Un matin de Noel, la joyeuse troupe des « Picwickiens», aimables gentlemen partis au hasard des campagnes anglaises pour rendre compte de leurs « explorations» aux correspondants de leur club, se prepare a une seance de patinage. Quand Samuel Pickwick, leur membre fondateur, s’elance a son tour sur la glace, celle-ci cede sous le poids de son auguste bedaine… Mais, apres tout, l’objet du club n’etait-il pas de temoigner du danger des voyages, quand bien meme ils ne conduiraient pas plus loin que le Kent ? Cette scene, l’une des plus fameuses de la litterature britannique, est l’oeuvre d’un jeune auteur de 24 ans que son premier roman, paru en feuilleton en 1836-1837, propulsa vers la gloire.
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Un beau matin de 1827, le distingue Pickwick Club de Londres decide de creer une societe itinerante, afin de parcourir l’Angleterre et d’alerter ses membres sur les dangers des voyages. Persuade qu’une telle entreprise profitera a l’humanite tout entiere, le debonnaire Pickwick, homme d’affaires a la retraite et philosophe du dimanche, s’entoure pour l’epopee de trois comperes aussi qualifies que lui : Tupman, seducteur sans conquetes, Snodgrass, poete a court de vers, et Winkle, sportsman contrarie. Leurs aventures s’annoncent aussi rebondies que le ventre de Pickwick, dont les rares coleres menacent de faire eclater le gilet… Un esprit d’enfance semble regner parmi les intrepides « Pickwickiens ». Jusqu’au jour ou l’innocence de ces bons vivants se voit menacee par ces trois perils que sont le mariage, la trahison et la betise des hommes de loi…
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Read Charles Dickens's first novel. The Pickwick Papers was Dickens' first novel and was a huge success when it was first published. It tells the tale of the irrepressible Mr Pickwick and his fellow Pickwick Club members who travel around the English countryside getting into all kinds of scrapes and adventures. Funny, warm-hearted and full of memorable and engaging characters, this is an enchanting novel that continues to delight readers today. 'I was instantly swept up in Dickens' exploding world of eccentrics and grotesques, at the heart of which a is a huge affection for mankind' Simon Callow
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Charles Dickens was an English writer and social critic. The Pickwick Papers, written when Dickens was only 25 years old, immediately brought him immense popularity. Mr. Samuel Pickwick, retired business man and confirmed bachelor, is determined that after a quiet life of enterprise the time has come to go out into the world. Together with the other members of the Pickwick Club: Tracy Tupman, Augustus Snodgrass and Nathaniel Winkle, he embarks on a series of hilariously comic adventures. From these reports emerge the rascal Jingle and his servant, Job Trotter, the engaging Sam Weller, the greedy drunkard Stiggins, and many more of Dickens's best-loved characters.
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Charles Dickens was an English writer and social critic. The Pickwick Papers, written when Dickens was only 25 years old, immediately brought him immense popularity. Mr. Samuel Pickwick, retired business man and confirmed bachelor, is determined that after a quiet lite of enterprise the time has come to go out into the world. Together with the other members of the Pickwick Club: Tracy Tupman, Augustus Snodgrass and Nathaniel Winkle, he embarks on a series of hilariously comic adventures. From these reports emerge the rascal Jingle and his servant, Job Trotter, the engaging Sam Weller, the greedy drunkard Stiggins, and many more of Dickens's best-loved characters.
1642 Руб.
Charles Dickens was an English writer and social critic. The Pickwick Papers, written when Dickens was only 25 years old, immediately brought him immense popularity. Mr. Samuel Pickwick, retired business man and confirmed bachelor, is determined that after a quiet life of enterprise the time has come to go out into the world. Together with the other members of the Pickwick Club: Tracy Tupman, Augustus Snodgrass and Nathaniel Winkle, he embarks on a series of hilariously comic adventures. From these reports emerge the rascal Jingle and his servant, Job Trotter, the engaging Sam Weller, the greedy drunkard Stiggins, and many more of Dickens's best-loved characters.
1121 Руб.
Charles Dickens was an English writer and social critic. The Pickwick Papers, written when Dickens was only 25 years old, immediately brought him immense popularity. Mr. Samuel Pickwick, retired business man and confirmed bachelor, is determined that after a quiet lite of enterprise the time has come to go out into the world. Together with the other members of the Pickwick Club: Tracy Tupman, Augustus Snodgrass and Nathaniel Winkle, he embarks on a series of hilariously comic adventures. From these reports emerge the rascal Jingle and his servant, Job Trotter, the engaging Sam Weller, the greedy drunkard Stiggins, and many more of Dickens's best-loved characters.
1198 Руб.
Charles Dickens was an English writer and social critic. The Pickwick Papers, written when Dickens was only 25 years old, immediately brought him immense popularity. Mr. Samuel Pickwick, retired business man and confirmed bachelor, is determined that after a quiet life of enterprise the time has come to go out into the world. Together with the other members of the Pickwick Club: Tracy Tupman, Augustus Snodgrass and Nathaniel Winkle, he embarks on a series of hilariously comic adventures. From these reports emerge the rascal Jingle and his servant, Job Trotter, the engaging Sam Weller, the greedy drunkard Stiggins, and many more of Dickens's best-loved characters.
