The Great Shadow: A Historical novel
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The Great Shadow, also known as The Great Shadow and other Napoleonic Tales, is an action and adventure novel written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and published in 1892 in J.W. Arrowsmith’s Bristol Library. The novel takes place in the Napoleonic era on the English-Scottish border city called West Inch. The Great Shadow refers to the Napoleon’s influence and his reputation that forms a shadow over West Inch.
The Hound of the Baskervilles
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The rich landowner Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead in the park of his manor surrounded by the grim moor of Dartmoor, in the county of Devon. His death seems to have been caused by a heart attack, but the victim's best friend, Dr. Mortimer, is convinced that the strike was due to a supernatural creature, which haunts the moor in the shape of an enormous hound, with blazing eyes and jaws. In order to protect Baskerville's heir, Sir Henry, who's arriving to London from Canada, Dr. Mortimer asks for Sherlock Holmes' help, telling him also of the so-called Baskervilles' curse, according to which a monstrous hound has been haunting and killing the family males for centuries, in revenge for the misdeeds of one Sir Hugo Baskerville, who lived at the time of Oliver Cromwell.
The First Men in the Moon
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The novel tells the story of a journey to the moon by the impecunious businessman Mr Bedford and the brilliant but eccentric scientist Dr Cavor. On arrival, Bedford and Cavor find the moon inhabited by a race of moon-folk the two call "Selenites." The novel can also be read as a critique of prevailing political opinions from the turn of the century, particularly of imperialism.
Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray
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Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray ist der einzige Roman des irischen Schriftstellers Oscar Wilde. Eine erste Fassung erschien 1890 in Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine aus Philadelphia, 1891 wurde bei dem Londoner Verlag Ward, Lock and Co. die heute bekannte, überarbeitete und erweiterte Fassung in Buchform ver?ffentlicht. Der seinerzeit als anrüchig geltende Roman war auch Gegenstand des Unzuchtprozesses gegen Wilde. Die Hauptfigur, der reiche und sch?ne Dorian Gray, besitzt ein Portr?t, das statt seiner altert und in das sich die Spuren seiner Sünden einschreiben. W?hrend Gray immer ma?loser und grausamer wird, bleibt sein ?u?eres dennoch jung und makellos sch?n.
The Mystery of the Semi-Detached
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" He was waiting for her, he had been waiting an hour and a half in a dusty suburban lane, with a row of big elms on one side and some eligible building sites on the other-and far away to the south-west the twinkling yellow lights of the Crystal Palace. It was not quite like a country lane, for it had a pavement and lamp-posts, but it was not a bad place for a meeting all the same: and farther up, towards the cemetery, it was really quite rural, and almost pretty, especially in twilight But twilight had long deepened into the night, and still he waited. He loved her, and he was engaged to be married to her, with the complete disapproval of every reasonable person who had been consulted. And this half-clandestine meeting was tonight to take the place of the grudgingly sanctioned weekly interview-because a certain rich uncle was visiting at her house, and her mother was not the woman to acknowledge to a moneyed uncle, who might "go off" any day, a match so deeply ineligible as hers with him. "
The Wind in the Willows
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The Wind in the Willows is a classic of children's literature by Kenneth Grahame, first published in 1908. Alternately slow moving and fast paced, it focuses on four anthropomorphised animal characters in a pastoral version of England. The novel is notable for its mixture of mysticism, adventure, morality, and camaraderie.
