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Twenty Years After

  [english | 1845]  

Alexandre Dumas

Summary: [Lira dos Vinte Anos is a poetry anthology written by Brazilian Romantic author Alvares de Azevedo. Originally part of a project that would be written in partnership with Aureliano Lessa and Bernardo Guimaraes called As Tr^es Liras it was published in 1853. It is one of the few works whose publication was prepared by the own Alvares due to his premature death in April 25 1852. The book is divided ...]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure | historical] Downloads: 225

Une Fille Du Regent

  [french | 1844]  

Alexandre Dumas

Summary: [1719. Louis XV est mineur et Philippe dOrlans gouverne la France cest la Rgence. Philippe dOrlans a trois enfants qui le doivent et veut faire venir Paris sa fille illgitime Hlne de Chaverny. Hlne a tleve dans un couvent prs de Nantes et ignore tout de sa famille. Elle est amoureuse du chevalier Gaston de Chanlay quelle a rencontr lors dune procession. Gaston rvle Hlne quil doit partir Paris ...]
Genres: [fiction | historical] Downloads: 50

Urbain Grandier

  [english | 1840]  

Alexandre Dumas

Summary: [Urbain Grandier by Alexandre Dumas. Alexandre Dumas p ere French for father akin to Senior in English born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie 1802-1870 was a French writer best known for his numerous historical novels of high adventure which have made him one of the most widely read French authors in the world. Many of his novels including The Count of Monte Cristo 1845 The Three Musketeers 1844 and ...]
Genres: [non-fiction | history] Downloads: 85

Vaninka

  [english | 1840]  

Alexandre Dumas

Summary: [Vaninka by Alexandre Dumas P Re. About the end of the reign of the Emperor Paul I--that is to say towards the middle of the first year of the nineteenth century--just as four o clock in the afternoon was sounding from the church of St. Peter and St. Paul whose gilded vane overlooks the ramparts of the fortress a crowd composed of all sorts and conditions of people.]
Genres: [non-fiction | history] Downloads: 321

Vingt Ans Apres

  [french | 1845]  

Alexandre Dumas

Excerpts: [... temps du cardinal de Richelieu, et voyant qu'il n'y avait personne dans ce cabinet qu'un mousquetaire de sa compagnie, il arr^eta les yeux sur ce mousquetaire, ...... avoir demand'e un cong'e qui lui fut accord'e `a l'instant et sign'e par Mazarin lui-m^eme. `A peine dehors il s'approcha d'une lanterne qui 'etait ...... : voici autour de vous quatre cardinaux qui, `a la t^ete des ...]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure] Downloads: 316

Camille

  [english | 1844]  

Alexandre Dumas Fils

Summary: [Camille by Desmond Davis. One of the world s most famous love stories comes to vibrant life in this lavish production filled with stunning scenery and a once in a lifetime cast Nicknamed Camille the beautiful Marguerite Greta Scacchi Brideshead Revisited sacrifices her honor to become a high society escort who only entertains the richest men in Paris. However the young and dashing Armand Duval ...]
Genres: [fiction | romance] Downloads: 224

La Dame Aux Camelias

  [french | 1844]  

Alexandre Dumas Fils

Summary: [La Dame aux camlias a pour thme une histoire damour entre une courtisane atteinte de phtisie Marguerite Gautier et un jeune bourgeois Armand Duval. La narration de cette histoire damour constitue un rcit dans le rcit puisquArmand Duval raconte son aventure au narrateur initial du roman.]
Genres: [fiction | romance] Downloads: 344

La Vie Ambigue

  [french | 1892]  

Alexis Nikolaievitch Apoukhtine

Summary: [Apoukhtine tait un grand pote russe. Nous publions ici ses trois seuls rcits en prose: Les Archives de la comtesse D (1891). Pavlik Dolsky (1892). Entre la mort et la vie (1893). Lauteur y dcrit la vie et les proccupations de la noblesse russe au temps des Tsars.]
Genres: [fiction | occult supernatural | short stories] Downloads: 412

The Hills Of Home

  [english | 1956]  

Alfred Coppel

Summary: [Normality is a myth were all a little neurotic and the study of neurosis has been able to classify the general types of disturbance which are most common. And some types (providing the subject is not suffering so extreme a case as to have crossed the border into psychosis) can be not only useful but perhaps necessary for certain kinds of work....]
Genres: [science fiction | short story | audiobook] Downloads: 298

The Invader

  [english | 1953]  

Alfred Coppel

Summary: [Magic--theres no such thing. But the crops were beginning to grow backwards]
Genres: [short story | science fiction | post 1930] Downloads: 108

