Showing results for "The Voyage" in Literature & Fiction

The story picks up from the end of Blue at the Mizzen when Jack Aubrey receives the news, in Chile, of his elevation to flag rank: Rear Admiral of the Blue Squadron, with orders to sail to the South Africa station. This new novel, unfinished and untitled at the time of O’Brian’s death, would have been a chronicle of that mission, and much else besides. As the novel opens, we are able to visit these friends we have followed so very far in a rare state of almost perfect felicity.

As the wife of retired ship's doctor Dr Henry Parker, Evelyn is living out her twilight years aboard the Golden Sunset. Every night she dresses for dinner - gown, tiara, runners - and regales her fellow passengers with stories of a glamorous life travelling the world in luxury, as well as showing off her superior knowledge of everything from ships' customs to biographical details of her heroine, Florence Nightingale. The crew treat her with deference. And forbearance.

Shipwrecked on an unknown island, Lemuel Gulliver finds himself not merely a fish out of water, but a very big fish in a small pond. He awakens to find himself tied to the ground by the natives of Lilliput—tiny people small enough to fit in his pocket and play hide and seek in his hair!

Émile a quinze ans. Il vit à Montargis, entre un père doux-dingue et une mère qui lui teint les cheveux en blond depuis toujours, parce que, paraît-il, il est plus beau comme ça. Quand la fille qui lui plaît plus que tout l'invite à Venise pour les vacances, il est fou de joie. Seul problème, ses parents décident de l'accompagner... C'est l'histoire d'un adolescent né dans une famille inclassable, l'histoire d'un premier amour, miraculeux et fragile. C'est l'histoire d'un voyage initiatique et rocambolesque où la vie prend souvent au dépourvu, mais où Venise, elle, sera au rendez-vous.