In old times when wishing still helped one, there lived a king whose daughters were all beautiful, but the youngest was so beautiful that the sun itself, which has seen so much, was astonished whenever it shone in her face. Close by the King's castle lay a great dark forest, and under an old lime-tree ... more »

Das Phänomen des Dandytums, das um 1800 mit Lord Byron beginnt und um 1900 mit Oscar Wilde, Charles Baudelaire, Max Beerbohm und anderen einen deutlichen Höhepunkt verzeichnet, erlebt zurzeit eine erstaunliche Renaissance. Namen wie Tom Wolfe, Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre oder Christian Kracht sind in ... more »

Good news: You don't have to sacrifice style just to pay your electric bill. Kathryn Finney, a.k.a. the Budget Fashionista, is the expert on all things chic and cheap. Now she opens up her Prada bag of shopping and style tips to make you fashionably frugal, with change to spare. It's as easy as 1-2-3 ... more »

Bilingual E-book - Ebook bilingue Vous apprenez l'anglais ? Laissez vous aider. Lisez les classiques dans leur langue d'origine. Tous nos ebooks contiennent l'oeuvre en version originale ainsi que sa traduction. Chaque ligne de dialogue ou chaque paragraphe est lié à sa version française et vice versa ... more »

Sarah Vowell exposes the glorious conundrumsof American history and culture with wit, probity, and an irreverent sense of humor. With Assassination Vacation, she takes us on a road trip like no other -- a journey to the pit stops of American political murder and through the myriad ways they have been ... more »

Avant que de parler des tropes en particulier, je dois dire un mot des figures en général ; puisque les tropes ne sont qu'une espéce de figures. On dit comunément que les figures sont des maniéres de parler éloignées de celles qui sont naturéles et ordinaires  : que ce sont de certains tours ... more »

Maxwell Kenton's bawdy masterpiece, first published by the Olympia Press in 1958 and the subject of innumerable lawsuits, piracies and bad film adaptations since, is a modern take on Candide. Candy Christian, a beautiful girl who just happened to be born on Valentine's Day, writes a paper on Contemporary ... more »

Reading The Catcher in the Rye has become a rite of passage for young Americans, landing the book on bestseller lists (and banned book lists) each year, even though it was published a half century ago. What is it about J. D. Salinger and his body of work that has left such a lasting mark on American ... more »

The following work is devoted to an account of the characteristics of crowds. The whole of the common characteristics with which heredity endows the individuals of a race constitute the genius of the race. When, however, a certain number of these individuals are gathered together in a crowd for purposes ... more »

Romanticism, says De Stendhal, is the art of presenting to the nations the literary works which, in the actual state of their habits and beliefs, are capable of giving them the greatest possible pleasure: classicism, on the contrary, presents them with what gave the greatest possible pleasure to their ... more »

In July 1997, twenty-five of America's most influential journalists sat down to try and discover what had happened to their profession in the years between Watergate and Whitewater. What they knew was that the public no longer trusted the press as it once had. They were keenly aware of the pressures ... more »

Immer fängt alles ganz harmlos an. Etwa wenn ein Mann sich kühl zu seinem berechnenden Alltagsglauben bekennt, dann aber vor Gott auf die Knie fällt und ihn um die Rettung seines Lebens bittet - er braucht ein neues Herz. Tatsächlich erhört Gott seine Bitte, und der ahnungslose Leser wird von der makabren ... more »