Classic fiction: general and literary

Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque is a collection of previously-published short stories by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1840.

Ce roman a souvent ete considere comme le premier, en France, consacre a la religion protestante, depuis le XVIIe siecle.

Histoires extraordinaires (1856): Edgar Poe sa vie et ses œuvres, Double Assassinat dans la rue Morgue, La Lettre volee, Le Scarabee d'or, Le Canard au ballon, Aventure sans pareille d'un certain Hans Pfaall, Manuscrit trouve dans une bouteille, Une descente dans le maelstrom, La Verite sur le cas de M.

"The Call of Cthulhu" is one of H.

Die "Lettres persanes" (erste Ausgabe 1721) des franzosischen Staatsphilosophen der Aufklarung Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brede de Montesquieu (so sein vollstandiger Name) ist eines der wirkmachtigsten Bucher der Weltliteratur, zugleich eines der erfolgreichsten zu seiner Zeit.

Wives and Daughters is a novel by Elizabeth Gaskell, first published in the Cornhill Magazine as a serial from August 1864 to January 1866.

"The Moon-Bog" is a short story by American horror fiction writer H.

Andrew Lang's Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books constitute a twelve-book series of fairy tale collections.

A gentle tale of romance and art from a noted children's author .

Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray ist der einzige Roman des irischen Schriftstellers Oscar Wilde.

The Tao Te Ching is fundamental to the Taoist school of Chinese philosophy and strongly influenced other schools, such as Legalism and Neo-Confucianism.

Extrait : Un soir du mois d'aout (elle avait alors dix-huit ans), ils l'entrainerent a l'assemblee de Colleville.

The Duel by Joseph Conrad is Conrad's brilliantly ironic tale about two officers in Napoleon's Grand Army who, under a futile pretext, fought an on-going series of duels throughout the Napoleonic Wars.

Escrita en la "decada prodigiosa" de la narrativa espanola del XIX esta novela supuso una primera aproximacion a los dominios del realismo-naturalismo.

"The Business Man" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe about a businessman boasting of his accomplishments.

Venus and Adonis is a poem by William Shakespeare, written in 1592-93, with a plot based on passages from Ovid's Metamorphoses.

A Sportsman's Sketches (Russian: ?

Contenu de la collection:À LA RECHERCHE DU TEMPS PERDUDu côté de chez Swann (1913)À l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs (1919)Le côté de Guermantes (1920–21)Sodome et Gomorrhe (1921–22)La prisonnière (1923)Albertine disparue (La fugitive) (1925)Le temps retrouvé (1927)Les plaisirs et les jours (1896)John Ruskin: La bible d'Amiens, translated by Proust (1904)John Ruskin: Sésame et les lys, translated by Proust (1906)Pastiches et mélanges (1919)Chroniques (1927)Jean Santeuil (1952, 1971) (see update v.

Contents:PrefaceLovely IlonkaLucky LuckThe Hairy ManTo Your Good Health!

The Great Shadow, also known as The Great Shadow and other Napoleonic Tales, is an action and adventure novel written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and published in 1892 in J.

The Last of the Mohicans is the most popular of Jame Fennimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales.

Un groupe de naufrages d'un millier de personnes se retrouve sur l'ile Hoste, pres du Cap Horn.

Seventeen: A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family Especially William is a humorous novel by Booth Tarkington that gently satirizes first love, in the person of a callow 17-year-old, William Sylvanus Baxter.

Hamlet is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601.

When four siblings journey to the seashore for a holiday, one of them unwittingly summons the sister of a mermaid who is captured by a circus, and the children set out to save the imprisoned being.

Grahame's reminiscences are notable for their conception "of a world where children are locked in perpetual warfare with the adult 'Olympians' who have wholly forgotten how it feels to be young"--a theme later explored by J.

Here you will find the complete novels of Thomas Hardy in the chronological order of their original publication.

Il Principe (The Prince) is a political treatise by the Florentine public servant and political theorist Niccolo Machiavelli.

"The Statement of Randolph Carter" is a short story by H.

This book contains the complete novels of Lew Wallace - The Fair God - Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ - The Prince of India; or, Why Constantinople Fell

The War of the Worlds (1898), by H.

Penrod and Sam is a novel by Booth Tarkington that was first published in 1916.

Rouletabille est en Bulgarie pour couvrir la guerre des Balkans, en compagnie de son collegue La Candeur et de son interprete Vladimir.

"The Raven" is a narrative poem by the American writer and poet Edgar Allan Poe.

Inglaterra, siglo XIX.

The Code of Hammurabi (Codex Hammurabi) is a well-preserved ancient law code, created ca.

The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later (Le Vicomte de Bragelonne ou Dix ans plus tard) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, pere.

A quelques pas devant moi, sur une pelouse bordee de framboisiers verts, se tenait une jeune fille, grande et elancee, vetue d'une robe rose a raies et coiffee d'un petit fichu blanc ; quatre jeunes gens faisaient cercle autour d'elle, et elle les frappait au front, a tour de role, avec une de ces fleurs grises dont le nom m'echappe, mais que les enfants connaissent bien : elles forment de petits sachets qui eclatent avec bruit quand on leur fait heurter quelque chose de dur.

Erewhon: or, Over the Range is a novel by Samuel Butler which was first published anonymously in 1872.

Die Handlung des Romans spielt wahrend der Griechischen Revolution in den 1820er Jahren.

The story concerns a family who move to a house near the railway after the father is imprisoned as a result of being falsely accused of selling state secrets to the Russians.

Fist published in 1935, "The Disinterment" is a short horror story by H.

The story takes place in Hungary, between two rival families: the Metzengersteins and the Berlifitzings.

The Prophet is a book of 26 poetic essays written in English in 1923 by the Lebanese-American artist, philosopher and writer Khalil Gibran.

The story starts with a comet that touches the Earth in its flight and collects a few small chunks of it.

Henry IV, Part 1 is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written no later than 1597.

A young newspaperman who has just moved to a new town overhears the wealthy politician in the house next door talking aloud to nonexistent figures.

Sense and Sensibility (Gevoel en verstand) is de eerste, in 1811 anoniem uitgegeven roman van de Engelse schrijfster Jane Austen.

"The Silver Key" is a short story written by H.

Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky.