense. Mais ce qui s’y

pense est encore plus no-

table : « Je me rappelle

avoir voulu faire quelque

chose en voyant à nouveau

Contents : Strangers on a

train, Early stories , A

mighty Nice Man, The still

point of the turning world,

Where the door is always

open and the welcome Mat

is out, Quiet night, In the

plaza, The great Card-

house, The baby phone,

The price of salt, Aona,

the jolly cave woman, Two

disagreeable pigeons, Not

one of us, Woodrow wilso-

n's necktie, The terrors of

basket weaving, The trou-

ble with Mrs blynns, the

trouble with the world

Selected novels and short stories, Patricia Highsmith

Dorian an imitation, Will Dorian

For Esmé with love and squalor, Jerome David Salinger

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Le drame débute lorsque le

père de Pi, de son vrai nom

Piscine Molitor, décide de

s'établir au Canada avec sa

famille et quelques ani-

maux qui feront partie de

son zoo. Pour le malheur de

Pi, le navire coule et il est

le seul rescapé humain qui

a trouvé refuge dans un

canot de sauvetage. Les

autres rescapés sont un

orang-outan, une hyène, un

zèbre et un tigre royal du

Bengale. S'ensuivra une

lutte pour la survie dans sa

forme la plus primitive, car

Pi doit non seulement subir

la faim, la soif et les élé-

ments, mais doit aussi as-

surer sa survie face à un

prédateur féroce.

In this volume you will find the

following stories : To The Man

On The Trail, The White Si-

lence, In A Far Country, The

Wisdom Of The Trail, An Odys-

sey Of The North, The Law Of

Life, The God Of His Fathers,

B'tard, The League Of The Old

Men, Love Of Life, The Wit Of

Porportuk, To Build A Fire, All

Gold Canyon, The Apostate,

South Of The Slot, The China-

go, A Piece Of Steak, Mauki,

Koolau The Leper, The Strength

Of The Strong, War, The Mexi-

can, Told In The Drooling Ward,

The Water Baby, and The Red

One.

High in the Spanish Sierra,

a guerrilla band prepares

to blow up a vital bridge.

Robert Jordan, a young

American, has been sent to

handle the dynamiting.

There he finds the intense

comradeship of war. And

there he finds Maria who

has escaped from Franco’s

rebels.

Life of Pi, Yann Martel

To build a fire and other stories, Jack London

For whom the bell tolls, Ernest Hemingway

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truit une cabane et orga-

n ise son existence

seul...jusqu'au jour où il

rencontre Vendredi...

On Christmas Eve, young Pip,

an orphan being raised by his

sister and her husband, en-

counters a frightening man in

the village churchyard. The

man, a convict who has esca-

ped from a prison ship, sca-

res Pip into stealing him some

food and a file to grind away

his leg shackle. This incident

is crucial: firstly, it gives Pip,

who must steal the goods

from his sister's house, his

first taste of true guilt, and,

secondly, Pip's kindness

warms the convict's heart.

Seul survivant après le

naufrage du vaisseau sur

lequel il a embarqué, il

échoue sur une île déserte.

Après avoir emporté de

l'épave les armes et les

outils qui peuvent lui être

nécessaires, iI se cons-

Il raconte la vie de Bridget

Jones, une célibataire

trentenaire vivant à Lon-

dres et travaillant dans

l'édition. Elle se bat avec

souvent beaucoup d'hu-

mour pour donner un sens à

sa vie dans le contexte des

années 1990, et à ses

aventures amoureuses avec

son patron Daniel Cleaver

puis avec l’avocat spécia-

liste des droits de

l'homme, Mark Darcy.

Bridget Jones's diary, Helen Fielding

Great expectations, Charles Dickens

Robinson Crusoé, Daniel Defoe

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Liste officielle

Anglais renforcé

Mmes Francesh et

Chambalu

without her. As he grows

older, he defends her

against his father's occasio-

nal violence. Eventually, he

leaves their Nottinghams-

hire home for a job in Lon-

don, where he begins to rise

up into the middle class. He

is engaged, but he detests

the girl's superficiality.

The refined daughter of a

"good old burgher family,"

Gertrude Coppard meets a

rough-hewn miner at a

Christmas dance and falls

into a whirlwind romance

characterized by physical

passion. But soon after her

marriage to Walter Morel,

she realizes the diffi-

culties of living off his

meagre salary in a rented

house. The couple fight

and drift apart and Walter

retreats to the pub after

work each day. Gradually,

Mrs. Morel's affections

shift to her sons beginning

with the oldest, William.

As a boy, William is so at-

tached to his mother that

he doesn't enjoy the fair

An Ideal Husband opens du-

ring a dinner party at the

home of Sir Robert Chiltern

in London's fashionable Gros-

venor Square. Sir Robert, a

prestigious member of the

House of Commons, and his

wife, Lady Chiltern, are hos-

ting a gathering that includes

his friend Lord Goring, a dan-

dified bachelor and close

friend to the Chilterns, his

sister Mabel Chiltern, and

other genteel guests.

