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By Alphonse Daudet. 1960
Publié en 1872, ce récit est l'un des plus célèbres de l'auteur. Il y incarne de façon vivante le type…
méridional du vantard, bavard, goguenard, hanté par la fantaisie et les folles aventures, mais tenant ferme à un bon sens fort prosaïque qui le place dans la lignée de Sancho Pança.By Alphonse Daudet. 2015
Feédérique dormait depuis le matin. Un sommeil de fièvre et de fatigue où le rêve était fait de toutes ses…
détresses de reine exilée et déchue, un sommeil que le fracas, les angoisses d’un siège de deux mois secouaient encore, traversé de visions ...By Leo Tolstoy. 1992
By Arthur Conan Doyle. 1892
Amid the foggy streets of sinister London and the even more sinister countryside, Holmes and Watson once more solve the…
unsolvable. This book is a collection of stories, including "A Scandal in Bohemia", "A Case of Identity", "The Red-Headed League" and "The Boscombe Valley Mystery". 1892.By Arthur Conan Doyle. 1928
These are the last 12 stories Conan Doyle wrote about Holmes and Watson. They reflect the disillusioned world of the…
1920's in which they were written, and he can be seen to take advantage of new, more open conventions in fiction. 1928.By Arthur Conan Doyle. 1917
Assumed dead after his terrible encounter with Professor Moriarty, Sherlock Holmes returns to astonish the world by telling the miraculous…
story of his escape and the succeeding years of deception. Together again, Holmes and Watson embark on thirteen further intriguing and dangerous adventures. 1917.By J. R. R Tolkien. 1965
Frodo and Sam go to Mount Doom with the intention of destroying the ring in order to overthrow the Dark…
Lord of evil. Sequel to "The two towers" (DC1058). Grades 4-7. 1965. (The lord of the rings ; 3) Uniform title: Lord of the rings (1986)Frodo inherits his uncle Bilbo's ring. To protect it from the powers of darkness, he must make a long dangerous…
journey. Sequel to "The hobbit" (DC2344). Followed by "The two towers" (DC1058). Grades 4-7. 1965. (Lord of the rings ; 1) Uniform title: The lord of the ringsBy H. G Wells. 1897
By John Steinbeck. 1945
Cannery Row contains the quaintest crowd of flotsam and jetsam in Monterey Bay, California. Lee Chong, grocer creditor; Dora Flood…
and her girls at the Bear Flag Restaurant; casual labourers with reputations to keep; and Doc, loner and fount of all wisdom, the man for whom everyone wants to do business and who usually ends up paying. Some strong language. Followed by "Sweet Thursday" (DC37147). 1945.By F. Scott Fitzgerald. 1920
The author's first novel, which catapulted him to fame at the age of 23, relates the life and times of…
a young college man born healthy, wealthy, and extraordinarily good looking. 1920.By Charles Dickens. 1861
Pip, a young orphan, learns he has an unknown benefactor who will pay for him to be raised as a…
gentleman of "Great expectations." The mystery surrounding the benefactor and Pip's unrequited love for Estella, the orphaned ward of a rich old lady, create a moving and exciting story. 1861.By Charles Dickens. 1964
A young man is destined to inherit a mysterious fortune if he marries a certain young woman. Having never met…
her, he conceals his identity in order to appraise her. 1964, c1865.By Ernest Hemingway. 1940
By Walter Scott. 1819
Lord Ravenswood, deprived of his title for his part in the Civil War and dispossessed of his estate by trickery,…
dies in a fit of fury against Sir William Ashton, the man whom he regards as the author of his ruin. His son, the fiery Master of Ravenshood, inherits his father's hatred of Sir William but Fate makes him fall in love with Ashton's daughter, bringing disaster upon both households. 1819.By John Buchan. 1947
By Oliver Stallybrass, E. M Forster. 1908
The love of a young British woman named Lucy Honeychurch for a British expatriate living in Italy is condemned by…
her stuffy, middle-class guardians, who prefer an eligible man of their own choosing. 1908.By George Eliot. 1860
Maggie Tulliver is deeply attached to her brother Tom, but their conflicting temperaments and outlook produce only stress and misunderstanding…
until they are finally reconciled in a moment of revelation before tragedy overtakes them. 1860.By Nathaniel Hawthorne. 1948
The brooding atmosphere of Puritan New England is present in this searching study of the workings of conscience. Hester Prynne,…
branded as an adulteress, lives on the edge of the wilderness with her child and devotes herself to good works. 1948, c1850.By George Du Maurier. 1894