Here is one of those "forgotten" works. Ticket No. "9672" is a fascinating tale of two women who live in a Norway Inn. Dame Hansen is a foolish creature whose mistakes must be dealt with by her daughter Hulda. Coming to their aid is their brother Joel and the remarkable Sylvius Hogg, who helps them ...

Le dialogue débute par un résumé de la constitution idéale, puis se poursuit par la guerre victorieuse de l’Athènes d’avant contre l’ennemi atlante et la chute de l’Atlantide. Platon cherche ainsi à fonder la constitution idéale décrite dans La République en montrant que dans l’Athènes d’avant, les ...

The Life of Timon of Athens is a play by William Shakespeare about the fortunes of an Athenian named Timon (and probably influenced by the philosopher of the same name, as well), generally regarded as one of his most obscure and difficult works. Originally grouped with the tragedies, it is generally...

Titus Andronicus may be Shakespeare's earliest tragedy; it is believed to have been written in the early 1590s. It depicts a Roman general who is engaged in a cycle of revenge with his enemy Tamora, the Queen of the Goths. The play is by far Shakespeare's bloodiest work. It lost popularity during th...

One, two, three, four, five. There were five of them. Five couriers, sitting on a bench outside the convent on the summit of the Great St. Bernard in Switzerland, looking at the remote heights, stained by the setting sun as if a mighty quantity of red wine had been broached upon the mountain top, a...

Tom Sawyer Abroad is a novel by Mark Twain published in 1894. It features Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn in a parody of Jules Verne-esque adventure stories. In the story, Tom, Huck, and Jim set sail to Africa in a futuristic hot air balloon, where they survive encounters with lions, robbers, and fl...

Tom Sawyer, Detective is an 1896 novel by Mark Twain. It is a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), and Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894). Tom Sawyer attempts to solve a mysterious murder in this burlesque of the immensely popular detective novels of the time. ...

Madame Gilbert, mère de quatre enfants, était restée veuve à quarante ans. Si son mari ne lui avait pas laissé assez de fortune pour établir ses enfants, elle avait de quoi vivre. L’éducation est la fortune des jeunes gens pauvres ; aussi madame Gilbert endurait-elle les plus grandes privations pour...

It was published in 1893–1894 by Century Magazine in seven installments, and is a detective story with some racial themes. The plot of this novel is a detective story, in which a series of identities — the judge’s murderer, Tom, Chambers — must be sorted out. This structure highlights the problem of...

Ce livre présente l’héroïne de la trilogie du Val-Argand, Béatrix Billuard, jeune orpheline recueillie par la baronne du Val-Argand, sa tante maternelle. La jeune fille est d’un caractère aussi paisible que raisonnable. Sa nature charmante lui a rapidement gagné le cœur de ceux qui l’entourent car ...