The Last Man is a post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by Mary Shelley, which was first published in 1826. The book tells of a future world that has been ravaged by a plague. The...
It was Christmas Eve. I begin this way because it is the proper, orthodox, respectable way to begin, and I have been brought up in a proper, orthodox, respectable way, and taught t...
The Trespasser is the second novel written by D. H. Lawrence, published in 1912. Originally it was entitled the Saga of Siegmund and drew upon the experiences of a friend of Lawren...
Le Village aérien est un roman fantastique et d'aventures de Jules Verne, paru en 1901. L'action se déroule dans la jungle africaine. De manière ludique, le roman est l'occasion de...
Persuasion is the last novel fully completed by Jane Austen. It was published at the end of 1817, six months after her death. The story concerns Anne Elliot, a young Englishwoman o...
While on a trip to East London in 1883, Jane Addams witnessed a distressing scene late one night: masses of poor people were bidding on rotten vegetables that were unsalable anywhe...
The Odyssey (/ˈɒdəsi/; Greek: Ὀδύσσεια Odýsseia, pronounced [o.dýs.sej.ja] in Classical Attic) is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is, in part, a s...
L'Île à hélice, sous-titré Les Milliardaires ridicules, est un roman de science-fiction de Jules Verne, paru en 1895. L'idée d'une île véhiculée est donnée à Jules Verne par Jean M...
Le Château des Carpathes est un roman gothique de Jules Verne, publié en 1892. Ce roman paraît 42 ans après L’Étranger des Carpathes de Karl Adolf von Wachsmann (1844) et 5 ans ava...