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When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It was true, too. She had a little thin face and a little thin body, thin light hair and a sour expression. Her hair was yellow, and her face was yellow because...

Il y a Lagardère bien sûr, héros mythique comme d'Artagnan ; il y a le personnage du Bossu dont la bosse servait de pupitre aux spéculateurs de la Régence ; il y a la devise : "Si tu ne vas pas à Lagardère, Lagardère ira à toi" ; il y a les deux spadassins Cocardasse et Passepoil......

Il y a Lagardère bien sûr, héros mythique comme d'Artagnan ; il y a le personnage du Bossu dont la bosse servait de pupitre aux spéculateurs de la Régence ; il y a la devise : "Si tu ne vas pas à Lagardère, Lagardère ira à toi" ; il y a les deux spadassins Cocardasse et Passepoil......

Le roi était malade un peu; Mme la marquise de Pompadour avait «ses vapeurs», cette migraine du XVIIIe siècle dont on s'est tant moqué et que nous avons remplacée par la névralgie, les médecins, pour leur commerce, étant obligés, comme les tailleurs, de trouver sans cesse des noms nouveaux aux vieilles choses. Sans cela, à quoi leur servirait le grec de cuisine qui les gonfle?

THE VOYAGES OF DOCTOR DOLITTLE, PART THREE by Hugh Lofting and illustrated by Hugh Lofting The Atlantic Monthly: "The children in years an children in heart, to whom Hugh Lofting dedicates his biography of Animals own Doctor, will delight in every page of this demurely twinkling little book....

THE VOYAGES OF DOCTOR DOLITTLE, PART FOUR by Hugh Lofting and illustrated by Hugh Lofting The Atlantic Monthly: "The children in years an children in heart, to whom Hugh Lofting dedicates his biography of Animals own Doctor, will delight in every page of this demurely twinkling little book. The...

THE VOYAGES OF DOCTOR DOLITTLE, PART ONE by Hugh Lofting and illustrated by Hugh Lofting The Atlantic Monthly: "The children in years an children in heart, to whom Hugh Lofting dedicates his biography of Animals own Doctor, will delight in every page of this demurely twinkling little book. The...

THE VOYAGES OF DOCTOR DOLITTLE, PART TWO by Hugh Lofting and illustrated by Hugh Lofting The Atlantic Monthly: "The children in years an children in heart, to whom Hugh Lofting dedicates his biography of Animals own Doctor, will delight in every page of this demurely twinkling little book. The...

Dialogue Between a Priest and a Dying Man (original French: Dialogue entre un prêtre et un moribond) is a dialogue written by the Marquis de Sade while incarcerated at the Château de Vincennes in 1782. The work expresses the author's atheism by having a dying man (a libertine) tell a priest about what he views as the mistakes of a pious life.

Once upon a time a rich Merchant, meeting with heavy losses, had to retire to a small cottage, with his three daughters. ...

Should any one of the people not know the art of loving, let him read me; and taught by me, on reading my lines, let him love. By art the ships are onward sped by sails and oars; by art are the light chariots, by art is Love, to be guided. In the chariot and in the flowing reins was Automedon skilled:...

The tempest had raged for six days, and on the seventh seemed to increase. The ship had been so far driven from its course, that no one on board knew where we were. Every one was exhausted with fatigue and watching. The shattered vessel began to leak in many places, the oaths of the sailors were changed...

To you who have loved. Poems inspired by both great and small. Often about love and with a touch of humour. Lawrence Gelmon has two Bachelor‘s degrees and lives in Stockholm, Sweden.

In ten terrifying, intriguing and thrilling dreams, Natsume Soseki (1867 - 1916) treats leitmotifs and antipodes such as: loyalty and treatise, love and death, fame and immortality, social outsiders, honor and loss of face, desperation and hope. Natsume Soseki carries us off into his dreams and the old...