The Peacemaker

  [english | 1953]  

Alfred Coppel

Summary: [The legends of Jaq Merril are legion--but legends. Hark ye then to the true story of the pirate benefactor of Mankind!]
Genres: [short story | science fiction | post 1930] Downloads: 499

Turning Point

  [english | 1953]  

Alfred Coppel

Summary: [Een keerpunt in de vaderlandse geschiedenis is a 2005 Dutch book by Amsterdam University professor Karel van Wolferen and NRC Handelsblad reporter Jan Sampiemon. Its secondary title is A manifesto to the Dutch people. Despite the fatherland in the title referring to the Netherlands the book is mostly about the changes in the foreign policies of the USA since the presidency of George W. Bush and ...]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction | short stories] Downloads: 258

Turnover Point

  [english | 1953]  

Alfred Coppel

Summary: [Every era in history has had its Pop Ganlons. Along in years and not successful and not caring much anyway. A matter of living out their years following an obscure path to oblivion. It was that way in ancient Egypt just as it will be when the Solar System shrinks to our size. And once in a while such men are given an opportunity to contribute to the society that has forgotten them....]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction | short stories] Downloads: 115

Gamiani Ou Deux Nuits Dexces

  [french | 1833]  

Alfred De Musset

Summary: [Alfred de Musset relate les bats trioliques de la comtesse Gamiani avec Fanny et Alcide. Deux nuits au cours desquelles chacun des personnages fait le rcit de son initiation et de ses plus singuliers exploits dalcve lensemble des scnes constituant une sorte dencyclopdie des dbauches.Mme si Alfred de Musset va assez loin dans ce texte au point que nombreux sont ceux qui refusaient de croire quil ...]
Genres: [fiction | erotica] Downloads: 393

Cinq Mars Une Conjuration Sous Louis Xiii

  [french | 1826]  

Alfred De Vigny

Summary: [En1639 au chteau de Chaumont en Touraine le jeune marquis Henri dEffiat prend cong de sa mre et de la princesse Marie de Gonzague duchesse de Mantoue quil aime et dont il est aim. Impressionn par les propos du marchal de Bassompierre sur les qualits et la fidlit des nobles il sinsurge contre larrestation du mme marchal par les sbires de Richelieu. En allant au sige de Perpignan pour tre prsent au ...]
Genres: [fiction | historical | romance] Downloads: 449

Ubu Roi

  [french | 1896]  

Alfred Jarry

Summary: [Alfred Jarry (8 September 1873 - 1 November 1907) was a French writer born in Laval Mayenne France not far from the border of Brittany he was of Breton descent on his mothers side. Best known for his play Ubu Roi (1896) which is often cited as a forerunner to the surrealist theatre of the 1920s and 1930s Jarry wrote in a variety of genres and styles. He wrote plays novels poetry essays and ...]
Genres: [fiction | drama] Downloads: 180

Born Again

  [english | 1904]  

Alfred William Lawson

Summary: [Born Free and Equal: The Story of Loyal Japanese-Americans is a book by Ansel Adams containing photographs from his 1943-4 visit to the internment camp then named Manzanar War Relocation Center in Owens Valley Inyo County California. The book was published in 1944 by U.S. Camera in New York. In the summer of 1943 Adams was invited by his friend newly-appointed camp director Ralph Merritt to ...]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction] Downloads: 148

A Prisoner In Fairyland

  [english | 1913]  

Algernon Blackwood

Excerpts: [... on. His wife noticed the new enthusiasm in his manner, and was puzzled by it. Something was up, she divined. 'Do you think he'll raise your salary ...... their hands to him as the train hurried away, and the last thing he saw was the station lamp where he had lit the cigar that made three of them, himself included, ...... feet were on the cushions???disgracefully. They were talking ...]
Genres: [horror | fantasy] Downloads: 218

Jimbo

  [english | 1909]  

Algernon Blackwood

Summary: [Call number of original: PZ3.B5683J.]
Genres: [fiction and literature | audiobook | fantasy] Downloads: 263

Sand

  [english | 1912]  

Algernon Blackwood

Summary: [Sand by Algernon Blackwood. As Felix Henriot came through the streets that January night the fog was stifling. And -- he was caught. But the adventure that lay waiting for him where the silent streets of little Helouan kiss the great Desert s lips was of a different kind to any Henriot had yet encountered. Looking back he has often asked himself How in the world can I accept it And perhaps he ...]
Genres: [fiction | short stories] Downloads: 255