A governess is hired to look after two orphaned children living at their absentee uncle’s grand estate and soon becomes convinced that her charges are controlled by the ghosts of the former governess and her lover. Famous for its rich...
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- Auteur: Dickens, CharlesSommaire:
A bitter old miser gets visited by a bunch of gnarly ghosts on Christmas Eve and decides to stop being such a jerk to his secretary. One of Dickens’ best known works, A Christmas Carol is a holiday classic as well as a stinging critique...
- Auteur: Austen, JaneSommaire:
Relegated to a small cottage by the death of their aristocratic father, passionate Marianne (sensibility) and practical Elinor (sense) are as vulnerable in love as they are in fortune. Toyed with by unscrupulous men, snubbed by wealthy...
- Auteur: Stowe, Harriet BeecherSommaire:
Thought by many to have helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War by stirring the empathy of Northern whites for the plight of Southern slaves, this novel follows the long-suffering, deeply religious Uncle Tom through the trials of...
- Auteur: Dickens, CharlesSommaire:
When the eccentric Miss Havisham and her beautiful niece Estella draw orphan Pip into the decayed luxury of their world, he begins to form desires above his station. An unexpected fortune from a mysterious donor grants Pip a chance at...
- Auteur: Lewis, SinclairSommaire:
George Babbitt is a successful realtor and proud member of the Booster’s club, but his conventional life has left him unsatisfied. Babbitt abandons his old life for one of bohemian values but slowly realizes that even rebellion isn’t...
- Auteur: Sun TzuSommaire:
Ready to boost the kill count in your online combat game? A must-read for any strategy gamer, Sun Tzu’s The Art of War offers tips on where to position your players, how to stage an effective attack, the secret to discovering your enemy...
- Auteur: Stevenson, Robert LouisSommaire:
When young Jim Hawkins picks a treasure map off a dead boarder, he’s drawn into a rollicking and dangerous journey filled with buccaneers and buried treasure — but, sadly, no Muppets. Stevenson’s timeless tale has inspired generations...
- Auteur: Joyce, JamesSommaire:
Told in Joyce’s signature free indirect style and filled with allusions to Irish history and Greek mythology, this semi-autobiographical novel traces the development of his protagonist, Stephen Dedalus, from a young boy into an...
- Auteur: Gaskell, ElizabethSommaire:
As brilliant for its compassion as its art, Gaskell’s socially conscious masterpiece shows the early effects of the Industrial Revolution on both workers and employers through the intelligent eyes of Margaret Hale, whose advocacy for...
- Auteur: Anderson, SherwoodSommaire:
In plainspoken prose, these stories paint an unforgettable portrait of small-town American life in the era before the First World War. Centered around George Willard and his neighbors, we watch children grow, adults struggle with lost...
- Auteur: Wells, H. G.Sommaire:
An arrogant medical student renders himself invisible in an experiment and terrorizes a small town in England while attempting to reverse the procedure. An iconic fleshing out of Plato’s parable, “The Ring of Gyges.”
- Auteur: Nietzsche, FrederichSommaire:
In Nietzsche’s classic philosophical novel, the prophet Zarathustra has come down from the mountains to offer his wisdom and philosophy to the world. Impress all your friends by actually knowing the context for some of Nietzsche’s most...
- Auteur: Dickens, CharlesSommaire:
A richly-woven and moving tale set against the bloody and fearsome events of the French Revolution. Aristocrats run over children in carriages, old women knit hit lists and peasants drink wine straight off the cobblestones. Supposedly,...
- Auteur: Alcott, Louisa MaySommaire:
Little Rose Campbell is just getting used to living with her six aunts and seven cousins when her “progressive” uncle steps in and demands that she get out of the house and into the sunshine. Rose grows fond of her new family and the...
- Auteur: Kipling, RudyardSommaire:
Come meet heroic mongoose Riki-Tiki-Tavi, the “man cub” Mowgli, Toomai the elephant handler and many more delightful characters in these playful fables set in the vividly imagined India of Kipling’s youth. Each tale teaches a lesson to...
- Auteur: Grahame, KennethSommaire:
A charming mole and an impulsive toad get into trouble in the English countryside. Adventures include stealing a car, escaping from prison and running into a god.
- Auteur: Levenson, ChristopherSommaire:
The title Night Vision refers firstly to the night vision goggles that enable soldiers to see through the darkness in order to destroy and kill, and secondly to a vision of the political and ecological night that threatens humankind,...
- Auteur: D'Iorio, ChrisSommaire:
Tragic-comedic genius emerges in this first book by Chris D’Iorio, kaleidoscopically vivid poetry that is commoditized with the placid title of Without Blue, innocently confessing a condition of lack-lustre lack. A few disarmingly...
- Auteur: Rolfe, RobSommaire:
Mudtown was a working-class neighbourhood tightly wedged between once busy docks, factories and the escarpment along the east shore of Owen Sound Bay. It was regularly inundated with mud during spring rains. Beyond Mudtown, Rob Rolfe’s...