O Grande Alarma (Coleção Calouro) - La grande alerte : Flood Warning

Paul Berna, Jean-Marie-Edmond Sabran

Edições de Ouro / Tecnoprint S. A.

1973

206 páginas

6h 52m

ISBN-13: 9782402217033

Português Brasileiro

La grande alerte (1960) [AKA] Flood Warning / [ASIN : ‎ B07CKY4DKM ] '-' When a French boarding school is isolated by a raging flood, a boy and his teacher help fellow school members escape. . .

'The wind had risen again, gustily and noisily, as the sky grew even darker in the west...soon there was no road...The waters of the Loire were pouring down in a tidal wave which fanned out in foam and a whirl of wreckage.' [Flood Warning, p 84-85].

The Paul Berna's reader is introduced to the small world of Chateau Milon - a sleepy boarding school inhabited by public school boys and their school masters. When the Loire, bursts its banks, creating a seemingly unstoppable flood, Chateau-Milon is cut off from the outside world. With flood waters continuing to rise relentlessly, the best and worst is brought out in pupils and adults. Eventually it is Monsieur Sala the ineffectual school master and the detached, disdainful pupil the Vicomte Hubert who become the unlikely heroes of the story. Set in the 1950s, within beautifully etched landscapes, dramatically altered by the onslaught of torrential storms and rain.

Paul Berna, est le pseudonyme le plus connu de Jean-Marie-Edmond Sabran (21 février 1908, Hyères - 19 janvier 1994, Paris), écrivain français du XXe siècle. [...] Paul Berna (1913-1994) fut l'un des auteurs de polars de jeunesse les plus importants des années 50-70. Écrivain phare des éditions Rouge et Or, son style volontiers "familier" était très novateur pour l'époque. Son plus célèbre ouvrage, Le Cheval sans tête, a remporté le Grand Prix littéraire du Salon de l'enfance en 1955.
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