Bay Bay Online Books: 358 books

* Book : 813 (Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Cambrioleur .4) * Biographie * Bibliographie Quelle mystérieuse entreprise amène à Paris Rudolf Kesselbach, le richissime et ambitieux roi du diamant sud-africain? Que signifie ce nombre, 813, inscrit sur le coffret en sa possession ? De quel secret...

* Book : The Wreck of the Golden Mary * Biography * Bibliography "I was apprenticed to the Sea when I was twelve years old, and I have encountered a great deal of rough weather, both literal and metaphorical. It has always been my opinion since I first possessed such a thing as an opinion,...

* Book : Kazan, the Wolf Dog * Biography * Bibliography Kazan lay mute and motionless, his gray nose between his forepaws, his eyes half closed. A rock could have appeared scarcely less lifeless than he; not a muscle twitched; not a hair moved; not an eyelid quivered. Yet every drop of the...

* Book : The Grizzly King * Biography * Bibliography As in human life, there are tragedy, and humour, and pathos in the life of the wild; there are facts of tremendous interest, real happenings and real lives to be written about, and very small necessity for one to draw on imagination. (This book was the inspiration for French director Jean-Jacques Annaud's 1988 film The Bear.)

* Book : The Hunted Woman * Biography * Bibliography It was all new most of it singularly dramatic and even appalling to the woman who sat with the pearl-gray veil drawn closely about her face. For eighteen hours she had been a keenly attentive, wide-eyed, and partly frightened bit of humanity...

* Book : The Alaskan * Biography * Bibliography Captain Rifle, gray and old in the Alaskan Steamship service, had not lost the spirit of his youth along with his years. Romance was not dead in him, and the fire which is built up of clean adventure and the association of strong men and a mighty...

* Book : Back to God's Country and Other Stories * Biography * Bibliography BACK TO GOD'S COUNTRY: After her father is killed by an outlaw, Dolores marries Peter. While at sea in the Arctic, Dolores meets the ship's captain -- the man who killed her father! The captain causes an 'accident'...

* Book : Treasure Island * Biography * Bibliography Treasure Island is an adventure novel by author Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a tale of "buccaneers and buried gold". Its influence is enormous on popular perceptions of pirates, including such elements as treasure maps marked...

* Book : A Pair of Blue Eyes * Biography * Bibliography Elfride finds herself caught in a battle between her heart, her mind and the expectations of her parents and society. The novel is notable for the strong parallels to Hardy and his first wife Emma Gifford. When Elfride's father finds that...

* Book : The Mayor of Casterbridge * Biography * Bibliography The Mayor of Casterbridge opens with a shocking and haunting scene: In a drunken rage, Michael Henchard sells his wife and daughter to a visiting sailor at a local fair. When they return to Casterbridge some nineteen years later,...

* Book : Du contrat social ou Principes du droit politique * Biographie * Bibliographie Du contrat social ou Principes du droit politique est un ouvrage de philosophie politique de Jean-Jacques Rousseau publié en 1762. Il est connu pour exposer avec clarté et force que la seule forme de pouvoir...

* Book : Les rêveries du promeneur solitaire * Biographie * Bibliographie Les Rêveries du promeneur solitaire tiennent à la fois de l’autobiographie et de la réflexion philosophique : il constitue le dernier des écrits de Rousseau, la partie finale ayant vraisemblablement été conçue quelques semaines avant sa mort, et l’œuvre étant inachevée.

* Book : A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court * Biography * Bibliography This is the tale of a 19th-century citizen of Hartford, Connecticut who awakens to find himself inexplicably transported back in time to early medieval England at the time of the legendary King Arthur in AD 528.

* Book : The Enchanted Island of Yew * Biography * Bibliography   Sesely, daughter of Baron Merd of Heg, and two companions are enjoying a picnic in the Forest of Lurla when they are accosted by a fairy. The fairy, bored with centuries of insipid fairy life, amazes the girls by pleading...