The stories were written

when Irish nationalism was at

its peak, and a search for a

national identity and purpose

was raging ; at a crossroads

of history and culture, Ire-

land was jolted by various

converging ideas and influen-

ces. They centre on Joyce's

idea of an epiphany: a mo-

ment where a character ex-

periences self-understanding

or illumination. Many of the

characters in Dubliners later

appear in minor roles in

Joyce's novel Ulysses.

Sons and lovers, David herbert Lauwrence

An ideal husband, Oscar Wilde

Dubliners, James Joyce

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who lives in the remote

moorland farmhouse called

"Wuthering Heights."

The curious tale of a man

who begins his life as an

apparent septuagenarian

and grows younger every

year much to the bewilder-

ment and consternation of

he and his family.

In 1801, Mr. Lockwood, a

rich man from the south of

England, rents Thrush-

cross Grange in the north

of England for peace and

recuperation. Soon after

his arrival, he visits his

landlord, Mr. Heathcliff,

Alice is feeling bored while

sitting on the riverbank with

her sister, when she notices

a talking, clothed White Rab-

bit with a pocket watch run

past. She follows it down a

rabbit hole when suddenly

she falls a long way to a

curious hall with many locked

doors of all sizes. She finds a

small key to a door too small

for her to fit through, but

through it she sees an at-

tractive garden. She then

discovers a bottle on a table

labelled "DRINK ME", the

contents of which cause her

to shrink too small to reach

the key which she has left on

the table. A cake with "EAT

ME" on it causes her to grow

to such a tremendous size

her head hits the ceiling.

Alice's adventures in Wonderland - Through the looking-glass,

Carroll Lewis

The curius case ok Benjamin Button, Francis Scott Key

Fitzgerald

Wuthering heights, Emily Brontë

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others (but most of all, her-

self) from her reality, and an

attempt to make herself still

attractive to new male sui-

tors.

In autumn 1943, the unnamed

narrator becomes friends

with Holly Golightly, who

calls him "Fred", after her

older brother. The two are

both tenants in a brownstone

apartment in Manhattan's

Upper East Side. Holly (age

18-19) is a country girl tur-

ned New York café society

girl. As such, she has no job

and lives by socializing with

wealthy men, who take her to

clubs and restaurants, and

give her money and expensive

presents.

The play presents Blanche

DuBois, a fading but still-

attractive Southern belle

whose pretensions to virtue

and culture only thinly mask

alcoholism and delusions of

grandeur. Her poise is an illu-

sion she presents to shield

Willy Loman returns home

exhausted after a cancelled

business trip. Worried over

Willy's state of mind and re-

cent car "crash," his wife

Linda suggests that he ask

his boss Howard Wagner to

allow him to work in his home

city so he will not have to

travel. Willy complains to Lin-

da that their son, Biff, has

yet to make good on his life.

Despite Biff's promise as an

athlete in high school, he

flunked senior year math and

never went to college.Biff

and his brother, Happy, who

is also visiting, reminisce

about their childhood toge-

ther.

Death of a Salesman - Certain private conversations in two acts

and a requiem, Artur Miller

Breakfast in Tiffany's, Truman Capote

A streetcar named desire, Tennesse Williams

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"Souls Belated" a tragedy

of mores, focuses on cha-

racters overcome by the

demands of convention,

while "The Pelican" and

The muse's tragedy" both

present women whose rea-

lities differ from their pu-

blic personae. "Expiation"

is a satiric, revealing story

about the publishing indus-

try, featuring a writer de-

termined to increase the

sales of her first novel.

A Haunted House is story with mea-

ning, by portraying to us the treasure

of life. When two ghosts are sear-

ching through their old house,looking

for their "Treasure", the treasure or

meaning is revealed to us.

Short Stories, Edith Wharton

A Haunted House and other short stories, Virginia Woolf

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"The Tell-Tale Heart" is a story written by Edgar Allan

Poe and first published in 1843. The narrator, the mur-

derer, tells the story of when he murdered an old man

with a "vulture eye", and insists that he is not insane,

not mad.

Sethe et sa fille Denver essayent de reconstruire

leur vie après avoir échappé à l'esclavage. Un jour

une jeune fille se présente à leur porte, elle prétend

s'appeler Beloved, or Beloved est la seule inscription

sur la tombe du bébé que Sethe a tué des années au-

paravant, afin de lui épargner une vie d'esclavage

The Tell-tale heart and others stories, Edgar Allan Poe

Beloved, Toni Morrisson

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Mr Loveday's little outind and

other early stories, Evelyn

Waugh In this unique collection of Waugh's early short stories,

some of which became the inspirations for his novels,

Waugh displays his unique talent for comedy and narration.

'Mr Loveday's Little Outing' is a blackly comic tale of a

mental asylum and its favourite resident, while 'Cruise'

sees a hilarious series of letters from a nave young woman

as she travels with her family. These witty and immacula-

tely crafted stories display the finest writing of a master

of satire and comic twists.