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The short story takes place in a land ruled by a semi-barbaric king. Some of the king's ideas are progressive, but others cause people to suffer. One of the king's innovations is the use of a public trial by ordeal as an agent of poetic justice, with guilt or innocence decided by the result of chance....

The Reverberator is a short novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in Macmillan's Magazine in 1888 and then as a book later the same year. Described by the leading web authority on Henry James as "a delightful Parisian bonbon," the comedy traces the complications that result when...

All Roads Lead to Calvary is a 1919 novel by the British writer Jerome K. Jerome. It was one of the last works written by Jerome, better known for his Three Men in a Boat, and shows the influence of the First World War on him. It is a Bildungsroman in which a Cambridge University educated...

Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy (1844) is a treatise on political economics by John Stuart Mill. Walras' law, a principle in general equilibrium theory named in honour of Léon Walras, was first expressed by Mill in this treatise.

The Piazza Tales is a collection of six short stories by American writer Herman Melville, published by Dix & Edwards in the United States in May 1856 and in Britain in June. Except for the newly written title story, "The Piazza," all of the stories had appeared in Putnam's Monthly in...

Yvain, the Knight of the Lion (French: Yvain ou le Chevalier au Lion) is an Arthurian romance by French poet Chrétien de Troyes. It was written c. 1180 simultaneously with Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart, and includes several references to the narrative of that poem. It is a story of knight-errantry,...

Cligès is a poem by the medieval French poet Chrétien de Troyes, dating from around 1176. It is the second of his five Arthurian romances; Erec and Enide, Cligès, Yvain, Lancelot and Perceval. The poem tells the story of the knight Cligès and his love for his uncle's wife, Fenice.

Le Bourgeois gentilhomme est une comédie-ballet de Molière, en trois puis cinq actes (comportant respectivement 2, 5, 16, 5 et 6 scènes) en prose (sauf les entrées de ballet qui sont en vers), représentée pour la première fois le 14 octobre 1670, devant la cour de Louis XIV, au château...

Le Talon de fer décrit une révolution socialiste qui serait arrivée entre 1914 et 1918, et analysée par un observateur du xxive siècle. L’auteur relate le développement de la classe ouvrière nord-américaine et ses combats contre l'oligarchie capitaliste, à travers le point de...

L’Île du docteur Moreau (The Island of Dr. Moreau) est un roman de science-fiction écrit par H. G. Wells, publié en 1896. À travers une histoire racontée par un narrateur dépassé par les événements, le roman engage une réflexion sur des sujets comme la relation entre l'Homme et l'animal, et la question de l'identité.

L'Ami commun (titre original : Our Mutual Friend), quatorzième et dernier roman achevé de Charles Dickens, a été publié par Chapman & Hall en vingt feuilletons comptant pour dix-neuf en 1864 et 1865 avec des illustrations de Marcus Stone, puis en deux volumes en février et novembre...

The question "Does civilization civilize?" is a fine example of petitio principii, and decides itself in the affirmative; for civilization must needs do that from the doing of which it has its name. But it is not necessary to suppose that he who propounds is either unconscious of his lapse...

The plot follows a country doctor's hapless struggle to attend a sick young boy on a cold winter's night. A series of surreal events occur in the process, including the appearance of a mysterious groom (stablehand) in a pig shed. It begins with the doctor having to urgently attend a sick...

Early vampire short story with an interesting twist to the tradition.