Extract: The sea covers to-day what was once the Duchy of Clarides. No trace of the town or the castle remains. But when it is calm there can be seen, it is said, within the circumference of a mile, huge trunks of trees standing on the bottom of the sea. A spot on the banks, which now serves as a station for the customhouse officers, is still called "The Tailor's Booth," and it is quite probable that this name is in memory of a certain Master Jean who is mentioned in this story. The sea, which encroaches year by year, will soon cover this spot so curiously named. Such changes are in the...

Paru en 1915, ce livre d'Anatole France se veut une critique sociale inscrite en plein dans la Premiere Guerre mondiale. Il est dedie a la memoire de Jean-Pierre Barbier, mort au champ d'honneur le 26 decembre 1914 et cite au Pantheon de Paris."

Le Jardin d'Epicure regroupe 75 textes d'Anatole France allant de quelques lignes a plusieurs pages. Les themes traites sont divers: les femmes, la religion, l'amour, les miracles, la metaphysique, la sagesse, l'immortalite de l'ame, les couvents, les livres, la peinture, tout cela au gre de sa pensee. Certains jugements facheront, d'autres avec leurs idees philosophiques feront reflechir..."

Histoire de l'ascension infernale d'Evariste Gamelin, jeune peintre parisien, engage dans la section de son quartier du Pont-Neuf, Les dieux ont soif decrit les annees noires de la Terreur a Paris, entre les ans II et III. Farouchement jacobin, fidele entre les fideles de Marat et Robespierre, Evariste Gamelin finira par etre nomme jure au tribunal revolutionnaire. La longue et implacable succession des proces quotidiens de plus en plus expeditifs (a partir de la loi de prairial en particulier) entraine cet idealiste dans une folie qui le coupera de ses proches et precipitera sa propre chute...

Anatole Francois Thibault (16 de abril de 1844, Paris - 12 de octubre de 1924, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire), conocido como Anatole France, fue un escritor frances, padre del tambien escritor Noel France. En 1921 le fue concedido el Premio Nobel de Literatura.

Famous Modern Ghost Stories, a collection of ghost stories written by notable authors, most of whom were born in the 1800's, was selected by Dorothy Scarborough and published in 1920. 'Modern' is retained in the title of this book out of respect for Dorothy Scarborough's work in writing and editing, even though many of the stories are now over 100 years old. The collection, however, is notable as a collection of many of the best ghost stories of the time, written by authors who pioneered in the field. Dorothy Scarborough (1878-1935), an American writer of folk culture, cotton farming, and...