En ce temps-là les bêtes parlaient. Voici 10 contes du beau pays gascon. Le Loup, la Chèvre, le Renard vivent ensemble dans les bois. Il vont à la foire avec les paysans. Tout ce monde ne s'entend pas toujours très bien. Le Renard est cruel, mais il sera puni. Quant au Loup, il est trop bête, tant p...

All the joys and sorrows, fears and fantasies of an imaginative solitary child are brought together in this edition of a much-loved classic. Stevenson's timeless verses bear witness to a happy childhood and create a treasure garden for every child to explore.

“A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, biting, clutching, covetous old sinner” is hardly hero material, but this is exactly what makes A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens such an unforgettable book and its hero, Ebenezer Scrooge such an extraordinarily enduring character. In the book's celebrated open...

A Christmas Sermon by Robert Louis Stevenson written while he convalesced from a lung ailment at Lake Sarnac in the winter of 1887. In the short text he meditates on the questions of death, morality and man’s main task in life which he concludes is “To be honest, to be kind — to earn a little and to...

When Hank Morgan, a practical, no-nonsense Yankee who works in an ammunition factory as a head superintendent gets into a fight with an aggressive employee, little does he know what's in store for him. The bully lays Morgan low with a skull-crushing blow delivered with a crowbar and knocks him out. ...

Miss Belinda Bassett's niece arrives in a small England town. Octavia Bassett arrives from Nevada with her trunks of fancy clothes, diamond jewelry, and gold coins for the poor. She soon becomes friends with Lucia Gaston, the repressed granddaughter of the village matriarch, Lady Theobald.

A Footnote to History: Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa is an 1892 historical non-fiction work by Robert Louis Stevenson describing the contemporary Samoan Civil War. Robert Louis Stevenson arrived in Samoa in 1889 and built a house at Vailima. He quickly became passionately interested, and involved...

Santa Claus merely laughs at their clumsy efforts. (The obvious model for these episodes is the Temptation of Christ in the Synoptic Gospels.) Failing at temptation, the Daemons instead kidnap Santa Claus; they lasso him as he is riding in his sleigh on Christmas Eve, and bind him in their caverns.

Cette BD pleine d'humour vous explique tout ce que vous avez toujours voulu savoir, sans jamais oser le demander, sur la propriété intellectuelle. Indispensable en ces temps de DRM, Hadopi et autres joyeusetés au service de l'industrie de la culture pour écraser la Culture. Quelques critiques: Une v...

A la Une... à la deux... pourrait être aussi l'amorce d'une comptine signée Alphonse Allais racontant à Paulette, sa Petite fille, ses soucis d'écrivain enchaîné. En fait, il s'agit de la UNE des journaux de la belle époque où son papa, durant vingt-cinq ans, occupa ce point de vue recherché. De là,...