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Benedict Masson, relieur d'art sur l'ile Saint-Louis, est un homme de 35 ans, au physique laid, que toutes les femmes fuient.

Published to popular acclaim in 1809, this satire, considered the first important contribution to American comic literature, was Washington Irving's first book.

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.

First published serially in Gilman's magazine the Forerunner in 1909-10, the novel tells the story of Diantha Bell, a young woman who leaves her home and her fiance to start a housecleaning business.

Le roman raconte la course autour du monde d'un gentleman anglais, Phileas Fogg, qui a fait le pari d'y parvenir en 80 jours.

It's not easy to have enemies everywhere .

"The Book" is an unfinished short story by American horror fiction writer H.

"Morella" is a short story in the Gothic horror genre by 19th-century American author and critic Edgar Allan Poe.

One of the earliest science fantasy stories ever written, From the Earth to the Moon follows three wealthy members of a post-Civil War gun club who design and build an enormous columbiad -- and ride a spaceship fired from it all the way to the moon!

La suite du Chateau noir.

This collection includes, "The Cat-hood of Maurice", "The Mixed Mine", "Accidental Magic", "The Princess and the Hedge-Pig", "Septimus Septimusson", "The White Cat", "Belinda and Bellamant", "Justnowland", "The Related Muff", "The Aunt and Anabel; "Kenneth and the Carp" and "The Magician's Heart"

In a tale of ancient evil, Bram Stoker creates a world of lurking horrors and bizarre denizens: a demented mesmerist, hellbent on mentally crushing the girl he loves; a gigantic kite raised to rid the land of an unnatural infestation of birds, and which receives strange commands along its string; and all the while, the great white worm slithers below, seeking its next victim.

"The Shadow Out of Time" indirectly tells of the Great Race of Yith, an extraterrestrial species with the ability to travel through space and time.

The figure of my wife came in.

La autora se aleja de las premisas Naturalismo centrándose en el estudio psicológico de los personajes, empleando para ello una inusitada y compleja técnica narrativa.

Le jour de sa promotion - cela se passait aux environs du 15 mars -, Teglev se promenait le long des quais, en compagnie de quelques camarades impatients d'etrenner leurs uniformes tout neufs.

Don Quijote de la Mancha, escrito por Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, editado en 1605, es una de las obras más destacadas de la literatura española y la literatura universal, y una de las más traducidasLa novela consta de dos partes: la primera, El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha, fue publicada en 1605; la segunda, El ingenioso caballero don Quijote de la Mancha, en 1615.

Set in late November 1827, the tale is begun by an unidentified narrator whose story is the loose outer frame for the central tale of Augustus Bedloe, a wealthy young invalid whom the narrator has known "casually" for eighteen years yet who still remains an enigma.

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

"In the Walls of Eryx" is a short story by H.

The story follows an unnamed narrator who reads a story about a man who died after accidentally sucking a needle down his throat.

A gentle tale of romance and art from a noted children's author .

Plato (428/427-348/347 BCE) was a Greek philosopher and mathematician of the Classic Age who founded the Academy of Athens.

An historical novel that interweaves historical and fictional characters.

Le troisieme et dernier tome de l'epopee de Dante.

The Survivors of the Chancellor: Diary of J.

This carefully crafted ebook: "THE THREE MUSKETEERS - Complete Collection: The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, The Vicomte of Bragelonne, Ten Years Later, Louise da la Valliere & The Man in the Iron Mask" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.

Decouvrez ou redecouvrez l'histoire de Charles Bovary qui, apres avoir suivi ses etudes dans un lycee de province, s'etablit comme officier de sante et se marie a une riche veuve.

Ha venido a ensenar a mi hija.

The further adventures of five brothers and sisters growing up in the English countryside in the late nineteenth century.

This holiday, we proudly present to you this unique collection of the greatest Christmas stories.

Jason Lumley is in a Miami bar when he sees a newsflash reporting the murder of his politician father, Albert Lumley.

Der Ich-Erzahler Charlie (vergleiche Karl May) alias Old Shatterhand arbeitet als Vermesser fur die Eisenbahngesellschaft Great Western.

This book, newly updated, contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure!

Edgar Allan Poe's short story, Mellonta Tauta, was originally published in 1849.

Kahlil Gibran was a Lebanese-American writer and poet.

Commandant le Nan-shan, le capitaine Mac Whirr est un homme taciturne.

The final volume of Remembrance of Things Past chronicles the years of World War I, when, as M.

Kahlil Gibran was a Lebanese-American writer and poet.

Edgar Allan Poe's satirical short story about a female writer who is told by her editor that she must kill herself and then record the sensations of her death.

A short essay about poetry, verses and metrics by the master of horror fiction H.

This collection contains the following classic Russian novels:- Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol- Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov- Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy- Anna Karenina by LeoTolstoy- The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky- Mother by Maxim Gorky

Penrod is a collection of comic sketches by Booth Tarkington that was first published in 1914.

In Peru besteht zu der Zeit, zu der die Geschichte spielt, die Gesellschaft aus drei Hauptgruppen.

Adam Smith's masterpiece, first published in 1776, is the foundation of modern economic thought and remains the single most important account of the rise of, and the principles behind, modern capitalism.

Alongside William Faulkner and John Updike, Booth Tarkington is one of just three authors to win the Pulitzer Prize more than once.

A Room of One's Own is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf.

A scholar, Dr.

Ce livre raconte l'histoire d'un jeu clandestin sans aucune protection et d'un groupe de joueurs en quête de pouvoir, de richesse et de vie.

THE COMPLETE LEATHERSTOCKING TALES features the five novels of James Fenimore Cooper's beloved Leatherstocking series, which follow the adventures of Natty Bumppo.