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Cover of Taras Bul'ba
by Nikolaj Gogol'
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 12, 2019

Ambientato all'incirca nell'Ucraina del XVII secolo, devastata dai tatari, governata dai polacchi e messa a ferro e fuoco dalle scorribande di cosacchi, tale racconto narra le imprese di uno dei condottieri di questi ultimi, Taras Bul'ba. Affiancato dai figli Andrej ed Ostap, assalta la città...
Cover of Histoires Extraordinaires
by Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Baudelaire
Language: French
Release Date: May 8, 2019

Dès son vivant, Edgar Allan Poe a été traduit en de nombreuses langues, et par d'innombrables auteurs ou rédacteurs, célèbres ou inconnus du public, et avec des résultats littéraires comme commerciaux plus ou moins heureux. En langue française nous connaissons essentiellement les traductions...
Cover of Ligeia
by Edgar Allan Poe
Language: French
Release Date: May 8, 2019

Sur le bord du Rhin, le narrateur rencontre et épouse Ligeia, une jeune noble d'une grande beauté et aux connaissances immenses. Grande et mince, aux longs cheveux noirs ondulés, aux yeux noirs fendus, il émane d'elle une mystérieuse étrangeté. Ligeia tombe malade et meurt en laissant le narrateur...
Cover of Leila
by Antonio Fogazzaro
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 22, 2018

In seguito alla condanna della Chiesa cattolica per Il Santo, Antonio Fogazzaro tenta, invano, con quest'ultima opera, di rientrare nel cattolicesimo. Il romanzo, attraverso la vicenda del protagonista, discepolo del santo Piero Maironi, affronta ancora una volta il tema della riforma religiosa.
Cover of With the King at Oxford
by Alfred J. Church
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2018

My father was the son of a gentleman of Oxfordshire that had a small estate near to the town of Eynsham, in that county. The monks of Eynsham Priory had the land aforetime and ‘twas said that here, as elsewhere, there was a curse upon such as held for their own uses that which had been dedicated...
Cover of Paradiso Perduto
by John Milton
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 20, 2018

Il Paradiso perduto (titolo originale: Paradise Lost), pubblicato nel 1667, è il poema epico in versi sciolti (blank verse) di John Milton, che racconta l'episodio biblico della caduta dell'uomo: la tentazione di Adamo ed Eva a opera di Satana e la loro cacciata dal giardino dell'Eden.
Cover of Operette morali
by Giacomo Leopardi
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 20, 2018

I temi sono quelli cari al poeta: il rapporto dell'uomo con la storia, con i suoi simili ed in particolare con la Natura, di cui Leopardi matura una personale visione filosofica; il confronto tra i valori del passato e la situazione statica e degenerata del presente; la potenza delle illusioni, la gloria e la noia.
Cover of I Salterelli
by Angiolo Bronzino
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 14, 2018

Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano, conosciuto come il Bronzino (Monticelli di Firenze, 17 novembre 1503 – Firenze, 23 novembre 1572), è stato un pittore italiano. Tra i più raffinati e mirabili pittori del Manierismo fiorentino, è noto per essere stato uno dei più abili ed incisivi ritrattisti della corte mediceanella Firenze tardo rinascimentale
Cover of A Boy of Galilee (Illustrated)
by Annie Fellows Johnston
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2018

Annie Fellows Johnston (1863–1931) was an American author of children's fiction who wrote the popular "Little Colonel" series, which was the basis for the 1935 Shirley Temple film The Little Colonel. She was born and grew up in McCutchanville, Indiana, a small unincorporated town near Evansville, Indiana.
Cover of The Stranger in France: A Tour From Devonshire to Paris
by John Carr
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018

The little tour which gave birth to the following remarks, was taken immediately after the exchange of the ratifications of a peace, necessary, but not inglorious to my country, after a contest unexampled in its cause, calamity, extension, vicissitudes and glory; amidst a people who, under the influence...
Cover of Lettre à la jeunesse
by Émile Zola
Language: French
Release Date: May 6, 2019

Zola a écrit la - Lettre à la jeunesse - à l'occasion de l'agression d'un grand dreyfusard par les ligueurs étudiants. Extrait : « Des jeunes gens antisémites, ça existe donc, cela ? Il y a donc des cerveaux neufs, des âmes neuves, que cet imbécile poison a déjà déséquilibrés ? Quelle...
Cover of Aboriginal America (Illustrated)
by Jacob Abbott
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2018

It is the design of this work to narrate, in a clear, simple, and intelligible manner, the leading events connected with the history of our country, from the earliest periods, down, as nearly as practicable, to the present time. The several volumes will be illustrated with all necessary maps and with...
Cover of Religion in Japan: Shintoism, Buddhism and Christianity (Illustrated Edition)
by George A. Cobbold
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018

It may well be questioned whether, in the course of a like period of time, any country has ever undergone greater transitions, or made more rapid strides along the path of civilization than has Japan during the last quarter of a century. A group of numerous islands, situated on the high-road and thoroughfare...
Cover of Nouvelles
by Théophile Gautier
Language: French
Release Date: May 8, 2019

Gautier a écrit une trentaine de contes et nouvelles, pour la plupart de nature fantastique. Extrait : Et nous commençâmes à valser. Le sein de la jeune fille touchait ma poitrine, sa joue veloutée effleurait la mienne, et son haleine suave flottait sur ma bouche. Jamais de la vie je n'avais...
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