Vivant Denon met en scène dans ce conte les premières aventures amoureuses d'un jeune homme ignorant tout des subtilités du monde aristocratique. Ingénu et s'étonnant de tout, le narrateur (qui endosse...
Seul et triste, Sanine voit approcher la vieillesse et se souvient. Il avait vingt ans quand il fit étape à Francfort, au retour d'un voyage en Europe. La première fois qu'il vit Gemma, dans la confiserie...
Roman des harems turcs contemporains ou la condition de la femme dans l'Empire ottoman finissant. Pierre Loti mêle, en une exquise alchimie, réalité et fiction. Dans le mystérieux chassé-croisé de l'intrigue,...
In her first published mystery, Agatha Christie introduces readers to the heroic detective, Hercule Poirot. This is a classic murder mystery set in the outskirts of Essex. The victim is the wealthy mistress...
A collection of various of Anton Chekhov's short stories including: THE BISHOP, THE LETTER, EASTER EVE, A NIGHTMARE, THE MURDER, UPROOTED, and THE STEPPE.
Key West-southernmost point in the United States, Mile Zero on Highway 1; and as far as you can run away from your past troubles without swimming to Cuba. Key West-originally Cayo Huesos or Isle of Bones, for...
Fired from a job he hated at a company he loved, videogame designer Paul Reynolds is drowning his sorrows in late-morning margaritas when he meets an alluring, pink-haired conwoman named Chloe. With her gang...
Welcome to Los Angeles... where anger, hunger, and disease run rampant, and life and hope are strictly rationed. This is Jonny's world. He's a street-wise hustler, a black-market dealer in drugs that heal the...
"I, Robot" is a science-fiction short story by Cory Doctorow published in 2005. The story is set in the type of police state needed to ensure that only one company is allowed to make robots, and only one type...
This story was inspired by a remark of Mark Twain's to the effect that it was a pity that the best part of life came at the beginning and the worst part at the end. By trying the experiment upon only one man...
It all begins next year in California. A maladjusted computer industry billionaire and a somewhat crazy US President initiate a radical transformation of the world through sentient nanotechnology; sort of the...
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