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	Lolita »rank: 7967 par: Vladimir Nabokov Chroniques et points de vue:From :Despite its lascivious reputation, the pleasures of Lolita are as much intellectual as erogenous. lt is a love story with the power to raise both chuckles and eyebrows. Humbert Humbert is a European intellectual adrift in America, haunted by memories of a lost adolescent love. When he meets his ideal nymphet in the shape of 12-year-old Dolores Haze, he constructs an elaborate plot to seduce her, but first he must get rid of her mother. ln spite of his diabolical wit, reality proves to be more slippery ...		Pride and Prejudice »rank: 2279 par: Jane Austen Chroniques et points de vue:From :ln a remote Hertfordshire village, far off the good coach roads of George lll's England, Mr. and Mrs. Bennet -- a country squire of no great means and his scatterbrained wife -- must marry off their five vivacious daughters. At the heart of this all-consuming enterprise are the headstrong second daughter Elizabeth and her aristocratic suitor Fitzwilliam Darcy, two lovers in whom pride and prejudice must be overcome before love can bring the novel to its magnificent conclusion.
	Star Sullivan »rank: 595 par: Maeve Binchy Chroniques et points de vue:From :ln a remote Hertfordshire village, far off the good coach roads of George lll's England, Mr. and Mrs. Bennet -- a country squire of no great means and his scatterbrained wife -- must marry off their five vivacious daughters. At the heart of this all-consuming enterprise are the headstrong second daughter Elizabeth and her aristocratic suitor Fitzwilliam Darcy, two lovers in whom pride and prejudice must be overcome before love can bring the novel to its magnificent conclusion.		Brave New World »rank: 1072 par: Aldous Huxley Chroniques et points de vue:From :ln a remote Hertfordshire village, far off the good coach roads of George lll's England, Mr. and Mrs. Bennet -- a country squire of no great means and his scatterbrained wife -- must marry off their five vivacious daughters. At the heart of this all-consuming enterprise are the headstrong second daughter Elizabeth and her aristocratic suitor Fitzwilliam Darcy, two lovers in whom pride and prejudice must be overcome before love can bring the novel to its magnificent conclusion.
	The Lost Highway »rank: 12262 par: David Adams Richards Chroniques et points de vue:From :ln a remote Hertfordshire village, far off the good coach roads of George lll's England, Mr. and Mrs. Bennet -- a country squire of no great means and his scatterbrained wife -- must marry off their five vivacious daughters. At the heart of this all-consuming enterprise are the headstrong second daughter Elizabeth and her aristocratic suitor Fitzwilliam Darcy, two lovers in whom pride and prejudice must be overcome before love can bring the novel to its magnificent conclusion.		More: A Novel »rank: 1831 par: Austin Clarke Chroniques et points de vue:From :ln a remote Hertfordshire village, far off the good coach roads of George lll's England, Mr. and Mrs. Bennet -- a country squire of no great means and his scatterbrained wife -- must marry off their five vivacious daughters. At the heart of this all-consuming enterprise are the headstrong second daughter Elizabeth and her aristocratic suitor Fitzwilliam Darcy, two lovers in whom pride and prejudice must be overcome before love can bring the novel to its magnificent conclusion.
	Serenity: Those Left Behind »rank: 6931 par: Joss Whedon, Brett Matthews par: Will Conrad Chroniques et points de vue:From :ln a remote Hertfordshire village, far off the good coach roads of George lll's England, Mr. and Mrs. Bennet -- a country squire of no great means and his scatterbrained wife -- must marry off their five vivacious daughters. At the heart of this all-consuming enterprise are the headstrong second daughter Elizabeth and her aristocratic suitor Fitzwilliam Darcy, two lovers in whom pride and prejudice must be overcome before love can bring the novel to its magnificent conclusion.		The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay: A Novel »rank: 604 par: Michael Chabon Chroniques et points de vue:From :Like the comic books that animate and inspire it, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is both larger than life and of it too. Complete with golems and magic and miraculous escapes and evil nemeses and even hand-to-hand Antarctic battle, it pursues the most important questions of love and war, dreams and art, across pages brimming with longing and hope. Samuel Klayman--self-described little man, city boy, and Jew--first meets Josef Kavalier when his mother shoves him aside in his own bed, telling him to make room ...
	The Enchantress of Florence »rank: 5683 par: Salman Rushdie Chroniques et points de vue:Amazon.ca:Trying to describe a Salman Rushdie novel is like trying to describe music to someone who has never heard it--you can fumble with a plot summary but you won't be able to convey the wonder of his dazzling prose or the imaginative complexity of his vision. At its heart, The Enchantress of Florence is about the power of story--whether it is the imagined life of a Mughal queen, or the devastating secret held by a silver-tongued Florentine. Rushdie is the true 'enchanter' of this story, conjuring readers into ...		Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba- And Then Lost It to the Revolution »rank: 7044 par: T. J. English Chroniques et points de vue:Amazon.ca:Trying to describe a Salman Rushdie novel is like trying to describe music to someone who has never heard it--you can fumble with a plot summary but you won't be able to convey the wonder of his dazzling prose or the imaginative complexity of his vision. At its heart, The Enchantress of Florence is about the power of story--whether it is the imagined life of a Mughal queen, or the devastating secret held by a silver-tongued Florentine. Rushdie is the true 'enchanter' of this story, conjuring readers into ...