Wordsworth Editions Ltd. New. This semi-autobiographical novel explores the emotional conflicts through the protagonist, Paul Morel, and the suffocating relationships with a demanding mother and tw…
Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby she ignores her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behaviour leav…
"Nous habitons une planète errante." Saint-Exupéry, qui vient d'être nommé pilote de ligne, découvre, admire, médite notre planète. Assurant désormais le courrier entre Toulouse et Dakar, i…
Paphnuce est un abbé d'un groupe de moines cénobites égyptiens fondamentalistes (IVe siècle après J-C). Il s'est retiré dans le désert pour se repentir de sa jeunesse frivole. Après des ann…
About The Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle From “A Scandal in Bohemia,” in which Sherlock Holmes is famously outwitted by a woman, the captivating Irene Adler, t…
No other Sanskrit work approaches the Bhagavadgita in the influence it has exerted in the West. Philosophers such as Emerson and the other New England Transcendentalists were deeply affected by its…
Jane Eyre ranks as one of the greatest and most popular works of English fiction. Although Charlotte Bronte's heroine is outwardly plain, she possesses an indomitable spirit, and great courage. For…
The words 'Merry Christmas' first appeared in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, which has become probably the best-loved of all Christmas stories, and it appears here with the four other stories …
'Surely no man would take up my profession if it were not that danger attracts him.’
Saki is perhaps the most graceful spokesman for England's "Golden Afternoon"—the slow and peaceful years before the First World War. Although, like so many of his generation, he died tragically y…