" 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.
"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
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.
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.
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.
Memoires d'outre-tombe est une autobiographie de Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand, dont la redaction commence en 1809, sous le titre Memoires de ma vie, et s'acheve en 1841.
North and South is a novel by Elizabeth Gaskell, first published in book form in 1855 originally appeared as a twenty-two-part weekly serial from September 1854 through January 1855 in the magazine Household Words, edited by Charles Dickens.
"The Masque of the Red Death", originally published as "The Mask of the Red Death", is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe and first published in 1842.
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.
The Tale of Peter Rabbit is a British children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter that follows mischievous and disobedient young Peter Rabbit as he is chased about the garden of Mr.
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 !
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.
