The Tyrant - formato ePub

Voici quatre-vingt-huit poèmes qui s'appellent, qui se répondent et longtemps se font écho sous un titre abrupt, mais éclairé par l'origine et par l'oeuvre de Jacques Chessex. Car ici règnent le sentiment...

« Les essences d'espèces rares et d'espèces communes, je les aurai cherchées dans le sexe des filles, et les autres traces, signatures, preuves, sentiers de l'odeur dans l'autre odeur, urines évaporées...

Que voit-on d'un homme en premier, sinon sa tête ? Des cavernes primitives à l'atelier des physionomistes, du dessin à la sculpture, il y a une représentation de la tête. « J'ai beau fouiller, c'est les...

Né en 1934 à Payerne (Suisse), Jacques Chessex obtint le prix Goncourt avec L'Ogre en 1973. Romancier et poète il est l'auteur d'une oeuvre importante où on retiendra entre autres : La Trinité (1993),...

"Il y avait l'air le plus suave d'Europe, la brillantine, la poudre de riz, les loukoums du Café Hoggar, le vin blanc glacé, l'odeur de poisson dans les ports de la rive où ne vient pas le vent. La mer...

« Maintenant ce qui a été moi est libre De recevoir la vraie neige Ouverte à l’absence de moi Elu le voyageur qui chante Parce qu’il est attendu Mais plus heureux celui qui se perd Déjà sans corps sans...

« Je suis figé au bord de la route, mon père s'est arrêté lui aussi, maintenant il vient sur moi, il me saisit durement par le bras, le chapeau est baissé sur les yeux, sur les lunettes, le col du manteau...

« Dans ces campagnes perdues une jeune fille est une étoile qui aimante les folies. Inceste et rumination, dans l'ombre célibataire, de la part charnelle à jamais convoitée et interdite. Sans répit déchiffrer...

Un vieil homme de soixante-quinze ans se souvient des ombres de sa jeunesse. L'été de 1760, Jean de Watteville, étudiant en théologie, passe les vacances chez son oncle dans le manoir d'Ussières, non...

« Un vieux fou est plus fou qu’un jeune fou, cela est admis, quoi dire alors du fou qui nous intéresse, lorsque l’enfermement comprime sa fureur jusqu’à la faire éclater en scènes sales ? » Quel est l’homme...

Hantée par le mauvais destin et la menace, c'est de ces dangers, des ruses transparentes du démon que chacune des trente-six nouvelles de ce livre tire un pouvoir d'ahurir et de troubler, qui est l'une...

Royaume, " l'ardent royaume ", c'est le corps de Monna, sa beauté insolente et douce, mais c'est aussi l'enchaînement des plaisirs, des joies et des folies qu'y découvre Me Mange et qui vont le perdre.Car...

Carabas est un chant et un coup de poing. Jacques Chessex, qui avait un peu roulé sa bosse à Paris, a fixé ses quartiers définitifs dans son pays vaudois. Il est devenu l'un des écrivains romands les...

" Qu'est-ce qui m'avait si fort lié à Benjamin qu'à plus d'un siècle près je me sentisse beaucoup plus que son contemporain, en vérité une sorte de double dans mon propre siècle, augmenté de mon avantage...

Né à Payerne, gros bourg vaudois, Jacques Chessex avait huit ans quand les faits relatés dans ce livre ont eu lieu. Les faits ? Nous sommes en 1942, l’Europe est à feu et à sang, la Suisse quoique neutre...

Un renard anticonformiste se rebelle contre l'engouement général. Il n'ira pas dans la lune. Prolongement possible : la conquête de l'espace et réfléxions sur le thème du rêve at de l'action. Une version...

The perfect neighborhood hides the most dangerous secrets.Sarah thought her new neighbors, Emily and Ryan, had it all: charm, kindness, and a flawless marriage. But beneath their polished smiles lurks...

When high-ranking official Henry Caldwell is found brutally murdered in his opulent estate, Detective Paul Johnson is called to the scene of what appears to be a straightforward case of political retribution....

This captivating narrative blends stunning descriptions, powerful dialogues, and profound storytelling to bring a fresh totally unexplored perspective to the ancient legend. Encounter unknown characters...

Emmaline has been in a coma for two crucial years of her teenage life. Waking life is almost as disorienting, but finally she is reunited with her sister and father. Now she must make up for lost time,...

Children are not brought up in society to focus on politics. They are often encouraged to enjoy their life and their childhood. It is often said that kids should just be kids. But when there is a political...

