Récits d'un Chasseur
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Khor et Kalinitch, paru dans une revue, rendit célèbre Tourgueniev. Ce premier texte donne le thème de l'ensemble des récits de ce recueil: la chasse, dans de superbes paysages de plaines, de bois, d'étangs où l'on s'égare très vite, sous une chaleur torride ou une pluie battante. Nous découvrons la vie des paysans russes vers 1850, leurs croyances na?ves, leurs chansons, leurs disputes (que de femmes battues!) mais surtout leur vie terrible: les ma?tres décident de tout (mariage, emploi), les déplacent à leur gré et appliquent une justice très approximative quand ils osent se plaindre. La faim, la peur et la soumission à une hiérarchie corrompue sont le quotidien de nombreux moujiks. L'auteur (narrateur des récits) dénonce ici l'horreur du servage, ce qui lui valut un exil dans ses terres, tout en révélant aux Russes l'?me de son peuple.
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...
Le Fauteuil hanté
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Le quarantième siège de l?Académie va-t-il donc rester vide ? Tous les prétendants à la succession du défunt Mgr d?Abbeville s?écroulent, raides morts, en pronon?ant leur discours de réception. Pas un coup de feu, pas un éclat de voix, mais la menace d?un prétendu mage plane et alimente leshypothèses les plus farfelues. Funeste hasard ou malédiction ? Gaspard Lalouette, simple antiquaire,propose sa candidature et mène l?enquête. Cependant, même s?il parvient à percer le mystère de lachanson qui tue, il risque fort de déshonorer à son tour l?illustre assemblée. Une qualité essentielle lui fait en effet cruellement défaut
Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (illustrated)
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Complete fictional writings of Lewis Carroll with 285 original illustrations. The collection comes with inline tables of contents and links after each text/chapter which lead back to the respective tables. -------------------------- Contents: Novels ? Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. (Illustrated by John Tenniel) ? Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. (Illustrated by John Tenniel) ? Sylvie and Bruno. (Illustrated by Harry Furniss) ? Sylvie and Bruno Concluded. (Illustrated by Harry Furniss) Stories ? A Tangled Tale. (Illustrated by Arthur B. Frost) ? Bruno's Revenge and Other Stories. ? What the Tortoise Said to Achilles. Poems ? Early Verse. ? Puzzles from Wonderland. ? Prologues to Plays. ? Rhyme? And Reason? (Illustrated by Arthur B. Frost & Henry Holiday) ? College Rhymes and Notes by an Oxford Chiel. ? Acrostics, Inscriptions and Other Verses. ? Three Sunsets and Other Poems. (Illustrated by E. Gertrude Thomson)
The Dualitists
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Twins and their strange taste for destruction. Bram Stoker short stories
A Dream of Red Hands
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"A Dream of Red Hands" is a short story by Bram Stoker. It was first published in the July 11, 1894 issue of The Sketch: A Journal of Art and Actuality, London.
The Head of the House of Coombe
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The Head of the House of Coombe follows the relationships between a group of pre–World War One English nobles and commoners. It also offers both some interesting editorial commentary on the political system in prewar Europe that Burnett feels bears some responsibility for the war and some surprisingly pointed social commentary.
Hamlet
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Hamlet is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601. The play, set in Denmark, recounts how Prince Hamlet exacts revenge on his uncle Claudius, who has murdered Hamlet's father, the King, and then taken the throne and married Hamlet's mother. The play vividly charts the course of real and feigned madness—from overwhelming grief to seething rage—and explores themes of treachery, revenge, incest, and moral corruption.
The Tempest
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The Tempest is a comedy written by William Shakespeare. It is generally dated to 1610-11 and accepted as the last play written solely by him, although some scholars have argued for an earlier dating. While listed as a comedy in its initial publication in the First Folio of 1623, many modern editors have relabelled the play a romance.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
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The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1894, by Arthur Conan Doyle.
The Mystery of Cloomber
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Near their residence, Branksome, is The Cloomber Hall, for many years untenanted. After a little while it is settled in by John Berthier Heatherstone, late of the Indian Army. General Heatherstone is nervous to the point of being paranoid. As the story unfolds, it becomes evident that his fears are connected with some people in India whom he has offended somehow. People hear a strange sound, like the tolling of a bell, in his presence, which seems to cause the general great discomfort. Every year his paranoia reaches its climax around the fifth of October, after which date his fears subside for a while. After some time there is a shipwreck in the bay and among the survivors are three Buddhist priests who had boarded the ship from Kurrachee.
