Sommaire / Table of contents: E. MACPHAIL, "From Caesar to Augustus: a note on Rabelais' revisions to Pantagruel"; C. CLAVEL, "Dithyrambe pour un massacre, Création lexicale et esthétique des genres"; H. ORII, "Oncques ne feut faict soloecisme": l'interprétation et l'image du membre viril dans le Tiers Livre de Rabelais"; J. PARKIN, "The Polygelastic Rabelais"; X. UGARTE-BALLESTER, "Les traductions catalanes de Rabelais"; S. D. JUALL, "Early Modern Franco-Ottoman Relations: Utopian Mapping...

Sommaire: Avant-propos de F. Giacone; J. Céard, «Hommage à Michel Simonin». Ouverture: R. Cooper, «Cymbalum Mundi: état de la question»; Y. Giraud, «La lettre et l’esprit. Problèmes textuels et éditoriaux autour du Cymbalum Mundi». Histoire de Livres: M. Simonin, «Vol au dessus d’un nid de corbeaux: le prince, les lettres et le Cymbalum Mundi»; Ph. Desan, «La reliure du livre de Jupiter: lecture bibliologique du Cymbalum Mundi»; R. I. Vulcan, «Une cymbale du Cymbalum Mundi, le colportage»;...

NOW A MAJOR GOLDEN GLOBE, BAFTA AND EMMY-WINNING TV SERIES'Clavell never puts a foot wrong . . . Get it, read it, you'll enjoy it mightily' Daily MirrorThis is James Clavell's tour-de-force; an epic saga of one Pilot-Major John Blackthorne, and his integration into the struggles and strife of feudal Japan. Both entertaining and incisive, SHOGUN is a stunningly dramatic re-creation of a very different world.Starting with his...

A bold English adventurer. An invincible Japanese warlord. A beautiful woman torn between two ways of life. All brought together in an extraordinary saga aflame with passion, conflict, ambition, and the struggle for power. Here is the world-famous novel of Japan that is the earliest book in James Clavell's masterly Asian saga. Set in the year 1600, it tells the story of a bold English pilot whose ship was blown ashore in Japan, where he encountered two people who were to c...

'A splendidly exciting and original story' Sunday Telegraph'Terrifyingly exciting suspense' Ian FlemingSet in Changi, the most notorious prisoner of war camp in Asia, King Rat is an heroic story of survival told by a master story-teller who lived through those years as a young soldier. Only one man in fifteen had the strength, the luck, and the cleverness simply to survive Changi. And then there was King.'KING RAT i...

The Shah is thrown out of Iran and the nation's turmoil becomes world headlines.Caught in this shifting world of fanaticism, ambition, duplicity, heartbreak and violentdeath are the foreign helicopter pilots who have been servicing the oilfields up anddown the country. Their one objective now is to make a bold concerted escape, withtheir helicopters, to safety across the Gulf. But one of the pilots, Erikki, the blond Finnishpilot, is married to a beautifu...

'A herculean achievement . . . strong plot and strong characterisation' The TimesIt is 1862 and Japan is a land in chaos as the power of the Shogun wanes and the rival factions plan to restore the Emperor. In Yokohama, the gai-jin, the hated foreigners, seek to profit from the chaos. At the head of the Noble House - and heir to the title of Tai-Pan - stands Malcolm Struan, who is determined to become his own man and marry the woman he loves. At the head of...

Over one hundred years have passed since Dirk Struan founded Hong Kong’s oldest trading company. But now, the Noble House is in danger. As Hong Kong itself becomes the deadly playground of the CIA, the KGB and the People’s Republic of China, rival tai-pans, seeking revenge for blood feuds over a century old, gather for the kill.

'Intensely readable and exciting' Sunday TelegraphSet in the turbulent days of the founding of Hong Kong in the 1840s, Tai-Pan is the story of Dirk Struan, the ruler - the Tai-Pan - of the most powerful trading company in the Far East. He is also a pirate, an opium smuggler, and a master manipulator of men. This is the story of his fight to establish himself and his dynasty as the undisputed masters of the Orient.'Packed with actio...

EL ÉXITO INTERNACIONAL EN EL QUE SE BASA LA NUEVA SERIE DE DISNEY+La clásica novela épica sobre el Japón feudal que cautivó el corazón de una cultura y la imaginación del mundo, escrita por James Clavell, autor best seller de The New York Times y maestro sin parangón de la ficción histórica.Tras perderse en el mar, el inglés John Blackthorne despierta en un lugar que pocos europeos conocen y menos aún han visto: Japón. Inmerso en l...

'James Clavell does more than entertain. He transports us into worlds we've not known, stimulating, educating, questioning . . . a wonder of detail' Washington Post'The author handles the plot with all the confident authority of a ring-master, keeping a half-dozen themes and a formidable cast of characters moving along at a cracking pace. By the end I was breathless and lost in admiration at the sheer professionalism of it all' Sunday Telegraph...

Het eerste deel van de internationale bestseller 'Shōgun', nu te zien op Disney+ met Cosmo Jarvis in de hoofdrol.John Blackthorne, in dienst van koningin Elizabeth I, lijdt na maanden zwerven schipbreuk voor de kust van Japan. Als gevangene van de machtige Toranaga wordt Blackthorne een pion en een onbewuste troef in een bloederige strijd om de macht.Door zijn relatie met de raadselachtige vertaalster Mariko past Blackthorne zich langzaam aan de vreemde Japanse cultuur aan....