This carefully crafted ebook: "The Death of Olivier Becaille (Unabridged)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
Zola's horrific short story depicts a man, Olivier Becaille, in a temporary coma and paralytic state. This condition leads his wife to believe he is dead. It even fools the doctor. Funeral and burial arrangements are made and carried out. Readers' will experience their worst fear through the eyes of Olivier Becaille.
Émile Zola (1840 - 1902), French novelist, critic, and political activist who was the most prominent French novelist of the late 19th century. He was noted for his theories of naturalism, which underlie his monumental 20-novel series Les Rougon-Macquart, and for his intervention in the Dreyfus Affair through his famous open letter, "J'accuse."
This carefully crafted ebook: "Naïs Micoulin (Unabridged)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
Naïs Micoulin (1884) was one of Zola's short stories about the trials of a factory worker in what was then the village of L'Estaque and is now administratively part of Marseille.
Naïs, the wild child, has grown up into a sensual young lady. Stirred to the depths of his soul, Frederick contemplates his servant and soon, they indulge in caresses. Until Naïs' father swears to kill the man who dared to touch his daughter.
Émile Zola (1840 - 1902) was an influential French novelist, the most important example of the literary school of naturalism, and a major figure in the political liberalization of France.
More than half of Zola's novels were part of a set of 20 books collectively known as Les Rougon-Macquart. Zola from the start at the age of 28 had thought of the complete layout of the series. Set in France's Second Empire, the series traces the "environmental" influences of violence, alcohol and prostitution which became more prevalent during the second wave of the Industrial Revolution. The series examines two branches of a family: the respectable (that is, legitimate) Rougons and the disreputable (illegitimate) Macquarts for five generations.
This carefully crafted ebook: "The Story of Willie Ellin" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
This unfinished fragment contains the poignant story of an abused child. After abandoning the work, Charlotte later incorporated it into another work called 'Emma'.
Charlotte Brontë (1816 - 1855), English writer noted for her novel Jane Eyre (1847) and sister of Anne Brontë and Emily Brontë. The three sisters are almost as famous for their short, tragic lives as for their novels. In their works they described love more truthfully that was common in Victorian age England. In the past 40 years Charlotte Brontë's reputation has risen rapidly, and feminist criticism has done much to show that she was speaking up for oppressed women of every age.
This carefully crafted ebook: The Complete Short Stories: 69 Horror & Crime Tales is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
This collection comprises 69 short stories - all of the stories Poe is known to have written.
Table of contents:
The Bargain Lost (1831), Loss of Breath (1831), A Dream (1831), The Duc de L'Omelette (1831), Metzengerstein (1831), A Tale of Jerusalem (1831), The Assignation (1833), Four Beasts in One (1833), Manuscript Found in a Bottle (1833), A Parable (1833), Silence A Fable (1833), Berenice (1835), Bon-Bon (1835), King Pest (1835), Lionizing (1835), Morella (1835), The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaal (1835), Mystification (1837), Why the Little Frenchman Wears His Hand in a Sling (1837), How to Write a Blackwood Article (1838), Ligeia (1838), The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion (1839), The Devil in the Belfry (1839), The Fall of the House of Usher (1839), The Man That Was Used Up (1839), William Wilson (1839), The Journal of Julius Rodman (1839-1840), The Business Man (1840), Lionizing (1835), The Man of the Crowd (1840), The Colloquy of Monos and Una (1841), A Descent into the Maelstrm (1841), Eleonora (1841), The Island of the Fay (1841), The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841), Never Bet the Devil Your Head (1841), Three Sundays in a Week (1841), The Black Cat (1842), The Domain of Arnheim (1842), The Masque of the Red Death (1842), The Oval Portrait (1842), The Pit and the Pendulum (1842), The Tell-Tale Heart (1842), Diddling Considered as One of the Exact Sciences (1843), The Gold-Bug (1843), The Angel of the Odd (1844), The Balloon-Hoax (1844), The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq. (1844), Mesmeric Revelation (1844), The Oblong Box (1844), The Purloined Letter (1844), The Premature Burial (1844), Some Words with a Mummy (1844), The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether (1844), A Tale of the Ragged Mountains (1844), The Spectacles (1844), Thou Art the Man (1844), The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade (1844), The Imp of the Perverse (1845), The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar (1845), The Power of Words (1845), The Sphinx (1845), The Cask of Amontillado (1846), Landor's Cottage (1848), Mellonta Tauta (1848), Von Kempelen and His Discovery (1849), The Mystery of Marie Roget (1842-1843).