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 Lair of the White Worm
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In a tale of ancient evil, Bram Stoker creates a world of lurking horrors and bizarre denizens: a demented mesmerist, hellbent on mentally crushing the girl he loves; a gigantic kite raised to rid the land of an unnatural infestation of birds, and which receives strange commands along its string; and all the while, the great white worm slithers below, seeking its next victim... Bram Stoker, creator of Dracula, is one of the most enduring and masterful influences on the literature of terror.
The Untamed
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Brand's career as an author of Westerns began with this tale set in an otherworldly Wild West, which first appeared as a serial in All-Story magazine and was soon transformed into a film starring Tom Mix.
Le Bon Dieu de Chemillé qui n'est ni pour ni contre
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"Le curé de Chemillé s'en allait porter le Bon Dieu à un malade. Vraiment, c'était pitié de songer que quelqu'un pouvait mourir par un si beau jour d'été, en plein Angélus de midi, le moment de la vie et de la lumière. C'était pitié aussi de songer que ce pauvre curé avait été obligé de se mettre en route tout de suite en sortant de table, à l'heure où d'habitude il allait – le bréviaire aux mains – faire un bout de sieste sous sa petite tonnelle de vigne, au frais et au repos d'un joli jardin plein de pêches m?res et de roses trémières."
Jack
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En décembre 1858, refusé par l'institution jésuite de Vaugirard, Jack, fils adultérin d'Ida de Barancy, une demi-mondaine, échoue dans le collège insalubre du mul?tre Moronval. Ida succombe au charme d'un des professeurs, le rimailleur d'Argenton, et quitte son riche amant pour son poète. Jack s'enfuit du collège et rejoint le couple après maintes tribulations. L'intelligence de l'enfant se développe au contact du docteur Rivals. Mais d'Argenton, qui ne l'aime pas, décrète qu'il sera ouvrier. Dans une ?le bretonne, Jack apprend son dur métier de fondeur chez les Roudic... Roman noir, comme le Petit Chose, inspiré par une histoire authentique, Jack reprend la trame d'une enfance malheureuse, alors à la mode. La narration se centre sur le destin de Jack et en souligne l'implacable et fatal développement.
Tartarin sur les Alpes: Nouveaux exploits du héros tarasconnais
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Tartarin s'essaie à l'alpinisme afin de redorer son blason et déjouer les remises en cause de son statut de gloire tarasconnaise. En chemin, il multiplie les péripéties : infiltrations de cercles anarchistes russes en exil, visite touristique de monuments historiques, catastrophes de montagne... Ce roman est le second volet des aventures de Tartarin, explorant les mentalités tarasconnaises toujours aussi savoureuses. Au menu : vantardise, extravagance et mensonge, matinés de l?cheté, de peur et de jalousie, faiblesses ? combien humaines...
Souvenirs d'un homme de lettres
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Alphonse Daudet évoque, sur un ton parfois passionné, la genèse de deux de ses oeuvres (Numa Roumestan, Les Rois en exil), ses rencontres avec les écrivains (Edmond de Goncourt), les hommes politiques (Gambetta) et les acteurs et actrices (Déjazet) marquants de son époque, le siège de Paris pendant la guerre de 1870 et la Commune.
The Blue Fairy Book
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Andrew Lang's Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books constitute a twelve-book series of fairy tale collections. Although Andrew Lang did not collect the stories himself from the oral tradition, the extent of his sources, who had collected them originally (with the notable exception of Madame d'Aulnoy), made them an immensely influential collection, especially as he used foreign-language sources, giving many of these tales their first appearance in English. As acknowledged in the prefaces, although Lang himself made most of the selections, his wife and other translators did a large portion of the translating and telling of the actual stories. The Blue Fairy Book assembled a wide range of tales, with seven from the Brothers Grimm, five from Madame d'Aulnoy, three from the Arabian Nights, and four Norse stories, among other sources.

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