Dans le Paris debride des annee folles, alors que le gouvernement est aux abois, on ne parle que d'un mysterieux malfaiteur, tout-puissant, "le Grand X".
The masterpiece of Joseph Conrad's later years, the autobiographical short novel The Shadow-Line depicts a young man at a crossroads in his life, facing a desperate crisis that marks the "shadow-line" between youth and maturity.
THE COMPLETE LEATHERSTOCKING TALES features the five novels of James Fenimore Cooper's beloved Leatherstocking series, which follow the adventures of Natty Bumppo.
The Russian novelist and moral philosopher Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) ranks as one of the world's great writers, and his "War and Peace" has been called the greatest novel ever written.
In this collection you will find : 19 classics Novels -From the Earth to the Moon -Five Weeks in a Balloon -20,000 Leagues Under the Sea -Around the World in Eighty Days -Michael Strogoff, or The Courier of the Czar -The Mysterious Island -The Survivors of the Chancellor -A Journey into the Center of the Earth -The Underground City -Dick Sands the Boy Captain -Eight Hundred Leagues On The Amazon -Godfrey Morgan -Robur the Conqueror -Ticket No.
"The Yellow Wallpaper" is a 6,000-word short story by American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, first published in January 1892 in New England Magazine.
" He was waiting for her, he had been waiting an hour and a half in a dusty suburban lane, with a row of big elms on one side and some eligible building sites on the other-and far away to the south-west the twinkling yellow lights of the Crystal Palace.
Samtliche Werke und Briefe von Georg Buchner:Der hessische Landbote [1834]Dantons Tod [1835]Lenz [1835]Leonce und Lena [1836]Woyzeck [1836/7]Kleine SchriftenBriefe [1831–37]
" He was waiting for her, he had been waiting an hour and a half in a dusty suburban lane, with a row of big elms on one side and some eligible building sites on the other-and far away to the south-west the twinkling yellow lights of the Crystal Palace.
This ebook contains all of Oscar Wilde's plays (including the fragments), his only novel, his fairy tales and short stories, the poems, all of his essays, lectures, reviews, and other newspaper articles, based on the 1909 edition of his works.
"When the student of medicine, Richard Bracquemont, decided to move into room #7 of the small Hotel Stevens, Rue Alfred Stevens (Paris 6), three persons had already hanged themselves from the cross-bar of the window in that room on three successive Fridays.
La ville flottante, c'est le Great Eastern, un enorme navire faisant la traversee Liverpool-New York, a bord duquel se trouvent plusieurs milliers de personnes, avec leurs caracteres differents.
Obras Contenidas:Un viaje de noviosLa tribunaEl cisne de VilamortaLos pazos de UlloaLa madre naturalezaInsolaciónLa pruebaUna cristianaLa piedra angularDoña MilagrosMemorias de un solterón: Adán y EvaEl tesoro de GastónEl saludo de las brujasEl Niño de GuzmánMisterioLa sirena negraDulce sueñoLa última fadaCuentos de amor
Ein älterer Rechtsanwalt berichtet als Icherzähler von einem seiner Schreiber namens Bartleby, den er eines Tages in sein von Hochhäusern umstelltes lichtloses Büro in der Wall Street aufnimmt.
Narra la historia un abogado de nombre desconocido que tiene su oficina en Wall Street, Nueva York, quien, segun sus propias palabras, "en la tranquilidad de un comodo retiro, trabaja comodamente con los titulos de propiedad de los hombres ricos, con hipotecas y obligaciones".
Major General Sir Richard Hannay is the fictional secret agent created by writer and diplomat John Buchan, who was himself an Intelligence officer during the First World War.
This ebook compiles Edgar Allan Poe's greatest writings, including novels, short stories and poems such as "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket", "The Fall of the House of Usher", "The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Raven" and "The Cask of Amontillado".
The novel begins in the 1790s in the coastal town of Monkshaven (modeled on Whitby, England) against the background of the practice of impressment during the early phases of the Napoleonic Wars.
In this collection you will find :Novels-The Time Machine-The War of the Worlds-The Invisible Man-The Island of Doctor Moreau-The Sleeper Awakes-A Modern Utopia-The Wheels of Chance-The First Men in the Moon -The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth-In the Days of the Comet-Ann VeronicaShort Stories-Tales of Space and Time-The Red Room-The Diamond Maker-Æpyornis Island-The Chronic Argonauts-The Flowering of the Strange Orchid-The Remarkable Case of Davidson's Eyes-The History of Mr PollyThe World Set Free+++ H.
