It was their stepmother’s death that brought Christobel Kershaw and her younger brother Randall home at last. But the large elaborate mansion chosen by their deceased...

I can not better put that extraordinary woman, my employer, before you than by describing my first meeting with her. It is easier to show her qualities in action than to describe...

Il s’agit de la même histoire que Fleurs du foyer, fleur du cloître, avec des noms de personnages différents.Serge Harbreuze, qui a acquis une immense...

L’Enfer est un roman d’Henri Barbusse paru en 1908. Le récit est une attaque contre la société et ses institutions. Il est également...

Sir Percy leads a band of musicians whose play is of questionable quality. Nonetheless, the disguise enables him to listen in to conversations as revolutionaries lay their plans...

Paris, mars 1793. Le Tribunal révolutionnaire vient d’être institué et la Terreur est imminente... Marie-Antoinette est prisonnière au Temple en...

Over the years sixty members of the Dark family and sixty Penhallows have married one another—but not without their share of fighting and feuding. Now Aunt Becky, the...

The young Grace Livingston compiled this book using quotes from her aunt’s works; Isabella Macdonald Alden (who wrote under the pen name “Pansy”). It is a quote...

Dark, mysterious and mordantly funny, Oliver Twist features some of the most memorably drawn villains in all of fiction—the treacherous gangmaster Fagin, the menacing thug...

“Un précepteur auprès de moi, à Castel-Pic, ce manoir isolé de Dylvanie où nous vivons en sauvages, quel bouleversement !” A...