John Lang

Marion Poinsot

La terre de Fangh recèle bien des dangers. On y raconte aussi de nombreuses légendes, dont certaines se révèlent parfaitement stupides. D'autres encore concernent uniquement les elfes, ou les nains, et on s'en tamponne l'oreille avec une babouche. Quoi qu'il en soit, avant de partir à l'aventure, il vaut mieux savoir à l'avance ce qu'on peut trouver en travers du sentier. Savez-vous ce qu'il y a au niveau trois du donjon de Naheulbeuk ? Pouvez-vous décrire les effets d'un claptor de Mazrok ? D'où viennent les aventuriers, et qu'ont-ils accompli dans leur jeunesse ? Comment les nains creusent-ils les tunnels ? A quoi ressemblerait un barbare de niveau 10 ? Ou se trouve la rue des Talifurnes ? Est-il possible de mélanger du pâté de lapin avec un yaourt aux fraises ? Autant de questions qui trouveront leurs réponses, en images, dans les arcanes de Naheulbeuk.

Bière, Monstre et Bière

John Lang was Australia's first locally born novelist, publishing early work in Sydney in the 1840s and going on to write several bestsellers. The Forger's Wife (1856) is a lively adventure novel, set in an unruly colonial Sydney where everyone is on the make. The forger's wife is a young woman who follows her rakish husband out to Australia and struggles to survive as her marriage falls apart. She soon meets detective George Flower, a powerful man with a cavalier sense of justice and retribution. Flower literally controls the fortunes of the colony: taking on the local bushrangers, instructing colonial authorities, and helping himself to the spoils along the way. First serialised in Fraser's Magazine in 1853, The Forger's Wife was popular in its day and was reprinted many times over. It is Australia's first detective novel ? and most likely, the first detective novel in the Anglophone world. This edition includes an introduction by Ken Gelder and Rachael Weaver, and a translation of the appendix by Sophie Zins.'It is a powerful, if occasionally painful, book. It sells even now in all the colonies and in England by the thousand...' 'Rolf Boldrewood on Australian Literature', The Advocate (Melbourne), 20 May 1893

The Forger's Wife

Véritable phénomène culturel, la saga Naheulbeuk a commencé en 2000, sur internet, par la diffusion gratuite de trois premiers sketches comiques. Les mésaventures de cette bande d'anti-héros ont immédiatement rassemblé des hordes de passionnés, impatients de connaître la suite de l'histoire. Ainsi, John Lang vient de mettre en ligne (et toujours gratuitement) le 30e épisode de sa série, concluant ainsi la saison 2. L'ensemble est aussi adapté en BD (éd. Clair de Lune), chaque album se hissant dès sa parution dans les listes des best-sellers ! Enfin, avec le groupe Naheulband qu'il a fondé, John Lang enchaîne les concerts sur des textes directement liés à son univers. La Couette de l'Oubli est rien moins que la 3e saison de la saga... sûrement pas la dernière !

la couette de l'oubli

Le donjon de Naheulbeuk

Canada's greatest war hero brought vividly to life As a boy, Billy Bishop was a crack shot - he had a sharp eye and great aim. Nearly flunking out of Royal Military College in Kingston, he eagerly signed up for duty when the First World War broke out. Sent first to England, Bishop discovered his true love: the Royal Flying Corps. Up in the air, the fighting may have been "cleaner" - no trenches, no mud, no mustard gas - but it was extremely dangerous and difficult. In fact, most fighter pilots in the First World War would not shoot down even a single plane. Bishop soon proved himself to be a fighter pilot with an unerring instinct for aerial combat. He practiced relentlessly and would never land his plane before firing off every bullet, diving on targets he'd set up beforehand. The practice paid off. Bishop racked up seventy-two officially confirmed victories and was awarded every major medal, including the Victoria Cross. By the end of the war, he was considered so valuable as a symbol of the war effort that Canadian authorities insisted he be grounded: his loss would have been devastating to all Canadians. In this exciting new graphic novel, author and illustrator John Lang has unforgettably recreated Bishop's exciting wartime experiences. John Lang is an award-winning illustrator and cartoonist. He has produced work for a wide variety of publications, including Time Magazine, Billboard, Business Week, and The Village Voice. He lives and works in Toronto with his wife, Sara, and their daughter, Emily.

Lone Hawk:The Story of Air Ace Billy Bishop

Andrew Lang

At the time of his death, my brother had proceeded but a little way in this task which he and I began together, and I must frankly own my inability to cope with it on the lines which he would doubtless have followed. It is probable, for example, that his unrivalled knowledge of "the memories, legends, ballads, and nature of the Border" would have led him to show various important events in a light different from that in which my less intimate acquaintance with the past has enabled me to speak of them; whilst, as regards the Ballad literature of the Border, I cannot pretend to that expert knowledge which he possessed, I do not think, therefore, it is fitting that I should attempt to carry out his intention to deal more fully with those of the Ballads which are most closely connected with places treated of in this volume.

