Ainsi parlait Zarathoustra ou Ainsi parla Zarathoustra, sous-titré « Un livre pour tous et pour personne » (en allemand : Also sprach Zarathustra. Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen) est un poème ph…
The phrase `life's little ironies' is now proverbial, but it was coined by Hardy as the title for this, his third volume of short stories. While the tales and sketches reflect many of the strengths…
Antony and Cleopatra (First Folio title: The Tragedie of Anthonie, and Cleopatra) is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. The play was performed first circa 1607 at the Blackfriars Theatre or the Glob…
Le roman raconte la participation de Jacques Vingtras à la Commune de Paris de 1871 : l'armée des Versaillais, corps armé organisé par Adolphe Thiers, qui pénètre dans Paris ; la guerre des b…
alerte dans l'espace (ou Alerte dans l'espace au Québec) (UFO) est une série télévisée britannique en 26 épisodes de 48 minutes, créée en 1969 par Gerry et Sylvia Anderson et diffusée entr…
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells of a girl named Alice falling through a rabbit hole …
remains shattered at the beginning of this section; her heartbreak has made itself known in a number of physical symptoms. Her entire family, especially her mother, feels distressed and guilty over…
remains shattered at the beginning of this section; her heartbreak has made itself known in a number of physical symptoms. Her entire family, especially her mother, feels distressed and guilty over…
La redacción de "Vida y aventuras de Martin Chuzzlewit" fue el fruto de un viaje a Estados Unidos que Dickens emprendió en 1842, viaje decepcionante, en el que el autor inglés descubriría la en…
Mansfield Park est un roman de la femme de lettres anglaise Jane Austen paru en 1814, le premier entièrement écrit dans ses années de maturité, puisqu'elle y a travaillé durant l'année 1813. …
Not yet famous for his Civil War masterpiece, The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane was unable to find a publisher for his brilliant Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, finally printing it himself in …
Comme prévu (De la Terre à la Lune), le 1er décembre, à bord d'un énorme projectile d'aluminium lancé par un gigantesque canon de 900 pieds de long, s'embarquent pour la Lune : le solennel pr…
Hector bidding farewell to his wife and baby son, Odysseus bound to the mast listening to the Sirens, Penelope at the loom, Achilles dragging Hector's body round the walls of Troy - scenes from Hom…
Bug-Jargal is a novel by the French writer Victor Hugo. First published in 1826, it is a reworked version of an earlier short story of the same name published in the Hugo brothers' magazine Le Cons…
This week I am reading The call of the wild and White Fang by Jack London a book that I'm not quite sure how it made its way to my hands. I didn't really enjoy this book if I'm honest. Just the plo…
Bouvard et Pécuchet is an unfinished satirical work by Gustave Flaubert, published in 1881 after his death in 1880. Although it was conceived in 1863 as Les Deux Cloportes ("The Two Woodlice"),…
Il y avait un jour une aiguille à repriser: elle se trouvait elle-même si fine qu'elle s'imaginait être une aiguille à coudre. «Maintenant, faites bien attention, et tenez-moi bien, dit la gro…
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821) is an autobiographical account written by Thomas De Quincey, about his laudanum addiction and its effect on his life. The Confessions was "the first maj…
Five Weeks in a Balloon, or, Journeys and Discoveries in Africa by Three Englishmen (French: Cinq semaines en ballon) is an adventure novel by Jules Verne, published in 1863. It is the first novel …
Mystery, hardship--and love. Jane comes from nothing but she desires everything life can offer her. And when she finds work as a governess in a mysterious mansion, it seems she has finally met her …