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"Moby Dick" by Herman Melville is a literary masterpiece that follows the obsessive quest of Captain Ahab to hunt down the great white whale, Moby Dick. Set in the 19th century, the novel explores themes of obsession, revenge, and the human struggle ...

Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" follows the lives of the Bennet sisters in 19th-century England, primarily focusing on Elizabeth Bennet. The story revolves around themes of social class, marriage, and the consequences of pride and prejudice. Thro ...

Caché dans les ruelles de Kyoto se trouve le petit restaurant des Kamogawa d’où s’élèvent d’exquises odeurs de riz cuit, de nabe et de légumes sautés. En plus de savoureux repas faits maison, Nagare et sa fille Koishi proposent une expérience qui sor ...

"Like Whitehead’s The Intuitionist, Alyssa Cole’s When No One Is Watching or Zakiya Dalila Harris’ The Other Black Girl, Reprieve straddles genres in the best possible way. . . . Sure to spark conversation and debate at book clubs across the land." – ...

“Dazzling and audacious. . . Nothing short of astounding.” —Philadelphia InquirerThe critically acclaimed debut novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Overstory and the forthcoming Bewilderment.“A writer of blistering intellect . . . [Po ...

“True Detective meets Swamp Thing in the Artemis Fowl author’s neo-noirish thriller about a curmudgeonly dragon in Louisiana.” —GuardianFrom the New York Times bestselling author of the Artemis Fowl series comes a hilarious and&nb ...

The Scarlet Letter: A Romance is a work of historical fiction by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne, published in 1850. Set in the Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony during the years 1642 to 1649, the novel tells the story of Hester Prynne, who concei ...

Orphaned as a baby, human-boy Mowgli is adopted by wolves, befriended by Baloo the bear, and educated in the wonders and dangers of the Indian jungle. But the adventures of The Jungle Book don't end with the young man-cub and his unusual new family. ...

Mark Twain’s tale of a boy’s picaresque journey down the Mississippi on a raft conveyed the voice and experience of the American frontier as no other work has done before. When Huck escapes from his drunken father and the ‘sivilizing’ Widow Douglas w ...

Cet ouvrage est d'abord l'histoire d'une découverte : au cours de ses recherches pour son roman Les Services compétents - dans lequel il raconte l'arrestation en 1965 de son père Andreï Siniavski, dissident soviétique -, Iegor Gran met la main sur un ...