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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : C. S. Lewis, Eoin Colfer, Patrick Mccabe, Leonard Wibberley. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Clive Staples Lewis, plus connu sous le nom de C. S. Lewis, né à Belfast le 29 novembre 1898 et mort à Oxford le 22 novembre 1963, était un écrivain et universitaire irlandais. Il est connu pour ses travaux sur la littérature médiévale, ses ouvrages de critique littéraire et d'apologétique du christianisme, ainsi que pour la série des Chroniques de Narnia parues entre 1950 et 1957. Il était un ami très proche de J. R. R. Tolkien, l'auteur du Seigneur des anneaux, aux côtés duquel il a enseigné à la faculté de littérature anglaise de l'université d'Oxford ; ils faisaient tous deux partie du cercle littéraire des Inklings. En partie grâce à l'influence de Tolkien, Lewis s'est converti au christianisme, devenant, selon ses propres termes, « un très ordinaire laïc de l'Église d'Angleterre » ; cette conversion a eu de profondes conséquences sur son œuvre. il a acquis une grande popularité par les chroniques radiophoniques sur le christianisme qu'il a données au cours de la Seconde Guerre mondiale et obtenu un énorme succès avec ses livres de fantasy pour enfants. Les œuvres de C. S. Lewis ont été traduites en plus de 40 langues et le recueil des Chroniques de Narnia s'est vendu à plus de 120 millions d'exemplaires dans le monde et continue à se vendre au rythme de plus d'un million d'exemplaires par an. Le Monde de Narnia a également été adapté à plusieurs reprises au théâtre et au cinéma. Venu au monde le 29 novembre 1898, au sein d'une famille protestante aisée d'origine galloise, dans une maison de campagne à quelques kilomètres de Belfast en Irlande, Clive Staple Lewis est le deuxième enfant d'Albert Jam...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Novels by Patrick Mccabe, the Butcher Boy, Breakfast on Pluto, the Dead School, Emerald Germs of Ireland, Mondo Desperado. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: The Butcher Boy is a 1992 novel by Patrick McCabe. It was shortlisted for the 1992 Booker Prize and won the 1992 Irish Times Irish Literature Prize for Fiction. The Butcher Boy is set in a small town in Ireland in the late 1950s. It tells the story of Francis 'Francie' Brady, a schoolboy who retreats into a violent fantasy world as his troubled home life collapses. In the early part of the book it becomes apparent that Francie's mother is frequently abused both verbally and physically by her husband, Benny, a bitter alcoholic. Francie's mother often considers suicide and is committed for a time to a mental hospital. Francie seems largely unaware of the trouble at home, and spends the early part of the book in the company of his best friend Joe Purcell, hiding out in a chicken-house and shouting abuse at the fish in the local stream. The two befriend classmate Phillip Nugent, the son of Francie's sanctimonious neighbor, Mrs. Nugent, but end up stealing his comic books. Francie recalls vividly an episode in which she hurls a torrent of verbal abuse at Francie's mother, claiming that the Brady family are 'a bunch of pigs.' Francie takes this insult to heart, and begins to harass the Nugents when they are walking through the town, denying them access through a certain street until they pay the fictional 'Pig Toll tax'. So begins an unhealthy obsession that underpins the rest of the novel. Word comes that Francie's uncle Alo, who is something of a local celebrity, is coming to town. A party is arranged and most of the town turns up. Alo arrives and sings with his gues...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=2237294 ... Read more

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Title: Lacanian 'Pussy': towards a psychoanalytic reading of Patrick McCabe's Breakfast on Pluto.
Author: Peter Mahon
Publication: Irish University Review: a journal of Irish Studies (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 22, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 37Issue: 2Page: 441(31)

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This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: The Butcher Boy, Breakfast on Pluto, the Dead School, Emerald Germs of Ireland, Mondo Desperado. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: The Butcher Boy is a 1992 novel by Patrick McCabe. It was shortlisted for the 1992 Booker Prize and won the 1992 Irish Times Irish Literature Prize for Fiction. The Butcher Boy is set in a small town in Ireland in the late 1950s. It tells the story of Francis 'Francie' Brady, a schoolboy who retreats into a violent fantasy world as his troubled home life collapses. In the early part of the book it becomes apparent that Francie's mother is frequently abused both verbally and physically by her husband, Benny, a bitter alcoholic. Francie's mother often considers suicide and is committed for a time to a mental hospital. Francie seems largely unaware of the trouble at home, and spends the early part of the book in the company of his best friend Joe Purcell, hiding out in a chicken-house and shouting abuse at the fish in the local stream. The two befriend classmate Phillip Nugent, the son of Francie's sanctimonious neighbor, Mrs. Nugent, but end up stealing his comic books. Francie recalls vividly an episode in which she hurls a torrent of verbal abuse at Francie's mother, claiming that the Brady family are 'a bunch of pigs.' Francie takes this insult to heart, and begins to harass the Nugents when they are walking through the town, denying them access through a certain street until they pay the fictional 'Pig Toll tax'. So begins an unhealthy obsession that underpins the rest of the novel. Word comes that Francie's uncle Alo, who is something of a local celebrity, is coming to town. A party is arranged and most of the town turns up. Alo arrives and sings with his guests late into the night, an...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=2237294 ... Read more

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The first full length study of Patrick McCabe's work, "We Won't Make It Out Alive" examines the mental instability and carefully constructed childhoods that McCabe has crafted for his various characters - the one eyed quasi Al Pacino, the sequin studded transvestite, the bachelor farmer who routinely exhumes his dead mother for a chat. Beneath the grotesque and often very funny narratives of Irish border town life lurks startlingly similar pasts for these characters, spanning all of McCabe's catalogue. As children, many were subject to the cruelty of the orphanage/workhouse, deadbeat parents numbed by alcohol, sexually abused by priests, and witnessed the senseless violence brought on by political divides. The outrageous personalities and later actions of these characters often overshadow these very real beginnings, and in this book, Kate Walls discusses the impact of these social problems and how McCabe's unfortunate (and usually well-meaning) narrators are driven crazy as a result. "We Won't Make It Out Alive" also discusses how these characters fare against the Troubles of the 1970s and, for the novels set in more contemporary times, the changing Ireland of the Celtic Tiger.Being on the fringes of society themselves, McCabe's characters have a unique vantage point from which to comment on these defining moments of social upheaval. ... Read more