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Stories of Jack London first published in the early twentieth century. Read now one of the most important names in American literature. Jack London was born John Griffith Chaney on January 12, 1876, in San Francisco, California. After working in the Klondike, London returned home and began publishing...

À sa sortie de prison, Yannick se fait embaucher dans un abattoir. Il découvre alors un monde impitoyable où se côtoient souffrance ouvrière et souffrance animale. Il n’est pas arrivé là par hasard. Son petit frère Killian est mort quatre ans auparavant alors que celui-ci travaillait dans...

Une romance passionnée où l’art devient une arme à double tranchant… Après avoir quitté la Russie en compagnie de leur maître Kandinsky, Walter et Natalia entrent au Bauhaus en Allemagne. École d’art et de tolérance, ils y découvrent l’écologie et la liberté sexuelle, un îlot...

Created by Eisner winner Keith Giffen and Cartoon Network writer Shannon Eric Denton and illustrated by Joe Kubert grad Matt Jacobs! Lost in the dark woods, an American loser squad stumbles and bumbles, and eventually finds their way to the Allied rendezvous - just in time to catch the tail end of the German superhuman assault...

In attempting to extend his fledgling empire eastward into Russia, Napoleon has misjudged both the enemy and the weather. Avoiding direct conflict, the Russian army frustrates his every move with "guerilla" tactics; it seems whichever way he turns, the Russians are lying in wait. As if that...

Un symbole intemporel de la lutte contre les injustices En 1815, Jacquou naît à Comberges, pauvre métairie dépendante du château de l’Herm. Son père, qui travaille pour le comte de Nansac, meurt au bagne, condamné pour un meurtre qu’il n’a pas commis. En exil, sa mère succombe...

L'hiver polaire s'est abattu sur les plaines russes, emportant avec lui les forces des soldats de Napoléon Bonaparte. Contrainte de se retirer toujours plus loin afin d'échapper aux impitoyables cosaques lancés à ses trousses, la glorieuse armée française n'est plus qu'une longue file de morts...

Mentre si aggira fra le misteriose torri di un nuraghe, Carlotta perde il suo cavallino di legno. Decisa a ritrovarlo, si inoltra in un corridoio e tra massi enormi scorge una piccola luce. Non è un insetto né un folletto: si tratta di una jana! La fata chiede alla bambina di esprimere tre desideri....

The Time Corps is at war with itself. Director Alexander Kronus and the equally powerful Inspector General are sniping at each other via third parties and disposeable assets. Meanwhile, their erstwhile foe, Peter Piernitowski, grows more powerful, and a new threat emerges from the future.

Wichtiger Hinweis: Die Vorschau als "PDF" verfälscht die Qualität von diesem eBook! Auf Ihrem eBook-Reader wird diese ePub-Datei hervorragend angezeigt. Max und Moritz – Eine Bubengeschichte in sieben Streichen ist eine Bildergeschichte des deutschen humoristischen Dichters und Zeichners...

In this retelling of Ramayana, author Dr. Barbara Jackson enlightens and enables the reader to understand the righteous path (dharma) for life on earth.

Notes from Underground  also translated as Notes from the Undergroundor Letters from the Underworld, is an 1864 novella by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Notes is considered by many to be the firstexistentialist novel. It presents itself as an excerpt from the rambling...

Bleak House, a novel by Charles Dickens, was first published as a serial between March 1852 and September 1853, and is considered to be one of Dickens' finest novels, containing vast, complex and engaging arrays of characters and sub-plots. The story is told partly by the novel's heroine,...

The Time Corps is an agency of the Celestial Bureaucracy charged with maintaining some semblance of stability for the entirety of history. To do so, several substations are set up in potential crisis areas where Time Corps agents, snatched from the moments of their death, are given a chance to improve...