Oscar: 1500 books

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his epigrams, plays and the circumstances of his imprisonment, followed by his early death. -wikipedia

Le Fantôme de Canterville (titre original : The Canterville Ghost) est une nouvelle d'Oscar Wilde publiée en 1887  Le Fantôme de Canterville est une parodie avec un fantôme nommé Sir Simon et un ambassadeur américain nommé Hiram B. Otis. L'ambassadeur...

Exoticism and romance. A breath of fresh air.1892 in colonial Africa. A classic and everlasting adventure style. A French official travels Tanganyika in East Africa German to perform intelligence tasks. The daughter of an Arab sheik in danger. Ivory hunters, slave traders,conflicts between native...

This work includes three stories. Mirage tells a love story in a violent environment. A French officer who obeys an uncertain chain of command in North Africa is ordered to report on the fate of a group of refugees fleeing ethnic cleansing carried out by the Tuaregs in Mali. The expected relief from...

 A 10th century saga recounts the arrival of a castaway Scandinavian to the New World and the Mayan cities of the time. He is accepted in them under the influence of the God Kukulkan myths An uncertain but recurrent genetic thread links those misty characters with the protagonist in the current...

If you love psychological thrillers, this novel will cut your breath from the beginning. An old Chinese scholar living in Buenos Aires instructs a young niece and her boyfriend to interpret the I Ching (the Chinese oracle and book of wisdom). In China a powerful drug dealer weaves...

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish playwright, poet and author of numerous short stories and one novel. Known for his biting wit, and a plentitude of aphorisms, he became one of the most successful playwrights of the late Victorian era in London, and one of the greatest celebrities...

Large book-length collection of According to Wikipedia: "Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854 - 1900) was an Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and author of short stories. Known for his barbed wit, he was one of the most successful playwrights of late Victorian London, and one of the greatest...

If you love historical thrillers, this novel will cut your breath from the beginning. Anchored in remote medieval origins and using a genetic distinctive feature as a red thread, the story starts in a castle in Nazi Germany, a SS training and command center. The plot leads first to Antarctica...

The Duchess of Padua by the Irish playwright, novelist, essayist, and poet,Oscar Wilde.The Duchess of Padua is a play,it is a five-act melodramatic tragedy set in Padua and written in blank verse. It was written for the actress Mary Anderson in early 1883 while in Paris. After she turned it down,...

Nous perçumes le bruit cadencé de pas de danseurs; nous suivîmes, en flanant, la rue éclairée par la lune et nous arrêtâmes devant la maison de la Courtisane. De l'intérieur, à travers le tumulte, le désordre, nous entendions les musiciens jouer à grand bruit le Coeur cher et fidèle de...

Être entraîné à la dérive de toute passion jusqu'à ce que mon âme devienne un luth aux cordes tendues dont peuvent jouer tous les vents, c'est pour cela que j'ai renoncé à mon antique sagesse, à l'austère maîtrise de moi-même. A ce qu'il me semble, ma vie est un parchemin sur lequel on...

EXTRAIT: Il y a un an, je respirais l'air de l'Italie,- et pourtant, il est beau, ce me semble, ce printemps du Nord, avec ces campagnes que dore la fleur de mars, le sansonnet qui chante sur le bouleau velouté, les freux qui croassent, les ramiers des bois qui voltigent de ci de là,...

If you love historical thrillers, this novel will cut your breath from the beginning. A 10th century saga narrates the arrival of a Viking castaway to the Mayan cities. He is accepted as an avatar of the God Kukulkan and marries a Maya Princess A genetic thread links those misty characters...