Croc-Blanc retrace le parcours d'un chien-loup né à l'état sauvage et confronté dès son plus jeune âge au monde des hommes. Un monde impitoyable dans lequel il lui faudra se battre pour survivre.
Inspiré par l'expérience de Jack London dans le grand nord canadien, ce roman d'aventure sauvage dépeint les différents comportements humains qu'il y a rencontrés à travers les yeux de l'animal.
L'Odyssée est une épopée de la Grèce antique composée vers la fin du VIIIe siècle avant J.-C.
Ce long poème épique fait suite à l'Iliade et relate le retour du guerrier grec Ulysse dans son île d'Ithaque après avoir gagné la guerre de Troie. Loin d'être sans obstacle, ce périple en mer durera dix ans et le confrontera à une série de personnages mythologiques tels la nymphe Calypso, les Cyclopes, la magiciennes Circé ou encore les envoûtantes sirènes. Il devra pourtant déjouer ces pièges ainsi que le courroux de Poséidon pour délivrer son épouse Pénélope de ses prétendants et retrouver son fils Télémaque...
Texte fondateur de la littérature occidentale, l'Odyssée est attribuée au poète Homère, le plus important de son époque.
"Il me semble que l'homme n'est pas fait pour être si facilement heureux ! Le bonheur est comme ces palais des îles enchantées dont les dragons gardent les portes. Il faut combattre pour le conquérir."
Le jeune marin Edmond Dantès est victime d'une trahison infâme le jour de son retour à Marseille, alors qu'il est sur le point de se marier avec la belle Mercédès. Il se retrouve jeté en prison par la jalousie des autres. Il s'ensuit une lutte acharnée contre son destin et contre lui-même. Dantès devra survivre à maintes épreuves s'il veut un jour pouvoir se venger et revoir la femme qu'il aime. C'est un jeune homme plein d'espoir qui est jeté dans les cachots, mais c'est le mystérieux Comte de Monte Cristo qui ressortira des ténèbres.
Considéré comme étant l'un des meilleurs romans de tous les temps, cette épique histoire de vengeance explore des thèmes tels que la justice, la piété, l'amour et le pardon. Il a inspiré de nombreuses adaptions, tant au théâtre qu'au cinéma, notamment le film de Kevin Reynolds de 2002 avec Jim Caviezel et Guy Pearce.
Alexandre Dumas père (1802-1870) était un écrivain français. Il est surtout connu pour ses nombreux romans historiques, ainsi que ses contes, qui ont fait de lui un des auteurs français les plus lus dans le monde. Dumas a aussi écrit des pièces de théâtre, des articles pour des journaux et des périodiques, et il était un correspondant de haut profil. Dumas était métis, sa grand-mère paternelle ayant été une esclave afro-américaine. De ce fait, il fut victime de beaucoup de racisme. Son fils, Alexandre Dumas fils, fut aussi écrivain et est connu surtout pour son roman, "La Dame aux camélias". Dumas père, quant à lui, est l'auteur entre autres du "Comte de Monte-Cristo" et "Les Trois Mousquetaires".
One of Victor Hugo's finest works, Les Miserables is a monumental classic dedicated to the oppressed, the underdog, the laborer, the rebel, the orphan, and the misunderstood. Les Miserables is a rich, emotional novel that captures nothing less than the entirety of life in nineteenth-century France. This great humanitarian work encourages compassion and hope in the face of adversity and injustice. It is also an historical novel of great scope, and provides a detailed vision of nineteenth-century French politics and society. Sensational, dramatic, packed with rich excitement and filled with the sweep and violence of human passions, Les Miserables is not only a superb adventure, but a powerful social document. The story of how the convict, Jean-Valjean, struggles to escape his past and reaffirm his humanity, in a world brutalized by poverty and ignorance, became the gospel of the poor and the oppressed.Optimized for Kindle devices and featuring Panel Zoom facility.From its beginnings in the 1940's to today, Classics Illustrated continues to encourage a love of reading and adventure in youthful minds through beautifully-illustrated comic book adaptations of the world's most beloved stories by the world's greatest authors.A collection of Classics Illustrated books is an inviting start to any young person's library.
One of the most swiftly moving and unified of Charles Dickens's great novels, the title Oliver Twist is the name of a poor orphan boy cruelly treated in the public workhouse. Pennyless and hungry, he runs away to London, only to fall into the clutches of a gang of thieves and pickpockets led by the master criminal, Fagin. Befriended by a man robbed by the gang, Oliver learns his true identity and gains a home, a fortune, and a family!Optimized for Kindle devices and featuring Panel Zoom facility.From its beginnings in the 1940's to today, Classics Illustrated continues to encourage a love of reading and adventure in youthful minds through beautifully-illustrated comic book adaptations of the world's most beloved stories by the world's greatest authors.A collection of Classics Illustrated books is an inviting start to any young person's library.
