Francois-Marie Arouet wrote under the nom de plume of Voltaire, and produced works in almost every literary form, including plays, poems, novels, essays, and historical and scientific works.
The novel's central character is Etienne Lantier, previously seen in L'Assommoir (1877), a young migrant worker who arrives at the forbidding coalmining town of Montsou in the bleak far north of France to earn a living as a miner.
'Why did she stand before me with the candle in her hand, with her cruel contemptuous eyes fixed on me, and the glittering serpent, like a familiar demon, on her breast?
The brand new unmissable adventure novel for fans of Scott Mariani, Dan Brown and Daniel Silva 'The ingenious construction of the ivory box would ensure that neither wind nor water, earth nor fire would ever defile its precious contents.
One of the most widely read books of all time, Carlo Collodi's Pinocchio is a riotous, tragicomic tale that will charm young and old with its endearing blend of mischief and magic.
Written as a book 'for children and those who love children', Johanna Spyri's affectionate account of Swiss mountain life is one of the bestselling books ever written, and a joyous portrait of the innocence of childhood.
A biting satire of the Age of Enlightenment, Voltaire's classic tale Candide, or the Optimist remains a bestseller over two centuries after its initial publication.
Uniquely inventive and vivacious in style and with deep insight into children's points of view, Hans Christian Andersen established a new genre in literature.
Eine Gruppe paranoider Traumapatienten sollte in eine Nervenheilanstalt transportiert werden, als ihr robotergesteuertes Raumschiff auf einem fremden Planeten strandete.
Eine phantastische Erzählung voller Magie, Architektur und schicksalhafter Begegnungen in den schönsten Schauplätzen der Literatur: Barcelona und Manhattan.
Die Saga von Kormák Ögmundarson - Ein Tor zur spannungsgeladenen Welt der IsländersagasDie Isländersagas nehmen einen enormen Stellenwert im kulturellen Gedächtnis der Isländer ein.
