SUMMER READING

Recommandations de lecture pour les vacances en vue de la spécialité LLCE

Premières

Choisissez et lisez deux des nouvelles suivantes ; attention ce travail de lecture donnera lieu à une évaluation écrite ou orale.

Toutes les nouvelles sont à la suite dans un seul fichier !

• Lamb to the Slaughter – Roald Dahl

If there is such a thing as the perfect murder…

• Skeleton in the Cupboard – Tony Wilmot

A dirty little secret coming back to the surface twenty years later. Nobody, not even his wife, knows about the skeleton in Robert's cupboard.  Could that be about to change?

• A piece of wood – Ray Bradbury 

 When a solider comes up with a secret weapon to put an end to wars.

• The Great Automatic Grammatizor – Roald Dahl

Before Chat GPT even existed, the future of storytelling is compromised by a machine.

• Auggie Wren’s Christmas – Paul Auster

This Christmas story begins with a writer’s block which unveils a story about a lost wallet, a stolen camera and a blind old woman.

• Eveline – James Joyce

A young Irish woman is facing the cruel of dilemma of choosing between love and duty.

• Désirée’s baby – Kate Chopin

The story is set in the south of the United States before the Civil War; the master family is shocked when the white woman gives birth to her first child…

• The Hitchhiker – Roald Dahl

When you stop to take someone on the side of the road, you never know who you is getting into your car

• The Reaper’s Image – Stephen King

Spangler, an antique buyer is going to see a powerful mirror in which the Reaper is said to appear…

• The Tape-Measure Murder – Agatha Christie

Mrs Spenlow is found murdered and the only person unaffected by her death seems to be her husband. His alibi was a visit to the famous amateur detective Miss Marple, but can she prove his innocence?

• Don’t cry for Billie – Beverley Dunlop ET Pink Bow Tie – Paul Jennings

Don’t Cry for Billie : short story studied in American high schools to raise awareness about bullying at school. Pink Bow Tie : a young student gets into trouble for having changed his hair colour and has to explain the mysterious circumstances in which his hair colour changed.

Terminales

  Acheter et lire Brooklyn – Colm Tóibín, l’une des œuvres au programme.