Les Editions De Londres: 252 books

"La guerre" est un texte antimilitariste de Kropotkine écrit en 1912, à la veille de la seconde guerre mondiale. Nous vivons tout de même dans un drôle de monde où l’on passe une bonne partie de l’année 2012 à célébrer le centenaire et la mémoire des morts du Titanic, mais...

"Ecrits de jeunesse" est un recueil inédit de textes de jeunesse d'Henry David Thoreau. Le recueil comprend une brève autobiographie, "Fact Book", que Thoreau rédigea pour l'annuaire de sa promotion d'Harvard en Juin 1837, ainsi que "L'esprit commercial des temps modernes...

"The Alchemist" is a comedy written by Ben Jonson and performed in 1610 by the King’s men. Created four years after Volpone, The Alchemist is widely considered to be Ben Jonson’s best comedy. Following an outbreak of plague in London, a gentleman’s house falls into the hands of two...

"The Power-House" is a spy novel written by John Buchan in 1913. It is set in London, and tells the story of a lawyer and MP who discovers an incredible plot aimed at destroying the foundations of Western democracies through an anarchist organisation called The Power-House. “The power-house”...

Jonathan Swift’s "Directions to servants" is an entertaining satire of relationships between servants and masters in the Eighteenth century. It is a late work in Swift’s life. Not the most well-known, less dark than earlier satires and pamphlets, "Directions to servants" is...

"A modest proposal" or “A modest proposal for preventing the children of poor people from being a burthen to their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the public” is a satire (or a satirical essay) written by Jonathan Swift in 1729. In this essay, Swift suggests fighting...

Ben Jonson’s "Volpone" is a fine example of Elizabethan theatre and one of the greatest satirical comedies ever written. In this 1606 tale of greed, lust and utter cowardice, Ben Jonson explores the travails of the human soul. He also created some of the most memorable theatre characters...

"The portrait of Mr W.H." is a short story written by Oscar Wilde and published in Blackwood’s magazine in 1891. The story is the attempt by Oscar Wilde to uncover the identity of W.H., the mysterious individual to whom Shakespeare dedicates his Sonnets. Is Wilde’s The portrait of Mr...

"The Man in the Moone" is a novel by Francis Godwin probably written in the 1620s and published for the first time under the pseudonym of Domingo Gonsales after his death in 1638. The Man in the Moone can be considered as one of the major works of the late English Renaissance. Its influence...

Oscar Wilde’s "Lord Arthur Savile’s crime" was originally published in 1891 as a collection of short stories. A fun crime story, when the criminal tries to beat his future by embracing it in his own way, with a marvellous twist at the end, it is one of the best examples of Wilde’s...

"The false Burton Combs" is a crime story written by Caroll John Daly and published in the “Black mask magazine” in December 1922. The narrator, a tough guy, “kind of private eye”, is approached by a man who wants him to travel to Nantucket under his identity. Once on the island,...

“L’affaire Fualdès” est un roman policier d’Arthur Bernède tiré d’un des faits-divers criminels les plus célèbres de l’histoire de France. Dans la nuit du 19 au 20 Mars 1817, l’ancien procureur impérial Fualdès est égorgé dans une rue sordide de Rodez et son corps est jeté...

« Horace » est une tragédie de Pierre Corneille représentée pour la première fois en 1640. Rome et Albe sont deux villes voisines qui vivaient en bonne entente jusqu’au jour où la guerre éclate. Les villes décident de remettre leur sort entre les mains de trois jeunes gens choisis dans...

"Les oiseaux" d’Aristophane est une satire utopiste, qui imagine un monde où les oiseaux deviennent les Dieux des hommes. Cyrano de Bergerac s’en inspira-t-il pour écrire "l’Autre monde" ? Nous le pensons. C’est une pièce à part dans le répertoire d’Aristophane ;...