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Direction le Moyen Age : parti combattre en Terre sainte, le roi d'Angleterre -- Richard Coeur de Lion -- disparaît mystérieusement. Son fidèle chevalier, Ivanhoé, part donc à sa recherche. Grâce aux titres de la collection "Harrap's school", les élèves de collège peuvent commencer à lire en VO tous les grands classiques de la littérature anglo-saxonne. Le texte en anglais est adapté aux niveaux des collégiens et revu par des enseignants. Il est également enrichi de belles illustrations, d'un lexique en fin d'ouvrage pour aider à la compréhension de l'intrigue et d'une version audio pour s'imprégner du bon accent dès le collège et de fiches pédagogiques téléchargeables pour favoriser l'étude en classe. Lire en anglais ? C'est facile et plaisant avec Harrap's.
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''Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.'' Set just before the Jacobite Rising in 1715, Scott drew upon the political and economic struggles leading up to the rebellion and the tumultuous history of the Highlands in his classic adventure novel Rob Roy. Despite the book''s title, Frank Osbaldistone is the protagonist, travelling through England and the Scottish Highlands to collect a debt owed to his father by his cousin Rashleigh. On his journey he comes across the mysterious and striking Rob Roy, the infamous yet hunted outlaw. A story about justice, love and the harsh realities of 18th-century Highland life, Scott''s work is still viewed as the ultimate historical adventure novel.
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Edition bilingue. Ce récit est extrait des Chroniques de Canongate (1827). Le souvenir collectif de la bataille de Culloden en Ecosse (1746) et de sa longue et terrible répression par l'armée anglaise hante littéralement la Veuve, survivante d'un clan aristocratique, réfugiée à l'abandon dans une misérable cabane.
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Au xiie siècle, Cédric de Rotherwood, dit le Saxon, un thane (ou vavasseur, pour les Normands) nostalgique de l'Angleterre saxonne vaincue en 1066, rêve de rétablir sur le trône de l'Angleterre un monarque autochtone en la personne d'Athelstane de Coningsburgh, un voisin, descendant des derniers rois saxons. Dans ce but, il envisage de l'unir avec sa pupille, Lady Rowena de Hargottstandstede, princesse saxonne descendant du roi Alfred.
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Walter Tandy Murch : painting and drawings, 1925-1967
George Lucas, Walter Scott Murch
- Rizzoli
- 21 Septembre 2021
- 9780847870592
Walter Tandy Murch (1907 1967) is best known for his enigmatic, dreamlike still life paintings of everyday objects and mechanical devices in a style that falls between Magic Realist, Surrealist, and Realist. This volume offers the most comprehensive collection of his work, including his striking commercial work for magazines and his paintings from the extensive collection of George Lucas. Lucas calls himself a fanboy of Murch s art paintings and drawings he describes as simultaneously functional and dreamy, simple and complicated; they are quiet yet grab your attention. The tension of these opposing reactions draws viewers into Murch s still lifes, which caught the attention of famed art dealer Betty Parsons, who also represented artists such as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Ellsworth Kelly, and Agnes Martin. Murch showed his work at Parsons s gallery for nearly thirty years. With illuminating essays and extensive plates sections displaying Murch s works, this celebration of an exceptionally talented and visionary artist is long overdue.
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Wilfred of Ivanhoe is a Saxon loyal to the Norman king Richard I. Because of this loyalty, and his love for Lady Rowena, Ivanhoe is cast out by his father, a Saxon loyalist determined to liberate the Saxon people from Norman rule. He plans to marry Rowena, his ward and a descendant of the Saxon king Alfred, to Lord Aethelstane, pretender to the throne of England. In so doing, Ivanhoe would unite two rival Saxon houses in their claim for the crown. Ivanhoe returns from the Crusades in secret and is joined in his plans to re-establish Richard on the thrown by the moneylender Isaac of York, his daughter Rebecca, the mysterious Black Knight, Lady Rowena, and Robin Hood and his merry men.