Kipling was reported missing, believed killed, in his first battle on the Western Front. From this time he was constantly in pain from a gastric ulcer. He published some (censored) articles of war journalism in 1915, collected as The New Army in...
This moving tale of imprisonment and escape, persecution and loss, is narrated by the daughter of an alleged Harki, an Algerian soldier who fought for the French during the Algerian War for Independence. It was the fate of such men to be twice...
D'inspiration champêtre, 'François le Champi' est un roman où il n'est question que d'amour, écrit dans un style limpide et lumineux. Dans son livre, George Sand s'attache à reproduire le parler berrichon, et met en...
The world's most famous monster comes to life in this 1818 novel, a compelling narrative that combines Gothic romance and science fiction to tell of an ambitious young doctor's attempts to breathe life into an artificial man. Despite the doctor's...
The bestselling story of a king’s crusade to vanquish the Devil and to defeat the monster in each of us.
A visiting lecturer is lured to the remote, gothic mansion of an estranged professor and his only son, who is described as a monster. But...
Frederika Merivila ir ieradusies Londonā ar nolūku apprecināt savu neparasti skaisto māsu. Debitantes iziešana sabiedrībā ir ārkārtīgi dārgs pasākums – lai tiktu pie spīdošas partijas, nedrīkst žēlot ne zīdu, ne mežģīnes. Bet...