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"A modest proposal" or “A modest proposal for preventing the children of poor people from being a burthen to their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the public” is a satire (or a satirical essay) written by Jonathan Swift in 1729. In this essay,...
"The portrait of Mr W.H." is a short story written by Oscar Wilde and published in Blackwood’s magazine in 1891. The story is the attempt by Oscar Wilde to uncover the identity of W.H., the mysterious individual to whom Shakespeare dedicates his Sonnets. Is Wilde’s The...
“The Canterville Ghost” is a short story written by Oscar Wilde and first published in 1887 in“The court and society review”. It is, together with Lord Arthur Savile’s crime, one of Wilde’s most famous short stories. An American family decides to move into an English...
John Buchan’s "Greenmantle" is a 1916 adventure and espionage novel. In this second book of the Richard Hannay series (following The Thirty-Nine steps), Hannay is called to the Foreign Office by Sir Walter Bullivant at the beginning of the story. His mission: thwart...
"The Power-House" is a spy novel written by John Buchan in 1913. It is set in London, and tells the story of a lawyer and MP who discovers an incredible plot aimed at destroying the foundations of Western democracies through an anarchist organisation called The...
« Amphitryon » est une tragi-comédie de Plaute datée de 187 av. J.-C. Elle évoque le mythe de Jupiter se faisant passer pour Amphitryon, le mari d’Alcmène, afin d’obtenir les faveurs d’Alcmène.
Robert Louis Stevenson’s "Strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" is a short novel or a novella set in London and published in 1886. Supposedly written in one night, then burnt and rewritten, it is central to Stevenson’s works. In this “gothic”, Poe-esque tale of dual...
Oscar Wilde’s "Lord Arthur Savile’s crime" was originally published in 1891 as a collection of short stories. A fun crime story, when the criminal tries to beat his future by embracing it in his own way, with a marvellous twist at the end, it is one of the best...
John Buchan’s "The Thirty-Nine steps" is a 1915 spy novel set in London and Scotland, during the few weeks preceding the outbreak of World War One. Made famous by Alfred Hitchcock’s 1935 cinematographic adaptation, "The Thirty-Nine steps" is Buchan’s most famous...
Jonathan Swift’s "Directions to servants" is an entertaining satire of relationships between servants and masters in the Eighteenth century. It is a late work in Swift’s life. Not the most well-known, less dark than earlier satires and pamphlets, "Directions to...
William Shakespeare’s "Sonnets" are the most beautiful example of love poetry ever written. With their uplifting spirit, coherence, intensity and dealing with the passing of age, of time, the evanescence of beauty offset by the permanence of true feelings, the...
"The Notting Hill mystery" is a detective novel written by Charles Warren Adams under the pseudonym of Charles Felix in 1863. Having enjoyed some critical success at the time of its publication, it was totally forgotten and then rediscovered in 2012, when the identity...
“Can we disarm?” is a 1899 political essay by Joseph McCabe and Georges Darien. In this little-known visionary essay, the English religious philosopher and the French anarchist libertarian offer the reader a fascinating insight into the logic of European States. They...
"In Russian and French prisons is a 1887 essay by Piotr Kropotkin. It is more than a crude and detailed description of the Russian prison system and its comparison to Western European jails. It is also a very personal document by the famous Anarchist Prince, a...
Ben Jonson’s "Volpone" is a fine example of Elizabethan theatre and one of the greatest satirical comedies ever written. In this 1606 tale of greed, lust and utter cowardice,Ben Jonson explores the travails of the human soul. He also created some of the most...
The "Magna Carta" is one of the most famous constitutional documents in the world. To the Americans, it has a sacrosanct bearing and it is seen as a major source of inspiration for the US Constitution. To the British, it is a 1215 charter which twenty-five feisty...
Avant la Spirale, le poète jouit sans contrainte des mots sur une voie surréaliste, puis sa jubilation se heurte à un angle, une perte de sens, qu'il esquive en prenant le chemin de la description qui le conduira dans la nature sauvage. Là, au milieu de ses rêveries...
Voyages d’Ibn Battûta est le récit des voyages que fit Ibn Battûta, originaire de Tanger, dans les pays musulmans et jusqu’en Chine entre 1325 et 1354.L’intérêt de ce récit réside dans la connaissance qu’apporte l’auteur sur la vie dans les pays musulmans au Moyen Âge.
« Hippolyte porte-couronne » est une tragédie de l’auteur grec Euripide datant de 428 av. J.-C.Elle raconte la vengeance de la déesse de l’amour, Aphrodite, contre Hippolyte qui ne s’intéresse qu’à la chasse en vénérant Artémis et en ignorant Aphrodite.
« Les Histoires » ou« L’enquête » est le seul livre connu d’Hérodote. Il fut écrit au 5e siècle av. J.-C.Hérodote y décrit dans ce premier tome l’expansion de l’Empire perse à l’époque de Cyrus, Cambyse et Darius puis dans le deuxième tome les deux guerres médiques qui...
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