In the shabby district called Tortilla Flat above Monterey, California lives a gang whose exploits compare to those of King Arthur's knights.

Un couple âgé regrette de ne pas avoir eu d'enfant. Ils en viennent à souhaiter un enfant, peu importe sa taille, même s'il n'est " pas plus grand que le pouce ", ou qu'un objet de taille identique, et l'enfant naît. On lui donne alors le nom de Tom Pouce. Sa petite taille ne l'empêche pas de vivre de grandes aventures...Où l'on s'aperçoit très vite que sa très petite taille est un handicap tout à fait relatif, car Tom Pouce est particulièrement rusé, malin, et arrive à se sortir de situations périlleuses en faisant appel à son intelligence et à son sens de la répartie. Ce conte populaire fascine les enfants depuis des siècles, car outre ses multiples petits dangers et grands rebondissements, sa morale est intemporelle et universelle : qu'importe ce que la nature a fait de nous à la naissance, petit, malingre, grand, à lunettes, différent de la majorité des autres, ou que sais je encore, libre à nous de compenser cela par la ruse et l'intelligence, qui sont des armes bien supérieures, à y bien regarder. Ce conte est interprété par Fabienne Prost, pour la plus grande joie des petits et des grands.

The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence, and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina and quiet heroism of one man's struggle for justice.

Lewis Carroll's immortal Alice returns for another adventure, this time by stepping through an enchanted mirror. On the other side she encounters a world of whimsy and wildness. Talking flowers, characters ripped from nursery rhymes and a nerve-wracking game of chess with the temperamental Red Queen make for a dizzying and beautiful romp.

When war breaks out in Europe - modern, aerial war whose tactics include displacing entire populations - British civilization collapses overnight. The ironically named Theodore Savage, an educated and idle civil servant, must learn to survive by his wits in a new Britain...one where science and technology swiftly come to be regarded with superstitious awe and terror.

Presented in the first person, the story is a collection of journal entries written by a woman whose physician husband (John) has rented an old mansion for the summer and the couple moves into the upstairs nursery. As a form of treatment, she is forbidden from working, but encouraged to eat well and get plenty of exercise and air, so she can recuperate from what he calls a temporary nervous depression - a slight hysterical tendency, a diagnosis common to women in that period. She hides her journal from her husband and his sister the housekeeper, fearful of being reproached for overworking herself. With nothing to stimulate her, she becomes obsessed by the pattern and color of the wallpaper, descending slowly into psychosis.

Steinbeck's novel features Ethan Allen Hawley, formerly of the New England aristocracy but now a humble grocery clerk. Inspiring little but resentment in his wife and daughters, Ethan nevertheless does his utmost to live an honest life. Every man, however, has his breaking point, and Ethan risks his integrity and much more as he embarks on what he hopes will be a path back to wealth and privilege.

Stephen Gordon is an ideal child of aristocratic parents - a fencer, a horse rider and a keen scholar. Stephen grows to be a war hero, a bestselling writer and a loyal, protective lover. But Stephen is a woman, and her lovers are women. As her ambitions drive her, and society confines her, Stephen is forced into desperate actions. A classic that was banned in 1928 in one of the country' s most famous obscenity trials, but went on to become an international bestseller

Six children - Bernard, Susan, Rhoda, Neville, Jinny and Louis - meet in a garden close to the sea, their voices sounding over the constant echo of the waves that roll back and forth from the shore. The book follows them as they develop from childhood to maturity and follow different passions and ambitions; their voices are interspersed with interludes from the timeless and unifying chorus of nature. Widely regarded as one of Woolf' s greatest and most original works, The Waves conveys the rhythms of life in synchrony with the cycle of nature and the passage of time.