Récits fantastiques

Author	Charles Baudelaire
ISBN	0879234628

After reading Baudelaire, I suddenly find myself wanting to smoke cigarettes and say very cynical things while donning a trendy haircut. Plus, if I didn't read Baudelaire, how could I possibly carry on conversations with pretentious art students?

In all seriousness, though, I wish my French...

Author	Gerald Durrell
ISBN	0140043853

"Gollys, Mrs Durrells," he said, his face red with wrath. "Why don'ts yous lets Masters Leslies shoot the son of a bitch?"

In life, Gerald Durrell would light up a room. His books elicit that same warm feeling.
His affection for the natural world lives on in the minds of those of us, who...

Author	Sinclair Lewis
ISBN	0375753141

With Commentary by E. M. Forster, Dorothy Parker, H. L. Mencken, Lewis Mumford, Rebecca West, Sherwood Anderson, Malcolm Cowley, Alfred Kazin, Constance Rourke, and Mark Schorer.

Main Street, the story of an idealistic young woman's attempts to reform her small town, brought Lewis immediate...

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Daniel Pennac

First line: "You can't make someone read. Just as you can't make them fall in love or dream..." First U.S. edition of an eloquent defense of (among other things) the right to dip, skip and flip reading choices---available for many years in the UK, due out on this side of the Pond in November (but there are...

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Molière

Molière's classic tale of the Seducer of Seville, an uproariously funny story flawlessly translated by the Pulitzer Prize winning poet.

Don Juan, the "Seducer of Seville," originated as a hero-villain of Spanish folk legend, is a famous lover and scoundrel who has made more than a thousand...

Author	Joris-Karl Huysmans
ISBN	0140447636

With a title translated either as Against Nature or as Against The Grain, this wildly original fin-de-siècle novel follows its sole character, Des Esseintes, a decadent, ailing aristocrat who retreats to an isolated villa where he indulges his taste for luxury and excess. Veering between nervous...

Author	E.T.A. Hoffmann
ISBN	0140443924

This selection of Hoffmann's finest short stories vividly demonstrates his intense imagination and preoccupation with the supernatural, placing him at the forefront of both surrealism and the modern horror genre. Suspense dominates tales such as "Mademoiselle de Scudery", in which an apprentice...

Author	Guy de Maupassant
ISBN	2266159208

Paru en 1887 avec d'autres récits, Le Horla est incontestablement le plus original et le plus effrayant de tous les contes fantastiques de Maupassant. Pour l'écrire, l'auteur s'est documenté auprès du docteur Charcot, célèbre spécialiste des névroses et des hystéries. Mais surtout,...

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Pierre Corneille

Dans L'Illusion Comique, créée en 1636, Corneille met en scène Pridamant, un père à la recherche de son fils Clindor. Grâce au magicien Alcandre, Pridamant assiste à la représentation des aventures mouvementées de cet enfant prodigue… A chaque acte, on change de registre. Péripéties...

Author	Virginia Woolf
ISBN	0099518244

Edited by Joanne Trautmann Banks. With a preface by Hermione Lee.

The finest and most enjoyable of Virginia Woolf's letters are brought together in a single volume. It is a marvellous collection - spontaneous, witty, often flirtatious and powerfully moving. Whether bemoaning some domestic...

Author	George B. Perkins
ISBN	0070494215

THE AMERICAN TRADITION IN LITERATURE has introduced nearly two million students to the historic sweep of American Literature. Now,in its eighth edition,this leading anthology once again presents the best collection published. Published in 3 volumes - I,II,and the Shorter Edition (a single volume)...

Author	James Thurber
ISBN	0413144100

James Thurber reported the world as he saw it. But what a world! Only Thurber could picture a seal peering nearsightedly over a headboard or a former husband crouched atop the armoire. Titles in this selection, all vintage Thurber, hint at the range of his whimsy and include "Courtship Through the Ages,"...

Author	Gaston Leroux
ISBN	0486449289

The young lady had just retired to her room when sounds of a struggle ensue, and cries of "Murder!" and revolver shots ring out. When her locked door is finally broken down by her father and a servant, they find the woman on the floor, badly hurt and bleeding. No one else is in the room. There is no other exit...

Author	Alberto Angela
ISBN	8804613920

Questo è un libro di storia e d'amore. Ci fa immergere in un mondo lontano e affascinante, condotti dal filo della nostra curiosità. Cerca di rispondere alle domande più frequenti e insolite sull'amore e il sesso al tempo dei romani: come ci si baciava, cosa si dicevano gli innamorati guardandosi...

Author	Wolfgang Behringer
ISBN	3406418821

Der Glaube an Hexen ist weltweit verbreitet - auch heute noch. In beinahe allen Kulturen gab oder gibt es Menschen, die glauben, daß bestimmte Personen mit Hilfe magischer Kräfte Nutzen oder Schaden stiften können. Wolfgang Behringer, einer der führenden Experten zur Geschichte der Hexenverfolgung,...

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Alfonso Maria di Nola

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Author	Vanna De Angelis
ISBN	8838447128

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Björn Larsson

Ci sono libri che danno pura gioia, facendo vibrare dentro di noi tutte le corde del nostro amore per la lettura: il racconto trascinante unito a temi che ci toccano nel profondo, la suspense e l’avventura e un sottile gioco letterario che stimola la nostra complicità, una documentata ricostruzione...