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The narrator, Egaeus, is a studious young man who grows up in a large gloomy mansion with his cousin Berenice. He suffers from a type of obsessive disorder, a monomania that makes him fixate on objects. She, originally beautiful, suffers from some unspecified degenerative illness, with periods of...

Der französische Ich-Erzähler wartet auf dem damaligen Theaterplatz (heutiger Rathenauplatz) von Frankfurt am Main vergeblich auf drei Stadtverordnete, die an seiner Ballonfahrt teilnehmen wollten. Aufgrund der enttäuschten Zuschauer, die dem Start entgegenfiebern, beschließt der Ballonpilot den...

Un affresco storico appassionante sullo sfondo della guerra napoleonica nelle Langhe Piemontesi.

Un marin français, Jean Peyrol, ayant quitté le service de la marine nationale pendant les guerres napoléoniennes, se retire dans une ferme de la presqu'île de Giens. Il y vit avec la vieille Catherine, la jeune Arlette et le sans-culotte Scevola. Un officier venu de Toulon, le lieutenant Réal, voudrait induire en erreur la flotte de Nelson en empruntant la tartane de Peyrol.

Seventeen: A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family Especially William is a humorous novel by Booth Tarkington that gently satirizes first love, in the person of a callow 17-year-old, William Sylvanus Baxter. Seventeen takes place in a small city in the Midwestern United States shortly...

In this collection you will find : 19 classics Novels -From the Earth to the Moon -Five Weeks in a Balloon -20,000 Leagues Under the Sea -Around the World in Eighty Days -Michael Strogoff, or The Courier of the Czar -The Mysterious Island -The Survivors of the Chancellor -A Journey into the Center...

Résumé: Rouletabille se trouve accusé du meurtre d'un éminent professeur et de sa femme, Ivana, qui était la collaboratrice de ce dernier. Dans cette aventure, Leroux renoue avec les premières enquêtes de Rouletabille, surtout à la fin du livre où les révélations se déroulent au tribunal....

In "The Premature Burial", the first-person unnamed narrator describes his struggle with things such as "attacks of the singular disorder which physicians have agreed to term catalepsy", a condition where he randomly falls into a death-like trance. This leads to his fear of being...

In 1878 appeared Dick Sands, the epic of the slave trade. This picture of the wilds of Africa, its adventures and its dangers, the savage hunting both of beasts and men, has always been a favorite among Verne's readers. It contains no marvels, no inventions, but merely, amid stirring scenes and actions...

nspired by the Moskstraumen, it is couched as a story within a story, a tale told at the summit of a mountain climb. The story is told by an old man who reveals that he only appears old - "You suppose me a very old man," he says, "but I am not. It took less than a single day to change...

Rouletabille est arraché aux tranchées pour se voir confier une mission d'espionnage : il dot se rendre en Allemagne et délivrer un savant français, avant qu'il ne livre sa terrible invention à l'ennemi. Le reporter part avec ses compagnons, La Candeur et Vladimir...

In dieser Novelle erzählt F. M. Dostjewski die tragische Geschichte einer Ehe zwischen einer jungen schönen Frau aus reichem Elternhaus und einem älteren Mann, der sie lediglich wegen ihres Geldes heiratet. Die kritische Position des Autors in diesem Einzelfall lässt sich auf die Sitten und die moralische Werte der ganzen russischen Gesellschaft des 19. Jahrhunderts übertragen.

La vita dell'autore fu lunga e tragica, nell'accezione più vera del termine, ossia nel senso che essa fu dominata da una profonda, segreta tensione: una vera tragedia dell'anima. Tolstoj stesso riteneva che il 1878 fosse lo spartiacque tra due fasi della sua esistenza, nella prima il grande scrittore...

"The Oblong Box" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1844, about a sea voyage and a mysterious box. The story opens with the unnamed narrator recounting a summer sea voyage from Charleston, South Carolina to New York City aboard the ship Independence. The narrator learns...