Tom Waits

illustrations pour en repérer les points communs : action and adventure in "Zenda” and "Treasure Island”; young boys in three books, accompanied by adults in two of them (in "David Copperfield” and "Treasure Island”); boys playing or fighting in "Tom Brown’s School Days”). Ceci permettra d’identifier plus aisément l’essentiel des résumés. • En sous-groupes, les élèves prennent connais- sance des résumés ; faire surligner d’abord tous les éléments linguistiques qu’ils comprennent, puis faire

rob, murder, and I elude detection by smooth-tongued villainy. Animal in propensity, deceitful in sentiment, fraudulent in purpose, I mean to make my short span of life one gala day. What a nice thing is sin! How sin succeeds, where the good purpose waits! The world is my kingdom. I am enthroned in the gorgeousness of matter. But a touch, an accident, the law of God, 27 30 may at any moment annihilate my peace, for all my fancied joys are fatal. Like bursting lava, I expand but to my own despair