Rejected by the man she loves when he discovers that her father will disinherit her if they marry, Catherine Sloper again meets Morris Townsend after the death of her forbidding and domineering parent

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A very young woman's first job: governess for two weirdly beautiful, strangely distant, oddly silent children, Miles and Flora, at a forlorn estate...An estate haunted by a beckoning evil.Half-seen figures who glare from dark towers and dusty windows- silent, foul phantoms who, day by day, night by night, come closer, ever closer. With growing horror, the helpless governess realizes the fiendish creatures want the children, seeking to corrupt their bodies, possess their minds, own their souls...But worse-much worse- the governess discovers that Miles and Flora have no terror of the lurking evil.For they want the walking dead as badly as the dead want them.

Le tour d'écrou

Court roman fantastique fascinant d'Henry James, pour les élèves de 2de et de 1re, proposé ici dans une traduction particulièrement accessible.

Le Tour d'écrou

The narrator speculates upon the relationships between house guests at a weekend party. John Lyon's introduction discusses how the story grew away from James, becoming a curiously intimate revelation of his interests and methods. Notes and textual revisions are also included.

La source sacrée

Madame de Mauves ; Gabrielle de Bergerac

The Prince had always liked his London, when it had come to him; he was one of the modern Romans who find by the Thames a more convincing image of the truth of the ancient state than any they have left by the Tiber. Brought up on the legend of the City to which the world paid tribute, he recognised in the present London much more than in contemporary Rome the real dimensions of such a case. If it was a question of an Imperium, he said to himself, and if one wished, as a Roman, to recover a little the sense of that, the place to do so was on London Bridge, or even, on a fine afternoon in May, at Hyde Park Corner.

The Golden Bowl

Nouvelles Completes. Tome 1

La veille de Noël, un homme lit l'histoire étrange racontée par l'un des témoins des faits rapportés, une gouvernante chargée de garder deux enfants que viennent hanter des fantômes dépravés qui se jouent de leur innocence. Le texte est accompagné d'outils pédagogiques permettant l'analyse du récit et de sa structure narrative complexe et l'étude du genre fantastique.

La Bête dans la jungle (The Beast in the Jungle);Dans la cage (In the Cage);L'Image dans le tapis (The Figure in the Carpet);Les Papiers d'Aspern (The Aspern Papers);L'Élève (The Pupil)

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