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This early work by Emile Erckmann and Alexandre Chatrian was originally published in 1876 and we are now republishing it with brand new introductory biographies as part of our Cryptofiction Classics series. 'The Queen of the Bees' is a short story about a swarm of bees. The Cryptofiction Classics series contains a collection of wonderful stories from some of the greatest authors in the genre, including Ambrose Bierce, Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Jack London. From its roots in cryptozoology, this genre features bizarre, fantastical, and often terrifying tales of mythical...
This early work by Emile Erckmann and Alexandre Chatrian was originally published in 1876 and we are now republishing it with brand new introductory b...
This early work by Emile Erckmann and Alexandre Chatrian was originally published in 1876 and we are now republishing it with brand new introductory biographies as part of our Cryptofiction Classics series. 'The Man-Wolf' is a short story about a werewolf set in France. The Cryptofiction Classics series contains a collection of wonderful stories from some of the greatest authors in the genre, including Ambrose Bierce, Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Jack London. From its roots in cryptozoology, this genre features bizarre, fantastical, and often terrifying tales of mythical...
This early work by Emile Erckmann and Alexandre Chatrian was originally published in 1876 and we are now republishing it with brand new introductory b...
This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.
This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, af...
This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.
This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, af...
De retour de la guerre, Joseph Bertha peut esperer une vie paisible aupres des siens. Mais ce bonheur pourrait bien n'etre que de courte duree. Le retour des nobles et de Louis XVIII est loin de plaire a tous... et Napoleon n'est pas tres loin. Ce dernier entraine dans son sillage tous ses anciens soldats mis au rebut par le nouveau pouvoir et tous les patriotes autour du drapeau tricolore, qui voient en lui le Jacobin adversaire des Bourbons et du clericalisme. Joseph Bertha est rappele a son regiment et doit partir pour la campagne de Belgique ou la France affronte une coalition de toute...
De retour de la guerre, Joseph Bertha peut esperer une vie paisible aupres des siens. Mais ce bonheur pourrait bien n'etre que de courte duree. Le ret...
Apres la debacle des armees napoleoniennes relatees dans Le conscrit de 1813, les armees coalisees apparaissent en France. Le sabotier Hullin et sa cousine Catherine Lefevre suscitent chez les montagnards un mouvement de resistance qui contribue pendant un temps a arreter l'ennemi. Mais le mouvement echoue a cause du fou Yegof, qui predit depuis trente ans le triomphe des hordes germaniques..."
Apres la debacle des armees napoleoniennes relatees dans Le conscrit de 1813, les armees coalisees apparaissent en France. Le sabotier Hullin et sa co...
Fritz Kobus, bon vivant, heritier de son pere juge de paix, decide de vivre sans travailler ni se marier afin de profiter de la vie, du bon vin, de la bonne chere, des amis a la brasserie du Grand-Cerf. Fidele a sa philosophie pendant 15 ans, malgre les pressions du meilleur ami de son pere, le rabbin David (rebbe), qui lui presente regulierement les plus jolies veuves. Comme chaque annee, au premier jour du printemps, le bohemien Iosef vient jouer du violon sous sa fenetre, en remerciement d'un jour de Noel ou Fritz le sauva du wachtmann Foux. Il l'invita a diner, ainsi que plusieurs de ses...
Fritz Kobus, bon vivant, heritier de son pere juge de paix, decide de vivre sans travailler ni se marier afin de profiter de la vie, du bon vin, de la...
Erckmann et Chatrian ont publie pendant presque cinquante ans des recits rustiques et patriotiques. Ces conteurs hors-pairs, qui ont donne leur nom au Prix Erchman-Chatrian, sorte de Goncourt Lorrain, nous offrent ce recueil d'une trentaine de contes melant de tres belles descriptions des paysages francais a des morales modernes et scientifiques. Un ouvrage historique et extremement interessant, qui ravira sans doute les amateurs d'Histoire et ceux desireux de faire une immersion dans la France du XIXeme siecle "
Erckmann et Chatrian ont publie pendant presque cinquante ans des recits rustiques et patriotiques. Ces conteurs hors-pairs, qui ont donne leur nom au...
