Hailed by Nabokov as "the greatest artist that Russia has yet produced," Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852) left his mark as a playwright, novelist, and writer of short stories. Gogol's works remain popular wi…
Hailed as one of the world's supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, The Death of Ivan Ilyich is the story of a worldly careerist, a high court judge who has never given the inevitabil…
In Anthony Burgess's influential nightmare vision of the future, criminals take over after dark. Teen gang leader Alex narrates in fantastically inventive slang that echoes the violent intensity of yo…
“Stories of human behavior at its most extreme….With humor, compassion, empathy, and insight, Small searches for and finds the humanity that lies hidden under even the most bizarre symptoms.” —Daniel H…
Vincent, 30 ans, célibataire, solitaire mène une vie ennuyeuse et routinière partagée entre son salon de coiffure et sa mère possessive et farfelue. Un jour, il croise Rosalie dont le visage lui parai…
Aude, 19 ans, mène une vie chaotique dans un appartement qu'elle partage avec un punk cambrioleur et hypocondriaque. Un matin sa tante, Rosalie, l'appelle et lui dit qu’elle est suivie dans la rue, de…
LE FIN DE LA TRILOGIE !!! Vincent coupera-t-il le cordon ? Quel passé noir et douloureux Rosalie noie-t-elle dans le whisky ? Aude passera-t-elle Noël en famille ? Ces trois personnages se laisseront-…
Chess Story, also known as The Royal Game, is the Austrian master Stefan Zweig's final achievement, completed in Brazilian exile and sent off to his American publisher only days before his suicide in …
On a winter day the kind and humble shoemaker Simon finds a naked man in the street. He takes off his cloth coat, wraps it around the stranger and also gives him the extra pair of boots he was carryin…
Our first meeting with Sherlock Holmes. And John Watson's too! The young doctor is astonished by Holmes' many idiosyncrasies, including his talents on the violin.
