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Carnivorous plants are plants which get nutrients from trapping and eating animals. They are often called insectivorous plants, because they usually trap insects. Since they get some of their food from animals, carnivorous plants can grow in places where the soil is thin, or poor in nutrients. This...

Le Baron avare est une courte pièce de théâtre en un acte de trois scènes d'Alexandre Pouchkine parue en 1836. Le thème est l’avarice d’un vieillard.

La Fille du capitaine est un roman publié par Alexandre Pouchkine en 1836.

Many years ago, I contracted an intimacy with a Mr. William Legrand. He was of an ancient Huguenot family, and had once been wealthy; but a series of misfortunes had reduced him to want...

"A Drama in Mexico" (French: Un drame au Mexique) is a historical short story by Jules Verne, first published in July 1851 under the title "The First Ships of the Mexican Navy" ("L'Amérique du Sud. Etudes historiques. Les Premiers Navires de la Marine Mexicaine").

Le Tao Tö King est un ouvrage classique chinois qui, selon la tradition, fut écrit autour de 600 av. J.-C. par Lao Tseu, le sage fondateur du taoïsme, dont l'existence historique est toutefois incertaine. De nombreux chercheurs modernes penchent pour une pluralité d’auteurs et de sources, une transmission tout d’abord orale et une édition progressive.

The Laches is a Socratic dialogue written by Plato. Participants in the discourse present competing definitions of the concept of courage.

Cratylus was an ancient Athenian philosopher from the mid-late 5th century BCE, known mostly through his portrayal in Plato's dialogue Cratylus. He was a radical proponent of Heraclitean philosophy and influenced the young Plato.

Twenty Years After is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, first serialized from January to August, 1845. A book of the D'Artagnan Romances, it is a sequel to The Three Musketeers and precedes The Vicomte de Bragelonne.

Es muy conocido el propósito de Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) de escribir una gran obra teórica sobre la pintura, pero se duda de que alguna vez llegara a competarla; el Tratado de la pintura, en cualquier caso, no es la realización de aquella idea leonardesca, sino una colección...

A Study in Scarlet is a detective mystery novel written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, introducing his new characters, "consulting detective" Sherlock Holmes and his friend and chronicler, Dr. John Watson, who later became two of the most famous characters in literature.

I started at the interruption, for my companion had been eating his breakfast with his attention entirely centered upon the paper which was propped up by the coffee pot. Now I looked across at him to find his eyes fastened upon me with the half-amused, half-questioning expression which he usually assumed when he felt he had made an intellectual point...

La Batracomiomaquia o la Batalla de las ranas y ratones es una épica cómica o parodia sobre la Ilíada, atribuida definitivamente a Homero por los romanos, pero que de acuerdo a Plutarco sería una obra de Pigres de Halicarnaso, el hermano (o hijo) de Artemisia, reina de Caria y aliada de Jerjes....

En un suntuoso palacio de Ferrara agasajaba don Juan Belvídero una noche de invierno a un príncipe de la casa de Este. En aquella época, una fiesta era un maravilloso espectáculo de riquezas reales de que sólo un gran señor podía disponer...