Daniel Defoe has woven a fantastic tale of the adventures of Robinson Crusoe, a young lad form the City of York in England who yearns for the life of the sea. His father wants Robinson to attend law school and get a good education, but Robinson decides otherwise. Follow Robinson as he survives pirates, shipwrecks and cannibals.Optimized for Kindle devices and featuring Panel Zoom facility.From its beginnings in the 1940's to today, Classics Illustrated continues to encourage a love of reading and adventure in youthful minds through beautifully-illustrated comic book adaptations of the world's most beloved stories by the world's greatest authors.A collection of Classics Illustrated books is an inviting start to any young person's library.
Le gentleman anglais Phileas Fogg a fait le pari fou de parvenir à faire le tour du monde en seulement quatre-vingts jours. Accompagné de son serviteur français Jean Passepartout, il se lance dans une course contre la montre effrénée, usant de tous les moyens de transport imaginables. Mais lorsque l'inspecteur Fix part à ses trousses, convaincu qu'il a dévalisé la banque d'Angleterre, son périple s'annonce plus compliqué que prévu...
De Londres à New York en passant par Suez, Bombay, Calcutta, Hong Kong, Yokohama et San Francisco, ce carnet de route plein de rebondissements mêle habilement voyages et avancées techniques, deux thèmes majeurs de l'oeuvre du visionnaire Jules Verne.
Alice, fillette ennuyée par le monde qui l'entoure, choisit par un après-midi d'été de suivre un curieux lapin blanc dans son terrier.
Elle se retrouve alors plongée dans un univers aux antipodes du sien, ancré dans la démesure, où les chenilles fument de l'opium, les rongeurs apprécient le thé et les cartes prennent vie.
Succession hallucinée de tableaux tous plus déroutants les uns que les autres, le célèbre chef-d'oeuvre Alice au pays des merveilles utilise le prisme de l'univers imaginaire pour dévoiler l'absurdité d'un monde trop réel.
An 1877 novel by English author Anna Sewell. The novel became an immediate bestseller, with Sewell dying just five months after its publication, long enough to see her first and only novel become a success. With fifty million copies sold, Black Beauty is one of the best-selling books of all time. A compelling tale of a spirited young thoroughbred that captured the hearts of readers throughout Victorian England when it was first published. A timeless story of courage, hope, and strength guaranteed to delight readers.Optimized for Kindle devices and featuring Panel Zoom facility.From its beginnings in the 1940's to today, Classics Illustrated continues to encourage a love of reading and adventure in youthful minds through beautifully-illustrated comic book adaptations of the world's most beloved stories by the world's greatest authors.
A collection of Classics Illustrated books is an inviting start to any young person's library.
The Jungle Book is a collection of stories by British Nobel laureate Rudyard Kipling. The tales in the book are fables, using animals in an anthropomorphic manner to give moral lessons. The best known of them are the three stories revolving around the adventures of an abandoned "man cub" Mowgli who is raised by wolves in the Indian jungle. The most famous of the other stories are probably Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, about a heroic mongoose, and Toomai of the Elephants, the tale of a young elephant-handler.Optimized for Kindle devices and featuring Panel Zoom facility.From its beginnings in the 1940's to today, Classics Illustrated continues to encourage a love of reading and adventure in youthful minds through beautifully-illustrated comic book adaptations of the world's most beloved stories by the world's greatest authors.A collection of Classics Illustrated books is an inviting start to any young person's library.
Mary Morstan, une jeune gouvernante anglaise ayant perdu son père en mer depuis dix ans, vient demander de l'aide à Sherlock Holmes : chaque année, elle reçoit par la poste une perle d'une grande valeur, sans qu'elle en connaisse l'expéditeur. Mais cette fois-ci, elle a reçu une missive lui fixant un étrange rendez-vous.
Le docteur Waston, sous le charme de la jeune femme, ne se fera pas prier pour accompagner Sherlock Holmes dans cette aventure, qui, afin de résoudre cette énigme palpitante, les mènera de l'Inde aux brumes de la Tamise, sur la route d'un trésor caché...
Captivantes, pleines d'humour, les aventures du détective Sherlock Holmes et du docteur Watson sont menées d'une main de maître par Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, l'un des pères fondateurs du polar.
Young orphan Judy Abbott's life is turned upside down following an unexpected message. An anonymous benefactor has offered to pay for Judy to attend college on one condition - she must write to the mysterious donor every month to update them on her progress, and she must never know who they are. With college life a whirl of new friends, classes and parties, there is plenty for Judy to update her benefactor about, but the question remains - just who is this anonymous stranger? And why do they care so much for Judy? A charming and humorous coming of age story from the famous American author Jean Webster.
