Bay Books: 428 books

* Book : L'Île au trésor * Biographie * Bibliographie Le héros de cette histoire est Jim Hawkins, fils d'un tenancier d'auberge dans un port anglais, sur la côte ouest de l'Angleterre au XVIIIe siècle. Le principal client de cette auberge se trouve être un vieux marin, nommé Billy Bones,...

* Book : The Uncommercial Traveller * Biography * Bibliography The Uncommercial Traveller is a collection of literary sketches and reminiscences written by Charles Dickens. In 1859 Dickens founded a new journal called All the Year Round and the Uncommercial Traveller articles would be...

* Book : Man-Size in Marble * Biography * Bibliography When a young pair of newlyweds settle down into a small cottage in a quiet village, they look forward to a pleasant, pastoral life of domestic bliss. The husband, a practical man, dismisses the superstitious maid's tale of an ancient curse...

* Book : Wet Magic * Biography * Bibliography THAT going to the seaside was the very beginning of everything, only it seemed as though it were going to be a beginning without an end, like the roads on the Sussex downs which look like roads and then look like paths, and then turn into sheep-tracks,...

* Book : The $30,000 Bequest and other short stories * Biography * Bibliography The stories contained span the course of his career, from "Advice to Young Girls" in 1865 to the titular tale in 1904. Although Twain had ample time to refine his short stories between their original publication...

* Book : David Copperfield - Tome II * Biography * Bibliography David Copperfield is the novel that draws most closely from Charles Dickens's own life. Its eponymous hero, orphaned as a boy, grows up to discover love and happiness, heartbreak and sorrow amid a cast of eccentrics, innocents,...

* Book : Robinson Crusoe * Biography * Bibliography The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (of York, Mariner Who lived Eight and Twenty Years all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast...

* Book : The Life, Adventures & Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton * Biography * Bibliography The narrative describes the life of an Englishman, stolen from a well-to-do family as a child and raised by Gypsies who eventually makes his way to sea. One half of the book concerns Singleton's...

* Book : La Prisonnière (À la recherche du temps perdu .5) * Biographie * Bibliographie Le thème principal de ce volume est l'amour possessif et jaloux qu'éprouve le narrateur pour Albertine. Il la fait surveiller, la soupçonne de liaisons homosexuelles, essaie de la retenir chez lui. En...

* Book : The Sweet Cheat Gone (The Fugitive) (In Search of Lost Time .6) * Biography * Bibliography The Narrator is anguished at Albertine's departure and absence. He dispatches Saint-Loup to convince her aunt Mme Bontemps to send her back, but Albertine insists the Narrator should ask, and...

* Book : Les plaisirs et les jours * Biographie * Bibliographie Les Plaisirs et les Jours est un recueil de poèmes en prose et de nouvelles publié par Marcel Proust en 1896 chez Calmann-Lévy. Ce recueil s'inspire fortement du décadentisme et notamment du travail du dandy Robert de Montesquiou....

* Book : Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Cambrioleur (Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Cambrioleur .1) * Biographie * Bibliographie Svelte, élégant, raffiné, séducteur, Arsène Lupin, gentleman-cambrioleur de son état, est le modèle du dandy "Belle Epoque". Son intelligence, sa culture, ses...

* Book : The Blonde Lady * Biography * Bibliography " On the 8th of December last, M. Gerbois, professor of mathematics at Versailles College, rummaging among the stores at a second-hand dealer's, discovered a small mahogany writingdesk, which took his fancy because of its many drawers. "That's...

* 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...