This is a tale of a Sea-rover, or Viking as they're called. In the author's own words, "The present tale is founded chiefly on the information conveyed in that most interesting work by Snorro Sturleson "The...
When the Inter-Planetary Corporation's top spaceliner Arcturus took off on a routine flight to Mars it turned out to be the beginning of a most unexpected and long voyage: attacked by a mysterious spaceship,...
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...
Il Principe (The Prince) is a political treatise by the Florentine public servant and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli. Originally called De Principatibus (About Principalities), it was written in 1513,...
"The Colour Out of Space" is a first-person narrative written from the perspective of an unnamed surveyor from Boston. In order to prepare for the construction of a new reservoir in Massachusetts, he surveys...
The story describes of a strange hybrid race, half-human and half an unknown creature that resembles a cross between a fish and frog, that dwells in the seaside village of Innsmouth (formerly a large town, but...
Did you ever wonder at the lonely life the bird in a cuckoo clock has to lead—that it might possibly love and hate just as easily as a real animal of flesh and blood? Philip Dick used that idea for this brief...
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,...
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...
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...
"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...
Howard Pyle relates the story of the English outlaw Robin Hood and his band of Merry Men, compiling the traditional material into a coherent narrative in a colorful, invented "old English" idiom that preserves...
The Federalist Papers are a series of 85 articles advocating the ratification of the United States Constitution. Seventy-seven of the essays were published serially in The Independent Journal and The New York...
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