Le monde: un disque immense, posé sur un pilier de diamant émergeant de l'Abîme. Depuis toujours, deux factions, les Rouges et les Noirs, se déchirent en de terribles querelles de pouvoir. Un tourbillon de trahisons et de meurtres rythme cette guerre. La venue du Visiteur, un mystérieux androïde tombé du ciel, changera-t-elle le cours de cette histoire sanglante ?

L'abîme

La Grande oeuvre du temps

"Un certain jour de juin, le jeune Smoky Barnable quitte la grande Cité par le nord afin d'aller épouser sa bien-aimée Daily Alice et vivre avec elle dans la demeure d'Edgewood, jadis construite par John Drinkwater, architecte excentrique passionné de sciences occultes, afin d'y loger sa famille." "Edgewood : une maison qui n'en est pas une, mais dix, cent. Une folie architecturale sur laquelle le temps n'a plus de prise. Un refuge au milieu des bois pour les derniers vestiges d'un royaume imaginaire bientôt disparu.
Edgewood : un endroit hors du monde où se nouent les fils de la vie, où l'amour, la mort et le souvenir tissent des liens invisibles autour des femmes et des hommes. Un lieu enchanteur où s'écrira le testament d'une époque, sous la forme d'un Conte, lorsque, pour la dernière fois, se réunira le Parlement des Fées."

Le parlement des fées Tome 1 ; l'orée des bois

The Deep In a twilight land, two warring powers -- the Reds and the Blacks -- play out an ancient game of murder and betrayal. Then a Visitor from beyond the sky arrives to play a part in this dark and bloody pageant. From the moment he is found by two women who tend to the dead in the wake of battles, it is clear that the great game is to change at last. Beasts It is the day after tomorrow, and society has been altered dramatically by experimentation that enables scientists to combine the genetic material of different species, mixing DNA of humans with animals. Loren Casaubon is an ethologist drawn into the political and social vortex that results with Leo -- a creature both man and lion -- at its center. Engine Summer A young man named Rush That Speaks is growing up in a far distant world -- one that only dimly remembers our own age, the wondrous age of the Angels, when men could fly. Now it is the "engine summer of the world, " and Rush goes in search of the Saints who can teach him to speak truthfully, and be immortal in the stories he tells. The immortality that awaits him, though, is one he could not have imagined.

Otherwise - Three Novels by John Crowley

Clinical Trials in Oncology

In the early years of the 1940s, as the nation's young men ship off to combat, a city springs up, seemingly overnight in the fields of Oklahoma: the Van Damme airplane factory, a gargantuan complex dedicated to the construction of the necessary machinery of warfare. Labourers - mostly women - flock to this place, enticed by the opportunity to be something more than wife and homemaker. For Vi, fleeing a dying ranch; for Connie, following an unfaithful husband; for Diane, leaving behind the hot music and soldier boys to pursue something different, adult, and real; their journeys will be liberating in ways they couldn't previously imagine, and will lead each of them to Prosper Olander - disabled artist, forger, friend, lover, and the true heart and soul of the temporary city - who will change their lives in profound and unexpected ways.

Four Freedoms

A master literary stylist, John Crowley has carried readers to diverse and remarkable places in his award-winning, critically acclaimed novels -- from his classic fable, Little, Big, to his New York Times Notable Book, The Translator. Now, for the first time, all of his short fiction has been collected in one volume, demonstrating the scope, the vision, and the wonder of one of America's greatest storytellers. Courage and achievement are celebrated and questioned, paradoxes examined, and human frailty appreciated in fifteen tales, at once lyrical and provocative, ranging fromthe fantastic to the achingly real. Be it a tale of an expulsion from Eden, a journey through time, the dreams of a failed writer, ora dead woman's ambiguous legacy, each story in Novelties & Souvenirs is a glorious reading experience, offering delights to be savored ... and remembered.

Novelties & Souvenirs - Collected Short Fiction

Part 2 of the French translation of Little, Big.

Le Parlement des fées

There is more than one history of the world.Before science defined the modern age, other powers, wondrous and magical, once governed the universe, their lore perfected within a lost capital of hieroglyphs, wizard-kings, and fabulous monuments, not Egypt -- but Ægypt.What if it were really so?In the 1970s, a historian named Pierce Moffett moves to the New England countryside to write a book about Ægypt, driven by an idea he dare not believe -- that the physical laws of the universe once changed and may change again. Yet the notion is not his alone. Something waits at the locked estate of Fellowes Kraft, author of romances about Will Shakespeare and Giordano Bruno and Dr. John Dee, something for which Pierce and those near him have long sought without knowing it, a key, perhaps, to Ægypt.

L'abîme

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