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What do you do when you see a white rabbit in a vest darting across the lawn consulting a pocket watch? You follow him, of course. So begins Alice's adventure into a world populated by talking animals and wrathful queens, littered with pastries that make people shrink...
Six months after her trip to Wonderland, Alice has a new and exciting experience: while conversing with her cats and dozing in an armchair, she becomes curious while looking at a mirror. What could possibly be beyond it? The fact is that she will manage to cross the...
This collection of ten horror stories, characterized by a taste for the supernatural, the mystical and the macabre, evokes atmospheres close to the narratives of Edgar Allan Poe. Chambers left his mark on twentieth-century horror literature and particularly on the...
A beautiful story about the possibility of changing one's destiny.A reflection on the difficult balance between the present, the past and the future.A denunciation of the exploitation of children and illiteracy. But above all "A Christmas Carol" is a fable, one of the...
The setting is the lush English countryside. We are at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries. Three sisters lose their father, coming into financial straits because of their sister-in-law's greed.The chain reactions generated by the sudden poverty will profoundly...
“Little Women” is Louisa May Alcott's masterpiece, the novel that made her famous and has been the subject of countless film versions (including one starring Susan Sarandon and Wynona Rider). We meet the March family at a critical time: they have suffered financial...
Jo March, now married to Professor Bhaer, works together with her husband at Plumfield School, a sort of foster home where the couple hosts the children in their care. Some of them are “difficult,” but they find inJo and the professor two teachers willing to the hard...
In the gentle and poignant unraveling of the exceptionally normal lives of her protagonists, through the telling of the joys and tragedies of the daily lives of the March sisters, Alcott creates a character like Jo who can defy any gender bias and embody the feminist...
Jane Austen tells the story of Emma Woodhouse, a beautiful, wealthy and intelligent woman who is vain and self-centered; she is not interested in romantic love and therefore believes that she should not marry, although the customs of the society of the time see marriage...
Lady Susan Vernon, a beautiful and charming recent widow, visits her brother and sister-in-law, Charles and Catherine, with little advance notice at Churchill, their country residence. Catherine is far from pleased, asLady Susan had tried to prevent her marriage to...
Sir Thomas Bertram is the owner of the luxurious Mansfield Park estate, where he lives with his wife Maria and four children. Lady Bertram's sister Frances, on the other hand, is in more dire straits, so much so that she is forced to ask for help from the Bertrams...
Catherine Morland, the novel's protagonist, is invited to spend a few days at the former Northanger Abbey, the home of the family of the young Anglican pastor to whom she is engaged and who believes her to be a wealthy heiress. Impressed by the place and even more so by...
Jane Austen is one of the few truly great writers who have managed to break into the hearts and minds of all readers, without exception. Among her many masterpieces, “Pride and Prejudice” is surely the most popular and beloved: the five daughters of the unforgettable...
Anne Elliot, the novel's protagonist, made a mistake: as a very young girl, barely nineteen, she allowed herself to be persuaded by the opposition of her father, Sir Walter, and the “persuasion” of Lady Russell to break off her engagement to the very young but poor...
Dead Souls tells of the adventures of a small landowner who wanders the Russian province in search of serfs. In order to get rich from land in the governorate, he in fact needs to have a certain number of peasants, which is why he devises the dead souls trick. Leaving...
In the Russian province, Count Fyodor Turbin, a guard officer, arrives by chance and in the few days he remains in town he rescues another officer who lost at gambling, borrows money from a local but does not return it, and seduces a beautiful young widow. Twenty years...
An officer in the 14th artillery brigade, Tolstoy participated in many actions of the ill-fated Battle of Sevastopol (1854-55), with its appalling waste of men and means, and its tragic conclusion that laid bare the weakness of the Russian monarchy. Wishing to see at...
War and Peace is Tolstoy's best-known work and one of the most widely read and beloved in universal literature. These unforgettable pages tell the story of two families of the Russian aristocracy against the backdrop of patriarchal and peasant Russia devastated by wars...
Tolstoy composes the theme of love and marriage, which then also troubled him in his private life, with a narrative in which the protagonist's bitter voice becomes sharp dramatic representation. Far from being a tragedy of jealousy, The Kreutzer Sonata is the drama of...
Prince Muishkin, the last heir of a noble fallen family, is a man who searches in the depths of his conscience for the essential motives of his way of being, moved by candid faith in human brotherhood and the purpose of doing his duty with honesty and sincerity....
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