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Cover of The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves
by Tobias Smollett
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017

The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves, a novel by Tobias Smollett, was published in 1760 in the monthly paper The British Magazine. Its first number, published in January, 1760, contained the first installment of Smollett’s fourth novel. The novel, Smollett's shortest, differs stylistically...
Cover of Shadows in the Moonlight
by Robert E. Howard
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2019

"Shadows in the Moonlight" 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 April 1934. Howard originally named his story "Iron Shadows in...
Cover of Il Castello
by Franz Kafka
Language: Italian
Release Date: August 30, 2017

Il castello (titolo originale tedesco: Das Schloß) di Franz Kafka (1883 – 1924), scritto intorno al 1922 e pubblicato postumo nel 1926, è l'ultimo dei tre romanzi dello scrittore praghese. Rimasto incompiuto, Il castello, spesso oscuro e a volte surreale, è centrato sui temi della burocrazia,...
Cover of Umiliati e Offesi
by Fëdor Dostoevskij
Language: Italian
Release Date: August 15, 2017

Umiliati e offesi (in russo: Униженные и оскорбленные, Unižennye i oskorblënnye) è un romanzo di Fëdor Dostoevskij, che descrive la decadenza della nobiltà russa di fine Ottocento utilizzando la struttura del romanzo d'appendice. Caratterizzato da un aspro realismo,...
Cover of I Demoni
by Fëdor Dostoevskij
Language: Italian
Release Date: August 15, 2017

I demoni (in russo: Бесы, Besy) è un romanzo di Fëdor Dostoevskij pubblicato in volume per la prima volta nel 1873. La traduzione del titolo originale ha subito variazioni a seconda della casa editrice: mentre il titolo più usato è appunto quello de I dèmoni (plurale di "demone")[senza fonte],...
Cover of Mrs Craddock
by William Somerset Maugham
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017

Set in the final years of the 19th century, Mrs Craddock is about a young and attractive woman of independent means who marries beneath her. As he had written about a subject that was considered daring at the time, Maugham had some difficulty finding a publisher. Completed in 1900, the novel was...
Cover of Le Gai Savoir
by Friedrich Nietzsche
Language: French
Release Date: August 15, 2017

Le Gai Savoir est un ouvrage de Friedrich Nietzsche, publié en 1882, sous le titre original Die fröhliche Wissenschaft, la gaya scienza. Le titre fait référence aux troubadours, l'expression Gai Saber de laquelle dérive la gaya scienza étant une façon de dénommer en occitan l'art...
Cover of Le Temps Retrouvé
by Marcel Proust
Language: French
Release Date: September 28, 2017

Le Temps retrouvé : Le début de ce dernier volet se passe encore à Tansonville. Le narrateur, qui voudrait devenir écrivain depuis qu’il est enfant, lit un passage du Journal des Goncourt avant de s’endormir, et cela l’amène à croire qu’il n’est pas capable d’écrire. Il décide...
Cover of Padri e Figli
by Ivan Turgenev
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 18, 2017

Padri e figli è un romanzo dello scrittore russo Ivan Sergeevič Turgenev. Fu pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1862 sulla rivista Il messaggero russo. È probabilmente l'opera più famosa e importante di Turgenev. In essa si affronta la tematica del nichilismo, nella sua accezione...
Cover of Ruf der Wildnis
by Jack London
Language: German
Release Date: August 26, 2017

Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts lebt der Hund Buck im Süden der USA. Eines Tages wird er von dem Gärtner seines Besitzers aufgrund von Spielschulden entführt und als Schlittenhund nach Alaska verschleppt. Im Verlauf der Geschichte erreicht ihn mehr und mehr der „Ruf der Wildnis“. Nach vielen Abenteuern...
Cover of Eugène Onéguine
by Alexandre Pouchkine
Language: French
Release Date: August 25, 2017

Eugène Onéguine a été composé sur une petite dizaine d'années, de 1823 à 1831. L'œuvre paraît d'abord par chapitre à partir de février 1825 jusqu'en janvier 1832. La seconde parution complète des huit chapitres a lieu en mars 1833, puis une troisième édition en janvier 1837, un mois...
Cover of Dr. Nikola's Experiment
by Guy Boothby
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2019

This fourth novel of Boothby's Dr. Nikola series reveals that Nikola has discovered all of the facts necessary to extend a human being's life. He has studied science and magic secrets of Tibetan monks. He explains: "It has been a long and tedious search, but such labour only makes success the...
Cover of Carmen
by Prosper Mérimée
Language: French
Release Date: May 29, 2019

Carmen est une nouvelle de Prosper Mérimée écrite en 1845 et publiée en 1847, dont a été tiré l’opéra homonyme, musique de Georges Bizet, livret de Henri Meilhac et Ludovic Halévy (1875). Carmen traite du sujet de l'amour tragique et de la jalousie amoureuse. La nouvelle met principalement...
Cover of Cabalas y Amor
by Friedrich Schiller
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 10, 2017

Friedrich Von Schiller escribió este drama en 1784. Al leer acerca de las penas de amor de Luisa Miller, la incertidumbre de su padre acerca de lo que se supone es su deber y los equívocos a los que induce el malvado Wurm, los lectores melómanos  reconocerán el argumento: no es extraño, ya que...
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