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was an American short-story writer, poet, critic, and editor . Edgar Allan Poe's tales of mystery and horror initiated the modern detective story, and the atmosphere in his tales of horror is unrivaled in American fiction. His The Raven (1845) numbers among the best-known poems in national literature.
Ce livre numérique présente "La Sonate à Kreutzer: Collection intégrale (3 Traductions en un seul livre)" avec une table des matières dynamique et détaillée. Notre édition a été spécialement conçue pour votre tablette/liseuse et le texte a été relu et corrigé soigneusement.
La Sonate à Kreutzer est une nouvelle en langue russe de Léon Tolstoï qu'il écrivit dans sa maison de Moscou et qui fut publiée en 1889. Le titre fait référence à la Sonate pour violon et piano no 9 en la majeur, dite "Sonate à Kreutzer", de Beethoven, que joue l'un des protagonistes de l'ouvrage. Le texte a inspiré par la suite plusieurs oeuvres musicales, dont le premier quatuor de Leos Janácek. Il a également été porté plusieurs fois à l'écran. Résumé: Au début du printemps, lors d'un voyage de plusieurs jours en train, le narrateur est dans un compartiment avec trois personnes depuis le départ du train. Une femme déjà âgée, un ami à elle qui se révèlera être un avocat et un homme sans âge aux cheveux blancs. La femme et l'avocat parlent des relations homme-femme et de l'augmentation du nombre de divorces, l'homme aux cheveux blancs qui était jusque-là taciturne se joint à la conversation et prétend que l'amour n'existe pas, qu'il s'agit tout au plus d'une attirance physique qui ne dure pas. Puis il se présente, il s'appelle Pozdnychev et il a tué sa femme.
Léon Tolstoï (1828-1910) est un des écrivains majeurs de la littérature russe, surtout connu pour ses romans et ses nouvelles, riches d'analyse psychologique et de réflexion morale et philosophique (Guerre et Paix, Anna Karénine).
Table des matières:
La Sonate à Kreutzer - Traduction par Isaac Pavlovsky et J.-H. Rosny aîné
La Sonate à Kreutzer - Traduction par E. Halpérine-Kaminsky
La Sonate à Kreutzer - Traduction par J.-Wladimir Bienstock
This carefully crafted ebook: "Mystery of the Yellow Room (The first detective Joseph Rouletabille novel and one of the first locked room mystery crime fiction novels)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
The Mystery of the Yellow Room by Gaston Leroux, is one of the first locked room mystery crime fiction novels. It was first published in France in 1908. It is the first novel starring fictional detective Joseph Rouletabille, and concerns a complex and seemingly impossible crime in which the criminal appears to disappear from a locked room. Leroux provides the reader with detailed, precise diagrams and floorplans illustrating the scene of the crime. The emphasis of the story is firmly on the intellectual challenge to the reader, who will almost certainly be hard pressed to unravel every detail of the situation.
