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…