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Par une brûlante journée du mois d’août 1862 un petit steamer sillonnait paisiblement les eaux brunes du Minnesota. On pouvait voir entassés pêle-mêle sur le pont, hommes, femmes, enfants, caisses, malles, paquets, et les mille inutilités indispensables...

BnF collection ebooks - "La basse Californie est une immense péninsule commençant à la baie de Todos-Santos et finissant au cap San-Lucar, par-delà le tropique, fort avant dans la zone torride ; sa largeur varie entre 50 et 130 kilomètres ; elle est séparée en deux parties presque égales...

Extrait du livre : Les nombreuses superstitions qui régnaient dans la Nouvelle-Angleterre, avant la guerre de l’indépendance, ont survécu dans beaucoup de contrées. Malgré le progrès de la civilisation, elles maintiennent leur empire sur l’inculte...

The three works in this book are each strikingly different. Death, Satan and Nero (the fifth Roman emperor) converse in a prose poem; a Medieval saint encounters trial and struggle before attaining divinity; the life of a selfless maid in 19th-century France shows the horror of true altruism.

Un simple drama local sirvió a Flaubert para iniciar un trabajo de creación «sobre nada», que tuvo por fruto una de las novelas capitales de la literatura: con esa nada, Flaubert construyó no sólo un personaje, sino un modelo  de mujer que resume los dramas íntimos de muchas mujeres educadas...

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. In the eastern side of the Dead Sea rose the citadel of Machaerus. It was built upon a conical peak of basalt, and was surrounded by four deep valleys, one on each side, another in front, and the fourth in the...

Beautiful Emma Rouault yearns for the life of wealth, passion and romance she has encountered in popular sentimental fiction, and when her doctor, the well-meaning but awkward and unremarkable Charles Bovary, begins to pay her attention, she imagines that she may be granted her wish. However, after...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘…for her, life was as cold as an attic with a window looking to the north, and ennui, like a spider, was silently spinning its shadowy web in every cranny of her heart.’ Married to Charles, a provincial doctor,...

Sentimental Education is considered the most influential of the nineteenth century novel he describes the life of a young man (Federic Moreau), and his love for an older woman during the revolution of 1848 and the founding of the Second French Empire.

This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. This book features a table of contents linked to every chapter. The book was designed for optimal navigation on the iPad, Nook, PDA, Smartphone, and other electronic readers. It is formatted to display on all electronic devices including eReaders, Smartphones and other Mobile Devices with a small display.

First published in 1877, these three stories are dominated by questions of doubt, love, loneliness and religious experience, and together form a triumphant conclusion to Flaubert's literary career. With elegant simplicity, 'A Simple Heart' relates the story of Félicité - an uneducated serving-woman...

Das Werk schildert, angelehnt an historische Begebenheiten, den Verlauf des Söldneraufstands, der nach der Niederlage Karthagos im Ersten Punischen Krieg 241 bis etwa 238 v. Chr. in Nordafrika ausbrach. Die Titelfigur Salammbô, im Roman die Tochter des karthagischen Feldherrn Hamilkar Barkas, ist...

Three Tales" is a remarkable collection of fictional tour de force presented by Flaubert. It portrays three different aspects of life simultaneously - contemporary religious and historical. These stories are a beautiful amalgamation of sentiments such as love solitude and passion for religion. Engrossing!