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En este relato, el narrador anónimo describe en primera persona un trastorno que le aqueja, caracterizado por «ataques de una afección singular que los médicos coinciden en denominar catalepsia». Esta enfermedad lo lleva con frecuencia a pérdidas de conciencia muy similares a la muerte,...

"The Shot" is a short story by Aleksandr Pushkin published in 1831. It is the first of five tales in Pushkin’s The Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin, a cycle of five short stories. The Shot details events at a military outpost in a Russian province, and then several years later,...

Le Joueur d’échecs, ou parfois Nouvelle du jeu d’échecs (en allemand Schachnovelle), est une nouvelle de Stefan Zweig, publiée à titre posthume en 1943. L'auteur l'écrivit durant les derniers mois de sa vie, de septembre 1941 jusqu'à son suicide, le 22 février 1942. La traduction française...

Nietzsche écrit Ecce Homo à l’automne 1888, au crépuscule de son existence lucide (la folie l’emportera en janvier 1889). Il a alors à son actif de nombreux ouvrages critiques et novateurs, qui sont les fruits d'une décennie de travail. Parmi les plus célèbres, Le Gai Savoir, Ainsi...

"Rogues in the House" is one of the original short stories starring the fictional sword and sorcery hero Conan the Cimmerian, written by American author Robert E. Howard and first published in Weird Tales magazine in January 1934. It's set in the pseudo-historical Hyborian Age, and concerns...

"The Slithering Shadow" is one of the original short stories starring the fictional sword and sorcery hero Conan the Cimmerian, written by American author Robert E. Howard and first published in the September 1933 issue of Weird Tales magazine. "The Slithering Shadow" is the original...

Chambers' early novel explores the mysteries of the unknown. "Very genuine, though not without the typical mannered extravagance of the eighteen-nineties, is the strain of horror in the early work of Robert W. Chambers . . . One cannot help regretting that he did not further develop a vein in which he could so easily have become a recognised master." -- H.P. Lovecraft.

"Up in the Gallery" ("Auf der Galerie") is a short piece of fiction written by Franz Kafka. It was created between November 1916 and February 1917 and published in the collection Ein Landarzt (A Country Doctor) in 1919. The story offers two versions of a scene in which a young man watches a circus ringmaster and a woman on horseback.

"Before the Law" (German: "Vor dem Gesetz") is a parable contained in the novel The Trial (German: Der Prozess), by Franz Kafka. "Before the Law" was published in Kafka's lifetime, first in the 1915 New Year's edition of the independent Jewish weekly Selbstwehr,...

Far under the sea-floor Solino's submarine carries two American soldiers of fortune to startling adventure among the Vampire Heads of Apex.

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not...

An anonymous narrator unites the ten disparate "Sketches", each of which begin with a few lines of poetry, mostly taken from Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene. All of the stories are replete with symbolism reinforcing the cruelty of life on the Encantadas. "Sketch First" is...

Cavor, un scientifique, met au point la cavorite, un métal révolutionnaire qui crée l'apesanteur, avec lequel il construit un astronef. Accompagné par Bedford, un jeune aventurier voulant faire fortune, il se dirige vers la Lune où ils découvrent la civilisation souterraine des Sélénites.

I figli del capitano Grant (in francese Les Enfants du capitaine Grant: voyage autour du monde) è un romanzo di avventura pubblicato nel 1867 dallo scrittore francese Jules Verne e costituisce il primo capitolo di una trilogia che prosegue con Ventimila leghe sotto i marie si conclude...