Jwarlal: 262 books

The average Englishman and the average Australian have at least one thing in common: each of them is profoundly ignorant of the inner life of that country in which his fellow-subjects, separated from him by a distance of twelve thousand miles, dwell. The average Australian knows by name the...

Extrait de ce classique populaire de GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE : Lorsque je m'installai à Auteuil en 1909, la rue Raynouard ressemblait encore à ce qu'elle était du temps de Balzac. Elle est bien laide maintenant. Il reste la rue Berton, qu'éclairent des lampes à pétrole, mais bientôt, sans...

The student of American sociology will find the year 1894 marked by a pronounced awakening of the public conscience to a system of anarchy and outlawry which had grown during a series of ten years to be so common, that scenes of unusual brutality failed to have any visible effect upon the humane sentiments...

It will be seen that this mere painstaking burrower and grub-worm of a poor devil of a Sub-Sub appears to have gone through the long Vaticans and street-stalls of the earth, picking up whatever random allusions to whales he could anyways find in any book whatsoever, sacred or profane. Therefore you...

This book is among the best-selling popular classics "bestseller". Here is an extract of this book : I am writing this history for sensible people. It is my own story during the calamitous war we have just gone through. I write it to show those who shall come after us how many evil-minded...

"What are you going to do with yourself this evening, Alfred?" said Mr. Royal to his companion, as they issued from his counting-house in New Orleans. "Perhaps I ought to apologize for not calling you Mr. King, considering the shortness of our acquaintance; but your father and I were...

At sight of where the chase was leading, most of the riders reined in their panting horses and sat watching those in front with anxious faces. The Old Roman Road—so called, though with possibly somewhat doubtful claim to antiquity so remote—had an evil reputation. At best of times it was...

When Zarathustra was thirty years old, he left his home and the lake of his home, and went into the mountains. There he enjoyed his spirit and solitude, and for ten years did not weary of it. But at last his heart changed,—and rising one morning with the rosy dawn, he went before the sun, and spake...

The Will to Truth, which is to tempt us to many a hazardous enterprise, the famous Truthfulness of which all philosophers have hitherto spoken with respect, what questions has this Will to Truth not laid before us! What strange, perplexing, questionable questions! It is already a long story; yet it...

Le livre de la Grande Étude est cette Grande Étude que dans l'antiquité on enseignait aux hommes, et qu'on leur proposait pour règle de conduite; or, les hommes tirant du ciel leur origine, il en résulte qu'il n'en est aucun qui n'ait été doué par lui des sentiments de charité ou d'humanité,...

"Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents," grumbled Jo, lying on the rug. "It's so dreadful to be poor!" sighed Meg, looking down at her old dress. "I don't think it's fair for some girls to have plenty of pretty things, and other girls nothing at all,"...

In a village of La Mancha, the name of which I have no desire to call to mind, there lived not long since one of those gentlemen that keep a lance in the lance-rack, an old buckler, a lean hack, and a greyhound for coursing. An olla of rather more beef than mutton, a salad on most nights, scraps on...

Le 12 août 18.., trois jours après le dixième anniversaire de ma naissance, où j'avais été comblé de tant de merveilleux cadeaux, Karl Ivanovitch me réveilla à sept heures du matin en abattant une mouche au-dessus de mon oreiller, au moyen d'une feuille de papier collée à un bâton. Il...

A dark autumnal night had closed over the old city of Dublin, and the wind was blustering in hoarse gusts through the crowded chimney-stacks—careening desolately through the dim streets, and occasionally whirling some loose tile or fragment of plaster from the house tops. The streets were silent...