Classic fiction: general and literary

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THE NOVELSWatch and Ward, Roderick Hudson, The American, The Europeans, Confidence, Washington Square, The Portrait of a Lady, The Bostonians, The Princess Casamassima, The Reverberator, The Tragic Muse, The Other House, The Spoils of Poynton, What Maisie Knew, The Awkward Age, The Sacred Fount, The Wings of the Dove, The Ambassadors, The Golden Bowl, The Outcry, The Whole Family, The Ivory Tower, The Sense of the PastTHE TALESA Tragedy of Error, The Story of a Year, A Landscape-Painter, A Day of Days, My Friend Bingham, Poor Richard, The Story of a Masterpiece, The Romance of Certain Old Clothes, A Most Extraordinary Case, A Problem, etc.

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On the Eve is the third novel by famous Russian writer Ivan Turgenev, best known for his short stories and the novel Fathers and Sons.

The Lost World is a novel released in 1912 by Arthur Conan Doyle concerning an expedition to a plateau in South America where prehistoric animals (dinosaurs and other extinct creatures) still survive.

This ebook comprises the complete writings of English writer George Eliot.

Es war ein Glucksfall.

Et, cette nuit, cette nuit où elle sent Rouletabille quelque part, autour d'elle… voilà, vraiment, qu'elle est moins inquiète… et pourtant les policiers ne sont plus là !

"'In Search of Lost Time' is widely recognized as the major novel of the twentieth century.

This book contains the complete novels of Victor Hugo in the chronological order of their original publication.

L'action commence en 1864.

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, generally known as Frankenstein, is a novel written by the British author Mary Shelley.

Dante Alighieri's poetic masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, is a moving human drama, an unforgettable visionary journey through the infinite torment of Hell, up the arduous slopes of Purgatory, and on to the glorious realm of Paradise-the sphere of universal harmony and eternal salvation.

ChildhoodBoyhoodYouthThe CossacksWar and PeaceFather SergiusAnna KareninaIvan the FoolEvil allures, but good enduresWhere Love is, There God is AlsoThe Death of Ivan IlychThe Imp and the CrustAn Old AcquaintanceThe Young TsarMaster and ManEsarhaddon, King of AssyriaWork, Death, and SicknessThere are No Guilty PeopleLittle Girls Wiser Than Men

A Tale of Jerusalem was written in the year 1832 by Edgar Allan Poe.

The Mayor of Casterbridge opens with a shocking and haunting scene: In a drunken rage, Michael Henchard sells his wife and daughter to a visiting sailor at a local fair.

"Shadow" is a short parable by Edgar Allan Poe.

Described by Hardy as a tale of "mystery, entanglement, surprise and moral obliquity", his first published novel violated the literary decorum of its day with blackmail, murder, and romance.

nspired by the Moskstraumen, it is couched as a story within a story, a tale told at the summit of a mountain climb.

Joseph Josephin, surnomme Rouletabille, est un personnage de roman policier cree par Gaston Leroux dans son roman Le Mystere de la chambre jaune publie en 1907.

Typhoon is a novella by Joseph Conrad, begun in 1899 and serialized in Pall Mall Magazine in January-March 1902.

Here you will find the complete novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne in the chronological order of their original publication.

Herland is a utopian novel from 1915, written by feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman.

Aphra Behn (1640-1689) was a spy for Charles II, a playwright, poet, and novelist, and the first English woman to make a living from writing.

Alan Alexander Milne was a British author, best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh and for various poems.

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.

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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.