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This book contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure!To the Lighthouse (5 May 1927) is a novel by Virginia Woolf. A landmark novel of high modernism, the text, centering on the Ramsay family and their visit...

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In A Modern Utopia, two travelers fall into a space-warp and suddenly find themselves upon a Utopian Earth controlled by a single World Government.

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The Invisible Man is an 1897 science fiction novella by H.G. Wells. Wells' novel was originally serialised in serialised Magazine in 1897, and published as a novel the same year. The Invisible Man of the title is Griffin, a scientist who theorises...

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A collection of short stories:"e;The Crystal Egg"e;"e;The Star"e;"e;A Story of the Stone Age"e;"e;A Story of the Days to Come"e;"e;The Man who could Work Miracles"e;

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Edward Prendick is shipwrecked in the Pacific. Rescued by Doctor Moreau's assistant he is taken to the doctor's island home where he discovers the doctor has been experimenting on the animal inhabitants of the island, creating bizarre proto-humans...

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Les martiens attaquent... Voici l'un des premiers classiques du space opera en science-fiction moderne. Vous connaissez tous ce grand roman, recemment a nouveau adapte au cinema. Voici un petit extrait pour vous mettre en bouche, une vivante descr...

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Two scientists devise a compound that produces enormous plants, animals - and humans! The chilling results are disastrous.

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The Sleeper Awakes is H. G. Wells's wildly imaginative story of London in the twenty-second century and the man who by accident becomes owner and master of the world. In 1897 a Victorian gentleman falls into a sleep from which he cannot be waked. ...

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Starved and mistreated, empty bowl in hand, the young hero musters the courage to approach his master, saying, "e;Please, sir, I want some more."e; Oliver Twist's famous cry of the heart has resounded with readers since the novel's initial...

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Qui ne connait pas l'intrigue de ce roman ? La terre en l'an 8701 a les apparences d'un paradis. Les apparences seulement. Car derriere ces jardins magnifiques, ces bosquets somptueux, cet eternel ete ou les hommes devenus oisifs n'ont a se preocc...

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"e;Over me, about me, closing in on me, embracing me ever nearer, was the Eternal, that which was before the beginning and that which triumphs over the end; that enormous void in which all light and life and being is but the thin and vanishing...

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Le savant Griffin, apres 15 ans de recherches et des depenses qui l'ont ruine, invente une formule pour devenir invisible. Apres avoir fait l'experience sur le chat de sa voisine, il decide d'experimenter la formule sur lui meme, notamment pour fu...

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Unique survivant d'un naufrage, Edward Prendick est recueilli sur une ile des mers du sud par un personnage singulier: le docteur Moreau. Il decouvre avec effroi que l'ile est peuplee de creatures monstrueuses, mi-hommes mi-betes, vivant sous la d...

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THE WORLD SET FREE was written in 1913 and published early in 1914, and it is the latest of a series of three fantasias of possibility, stories which all turn on the possible developments in the future of some contemporary force or group of forces...

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"e;In the Days of the Comet"e; (1906) is a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells in which humanity is "e;exalted"e; when a comet causes "e;the nitrogen of the air, the old azote,"e; to "e;change out of itself"e; and ...

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Ce roman nous decrit une guerre mondiale, en 1908, concue par un stratege de genie, H.G. Wells, qui invente l'arme absolue : les dirigeables geants, veritables porte-avions, d'ou prennent leur vol les Drachenflieger de bombardement. Ainsi, l'Allem...

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This volume collects the complete works of Edgar Allan Poe (Wikipedia). It started out as a restructuring and reformatting of the 1903 "e;Raven Edition"e; of his works-and then it grew. Contents : THE TALESTHE POEMSTHE NOVELSTHE ESSAYSTHE ...

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This book,contains now several HTML tables of contentsThe first table of contents lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a ...

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This collection gathers together the works by William Shakespeare in a single, convenient, high quality, and extremely low priced volume! This book contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure!The Comedies of...

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"e;A Midsummer Night's Dream"e;, one of Shakespeare's earliest comedies is a spectacular tale of fantasy. The story revolves around two couples (Hermia and Lysander and Helena and Demetrius) who escape to a fairyland forest ruled by Oberon...

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Othello (The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice) is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1603. It is based on the story Un Capitano Moro ("e;A Moorish Captain"e;) by Cinthio, a disciple of Boccaccio, first...

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Romeo and Juliet is a tragic play written early in the career of William Shakespeare about two teenage "e;star-cross'd lovers"e; whose untimely deaths ultimately unite their feuding households. It was among Shakespeare's most popular plays...

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Hamlet by William Shakespeare, Hamlet is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601. The play, set in Denmark, recounts how Prince Hamlet exacts revenge on his uncle Claudius, who has murdered Hamlet's...

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Macbeth is among the best-known of William Shakespeare's plays, and is his shortest tragedy, believed to have been written between 1603 and 1606. It is frequently performed at both amateur and professional levels, and has been adapted for opera, f...

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Jack London's novels and ruggedly individual life seemed to embody American hopes, frustrations, and romantic longings in the turbulent first years of the twentieth century, years infused with the wonder and excitement of great technological and h...

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This ebook contains all of Oscar Wilde's plays (including the fragments), his only novel, his fairy tales and short stories, the poems, all of his essays, lectures, reviews, and other newspaper articles, based on the 1909 edition of his works. For...

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The Sea-Wolf is a 1904 psychological adventure novel by Jack London about a literary critic Humphrey van Weyden. The story starts with him aboard a San Francisco ferry, called Martinez, which collides with another ship in the fog and sinks. He is ...

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A triangle romance provides the basis for a questioning of the meaning of masculinity, as well as an examination of agribusiness in California. Jack London said of this novel: "e;It is all sex from start to finish -- in which no sexual adventu...

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White Fang is a novel by American author Jack London (1876-1916) - and the name of the book's eponymous character, a wild wolfdog. First serialized in Outing magazine, it was published in 1906. The story takes place in Yukon Territory and the Nort...

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This book contains the following works with an Active Table of ContentsIn writing the novel, Montgomery was inspired by notes she had made as a young girl about a couple who were mistakenly sent an orphan girl instead of the boy they had requested...

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