Paradise Regained recalls the earlier and more famous epic poem Paradise Lost by its title, its use of blank verse, and its progression through Christian history. However, this work deals primarily with...
Sternstunden der Menschheit ist eine Sammlung von zuletzt 14 historischen Miniaturen, verfasst von Stefan Zweig, die von historischen Begebenheiten erzahlen, deren Auswirkungen die Geschichte der Menschheit...
Lord Jim tells the story of young British seaman Jim who once showed a lack of determination and now is trying to come to turns with himself and his past. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked this novel...
Hearts of Three - an adventure novel about young descendant of the pirate Henry Morgan who wants to find the treasure of his ancestor. On the way, he meets his distant cousin, also Henry Morgan. Together,...
The Jungle Book (1894) is a collection of fables using animals in an anthropomorphic manner to give moral lessons. The verses of "The Law of the Jungle", for example, lay down rules for the safety of individuals,...
Tender is the Night (1934), tells the story of the rise and fall of Dick Diver, a promising young psychoanalyst, and his wife, Nicole, who is also one of his patients. The early 1930s, when Fitzgerald...
Notre-Dame de Paris, un roman historique, publie en 1831. Le titre fait reference a la cathedrale de Paris, Notre-Dame, qui est un des lieux principaux de l'intrigue du roman. Le roman historique tel que...
Le tour de force de La Fontaine est de donner par son travail une haute valeur a un genre qui jusque la n'avait aucune dignite litteraire et n'etait reserve qu'aux exercices scolaires de rhetorique et...
Leaves of grass - a poetry collection, with poems loosely connected. With one exception, the poems do not rhyme or follow standard rules for meter and line length. This book is notable for its discussion...
Das Schloss ist neben Der Verschollene (auch bekanrtt unter Amerika) und Der Process einer der drei unvollendeten Romane von Franz Kafka. Das 1922 entstandene Werk wurde 1926 von Max Brod postum veroffentlicht....
Soon after its publication Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928) became notorious for its story of the physical (and emotional) relationship between a working class man and an upper class woman, its explicit...
Un amour de Swann est la deuxieme partie du roman Du cote de chez Swann, le premier tome d'A la recherche du temps perdu. Se detachant de la narration a la premiere personne et de lintrigue principale...
Father Brown is a fictional Roman Catholic priest and detective created by Chesterton in the early 20th century. Unlike the better-known fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, Father Brown's methods tend...
Gobseck (1830), fait partie des Scenes de la vie privee de La Comedie humaine. La scene debute dans le salon de Madame de Grandlieu, en conversation avec un ami de la famille, l'avoue Maitre Derville....
Penguin Island (1908) is a satirical fictional history, beginning with Christian missionary monk landing on the island. Mostly blind and deaf monk have mistaken auks for humans and baptized them. The God,...
Don Quixote fully titled The history of the valorous and wittie Knight-Errant Don-Quixote of the Mancha. It has been translated, into more than 60 languages. The story follows the adventures of an hidalgo...
Although the two parts are now published as a single work, Don Quixote, Part Two was a sequel published ten years after the original novel. While Part One was mostly farcical, the second half is more serious...
Le tour de force de La Fontaine est de donner par son travail une haute valeur a un genre qui jusque la n'avait aucune dignite litteraire et n'etait reserve qu'aux exercices scolaires de rhetorique et...
Une vie ou L'Humble Verite est le premier roman de Guy de Maupassant, paru d abord en feuilleton en 1883 dans le Gil Bias, puis en livre, la meme annee, sous le titre L'Humble Verite. Le roman decrit la...
L'Аvare ou l'Ecole du mensonge une comedie en cinq actes et en prose. Il s'agit d'une comedie de caractere dont le personnage principal, Harpagon, est caracterise par son avarice caricaturale. Harpagon...
"Le Barbier de Seville ou la Precaution inutile" est une piece de theatre francaise en quatre actes, jouee pour la premiere fois le 23 fevrier 1775. C'est la premiere partie d'une trilogie intitulee "Le...
Terre des hommes, roman publie en 1939 qui obtient le Grand prix du roman de lAcademie francaise. Les evenements racontes alimentent des reflexions sur un certain nombre de themes: lamitie, la mort, lheroTsme,...
Also sprach Zarathustra (1883-1885) ist ein dichterisch-philosophisches Werk. Nietzsche schuf keine systematische Philosophie. Oft wahlte er den Aphorismus als Ausdrucksform seiner Gedanken. Seine Prosa,...
Brief einer Unbekannten (1922) - eine kurze Novelle in Briefform. Die Rahmenhandlung beginnt damit, dass ein Schriftsteller nach einem Bergurlaub in seine Heimatstadt Wien zuruckkehrt. In seiner Post findet...
Macbeth was written between 1606 and 1607. It is one of the most famous tragedies of Shakespeare. It is based on story of one of the Kings of Scotland and dramatizes the damaging physical and psychological...
Ulysses, first published in February 1922, is considered to be one of the most important works of modernist literature, and has been called "a demonstration and summation of the entire modernist movem...
"The Shadow Line - a short novel based at sea - was first published in 1916. It depicts the development of a young man upon taking a captaincy in the Orient, with the shadow line of the title representing...
"The Scarlet Letter: A Romance" is considered to be Hawthorne's "masterwork". Set in 17th-century Puritan Boston, it tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter through an affair and struggles...
"The Moonstone" is an epistolary novel, generally considered the first full length detective novel in the English language. Besides creating many of the ground rules of the detective novel, The Moonstone...
The plot of the novel The Lost World (1912) describes an expedition to a plateau in the Amazon basin where prehistoric animals still survive, led by a charismatic leading character Professor Challenger....
Following the tradition of modernist novelists, the plot of "To the Lighthouse" (1927) is secondary to its philosophical introspection - the novel includes little dialogue and almost no action; most of...
This Side of Paradise (1920) is F. Scott Fitzgerald's debut novel. The book examines the lives and morality of post-World War I youth. Its protagonist, Amory Blaine, is an attractive Princeton University...
Although Wuthering Heights is now regarded as a classic of English literature, contemporary opinions were deeply polarized; the novel was considered controversial because of its naturalistic depiction...
The Great Gatsby (1925) follows a cast of characters living in the fictional town of West Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922. The story primarily concerns the young and mysterious millionaire...
Sense and Sensibility was first published anonymously in 1811. The novel tells the story of two sisters, Elinor and Marianne, both of age to marry, following their life in a country cottage, where they...
This collection of eight short stories written during his "Klondike" period, has become a trademark of London's work. The title story Love of Life follows the trek of a prospector across the Canadian tundra....
The story of Kim (1901) unfolds against the backdrop of the political conflict between Russia and Britain in Central Asia known as The Great Came. The novel is notable for its detailed portrait of the...
Sister Carrie (1900) tells the story of a young country girl who moves to the big city where she starts realizing her own American Dream, first as a kept woman, and later becoming a famous actress. Sister...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, first published in 1892, is a collection of twelve short stories, featuring a fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, related in first-person narrative from the point of...
