Détruisons les machines

When I was a small boy at the beginning of the century I remember an old man who wore knee-breeches and worsted stockings, and who used to hobble about the street of our village with the help of a stick. He must have been getting on for eighty in the year 1807, earlier than which date I suppose I can hardly remember him, for I was born in 1802. A few white locks hung about his ears, his shoulders were bent and his knees feeble, but he was still hale, and was much respected in our little world of Paleham. His name was Pontifex.

His wife was said to be his master; I have been told she brought him a little money, but it cannot have been much. She was a tall, square-shouldered person (I have heard my father call her a Gothic woman) who had insisted on being married to Mr Pontifex when he was young and too good-natured to say nay to any woman who wooed him. The pair had lived not unhappily together, for Mr Pontifex's temper was easy and he soon learned to bow before his wife?s more stormy moods.

The Way of All Flesh

60 Recettes pour centrifugeuse - Occasion

«Avant de raconter l'histoire du second voyage accompli par mon père dans le singulier pays dont il fit la découverte il y a trente ans, il me semble nécessaire de dire en quelques mots quelle fut son existence à partir du moment où il publia son livre, en 1872, jusqu'à sa mort, au commencement de l'été 1891. Et en passant j'expliquerai brièvement les causes qui l'empêchèrent de conserver auprès du public la faveur qu'il semblait avoir acquise dès ses débuts.»

Nouveaux voyages en Erewhon

Crumbles salés et sucrés

Petits panés - Occasion

Dans ce grand roman, chef-d'œuvre de la littérature anglaise du XIXe siècle, Samuel Butler retrace l'histoire d'une famille pendant plusieurs générations, en étudiant minutieusement les relations entre les pères et leurs fils : de John Pontifex, menuisier de village, à Ernest, obligé à devenir pasteur et qui connaîtra le malheur et la prison avant de trouver l'amour et la paix. Découvert et traduit par Valéry Larbaud, un livre qui a fait scandale en dénonçant la cruauté et la tyrannie des institutions familiales dans l'Angleterre puritaine.

Ainsi va toute chair

Erewhon, set in a thinly disguised New Zealand, ended with the escape of its protagonist from the native Erewhonians by balloon. In the sequel, narrated by his son John. Higgs returns to Erewhon and meets his former lover Yram, who is now the mother of his son George. He discovers that he is now worshipped as "the Sunchild." He finds himself in danger from the villainous Professors Hanky and Panky, who are determined to protect Sunchildism from him. With George's help Higgs escapes from their clutches and returns to England.

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