European Fiction

When the naive David Balfour sets out on his quest for a long-lost relative, a terrifying chain of events is set in motion. He is plunged into a world of infamy and violence from which there seems no escape - until, that is, he meets the enigmatic and valiant Highlander, Alan Breck....

Learn French with these fantastic short stories about Delphine Ducros. Improve your vocabulary and intuitively learn the grammar patterns of French. Stop learning French the unnatural way with textbooks and start absorbing the language in a fun and enjoyable form with stories. Every story is translated sentence-by-sentence in English and every story will provide a vocabulary list to make sure you understand everything. You won't be overwhelmed or feel like you've just been pushed into the deep end of language.

1913, un paquebot quitte l'Europe. À son bord, trois jeunes en quête d'une seconde chance. Rosetta, jeune femme indépendante et rebelle, fuit son village italien. À la mort de ses parents, harcelée et violentée par la pègre, ayant perdu son honneur, elle n'a eu d'autre choix que d'abandonner la ferme familiale. Rocco, fier et fougueux jeune homme, laisse derrière lui sa Sicile natale. Il cherche à échapper à la Mafia locale, à laquelle il a refusé de se soumettre.

Mary Ann Evans (1819-1880), known by her pen name George Eliot, was one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. Her novels are known for their realism and psychological insight. Four of them are included in this volume: Middlemarch, Daniel Deronda, The Mill on the Floss, and The Lifted Veil.

Petits ou grands, nous avons tous en tête des fables de La Fontaine : "Le corbeau et le renard", "La cigale et la fourmi", "La grenouille qui veut se faire aussi grosse que le bœuf", "Le chêne et le roseau", "Le lièvre et la tortue" et tant d'autres. Chacune de ces fables est une petite histoire, avec des mots simples, et contient des vérités qui servent de leçons. Il y a un peu de nous, un peu des autres, un peu de tous, dans chacune des fables. Elles nous parlent, nous nous y reconnaissons. Elles croquent avec humour et finesse nos mœurs et nos faiblesses, nos travers et nos défauts, nos petites lâchetés comme nos grandes vanités. Les puissants qui nous gouvernent ne sont pas épargnés, tout autant que tout un chacun.

Margaret of Anjou, queen of England, cannot give up on her husband - even when he slips into insanity. And as mother to the House of Lancaster's last hope, she cannot give up on her son - even when England turns against them. This gripping tale of a queen forced to stand strong in the face of overwhelming odds is, at its heart, a tender tale of love. Award-winning author Susan Higginbotham will once again ask listeners to question everything they know about right and wrong, compassion and hope, duty to one's country, and the desire of one's own heart.

A romantic fairy tale Peter Pan is a favourite story of many generations of children all over the world. The main character is a boy who never grows up, can fly, lives in Neverland and fairies are his friends. He gives a flying ability to three children from London — Wendy, John and Michael Darling and takes them to a mysterious land where they have exciting and sometimes rather scary adventures.

Тошнота – это суть бытия людей, застрявших «в сутолоке дня». Людей – брошенных на милость чуждой, безжалостной, безотрадной реальности. Тошнота – это невозможность любви и доверия, это – попросту – неумение мужчины и женщины понять друг друга. Тошнота – это та самая "другая сторона отчаяния", по которую лежит Свобода.

Une jeune fille se réveille entièrement nue et entravée sur un matelas couvert de sang. Elle sait qu'elle va mourir, toute tentative de fuite semble inutile. La douleur n'est rien en comparaison de la peur panique qui s'est emparée d'elle.

Dans le Paris mondain de la fin du XIXème siècle, Madeleine de Gouvres, une veuve belle et intelligente, tombe amoureuse de Lepré, un homme "très gentil, mais très insignifiant, ce fut l'avis de tout le monde". Sans le savoir, cette première Madeleine de Proust s'engouffre dans le destin d'aimer sans retour... Ruses, rêveries, rendez-vous manqués, vains aveux, toutes les stratégies lui dérobent un peu plus l'objet de son désir.

A gripping collection of over 50 of the greatest short stories written by great British writers. 1."The Missing Years" by Barry Pain, 2. "His Brother's Keeper" by W. W. Jacobs, 3. "A Madman's Manuscript" by Charles Dickens, 4. "The House of Cobwebs" by Barry Pain, 5. "Old Fags" by Stacy Aumonier, 6. "A Long-Ago Affair" by John Galsworthy, 7. "August Heat" by W. F. Harvey, 8. "The Dabblers" by W. F. Harvey, 9. "Rose Rose" by Barry Pain

Parce que j'ai maintenant des petits enfants, j'ai souvent envie de raconter des histoires. C'est la fonction naturelle des grands-pères, et peut-être leur plus grand mérite.

From a variety of masterfully rendered perspectives, these six stories depict people at painful odds with the world around them. A wife can only surrender to a desert night by betraying her husband. An artist struggles to honor his own aspirations as well as society's expectations of him. A missionary brutally converted to the worship of a tribal fetish is left with but an echo of his identity. Whether set in North Africa, Paris, or Brazil, the stories in Exile and the Kingdom are probing portraits of spiritual exile, and man's perpetual search for an inner kingdom.

Real German people don’t speak like your textbook…so it’s no wonder you feel unprepared when it’s your turn to speak! Try the StoryLearning method, and dive into a real-world, gripping drama between six characters that helps you learn authentic spoken German in the process.

Dans ce monde de la littérature contrôlée par la monarchie absolue du Roi soleil, La Bruyère est universel : n'étant nulle part, il est partout ; son insignifiance le rend disponible, parfaitement libre.

Mike Purcell is poor. He has no money for food or rent, but he does have a cow to sell. On his way to the fair to sell her, he meets a strange man who offers him an equally strange trade—his cow for an empty bottle, with the promise that the bottle will make him rich. What happens when Mike takes the bottle home to his family? Will their fortune turn around?

The fifth novel in the Chronicles of Barsetshire, The Small House at Allington, concerns the lives of the two Dale girls, Lily and Bell, who live at the Small House. While Bell is in love with the local doctor James Crofts, Lily is pursued by two men: the worldly, rich and handsome Adolphus Crosbie and the poor but honest Johnny Eames. With each determined to gain her hand in marriage, who will she choose?

Qu'il suive le fil d'Ariane sur les traces du Minotaure pour évoquer Oran et ses alentours, qu'il revisite le mythe de Prométhée à la lumière de la violence du monde moderne, ou qu'il rêve à la beauté d'Hélène et de la Grèce, Albert Camus nous entraîne tout autour de la Méditerranée et de ses légendes. Un court recueil de textes lyriques et passionnés pour voyager de l'Algérie à la Grèce en passant par la Provence.

"Je suis incapable de faire mon autobiographie", déclare Nathalie Sarraute en 1979. Et pourtant... ce texte, écrit sous la forme d'un dialogue entre Nathalie Sarraute et son double, fait émerger comme par vagues, et avec une stupéfiante lucidité, des moments d'une enfance passée entre Paris, Ivanovo en Russie, la Suisse, Saint-Pétersbourg et de nouveau Paris.

Albion continues to be divided by revolt and bloodshed, as alliances collapse and are made anew. Driven obsessively for glory, the upstart Bellamus and his exiled queen Aramilla are marshalling resistance and building a powerful army. Returning to the Hindrunn, Keturah is forced to fend for herself, battling enemies on all sides just when she is most in need of a place of safety. And all the while, the young Black Lord must deal not only with the aftermath of a great betrayal, but the cold shadow of the Kryptea, threatening to destroy everything he has fought for...