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“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...
"The Alchemist" is a comedy written by Ben Jonson and performed in 1610 by the King’s men. Created four years after Volpone, The Alchemist is widely considered to be Ben Jonson’s best comedy. Following an outbreak of plague in London, a gentleman’s house falls into the...
"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...
“Frankenstein” is a novel written by Mary Shelley, published in 1818 by a small London publishing house, Lackington, Hughes, Harding. Mary Shelley was nineteen when she wrote the novel, following “late in the night” literary games with her lover and future husband...
"The Man in the Moone" is a novel by Francis Godwin probably written in the 1620s and published for the first time under the pseudonym of Domingo Gonsales after his death in 1638. The Man in the Moone can be considered as one of the major works of the late English...
"The Tempest" is a play written by William Shakespeare in 1610 or 1611, believed to be the last play of the Bard. To us, it might be his best: the most astonishing alchemy of tragedy and comedy, of morals and magic, and a treasure cove of some of the most memorable...
"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...
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...
“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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
« 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...
« Germinal » est un roman d’Émile Zola paru en 1885 dans la série des Rougon Macquart. Zola y décrit de façon romancée la vie des mineurs de charbon du Nord et s’inspire de la grande grève qui fut organisée dans les mines de la Compagnie d’Anzin au début de 1884.
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