Using a legend told to him nearly half a century before, conjuring up the scenes of his boyhood, and calling into requisition his wonderful gift of improvisation, Dumas weaves a romance combining a weird tale of diablerie and continual delightful glimpses of forest life. Terror, wood-craft, and humour could not be more felicitously intermingled. The reader, while kept under the spell of the main theme of the story, experiences all the charm of an open-air life in the great forest of Villers-Cotterets -- the forest in which the little town seemed to occupy a small clearing, and into which the...
Using a legend told to him nearly half a century before, conjuring up the scenes of his boyhood, and calling into requisition his wonderful gift of im...
Fantomas having just escaped into the sewers of Paris, Juve and Fandor find themselves with few clues to go on until the great detective is approached by a Committee of Insurance Companies against Theft with a mission—to protect a secret document which details the precise location of the jewels of Empress Eugenie, wife of Napoleon III. Knowing Fantomas will try to steal this priceless treasure map, Juve sets a trap for the Arch-Criminal in the pleasure resorts of the Parisian suburbs in this, the thirty-fourth book of the series.
Fantomas having just escaped into the sewers of Paris, Juve and Fandor find themselves with few clues to go on until the great detective is approac...
FantOmas extorts powerful politicians and financiers as part of a plot to rob the CrEdit International bank and get rid of Inspector Juve once and for all. When the great detective falls into the macabre snares of the Lord of Terror, the journalist Jerome Fandor in his desperation must seek the help of Lady Beltham, the wayward lover of FantOmas, to save his beloved friend in this, the thirty-fifth book of the series.
FantOmas extorts powerful politicians and financiers as part of a plot to rob the CrEdit International bank and get rid of Inspector Juve once and ...
After leaving the captured Fantômas in the custody of Jerome Fandor, Inspector Juve is shocked to learn that the journalist has let him escape. With Fandor under suspicion of being an accomplice of the Genius of Evil, the two friends follow separate paths to track down their nemesis, with the final chapters of this, the thirty-sixth of the Fantômas novels, comprising what is surely the most dizzying, breakneck action sequence of the series.
After leaving the captured Fantômas in the custody of Jerome Fandor, Inspector Juve is shocked to learn that the journalist has let him escap...
This book is a collection of short stories. Most were set in Florence and the surrounding areas in Tuscany. They were stories from the middle ages, a lot had religious and supernatural themes, but dealt written by one of France's most popular atheists they were poking fun of the hypocrisy of religion rather than holding up its virtue.
This book is a collection of short stories. Most were set in Florence and the surrounding areas in Tuscany. They were stories from the middle ages, a ...
The Aspirations of Jean Servien is the true first novel of Anatole France. Indeed, even it was published in 1882, after the Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard, a first version of this work was prepared long before 1880.
The Aspirations of Jean Servien is the true first novel of Anatole France. Indeed, even it was published in 1882, after the Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard...
