Wilkie: 657 books

Extrait :  Ce que peut supporter la patience d’une femme, ce que peuvent accomplir le courage et la constance d’un homme, cette histoire le dira. Si tout événement qui prête aux soupçons pouvait être éclairci par les engins compliqués de la loi, et si ces instruments réguliers ...

En 1881. par une matinée brumeuse et peu après le lever du soleil, Denis Howmore fut réveillé en sursaut par ces mots prononcés à voix haute à travers la porte : « Le patron veut vous parler sur-le-champ. » L’individu chargé de ce message connaissait à coup sûr les lieux,...

Dans le train qui l'emmène en voyage de noces à Ramsgate, Valéria Woodville pense aux semaines qui ont précédé son mariage : sa rencontre avec Eustache, ses rapides fiançailles avec lui, l'inquiétude de son oncle pour ce projet de mariage faute d'informations sérieuses sur la situation personnelle...

The actress, a Mademoiselle Gautier, realizes that her life of pleasure and vice is headed for a bad end and so she decides to enter a convent. Her desire to completely repent takes her from the rather cozy quarters of one order to the more austere regimen of the Carmelites.

A brilliant chemist and a shrewd businessman — die on the same day. The widow of the chemist, Mrs. Fontaine, is left with the poisons he was researching , while Mrs. Wagner is left with her husband's mental health institution reforms and his plans for hiring women along with men in his firm's offices....

A kind, good-hearted genteel young woman jilted, a suspicious death or two that only a few think could be murder, strange apparitions appearing in an hotel all combine to create a horrifying conundrum. Who was the culprit and will finding out finally put an end to the mystery?

Presenting twenty individual grammar points in lively and realistic contexts, Basic Spanish is an accessible reference grammar with related exercises in one, easy to follow volume. Beginning with the simpler aspects of Spanish and progressing on to more complex areas, each chapter contains grammar...

Integrating the findings of modern psychology and traditional Christian spirituality, this book presents a spirituality of gratitude that can guide contemporary Christians in living with an expanded awareness of how grace abounds everywhere, as well as the personal and cultural hurdles that stand in the way of being grateful.

From the teachings, travels, and spontaneous interactions with his students of Namgyal Rinpoche, a now-deceased Canadian Buddhist monk and teacher of meditation, this skillfully-curated collection of first-hand student recollections conveys a deep level of relationship with a living meditation master...

Quel jour du mois et de l’année ? Le 13 Novembre 1835. Quelle heure ? Dix heures du soir sonnant à la grande horloge de St. Paul. En même temps toutes les églises de la ville ouvrent leurs gosiers de bronze et forcent leurs voix. Quelques-unes ont inconsidérément...

During his short life Burns wrote a great deal of poetry to or about women. Some were written as love poems or songs, intended to sway the heart of whoever had caught his eye, others in honour of a more casual acquaintance whose beauty or talents had impressed him in some way. Others were composed...

Extrait : "Ce que peut supporter la patience d'une femme, ce que peuvent accomplir le courage et la constance d'un homme, cette histoire le dira."À PROPOS DES ÉDITIONS LIGARAN : Les éditions LIGARAN proposent des versions numériques de grands classiques de la littérature ainsi que des livres rares,...

Poisoned Meal is a true story about Marie-Francoise who is wrongly charged with murder.