Booklassic: 1874 books

Hardy distrusted the application of nineteenth-century empiricism to history because he felt it marginalized important human elements. In The Trumpet Major, the tale of a woman courted by three competing suitors during the Napoleonic wars, he explores the subversive effects of ordinary human desire and conflicting loyalties on systematized versions of history.

A collection of very early stories published posthumously, with a preface by his wife Charmian.

John Horbury, manager of Chestermarke's bank, in the old-world English village of Scarnham, vanishes overnight. The task of finding him taxes the skill of one of Scotland Yard's best men.

MALCOLM SAGE had been a hot shot intelligence agent for Britain's Division Z during the Great War, but when the fighting ceased, his thirst for action and adventure didn't. Fortunately, his old chief from division Z helped him set up the Malcolm Sage Detective Bureau, and much merry mayhem and more than a few ripping good yarns ensued.

Deep in space lay a weird and threatening world. And it was there that Ben Sessions found the evil daughters . . .

Grim death was the only romance to be found on this world that boasted a thousand moons.

A classic work of science fiction, this novel was one of the first to explore the world of the atom. The Girl in the Golden Atom is the story of a young chemist who finds a hidden atomic world within his mother’s wedding ring. Under a microscope, he sees within the ring a beautiful young woman sitting before a cave. Enchanted by her, he shrinks himself so that he can join her world.

Cut off a whole city, might get some serious breathing problems.

The romantic, fictionalized solar system of Leigh Brackett's works provides a lush, steamy world in Mercury, where Mel Gray is working to build a home for veterans of the Second Interplanetary War. But Gray has no idea of the romance and adventure that awaits on this savage young world... A thrilling planetary adventure from the legendary COMET pulp magazine!

La fin de la trilogie des Mousquetaires, consacrée au début du regne de Louis XIV, qui voit Colbert combattre Fouquet, Aramis, devenu général des Jésuites, comploter, et d'Artagnan devenir maréchal de France, puis succomber.

Le Temps retrouvé est le septieme et dernier tome d’A la recherche du temps perdu de Marcel Proust publié en 1927 a titre posthume. L'oeuvre s'ouvre sur le séjour du Narrateur chez Gilberte de Saint-Loup a Tansonville. Une lecture d'un passage inédit du journal des Goncourt entraîne le Narrateur...

Being the secret history of the Russo-Japanese War: In this story the author makes clear the sinking of the English fishing schooners by the Baltic fleet of Russia and brings in all kinds of events that seemed hallucinations when the story appeared serially, but which have since come true in startling manner.

Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) was a mathematician and astronomer who formulated a comprehensive heliocentric model which placed the Sun, rather than the Earth, at the center of the universe, contrary to the prevailing thought at his time which placed the Earth at the center. The publication...

Cet ouvrage contient deux longues nouvelles, L'échéance et Le luxe des autres, suivies de trois autres plus courtes sous le titre de Cours d'enfants. La psychologie des années 1880 tient dans un esprit de contradiction. Un supreme paradoxe entre une vie de dépravation physique et morale, de scepticisme...