D'autres livres qui pourraient vous intéresser

• 

  The Chimes

  Charles Dickens

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  The second in his series of "Christmas books," after A Christmas Carol. The Chimes is a lesser known, but no less powerful story by Charles Dickens of christmastime and the plight of the poor. Trotty Veck is a poor porter and father, who despairing of the poors lot, is shown a terrifying vision by the "Ghosts of the Chimes" of a world without him. 
  Narrated by Michael Ward.

  Voir livre

• 

  Calais Night Mail The (Unabridged)

  Charles Dickens

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  Charles Dickens was a writer and social critic who created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the twentieth century critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories enjoy lasting popularity.
  THE CALAIS NIGHT MAIL: It is an unsettled question with me whether I shall leave Calais
  something handsome in my will, or whether I shall leave it my malediction.

  Voir livre

• 

  The First Men in the Moon

  H. G. Wells

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  Published in 1901, The First Men in the Moon is one of the earliest science-fiction novels in the English language. An impecunious businessman, Bedford, retreats to the Kent coast where he meets the archetypal absent-minded scientist, Dr Cavor, who is on the point of producing a gravity-defying material. His experiments prove successful, making possible one of man’s oldest dreams: a journey to the moon. The two men embark on this fantastic voyage – Bedford motivated by the prospect of wealth, and Cavor by the thirst for knowledge. However, when they arrive, they find a world of freezing nights and sweltering days, and signs of a threatening alien presence, from which they may never escape.The novel invites obvious comparisons with its predecessor, Jules Verne’s From the Earth to the Moon, though Wells’s approach markedly differs from that of his French counterpart, with Wells being more concerned by the adventure on the moon, even at the expense of scientific plausibility.

  Voir livre

• 

  Walking

  Henry David Thoreau

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  In this essay, Henry David Thoreau expounds upon the virtues of a simple walk in the wild. One of his most read lectures, this piece was originally published in 1851. 

  Voir livre

• 

  The Beetle Hunter

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  Though Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is best known for his detective stories, he also wrote other short stories which are masterpieces of mystery and suspense. In some of the stories, a suppressed uneasiness gradually builds up and evolves into sheer terror; in others, the story line unexpectedly changes and comes to an unexpected conclusion. In "The Beetle-Hunter," a beginning doctor is employed on a strange errand to a coleopterist.

  Voir livre

• 

  Les Misérables: Volume 2:...

  Victor Hugo

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  Victor-Marie Hugo (26 February 1802 - 22 May 1885) was a French poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote abundantly in an exceptional variety of genres: lyrics, satires, epics, philosophical poems, epigrams, novels, history, critical essays, political speeches, funeral orations, diaries, and letters public and private, as well as dramas in verse and prose.
  BOOK 3: ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN: Montfermeil is situated between Livry and Chelles, on the southern edge of that lofty table-land which separates the Ourcq from the Marne. At the present day it is a tolerably large town, ornamented all the year through with plaster villas, and on Sundays with beaming bourgeois.

  Voir livre