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Offre Fantasmes

by Thomas DESMOND

Vous recevez dans votre boîte aux lettres une carte magique vous permettant de satisfaire tous vos fantasmes ! Qu'allez-vous faire ?...

Password Incorrect

by Nick Name

25 short, sometimes funny and sometimes mean stories ideal to rediscover the joy of reading a book as shiny and beautiful as a brand new cell phone. A look from a distance at the absurdity of our present day...

Beautiful Red

by M. Darusha Wehm

The future is boring. Technology has solved most of the world’s most pressing problems, leaving people with tedious work and mundane play. Jack is a Security Officer Class 5, which sounds important, but isn’t....

Action Comics #8

by David Charlton

Action Comics: For All Mankind... Crisis: The Apokolips Imperative, Part 9! Darkseid has assembled nearly all of the components to complete the Anti-Life Equation. Now, Wonder Woman leads a daring mission to...

The Quest of the Sacred Slipper

by Sax Rohmer

A novel from the creator of Fu Manchu about a mysterious muslim organization in pursuit.

The Adventures of Superman #3

by Woundedtrojan

The Adventures of Superman: Black Magic Woman. It's another day in the life in Metropolis. But when a routine rescue takes an unexpected turn, a new villain will rise to challenge the Man of Steel! And what...

I, Robot

by Cory Doctorow

"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...

Ultimate Gotham Girls #10

by Samantha Chapman

Ultimate Gotham Girls: Clown College, Part 1 (of 3). The Joker's been lurking in the background, and it's never good when he rears his head again! Harley's ideas and Joker's plans are coming together at long...

Souvenirs, souvenirs

by Markus Leicht

J'avais 14 ans. Mes parents venaient de m'offrir un transistor, terme barbare par lequel on désignait les premières radios portables. Jusque-là on n'avait connu que de gros postes à lampes souvent plus encombrants...

The Hacker Crackdown

by Bruce Sterling

A journalist investigates the past, present, and future of computer crimes, as he attends a hacker convention, documents the extent of the computer crimes, and presents intriguing facts about hackers and their...

The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

by James Boyle

In this enlightening book James Boyle describes what he calls the range wars of the information age—today’s heated battles over intellectual property. Boyle argues that just as every informed citizen needs...

Les Chimères

by Gérard de Nerval

Singulier paradoxe que ces Chimères, une centaine de vers à peine, qui ont alimenté depuis des milliers de pages d'exégèses et de commentaires. Tour à tour symbolistes, rimbaldiennes, mallarméennes ou...

The Art of War

by Sun Tzu

The Art of War is a Chinese military treatise that was written during the 6th century BC by Sun Tzu. Composed of 13 chapters, each of which is devoted to one aspect of warfare, it has long been praised as the...

The Divine Comedy

by Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri's poetic masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, is a moving human drama, an unforgettable visionary journey through the infinite torment of Hell, up the arduous slopes of Purgatory, and on to the glorious...

Grimm's Fairy Tales

by Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm & Wilhem Karl Grimm

Children's and Household Tales (German: Kinder- und Hausmärchen) is a collection of German origin fairy tales first published in 1812 by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, the Brothers Grimm. The collection is commonly...

La Princesse de Clèves

by Madame de la Fayette

La Princesse de Clèves est un roman publié anonymement par Marie-Madeleine de La Fayette en 1678. Cette œuvre est considérée comme le premier roman moderne de la littérature française. L’action se déroule,...

Fantômas

by Marcel Allain & Pierre Souvestre

Fantômas was introduced a few years after Arsène Lupin, another well-known thief. But whereas Lupin draws the line at murder, Fantômas has no such qualms and is shown as a sociopath who enjoys killing in...

The Confessions of Arsène Lupin

by Maurice Leblanc

This collection of Lupin short stories presents more puzzling criminal involvements of the classic French hero-thief and his men.

The Art of Public Speaking

by Dale Breckenridge Carnegie

Training in public speaking is not a matter of externals--primarily; it is not a matter of imitation--fundamentally; it is not a matter of conformity to standards--at all. Public speaking is public utterance,...

A Dream of John Ball

by William Morris

A Dream of John Ball (1888) is a novel by English author William Morris about the English peasants' revolt of 1381 and the rebel John Ball. Like the novels close contemporary - A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's...