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Les contes drôlatiques Honoré de Balzac · 1855 · ★ 3.5 · 557p · ≈ 18h · Challenging A collection of stories with a mediaeval theme rather after the style of Rabelais. Early editions were illustrated by Gustav Dore and were published by Garnier Freres of Paris. The stories range from the absurd to the downright grim but the illustrations give them a life of their own. Rather off-putting to the reader used to modern French, the stories are written in an archaic French that is not… Shares: French Short stories, Littérature française, French literature, Continental european fiction

Short stories Guy de Maupassant · 1893 · ★ 4.5 · 334p · ≈ 11h · Challenging This is a works of the short stories by Guy de Maupassant. The Diamond Necklace  The Diary of a Madman  Farewell The False Gems The Gamekeeper The Horla  The Inn In the Moonlight The Mad Woman The Marquis de Fumerol The Moribund The Piece of String The Story of a Farm Girl Theodule Sabot's Confession The Trip of the Horla Useless Beauty "Who Knows?" The Wolf The Wreck The Wrong… Shares: CUENTOS FRANCESES, French Short stories, French literature, Continental european fiction

Nouvelles orientales Marguerite Yourcenar · 1938 · 146p · ≈ 4h · Challenging "Avec ces Nouvelles, écrites au cours des dix années qui ont précédé la guerre, la tentation de l’Orient est clairement avouée dans le décor, dans le style, dans l’esprit des textes. De la Chine à la Grèce, des Balkans au Japon, ces contes accompagnent le voyageur comme autant de clés pour une seule musique, venue d’ailleurs. Les surprenants sortilèges du peintre Wang-Fô, qui "aimait l’image des… Shares: French Short stories, French language materials, Social life and customs, Short Stories

The odd number Guy de Maupassant · 1889 · ★ 3.5 · 226p · ≈ 7h · Challenging "Une vie" (A Woman's Life) is a novel written by the French author Guy de Maupassant, first published in 1883. The story follows the life of Jeanne, a young woman from Normandy, as she navigates the complexities of love, marriage, and societal expectations in the 19th century. Jeanne's journey is marked by disillusionment, as she realizes that the idealized notions of romance and happiness she… Shares: CUENTOS FRANCESES, French Short stories, Social life and customs, Short Stories

White Nights Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 1961 · ★ 4.1 · 239p · ≈ 7h · Moderate White Nights by Fyodor Dostoyevsky is a poignant short story about love, loneliness, and fleeting human connections. Set in St. Petersburg during the ethereal "white nights" of summer, it follows a dreamy, solitary narrator who meets a young woman named Nastenka. Over four nights, he shares his fantasies and feelings, while she confides her longing for a lost lover. As the narrator falls in love… Shares: Continental european fiction, Manners and customs, Social life and customs, Short Stories

Consuming autobiographies Claire Boyle · 2007 · 186p · ≈ 6h · Moderate "Since 1975, French literary writing has been marked by an autobiographical turn which has seen authors increasingly often tap into the vein of what the French term ecriture de soi. This coincides, paradoxically, with the 'death of autobiography', as these authors self-consciously distance themselves and their writings from conventional autobiography, founding a 'nouvelle autobiographie'… Shares: Littérature française, French, French literature

Směšné lásky Milan Kundera · 1965 · ★ 3.8 · 257p · ≈ 8h · Moderate "In one of these stories a young man and his girlfriend pretend that she is a stranger he picked up on the road - only to become strangers to each other in reality as their game proceeds. In another a teacher fakes piety in order to seduce a devout girl, then jilts her and yearns for God. In yet another girls wait in bars, on beaches, and on station platforms for the same lover, a middle-aged Don… Shares: Continental european fiction, Manners and customs, Social life and customs, Short Stories

The complete works of O. Henry [pseud.] O. Henry · 1899 · ★ 3.8 · 1396p · ≈ 46h · Demanding The FICTION & PROSE LITERATURE collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The collection provides readers with a perspective of the world from some of the 18th and 19th century’s most talented writers. Written for a range of audiences, these works are a treasure for any curious reader looking to see the world through the eyes of ages past. Beyond the main body of… Shares: Manners and customs, Social life and customs, Short Stories

The troll garden Willa Cather · 1905 · 156p · ≈ 5h · Challenging "This collection of Willa Cather stories - her first book of fiction and the capstone of her early career - is as relevant today as at the time of its initial publication. As different and individually distinguished as the seven stories may be, they share as their subject the role and status of the artist in American society. The passions, ambitions, and pretensions, the cant and the pathos of… Shares: Manners and customs, Social life and customs, Short Stories

