European Fiction

"Affreuse illusion des choses humaines ! Elle me reçut toujours avec son excellent cœur, qui ne pouvait mourir qu'avec elle ; mais je venais rechercher le passé qui n'était plus, et qui ne pouvait renaître... A peine eus-je resté une demi-heure avec elle, que je sentis mon ancien bonheur mort pour toujours."

A tour de force of black humor and imaginary erudition, Nazi Literature in the Americas presents itself as a biographical dictionary of writers who espoused extreme right-wing ideologies in the 20th and 21st centuries.

In 1668, hangman Jakob Kuisl, his daughter Magdalena, and her husband Simon are traveling to the town of Bamberg. But what was planned as a family vacation soon becomes a nightmare: there is a murderer in Bamberg leaving the severed limbs of victims in the trash outside the city. When rumors quickly spread that the murders are the work of a werewolf, Jakob Kuisl must prove the superstition wrong and embark on a search for the "devil of Bamberg".

Anne, Duchess of Brittany, is the love of King Louis XII of France's life. Too bad he's already married. While his annulment proceedings create Europe's most sensational scandal of 1498, Anne returns to Brittany to take back control of her duchy that her late husband, Charles VIII, King of France, had wrested from her. At age 21, Anne is sovereign ruler of Brittany as well as Europe's most wealthy widow. But can she maintain Brittany's independence from France if she accepts Louis's offer to make her Queen of France once more?

"Jean Valjean" est le cinquième et dernier tome des "Misérables". Ce livre signe la fin des espoirs des insurgés, et la mort de Gavroche. Mais c'est aussi, enfin, la reconnaissance pour Jean Valjean, qui dans ses derniers instants, voit Cosette et Marius, unis et près de lui.

Mickey and friends star in this adaptation of Mark Twain’s The Prince and the Pauper. During a chance encounter, a prince discovers he looks just like someone else—a poor and hungry subject named Mickey. When the prince asks Mickey to switch places with him for the day, each learns what it is like to walk in the other’s shoes.

Just as Mr. Darcy finally decides to propose to the enticing Miss Elizabeth Bennet, she is summoned to Falmouth, to meet a relation she never knew she had. Thus, the ill-starred Hunsford proposal is avoided - but before he could even begin to understand his luck, adverse circumstances hasten to conspire against him, and Fitzwilliam Darcy is compelled to follow the woman he loves to the far reaches of Cornwall, into a world of deceit and peril, where few - if any - are what they seem to be...

"J'ai toujours eu un cœur excentrique." Bono a grandi dans le nord de Dublin entre un père catholique et une mère protestante, alors que les violences sectaires se multipliaient en Irlande. Il n'avait que quatorze ans lors du décès de sa mère, perte qui va façonner sa recherche d'une famille. Il a commencé sa vie avec le sentiment d'être quelconque, pourtant toute son existence sera consacrée à combattre l'idée que quiconque puisse l'être. En quatre décennies, U2 passe d'une bande d'adolescents ambitieux au plus grand groupe au monde.

Improve your Italian skills and grow your vocabulary with these 10 entertaining Italian short stories! The best part of learning a new language is experiencing the culture and diving into activities that will enrich your life and vocabulary. The best way to learn a new language is by reading/listening, and in this Italian book, each captivating story will engage your mind and help you improve your Italian.

Award-winning author Colm Tóibín turns his incisive gaze to three of the world's greatest writers, Oscar Wilde, W.B. Yeats, and James Joyce, and their earliest influences: their fathers. In Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know, Colm Tóibín illuminates not only the complex relationships between three of the greatest writers in the English language and their fathers, but also illustrates the surprising ways they surface in their work.

Voici l'histoire du dernier des hommes qui parlait la langue des serpents, de sa sœur qui tomba amoureuse d'un ours, de sa mère qui rôtissait compulsivement des élans, de son grand-père qui guerroyait sans jambes, de son oncle qu'il aimait tant, d'une jeune fille qui croyait en l'amour, d'un sage qui ne l'était pas tant que ça, d'une paysanne qui rêvait d'un loup-garou, d'un vieil homme qui chassait les vents, d'une salamandre qui volait dans les airs, d'australopithèques qui élevaient des poux géants, d'un poisson titanesque las de ce monde et de chevaliers teutons.

