One of the earliest great stories of English literature after Beowulf, Sir Gawain is the strange tale of a green knight on a green horse, who rudely interrupts King Arthur's Round Table festivities on…
Ninety-three, the last of Victor Hugo's novels, is regarded by many including such diverse critics as Robert Louis Stevenson and André Maurois as his greatest work.
At the beginning of Dino Buzzati’s The Singularity, Ermanno Ismani, an unassuming university professor, is summoned by the minister of defense to accept a two-year, top-secret mission at a mysterious …
The final volume of In Search of Lost Time chronicles the years of World War I, when, as M. de Charlus reflects on a moonlit walk, Paris threatens to become another Pompeii. Years later, after the war…
Felipe Montero trabaja en la casa de una anciana viuda para editar las memorias de su difunto marido. Allí Felipe conoce a su bella sobrina de ojos verdes, Aura. Su pasión por Aura y su descubrimiento…
L’extrême droite est aux portes du pouvoir. Dans les urnes comme dans les esprits, ses thèmes, son narratif et son vocabulaire s’imposent. Il est encore temps d’inverser cette tendance, à condition de…
Dix-huitième volume des Rougon-Macquart, L'Argent est le premier grand western financier des temps modernes : bilans falsifiés, connivences politiques, fièvre spéculative, manipulations médiatiques, r…
Nadja, originally published in France in 1928, is the first and perhaps best Surrealist romance ever written, a book which defined that movement's attitude toward everyday life.
The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, commonly referred to simply as Doctor Faustus, is an Elizabethan tragedy by Christopher Marlowe, based on German stories about the title c…
C’est un endroit à l’abri du temps. Ce minuscule hameau, qu’on appelle Les Montées, est un pays à lui seul pour les jumelles Ambre et Aelis, et la vieille Rose. Ici, l’existence n’a jamais été douce. L…
