The United States Declaration of Independence is a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, announcing that the thirteen American colonies then at war with Great Britain were no longer...
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a novella written by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson and first published in 1886. It is about a London lawyer who investigates strange occurrences between...
The Three Musketeers (Les Trois Mousquetaires) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. It recounts the adventures of a young man named d'Artagnan after he leaves home to become a musketeer. D'Artagnan is not one...
War and Peace is a novel by Leo Tolstoy, first published from 1865 to 1869 in Russkii Vestnik, which tells the story of Russian society during the Napoleonic Era. It is usually described as one of Tolstoy's...
Moby-Dick is an 1851 novel by Herman Melville. The story tells the adventures of the wandering sailor Ishmael and his voyage on the whaling ship Pequod, commanded by Captain Ahab. Ishmael soon learns that Ahab...
The War of the Worlds (1898), by H. G. Wells, is an early science fiction novel which describes an invasion of England by aliens from Mars. It is one of the earliest and best-known depictions of an alien invasion...
Les Vénitiens en liesse acclament Roland Candiano, le fils du doge, qui s'apprête à fêter ses fiançailles avec Léonore, descendante de l'illustre famille Dandolo - et pourtant le doge et la dogaresse tremblent...
Russie, 1880. Anna Karénine, est une jeune femme de la haute société de Saint-Pétersbourg. Elle est mariée à Alexis Karénine un haut fonctionnaire de l'administration impériale, un personnage austère...
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,...
Une représentation à l'hôtel de Bourgogne (en 1640). La salle du théâtre se remplit: on va y donner une pastorale, la Clorise, dans le genre précieux. Le jeune et beau Christian de Neuvillette y vient...
The Book of Tea was written by Okakura Kakuzo in the early 20th century. It was first published in 1906, and has since been republished many times. In the book, Kakuzo introduces the term Teaism and how Tea...
Ce roman, parmi les plus célèbres et des plus traduits de notre littérature, apparaît sans conteste comme une des oeuvres les plus puissantes, les plus originales et les plus représentatives de Jules Verne....
Lawrence Lessig, “the most important thinker on intellectual property in the Internet era” (The New Yorker), masterfully argues that never before in human history has the power to control creative progress...
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