Jean Webster (1876-1916) was an American writer and social activist. Born in New York to a matriarchal family, Webster was deeply influenced by the strong women who surrounded her. She became interested in social issues while at Vassar College, an interest she would maintain throughout her life, alongside women's suffrage and education, all of which would influence her writing. Her most famous works include `When Patty Went to College' and `Daddy-Long-Legs', the latter of which also toured as a successful play. She died in 1916 following childbirth complications aged 39 while at the height of her career.
« Imagine-toi qu'au temps jadis, l'Éléphant n'avait pas de trompe. Il n'avait qu'un nez noiraud, courtaud, et gros comme une botte. Il pouvait bien le tortiller de droite et de gauche, mais non pas ramasser des choses avec. »
« L'Enfant d'éléphant » (1902) est un conte racontant pourquoi la trompe de l'éléphant est si grande.
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) était un auteur britannique. Né en Inde, il est surtout connu pour son roman « Le Livre de la Jungle ». Il fut à la fois le premier anglais et le plus jeune lauréat (42 ans) à recevoir le Prix Nobel de littérature.
"What a silly thing Love is. It is not as useful as Logic, for it does not prove anything, and it is always telling one of things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true."
A young man is in love with a girl who promises to dance with him at a ball if he brings her a red rose. The boy is at a loss because he does not know where to find a red rose. A nightingale overhears and decides to help. But is their love even worth the sacrifice of the nightingale?
'The Nightingale and the Rose' is a heart-breaking fable by Oscar Wilde about the nature of love and sacrifice, and is so very captivating and emotional for such a short story.
Fans of 'Aesop's Fables' will love discovering the moral of this story.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was an Irish playwright, novelist, essayist and poet famous for `The Picture of Dorian Gray' and `The Importance of Being Earnest'. He died in Paris at the age of 46.
'The Importance of Being Earnest' is Oscar Wilde's most popular and enduring play. Poking fun at the ridiculousness of human nature, especially that of the Victorian elite, it is both incredibly clever and undeniably silly.
It has been performed and made into films and for television many times, most recently in the 2002 film starring Colin Firth, Reese Witherspoon and Judi Dench.
Il y a un renard affamé qui a très envie de dévorer une petite poule rousse qu´il connaît, mais cette dernière n´a pas l´intention de se laisser faire.Étant donné que les contes sont transmis de bouche à bouche, l'auteur originel de ce conte n'est pas connu.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world (Wonderland) populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures. The tale plays with logic, giving the story lasting popularity with adults as well as children.Optimized for Kindle devices and featuring Panel Zoom facility.From its beginnings in the 1940's to today, Classics Illustrated continues to encourage a love of reading and adventure in youthful minds through beautifully-illustrated comic book adaptations of the world's most beloved stories by the world's greatest authors.A collection of Classics Illustrated books is an inviting start to any young person's library.
Ben Hur takes place when Rome was the most powerful civilization on Earth. Young Judah Ben Hur is persecuted for his beliefs by his Roman friends and finds himself serving on a prison ship. A fateful attack by pirates sees him freed and adopted by a Roman politician. When he returns to his homeland he challenges his former friend Massala to a chariot race and becomes a follower of Jesus, making it his mission to save the Son of God from meeting an untimely fate at the hands of the Romans.Optimized for Kindle devices and featuring Panel Zoom facility.From its beginnings in the 1940's to today, Classics Illustrated continues to encourage a love of reading and adventure in youthful minds through beautifully-illustrated comic book adaptations of the world's most beloved stories by the world's greatest authors.A collection of Classics Illustrated books is an inviting start to any young person's library.
Called by some the greatest American novel, Huckleberry Finn follows a boy and a runaway slave as they make their way down the Mississippi. In a world filled with con men and slaves, Huck and Jim have only each other to rely on. Mark Twain blends brilliant satire and social commentary with breathtaking adventure, told in Huck's own wry, observant words.Optimized for Kindle devices and featuring Panel Zoom facility.From its beginnings in the 1940's to today, Classics Illustrated continues to encourage a love of reading and adventure in youthful minds through beautifully-illustrated comic book adaptations of the world's most beloved stories by the world's greatest authors.A collection of Classics Illustrated books is an inviting start to any young person's library.
A classic fairy tale of good and evil, this story follows Little Red Riding Hood into the forest and along the wooded path to deliver a basket of food to her sick grandmother. But she encounters a Big Bad Wolf with an empty stomach and a cunning mind, who has other plans for Little Red Riding Hood and her grandmother.Optimized for Kindle devices and featuring Panel Zoom facility. Lovingly created from 1953 to 1969, Classics Illustrated Junior continues to bring joy and wonder to young children through beautifully-illustrated adaptations of the world's most beloved fairy tales and stories by the world's greatest authors.A collection of Classics Illustrated Junior books is a great way to encourage reading and adventure in any young child.
