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Dans le deuxième moitié du xviii e siècle, époque des Lumières, un jeune avocat issu d'une famille férue d'histoire brille dans les salons par son éloquence. À trente-quatre ans, Hérault de Séchelles est choisi parmi les boucs émissaires de la Terreur. Spécialiste de la manipulation, il rédige un petit ... more »

Difficile d'écrire son histoire lorsqu'on habite dans une porcherie et, qui plus est, lorsqu'on est devenue une truie. Car telle est l'extraordinaire aventure de la narratrice de cette fable terriblement sensuelle, qui se métamorphose sous les yeux stupides de son ami Honoré, prend du poids, se découvre ... more »

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The sequel to As authors may be supposed to know better than anyone else what they intended to do when writing a book, I beg leave to say that there is no moral to this story. Rose is not designed for a model girl, and the Sequel was simply written in fulfillment of a promise, hoping to afford some amusement ... more »

If anyone had told me what wonderful changes were to take place here in ten years, I wouldn't have believed it,' said Mrs Jo to Mrs Meg, as they sat on the piazza at Plumfield one summer day, looking about them with faces full of pride and pleasure. . more »

Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch Hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but the Baronetage; there he found occupation for an idle hour, and consolation in a distressed one; there his faculties were roused into admiration and respect, by contemplating the limited ... more »

I would ask you a favour, said the German captain, as we sat in the cabin of a U-boat which had just been added to the long line of bedraggled captives which stretched themselves for a mile or more in Harwich Harbour, in November, 1918. I made no reply; I had just granted him a favour by allowing him ... more »

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Sanine is a thoroughly uncomfortable book, but it has a fierce energy which has carried it in a very short space of time into almost every country in Europe and at last into this country, where books, like everything else, are expected to be comfortable. It has roused fury both in Russia and in Germany ... more »

My name is Seymour Wilbraham Wentworth. I am brother-in-law and secretary to Sir Charles Vandrift, the South African millionaire and famous financier. Many years ago, when Charlie Vandrift was a small lawyer in Cape Town, I had the (qualified) good fortune to marry his sister. Much later, when the Vandrift ... more »