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David Copperfield est un jeune orphelin de père, qui mène une enfance heureuse avec sa mère et leur servante Peggotty. Revenu de vacances, il trouve sa mère remariée avec le sombre M. Murdstone, aux principes d’éducation violents et injustes. Alors qu’il fouette David afin de façonner son...

Harry Emerson Fosdick was one of the most popular liberal preachers of the early twentieth century, and his The Meaning of Prayer is considered by many one of the finest studies of the meditative communion with God. This lovely little book features daily devotional readings focused on understanding...

Star Begotten is a 1937 novel by H. G. Wells. It tells the story of a series of men who conjecture upon the possibility of the human race being altered by Martians to replace their own dying planet. The protagonist of the story Joseph Davis, who is an author of popular histories, becomes overtaken with suspicion that he and his family have already been exposed and are starting to change.

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Juliette, brune, les yeux coquins et charmeurs, est une jeune femme libertine et orgueilleuse. Contrairement à sa sœur, la vertueuse et naïve Justine, Juliette, au sortir du couvent, choisit le vice comme ligne de conduite. Cette anti-héroïne expérimente alors toutes les formes de dépravation...

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Ce livre rassemble dix des plus grands classiques de la littérature de vampires. 1 - La Femme vampire, par E. T. A. Hoffmann - Les Frères Sérapion (1821) 2 - La Morte amoureuse, par Théophile Gautier (1836) 3 - Le Gardien du cimetière, par Jean Ray (1919) 4 - Bérénice, par Edgar Allan Poe (1884)...

Florence Mabel Quiller-Couch was a younger sister of Arthur Quiller-Couch, who was Professor of English Literature at Cambridge, and wrote fiction as "Q." Like her brother and sister Lillian, she became a writer, producing a total of twenty-six published works. In "The Story of Jessie," Thomas and...

Andrew Lang (1844-1912) was a prolific Scots man of letters, a poet, novelist, literary critic and contributor to anthropology. He now is best known as the collector of folk and fairy tales. He was educated at the Edinburgh Academy, St Andrews University and at Balliol College, Oxford. As a journalist,...

Absolute romance, distinctly modern and appealing to the regular novel reader of somewhat uncritical taste, may be found in "Through the Postern Gate." The author has achieved fame in a former story which ranked among the "best sellers."

The story of a young artist who is reputed to love beauty above all else in the world, but who, when blinded through an accident, gains life's greatest happiness. A rare story of the great passion of two real people superbly capable of love, its sacrifices and its exceeding reward.

Once Upon a Time... Go into the woods with Grimm's Fairy Tales. Full of magic and trickery, these stories have delighted generations with such timeless classics as Cinderella, Red Riding Hood, Hansel and Gretel, Snow White, and Rapunzel. The Complete Fairy Tales Every fairy tales collected by the...

Space in its far dark reaches can be fickle with a man; it can shatter his dreams, fill him with fear and hate. It can also cure a man—if he is strong enough.

A classic of Danish literature available as an ebook for the first time. When their mother drowns, young brothers Fritz and Adolf are sold into the circus by their grandmother, for a mere twenty marks. There they suffer under the cruel hand of Father Cecchi but are befriended by sisters Aimée...