The ruling passion Henry van Dyke · 1901 · ★ 3.7 · 144p · ≈ 4h · Challenging This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true… Shares: Manners and customs, Short Stories

Iphigénie Jean Racine · 1769 · 91p · ≈ 3h · Demanding Créée à Versailles le 18 août 1674, Iphigénie marque le retour de Racine à des thèmes mythologiques après une série de sujets historiques (Britannicus, Bérénice, Bajazet, Mithridate). Sur les rivages d'Aulis, les Grecs se préparent à aller attaquer Troie. Mais ils ne peuvent atteindre Troie, car les dieux retiennent les vents nécessaires au départ de l'expédition. Agamemnon, leur chef, est donc… Shares: French language materials, French literature

Death Comes as the End Agatha Christie · 1944 · ★ 3.7 · 240p · ≈ 8h · Challenging It is 2000 BC in Egypt and Imhotep the Ka-Priest brings home his beautiful young concubine Nofret. But not all the members of his family welcome her. When she is found dead Imhotep's daughter, Renisenb, suspects it might not have been an accident. The death unleashes the greed and hate that have been building up within the family and the horrific events that follow tear it apart.This is… Shares: French language materials, Manners and customs, Social life and customs

En route Joris-Karl Huysmans · 1895 · 458p · ≈ 15h · Challenging The plot of the novel is as simple as it could be. I've taken the principal character of Là-Bas, Durtal, had him converted and sent him to a Trappist monastery. In studying his conversion, I've tried to trace the progress of a soul surprised by the gift of grace, and developing in an ecclesiastical atmosphere, to the accompaniment of mystical literature, liturgy, and plainchant, against a… Shares: French literature, Continental european fiction

Là-bas Joris-Karl Huysmans · 1890 · ★ 4.0 · 368p · ≈ 12h · Challenging Là-Bas, translated as Down There or The Damned, is a novel by the French writer Joris-Karl Huysmans, first published in 1891. It is Huysmans' most famous work after À rebours. Là-Bas deals with the subject of Satanism in contemporary France, and the novel stirred a certain amount of controversy on its first appearance. It is the first of Huysmans' books to feature the character Durtal, a thinly… Shares: French language materials, Continental european fiction

They Came to Baghdad Agatha Christie · 1951 · ★ 4.2 · 252p · ≈ 8h · Moderate E-book exclusive extras: 'Agatha Christie in Baghdad,' extensive selections from Agatha Christie: An Autobiography. Plus: Christie biographer Charles Osborne's essay on They Came to Baghdad.Agatha Christie first visited Baghdad as a tourist in 1927; many years later she would become a resident of the exotic and then open city, and it was here, and while on archaeological digs throughout Iraq with… Shares: French Short stories, French literature

Moll Flanders Daniel Defoe · 1722 · ★ 3.5 · 322p · ≈ 10h · Demanding These are the true confessions of a remarkable and passionate young woman are thought to have been based on the adventures of a real prisoner in Newgate where Moll was born. ostensibly written as a warning to wrongdoers, the moral of Defoe's candid and cautionary tale is often lost in the sheer vitality of Moll - one of the supreme characters of English comic fiction. Her fortunes and… Shares: Exile, Social life and customs

Le mythe de Sisyphe Albert Camus · 1941 · ★ 4.2 · 68p · ≈ 2h · Challenging «Il n'y a qu'un problème philosophique vraiment sérieux: c'est le suicide.» Avec cette formule foudroyante, qui semble rayer d'un trait toute la philosophie, un jeune homme de moins de trente ans commence son analyse de la sensibilité absurde. Il décrit le «mal de l'esprit» dont souffre l'époque actuelle: «L'absurde naît de la confrontation de l'appel humain avec le silence déraisonnable du… Shares: French language materials, French literature, Continental european fiction

La tulipe noire Alexandre Dumas · 1800 · ★ 3.9 · 276p · ≈ 9h · Challenging On the 20th of August, 1672, the city of the Hague, always so lively, so neat, and so trim that one might believe every day to be Sunday, with its shady park, with its tall trees, spreading over its Gothic houses, with its canals like large mirrors, in which its steeples and its almost Eastern cupolas are reflected, - the city of the Hague, the capital of the Seven United Provinces, was swelling… Shares: French language materials, Continental european fiction

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