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Les Aventures de Sherlock Holmes est un grand classique de la littérature policière anglaise et mondiale. Le héros du roman, Sherlock Holmes, l'archêtype du détective privé, résout des énigmes complexes selon la méthode de déduction. Pour démasquer le crime il fait jouer de ses connaissance étendues en sciences et technologies, de sa fine pénétration de la psychologie humaine, de ses qualités physique exceptionnelles et de son sens raffiné d'humour - pour le plus grand plaisir de notre intelligence.

Un mot s'impose sur la présente édition du Comte de Monte- Cristo. Il s'agit d'une version abrégée d'environ un cinquième par rapport au texte intégral. L'abréviation a été réfl échie de manière à respecter la complexité de l'intrigue et la dimension littéraire de l'ouvrage. A part les suppressions, il n'y a aucun changement signifi catif dans le texte original.

Les Voyages de Gulliver est un roman satirique de l'auteur anglais Jonathan Swift . Le livre est un classique incontournable de la littérature du sičcle des Lumičres. Il conte quatre voyages extraordinaires de Lemuel Gulliver, médecin de marine. Le premier conduit le héros au pays des Lilliputiens. Le deuxičme ŕ Brobdingnag, la cité des géants dans laquelle Gulliver se trouve lui-męme en situation de Lilliputien. Le troisičme voyage mčne Gulliver ŕ Laputa, une île volante, royaume des musiciens et mathématiciens.

Blackstone Audio presents a new recording of this dramatically popular book. George Orwell depicts a gray, totalitarian world dominated by Big Brother and its vast network of agents, including the Thought Police, a world in which news is manufactured according to the authorities- will and people live tepid lives by rote. Winston Smith, the hero with no heroic qualities, longs only for truth and decency. But living in a social system in which privacy does not exist and where those with unorthodox ideas are brainwashed or put to death, he knows there is no hope for him.

Bleak House follows the fortunes and relationships of three characters whose fates are tied to the obscure inheritance case of Jarndyce v. Jarndyce, which is tied up in endless litigation. While many deserving and undeserving claim the inheritance, it is ironically being devoured in legal costs.

A father and three children, with four more at home, toil brutal hours in the coal mines of nineteenth-century France but still can barely afford to eat. Soon the settlement is aflame with a plan for revolt.

A landmark new translation of a Calvino classic, a whimsical, spirited novel that imagines a life lived entirely on its own terms Cosimo di Rondo, a young Italian nobleman of the eighteenth century, rebels against his parents by climbing into the trees and remaining there for the rest of his life. He adapts efficiently to an existence in the forest canopy-he hunts, sows crops, plays games with earth-bound friends, fights forest fires, solves engineering problems, and even manages to have love affairs.

Italo Calvino imagines a novel capable of endless mutations in this intricately crafted story about writing and readers. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler turns out to be not one novel but ten, each with a different plot, style, ambience, and author, and each interrupted at a moment of suspense. Together they form a labyrinth of literatures, known and unknown, alive and extinct, through which two readers, a male and a female, pursue both the story lines that intrigue them and one another.

The story of The Anarchist Banker takes place in a Lisbon café where the narrator meets an old friend, now a wealthy banker. He questions his friend about his anarchist origins and discovers to his amazement that the banker still considers himself to be an anarchist. The story revolves around the banker's vigorous defense of his position and his assertion that he is the only genuine anarchist among the banker's so-called anarchist friends.

This is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world and did. Is he a destroyer, or a liberator? Why does he fight his hardest battle not against his enemies but against the woman he loves?