A college instructor embarks on a fanatical quest to save his job-and enact righteous revenge-in this brilliantly acerbic satire of university politics during the early Cold War years Henry Mulcahy's future is in question. An instructor of literature at Jocelyn College, an institute of higher learning renowned for its progressive approach to education, he has just received word that he will not be teaching next semester. He strongly suspects that...

Marching Men (1917) is a novel by Sherwood Anderson. Both fictional and autobiographical, Anderson's second novel is a coming of age story that explores the individual and collective identities shaping American life. Although he is known today for his story collection Winesburg, Ohio, a pioneering work of Modernist literature admired for its plainspoken language and psychological detail, Anderson's Marching Men is a powerful work of fiction that helped...

R.U. Singh has always known he is destined to live the life of an English country squire. After a few false starts, in Bombay, Thunder Bay, and Toronto, he settles into a comfortable existence as a small-town Ontario lawyer, much solicited for the diversity he lends committees and conclaves. But-lest he forget-he is accepted only at the whim of his woman in white, a commanding university administrator, and by her whim can also fall. Mr. Singh Among...

Two natives, one b*stard and a mighty bog... A Girl Called Jake draws on a translation from a hitherto secret archive to tell the story of a gigantic narcotics plant that's built upon a mighty bog. But in a strange and distant land, a rising for liberty is crushed with vicious and unparalleled violence. And in the country of the book's principal action an agitation grows - and grows. For here too is a disturbing spirit of national sentiment. And here...

Secret identities, criminal conspiracies, and forbidden love converge in the Muslim communities of Rome. The Italian secret service believes that a group of Muslim immigrants is planning a terrorist attack. Christian Mazzari, a young Sicilian translator who speaks perfect Arabic, goes undercover in Rome's Egyptian neighborhood, Viale Marconi, to infiltrate the group. Posing as a recently arrived Tunisian in search of a job and a place to sleep, Christian...

This tale of wild adventure reveals the dashed hopes of Africans living between worlds. When Moki returns to his village from France wearing designer clothes and affecting all the manners of a Frenchman, Massala-Massala, who lives the life of a humble peanut farmer after giving up his studies, begins to dream of following in Moki's footsteps. Together, the two take wing for Paris, where Massala-Massala finds himself a part of an underworld of out-of-work...

Extrait : "Quand Louis XVIII fut définitivement assis sur le trne de ses pères, je lui adressé la lettre suivante : «Sire, Mon père F. P. Prudhomme remplissait les fonctions de sous-maître d'écriture aux pages de la petite Ecurie, lorsque la révolution française vint briser sa plume et le faire descendre au rang de simple citoyen. L'auteur de mes jours aurait pu porter sa tête sur l'échafaud, comme tant d'autres, s'il n'était mort d'un...

Extrait : "Deux touristes anglais découvrirent, il y a, je crois, une cinquantaine d'années, la vallée de Chamounix, ainsi que l'atteste une inscription taillée sur un quartier de roche à l'entrée de la Mer-de-Glace." À PROPOS DES ÉDITIONS LIGARAN : Les éditions LIGARAN proposent des versions numériques de grands classiques de la littérature ainsi que des livres rares, dans les domaines suivants : • Fiction : roman, poésie, théâtre,...

Quand la vie d'autrefois revit, celle des cœurs simples et généreux, entre les mystères de l'Ardenne et les troubles de l'Histoire… Jean Marcellin, jeune instituteur, ne parvient pas à se libérer des hallucinations de la Grande Guerre d'o il est sorti durement blessé dans son corps comme dans son esprit. 1924. Il vient de quitter le Pays Noir, sa région natale, pour aller prendre son premier poste en Ardenne, o il doit remplacer le vieux...

Extrait : "Ce dimanche-là, un dimanche de juillet chauffé à blanc, il y avait, à l'occasion du concours régional, une grande fête de jour aux arènes d'Aps-en-Provence. Toute la ville était venue : les tisserands du Chemin-Neuf, l'aristocratie du quartier de la Calade, même du monde de Beaucaire. « Cinquante mille personnes au moins ! » disait le Forum dans sa chronique du lendemain..."