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (Juana Inés de Asuaje y Ramírez, 1651-1695) es una de las mayores figuras de las letras hispanas del siglo XVII y su nombre figura por derecho propio junto a los grandes autores del Siglo de Oro. Cultivó la lírica, el auto sacramental y el teatro, así como la prosa. Por la importancia de su obra, recibió los sobrenombres de «el Fénix de América», «la Décima Musa» o «la Décima Musa mexicana».

Around the World in 80 Days is an adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, first published in French in 1872. A classic adventure story about the incredible journey of the gentleman Phileas Fogg and his servant-companion Passepartout. Phileas Fogg, who was a member of a respectable London club, had a bet with one of its members. The essence of the bet was to cross the globe in 80 days, that is, to start and end the journey in London at a certain time. Phileas Fogg made accurate calculations and was sure that traveling around the world in 80 days is a reality.

Zwieńczenie szesnastu tomów uwielbianej przez czytelników sagi z cyklów powieściowych: „Zemsta i przebaczenie”, „Zanim nadejdzie jutro”, „Prawda zapisana w popiołach” i „Duchy minionych lat”. Przełom lat osiemdziesiątych i dziewięćdziesiątych to dla Polski okres nowego początku i powiewu wolności. Obrady Okrągłego Stołu dla wielu stanowią symbol odzyskania niepodległego państwa, inni czują zawód i uważają, że poprzednia władza powinna zapłacić za lata kryzysu, poddaństwa wobec Związku Radzieckiego, a przede wszystkim za prześladowanie opozycji.

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) was a reclusive poet whose only friendships were carried out by letter. She wrote nearly 1,800 poems in her life, but very few were published until after her death. In this volume, the poems are presented in chronological order in their original form, unaltered by editorial revision. It offers a wide-angle view of Dickinson's poetic development, from the clunky rhyme schemes of her youth, through valentines she wrote in the early 1850s, to the gloomy writings of her last years.

As the golden summer draws to a close and the Darcys look ahead to the end of their first year of marriage, Mr. Darcy could never have imagined that his love could grow even deeper with the passage of time. Elizabeth is unpredictable and lively, pulling Darcy out of his stern and serious demeanor with her teasing and temptation. Looking ahead and planning for celebrations and life events large and small, Lizzy can still catch Darcy unawares when he least expects it.

A mythical man known as Nightmare haunted young children for years. Until he became real. DCI Harry McNeil knows the legend all too well. Growing up in the Highlands, Nightmare was on his and every other child's mind as they went to sleep. Then, Nightmare claimed his first victim. A young girl, found dead in an abandoned cemetery with the words, I am Nightmare, carved into her chest. Two more victims, the same words carved into them. Then Nightmare disappears. Now, years later, there have been reports of graffiti being sprayed around Inverness and on graves in old cemeteries.

Die sechs wichtigsten Dramen Schillers in einem Hörbuch: Die Räuber, Kabale und Liebe, Don Carlos, Maria Stuart, Die Jungfrau von Orleans, Wilhelm Tell - sämtlich ungekürzt gelesen! Dazu noch der "Verbrecher aus verlorener Ehre" sowie die schönsten Gedichte und Balladen Schillers!

"Souviens-toi, maman : nous étions tes enfants." C.K. C'est l'histoire d'une grande famille qui aime débattre, rire et danser, qui aime le soleil et l'été. C'est le récit incandescent d'une femme qui ose enfin raconter ce qui a longtemps fait taire la familia grande.

C'est en 1833 qu'Honoré de Balzac écrit "La duchesse de Langeais". À la base de ce roman, le désir de se venger de la marquise de Castries dont il était amoureux et qui l'avait joué. Dans cette transmutation de la réalité en fiction, l'idée de vengeance se perd, et s'élève un chant qui porte l'amour au-delà des règles communes.