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The Charterhouse of Parma

by Stendhal

The Charterhouse of Parma tells the story of the young Italian nobleman Fabrice del Dongo and his adventures from his birth in 1798 to his death in 1829 (?). Fabrice’s early years are spent in his family’s...

Bel Ami

by Guy de Maupassant

Bel-Ami est un roman réaliste de Guy de Maupassant publié en 1885 sous forme de feuilleton dans Gil Blas et dont l’action se déroule à Paris au xixe siècle, en pleine Révolution industrielle. Ce roman,...

The Foreign Hand Tie

by Randall Garrett

Just because you can "see" something doesn't mean you understand it—and that can mean that even perfect telepathy isn't perfect communication....

The Kama Sutra

by Vatsyayana

The Kama Sutra, is an ancient Indian text widely considered to be the standard work on human sexual behavior in Sanskrit literature written by the Indian scholar Vatsyayana. A portion of the work consists of...

La fin de Satan

by Victor Hugo

"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...

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,...

Helen of Troy

by Andrew Lang

In Greek mythology, Helen, better known as Helen of Sparta or Helen of Troy, was daughter of Zeus and Leda, wife of king Menelaus of Sparta and sister of Castor, Polydeuces and Clytemnestra. Her abduction by...

Beyond Good and Evil

by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Beyond Good and Evil (German: Jenseits von Gut und Böse), subtitled "Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future" (Vorspiel einer Philosophie der Zukunft), is a book by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche,...