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Histoire Comique
[french | ]Anatole France
Excerpts: [... demanda simplement Nanteuil. -Vous avez dit: Je comprends tout, mais il y a des choses qui me dgotent. Vous comprenez tout les actions ...... son long cou, la pomme d'Adam faisait une grande ombre sur son rabat. Il tait costum en huissier du rpertoire. -C'est vous, Chevalier. Bonjour, ...... les amis, ce n'est pas ce qui manque. -Vous vous trompez, monsieur Chevalier les bons amis ...]
Genres: [fiction and literature] Downloads: 385
La Vie Littraire
[french | ]Anatole France
Summary: [Literary Taste: How to Form it is a long essay by Arnold Bennett first published in 1909 with a revised edition by his friend Frank Swinnerton appearing in 1937. It includes a long list of recommended books every item individually costed. Both the essay and the list were very influential although Bennetts decision to include only books originally written in English (along with a handful of Latin ...]
Genres: [biography | non fiction] Downloads: 6
Le Jardin Depicure
[french | ]Anatole France
Excerpts: [... du Soleil, de Mars, de Jupiter et de Saturne, puis le firmament incorruptible auquel les toiles taient suspendues comme des lampes. La pense prolongeant ...... voit qu'un peintre a toutes les peines du monde reproduire d'une manire peu prs vraisemblable une scne du temps de Louis-Philippe, on dsespre qu'il nous ...... vers le petit enfant, avec un geste charmant o se trahit l'veil ...]
Genres: [fiction and literature] Downloads: 292
Les Opinions De M Jrme Coignard
[french | ]Anatole France
Excerpts: [... vie de M. l'abb Jrme Coignard, professeur d'loquence au collge de Beauvais, bibliothcaire de M. de Sez, Sagiensis episcopi bibliothecarius solertissimus, ...... o les esprits affranchis ont hte de se faire prendre. A l'aise dans la grande et vieille ratire, il trouva plus d'une issue pour dcouvrir le monde ...... fut honnte homme, laborieux, appliqu, et l'on peut dire de lui, comme ...]
Genres: [fiction and literature] Downloads: 276
Monsieur Bergeret Paris
[french | ]Anatole France
Excerpts: [... le linge dans de sombres caisses. Pauline, avec un empressement joyeux, faisait sa malle. Il se dtourna d'elle comme si elle accomplissait une oeuvre ...... les rues la recherche d'un logis, ils avaient travers d'aventure cette rue troite des Grands-Augustins qui a gard sa figure de l'ancien rgime et ...... lyriques grecs. Il touchait d'une main lgre et sre au texte fatigu de ...]
Genres: [short story collection | fiction and literature] Downloads: 471
Pierre Nozire
[french | ]Anatole France
Summary: [Bibliographie at end of most volumes.]
Genres: [fiction and literature] Downloads: 425
The Aspirations Of Jean Servien
[english | ]Anatole France
Summary: [1. The crime of Sylvestre Bonnard.--2. Thais. Crainquebille and other stories.--3. At the sign of the Reine Pe?dauque.--4. The opinions of Jerome Coignard. The garden of Epicurus.--5. The red lily.--6. A mummers tale. The elm-tree on the mall.--7. The wicker-work woman.--8. The amethyst ring.--9. Monsieur Bergeret in Paris.--10. The aspirations of Jean Servien. Balthasar.--11. The bride of Cori]
Genres: [fiction and literature] Downloads: 258
The Queen Pedauque
[english | ]Anatole France
Excerpts: [... He did so the more willingly as my father, who had a consideration for knowledge, paid for his lesson with a savoury morsel of roast turkey and a large ...... entry to the staircase, pushed her knitting needles with sharp little strokes. Catherine, surprised by this unfriendly reception, said drily:. Then ...... was never tired of listening to him. This M. Blaizot was a little old ...]
Genres: [fiction and literature] Downloads: 430
The Red Lily Vol 1
[english | ]Anatole France
Excerpts: [... novel, he traces the perilously narrow line that separates love from hate in 'Opinions de M. l'Abbe Jerome Coignard' he has given us the most ...... Menil came to me and did me one of those good turns that one never forgets. He saved me from Monsieur Garain.. The General, who knew the Annual Register, ...... visitors dispersed. Only Madame Marmet and Paul Vence remained. The latter ...]
Genres: [fiction and literature] Downloads: 188
The Red Lily Vol 2
[english | ]Anatole France
Excerpts: [... but it is always there. The poor doors are innocent of the coming of that unwelcome visitor.. Choulette warned Madame Martin severely that she ...... were the boundary of their horizon. They knew only their city, the Holy Scriptures, and some fragments of antique sculptures, studied and caressed ...... him, he blessed her. He continued, in a tone a little more elevated:. I can not ...]
