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Daphne du Maurier- ’’The Birds and Other Stories ’’After being educated at home with her sisters and then in Paris, Daphne du Maurier began writing short stories and articles and in 1931 her first novel, The loving spirit , was published.Two others followed. Her reputation was established with her frank biography of her father, the famous actor and theatre producer, Sir Gerald du Maurier and her Cornish novel, Jamaica Inn . When Rebeca came out in 1938 she suddenly found herself, to her great surprise, one of the most authors of the day. The book has been translated into more than twenty languages. Laurence Olivier starred in the film under Hitchcock’s direction. Since than, besides several best-selling novels, she has written plays and short stories.The Birds are six short studies in horror, mystery, humour, and surprise, including the author’s all too credible fantasy of maddened birds united to wipe out humanity. Anyone starting this book under the impression that he may sleepily relax is in for a shock… continually provokes both pity and terror.

Isabel Allende- ’’Portrait in sepia’’

Isabel Allende was born in Peru and raised in Chile. One of the world’s bestselling writers, she is the author of the novels: The House of the Spirits, , Of Love and Shadows, Eva Luna , The Infinite Plan and, most recently, Daughter of Fortune. Bringing together characters from her previous novels, Portrait in Sepia confirms Isabel Allende as one of the finest and most entertaining novelists writing today.

After her mother dies in childbirth, Aurora del Valleis raised by her grandmother in San Francisco, but despite growing up in this rich and privileged environment, Aurora is unhappy.Haunted by terrible nightmares and the inexplicable absence of many of her childchood memories, and finding herself alone at the end of a love affair, she decides to travel to Chile to discover what it was, exactly, all those years ago, that had such a devastating effect on her young life.

Henry James- ’’ The American’’

Henry James was born in New York in 1843 and died in London in 1916.A celebrated writer during his own time, he has come to be even more widely read after his death. He is regarded by contemporary literary critics as a supreme master of English prose and one of the greatest novelists in modern literature.

The American in Europe provided Henry James with his richest theme: two societies in contrast- America, the new democracy, meeting the older, tradition- ridden, sometimes corrupt, society of Europe.Handsome, rich, a self-made man,’’a powerful specimen of an American’’ – this is Christopher Newman, the protagonist of Henry James’s romantic story of a successful businessman from the New World who falls in love with a beautiful widow from an aristocratic, but no longer rich, French family.Although Madame de Cintré returns Newman’s love, her family finds him unacceptable. How they conspire against the American and how he confronts their arrogance constitues a striking interplay of moral actions which characterises James’s finest writing.

Jane Austen- ’’ Mansfield Park’’

Jane Austen ( 1775- 1817) was of course a great writer. But she was also aware of an England that was passing away.She too new about the passion which turns to lechery, the activity which becomes destructive, the energy which results in the collapse of a world. And she appreciated the value of ’’ the quiet thing’’and knew, too, the incredible moral strength required to achieve and maintain it. And that, above all, is what Mansfield Park is about.

More varied in scene and conceived on a bigger scale than her earlier books,Mansfield Park can be seen as an image of quiet resistance at the start of what was to be the most convulsive century of change in English history. In it Jane Austen draws on her cool irony and comic genius to full effect. Against her chosen backdrops, the story of the Crawfords, the Bertrams and Fanny Price, her quiet heroine, and their interlocking destinies, is played out with superb control and profound psychological insight.

Mansfield Parc is a book that speaks for stillness rather than movement, firmness rather than fluidity, arrest rather than change, endurance rather than adventure.

Françoise Sagan – ’’ Dans un mois, dans un an’’

Bernard oublie tout- son roman qui démarre mal, sa femme Nicole, fidéle et fade.Il ne pense qu’ŕ Josée. Partir pour l’étranger ne le délivre pas de son obsession. A l’étape de retour, dans Poitiers triste et pluvieux oů il tente de se ressaisir, Josée apparaît. Devant sa joie, elle a pitié de lui et ne dit pas tout de suite la raison de sa venue : Nicole est malade. Il faut rentrer ŕ Paris. Rentrer dans la ronde qui a continué sans eux. La ronde des amours brčves. Dans un mois, dans un an, qu’adviendra-t-il de tous ces gens que Bernard et Josée retrouvent chez l’éditeur Maligrasse... Fanny, Alain, Béatrice qu’adore Edouard ? Déjŕ ce dernier guérit de sa passion. Alain prend le goűt de l’alcool. Seule reste intacte l’ambition de Béatrice. Un jour, peut-ętre, Josée aimera Bernard. Pour un temps. Ainsi va la vie dans le monde décrit par Françoise Sagan.

Françoise Sagan, née ŕ Cajarc, fait ses études ŕ Paris oů résident ses parents. Déjŕ son premier roman, écrit ŕ l’âge de dix-hiut ans, Bonjour Tristesse, obtient le Prix des Critiques ( 1954) et connaît auprčs du grand public une fortune exeptionnelle. Son succčs se maintient avec d’autres romans dont les plus célčbres sont : Un certain sourire, Aimez-vous Brahms, Les merveilleux nuages...