Les prairies numériques

The Interpretation of Dreams is a book by Sigmund Freud. The first edition was first published in German in November 1899 as Die Traumdeutung (though post-dated as 1900 by the publisher). The publicat...

Roxana (1724), Defoes last and darkest novel, is the autobiography of a woman who has traded her virtue, at first for survival, and then for fame and fortune. Its narrator tells the story of her ...

The story concerns a love triangle. The protagonist, Dick Forrest, is a rancher with a poetic streak (his acorn song recalls Londons play, The Acorn Planters). His wi...

The “Moonstone” of the title is a large but flawed diamond, looted from India at the time of the Mutiny by an unscrupulous British officer. Many years later, estranged from his family due ...

The Call of the Wild is a novel by American writer Jack London. The plot concerns a previously domesticated and even somewhat pampered dog named Buck, whose primordial instincts return after a series ...

The Prince and the Pauper represents Twains first attempt at historical fiction. Set in 1547, it tells the story of two young boys who are identical in appearance: Tom Canty, a pauper ...

Jack London gained his first and most lasting fame as the author of tales of the Klondike gold rush. This, his first collection of stories, draws on his experience in the Yukon. The stories tell of ga...

Set in England in the late 18th century, Pride and Prejudice tells the story of Mr. and Mrs. Bennets five unmarried daughters after two gentlemen have moved into their neighbourhood: the rich and...