Classica Libris: 325 books

Cover of The Splendid Folly
by Margaret Pedler
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019

The wooing and marriage of a beautiful singer and a successful dramatist, whose happiness is imperiled by a political secret of the husband’s.
Cover of Un mauvais rêve
by Georges Bernanos
Language: French
Release Date: February 23, 2019

Olivier Mainville, nouvellement engagé comme factotum chez l’écrivain Ganse, adresse à sa tante, en province, des impressions peu indulgentes sur le caractère de son hôte et de sa secrétaire Simone Alfieri. Un dialogue entre Olivier et Philippe, neveu de Ganse, permet de poursuivre le portrait...
Cover of The Watchers
by A. E. W. Mason
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2019

A dark tale of adventure, piracy, murder, and revenge set on a rugged Cornish island in the mid-1700s. Told with the literary excellence, the tale begins with a dangerous youth who sat in the stocks, and a girl named Helen, and a gang of men watching a granite house at the edge of the sea.
Cover of The Philanderers
by A. E. W. Mason
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2019

Captain Stephen Drake steps ashore in Plymouth and is immediately confronted by a reporter wanting his comments on an attack made on him by the editor of the Evening Meteor. Of course, the African expedition had been a disaster, but Drake was ready to take responsibility. He telegraphed a survivor...
Cover of Marcia Schuyler
by Grace Livingston Hill
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2019

When Marcia Schuyler’s beautiful and selfish older sister, Kate, abandons handsome David Spafford at the wedding altar, Marcia offers to take Kate’s place. Her offer is accepted, and Marcia finds herself married to a man she hardly knows. Though David shows Marcia every kindness, she is painfully...
Cover of Madame Storey’s Way
by Hulbert Footner
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2019

I can not better put that extraordinary woman, my employer, before you than by describing my first meeting with her. It is easier to show her qualities in action than to describe them. On a certain morning, no different from thousands of other mornings, I was in a train on my way to the office when...
Cover of The Huntress
by Hulbert Footner
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2019

“From within the teepee of Charley Whitefish issued the sounds of a family brawl. It was of frequent occurrence in this teepee. Men at the doors of other lodges, engaged in cleaning their guns, or in other light occupations suitable to the manly dignity, shrugged with strong scorn for the man who...
Cover of Le parfum de la dame en noir
by Gaston Leroux
Language: French
Release Date: April 18, 2019

On retrouve dans Le Parfum de la dame en noir tous les personnages du fameux Mystère de la chambre jaune. Grâce à Rouletabille, le mariage de Robert Darzac et de Mathilde Stangerson a enfin eu lieu et la mort de leur ennemi est officiellement constatée. A peine partie en voyage de noces, cependant,...
Cover of Une double famille
by Honoré de Balzac
Language: French
Release Date: April 30, 2019

« Quand tu te marieras, reprit le comte [...], n’accomplis pas légèrement cet acte, le plus important de tous ceux auxquels nous oblige la société. Souviens-toi d’étudier longtemps la caractère de la femme avec laquelle tu dois t’associer [...]. Le défaut d’union entre deux époux,...
Cover of Le crime de Rouletabille
by Gaston Leroux
Language: French
Release Date: April 22, 2019

Leur ami Sainclair a-t-il tort de s’inquiéter ? Ivana, la femme du reporter Rouletabille, lui paraît accueillir avec une dangereuse coquetterie les attentions du savant Roland Boulenger dont elle est la collaboratrice. Rouletabille ne le nie pas: il a été jaloux jusqu’au jour où Ivana lui...
Cover of Rouletabille chez les bohémiens
by Gaston Leroux
Language: French
Release Date: April 22, 2019

Les périples de Rouletabille à travers la Camargue pour retrouver son amie Odette, qui s’est fait kidnapper par les bohémiens. Une histoire pleine de rebondissements où les intrigues se chevauchent et s’entrecroisent.
Cover of Le mystère de la chambre jaune
by Gaston Leroux
Language: French
Release Date: April 18, 2019

La porte de la chambre fermée à clef « de l’intérieur », les volets de l’unique fenêtre fermés, eux aussi, « de l’intérieur », pas de cheminée... Qui a tenté de tuer Mademoiselle Stangerson et, surtout, par où l’assassin a-t-il pu quitter la chambre jaune ? C’est le jeune reporter...
Cover of Rouletabille chez le tsar
by Gaston Leroux
Language: French
Release Date: April 18, 2019

Voilà Rouletabille envoyé par l’Epoque en reportage en Russie. Officiellement, du moins, car en réalité, le tsar a besoin de lui pour veiller à la sécurité de l’un de ses officiers les plus dévoués, le général Trébassof. Celui-ci, condamné à mort par le Comité Révolutionnaire pour...
Cover of Thieves’ Wit
by Hulbert Footner
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2019

My first case! — with what an agreeable thrill a professional man repeats the words to himself. With most men I believe it is as it was with me, not the case that he intrigues for and expects to get but something quite different, that drops out of Heaven unexpected and undeserved like most of the...
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