Charles Darwin's travels around the world as an independent naturalist on HMS Beagle between 1831 and 1836 impressed upon him a sense of the natural world's beauty and sublimity which language coul...
« Et que voudrais-tu trouver ? - Des aventures pour mettre a l'épreuve ma vaillance et ma hardiesse. ».Dans le plus grand secret, Yvain selle son cheval, fait pr&eacu...
When Ishmael sets sail on the whaling ship Pequod one cold Christmas Day, he has no idea of the horrors awaiting him out on the vast and merciless ocean. The ship's strange captain, Ahab, is in the...
L’histoire tragique des amants de Vérone, devenus des figures mythiques de l’amour et de la jeunesse en lutte contre l’absurdité des conflits familiaux.N...
Eight years ago Anne Elliot bowed to pressure from her family and made the decision not to marry the man she loved, Captain Wentworth. Now circumstances have conspired to bring him back into her so...
Antigone, figure mythique par excellence, brave les interdits en ensevelissant elle-même son frère, malgré les menaces de mort de Créon. Notions litt&ea...
« C'est ici la demeure du seigneur Sindbad, qui a parcouru toutes les mers que le soleil éclaire. » Alors que le pauvre Hindbad se plaint a Allah des injustices d'un monde qui pe...
Arlette wciąż wspomina Williama, dzięki któremu dotarła bezpiecznie do Londynu. Podczas podróży przez ogarnięty wojną domową kraj połączyła ich silna więź. Spotykają się ponownie dopi...
Zima w Sokcho to opowieść, w której spotykają się dwa światy - francuski z koreańskim, młody ze starym, świat Wschodu i Zachodu, marzeń i rozczarowań. To fascynująca, spokojna, wręcz poetyck...
This volume brings together Virginia Woolf's last two novels, The Years (1937) which traces the lives of members of a dispersed middle-class family between 1880 and 1937, and Between the Acts (1941...
In these 'scientific romances' H. G. Wells sees the present reflected in the future and the future in the present. His aim is to provoke rather than predict. The Sleeper falls into a trance, waking...
Washington Square marks the culmination of James's apprentice period as a novelist. With sharply focused attention upon just four principal characters, James provides an acute analysis of middle-cl...
'Examine your words well, and you will find that even when you have no motive to be false, it is a very hard thing to say the exact truth, even about your immediate feelings...'Adam Bed...
George Eliot's final novel, Daniel Deronda (1876), follows the intertwining lives of the beautiful but spoiled and selfish Gwendolene Harleth and the selfless yet alienated Daniel Deronda, as they ...
The phrase `life's little ironies' is now proverbial, but it was coined by Hardy as the title for this, his third volume of short stories. While the tales and sketches reflect many of the strengths...
Jude Fawley is a rural stone mason with intellectual aspirations. Frustrated by poverty and the indifference of the academic institutions at the University of Christminster, his only chance of fulf...
The tough-mindedness of the social satire in and its air of palpable integrity give this novel a special place in Anthony Trollope's Literary career. Trollope paints a picture as panoramic as his t...
His body was pressed against the wall at the head of the bed, and the face was a mask of agonised horror and fruitless entreaty. But the eyes were already glazed in death, and before Francis could ...