Frederic: 615 books

Quel homme n'a jamais regardé les fesses d'une fille qui passait dans la rue ? Pour Richard, pourtant, ce travers purement masculin prend très tôt la dimension d'une obsession, qu'il assouvira sa vie durant avec nombre de filles complaisantes. Callipyges de toutes races n'ont pas fini de lui offrir leurs rondeurs arrière...

A renaissance man in the Middle Ages, Alfonso the Learned of Castile marshaled the talents of Christians, Jews, and Muslims in an extraordinary outpouring of scholarship and art. Here, in this short-form book, is his little-told story.

I do not know whether in remote generations some trickle of Italian blood went to the making of that entity which I feel to be myself, or whether in some previous incarnation I enjoyed a Latin existence, nor do I greatly care: all that really concerns me is that the moment the train crawls out from...

Among the many notable discoveries made by the Anglo-Saxon race during the nineteenth century there is none more curious, none perhaps which will turn out to have been more concerned with the well-being of the race itself, than that which we may broadly call the discovery of Athletics. In itself this...

It will hardly be possible for any faithful chronicler of that transcendent event to record that America's entry into the war set embattled Europe by the ears. The most such a historian can say of the impression created in Allied countries is that the abandonment of our neutrality toward the "natural...

The earliest known novel with a motion-picture theme.

Cradled in the valley of the Arno, its noble architecture fitly supplementing its numerous natural charms, lies the Tuscan city of Florence, the birthplace of immortal Dante, the early home of Michael Angelo, the seat of the Florentine Medici, the scene of Savonarola's triumphs and his tragic end....

Mr Keeling had expected an edifying half-hour when Dr Inglis gave out as his text, ‘There shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth,’ and as the discourse proceeded, he felt that his anticipations were amply justified. Based on this unshakable foundation, and buttressed by other stalwart pronouncements,...

Un petit livre pour enfin savoir ce que votre chat n'a jamais osé vous dire ! Parce qu'on ne sait jamais vraiment ce qu'il se passe dans la tête d'un chat, malgré son regard snob ! "Il m'arrive de te mentir. Par exemple, j'ai déjà été nourri par ton mec il y a 10 minutes." "Ton...

Colonel Fanshawe was riding slowly back to his bungalow about an hour before the sunset of a hot and brilliant day in the middle of March. He had spent a long day in the saddle, for the Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Forces was at Peshawar on a visit of inspection, and he had reviewed and inspected...

"The Prince is a rare man, of great authoritie, universally beloved, verie wyse in resolution in all things, and voyd of pretences, and that which is worthie of special prayse in hym, he is not dismayed with any losse or adversitie." Dr. WILSON to Lord BURLEIGH, 3RD December 1576.

Ce deuxième volume de pièces débute avec “Le Mollusque,” un long monologue du point de vue d’un escargot sur le malentendu existant autour de la définition du mot épicurien, qui le rend pas du tout heureux, puisqu'il est sur le point de se faire déguster. “Grisou en Atomiseur,” représente...

Dodo was so much interested in what she had herself been saying, that having just lit one cigarette, she lit another at it, and now contemplated the two with a dazed expression. She was talking to Edith Arbuthnot, who had just returned from a musical tour in Germany, where she had conducted a dozen...

The earliest known novel with a motion-picture theme. Ruth Morton finished her cup of coffee, brushed a microscopic crumb from her embroidered silk kimono, pushed back her loosely arranged brown hair, and resumed the task of opening her mail. It was in truth a task, and one that consumed an inordinate amount of her valuable time.