When an eccentric professor acquires an ancient book, a riddle on a spare piece of parchment tucked neatly within its pages leads him and his nephew on an unparalleled adventure. The unlocked riddle brings them to a remote mountain on...
Classic fiction
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Author:Verne, Jules, Riou, ÉdouardSummary: - Author:Burroughs, Edgar RiceSummary:
Jungle Tales of Tarzan is a collection of twelve loosely connected short stories by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, comprising the sixth book in order of publication in his series of twenty-four books about the title character...
- Author:Shakespeare, WilliamSummary:
First performed about 1805, King Lear is one of the most relentlessly bleak of Shakespeare's tragedies. Probably written between Othello and Macbeth, when the playwright was at the peak of his tragic power, Lear's themes of filial...
- Author:Braddon, Mary ElizabethSummary:
A barrister becomes a detective when his friend disappears at an English manor in this classic Victorian novel. Beautiful Lucy Graham charms every man she meets, including wealthy widower Sir Michael Audley. After they marry, he...
- Author:Tamara Fonteyn, Dumas, Alexandre, Staal, Pierre Gustave EugèneSummary:
Un mot s'impose sur la présente édition du Comte de Monte- Cristo. Il s'agit d'une version abrégée d'environ un cinquième par rapport au texte intégral. L'abréviation a été réfl échie de manière à...
- Author:Tolkien, J. R. R.Summary:
Premier récit publié par J.R.R. Tolkien, en 1937, cette histoire, inventée par l'auteur pour ses propres enfants, raconte les aventures de Bilbo, un jeune hobbit, héros malgré lui en quête d'un trésor gardé par un...
- Author:Arthur Conan DoyleSummary:
Les Aventures de Sherlock Holmes est un grand classique de la littérature policière anglaise et mondiale. Le héros du roman, Sherlock Holmes, l'archêtype du détective privé, résout des énigmes complexes selon la méthode de...
- Author:Hugo, VictorSummary:
The novel that inspired the beloved Broadway musical: Jean Valjean's immortal adventure among the dispossessed of nineteenth-century Paris. Widely considered Victor Hugo's masterpiece, Les Miserables is both an epic story and a...
- Author:Leconte de LisleSummary:
Les aventures que rencontre Ulysse, l'un des principaux stratèges du siège de Troie, lors de son retour dans sa patrie portent son nom : Odysseus (soit Ulysse en grec) ou Odyssée en français. Des 24 chapitres qui composent l...
- Author:Fonteyn, Tamara, Guyot Desfontaines, Pierre-François, Morten, Thomas, Swift, JonathanSummary:
Les Voyages de Gulliver est un roman satirique de l'auteur anglais Jonathan Swift . Le livre est un classique incontournable de la littérature du sičcle des Lumičres. Il conte quatre voyages extraordinaires de Lemuel Gulliver,...
- Author:Alcott, Louisa MaySummary:
Jo, everyone’s favorite headstrong tomboy, has used her inheritance from Aunt March to found a progressive boys’ school. This charming book lets us peek into six months in the lives of the school’s young pupils.
- Author:Alcott, Louisa MaySummary:
Follows the adventures of Jo March and her husband, Professor Bhaer, as they try to make their school for boys a happy, comfortable, and stimulating place.
- Author:Maugham, W. SomersetSummary:
Presents the story about a young, working girl in a poor London neighborhood. Her sad story is the story of poverty everywhere.
- Author:Nolan, William F., Johnson, George ClaytonSummary:
It's the 23rd Century and at age 21... your life is over! Logan-6 has been trained to kill; born and bred from conception to be the best of the best. But his time is short and before his life ends he's got one final mission: Find and...
- Author:Nabokov, VladimirSummary:
When it was published in 1955, Lolita immediately became a cause célèbre because of the freedom and sophistication with which it handled the unusual erotic predilections of its protagonist. But Vladimir Nabokov's wise, ironic, elegant...
- Author:Wolfe, ThomasSummary:
The works of Thomas Wolfe cemented his legacy as one of the very best of the American Southern writers. Wolfe's largely autobiographical novel features Eugene Gant, who pines for a more expansive life after being born to a father whose...
- Author:Conrad, JosephSummary:
Who could tell what forms, what visions, what faces, what forgiveness he could see in the glow of the west! Jim is a well-bred young romantic who takes to the seas with hopes of adventure and the aspiration to prove his mettle. When the...
- Author:Golding, WilliamSummary:
William Golding's classic novel of primitive savagery and survival is one of the most vividly realized and reviting works in modern fiction. At once a tale of adventure and a merciless allegory on the darker side of human nature, "Lord...
- Author:Flaubert, GustaveSummary:
One of literature's great tragic heroines, beautiful Emma Bovary fights boredom with passionate excess, throwing herself into love affairs with a momentum that threatens to drag all around her into tragedy. Selfish, reckless, at times...
- Author:Gaskell, ElizabethSummary:
A tale of love, class, and murder during the era of the trade-union movement in nineteenth-century England, from the author of North and South. In Manchester, long-suffering John Barton and his daughter, Mary, both want a better future...
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