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La Femme qui était retournée en Afrique - Louis Bertrand   Louis Bertrand (1866 - 1941), Officier de la Légion d’honneur, est un romancier et essayiste français.   Ecrivain original et puissant, qui fut, entre autres, l’un des fondateurs de l’algérianisme,...

BnF collection ebooks - "Cette conscience de lui-même, — de ce qu'il était, de ce qu'il valait, de ce qu'il représentait, — Louis XIV, est-il besoin de l'ajouter ? n'y atteignit que petit à petit. Il commença par aimer comme tout le monde, c'est-à-dire à la mode du jour, car il est...

Études sur la littérature romanesque en France Louis de Loménie, homme de lettres et essayiste français (1815-1878) Ce livre numérique présente «Études sur la littérature romanesque en France», de Louis de Loménie,...

Louis Constant Wairy, mainly known as Constant through-out his life and as the author of his memoirs, was a man intimately connected to General Bonaparte and his wife Josephine Beauharnais, and later in their incarnation as Emperor and Empress of the French. Achieving the rank of first valet de chambre...

While Louis W. Sullivan was a student at Morehouse College, Morehouse president Benjamin Mays said something to the student body that stuck with him for the rest of his life. “The tragedy of life is not failing to reach our goals,” Mays said. “It is not having goals to reach.” In Breaking...

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. A literary celebrity during his lifetime, Stevenson now ranks among the...

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, musician and travel writer. His most famous works are "Treasure Island" (1883), "Kidnapped" (1886) and "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" (1886). Stevenson also wrote several fascinating...

The short story is often viewed as an inferior relation to the Novel. But it is an art in itself. To take a story and distil its essence into fewer pages while keeping character and plot rounded and driven is not an easy task. Many try and many fail. In this series we look at short stories from many...

A collection of works by Robert Louis Stevenson during his time traveling and living in the Samoan Islands.

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. A literary celebrity during his lifetime, Stevenson now ranks among the...

"It was through the Blessed Virgin Mary that Jesus came into the world, and it is also through her that he must reign in the world…" With this uncompromising declaration, St. Louis-Marie de Montfort launched TRUE DEVOTION TO THE BLESSED VIRGIN, his widely-influential 17th Century Magnum Opus of Marian...

"Here is a secret, chosen soul, " St. Louis de Montfort writes in The Secret of Mary Unveiled to the Devout Soul, "which the most High God taught me and which I have not found in any book, ancient or modern. Inspired by the Holy Spirit, I am confiding it to you... use this secret to become holy and worthy...

The saints and sinners of the Bible give insight into our own lives.  The stories of the characters of the Bible are more gripping than any novel.  By observing the lives of these individuals—the decisions they made, the nature of their character—we are able to learn much more about humankind...

Louis Constant Wairy, mainly known as Constant through-out his life and as the author of his memoirs, was a man intimately connected to General Bonaparte and his wife Josephine Beauharnais, and later in their incarnation as Emperor and Empress of the French. Achieving the rank of first valet de chambre...