Candide, ou l'Optimisme [8 marzo 2014] Voltaire
Candide, ou l’Optimisme est un conte philosophique de Voltaire paru à Genève en janvier 1759. Il a été réédité vingt fois du vivant de l’auteur (plus de cinquante aujourd’hui) ce qui en fait un des plus grands succès littéraires français.Anonyme en 1...
Notre dame de Paris [8 marzo 2014] Victor Hugo
Le 6 janvier 1482, jour de la fête des Fous, on donne dans la grande salle du Palais de Justice de Paris un mystère du poète Gringoire, alors que sur le parvis de Notre-Dame danse la bohémienne Esmeralda. Quasimodo, le sonneur disgracieux de la cathé...
To the Lighthouse [8 marzo 2014] Virginia Woolf
To the Lighthouse (5 May 1927) is a novel by Virginia Woolf. A landmark novel of high modernism, the text, centering on the Ramsay family and their visits to the Isle of Skye in Scotland between 1910 and 1920, skillfully manipulates temporality and p...
Le Ventre de Paris [8 marzo 2014] Emile Zola
Le Ventre de Paris est un roman d’Émile Zola publié en 1873, le troisième de la série Les Rougon-Macquart. L’action se passe pour l’essentiel aux Halles centrales de Paris, construites par Victor Baltard entre 1854 et 1870, énorme bâtiment à structur...
Treasure Island [8 marzo 2014] Robert Louis Stevenson
While going through the possessions of a deceased guest who owed them money, the mistress of the inn and her son find a treasure map that leads them to a pirate's fortune.
The Time Machine [8 marzo 2014] Wells, H. G.
The book's protagonist is an amateur inventor or scientist living in London who is never named; he is identified simply as The Time Traveller. Having demonstrated to friends using a miniature model that time is a fourth dimension, and that a suitable...
Great Expectations [8 marzo 2014] Dickens, Charles
Great Expectations is a novel by Charles Dickens first serialised in All the Year Round from 1 December 1860 to August 1861. It is regarded as one of his greatest and most sophisticated novels, and is one of his most enduringly popular, having been a...
Gulliver's Travels [8 marzo 2014] Swift, Jonathan
Gulliver's Travels (1726, amended 1735), officially Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of several Ships, is a novel by Jonathan Swift that is both a satire on human...
Moby-Dick [8 marzo 2014] Melville, Herman
Moby-Dick is an 1851 novel by Herman Melville. The story tells the adventures of the wandering sailor Ishmael and his voyage on the whaling ship Pequod, commanded by Captain Ahab. Ishmael soon learns that Ahab seeks one specific whale, Moby-Dick, a w...