Le Coeur cambriolé
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"Nos parents nous avaient fiancés dès notre plus jeune ?ge. Quand j’avais douze ans et qu’elle en avait huit, on disait déjà, autour de nous, que nous formions un couple charmant, et nos mères nous admiraient. Nous aurions voulu nous marier tout de suite, tant nous nous aimions. Nous étions cousins germains et nos familles nous réunissaient pendant les vacances. ? cette époque, Cordélia m’avait déjà donné son c?ur, son petit c?ur de huit ans. Moi, j’étais un très grand gar?on pour mon ?ge, d’un blond presque roux, très fort, enragé de sport, paresseux à l’étude. La vie au grand air était la seule qui me conv?nt. J’en avais donné le go?t à Cordélia, qui avait plut?t un penchant pour la lecture et les arts. Sa mère était italienne. Mon oncle l’avait épousée au cours d’un voyage d’affaires qu’il avait fait à Turin. ? huit ans, Cordélia était déjà bonne musicienne, mais elle nous étonnait surtout par sa facilité à dessiner ou à peindre ce qui la frappait ou l’intéressait. Pour moi tout ce qui sortait des mains de Cordélia me paraissait un miracle."
Scènes de la vie russe
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Hélas ! j’étais amoureux de celle qui écrivait à Assanof, et jusque-là rien ne m’avait fait soup?onner qu’elle e?t de l’attachement pour lui. Sa lettre, écrite en fran?ais, était pleine d’expressions de tendresse et de dévouement. Elle commen?ait par ces mots : ? Mon cher ami Constantin ?, et se terminait par un conseil et une promesse : ? Soyez prudent comme vous l’avez été jusqu’ici, et si je ne me marie pas avec vous, je ne me marierai avec aucun autre. ? Frappé comme par un coup de foudre, je restai un instant immobile, puis je m’arrachai à cet état de stupeur et sortis précipitamment. Un quart d’heure après j’étais rentré chez moi.
Scènes de la vie rustique
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Moumou: L'histoire de Gérasime, le géant muet. et de son petit chien blanc moucheté de noir Moumou. - L'Auberge de Grand Chemin: L'histoire de l'aubergiste Akim Sémionov, serf d'une dame du voisingage. Un certain Nahum Ivanov, qui appartient à la classe des artisans, vole tout le bien d'Akim. Il prend sa femme, puis son argent en enfin son auberge. Quant à Akim, il chemine toujours et Dieu seul peut savoir quand prendra fin sa vie errante. - Un roi Lear des steppes: L'histoire d'ue Martin Pétrovitch Kharlov, un homme d'une taille gigantesque. Le récit captivant d'un être exceptionnel.
Toc... Toc... Toc ! Etude
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Le jour de sa promotion — cela se passait aux environs du 15 mars —, Teglev se promenait le long des quais, en compagnie de quelques camarades impatients d’étrenner leurs uniformes tout neufs. Le printemps était précoce et la glace fondait déjà sur la Néva ; le courant avait emporté les blocs les plus gros, et il ne flottait plus à la surface du fleuve qu’une couche mince et peu résistante. Les jeunes gens devisaient joyeusement, riaient... quand l’un d’eux s’arrêta : il venait d’apercevoir, à une vingtaine de mètres du bord, un caniche qui s’était réfugié sur une glace plus stable que les autres et hurlait en tremblant de tout son corps transi.
On The Eve...
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On the Eve is the third novel by famous Russian writer Ivan Turgenev, best known for his short stories and the novel Fathers and Sons. Turgenev embellishes this love story with observations on middle class life and interposes some art and philosophy. Nikolay Dobrolyubov was critical of On the Eve, offending Turgenev. The story revolves around Elena, a girl with a hypochondriac mother and an idle father, a retired guards lieutenant with a mistress. On the eve of the Crimean War, Elena is pursued by a free-spirited sculptor (Shubin) and a serious-minded student (Berzyenev). But when Berzyenev's revolutionary Bulgarian friend, Insarov, meets Elena, they fall in love. In secretly marrying Insarov Elena disappoints her mother and enrages her father, who had hoped to marry her to a dull, self-satisfied functionary, Kurnatovski. Insarov nearly dies from pneumonia and only partly recovers. On the outbreak of war Insarov tries to return with Elena to Bulgaria, but tragically dies in Venice. Elena takes Insarov's body to the Balkans for burial and then vanishes.
