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The Blue Fairy Book The Blue Fairy Book [en] (1889)
by Andrew Lang

Description: Andrew Lang's Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books constitute a twelve-book series of fairy tale collections. Although Andrew Lang did not collect the stories himself from the oral t...
Categories: Short Fiction - Young Readers - Fantasy - Collections
Les Exploits de Rocambole - Tome III - La Revanche de Baccarat Les Exploits de Rocambole - Tome III - La Revanche de Baccarat [fr] (1859)
by Pierre Ponson du Terrail

Description: À la fin du Club des valets de cœurs, Rocambole quitte la France pour l’Angleterre. Quatre ans plus tard, en 1851, il revient de Londres, métamorphosé en dandy, et surtout en criminel dangereux, pr...
Categories: Novels - Crime/Mystery
Les Exploits de Rocambole - Tome II - La Mort du sauvage Les Exploits de Rocambole - Tome II - La Mort du sauvage [fr] (1859)
by Pierre Ponson du Terrail

Description: À la fin du Club des valets de cœurs, Rocambole quitte la France pour l’Angleterre. Quatre ans plus tard, en 1851, il revient de Londres, métamorphosé en dandy, et surtout en criminel dangereux, pr...
Categories: Novels - Crime/Mystery
Les Exploits de Rocambole - Tome I - Une fille d'Espagne Les Exploits de Rocambole - Tome I - Une fille d'Espagne [fr] (1859)
by Pierre Ponson du Terrail

Description: À la fin du Club des valets de cœurs, Rocambole quitte la France pour l’Angleterre. Quatre ans plus tard, en 1851, il revient de Londres, métamorphosé en dandy, et surtout en criminel dangereux, pr...
Categories: Novels - Crime/Mystery - Adventure
An Old-fashioned Girl An Old-fashioned Girl [en] (1869)
by Louisa May Alcott

Description: Polly's friendship with the wealthy Shaws of Boston helps them to build a new life and teaches her the truth about the relationship between happiness and riches.
Categories: Novels - Young Readers
L’élève Gilles L’élève Gilles [fr] (1912)
by André Lafon

Description: Récit de l'enfance d'un jeune garçon sensible et craintif, délaissé par ses parents, envoyé chez sa tante, propriétaire viticole, puis en internat, ce texte est écrit avec une grande délicatesse d'...
Categories: Novels
Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen [en] (1872)
by Hans Christian Andersen

Description: Hans Christian Andersen began publishing his Fairy Tales in 1835. This collection of 127 of the stories was translated by Mrs. Paull in 1872.
Categories: Short Fiction - Young Readers - Fantasy - Collections
The Great Dome on Mercury The Great Dome on Mercury [en] (1932)
by Arthur Leo Zagat

Description: Trapped in the great dome, Darl valiantly defends Earth's outpost against the bird-man of Mars and his horde of pigmy henchmen.
Categories: Short Fiction - Science Fiction
Arm of the Law Arm of the Law [en] (1958)
by Harry Harrison

Description: At one time—this was before the Robot Restriction Laws—they'd even allowed them to make their own decisions....
Categories: Short Fiction - Science Fiction
Mutineer Mutineer [en] (1959)
by Robert Joseph Shea

Description: For every weapon there was a defense, but not against the deadliest weapon—man himself!
Categories: Short Fiction - Science Fiction
Cogito, Ergo Sum Cogito, Ergo Sum [en] (1954)
by John Foster West

Description: Are the Spirit and the Flesh one and the same thing? Or are they separate entities, dependent and at the same time independent of each other? Perhaps some great Cosmic Law holds this secret. But th...
Categories: Short Fiction - Science Fiction
The Mathematicians The Mathematicians [en] (1953)
by Arthur Feldman

Description: We gave this story to a very competent, and very pretty gal artist. We said, "Read this carefully, dream on it, and come up with an illustration." A week later, she returned with the finished drawi...
Categories: Short Fiction - Science Fiction
No Pets Allowed No Pets Allowed [en] (1957)
by Monette A. Cummings

Description: He didn't know how he could have stood the four months there alone. She was company and one could talk to her ...
Categories: Short Fiction - Science Fiction
Keep Out Keep Out [en] (1954)
by Frederic Brown

Description: With no more room left on Earth, and with Mars hanging up there empty of life, somebody hit on the plan of starting a colony on the Red Planet. It meant changing the habits and physical structure o...
Categories: Short Fiction - Science Fiction
Acid Bath Acid Bath [en] (1952)
by Vaseleos Garson

Description: The starways' Lone Watcher had expected some odd developments in his singular, nerve-fraught job on the asteroid. But nothing like the weird twenty-one-day liquid test devised by the invading Steel...
Categories: Short Fiction - Science Fiction
Operation Lorelie Operation Lorelie [en] (1954)
by William P. Salton

Description: It was a new time and a vast new war of complete and awful annihilation. Yet, some things never change, and, as in ancient times, Ulysses walked again—brave and unconquerable--and again, the sirens...
Categories: Short Fiction - Science Fiction
The Gun The Gun [en] (1952)
by Philip K. Dick

Description: Nothing moved or stirred. Everything was silent, dead. Only the gun showed signs of life ... and the trespassers had wrecked that for all time. The return journey to pick up the treasure would be a...
Categories: Short Fiction - Science Fiction
La Baronne trépassée La Baronne trépassée [fr] (1852)
by Pierre Ponson du Terrail

Description: Roman de jeunesse de Ponson du Terrail, La Baronne trépassée réunit tous les composants du roman gothique : vampires, fantômes, château médiéval. Ponson du Terrail ne ménage pas les effets, non san...
Categories: Novels - Gothic
Le Club des valets de cœurs Le Club des valets de cœurs [fr] (1858)
by Pierre Ponson du Terrail

Description: Nous retrouvons les mêmes personnages, quatre ans plus tard. Andréa a réussi à capter la confiance d’Armand par un faux repentir. Celui-ci lui donne la direction de la police secrète qu’il a fondée...
Categories: Novels - Crime/Mystery
L'Héritage Mystérieux L'Héritage Mystérieux [fr] (1857)
by Pierre Ponson du Terrail

Description: Dans ce premier roman, Rocambole ne joue encore qu’un rôle très secondaire. L’action du prologue débute en 1812, au cours de la retraite de Russie, pendant laquelle le colonel Armand de Kergaz, un ...
Categories: Novels - Crime/Mystery





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