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When one of Arséne Lupin' victims is found dead in a way that implicates the wily criminal, he insists on heading the police search for the real murderer. The mystery involves finding a package of letters once written to Bismarck, locating a clock on which the number 813 has significance, as well as causing a reigning emperor to make several journeys incognito. Murders by the dozens, suicide and mild forms of torture are warp and woof of the plot.

A tale of chivalry and doomed, transcendent love, The Romance of Tristan and Iseult is one of the most resonant works of Western literature, as well as the basis for our enduring idea of romance. The story of the Cornish knight and the Irish princess who meet by deception, fall in love by magic, and pursue that love in defiance of heavenly and earthly law has inspired artists from Matthew Arnold to Richard Wagner. But nowhere has it been retold with greater eloquence and dignity than in Joseph Bédier’s edition, which weaves several medieval sources into a seamless whole, elegantly translated by Hilaire Belloc and Paul Rosenfeld.

Written in his distinctively dazzling manner, Oscar Wilde's story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is the author’s most popular work. The tale of Dorian Gray's moral disintegration caused a scandal when it first appeared in 1890, but though Wilde was attacked for the novel’s corrupting influence, he responded that there is, in fact, "a terrible moral in Dorian Gray." Just a few years later, the book and the aesthetic/moral dilemma it presented became issues in the trials occasioned by Wilde’s homosexual liaisons, which resulted in his imprisonment.

"Ann Veronica" is a New Woman novel by H. G. Wells published in 1909. "Ann Veronica" describes the rebellion of Ann Veronica Stanley, "a young lady of nearly two-and-twenty", against her middle-class father's stern patriarchal rule. The novel dramatizes the contemporary problem of the New Woman. It is set in Victorian era London and environs, except for an Alpine excursion. Ann Veronica offers vignettes of the women's suffrage movement in Great Britain and features a chapter inspired by the 1908 attempt of suffragettes to storm Parliament.

"The Battle of Life: A Love Story" is a novella by Charles Dickens, 1st published in 1846. It's the 4th of his five "Christmas Books", coming after "The Cricket on the Hearth", followed by "The Haunted Man & the Ghost's Bargain". The setting is an English village that stands on the site of a historic battle. Some characters refer to the battle as a metaphor for the struggles of life, hence the title.

Sich die Nase reibend, von Zeit zu Zeit sich umsehend, um Tom zu drohen, dass er ihn das nächste Mal verhauen werde, worauf Tom höhnisch lachte und seelenvergnügt nach Hause schlenderte. Und sobald er den Rücken gewandt hatte, hob der andere einen Stein auf, zielte, traf Tom zwischen die Schultern und rannte davon mit der Geschwindigkeit einer Antilope. Tom verfolgte den Verräter bis zu dessen Wohnung und fand so heraus, wo er wohne.

Aladin ist ein junger Mann, der von einem Zauberer beauftragt wird, eine Öllampe in einer magischen Höhle zu finden. Nachdem der Zauberer ihn zu betrügen versucht, behält Aladin die Lampe für sich. Er entdeckt, dass in der Lampe ein Geist steckt, der die Wünsche des Lampenbesitzers erfüllen muss. Mit Unterstützung des hilfreichen Geistes wird Aladin reich und mächtig und heiratet die schöne Tochter des Sultans.

Ichabod Crane, a schoolteacher, came to Tarry Town in the glen of Sleepy Hollow to ply his trade in educating young minds. He was a gullible and excitable fellow, often so terrified by locals' stories of ghosts that he would hurry through the woods on his way home, singing to keep from hysterics. Until late one night, he finds that maybe they're not just stories. What is that dark, menacing figure riding behind him on a horse? And what does it have in its hands? And why wasn't schoolteacher Crane ever seen in Sleepy Hollow again?

Chrétien de Troyes's masterpiece "Lancelot, The Knight of the Cart" is a riveting tale of knightly valor and courtly love. This romance marks the first known appearance of Lancelot as a major player in the Arthurian canon, and it also provides the first account of his affair with Guinevere. The first half of the narrative follows Lancelot (then unnamed) as he rescues Guinevere, who has been taken hostage by the evil Méléagant. Méléagant visits Arthur's court, boasting that he has ensnared many from Arthur's land (Logres).

Payer une taxe pour traverser le détroit de Constantinople à Scutari! On n'a jamais vu ça! Ces messieurs du nouveau gouvernement sont allés trop loin! " s'écrie le riche marchand turc Kéraban, grand défenseur des traditions. Or, précisément, Kéraban doit se rendre de Constantinople à Scutari, et donc traverser le Bosphore. " J'irai et je ne paierai pas ! clame Kéraban-le-Têtu. - Vous paierez ou vous n'irez pas ! " rétorque le fonctionnaire chargé de collecter la taxe. Qu'à cela ne tienne! Kéraban n'ira pas à Scutari par le détroit, mais par la terre ferme.