Claire Militch
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Lorsque Jacques Aratov, jeune homme taciturne et solitaire, fait la connaissance de l'actrice Claire Militch, il reste indifférent à son charme et, plus tard, à son implicite déclaration. En apparence du moins... La nouvelle de la mort de la jeune femme, qui s'est suicidée, provoque, lorsqu'il l'apprend quelques mois plus tard, le trouble dans son esprit... Et si la jeune femme s'était donné la mort suite à une déception amoureuse? Et s'il en était la cause? Et s'il avait toujours aimé Clara, sans se l'avouer? Et comment expliquer les visites nocturnes du fant?me de Claire depuis qu'il cherche à comprendre les raisons de son suicide?
Home of the Gentry
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Home of the Gentry is a novel by Ivan Turgenev published in the January 1859 issue of Sovremennik. It was enthusiastically received by the Russian society and remained his least controversial and most widely read novel until the end of the 19th century. It was turned into a movie by Andrey Konchalovsky in 1969.
The Reluctant Dragon
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The Reluctant Dragon is an 1898 children's story by Kenneth Grahame (originally published as a chapter in his book Dream Days), which served as the key element to the 1941 feature film with the same name from Walt Disney Productions. The story has also been set to music as a children's operetta by John Rutter, with words by David Grant. The story takes place in the Berkshire Downs in Oxfordshire (where the author lived and where, according to legend, St George did fight a dragon). It is Grahame's most famous short story. It is arguably much more well-known than Dream Days itself or the related The Golden Age. It can be seen as a prototype to most modern stories in which the dragon is a sympathetic character rather than a threat. In Grahame's story, a young boy discovers an erudite, mushroom-loving dragon living in the Downs above his home. The two become friends, but soon afterwards the dragon is discovered by the townsfolk, who send for St George to rid them of it.
L'Homme qui revient de loin
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Jacques voit réappara?tre son frère qu'il a assassiné pour s'approprier sa fortune. Sa femme Fanny découvre le crime mais ne crois pas au revenant...
De la Terre à la Lune
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De la Terre à la Lune, Trajet direct en 97 heures 20 minutes est un roman d'anticipation de Jules Verne paru en 1865. Il forme la première partie d'un diptyque, qui se cl?t avec Autour de la Lune.
The Wouldbegoods
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After being sent to the country "to learn to be good", the Bastable children and their two friends form the Society of the Wouldbegoods, but continue to become involved in adventures.
Dubliners
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Dubliners is a collection of 15 short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. The fifteen stories were meant to be a naturalistic depiction of the Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century. The stories were written at the time when Irish nationalism was at its peak, and a search for a national identity and purpose was raging; at a crossroads of history and culture, Ireland was jolted by various converging ideas and influences. They center on Joyce's idea of an epiphany: a moment where a character has a special moment of self-understanding or illumination. Many of the characters in Dubliners later appear in minor roles in Joyce's novel Ulysses. The initial stories in the collection are narrated by children as protagonists, and as the stories continue, they deal with the lives and concerns of progressively older people. This is in line with Joyce's tripartite division of the collection into childhood, adolescence and maturity.
Memorias de un solterón: Adán y Eva
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La novela forma un díptico con Do?a Milagros y se centra en las relaciones entre hombres y mujeres en el el matrimonio. A través de los personajes femeninos es posible ver las ideas de Pardo Bazán sobre la situación de la mujer en su época. Se concentra en particular en las jóvenes de clase media.
Dulce sue?o
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Esta colección de cuentos siete ha dado a conocer en textos impecables, basados en las primeras ediciones o en manuscritos de Emilia Pardo Bazán obras significativas en la escritura d ela autora espa?ola. I. Escuchad II. Lina III. Los procos IV. El de Farnesio V. Intermedio lírico VI. El de Carranza VII. Dulce due?o
Un Re Lear delle steppe
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Un re Lear della steppa è un racconto costruito da Turgenev sul modello del Re Lear di William Shakespeare.

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