Genres: [fiction and literature] Downloads: 454
The Red Lily Vol 3
[english | ]Anatole France
Excerpts: [... of her beauty and her wit, mistress of herself, who knows and who dares more beautiful in that and more desirable, and whose choice is free, ...... Her husband recalled her in every one of his letters. If, as he asked her to do, she returned to Paris in the first days of May, they might give two ...... the Cours-la-Reine all these familiar aspects seemed to be clothed for her in ...]
Genres: [fiction and literature] Downloads: 44
Histoire De Quillembois Soldat
[french | ]Andr Hell
Excerpts: [... le dos, un pompon rouge sur son shako et, sous les pieds, en guise de godillots, une large et confortable rondelle verte, au centre de laquelle il se ...... souleve et elle retomba plus loin avec fracas. Il entendit ensuite des pas de chevaux, des roulements de camions, des chocs de plaques tournantes et ...... ouvrit les yeux. A ct de sa bote grande ouverte, un phonographe martial ...]
Genres: [young readers] Downloads: 364
The Biography Of Robert Murray Mcheyne
[english | ]Andrew Bonar
Excerpts: [... Of Calvary-that bids us leave a world Immersed in darkness and in death, and seek A better country. Ah. how oft that eye Would turn on me, with pity's ...... Every year he marked this day as one to be remembered, and occasionally its recollections seem to have come in like a flood. In a letter to a friend ...... and the servant as his Lord.' 'He that loveth father or mother more ...]
Genres: [biography | religion] Downloads: 165
Rio Grande Last Race Etc
[english | ]Andrew Barton Paterson
Excerpts: [... have the cavalry done. Right in the Front of the Army. `Where 'ave you been this week or more,. That V.C. 'Twas in the days of front attack,. Fed ...... in need,. And we have come to give a lead. To you and Rio Grande. `For you must give the field the slip,. So never draw the rein,. But keep ...... gone a dozen yards it bolted clean away. It left the track, and through the trees, ...]
Genres: [poetry] Downloads: 168
Epistles From Pap
[english | ]Andrew Durham
Excerpts: [... Western Military Academy, Upper Alton, Illinois, the first to Mitch Taylor, a Civil War veteran, the other to his mother.). Upper Alton, Ill. March ...... it and say nothing. But it is a demand, and I am therefore at complete loss to account for it. It might be for the postage on that set extending ...... pro and con, Senator Durham demanded the floor and made a statement which ...]
Genres: [biography | essays] Downloads: 320
History Of The Ottawa And Chippewa Indians Of Michigan
[english | ]Andrew Blackbird
Excerpts: [... of Bwondiac (known in history as Pontiac). They told the British Government that their brother Odjebwes were few in number, while the British were ...... was formerly the character of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan. But now, our living is altogether different, as we are continually suffering ...... as there were no illegitimate children reported in our old traditions. ...]
Genres: [history] Downloads: 301
A Collection Of Ballads
[english | ]Andrew Lang
Summary: [A Collection of Old Ballads is an anonymous book published 1723 - 1725 in three volumes in London by Roberts and Leach. It was the second major collection of British folksongs to be published following Pills To Purge Melancholy (published 1719 - 1720). Ambrose Phillips was once credited as the editor but this has since been challenged. Volume one contained Chevy Chase Queen Eleanors Confession ...]
Genres: [poetry] Downloads: 176
John Knox And The Reformation
[english | ]Andrew Lang
Summary: [Bibliographical footnotes.]
Genres: [biography | religion | history] Downloads: 459
Hans Huckebein
[german | ]Wilhelm Busch
Summary: [Wilhelm Busch (15 April 1832 ? 9 January 1908) was an influential German caricaturist painter and poet who is famed for his satirical picture stories with rhymed texts. After initially studying mechanical engineering and then art in Dsseldorf Antwerp and Munich he turned to drawing caricatures. One of his first picture stories Max and Moritz (published in 1865) was an immediate success and has ...]
Genres: [poetry] Downloads: 370
The Marvellous History Of The Shadowless Man And The Cold
[english | ]Wilhelm Hauff
Excerpts: [... enthusiastic admiration. Hauff's productivity was truly amazing in four years he wrote, besides the fairy-tales, poems, short stories, fantasies satirical ...... same time, turn from the glorious picture at your feet, as if disdaining to vouchsafe a glance at it. Excuse the boldness of my proposal but perhaps ...... him to wait upon me. He came and dismissing the attendants, I ...]
Genres: [fiction and literature] Downloads: 453