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Sciences humaines & sociales
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Petites manies et grosses phobies : dompter nos obsessions
Kate Summerscale
- Autrement
- Essais
- 5 Octobre 2022
- 9782080282965
Peut-être êtes-vous ophidiophobe, glossophobe ou bien tétraphobe sans le savoir? Peut-être croisez-vous chaque jour des personnes qui ne supportent pas les palindromes ou qui ne peuvent s'empêcher de danser?Aversions insurmontables ou désirs irrépressibles, nos obsessions font partie de ce que nous sommes. Elles nous obnubilent et nous façonnent. Mais les connaissez-vous vraiment?Au-delà de la définition du trouble et du diagnostic, cet ouvrage recense 99 phobies et manies, rares ou familières. Avec sérieux mais non sans humour, Kate Summerscale dédramatise toutes ces peurs inavouables, et loin de la moquerie, suscite même l'empathie.
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THE WICKED BOY: THE MYSTERY OF A VICTORIAN CHILD MURDERER
Kate Summerscale
- Bloomsbury
- 9 Mars 2017
- 9781408851166
Shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction 2017 The gripping, fascinating account of a shocking murder case that sent late Victorian Britain into a frenzy, by the number one bestselling, multi-award-winning author of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher 'Her research is needle-sharp and her period detail richly atmospheric, but what is most heartening about this truly remarkable book is the story of real-life redemption that it brings to light' John Carey, Sunday Times Early in the morning of Monday 8 July 1895, thirteen-year-old Robert Coombes and his twelve-year-old brother Nattie set out from their small, yellow brick terraced house in east London to watch a cricket match at Lord's. Their father had gone to sea the previous Friday, leaving the boys and their mother at home for the summer.
Over the next ten days Robert and Nattie spent extravagantly, pawning family valuables to fund trips to the theatre and the seaside. During this time nobody saw or heard from their mother, though the boys told neighbours she was visiting relatives. As the sun beat down on the Coombes house, an awful smell began to emanate from the building.
When the police were finally called to investigate, what they found in one of the bedrooms sent the press into a frenzy of horror and alarm, and Robert and Nattie were swept up in a criminal trial that echoed the outrageous plots of the 'penny dreadful' novels that Robert loved to read.
In The Wicked Boy , Kate Summerscale has uncovered a fascinating true story of murder and morality - it is not just a meticulous examination of a shocking Victorian case, but also a compelling account of its aftermath, and of man's capacity to overcome the past.
