Livre de tous les superlatifs, le Zarathoustra de Nietzsche continue de fasciner, 120 ans après sa première publication. Par son écriture, d'abord, qui rappelle, à bien des égards, la Bible et sa dimension...
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (German: Also sprach Zarathustra, sometimes translated Thus Spake Zarathustra), subtitled A Book for All and None (Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen), is a written work by German philosopher...
On the eve of their wedding, twenty-year-old Jack Fleming arranges a secret ringside seat for his sweetheart to view her only rival: the "game." Through Genevieve's apprehensive eyes, we watch the prizefight...
A young man in modern America is terrorized by visions of an earlier, primitive life. Across the enormous chasm of thousands of centuries, his consciousness has become entwined with that of Big-Tooth, an ancestor...
A triangle romance provides the basis for a questioning of the meaning of masculinity, as well as an examination of agribusiness in California. Jack London said of this novel: "It is all sex from start to finish...
Edward Prendick is shipwrecked in the Pacific. Rescued by Doctor Moreau's assistant he is taken to the doctor's island home where he discovers the doctor has been experimenting on the animal inhabitants of the...
"The Tell-Tale Heart" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe first published in 1843. It follows an unnamed narrator who insists on his sanity after murdering an old man with a "vulture eye". The murder is carefully...
Grahame’s reminiscences are notable for their conception “of a world where children are locked in perpetual warfare with the adult ‘Olympians’ who have wholly forgotten how it feels to be young”--a...
« Tout le monde ne peut pas être orphelin. » Poil de carotte est un enfant très mal aimé qui, pour lutter contre les humiliations quotidiennes et la haine maternelle, n'a que la ruse. Sans doute est-ce...
A principios del siglo XVI, la empresa de llegar a la especiería de las Indias Orientales abriendo una ruta navegando de Europa hacia el Oeste, cobro nuevo vigor tras la aceptación de la tesis de Américo...
Whether it is true or not that not more than twelve persons in all the world are able to understand Einstein's Theory, it is nevertheless a fact that there is a constant demand for information about this much-debated...
Œuvre majeure de Charles Baudelaire, le recueil de poèmes Les Fleurs du mal, intégrant la quasi-totalité de la production poétique de l’auteur depuis 1840, est publié le 23 juin 1857. C’est l’une...
"La Fin de Satan est un vaste poème épique et religieux de Victor Hugo (5700 vers). Bien que les parties les plus anciennes datent de 1854, elles n'étaient encore pas pensées comme un ensemble particulier...
Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper. The Iliad is, together with the Odyssey, one of two ancient Greek epic poems traditionally attributed to Homer. The poem is commonly dated to the late 9th...
Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton. It was originally published in 1667 in ten books; a second edition followed in 1674, redivided into twelve books (in...
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