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Je présente Bellita : Le pape est décédé. L’occasion, pour Bellita de visiter Gilbertin, le spécialiste des cultes, et le séduire. Visite chez le Prince : Lors de l’annonce au prince de Saxe-Altdorf du fait que Siegfried est limousin, le prince présente sa revanche : trois descendants de...

Trois courts récits d’importance majeure dans son œuvre et pourtant méconnus sont rassemblés dans ce volume : “Madame Dargent” (1922), “Une nuit” (1928) et “Dialogue d’ombres” (1928), où l’auteur de Sous le soleil de Satan se révèle plus que jamais obsédé par la mort, cette...

Ces premiers écrits sont ceux d’un Bernanos royaliste militant. (Il rompra une première fois avec l’Action française à la fin de la guerre en 1918 puis définitivement en 1932, horrifié par la répression franquiste en Espagne, pays qu’il quittera pour le Brésil après que sa tête ait...

A short story of a little girl who is a servant and how she won the heart of an unbelieving gardener. One of Grace’s earliest books was “A Little Servant”, published in 1890 while she was still unmarried.

Princess Sophia Dorothea of Celle is forced, for political reasons, into marriage with Prince George Louis of Hanover, afterwards George I of England, but has a lover: Prince Christopher, Count Königsmark. A story of high drama, passion, action and tragedy develops, finally resulting in the death of Königsmark.

It follows a Sapphire given to a Captain Michael Crowther by his Burmese wife who he is deserting. When he finally decides to return to them he finds them now out of his reach and so he becomes a Buddhist Monk. However, the Sapphire that now adorns a temple is stolen and so begins an adventure to...

A classic romance novel by A.E.W. Mason about a man who glimpses a beautiful woman, then later helps her with the various troubles caused by her unscrupulous husband.

Cynthia Daventry, the heroine of the story, grows up in Argentina as the adopted daughter of Robert and Jane Daventry, an English couple. Unable to have children themselves, they had adopted Cynthia at the age of three from a foundling hospital where she had been left by her dissolute father, James...

Mensagem é um livro do poeta português Fernando Pessoa. Composto por 44 poemas, foi chamado pelo poeta de "livro pequeno de poemas". Publicado em 1934 pela Parceria António Maria Pereira, o livro foi contemplado no mesmo ano com o Prémio Antero de Quental, na categoria de «poema ou...

Have made up my mind. Having put my hand to the plough, it isn’t in me to back out of a duty when duty and one’s own wishes sail amicably in the same canoe. I am going to give myself up to the good of mankind and the dissemination of great moral ideas. Selected by the Society of Infinite Progress...

“At ten years of age I was the unconscious mistress of a heavy stone farm-house and extensive lands in the interior of Pennsylvania, with railroad-bonds and bank-stock enough to secure me a moderate independence. I shall never, never forget the loneliness of that old house the day my mother was...

A “big-city melodrama” which tells the story of Ada Wilcox Leicester, an innocent country girl who allows herself to be seduced and corrupted by her aspirations for material wealth. Ada later redeems herself by transforming her grand house into a home for destitute gentlewomen.

La pequeña y rocosa isla de Mompracem, hogar de las primeras aventuras de Sandokán se abandonó temporalmente por un viaje a la India. Sin embargo, Sandokan está más decidido que nunca de arrebatar de las manos del sultán de Mompracem Varauni, al que los británicos le dio el control de la isla.

En Los piratas de la Malasia, también conocida como Sandokán, el tigre de la Malasia, el príncipe Sarawak ve como su reino es invadido por el cuerpo expedicionario de Lord Brooke, procedente de Bombay. Los británicos, entregados a todo tipo de excesos, no pueden evitar que se escape la princesa...