Table of Contents :
Chapter 1. In Which We Begin Not to Understand
Chapter 2. In Which Joseph Roultabille Appears for the First Time
Chapter 3. "A Man Has Passed Like a Shadow Through the Blinds"
Chapter 4. "In the Bosom of Wild Nature"
Chapter 5. In Which Joseph Rouletabille Makes a Remark to Monsieur Robert Darzac Which Produces Its Little Effect
Chapter 6. In the Heart of the Oak Grove
Chapter 7. In Which Rouletabille Sets Out on an Expedition Under the Bed
Chapter 8. The Examining Magistrate Questions Mademoiselle Stangerson
Chapter 9. Reporter and Detective
Chapter 10. "We Shall Have to Eat Red Meat-Now"
Chapter 11. In Which Frederic Larsan Explains How the Murderer Was Able to Get Out of The Yellow Room
Chapter 12. Frederic Larsan's Cane
Chapter 13. "The Presbytery Has Lost Nothing of Its Charm, Nor the Garden Its Brightness"
Chapter 14. "I Expect the Assassin This Evening"
Chapter 15. The Trap
Chapter 16. Strange Phenomenon of the Dissociation of Matter
Chapter 17. The Inexplicable Gallery
Chapter 18. Rouletabille Has Drawn a Circle Between the Two Bumps on His Forehead
Chapter 19. Rouletabille Invites Me to Breakfast at the Donjon Inn
Chapter 20. An Act of Mademoiselle Stangerson
Chapter 21. On the Watch
Chapter 22. The Incredible Body
Chapter 23. The Double Scent
Chapter 24. Rouletabille Knows the Two Halves of the Murderer
Chapter 25. Rouletabille Goes on a Journey
Chapter 26. In Which Joseph Rouletabille Is Awaited with Impatience
Chapter 27. In Which Joseph Rouletabille Appears in All His Glory
Chapter 28. In Which It Is Proved That One Does Not Always Think of Everything
Chapter 29. The Mystery of Mademoiselle Stangerson
Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux ( 1868 - 1927) was a French journalist and author of detective fiction. In the English-speaking world, he is best known for writing the novel The Phantom of the Opera.
This carefully crafted ebook: "The Woman in White (illustrated) + The Moonstone + The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice" contains 3 books in one volume and is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
The Woman in White is an epistolary novel written by Wilkie Collins in 1859, serialized in 1859-1860, and first published in book form in 1860. It is considered to be among the first mystery novels and is widely regarded as one of the first in the genre of 'sensation novels'. The story is sometimes considered an early example of detective fiction with the hero, Walter Hartright, employing many of the sleuthing techniques of later private detectives.
The Moonstone (1868) by Wilkie Collins is an epistolary novel, generally considered the first detective novel in the English language. The Moonstone is about the disappearance of a precious diamond called "the Moonstone", and the novel is a collection of eyewitness accounts by different characters who know something about its disappearance. The idea was for the novel itself to be like a collection of evidence so that the readers could be put in the position of the detective.
The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice is a Wilkie Collins's ghost story was set in 1860 and published in book form with 'My Lady's Money'. The Haunted Hotel: a tale of a haunting - or the tale of a crime? The ghost of Lord Montberry seems to be haunting the Palace Hotel in Venice. Montberry's beautiful-yet-terrifying wife, the Countess Narona, and her erstwhile brother are the center of the terror that fills the Palace Hotel. Are their malefactions at the root of the haunting - or is there something darker, something much more unknowable at work?
William Wilkie Collins (1824 - 1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and author of short stories. His best-known works are The Woman in White, The Moonstone, Armadale, and No Name. Collins developed a new way of writing suspenseful novels: instead of having a central narrator who tells the story, Collins composed his novels as a series of first-person narratives, so the point of view in the novels is always changing.
This carefully crafted ebook: "Crime and Punishment (The Unabridged Garnett Translation)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. This is the version based on the Unabridged Garnett Translation.
Crime and Punishment is a novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, first published in 1866. It is the second of Dostoyevsky's full-length novels following his return from ten years of exile in Siberia.