For sheer storytelling delight and pure adventure, "Treasure Island" has never been surpassed. From the moment young Jim Hawkins first encounters the sinister Blind Pew at the Admiral Benbow Inn until the climactic battle for treasure on a tropic isle, the novel creates scenes and characters that have fired the imaginations of generations of readers. Written by a superb prose stylist, a master of both action and atmosphere, the story centers upon the conflict between good and evil - but in this case a particularly engaging form of evil.

"Dracula" is an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. It introduced the character of Count Dracula, and established many conventions of subsequent vampire fantasy. The novel tells the story of Dracula's attempt to move from Transylvania to England so that he may find new blood and spread the undead curse, and of the battle between Dracula and a small group of men and a woman led by Professor Abraham Van Helsing.

First published in French as a serial in 1909, "The Phantom of the Opera" is a riveting story that revolves around the young, Swedish Christine Daaé. Her father, a famous musician, dies, and she is raised in the Paris Opera House with his dying promise of a protective angel of music to guide her. After a time at the opera house, she begins hearing a voice, who eventually teaches her how to sing beautifully. All goes well until Christine's childhood friend Raoul comes to visit his parents, who are patrons of the opera, and he sees Christine when she begins successfully singing on the stage.

Phileas Fogg, gentleman anglais, parie avec les membres de son club qu'il fera le tour de la terre en 80 jours. Et, aussitôt, le voilà parti accompagné de son domestique Jean, un Parisien, dit Passepartout. Il devra être revenu à Londres, pour gagner, le samedi 21 décembre 1872 à 20 heurs 45 minutes! Soupçonné d'être l'audacieux voleur de la Banque d'Angleterre, Phileas Fogg va être filé tout au long de ses pérégrinations par le détective Fix qui ne peut cependant pas l'arrêter, le mandat d'amener arrivant toujours trop tard.

Le capitaine James Playfair n'en démord pas sa fortune est bientôt faite ! Son plan ? Traverser l'Atlantique et forcer le blocus du port de Charleston. Une opération à hauts risques...Car les Sud des États-Unis est à feu et à sang. La guerre de Sécession fait rage. Mais les affaires sont les affaires...Coûte que coûte, il devra donc troquer sa cargaison d'armes aux sudistes contre le coton nécessaires aux filatures anglaises.

Étudiant désargenté, Eugène de Rastignac est monté à Paris pour y faire son droit et y acquérir gloire et pouvoir. Il loge dans une pension miteuse et rencontre le père Goriot. Ancien négociant, il s'est ruiné pour ses filles qui, après leur mariage, ne lui témoignent qu'indifférence et mépris. Rastignac est alors confronté aux calculs sordides et à la noirceur du coeur humain. Il tire de cette expérience un sentiment de fatalité mais aussi une formidable volonté de conquête.

This volume presents some of Conan Doyle s unduly neglected masterworks. Each begins in a quietly factual way, making all the more dramatic the crescendo of fear and puzzlement that ensues as each new circumstance is revealed. Even without his supremely logical brain child, Sherlock Holmes, Conan Doyle shows that his tales are unbeatable for thrills and excitement. Contents: Tales of terror: The horror of the heights, The leather funnel, The new catacomb, The case of Lady Sannox, The terror of Blue John Gap, The Brazilian cat.

La jeune Cécile de Volanges quitte son couvent pour faire l'apprentissage du monde et épouser le comte de Gercourt, mais une de ses parentes, la marquise de Merteuil, entend profiter de ce projet de mariage pour se venger d'une infidélité que lui a faite autrefois Gercourt. Elle charge donc son complice, le vicomte de Valmont, de pervertir Cécile avant ses noces.

"Michael Strogoff" is the 14th novel in Jules Verne's Extraordinary Voyages cycle, his largest and most influential body of published work. It was written specially for Czar Alexander II of Russia’s visit to Paris in 1876, and tells the story of a young courier's perilous journey across Russia to Eastern Siberia in order to warn the Czar's brother of an impending Tartar invasion. Like all of Verne’s work, this captivating adventure novel was meticulously researched, as is evident in the close attention to detail in the descriptions of Russian and Siberian geography.

As a dense yellow fog swirls through the streets of London, a deep melancholy has descended on Sherlock Holmes, who sits in a cocaine-induced haze at 221B Baker Street. His mood is only lifted by a visit from a beautiful but distressed young woman - Mary Morstan, whose father vanished ten years before. Four years later she began to receive an exquisite gift every year: a large, lustrous pearl. Now she has had an intriguing invitation to meet her unknown benefactor and urges Holmes and Watson to accompany her.