Il nome della rosa

by Umberto Eco

ON AUGUST 16, 1968, I WAS HANDED A BOOK WRITTEN BY A CERTAIN Abbe Vallet, Le Manuscrit de Dom Adson de Melk, traduit en ...

Candide

by Voltaire

Chapitre I. Comment candide fut élevé dans un beau château, et comment il fut chassé d'icelui. Il y avait en Vestp...

Aeneis

by Publius Vergilius Maro

Arms I sing-and a man,

Ivanhoe

by Sir Walter Scott

IN that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large fo...

Carrie

by Stephen King

Extrait de l'hebdomadaire Enterprise, de Westover (Me), 19 aoüt 1966:

A Streetcar Named Desire

by Tennessee Williams

The exterior of a two-story corner building on a street in New Orleans which is named Elysian Fields and runs between th...

A dictionary of the English language

by Samuel Johnson

Le fantôme de l'opéra

by Gaston Leroux

IT was the evening on which MM. Debienne and Poligny, the managers of the Opera, were giving a last gala performance to ...

Murder on the Orient Express

by Agatha Christie

Была пятая гадзіна зімовай раніцы.

Utopia

by Thomas More

THERE was recently a rather serious difference of opinion between that great expert in the art of government, His Invinc...

Cyrano de Bergerac

by Edmond Rostand

The Hall of the Hotel de Bourgogne in 1640.

Les Trois Mousquetaires

by Alexandre Dumas, Auguste Maquet

ON THE FIRST Monday of April, 1625, the market town of Meung, in which the author of the Romance of the Rose was born, s...

Le avventure di Pinocchio

by Carlo Collodi

There was once upon a time . . . "A king!" my little readers will instantly exclaim.

Rebecca

by Daphne du Maurier

LAST NIGHT I dreamt I went to Manderley again.

Bonjour tristesse

by Françoise Sagan

A STRANGE MELANCHOLY pervades me to which I hesitate to give the grave and beautiful name of sorrow.

Anne of Green Gables

by Lucy Maud Montgomery

Wo die von Erlen und Springkraut gesäumte Hauptstraße von Avonlea durch eine kleine Senke führt, stand das Haus von Mrs ...

Robinson Crusoe

by Daniel Defoe, J. J. Grandville

I was born in the year 1632 in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreign...

Peril at End House

by Agatha Christie

NO seaside town in the south of England is, I think, as attractive as St. Loo.

Carmilla

by Sheridan Le Fanu

Sobre una hoja de papel adherida a la narración que sigue, el doctor Hesselius ha escrito una nota bastante elaborada, n...

The Lord of the Rings

by J.R.R. Tolkien

When Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a part...