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The wooing and marriage of a beautiful singer and a successful dramatist, whose happiness is imperiled by a political secret of the husband’s.

Olivier Mainville, nouvellement engagé comme factotum chez l’écrivain Ganse, adresse à sa tante, en province, des impressions peu indulgentes sur le caractère de son hôte et de sa secrétaire Simone Alfieri. Un dialogue entre Olivier et Philippe, neveu de Ganse, permet de poursuivre le portrait...

A dark tale of adventure, piracy, murder, and revenge set on a rugged Cornish island in the mid-1700s. Told with the literary excellence, the tale begins with a dangerous youth who sat in the stocks, and a girl named Helen, and a gang of men watching a granite house at the edge of the sea.

Ana es ahora madre de cinco niños, y su familia es un hogar feliz y lleno de vida. Sin embargo, después de quince años de ser la mujer del doctor, un día se pregunta si su adorado Gilbert la sigue amando como antes. Pero ¿cómo ha podido dudarlo? Aunque ya es una mujer adulta, Ana sigue siendo, en el fondo, la misma pelirroja alegre e incorregible de las Tejas Verdes.

Captain Stephen Drake steps ashore in Plymouth and is immediately confronted by a reporter wanting his comments on an attack made on him by the editor of the Evening Meteor. Of course, the African expedition had been a disaster, but Drake was ready to take responsibility. He telegraphed a survivor...

When Marcia Schuyler’s beautiful and selfish older sister, Kate, abandons handsome David Spafford at the wedding altar, Marcia offers to take Kate’s place. Her offer is accepted, and Marcia finds herself married to a man she hardly knows. Though David shows Marcia every kindness, she is painfully...

A Farsa conta a história de Candidinha, um velha marginalizada pela sociedade, que decide, sob a farsa da submissão e da simpatia, promover a discórdia, o ódio e a maldade entre aqueles que a rodeiam. Publicada em 1903, “A Farsa” de Raul Brandão é, possivelmente, a sua obra que mais se aproxima...

Nesta obra, Raul Brandão constrói conversas extraordinárias com e sobre o palhaço. Cada personagem do texto representa algo na sociedade, conversando entre si e com o autor e, por entre diálogos, Raul Brandão descreve três estados pelos quais o Homem pode pautar a sua existência: o primeiro,...

I can not better put that extraordinary woman, my employer, before you than by describing my first meeting with her. It is easier to show her qualities in action than to describe them. On a certain morning, no different from thousands of other mornings, I was in a train on my way to the office when...

“From within the teepee of Charley Whitefish issued the sounds of a family brawl. It was of frequent occurrence in this teepee. Men at the doors of other lodges, engaged in cleaning their guns, or in other light occupations suitable to the manly dignity, shrugged with strong scorn for the man who...

On retrouve dans Le Parfum de la dame en noir tous les personnages du fameux Mystère de la chambre jaune. Grâce à Rouletabille, le mariage de Robert Darzac et de Mathilde Stangerson a enfin eu lieu et la mort de leur ennemi est officiellement constatée. A peine partie en voyage de noces, cependant,...

« Quand tu te marieras, reprit le comte [...], n’accomplis pas légèrement cet acte, le plus important de tous ceux auxquels nous oblige la société. Souviens-toi d’étudier longtemps la caractère de la femme avec laquelle tu dois t’associer [...]. Le défaut d’union entre deux époux,...

Leur ami Sainclair a-t-il tort de s’inquiéter ? Ivana, la femme du reporter Rouletabille, lui paraît accueillir avec une dangereuse coquetterie les attentions du savant Roland Boulenger dont elle est la collaboratrice. Rouletabille ne le nie pas: il a été jaloux jusqu’au jour où Ivana lui...

Les périples de Rouletabille à travers la Camargue pour retrouver son amie Odette, qui s’est fait kidnapper par les bohémiens. Une histoire pleine de rebondissements où les intrigues se chevauchent et s’entrecroisent.