199 Руб.
Charles Dickens was an English writer and social critic. The Pickwick Papers, written when Dickens was only 25 years old, immediately brought him immense popularity. Mr. Samuel Pickwick, retired business man and confirmed bachelor, is determined that after a quiet lite of enterprise the time has come to go out into the world. Together with the other members of the Pickwick Club: Tracy Tupman, Augustus Snodgrass and Nathaniel Winkle, he embarks on a series of hilariously comic adventures. From these reports emerge the rascal Jingle and his servant, Job Trotter, the engaging Sam Weller, the greedy drunkard Stiggins, and many more of Dickens's best-loved characters.
199 Руб.
Charles Dickens was an English writer and social critic. The Pickwick Papers, written when Dickens was only 25 years old, immediately brought him immense popularity. Mr. Samuel Pickwick, retired business man and confirmed bachelor, is determined that after a quiet life of enterprise the time has come to go out into the world. Together with the other members of the Pickwick Club: Tracy Tupman, Augustus Snodgrass and Nathaniel Winkle, he embarks on a series of hilariously comic adventures. From these reports emerge the rascal Jingle and his servant, Job Trotter, the engaging Sam Weller, the greedy drunkard Stiggins, and many more of Dickens's best-loved characters.
1121 Руб.
Charles Dickens was an English writer and social critic. The Pickwick Papers, written when Dickens was only 25 years old, immediately brought him immense popularity. Mr. Samuel Pickwick, retired business man and confirmed bachelor, is determined that after a quiet lite of enterprise the time has come to go out into the world. Together with the other members of the Pickwick Club: Tracy Tupman, Augustus Snodgrass and Nathaniel Winkle, he embarks on a series of hilariously comic adventures. From these reports emerge the rascal Jingle and his servant, Job Trotter, the engaging Sam Weller, the greedy drunkard Stiggins, and many more of Dickens's best-loved characters.
1198 Руб.
Le tome 9 de Calvin & Hobbes dans un format a l'italienne : la suite de la serie dans l'ordre d'origine de parution des albums aux Etats-Unis ! Les aventures de Calvin, le petit garcon raleur a l'imagination debordante, et de son tigre en peluche Hobbes ont fait le tour du monde : une amitie imaginaire, teintee d'absurde, d'humour et de philosophie... Ce grand classique de la bande dessinee d'humour, Grand Prix au festival d'Angouleme 2014, parait pour la premiere fois dans un format a l'italienne et dans l'ordre de la parution des albums aux Etats-Unis entre 1987 et 1996. Dans ce tome 9, les strips en noir et blanc alternent avec des strips en couleurs.
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Avec la parution de ce dernier tome (11), toute la serie Calvin & Hobbes existe desormais dans un format a l'italienne et dans l'ordre d'origine de parution des albums aux Etats-Unis ! Les aventures de Calvin, le petit garcon raleur a l'imagination debordante, et de son tigre en peluche Hobbes ont fait le tour du monde : une amitie imaginaire, teintee d'absurde, d'humour et de philosophie... Ce grand classique de la bande dessinee d'humour, Grand Prix au festival d'Angouleme 2014, parait pour la premiere fois dans un format a l'italienne et dans l'ordre de la parution des albums aux Etats-Unis entre 1987 et 1996. Dans ce dernier tome, les strips en noir et blanc alternent avec des strips en couleurs.
4234 Руб.
Mr. Fogg a fait un pari : il fera le tour du monde en 80 jours. Accompagne de son fidele compagnon de route Passepartout, il entame une formidable course contre la montre. Les aventures et les peeripeties ne manquent pas, puisque nos heros vont devoir contourner les multiples obstacles qui se presentent a eux pour tenter de revenir triomphant.
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Une edition anniversaire : 10 volumes de "Tout Maigret" avec des couvertures originales creees par Loustal. Jean-Luc Bannalec signe une preface inedite pour le tome 9. Maigret, ce sont 75 romans et 28 nouvelles publiees entre 1931 et 1972. Le tome 9 regroupe les romans parus entre 1968 et 1972. Maigret hesite L'Ami d'enfance de Maigret Maigret et le tueur Maigret et le marchand de vin La Folle de Maigret Maigret et l'homme tout seul Maigret et l'indicateur Maigret et Monsieur Charles Preface de Jean-Luc Bannalec Notes de Michel Carly Illustration de couverture inedite de Loustal
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Une malediction pese sur les Baskerville, qui habitent le vieux manoir de leurs ancetres, perdu au milieu d'une lande sauvage : quand un chien-demon, une bete immonde, gigantesque, surgit, c'est la mort. Le deces subit et tragique de Sir Charles Baskerville et les hurlements lugubres que l'on entend parfois venant du marais, le grand bourbier de Grimpen, accreditent la sinistre legende. Des son arrivee a Londres, venant du Canada, Sir Henry Baskerville, seul heritier de Sir Charles, recoit une lettre anonyme : "Si vous tenez a votre vie et a votre raison, eloignez-vous de la lande." Malgre ces menaces, Sir Henry decide de se rendre a Baskerville Hall, accompagne de Sherlock Holmes et de son fidele Watson. Roman captivant, angoissant, Le Chien des Baskerville est l'une des plus celebres aventures de Sherlock Holmes.
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