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Cover of The Imperialist
by Sara Jeanette Duncan
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016

Duncan is best known today for her 1904 novel The Imperialist, which tells the story of Lorne Murchison, a young lawyer in the fictional town of Elgin, Ontario who becomes an advocate of imperial preferential trade and unsuccessfully runs for the Parliament of Canada for the Liberal Party. The book...
Cover of Dubliners
by James Joyce
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2018

Dubliners is a collection of fifteen short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. They form a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century. The stories were written when Irish nationalism was at its peak, and a search...
Cover of Adventures in Friendship
by by David Grayson
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015

This, I am firmly convinced, is a strange world, as strange a one as I was ever in. Looking about me I perceive that the simplest things are the most difficult, the plainest things, the darkest, the commonest things, the rarest. I have had an amusing adventure—and made a friend. This...
Cover of Mémoires sur les sciences occultes
by Arthur Schopenhauer
Language: French
Release Date: October 22, 2015

Nous avons l’honneur de présenter en français au public, réunis ensemble, trois opuscules de Schopenhauer figurant dans dés œuvres diverses. Ces opuscules ont trait à des sujets que l’on considère généralement comme rentrant dans le domaine des Sciences Occultes. Est-ce donc un occultiste...
Cover of Flamarande
by George Sand
Language: French
Release Date: January 6, 2017

Le récit qu’on va lire est le travail d’un homme à demi-lettré, qui, malgré beaucoup de lectures et la fréquentation des personnes distinguées, a conservé certaines manières de dire un peu surannées, et d’une correction parfois douteuse. Je n’ai pas voulu soumettre à une révision...
Cover of Le mariage blanc d’Armandine
by Berthelot Brunet
Language: French
Release Date: February 11, 2016

Il ne faut pas juger : ce n’est pas l’envie qui manque ni le motif, vous l’avouerez quand j’aurai conté l’histoire d’Armandine. L’ai-je bien connue ? J’en fus sans doute empêché, cette femme pittoresque m’ayant agacé au point que ce récit me dégoûte avant que je le commence....
Cover of Le pèlerin de Sainte Anne, Tome II
by Léon Pamphile LeMay
Language: French
Release Date: October 6, 2015

Octobre est arrivé. Le soleil brille encore, mais son éclat est doux, son ardeur, moins vive et moins desséchante qu’aux jours de l’été. Un calme délicieux règne dans la nature. La saison des aimables folies et des amours brûlantes est passée, et la vieillesse s’avance avec une couronne...
Cover of Anne Mérival
by Madeleine (Anne-Marie Huguenin)
Language: French
Release Date: December 27, 2016

ELLE sentit que l’on effleurait son bras, et violemment elle tressaillit comme au sortir d’une pensée trop absorbante dont il faut se détacher tout de suite, alors que notre âme engourdie proteste : — Ce sera votre tour, dans quelques minutes. Elle s’avança vers la coulisse,...

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813

by Maurice Leblanc
Language: French
Release Date: November 4, 2017

813 commence par le meurtre d’un multimillionnaire de l’époque, M. Kesselbach, apparemment commis par un mystérieux L.M., identifié grâce à un paquet de cigarettes découvert par le garçon d’étage. Mais au moment où il allait le montrer à M. Lenormand, inspecteur de la police, il est...
Cover of Grainger And the Bloody Dozen
by Alfred Bekker
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2018

Grainger And the Bloody Dozen Alfred Bekker Grainger meets a gang of scoundrels. The bandits have it in for his head - after he refused to work for them. And then there's this redheaded, sinfully beautiful woman, who for completely different reasons has it in for Grainger... Alfred...
Cover of Stranded on the Methane Planet
by Alfred Bekker
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2018

Stranded on the Methane Planet Again and again Niuk Wois looked restlessly at his chronometer. Lena Baa had not spoken a word about it the whole time. Crouched together, she sat there and looked through one of the outside windows of REGERA. But Don Meech and Alejandra Crane never came...
Cover of Bruges-la-Morte
by Georges Rodenbach
Language: French
Release Date: December 17, 2015

Dans cette étude passionnelle, nous avons voulu aussi et principalement évoquer une Ville, la Ville comme un personnage essentiel, associé aux états d’âme, qui conseille, dissuade, détermine à agir. Ainsi, dans la réalité, cette Bruges, qu’il nous a plu d’élire, apparaît presque...
Cover of Oliver Spence or the Coming Terror
by Samuel Albert Rosa
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2016

Crash! Crash!! Crash !!! went the falling timbers of the Austral Bank, while a furious and ferocious mob, drunken with wine and victory, shrieked, fought, and swore in front of the burning edifice. The features of the men and women who composed this mob, rendered savage by want, suffering, and oppression,...
Cover of War; or, What happens when one loves one's enemy
by by John Luther Long
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015

MY oldest boy's name was Jonathan, and the youngest David—though they weren't called that anywhere but in the family Bible—just Jon and Dave. Except when people got the Bible and the boys mixed up and called them David and Jonathan—sometimes David and Goliath! Jon was the oldest and Dave...
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