Found 366 results for "Portraits (Littérature)"
by Oscar Wilde
L'artiste est celui qui crée des choses de beauté.
by William Shakespeare
THIS play, indisputably one of the earliest complete productions of Shakespeare's mind, was first printed in the folio o...
by Gustave Flaubert
WE were in the prep-room when the Head came in, followed by a new boy in mufti and a beadle carrying a big desk.
by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский
Alexei Fyodorovich Karamazov was the third son of Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov, a landowner in our district who became a c...
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
LATE in the afternoon of a chilly day in February, two gentlemen were sitting in a well-furnished room in a town in Kent...
by Giovanni Boccaccio
DEAREST ladies, it is fitting that everything done by man should begin with the marvelous and holy name of Him who was t...
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...
by Charles Dickens
There once lived in a sequestered part of the country of Devonshire, one Mr Godfrey Nickleby, a worthy gentleman, who ta...
by Daniel Defoe
My true name is so well known in the records, or registers, at Newgate and in the Old Bailey, and there are some things ...
by Madame de La Fayette, Everett Carll Ladd
THE last years of Henri II's reign saw a display of opulence and gallantry such as has never been equalled in France.
by Harlan Coben
The missing girl-there had been unceasing news reports, always flashing to that achingly ordinary school portrait of the...
by Gustave Flaubert
FOR half a century the good ladies of Pont-l'Eveque envied Madame Aubain her servant Felicite.
by Richard Baxter, Isaac Crewdson
IT was not only our interest in God, and actual enjoyment of him, which was lost in Adam's fall, but all spiritual knowl...