The Idiot (pre-reform Russian: Идіотъ; post-reform Russian: Идиот, tr. Idiót) is a novel by the 19th-century Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. It was first published serially in the jou…
Les Voyages de Gulliver ou Les Voyages extraordinaires de Gulliver (en anglais Gulliver’s Travels) est un roman satirique écrit par Jonathan Swift en 1721. Une version censurée et modifiée par…
Avec ce roman, Gustave Le Rouge dynamite les conventions aimables du roman exotique à la Pierre Loti, et célèbre les délices des amours déclassées et interraciales d'un riche planteur de la N…
En 1883, Daudet écrit dans La Nouvelle Revue : « Les premières Lettres de mon moulin ont paru vers 1866 dans un journal parisien où ces chroniques provençales, signées d'abord d'un double pse…
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Barnaby, a kind, half-witted young man, joins the Gordon rioters to proudly carry their banner. Along the way we get to meet Barnaby's murderous father, the hangman Dennis, and the madcap Hugh. The…
Highly regarded today as one of the greatest novels in English literature, Little Dorrit presents both a scathing indictment of mid-Victorian England and a devastating insight into the human condit…
Around the World in Eighty Days (1873) relates the hair-raising journey made as a wager by the Victorian gentleman Phileas Fogg, who succeeds - but only just! - in circling the globe within eighty …
Armance est le premier roman de Stendhal, publié en 1827. Il raconte l’histoire conjointe d’Octave de Malivert et d’Armance Zohiloff, sa cousine. En préparant ce billet, je me suis rendu…
Unjustly deposed by his younger brother, the rightful duke retreats to the Forest of Arden and forms a utopia with his loyal followers while his daughter remains at court as a companion to her cous…