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One of the greatest American novels and a popular culture sensation, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz depicts the adventures of the young Dorothy Gale, who is swept away from her colorless farm home in Kansas by a cyclone, and winds up in the magical Land of Oz. Trapped in an unknown land, Dorothy must fi...

I was apprenticed to the Sea when I was twelve years old, and I have encountered a great deal of rough weather, both literal and metaphorical. It has always been my opinion since I first possessed such a thing as an opinion, that the man who knows only one subject is next tiresome to the man who kn...

The Wrecker (1892) is a novel written by Robert Louis Stevenson in collaboration with his stepson Lloyd Osbourne. The story is a 'sprawling, episodic adventure story, a comedy of brash manners and something of a detective mystery'. It revolves around the abandoned wreck of the Flying Scud at Midway ...

La première définition se heurte à l'objection suivante : le monde sensible est devenir, c'est-à-dire un ensemble d'objets qui naissent et qui se corrompent, s'accroissent et décroissent. Monde sensible et devenir sont synonymes. Mais si toute réalité est un devenir, elle se transforme sans cesse, e...

Theo is a short novelette about an impressionable and quite beautiful young girl of 16 who falls in love with an intelligent young man named Denis. Theo’s enchanting beauty and Denis’ intelligent and methodical, yet very pleasant character makes the two ideally suited for each other. Readers will qu...

À vingt-sept ans, en 1867, Émile Zola ne s’est pas encore attaqué aux Rougon-Macquart, son œuvre géante. Comment s’imposer « quand on a le malheur d’être né au confluent de Hugo et de Balzac » ? Comment récrire La Comédie humaine après ce dernier ? Les grands créateurs sont parfois gênants pour ceux...

A fascinating collection of writings from the great polymath of the Italian Renaissaince, Leonardo da Vinci. There are sections covering the great man's thoughts on life, art and science. Maurice Baring trawled the available manuscripts to distil da Vinci's writings on these subjects into a single, ...

The Three Musketeers follows the adventures of the young Gascon nobleman, D’Artagnan and his three trusted friends who served as musketeers in the king’s regiment – Athos, Porthos & Aramis. Written by Alexandre Dumas, the book was a bestseller during the time of its publication and it remains so eve...

If you've read and loved Alice in Wonderland, you wouldn't want to miss reading about her further adventures, the strange and fantastical creatures she meets and the delightful style and word-play that made the first book so appealing. Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll is thematically much ...