Gustave: 1189 books

Book cover of La Princesse des airs
by GUSTAVE GUITTON
Language: French
Release Date: January 20, 2014

À Saint-Cloud, dans son vaste cabinet de travail, dont les quatre fenêtres donnaient sur le parc, et qu’encombrait un pêle-mêle d’appareils électro-thérapiques, de flacons et de livres, le célèbre docteur Rabican était, depuis plus d’une heure, en grande conférence avec un de ses anciens...
Book cover of le mangeur de poudre
by Gustave Aimard – Jules-B. d’Auriac
Language: French
Release Date: September 17, 2015

Les événements dont le récit va suivre se sont passés à l’époque où eut lieu la première grande émigration pour l’Ouest : d’innombrables aventuriers sillonnaient alors les fleuves, les forêts et les vallées de l’Ohio ;...
Book cover of Les Pirates des Prairies
by Gustave Aimard
Language: French
Release Date: May 11, 2019

Extrait : Lorsque la cache est assez profonde, on en garnit les parois avec des peaux de bison, de crainte de l'humidité, et l'on dépose les marchandises en les recouvrant de peaux de bison ; ensuite on remet la terre, que l'on tasse avec soin ; on replace dessus le gazon, en ayant soin de l'arroser...
Book cover of A Simple Soul
by Gustave Flaubert
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015

Book cover of A Simple Soul
by Gustave Flaubert
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015

"A Simple Heart", also called Un cour simple or Le perroquet in French, is a story about a servant girl named Felicité. After her one and only love Théodore purportedly marries a well-to-do woman to avoid conscription, Felicité quits the farm she works on and heads for Pont-l'Éveque...
Book cover of Sentimental Education
by Gustave Flaubert
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014

Based on Flaubert's own youthful passion for an older woman, Sentimental Education was described by its author as "the moral history of the men of my generation." It follows the amorous adventures of Frederic Moreau, a law student who, returning home to Normandy from Paris, notices Mme Arnoux, a slender,...
Book cover of Over Strand And Field (Mobi Classics)
by Gustave Flaubert
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010

We walked through the empty galleries and deserted rooms where spiders spin their cobwebs over the salamanders of Francis the First. One is overcome by a feeling of distress at the sight of this poverty which has no grandeur. It is not absolute ruin, with the luxury of blackened and mouldy débris, the...
Book cover of La tentation de Saint Antoine
by Gustave Flaubert
Language: French
Release Date: March 6, 2015

BnF collection ebooks - "C'est dans la Thébaïde, au haut d'une montagne, sur une plate-forme arrondie en demi-lune, et qu'enferment de grosses pierres. La cabane de l'Ermite occupe le fond. Elle est faite de boue et de roseaux, à toit plat, sans porte. On distingue dans l'intérieur une cruche...
Book cover of Un Coeur Simple
by Gustave Flaubert
Language: French
Release Date: June 20, 2017

Un coeur simple met en scène la vie d'une femme simple, Félicité. C'est la dernière oeuvre de Flaubert, et il semble qu'il y ait mis beaucoup de ses souvenirs personnels en s'inspirant de personnages de son enfance. La technique de narration de Flaubert isole certains évènements de la vie du personnage et les enchaîne l'un après l'autre, comme s'ils étaient proches dans le temps.
Book cover of Les Pieds Fourchus
by Gustave Aimard
Language: French
Release Date: June 29, 2015

Un nouveau récit du «grand maître» français du roman de l'Ouest.
Book cover of The Rebel Chief: A Tale of Guerilla Life
by Gustave Aimard
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015

No country in the world offers to the delighted traveller more charming landscapes than Mexico; among them all, that of Las Cumbres or the peak, is, without fear of contradiction, one of the most striking and most agreeably diversified. Las Cumbres form a succession of defiles in the mountains, through...
Book cover of The Missouri Outlaws
by Gustave Aimard
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015

On the 4th of August, 1801, a little after eight o'clock at night, just as the last rays of the setting sun disappeared behind the heights of Dorchester, gilding as they did so the summits of certain islands scattered at the entrance to Boston Bay, some idlers of both sexes, collected on Beacon Hill,...
Book cover of The Trapper's Daughter: A Story of the Rocky Mountains
by Gustave Aimard
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015

In the present volume another series of Indian adventures is concluded, and the further career of the hero is described in the series beginning with the "Tiger-slayer." It must be understood, however, that the stories are not arbitrarily connected—each is complete in itself; but those...
Book cover of The Tiger-Slayer: A Tale of the Indian Desert
by Gustave Aimard
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015

From the earliest days of the discovery of America, its distant shores became the refuge and rendezvous of adventurers of every description, whose daring genius, stifled by the trammels of the old European civilisation, sought fresh scope for action. Some asked from the New World liberty of conscience—the...
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