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Bram Stoker

Sylvia Plath

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Agatha Christie

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

William Shakespeare

Albert Camus

Penseur solaire, romancier métaphysique et lyrique, dramaturge politique, journaliste engagé, Albert Camus a été de tous les combats de son temps ; et le temps a souvent montré, outre la valeur de ses oeuvres, la justesse de ses positions. De l'Algérie coloniale aux planches parisiennes, des premiers articles à la lutte contre les totalitarismes, voici l'histoire d'un auteur qui sut, au milieu des tempêtes du XXe siècle, garder son cap : celui d'un humanisme sans dieu.

Franz Kafka

This 1973 text provides a critical introduction to the writings of Franz Kafka. Within it Ronald Gray surveys the novels and short stories, and glances also at the religious or confessional writings. He presents a persuasive and coherent account of Kafka's personal and artistic development and its meaning and value for us. Dr Gray argues that the early short stories are most finished and controlled; here Kafka recognised and managed to find a form exactly fitting his own condition, and the writing is less compulsive and obsessional than it became later. Dr Gray quotes extensively, translating specifically for the purpose. He writes for all whose who read Kafka, especially the many who read him in translation and would like a helpful and shrewd guide to understanding. Kafka's work hauntingly expresses one whole area of the modern mind - its anguish, dissociation and guilt - and this sane and sympathetic book puts him into a humane perspective.

Edgar Allan Poe

George Orwell

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Oscar Wilde

Winner of both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize, <i>Oscar Wilde </i>is the definitive biography of the tortured poet and playwright and the last book by renowned biographer and literary critic Richard Ellmann. Ellmann dedicated two decades to the research and writing of this biography, resulting in a complex and richly detailed portrait of Oscar Wilde. Ellman captures the wit, creativity, and charm of the psychologically and sexually complicated writer, as well as the darker aspects of his personality and life. Covering everything from Wilde's rise as a young literary talent to his eventual imprisonment and death in exile with exquisite detail, Ellmann's fascinating account of Wilde's life and work is a resounding triumph.