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Le Horla est une des premieres nouvelles de science-fiction dans la litterature Francaise.
Dans un journal intime, le narrateur rapporte ses troubles et ses angoisses: il sent autour de lui la presence d'une chose indefinissable, invisible et malfaisante, qu'il nomme le Horla. Bientot surviennent des evenements mysterieux et l'homme est pris de fievres et de cauchemars - a l'angoisse succedent la peur puis l'epouvante. Il...

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Emily Bronte (1818-1848) etait une romanciere et poete Anglaise - elle ecrivait sous le nom de plume Ellis Bell. Malgre le manque de moyens financiers, sa soeur Charlotte Bronte a reussi a publier l'unique roman d'Emily en 1847, "Wuthering Heights" (Les Hauts de Hurlevent) un an avant qu'Emily ne meure, frappee par la tuberculose.

Heathcliff est un enfant abandonne, adopte par les Earnshaw. Il s'est epris de Catherine, la fille de la...

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L'aventure de Croc Blanc, d'abord publiee en 1906, se deroule dans les deserts geles et desoles du nord-ouest Canadien. Croc-Blanc, mi-chien mi-loup se trouve le seul survivant d'une portee de cinq. Dans son monde de solitude, il a vite appris a suivre la dure loi du nord - manger ou etre mange - et a devenir une creature feroce et magnifique. Mais rien dans sa jeune vie ne l'a prepare a la cruaute du tyran Beauty Smith, qui...

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First published in 1903, The Call of the Wild is a tale about unbreakable spirit and the struggle for existence. The central character is a domesticated sturdy cross breed canine named Buck, born to luxury and raised in a sheltered Californian home. Stolen from his home and sold into service as sled dog in Alaska, he reverts to a wild state. Buck is forced to fight in order to dominate other dogs in a harsh climate. Passed from master to master, Buck embarks on an extraordinary...

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Emma Bovary mene une triste existence aupres d'un mari insignifiant, Charles Bovary. Charles est pourtant tres epris de sa femme, mais Emma reve d'une vie mondaine, d'aventure et d'exaltations romanesques comme les princesses des romans a l'eau de rose dans lesquels elle se refugie pour fuir cette vie decevante.
L'ennui la ronge au point de la pousser a l'adultere et elle enchaine les conquetes. Mais l'absurde gout du luxe...

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Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was an Irish author, playwright and poet, who built an esthete and hedonist dandy character.
Inseparable from his huge literary talent, his extraordinary personality, biting wit, flamboyant dress and glittering conversation ensured his fame.

Arguably the greatest farcical comedy in English, The Importance of Being Earnest, made a triumph in London since its premiere performance in 1895 and still delights readers more than a century later, with...

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D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930) was an English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter.

The first edition of his novel Lady Chatterley's Lover was printed privately in Florence, Italy in 1928 - and was banned as pornography until 1960 in the United Kingdom.

The publication of the book caused a scandal due to its explicit sex scenes, and the class difference between the couple. The story is said to have originated from events in Lawrence's own unhappy...

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White Fang story, first published in 1906, takes place in the desolate, frozen wilds of northwest Canada. White Fang, a part dog, part wolf cub finds himself the sole survivor of a litter of five. In his lonely world, he soon learned to follow the harsh law of the North - kill or be killed - and became a ferocious and magnificent creature. But nothing in his young life prepared him for the cruelty of the bully Beauty Smith, who buys White Fang from his Indian master and turns him...

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Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870), prolific playwright and novelist, is one of the most widely read French authors in the world.

First published in 1850, The Black Tulip is a story of romantic love, jealousy and obsession, as much as a historical novel.

Cornelius van Baerle, a respectable tulip-grower, lives only to cultivate the elusive black tulip & win a magnificent prize for its creation. But after his powerful godfather is assassinated, the unwitting Cornelius becomes caught...

Read the greatest novel by Jack London in a beautifully presented edition.

First published in 1903, The Call of the Wild is a tale about unbreakable spirit and the struggle for existence. The central character is a domesticated sturdy cross breed canine named Buck, born to luxury and raised in a sheltered Californian home.
Stolen from his home and sold into service as sled dog in Alaska, he reverts to a wild state. Buck is forced to fight in order to dominate other dogs in a harsh climate. Passed from master to master, Buck embarks on an...

Read two of the greatest French novels of all time in a beautifully presented edition.

Paris in the late Middle Ages, during the reign of Louis XI (1461-1483).
A young and beautiful gypsy named Esmeralda dances on the steps of Notre-Dame cathedral. Her beauty captures the hearts of many men including those of Captain Phoebus and Pierre Gringoire, but especially Quasimodo the hunchback and his adoptive father, Frollo, archdeacon of Notre-Dame. Frollo is torn between his obsessive lust and the rules of the church...

Victor Hugo (1802-1885), was a...

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Jane Austen (1775-1817) was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature. Her realism, biting irony and social commentary as well as her acclaimed plots have gained her historical importance.

First published posthumously in 1818, "Persuasion " is Jane Austen's last completed novel.
As the Napoleonic Wars come to an end in 1814, eight years before the story proper begins, Anne Elliot is...

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Recueil de l'amour, de la joie mais aussi du deuil et meme d'une certaine foi mystique, Les Contemplations offre les plus beaux poemes de la poesie Francaise.
Victor Hugo y experimente le genre de l'autobiographie versifiee et nous livre les memoires de son ame dans des vers qui subliment les emotions. Ce recueil du souvenir et des sentiments, publie en 1856, rend aussi un hommage poignant a Leopoldine, la fille du poete, morte...