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...
Classic fiction
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Author:Tamara Fonteyn, Dumas, Alexandre, Staal, Pierre Gustave EugèneSummary: - 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 dragon, en...
- Author:Balzac, Honoré de.Summary:
Dans une pension parisienne sordide sont réunies des personnes que rien ne semble lier : le jeune étudiant Rastignac qui ne cherche qu'à intégrer la haute société, le Père Goriot maintenant ruiné et le mystérieux Vautrin...
- 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:
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: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: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, Elizabeth CleghornSummary:
Before Elizabeth Gaskell's famous North and South and Cranford, there was Mary Barton. Set in Manchester England in the mid-nineteenth century, Mary Barton was revolutionary in the way it tackled the relationship between poor mill...
- 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...
- Author:Kafka, FranzSummary:
Benedict Cumberbatch reads Franz Kafka's famous story of man-turned-insect, Metamorphosis. After a night of troubled dreams, Gregor Samsa wakes to discover that he has turned into a huge, monstrous, cockroach-like creature, with an...
- Author:Eliot, GeorgeSummary:
Through Dorothea and other townsfolk, Eliot shows how various human passions interrelate with Victorian society.
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