Highways and Byways in the Border

'Mrs Merrydale went off with Lieutenant Maxwell, leaving her children under the care of the servants, until her husband came to take them away. Mrs Hastings, who used to bore us about the duties of a wife, carried off that silly boy Stammersleigh. These elopements led to two actions in H.M. Supreme Court of Calcutta...' Born in Australia in 1816, John Lang-novelist, newspaper editor and barrister, now best known for having defended the Rani of Jhansi in court against the British East India Company-spent a large part of his life in India, and died in Mussoorie in 1864. A keen traveller and observer of human nature, Lang was also a raconteur par excellence. The Himalaya Club and Other Entertainments from the Raj brings together a selection of Lang's sketches of life in nineteenth-century British India-the scandals of the summer season in Mussoorie; a farcical court-martial conducted in the sweltering Indian summer; the curious case of an inebriated valet occupying Lord Jamleigh's bed in Bijnore; sundry diversions in Kussowlie and Simlah; and a hilarious account of Lang's drunken travels in the interiors of Kumaon with a party of Europeans. Writing with a storyteller's flair, extraordinary attention to detail, and with a waspish sense of humour, John Lang brings to life the early years of the British Raj as few other writers have.

The Himalaya Club

A Tale of the 15th Century

Love's Last Sacrifice

Land of the Golden Trade (West Africa)

Smith

Dean

Foster

Young

Whiteside

OAC Review Index

Simpson

Hember

J. B. Hoodless

George Harcourt

D. H. Jones

J. E. Howitt

Gillman

G. T. Jackson

M. J. Willams

Archibald Craven

Blanche Burton

D. C. Braund

Springer Mason

Blandford

Paynes

K. T. Fuller

Agnes Grieve Maclean

The Conversat, OAC Review, V.37, No. 7, Mar. 1925

College Life

In this first book-length analysis of Ron Rash's fiction and poetry, John Lang covers all of Rash’s books published through 2013 and offers key insights about his aims, themes, literary techniques and allusions, and major literary influences. Understanding Ron Rash introduces readers to the major themes and literary techniques in Ron Rash's poetry and fiction in the fourteen books he has published through 2013. After a brief survey of Rash's life and career, five subsequent chapters examine his work by genre, following the chronology of his books' publication. Lang begins with Rash’s first three collections of short fiction, examining their themes and style and interconnections. In an analysis of Rash's four volumes of poetry, Lang emphasizes both their grounding in Appalachia and their universal appeal. Then an examination of his first three novels considers Rash’s historical and ecological and religious concerns as well as his desire to preserve what is rapidly vanishing, including the region's vernacular language. Rash's best-known and most accomplished novel, Serena, with its vivid characters, is examined for its striking use of dramatic techniques, and varied literary allusions. After a study of his most recent novel, The Cove, Lang’s critical study's returns to Rash's recent work in short fiction: his Frank O'Connor Award-winning Burning Bright and Nothing Gold Can Stay, both of which demonstrate his wide-ranging subject matter and characters as well as his incisive portrait of contemporary life in Appalachia and beyond. An extensive bibliography of primary and secondary materials by and about Rash concludes the book, making it especially useful to students and teachers who want to learn more about Rash's work.

Understanding Ron Rash

“Cattle To The Slaughter” is a murder mystery with plenty of twists and turns to entice anybody who loves the genre and to keep the reader guessing. Read about Joshua Jenkins, a retiring minister who faces his worst nightmares in a murder mystery at the church’s Campground where two hundred girls die under mysterious circumstances. Was he responsible for the deaths or was it the fault of the new District Superintendent, Crystal Starr, or was it something that no one expected to occur?

Cattle to the Slaughter

Victor Crittenden

Invisible Ghosts

A Farce in One Act

Caught Kissing; Or the Dak Bungalow

(Re)découvrez la plus célèbre saga de fantasy parodique ! Si les héros du Donjon de Naheulbeuk avaient bien rempli leur contrat auprès de leur commanditaire, le sorcier Gontran Théogal, en lui rapportant la douzième statuette de Gladeulfeurha, ils ont, à leur insu, rendu un grand service à Dlul, le dieu du sommeil et de l’ennui. Ce dernier menace à présent d’engloutir le monde dans la Grande Couette de l’Oubli Éternel. Qui d’autre que nos héros pour sauver le monde ? Mais entre les guerres de religion qui agitent les terres de Fangh, les objectifs incertains des Oracles et le déplorable humour nain, ça s’annonce compliqué ! Feuilleton audio devenu culte, Le Donjon de Naheulbeuk a été décliné en BD, en roman et en jeu vidéo en 2020.

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