Classic fiction: general and literary

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.

This book contains the complete novels of Fyodor Dostoyevsky in the chronological order of their original publication.

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

Le grand duc Ivan est amoureux de la modeste Prisca et s'oppose a sa mere qui veut le voir epouser la fille du prince Khirkof.

After the relative intimacy of the first two volumes of In Search of Lost Time, The Guermantes Way opens up a vast, dazzling landscape of fashionable Parisian life in the late nineteenth century, as the narrator enters the brilliant, shallow world of the literary and aristocratic salons.

"Von Kempelen and His Discovery" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849).

"Ex Oblivione" is a prose poem by American horror fiction writer H.

"The Festival" is a short story by H.

Roudine est admis dans le salon de Daria Lassounska.

An epic poem is a lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily concerning a serious subject containing details of heroic deeds and events significant to a culture or nation.

The Brothers Karamazov is the final novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky, and is generally considered the culmination of his life's work.

Die Handlung des Romans spielt in einer strengglaubigen Siedlung in Neuengland zu Zeiten des amerikanischen Puritanismus, also gegen Ende des 17.

In The Captive, Proust's narrator describes living in his mother's Paris apartment with his lover, Albertine, and subsequently falling out of love with her.

"Beyond the Wall of Sleep" is a science fiction short story by American writer H.

"The Hound" is a short story written by H.

An epic poem is a lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily concerning a serious subject containing details of heroic deeds and events significant to a culture or nation.

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

Die Werke des franzosischen Dichters Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) inspirieren bis heute Kunstler auf der ganzen Welt.

Troilus and Cressida is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1602.

This book contains the Tom Sawyer complete collection.

Mr Verloc, the secret agent, keeps a shop in London's Soho where he lives with his wife Winnie, her infirm mother, and her idiot brother, Stevie.

The Man That Was Used up is a short classic written by Edgar Allan Poe and first published in 1839.

Newton Booth Tarkington (July 29, 1869 - May 19, 1946) was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams.

The Reluctant Dragon is an 1898 children's story by Kenneth Grahame (originally published as a chapter in his book Dream Days), which served as the key element to the 1941 feature film with the same name from Walt Disney Productions.

The plot of the novel is based very loosely on the real-life activities of the Molly Maguires and, particularly, of Pinkerton agent James McParland.

Un beau condense des idees de Monsieur Tout le Monde au XIXe.