Schooner Co: 7 books

Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was a champion of individualism and a critic of the countervailing pressures of society. Extrait: Ever since I was a boy, I have wished to write a discourse...

Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was a champion of individualism and a critic of the countervailing pressures of society. In Spiritual Laws, Emerson explains that, if human beings were more observant,...

Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was a champion of individualism and a critic of the countervailing pressures of society. He was also the mentor of Thoreau. Considered by many readers as the father of...

Arsène Lupin is a fictional gentleman thief and master of disguise created in 1905 by French writer Maurice Leblanc. Extract: Two or three times each year, on occasions of unusual importance, such as the balls at the Austrian Embassy or the soirees of Lady Billingstone, the Countess...

Fitz James O'Brien (1828-1862) was an Irish-born American writer. some of his work is considered one of the forerunners of today's science fiction. "The Wondersmith" tells the story of a robot rebellion, where toys possessed by evil spirits are transformed into living automatons and turn against their creators.

Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) est un écrivain et journaliste littéraire français. Principal représentant du naturalisme, il a écrit de nombreuses nouvelles (Le Horla notamment) et des récits de voyage. Au soleil est un récit d'un voyage en Algérie. Il a été publié en 1884. Extrait...

Edith Wharton, an American writer, was the first woman to get the Pulitzer Prize, for "Age of Innocence" (1920). She was also nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927, 1928 and 1930. A young maid finds a new position in a spooky and lonely house. A classical and enigmatic ghost story.