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Le débarquement de Normandie vu à hauteur d'homme. Un remarquable album d'Histoire et de fiction mené par Christian Godard. Pour ceux qui n'en ont vu que des images, le D-Day ne fut qu'une étrange marée humaine. Une vague de casques et d'acier d'où l'on ne distinguait ni les visages ni...

“You are getting to be a budding WEB Griffin. Putting a bit of a face on real events in war.” — Pat Raw personal emotions. Human trial, triumph and tragedy. Can we experience War through the eyes of the soldiers and civilians who lived it? See the sites, hear the sounds, and read...

About this book: Around the World in Eighty Days is a classic adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, published in 1873. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a £20,000 wager (roughly...

This is a short Jon Pertwee Doctor Who tale - the third Time Lord in the BBC science fiction television series. This time, the Doctor comes to early America - the colonies. Despite cold stares, he has only one thing on his mind, even here in the midst of the American Revolution. Women.

Whether you believe that man evolved from the apes (Darwinism) or that man was created in God's own image (religion), man has questioned the whats and whys of his surroundings. Why does the sun rise and set? Why does it rain? Why do dinosaurs eat us? As time went by, man learned those answers, but...

Karpathos publishes the greatest works of history's greatest authors and collects them to make it easy and affordable for readers to have them all at the push of a button.  All of our collections include a linked table of contents. Lord Dunsany was a prolific writer of fantasy fiction. Dunsany...

The Vampyre is a short work of prose fiction written in 1819 by John William Polidori. The work is often viewed as the original romantic vampire genre of fantasy fiction. The story was an immediate popular success, partly because of the Byron acknowledgment and because it introduced gothic...

The second son of a minor barron, Robert Smallmeadow dreams of impossible glory, impossible because he lives in the shadow of his cruel older brother, Ethelred. And then Pope Urban II proclaims the Crusades. Robert’s dreams of glory may come true—if he can find a sword. And he does find...

The rules for slaves are simple--keep your head down and train hard. For it is only your training that can save you in the Coliseum. All this Thrace knows. But he forgets it in a moment when a young slave's cry of terror rouses him from his sleep. The boy, young Africanus, has found a body--and...

Do you remember when you lost your innocence? I do... It was 1969, GRACIE MAE WILLIAMS ran through the sprinklers in her backyard. Today, one week before her sixth birthday, a terrible abuse was born. An abuse which would be called the game, would last for eight years. Creating a world to escape where...

“This marvelous short fiction retrospective testifies to the breadth of Williams’s creativity."-Publishers Weekly, starred reviewWithin these pages you will find such delightful and curious things as a strange storytelling vampire, two woefully-overmatched angels, a dragon in cahoots with a knight...

THE MOUND follows the story of ethnologist visiting Binger, Oklahoma in the 1920s to investigate a mysterious burial mound near the town.  There he discovers an account left behind by a Spanish expedition, revealing details of a bizarre lost civilization. Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937)...

These tales span from Heian era Japan to the near reaches of space, from alternate world fantasies inspired by Babylon and Mohenjo-Daro to post-apocalyptic air ships that never touch the ground, from light-hearted fare like "Trifle" to the darker "On Desperate Seas", based on the...

Joel Chandler Harris (December 9, 1848 – July 3, 1908) was an American journalist, fiction writer, and folklorist best known for his collection of Uncle Remus stories. Harris was born in Eatonton, Georgia, where he served as an apprentice on a plantation during his teenage years. He spent the majority...