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...

The first anthology of short stories by Jack London, Lost Face tells seven stories about the Klondike short stories. In “Lost Face,” the fur thief Subienkow faces gruesome tort...

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 Crystal Stopper is a mystery novel by Maurice Leblanc featuring the adventures of the gentleman thief Arsène Lupin. The novel appeared in serial form in the French...

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 ...

Pygmalion is a play by George Bernard Shaw, named after a Greek mythological figure. It was first presented on stage to the public in 1913. In ancient Greek mythology, Pygmalion&n...

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 ...