Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen are sisters living in The Midlands in England in the 1910s. Ursula is a schoolteacher, Gudrun a painter. They meet two men who live nearby, school inspector Rupert Birkin…
Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë's only novel, was published in 1847 under the pseudonym "Ellis Bell". It was written between October 1845 and June 1846.[1] Wuthering Heights and Anne Brontë's Agn…
Catherine Sloper, jeune fille plutôt niaise et laide, tombe sous le charme du très beau et très élégant Morris Townsend qui la demande bientôt en mariage. Mais le père de Catherine, le Dr Sl…
The Wings of the Dove is a tale of desire and possession, of love and death. It is in essence a simple story, but one that opens up the great subject of art: life itself. To tackle this, James move…
Le narrateur est Axel Lidenbrock, neveu d’un éminent géologue et naturaliste allemand, le professeur de minéralogie Otto Lidenbrock. L’histoire commence le 24 mai 1863 à Hambourg et plus ex…
L'action du roman se situe en Amérique du Sud, à l'époque des débuts de l'aviation commerciale. Saint-Exupéry, qui fut en 1929 directeur de l'Aéropostale d'Argentine, raconte la vie menée pa…
Le jeune marin Dick Sand est novice à bord du brick-goélette Pilgrim commandé par le capitaine Hull. Après une saison de pêche calamiteuse, le baleinier repart de Nouvelle-Zélande pour rentre…
The story of Oliver Twist - orphaned, and set upon by evil and adversity from his first breath - shocked readers when it was published. After running away from the workhouse and pompous beadle Mr B…
Il est l'auteur de trois recueils de poèmes, parus sous les titres : Les Consternations, Double Spirale et Tornade. Mordu du verbe, l'universitaire Kamel Derdour, natif de l'antique Cirta,Constant…
À Sienne, dans la dernière décade du XVe siècle, Pandolfo Petrucci prend le pouvoir. Ce despote cynique reste en butte à l'opposition de quelques grandes familles. La découverte d'un complot,…
The work begins with written correspondence between Thomas More and several people he had met on the continent: Peter Gilles, town clerk of Antwerp, and Hieronymus van Busleyden, counselor to Charl…
As its title suggests, the book is ostensibly Tristram's narration of his life story. But it is one of the central jokes of the novel that he cannot explain anything simply, that he must make expla…
Nombreuses sont les raisons qui m’ont amené à lire ce roman : mon intérêt pour TCHEKHOV bien sûr, la traduction assurée de main de maître par André MARKOWICZ (l’incontournable traducteu…
Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It was first serialised in parts in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920 and then published in its entir…
Le vapeur Nan-Shan1 a 3 ans ; la qualité de sa conception et de sa fabrication lui permettent de tenir exceptionnellement bien la mer. Un 25 décembre, venant du Siam, il parcourt du sud au nord l…
During the year 1866, ships of several nations spot a mysterious sea monster, which some suggest to be a giant narwhal. The United States government assembles an expedition in New York City to find…
The play is believed to have drawn extensively on the Italian production Gl'ingannati (or The Deceived Ones),[4] collectively written by the Accademia degli Intronati in 1531. It is conjectured tha…
"Do you reckon Tom Sawyer was satisfied after all them adventures? No, he wasn't. It only just pisoned him for more." So Huck declares at the start of these once-celebrated but now little-known seq…
As these three specially commissioned stories amply demonstrate, Conrad is our greatest writer of the sea. His characters are tested by dramatic events 'that show in the light of day the inner wort…
One of Shakespeare's most haunting and enigmatic late plays, The Winter's Tale is a fine example of Shakespeare's fascination with the dramatic genre of "romance": the portrayal of magical lands, f…