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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 ...

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 ...

Mehdi Azzam a grandi à Vitry. Elevé durement par son père, il se réfugie dans le sport. Très vite repéré, il devient un bon joueur de foot. Appelé en équipe de France, sa cote flambe puis se tasse brusquement pendant son séjour en Angleterre. A l'étr ...

Au terme d’un repas, un banquier démontre à son convive que ses engagements en matière d’anarchisme n’ont rien à envier à ceux des poseurs de bombe. Il déploie ainsi les trésors d’une rhétorique insidieuse au service de sa personne et s’installe dans ...

"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 ...

À l’approche de Noël, Asle se rend à Bjørgvin, une ville côtière de Norvège, pour préparer sa prochaine exposition. L'avant-veille, il a retrouvé son homonyme – son sosie, son double – qui a échappé de peu à la mort. Sous la neige qui ne cesse de tom ...

Psyché, fille du roi Leïos, tente, depuis son plus jeune âge de cacher son immense beauté aux yeux d'Aphrodite. En effet, la déesse de l'amour, à la terrible jalousie, ne tolère aucune rivale. Pourtant, un jour, Psychée ne parvient plus à se dérober ...

The Call of the Wild is a short adventure novel by Jack London, published in 1903 and set in Yukon, Canada, during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush, when strong sled dogs were in high demand. The central character of the novel is a dog named Buck. The st ...

One of the most celebrated and important modernist novels in English, Mrs Dalloway (1925) is perhaps Virginia Woolf’s best novel. Originally titled ‘The Hours’, a title that Michael Cunningham would retrieve and use for his 1998 novel based on Mrs Da ...

Dealing with split personalities, Dr. Jekyll battles with himself to overcome the evil Mr. Hyde. An old friend of Dr. Jekyll's, a lawyer Gabriel John Utterson, investigates odd occurrences that are linked to Mr. Hyde. Dr. Jekyll is determined to stop ...