“Literary hybrids of Jane Austen novels and zombie stories? That’s so last year. Quirk Books, which released the best‐selling novels Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Sense and Sensibility and Sea...
Long considered the author's strangest novel, this work is a comic allegory aimed at the optimism and materialism of mid-18th-century America. A mysterious shape-changing confidence-man approaches...
Redburn charts the coming-of-age of Wellingborough Redburn, a young innocent who embarks on a crossing to Liverpool together with a roguish crew. Once in Liverpool, Redburn encounters the squalid...
A reconstruction of Melville's original text omits the "Pierre as author" subplot that was later assimilated and is accompanied by thirty full-color pictures by Maurice Sendak.
A sailor escapes from his ship while visiting the Marquesas Islands and joins the crew of a savage boat.
This facsimile of Melville's historical novel appears in a paperback classroom edition, with a commentary by Hennig Cohen. "Israel Potter" is the story of a neglected hero of the American Revolution....
Bartleby the Scrivener (1853), by Herman Melville, tells the story of a quiet, hardworking legal copyist who works in an office in the Wall Street area of New York City. One day Bartleby declines the...
From The Project Gutenberg (http://www.gutenberg.org) eBook archive (#25829).Produced by David Edwards, Alicia Williams, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at...
Alphonse Daudet n'a pas seulement chanté la Provence perdue de son enfance. Dans Sapho, c'est un Paris bien incarné qu'il met en scène, celui de la bohème artistique de son temps, se consumant dans...
'Le Petit Chose' paraît en feuilleton en 1867. Daudet s'inspire des souvenirs d'une jeunesse douloureuse: humiliations à l'école, mépris pour le petit provencal, expérience de répétiteur au collège...
20 ans après leurs aventures d’Artagnan et les trois mousquetaires sont à nouveau entrainés dans l’aventure. Les temps ont changé: le Cardinal s’appelle Mazarin et n’est guère aimé, Porthos est...
Faszinierend schildert Arthur Schnitzler das parallele, stark erotisch bestimmte Erleben des Paares Fridolin und Albertine. Er ließ sich auf mysteriöse Weise in eine orgiastische Gesellschaft führen...
Jerusalem, del I 1901 och del II 1902, roman.Skrevs efter författarinnans resa till Jerusalem 1899–1900. Romanen handlar om utvandringen från Dalarna till Palestina.En väldigt uppskattad och välkänd...
Роман Ярослава Гашека «Похождения бравого солдата Швейка» во время мировой войны» - самый популярный чешский роман. Образ чешского солдата в армии Австро-Венгерской монархии был создан Ярославом...
The Parasite was an 1894 novelette about Austin Gilroy who studied physiology and knows a professor who studies the occult. The young man is introduced to a middle-aged woman known as Miss Penclosa,...
«Все для фронта!» И ради победы киностудия «MGM» превращается в авиационный завод Хьюза.
Элен — любовница женатого мужчины. Конечно, она просит его жениться на ней, конечно, он всегда отказывает. Однажды она исповедуется в своём грехе католическому священнику-ирландцу, и положение...
