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The Nose

Expédition nocturne autour de ma chambre

Voyage autour de ma chambre

by Xavier de Maistre

Ce récit de forme autobiographique raconte les arrêts d’un jeune officier, contraint à rester dans sa chambre pendant quarante-deux jours. Il détourne le genre du récit de voyage, ce qui donne à ce roman...

The Cloud of Unknowing

by Anonymous

The Cloud of Unknowing is an anonymous work of Christian mysticism written in the latter half of the 14th century. The text is a spiritual guide to contemplative prayer. "Be willing to be blind, and give up...

Bulfinch's Mythology

by Thomas Bulfinch

This is an 1881 compilation of Thomas Bulfinch's previous writings: The Age of Fable, or Stories of Gods and Heroes (1855); The Age of Chivalry, or Legends of King Arthur (1858); and Legends of Charlemagne,...

SAVITRI

by Sri Aurobindo

Traduction Libre, en Français, du poème épique de Sri Aurobindo. Version 2010.1 Texte integral, traduit par Joël. "La légende de Satyavan et Savitri est contée dans le Mahabharata comme l'histoire de l'amour...

La Cousine Bette

La Terre

Les Rougon-Macquart #15

by Emile Zola

La Terre est un roman d’Émile Zola publié en 1887, le quinzième volume de la série des Rougon-Macquart. Sans doute l’un des plus violents, Zola y dresse en effet un portrait féroce du monde paysan de...

Le Chef-d’œuvre inconnu

Postsingular

by Rudy Rucker

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...

The Secret Sharer

The Pat Hobby Stories

by Francis Scott Fitzgerald

The setting: Hollywood: the character: Pat Hobby, a down-and-out screenwriter trying to break back into show business, but having better luck getting into bars. Written between 1939 and 1940, when F. Scott Fitzgerald...

The Night Land

by William Hope Hodgson

The Sun has gone out: the Earth is lit only by the glow of residual vulcanism. The last few millions of the human race are gathered together in a gigantic metal pyramid, the Last Redoubt, under siege from unknown...

The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories

Holy Terrors

Les Fleurs du mal

by Charles Baudelaire

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 Chartreuse de Parme

by Stendhal

À Parme, l'ombre de la chartreuse s'étend sur la cour et sur les intrigues aristocratiques des quelques happy few qui l'animent : Gina la belle duchesse, le comte Mosca, mais surtout le jeune Fabrice del Dongo,...

Our Mutual Friend

by Charles Dickens

A satiric masterpiece about the allure and peril of money, Our Mutual Friend revolves around the inheritance of a dust-heap where the rich throw their trash. When the body of John Harmon, the dust-heap’s expected...

The Eustace Diamonds

The Secret Agent

by Joseph Conrad

Mr Verloc, the secret agent, keeps a shop in London's Soho where he lives with his wife Winnie, her infirm mother, and her idiot brother, Stevie. When Verloc is reluctantly involved in an anarchist plot to blow...