Extrait: "Environ à une demi-journée de chemin de la ville de Toulouse, sur le versant d’un riant coteau dont les pieds fleuris se baignent dans les eaux de la Garonne, on voit encore les ruines d’un de ces antiques châteaux forts où les seigneurs suzerains se renfermaient jadis, et, de là, commanda...

Originally published in monthly installments between 1855 and 1857, the novel focuses on the various forms of imprisonment, both physical and psychological, while also concentrating on dysfunctional family ties. Accordingly, Dickens avidly criticizes the social deficiencies of the time including inj...

In mid-1880s Brooklyn, New York, Cedric Errol lives with his Mother (never named, known only as Mrs Errol or “dearest”) in genteel poverty after his Father Captain Errol dies. They receive a visit from Havisham, an English lawyer with a message from Cedric’s grandfather, Lord Dorincourt. Cedric is n...

Frances Hodgson Burnett’s book "A Little Princess" begins as seven year old Sara Crewe is dropped off at a boarding school by her rich father. She has grown up in India and has lived a very pampered life. Even though she is rich, she is very friendly to everyone and the students all love her. Unfor...

She had not been brought up in America at all. She had been born in France, in a beautiful château, and she had been born heiress to a great fortune, but, nevertheless, just now she felt as if she was very poor, indeed. And yet her home was in one of the most splendid houses in New York. She had a l...

The “Little Wizard Stories of Oz” are six short stories written by L. Frank Baum in 1913. By all accounts, Baum intended to finish the Oz series with “The Emerald City of Oz,” published in 1910. Following that, he attempted to write non-Oz books, publishing “The Sea Fairies” in 1911 and “Sky Island”...

“The Lost Prince” is about Marco Loristan, his father, and his friend, a street urchin named The Rat. Marco’s father, Stefan, is a Samavian patriot working to overthrow the cruel dictatorship in the kingdom of Samavia. Marco and his father, Stefan, come to London where Marco strikes up a friendship ...

The novel begins with the introduction of young protagonist Tip, who after a failed effort to frighten the wicked witch Mombi is threatened to be turned into a marble statue as retribution. Feeling he has no other choice, Tip decides to run away from Gillikin Country and from the person to whom he h...

Extrait: La pièce de cent sous Il était sept heures du matin, et le jour paraissait depuis peu ; car on était au mois d’octobre. Un petit garçon, qui marchait fort vite sur la grande route d’Orléans à Paris, s’avançait vers la barrière d’Enfer, portant sur son épaule un bâton passé dans son paquet...

- Ce que vit un moineau de Paris (Il vit d’abord un gros chat, qui le saisit dans sa gueule, et dès sa première heure de vie libre, hors du nid, il se crut perdu sans rémission. Mais, qui le croirait ? Minet n’avait que de bonnes intentions à l’égard de Pierrot ! Il ne le ...) - Le grand voyage d’un...