In mid-1880s Brooklyn, New York, Cedric Errol lives with his Mother (never named, known only as Mrs Errol or "dearest") in genteel poverty after his Father Captain Errol dies. They receive a visit from Havisham,...
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...
Marilla Cuthbert and Matthew Cuthbert, middle-aged siblings who live together at Green Gables, a farm in Avonlea, on Prince Edward Island, decide to adopt a boy from an orphan asylum in Nova Scotia as a helper...
Les Misérables (1862) is a novel by French author Victor Hugo, and among the best-known novels of the 19th century. It follows the lives and interactions of several French characters over a twenty year period...
Soulevé, le peuple de Paris est symbolisé par les combattants de la barricade. Jean Valjean s'est vu confier la garde de l'inspecteur Javert, arrêté par les insurgés. Il feint de l'exécuter mais le libère,...
En 1832, Jean Valjean habite, avec Cosette, rue Plumet, Thénardier est en prison, sa fille Éponine, amoureuse de Marius, aide pourtant le jeune homme à retrouver la trace d'une jeune fille rencontrée au...
Apparaissent deux nouveaux personnages : Gavroche, fils de Thénardier, qui incarne le gamin de Paris, et Marius Pontmercy, fils du colonel de Waterloo. Marius rejoint un groupe d'étudiants républicains...
À la bataille de Waterloo, Thénardier avait détroussé le colonel baron Pontmercy, tout en lui portant secours. Nous sommes en 1823. Jean Valjean a été repris et renvoyé au bagne. Il s'évade de nouveau,...
Oeuvre immense, joyau du patrimoine littéraire national, riche en figures assimilées par notre imaginaire ou notre langue, c'est roman touffu mais d'une lecture aisée, populaire mais déroutant, qu'il faut...
Initialement prévu pour une trilogie qui aurait compris, outre L'homme qui rit, roman consacré à l'aristocratie, un volume sur la monarchie, Quatrevingt-Treize, écrit à Guernesey de décembre 1872 à juin...
A comedy of loyalty, betrayal, sex, madness, and music-swapping Art is an up-and-coming interface designer, working on the management of data flow along the Massachusetts Turnpike. He's doing the best work of...
Marcus, a.k.a “w1n5t0n,” is only seventeen years old, but he figures he already knows how the system works–and how to work the system. Smart, fast, and wise to the ways of the networked world, he has no...
Jules is a young man barely a century old. He's lived long enough to see the cure for death and the end of scarcity, to learn ten languages and compose three symphonies...and to realize his boyhood dream of...
Satire from a librarian in a large bureaucracy, trying to survive boring meetings, clueless managers, reorganisations, offshored helpdesks and l-users (library users). New - updated version contains 8 months...
Thoreau wrote his famous essay, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience, as a protest against an unjust but popular war and the immoral but popular institution of slave-owning.
A chronicle of the tragedies in the lives of two seemingly ''perfect couples'' whose lives are far from perfect, this novel was loosely based on two real-life incidents of adultery and on Ford's own messy personal...
Il était une fois... C'est ainsi que commencent les belles histoires. Celles qui disent l'enfance. Celles qui nous accompagnent dans notre vie. Il était une fois...
"Rashōmon" (Japanese: 羅生門) is a short story by Akutagawa Ryūnosuke based on tales from the Konjaku Monogatarishū. A man considering whether or not to become a thief meets a woman stealing hair from...
"In a Grove" is an early modernist short story consisting of seven varying accounts of the murder of a samurai, Kanazawa no Takehiro, whose corpse has been found in a bamboo forest near Kyoto. Each section simultaneously...
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