Burning Daylight is a novel by Jack London, published in 1910, which was one of the best-selling books of that year and it was London's best-selling book in his lifetime. The novel takes place in the Yukon Territory in 1893. The main character,...
This novel takes place in the eponymous Cannery Row, a place made up of ’junk heaps, sardine canneries of corrugated iron, honky tonks, restaurants and whore houses, and little crowded groceries, and laboratories and flophouses’. Although there...
'Le Petit Chose' paraît en feuilleton en 1867. Daudet s'inspire des souvenirs d'une jeunesse douloureuse: humiliations à l'école, mépris pour le petit provencal, expérience de répétiteur au collège et enfin coup de foudre pour une belle...