Aidan Black left the Marine Corps to skip the red tape, but it's a woman from his past he's now trying to avoid… one who believes him capable of murder. Briar Sutton is the last person I expect to see...

Cillian is no stranger to the pull of dark magic as he is the son of both the Dark realm Princess and the Light realm Prince. What doesn't help is that he may have been further infused with dark magic...

This is a collection of ten horror microfiction tales, sometimes called bite-sized fiction or 'drabbles'. These stories are limited to precisely one-hundred words and aim to pack a punch, all the while...

The Stygian Lepus Magazine is a thrilling foray into dark speculative fiction. In each new edition, readers explore the depths of imagination, where fear and fascination intertwine.Offering diverse genres...

The "Love on the Ice" series delivers a pulse-pounding journey through five heart-stopping books that redefine love on and off the hockey rink!Book #1: Melting the Ice Between Us (Novella)I'm not sticking...

"Hast thou seen that lordly castle,That castle by the sea?Golden and red above itThe clouds float gorgeously."Do you remember GratianGratian Conyfer, the godson of the four winds, the boy who lived at...

The stories begin with those which children like bestthe old Blue Beard, Puss in Boots, Hop o my Thumb, Little Red Riding Hood, The Sleeping Beauty, and Toads and Pearls. These were first collected, written,...

"Eugene Witla, wilt thou have this woman to thy wedded wife, to live together after God's ordinance in the holy estate of matrimony? Wilt thou love her, comfort her, honour her, and keep her in sickness...

Quite aside from its natural characteristics, there is an atmosphere about a college town, especially a New England college town, that is unmistakable. It is not so much actively intellectual as passively...

Jaime Febrer arose at nine o'clock. Old Antonia, the faithful servant who cherished the memory of the past glories of the family, and who had attended upon Jaime from the day of his birth, had been bustling...

SAMSARA'S DEAD HAVE CHOSEN NEL. AND THE CACOPHONY CALLED FOR JUSTICE. Archaeologist Dr. Nel Bently has never been farther from home. With a tenuous ceasefire from Lin's rebellion force and genocidal Harris...

Dangerously good-looking. Dangerously breathtaking. This dangerously sinful cowboy is going to steal her heart. When the outback's bare-knuckle champion, Dex Riggs, arrives in Sophie's emergency room,...

Nina Rosethorn, a university student, survives a lightning strike and returns home to Vancouver. But the incident triggers a haunting ability: premonitions manifest in her nightmares. Determined to prevent...

Star Maker, regarded as one of the true classics of science fiction, Star Maker is a poetic and deeply philosophical work. The story details the mental journey of an unnamed narrator who is transported...

The contents of the work which gave such pleasure to this learned antiquary are as follows:I. IntroductionSimilarity of Arts and CustomsSimilarity of NamesOrigin of the WorkImitationCasual CoincidenceMiltonDante.II....

Agatha-nominated series! A madcap mystery set in the off, off, OFF Broadway world of theater (#4 in the Ivy Meadows Mystery series)There's a new sheriff in town—and she can sing! When Gold Bug Gulch's...

Have you ever felt that itch in the back of your brain you just can't scratch? A particular gnawing on your mind biting away your best thoughts? Meet Wormy: the literal brain worm residing inside the...

In Sister Carrie, Dreiser portrayed a changing society, writing about a young woman who flees rural life for the city (Chicago) and struggles with poverty, complex relationships with men, and prostitution....

The first question to be proposed by a rational being is, not what is profitable, but what is Right. Duty must be primary, prominent, most conspicuous, among the objects of human thought and pursuit....

Tales of Space and Time, A collection of short stories: "The Crystal Egg", "The Star", "A Story of the Stone Age", "A Story of the Days to Come" & "The Man who could Work Miracles" Some Books of...

The "Times.""For its rapid action, in fact, we have seldom read a better story, or one which is more full of incidents, sanguinary, trenchant, and robust."The "Daily Telegraph.""A true and a wonderfully...

This book, re-edited and illustrated by e-kitap projesi and published again in ebook format. In this book, telling that Cooterells adventures, and so was a treasure adventure, Naturally then Ben felt...

The SCENE is the Exterior of a Cottage in West Issacshire on a desperately Arcadian afternoon in August. MR. ICKY, quaintly dressed in the costume of an Elizabethan peasant, is pottering and doddering...

When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It was true, too. She had a little thin face and a little...

The day that Henry Smix met and embraced Gasoline Power and went up Main Street hand in hand with it is not yet forgotten. It was a hasty marriage, so to speak, and the results of it were truly deplorable....