Ce roman debute par le long recit des operations montees par le Roi des Catacombes, autrement dit roi Mystere, pour faire echapper a la guillotine un condamne a mort innocent.
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.
L'action se situe dans le Paris de la fin du XIXe siecle, apres la Commune, dans un contexte politique trouble, hesitant entre les fantomes de la premiere revolution, la montee du collectivisme et un modele republicain clienteliste et conservateur.
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.
Este volume reúne 33 contos de Poe publicados por ordem cronológica:[1831] Metzengerstein[1832] Silêncio[1833] Um Manuscrito Encontrado numa Garrafa[1834] A Entrevista[1835] Berenice[1835] Morella[1835] O Rei Peste[1835] Um Homem na Lua[1835] A Sombra[1837] Aventuras de Arthur Gordon Pym[1838] Ligeia[1839] Colóquio entre Eiros e Charmion[1840] O Homem das Multidões[1841] Colóquio entre Monos e Una[1841] Leonor[1841] Os Crimes da Rua Morgue[1841] Uma Descida ao Maelstrom[1841] A Ilha da Fada[1842] A Máscara da Morte Vermelha[1842] A Quinta de Arnheim[1842] O Coração Delator[1842] O Escaravelho de Ouro[1842] O Mistério de Marie Roget[1842] O Retrato Oval[1843] O Gato Preto[1844] A Carta Roubada[1844] As Recordações de Bedloe[1844] Revelação Magnética[1845] O Caso do Senhor Valdemar[1845] O Poder da Palavra[1845] O Sistema do Doutor Breu e do Professor Pena[1845] Pequena Discussão com uma Múmia[1845] O Demónio da Perversidade
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 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 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.
Die belgische Kleinstadt Quiquendone, besteht seit 800 Jahren, hat 2393 Einwohner und liegt 15,25 km sudostlich von Brugge in Flandern an der Vaar, einem Nebenfluss der Schelde.
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.
The tales in the Grey Fairy Book are derived from many countries-Lithuania, various parts of Africa, Germany, France, Greece, and other regions of the world.
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.
