There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Trout!
Language: English
Published by Henry Holt & Company Inc, 1998
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R SUM L'Enfant de Jules Vall s est une oeuvre d'inspiration autobiographique qui plonge le lecteur dans la vie tumultueuse de Jacques Vingtras, un jeune gar on en qu te de libert et d'identit dans une soci t rigide et autoritaire. travers les yeux de Jacques, Vall s d peint les d fis de l'enfance et de l'adolescence, marqu s par les conflits familiaux, les humiliations scolaires et les injustices sociales. Le roman explore les relations complexes entre le protagoniste et ses parents, notamment un p re autoritaire et une m re aimante mais soumise, qui symbolisent les pressions et les attentes de la soci t bourgeoise du XIXe si cle. L' criture de Vall s, la fois poignante et incisive, offre une critique acerbe des institutions ducatives et des normes sociales de son poque, tout en c l brant l'esprit de r bellion et le d sir d' mancipation. L'Enfant est la fois un r cit personnel et universel, qui touche par sa sinc rit et sa profondeur psychologique. Les lecteurs sont invit s r fl chir sur les th mes de l'autorit , de la r sistance et de la qu te de soi, dans un contexte historique richement d crit. Le style narratif, empreint d'une ironie mordante, conf re au texte une dimension intemporelle, faisant de ce roman un classique de la litt rature fran aise. L'AUTEUR: Jules Vall s, n le 11 juin 1832 au Puy-en-Velay, est un crivain et journaliste fran ais connu pour son engagement politique et ses oeuvres autobiographiques. Fils d'un instituteur, Vall s grandit dans un milieu modeste qui influence profond ment sa vision du monde. Apr s des tudes Nantes et une br ve carri re dans l'enseignement, il se tourne vers le journalisme et la litt rature. Vall s devient une figure embl matique de la Commune de Paris en 1871, o il s'illustre par ses crits en faveur de la justice sociale et de la libert . Son exp rience de la r pression et de l'exil nourrit ses oeuvres, notamment la trilogie autobiographique compos e de L'Enfant, Le Bachelier et L'I.…
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- Title
- There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Trout!
- Author
- Terry Sloat
- Publisher
- Henry Holt & Company Inc
- Publication year
- 1998
- Condition
- Fair
- Binding
- Hardback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0805042946
- ISBN 13
- 9780805042948
- Illustrator
- Ruffins, Reynold
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Teri Sloat and her husband, Bob, moved to Alaska the day after they were married. They liked it so much that they stayed for twelve years. A former teacher, Ms. Sloat now lives with her family north of San Francisco, but returns to Alaska every year.
Reynold Ruffins has illustrated more than twenty books for children. Among his numerous awards is a Coretta Scott King Honor forRunning the Road to ABC. He lives with his wife on Long Island.
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