Crime and Punishment focuses on the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Raskolnikov, an impoverished ex-student in St. Petersburg who formulates and executes a plan to kill an unscrupulous pawnbroker for her cash. Raskolnikov argues that with the pawnbroker's money he can perform good deeds to counterbalance the crime, while ridding the world of a worthless vermin. He also commits this murder to test his own hypothesis that some people are naturally capable of such things, and even have the right to do them. Several times throughout the novel, Raskolnikov justifies his actions by connecting himself mentally with Napoleon Bonaparte, believing that murder is permissible in pursuit of a higher purpose.
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky (1821 - 1881) was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist and philosopher. Dostoyevsky's literary works explore human psychology in the context of the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmosphere of 19th-century Russia. Many literary critics rate him as one of the greatest and most prominent psychologists in world literature.
Ce livre numérique présente "Les Aventures Complètes d'Arsène Lupin (L'édition intégrale de 23 oeuvres)" avec une table des matières dynamique et détaillée. Notre édition a été spécialement conçue pour votre tablette/liseuse et le texte a été relu et corrigé soigneusement.
Ce livre contient la série Arsène Lupin qui compte 19 romans et 4 recueils de nouvelle. Arsène Lupin parue en 1905, il présente la particularité de se grimer, se maquiller, se déguiser ou même se transformer selon le personnage qu'il incarne. Néanmoins, au naturel, il s'agit, semble-t-il, d'un personnage plutôt élancé, de belle allure et d'une force peu commune, liée à son entraînement. Il fait montre de ses talents dans de nombreuses aventures qui se suivent chronologiquement et ont pour cadre la France de la Belle Époque puis, plus brièvement, celle des Années Folles. Sa répulsion à tuer et son respect des femmes le rendent fort sympathique pour un large public jusqu'à aujourd'hui.
Maurice Leblanc est un écrivain français (1864-1941), à Perpignan. Auteur de nombreux romans policiers et d'aventures, il est le créateur du célèbre personnage d'Arsène Lupin, le gentleman-cambrioleur.
Ce livre numérique présente "Crime et châtiment - Tome 1 et 2 (L'édition intégrale - 2 volumes)" avec une table des matières dynamique et détaillée. Notre édition a été spécialement conçue pour votre tablette/liseuse et le texte a été relu et corrigé soigneusement.
Crime et Châtiment est un roman de Dostoïevski publié en 1866. Cette oeuvre est une des plus connues du romancier et exprime les vues religieuses et existentialistes de Dostoïevski, en insistant sur le thème du salut par la souffrance. Le roman dépeint l'assassinat d'une vieille prêteuse sur gage et de sa soeur cadette par Raskolnikov, un ancien étudiant de Saint-Pétersbourg, et ses conséquences émotionnelles, mentales et physiques sur le meurtrier.
Fédor Dostoïevski (1821-1881) est un écrivain russe. Considéré comme l'un des plus grands romanciers russes, il a influencé de nombreux écrivains et philosophes.
Este ebook presenta "Resurrección" con un sumario dinámico y detallado.
Resurrección (, Voskreséniye), es una novela de León Tolstói publicada por primera vez en 1899, fue su última novela. El joven noble militar Dmitri Ivánovich Nejliúdov vuelve a saborear la vida civil un tiempo en un pueblo cercano a Nizhni Nóvgorod. Lleva una vida agradable con recepciones mundanas, sus numerosos amigos, un casamiento inminente (concertado) con una hija de familia noble y un brillante porvenir en la armada. Durante su estancia, es convocado como jurado a un tribunal, lo que le supone una gran tortura ya que una de los acusados es su primer amor, Katerina Máslova culpada de homicidio y que acaba condenada en una cárcel siberiana.
Liev Nikoláievich Tolstói ( 1828 1910) fue un novelista ruso ampliamente considerado como uno de los más grandes escritores de occidente y de la literatura mundial. Sus más famosas obras son Guerra y Paz y Anna Karénina, y son tenidas como la cúspide del realismo. Sus ideas sobre la «no violencia activa», expresadas en libros como El reino de Dios está en vosotros tuvieron un profundo impacto en grandes personajes como Gandhi y Martin Luther King.
