Loïc, vieil homme solitaire et peu fréquentable, vit retiré dans un village des Côtes d’Armor. Attaché à sa terre, aux traditions, coincé depuis toujours entre le ciel et la mer, il mène une existence paisible.Excédé par un voleur qui visite régulièrement son poulailler, il s’arme de son vieux fusil pour le poursuivre à travers champs. Sur la piste du fuyard, une découverte embarrassante le contraint de mettre un terme à cette chasse.Désormais, l’équilibre est définitivemen...

Beautifully illustrated by Alice Tye, this is cornerstone of modernist fiction and an incisive critique of wealth, class and the inescapable heartache of lost love.In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.Glamour. Opulence. Excess.This is the world Jay Gatsby has created for himself, in hopes that he will one day capture the eye of Daisy Buchanan.But beneath all...

The Diary of a Young Girl started two days before Anne Frank's thirteenth birthday. In 1942, the Nazis had occupied Holland, and her family left their home to go into hiding, as they were Jews. Anne Frank recorded daily events, her personal experiences and her feelings in her diary for the next two years. Cut off from the outside world, she and her family faced hunger, boredom, claustrophobia at living in confined quarters, and the ever-present threat of discovery and deat...

The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. The black sign, painted in white letters that hangs upon the gates, reads:Opens at NightfallCloses at DawnAs the sun disappears beyond the horizon, all over the tents small lights begin to flicker, as though the entirety of the circus is covered in particularly bright fireflies. When the tents are all aglow, sparkling against the night sk...

One boy, one boat, one tiger . . .After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, a solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific. The only survivors from the wreck are a sixteen-year-old boy named Pi, a hyena, a zebra (with a broken leg), a female orang-utan – and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger. The scene is set for one of the most extraordinary and best-loved works of fiction in recent years.

Discover a new way to read classics with Quick Read.This Quick Read edition includes both the full text and a summary for each chapter.- Reading time of the complete text: about 11 hours- Reading time of the summarized text: 26 minutes"Madame Bovary" is a novel by Gustave Flaubert, published in 1857. It tells the story of Emma Bovary, a woman who lives beyond her means in order to escape the boredom of provincial life. The novel was initially criticized for its...

This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. This book features a table of contents linked to every chapter. The book was designed for optimal navigation on the iPad, Nook, PDA, Smartphone, and other electronic readers. It is formatted to display on all electronic devices including eReaders, Smartphones and other Mobile Devices with a small display.

This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. This book features a table of contents linked to every chapter. The book was designed for optimal navigation on the iPad, Nook, PDA, Smartphone, and other electronic readers. It is formatted to display on all electronic devices including eReaders, Smartphones and other Mobile Devices with a small display.

There have been many Christian religions created from the combination of the Gospel of Jesus and the writings in the Hebrew Bible. As the centuries passed, changes, new translations and adaptations where entered that only divided Christs ministres into different leaderships, or churches. The power struggle to control the word of Christ has been marked with violence and turmoil, that serves satan more than the Lord. You need only read the words of Christ in as told by Matthew, Mark, Luke and J...

Purportedly, Poe's enormous reputation in Europe is due mainly to Baudelaire's translation, which some consider better than the original. Charles Pierre Baudelaire (9 April 1821 - 31 August 1867) was a nineteenth century French poet, critic and translator. A controversial figure in his lifetime, Baudelaire's name has become a byword for literary and artistic decadence. At the same time his works, in particular his book of poetry Les Fleurs du mal (The Flowers of Evil), have been acknowledg...

L'art de la guerre est le premier traité de stratégie au monde. Rédigé vers le Ve siècle avant J.-C., il développe des thèses originales, qui s'inspirent de la philosophie chinoise ancienne. Considérant la guerre comme une réalité inévitable, il montre comment la réflexion peut mener à la victoire, comment l'analyse des faiblesses de l'ennemi peut fonder une tactique, si l'on sait les exploiter, et même les aggraver ; il met l'accent sur la dimension psychologique du combat, sur le rôle de...

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