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White Fang is a novel by American author Jack London (1876–1916) — and the name of the book's eponymous character, a wild wolfdog. First serialized in Outingmagazine, it was published in 1906. The story takes place in Yukon Territory and the Northwest Territories, Canada, during the 1890s Klondike...

Strangers at Lisconnel is a sequel to Jane Barlow’s Irish Idylls. The locations and most of the characters are common to both. There is great humor and concomitantly a certain melancholy in most of these stories of the most rural of rural places in Ireland. Although of a higher social class than...

Heart of Darkness (1899) is a novella by Polish-British novelist Joseph Conrad about a narrated voyage up the Congo River into the Congo Free State in the so-called heart of Africa. Charles Marlow, the narrator, tells his story to friends aboard a boat anchored on the River Thames. This setting provides...

Typhoon is a classic sea yarn, possibly based upon Conrad's actual experience of seaman's life, and probably on a real incident aboard of the steamer John P. Best(according to the book by Jerry Allen on the "Sea years of Joseph Conrad", first published in 1965). The author of the mentioned...

Dans le conte fantastique La Jeune Vampire (1920), une jeune fille de Londres est possédée par une entité qui mute son corps et la transforme en un vampire vivant. Le vampirisme relèverait d’une explication scientifique et serait une modification génétique héréditaire. J.-H. Rosny...

HAVELL, Herbert Lord (1863-1913). Late Reader in English in the University of Halle Formerly Scholar of University College Oxford. Author of Stories from Herodotus , Stories from Greek Tragedy , Stories from the Æneid , Stories from the Iliad , etc.

Esta é uma coleção de pequenos contos do escritor, Humberto de Campos. Humberto de Campos Veras (1886 — 1934) foi um jornalista, político e escritor brasileiro. Além do Conselheiro XX, Campos usou os pseudônimos de Almirante Justino Ribas, Luís Phoca, João Caetano, Giovani Morelli, Batu-Allah,...

Humberto de Campos Veras (1886 — 1934) foi um jornalista, político e escritor brasileiro. Em 8 de maio de 1920 foi eleito para a cadeira 20 da Academia Brasileira de Letras, assento cujo patrono é Joaquim Manuel de Macedo, da qual foi o terceiro ocupante, Falecido no auge de sua popularidade,...

Le Sophiste, en grec Σοφιστής est un dialogue platonicien de métaphysique de Platon traitant des genres de l’être, de la nature de l’être et de la nature du sophiste.

Criton (grec ancien : Κρίτων) est un dialogue du philosophe de la Grèce antique Platon. Il décrit une conversation entre Socrate et son ami Criton au sujet de la justice, de l'injustice, et de la manière la plus appropriée de faire face à l'injustice. Le dialogue a lieu dans la cellule...

Great mariner's thrilling, first-hand account of the wreck of his ship off the coast of South America, the 35-foot "brave little craft" he built from the wreckage, and its remarkable, danger-fraught voyage home. A 19th-century maritime classic brimming with courage, ingenuity, and daring.

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831 – 1891) was a Russian occultist, philosopher, and author who co-founded the Theosophical Society in 1875. She gained an international following as the leading theoretician of Theosophy, the esotericreligion that the society promoted. Informally, she is also widely...

A selection of twenty-nine essays. "Woolf's]essays...are lighter and easier than her fiction, and they exude information and pleasure.... Everything she writes about novelists, like everything she writes about women, is fascinating.... Her well-stocked, academic, masculine mind is the ideal flint...

Le Diable amoureux (sous-titré Nouvelle espagnole) est un roman de Jacques Cazotte publié en 1772. Ce texte est considéré comme précurseur du récit fantastique. Un jeune homme, Alvare, décide par forfanterie de convoquer le diable en compagnie de trois amis. Le diable lui apparaît d'abord...