In the Deep South of antebellum Charleston, enslaved Gullah woman Hentie survives the day-to-day sufferings brought on by her cruel master and the white planter society that controls the institution of slavery. From Hentie's abduction and confinement on a slaver ship, we follow her journey of pain and despair as she begins her new life in a land that causes her much heartache and oppression. Her circumstances are buoyed by the warmth, love and support...

Acclaimed playwright David Henry Hwang's hilarious comedy Chinglish has been described as "a sly, funny, multi-tiered joke with a laugh-out-loud surface that conceals a movingly somber aftertaste" (Village Voice) and "a triumph in any language" (New York Magazine).Springing from the author's personal experiences in China, Chinglish follows a Midwestern American businessman desperately seeking to score a lucrative contact for his family's firm as he...

Extrait : "N'est-il pas vrai ? Antonio, c'est déjà un spectacle plein d'émotions que ces hommes debout autour d'une table de jeu, ces hommes avec leurs physionomie que contracte une impassibilité convulsive. Et puis l'or qui tinte et qui brille ! Le grand silence d'un coup décisif ! Le murmure sourd qui suit une partie gagnée ! Les mains que l'on tend ! Les voix qui réclament ! Les joueurs qui jettent l'or sur le tapis !" À PROPOS DES ÉDITIONS...

Échantillons de culture populaire brésilienne Ces contes ont été recueillis au cours de mes voyages. Ils charmaient les heures fastidieuses des longues chevauchées sous le soleil brûlant ou dans les nuits fraîches. Les uns viennent des forêts vierges et des tabas indiennes, les autres des plages et des collines portugaises. Parfois l'imagination populaire a singulièrement transposé et mélangé les traditions des indigènes et celles...

Extrait : "Un jour, un pauvre paysan assis dans le coin de sa cheminée, appela tristement sa femme. "La mère, lui dit-il, Carnaval arrive ; on se réjouit au village dans l'espoir de rompre le jeûne du Carême, et nous, nous n'aurons rien à manger ce jour-là. — Tu rêves, mon bonhomme, lui répondit la vieille ; ne possédons-nous pas un chat, un jars, un coq, un bélier et un âne ?" À PROPOS DES ÉDITIONS LIGARAN : Les éditions LIGARAN...

Extrait: "Aux temps passés, les fées et les lutins, les loups-garous et les revenants hantaient la plupart des cerveaux incultes, et, par les nuits sombres, se montraient, dit-on, çà et là, dans les campagnes, jetant dans les esprits troublés l'inquiétude, la peur, l'épouvante."

A tale of two dynasties whose fortunes are linked to the fate of an emerging nation. Elvira Vernet narrates Eccentric Neighborhoods as she attempts to solve the mystery of who her parents truly are. Her mother, the beautiful and aristocratic Clarissa Rivas de Santillana, was born into a rarefied world of privilege, one of five daughters on the family's sugar plantation. Elvira's father, Aurelio Vernet, and his three brothers and two sisters were raised...

"In honor of the bicentennial of Henry David Thoreau's birth, this edition of Walden features an introduction and annotations by renowned environmentalist Bill McKibben. 'We need to understand that when Thoreau sat in the dooryard of his cabin 'from sunrise till noon, rapt in a revery, in undisturbed solitude and stillness, while the birds sang around or flitted noiseless through the house,' he was offering counsel and example exactly suited for our...

Irwin Shaw's provocative classic about courage and morality at the height of McCarthyism Clement Archer, head of a popular radio show, faces a profound dilemma: Five of his employees stand accused of being communists, and a magazine threatens disclosure unless Archer fires each and every one. Despite his efforts to meet his own moral standards and avoid self-incrimination, Archer finds himself hounded from both ends of the political spectrum for his...