8 livres semblables à Taïpi
Le Loup des mers
Jack London's novel The Sea Wolf became an instant bestseller on its release in 1904. Ambrose Bierce wrote "The great thing - and it is among the greatest of things - is that tremendous creation, Wolf Larsen...the hewing out and setting up of such a figure is black for a man to do in one lifetime." The Sea Wolf tells the story of intellectual Humphrey van Weyden's toughening and growth in the…
Thèmes communs : American Sea stories, Sailors, Sea Stories
Au cœur des ténèbres
Heart of Darkness (1899) is a novella by Polish-English novelist Joseph Conrad, about a voyage up the Congo River into the Congo Free State, in the heart of Africa, by the story's narrator Charles Marlow. Marlow tells his story to friends aboard a boat anchored on the River Thames. Joseph Conrad is one of the greatest English writers, and Heart of Darkness is considered his best. His readers are…
Thèmes communs : Sailors, Sea Stories, Description and travel, Drama
Moby Dick
"Command the murderous chalices! Drink ye harpooners! Drink and swear, ye men that man the deathful whaleboat's bow -- Death to Moby Dick!" So Captain Ahab binds his crew to fulfil his obsession -- the destruction of the great white whale. Under his lordly but maniacal command the Pequod's commercial mission is perverted to one of vengeance. To Ahab, the monster that destroyed his body is not a…
Thèmes communs : American Sea stories, Sea Stories, Drama, Adventure
Une semaine sur les rivières Concord et Merrimack
Thoreau's first book excels at depicting nature around his trip in words.
Thèmes communs : Gift books, Description and travel, Classic Literature
Le Vieil Homme et la Mer
Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway's magnificent fable is the tale of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish. This story of heroic endeavour won Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature. It stands as a unique and timeless vision of the beauty and grief of man's challenge to the elements.
Thèmes communs : American Sea stories, Sea Stories
Martin Eden
Jack London's Martin Eden was first published in 1909 and is the story of a young writer's quest for celebrity and love. Much loved by writers who identify with Martin's belief that when he posted a manuscript, 'there was no human editor at the other end, but a mere cunning arrangement of cogs that changed the manuscript from one envelope to another and stuck on the stamps,' that automatically…
Thèmes communs : Autobiographical fiction, Classic Literature
Portrait de l'artiste en jeune homme
Stephen Dedalus grows up in Dublin, feeling different from the other boys. His childhood and adolescence are shaped by bullying, his father's weaknesses and the growing realization that in order to make his way in the world he must reject a conventional life and boecome an artist.
Penguin Popular Classics are the perfect introduction to the world-famous Penguin Classics series — which…
Thèmes communs : Autobiographical fiction, Drama, Classic Literature
L'Homme sans patrie
The story of a U.S. Navy officer involved in the treason of Aaron Burr.
Thèmes communs : Sea Stories, Biography & Memoir, Adventure