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Albertine disparue : Dans certaines éditions, ce volet est intitulé La Fugitive (titre originellement voulu par Proust mais que portait déjà un autre livre), titre qui correspond aussi très bien au contenu de cette partie (et qui fait diptyque avec La Prisonnière). Albertine s’est enfuie...

"The People of the Black Circle" is one of the original novellas about Conan the Cimmerian, written by American author Robert E. Howard and first published in Weird Tales magazine in three parts over the September, October and November 1934 issues. Howard earned $250 for the publication...

The Making of Americans: Being a History of a Family's Progress is a modernist novel by Gertrude Stein. The novel traces the genealogy, history, and psychological development of members of the fictional Hersland and Dehning families. Stein also includes frequent metafictional meditations on the process of writing the text that periodically overtake the main narrative.

Never without grief and pain could I remember the fate of Prince Zaleski -- victim of a too importunate, too unfortunate Love, which the fulgor of the throne itself could not abash; exile perforce from his native land, and voluntary exile from the rest of men! But during the time that what was called...

Volpone (Italian for "sly fox") is a comedy play by English playwright Ben Jonson first produced in 1605–1606, drawing on elements of city comedy and beast fable. A merciless satire of greed and lust, it remains Jonson's most-performed play, and it is ranked among the finest Jacobean era comedies.

When, on returning home one evening, after a pipe party at my friend Jephson's, I informed my wife that I was going to write a novel, she expressed herself as pleased with the idea. She said she had often wondered I had never thought of doing so before. 

"The Mad Moon" is a science fiction short story by American writer Stanley G. Weinbaum, first published in the December 1935 issue of Astounding Stories. As did his earlier stories "A Martian Odyssey" and "Parasite Planet", "The Mad Moon" emphasizes Weinbaum's alien ecologies. "The Mad Moon" was the only Weinbaum story set on Io.

Hearts of Three is an adventure novel by Jack London. The novel was finished right before the writer's death and released in 1919–1920 in the New York Journal. The novel was written in cooperation with Charles Goddard. Young descendant of the pirate Henry Morgan, who left him a rich...

Jean de La Fontaine collected fables from a wide variety of sources, both Western and Eastern, and adapted them into French free verse. They were issued under the general title of Fables in several volumes from 1668 to 1694 and are considered classics of French literature. Humorous, nuanced and ironical,...

I dolori del giovane Werther (pron. [ˈvɛrter]) è un romanzo epistolare di Johann Wolfgang Goethe pubblicato nel 1774. Il Werther(come viene anche riduttivamente chiamato) appartiene all'età giovanile di Goethe ed è considerato opera simbolo del movimento dello Sturm und Drang, anticipando...

Souvenirs de la maison des morts (en russe : Записки из Мёртвого дома) est un roman de l'écrivain russe Fiodor Dostoïevskidont l'action se déroule dans un bagne en Sibérie. Premier récit sur le système pénitentiaire russe, c'est une œuvre phare de la littérature...

The Time Machine (A Máquina do Tempo, em português) é um romance de ficção científica de H. G. Wells, com primeira edição em 1895, a partir do qual se realizaram dois filmes com o mesmo nome. Julga-se ser a primeira obra de ficção científica a propor o conceito da viagem no tempo...

Vingt-quatre heures de la vie d'une femme (Vierundzwanzig Stunden aus dem Leben einer Frau) est le titre d'une nouvelle de l'écrivain autrichien Stefan Zweig, publiée pour la première fois en 1927 dans le recueil La Confusion des sentiments (Verwirrung der Gefühle) avec cette nouvelle éponyme et Destruction...

Au xiie siècle, Cédric de Rotherwood, dit le Saxon, un thane (ou vavasseur, pour les Normands) nostalgique de l'Angleterre saxonne vaincue en 1066, rêve de rétablir sur le trône de l'Angleterre un monarque autochtone en la personne d'Athelstane de Coningsburgh, un voisin, descendant des...