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Un jeune avocat, naïf et fauché, est chargé de défendre un aventurier redoutable. Entraîné, bien malgré lui, dans d'invraisemblables aventures, de Paris à Deauville, il va tomber amoureux de la maîtresse de son client.

Joseph Joséphin, surnommé Rouletabille, est un personnage de roman policier créé par Gaston Leroux dans son roman Le Mystère de la chambre jaune publié en 1907. Contenu de la collection: Le Mystère de la chambre jaune (1908) Le Parfum de la dame en noir (1908) Rouletabille chez le Tsar (1913)...

The bizarre story follows a female narrator, Signora Psyche Zenobia. While walking through "the goodly city of Edina" with her 5-inch-tall (130 mm) poodle and her 3-foot-tall (0.91 m) black servant, Pompey, she is drawn to a large Gothic cathedral. At the steeple, Zenobia sees a small opening...

This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors last names In a Grove [Ryūnosuke Akutagawa] Fantômas [Marcel Allain] The Triumphs of Eugène Valmont [Robert Barr] The Woman in Black [E.C. Bentley] The Island Mystery [George A. Birmingham] Four Max Carrados Detective Stories...

"Why the Little Frenchman Wears His Hand in a Sling" is a short story written by American author Edgar Allan Poe. Edgar Allan Poe (born Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American author, poet, editor, and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement.

La morte di Ivan Il'ič, pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1886, è una delle opere più celebrate di Tolstoj, influenzata dalla crisi spirituale dell'autore, che lo porterà a convertirsi al Cristianesimo. Tema centrale della storia è quello dell'uomo di fronte all'inevitabilità della morte. La...

In an isolated town called Vondervotteimittis (wonder-what-time-it-is), the punctilious inhabitants seem to be concerned with nothing but clocks and cabbage. This methodical, boring and quiet little borough is devastated by the arrival of a devilish figure playing a big fiddle who comes straight down...

Der Roman ist vorgeblich ein Erlebnisbericht des französischen Professors Pierre Aronnax, Autor eines Werkes über "Die Geheimnisse der Meerestiefen". In den Jahren 1866 und 1867 häufen sich auf allen Weltmeeren rätselhafte Schiffsunglücke. Die Presse spekuliert, ein bislang unbekanntes...

Der französische Minen-Ingenieur Cyprien Méré reist nach Afrika, um in die dortigen Diamantenminen Arbeit zu suchen. In den Minen arbeiten Minenarbeiter aus aller Ländern der Welt unter schweren Bedingungen. Schwarze Minenarbeiter machen den Hauptteil der schweren Arbeit unter der glühenden Sonne...

Un romanzo corale che si sviluppa nel periodo di sviluppo dei cantieri edili milanesi di fine '800.

"Hop-Frog" (originally "Hop-Frog; Or, the Eight Chained Ourangoutangs") is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1849. The title character, a person with dwarfism taken from his homeland, becomes the jester of a king particularly fond of practical...

The narrator, presented as the author himself, is dismayed by literary critics saying that he has never written a moral tale. The narrator then begins telling the story of his friend Toby Dammit. Dammit is described as a man of many vices, at least in part due to his left-handed mother flogging him...

"The Business Man" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe about a businessman boasting of his accomplishments. It was published in February 1840 in Burton's Gentleman's Magazine. The story questions the concept of a self-made man. The narrator of the story is Peter Proffit, a "methodical"...

"The Imp of the Perverse" is a short story by 19th-century American author and critic Edgar Allan Poe. Beginning as an essay, it discusses the narrator's self-destructive impulses, embodied as the symbolic metaphor of The Imp of the Perverse. The narrator describes this spirit as the agent...