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Cover of The Music of Erich Zann
by H.P. Lovecraft
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2018

"The Music of Erich Zann" is a short story by American author H. P. Lovecraft. Written in December 1921, it was first published in National Amateur, March 1922. A university student is forced, by his lack of funds, to take the only lodging he can afford. In a strange part of the city he...
Cover of La morte di Ivan Il'ič – La sonata a Kreutzer
by Lev Tolstoj
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 12, 2018

La morte di Ivan Il'ič, pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1886, è una delle opere più celebrate di Tolstoj, influenzata dalla crisi spirituale dell'autore, che lo porterà a convertirsi al Cristianesimo. Tema centrale della storia è quello dell'uomo di fronte all'inevitabilità della morte. La...
Cover of Un Re Lear delle steppe
by Ivan Turgenev
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 16, 2018

Un re Lear della steppa è un racconto costruito da Turgenev sul modello del Re Lear di William Shakespeare.
Cover of There are No Guilty People
by Leo Tolstoy
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2018

MINE is a strange and wonderful lot! The chances are that there is not a single wretched beggar suffering under the luxury and oppression of the rich who feels anything like as keenly as I do either the injustice, the cruelty, and the horror of their oppression of and contempt for the poor; or the...
Cover of Ivan the Fool
by Leo Tolstoy
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2018

"Ivan the Fool" (also known as "Ivan the Fool and his Two Brothers") is an 1886 short story (in fact, a literary fairy tale) by Leo Tolstoy, published in 1886. It describes the struggles of three brothers and a sister with the Old Devil. The name "Ivan the Fool" hints to a popular hero of Russian folklore.
Cover of Assez ! Extrait du journal d'un peintre défunt
by Ivan Turgenev
Language: French
Release Date: May 11, 2018

" Assez ! " me disais-je à moi-même, en gravissant péniblement le flanc d'une montagne escarpée qui s'élevait depuis les rives d'un fleuve paisible. " Assez ! " me répétai-je, en humant l'haleine résineuse d'un bosquet de sapins, particulièrement odorante dans la fraîcheur...
Cover of La giara
by Luigi Pirandello
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 16, 2018

Vengono qui presentate alcune novelle estratte dalla raccolta "Novelle per un anno". I paesaggi delle novelle sono vari; per quelle dette siciliane si ha spesso il tipico paesaggio rurale, anche se in alcune troviamo il tema sociale del contrasto tra le generazioni dovuto all'unità d'Italia....
Cover of La fabbrica
by Bruno Sperani
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 12, 2018

Un romanzo corale che si sviluppa nel periodo di sviluppo dei cantieri edili milanesi di fine '800.
Cover of The Oblong Box
by Edgar Allan Poe
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018

"The Oblong Box" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1844, about a sea voyage and a mysterious box. The story opens with the unnamed narrator recounting a summer sea voyage from Charleston, South Carolina to New York City aboard the ship Independence. The narrator learns...
Cover of Œuvres Complètes d'Edgar Allan Poe (Traduites par Charles Baudelaire) (Avec Annotations)
by Edgar Allan Poe
Language: French
Release Date: May 2, 2018

Contenu: Histoires extraordinaires (1856): Edgar Poe sa vie et ses œuvres, Double Assassinat dans la rue Morgue, La Lettre volée, Le Scarabée d'or, Le Canard au ballon, Aventure sans pareille d'un certain Hans Pfaall, Manuscrit trouvé dans une bouteille, Une descente dans le maelstrom, La Vérité...
Cover of A Dark Night's Work
by Elizabeth Gaskell
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018

A concealed crime and a false accusation of murder
Cover of Le Parfum de la dame en noir
by Gaston Leroux
Language: French
Release Date: May 8, 2018

Une cérémonie de mariage réunit tous les protagonistes du célèbre Mystère de la chambre jaune.
Cover of Winnetou 1-4
by Karl May
Language: German
Release Date: May 11, 2018

Winnetou I Winnetou II Winnetou III Winnetou IV Winnetou ist eine Figur aus dem gleichnamigen Roman und anderen Werken des deutschen Autors Karl May (1842–1912), die im Wilden Westen spielen. Er ist ein fiktiver Häuptling der Mescalero-Apachen. Winnetou verkörpert den edlen, guten Indianer und...
Cover of Les Ténébreuses (Tomes I et II)
by Gaston Leroux
Language: French
Release Date: May 8, 2018

Le grand duc Ivan est amoureux de la modeste Prisca et s'oppose à sa mère qui veut le voir épouser la fille du prince Khirkof. De plus, il dénonce l'attitude de Raspoutine qui entraîne les dames de la cour dans une secte où elles deviennent les Ténébreuses. Il reçoit l'aide de la Kouliguine,...
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