Editions Artisan Devereaux Llc: 263 books

If you wish to learn something about William Makepeace Thackeray, both as a person and of his works generally, Thackeray will most certainly satisfy. Written by the novelist Anthony Trollope who had been a friend of William Makepeace Thackeray, this classic biography surveys the life and works...

“Anyone who realizes what Love is, the dedication of the heart, so profound, so absorbing, so mysterious, so imperative, and always just in the noblest natures so strong, cannot fail to see how difficult, how tragic even, must often be the fate of those whose deepest feelings are destined from the...

First published in 1783, On Suicide is considered one of the most important philosophical works ever published. It was David Hume’s attempt to apply scientific methods of observation to the study of human nature, and a vigorous attack upon the principles of traditional metaphysical thought. With...

The Bishop by Anton Chekhov, is a classic exploration of the human mind told through the eyes of a renowned Bishop. In the waning weeks of his life, the man reflects on his past and his priorities. Written during the period when Anton Chekhov was gravely ill with tuberculosis, The Bishop reveals the...

"J'accuse" était une lettre ouverte publiée le 13 janvier 1898 dans le journal L'Aurore d'Émile Zola. Dans la lettre, Zola s'adressait au président de la France, Félix Faure, et accusait le gouvernement d'antisémitisme et d'emprisonnement illégal d'Alfred Dreyfus, officier d'état-major...

The Palace of Versailles, Château de Versailles, or simply Versailles is a royal château in Versailles in the Île-de-France region of France. When the palace was built, Versailles was a small village dating from the 11th century. Louis XIV's expansion of the building was begun around...

In Erewhon, Higgs, a sheep farmer, and his friend Chowbok, decide one day to visit the forbidden country that lies beyond the mountains. When they come upon a hidden trail, Chowbok gets frightened and runs home, but Higgs goes on alone. After a dangerous journey, he wakes one morning surrounded by...

Praise for this edition of the timeless classic, Other Peoples Money And How The Banks Use It by Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis: “This powerful adaptation by New York Times critically acclaimed director and author Philip Dossick, has been acclaimed as easily the best and most cogent...

“States of consciousness, sensations, feelings, passions, efforts, are capable of growth and diminution; a sensation can be said to be twice, thrice, four times as intense as another sensation of the same kind...” In his classic essay, Time and Free Will, Henri Bergson, one of the most...

Galileo’s Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences is one of the greatest works in western science. Written by Galileo in the last years of his life, (while under house arrest by the Inquisition for suspected heresy), the book had to be published abroad and eventually led to Galileo's censure. Written...

* Scènes de la vie de bohème d'Henri Murger furent la matière première utilisée par Puccini dans son opéra "La Bohème", et la incarnation moderne sous le nom de "Rent". À l'origine produit comme une pièce de théâtre en 1849 et publié comme un roman en 1851 -...

"Cet amour vague et sans espoir que j'avais conçu pour une actrice, cet amour qui me balançait chaque soir quand le rideau se levait, seulement pour me libérer quand le sommeil finissait par descendre..." La Aurelia semi-autobiographique, avec Nerval à la fois narrateur et protagoniste,...

“Mary! You’ll hear of me as a drunkard, and maybe as a thief, and maybe as a murderer. Remember! When all are speaking ill of me, you will have no right to blame me, for it's your cruelty that will have made me what I feel I shall become...” Mary Barton, by Elizabeth Gaskell is a widely...

First published in 1875, Signa tells the tender story of an illegitimate orphan boy who is saved from death during a flood when he is one year old. His two uncles find him clinging to the breast of his dead mother, and, afraid that the villagers might accuse them of murder, they let the floodwaters...