Dans les halles grouillantes de Paris, le cœur battant de la ville, se croisent les destins des marchands, des ouvriers et des rêveurs. Émile Zola nous plonge au sein de ce marché foisonnant avec "Le Ventre de Paris", o il dépeint avec une précision réaliste la vie quotidienne et les luttes sociales du Second Empire. À travers les yeux de Florent, un idéaliste injustement accusé, nous découvrons un monde de contrastes, de saveurs et de...

Ce récit délibérément décousu croise et oppose intrigues et personnages. Il y a d'abord les atermoiements et les revirements de Julius de Baraglioul, catholique traditionnel, et de son beau-frère, Anthime Armand-Dubois, libre penseur. Il y a la bande des escrocs qui répandent la rumeur selon laquelle le pape serait séquestré dans les caves du Vatican. Mais, surtout, il y a le jeune Lafcadio, prisonnier de sa mystique de l'acte gratuit. Cette...

Une édition de référence de La Curée d'Émile Zola, spécialement conçue pour la lecture sur les supports numériques. « Renée, dans ses satiétés, éprouva une singulière sensation de désirs inavouables, à voir ce paysage qu'elle ne reconnaissait plus, cette nature si artistement mondaine, et dont la grande nuit frissonnante faisait un bois sacré, une de ces clairières idéales au fond desquelles les anciens dieux cachaient leurs amours...

Son Excellence Eugène Rougon est un roman d'Émile Zola publié en 1876, sixième volume de la série Les Rougon-Macquart. Dans cet ouvrage, selon ses propres termes, Zola pénètre les « coulisses politiques » du Second Empire. Les personnages sont des proches du pouvoir : ministres, députés, hauts fonctionnaires. L'action se déroule de 1856 à 1861. Eugène Rougon est le fils aîné de Pierre et Félicité Rougon. Dans les romans La Fortune...

Trying to find a partner for the Valentine's Day dance, Greg finds solace in the fact that his best friend Rowley also doesn't have a date, but an unexpected twist might turn his night around.

Published posthumously in 1766, A Journal to Stella by Jonathan Swift is a complete collection consisting of sixty-five letters he wrote to Esther Johnson, whom he bestowed the name of Stella. It is, known that Stella is the name Swift gave to Esther Johnson. They met when she was only eight years old and knew each other for the entirety of the rest of their lives. Swift was first a mentor to young Esther. He taught her to read and write then introduced...

Oscar Wilde brings his enormous gifts for astute social observation and sparkling prose to The Picture of Dorian Gray, his dreamlike story of a young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty. This dandy, who remains forever unchanged—petulant, hedonistic, vain, and amoral—while a painting of him ages and grows increasingly hideous with the years, has been horrifying, enchanting, obsessing, even corrupting readers for more than a hundred...

""But my very feelings changed to repulsion and terror when I saw the whole man slowly emerge from the window and begin to crawl down the castle wall over the dreadful abyss, face down, with his cloak spreading out around him like great wings... I saw the fingers and toes grasp the corners of the stones, worn clear of the mortar by the stress of years, and by thus using every projection and inequality move downwards with considerable speed, just as...

An orphan girl's progress from the custody of cruel relatives to an oppressive boarding school culminates in a troubled career as a governess. Jane's first assignment at Thornfield, where the proud and cynical master harbors a scandalous secret, draws readers ever deeper into a compelling exploration of the mysteries of the human heart. A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative

When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited; he is indifferent to her good looks and lively mind. When she later discovers that Darcy has involved himself in the troubled relationship between his friend Bingley and her beloved sister Jane, she is determined to dislike him more than ever. In the sparkling comedy of manners that follows, Jane Austen shows the folly of judging by first...