Ivan the Fool
All the devil's efforts to corrupt Ivan, to provoke his greed and ambition with money and other promises are in vain. Ivan ruins again and again the tricks that the devil uses to get him on his own side. In...
Literature - Short Stories
The Legend of Saint-Julian the Hospitaller
Julian the Hospitaller is the character - presented as a saint - of a medieval legend, transmitted by Santiago de Voragine, in his Golden Legend, written around 1262, and since then widely spread throughout...
Bridge to Therabithia
Jess Aarons, a boy of 11 living on the USA country, quite shy, is training to become the school's fastest runner. But on the very first day of classes, a new girl, Leslie Burke, wins in a race against all...
Italian folktales
In the 1950s, Italo Calvino began to work on the selection of two hundred tales from Italian folklore. A fantastic world with its medieval influence and the chivalric epic.
In the fairy tales,...
The quarter
After Mahfuz's death, this unpublished manuscript was found. There are eighteen stories on a theme already treated by the author with great success, the neighborhood and the inhabitants of the city where...
Tales of Mystery and Imagination
This book contains some of the most known short stories from this author: 'The Pit and the Pendulum', 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue', 'The Purloined Letter' and 'The Fall of the House of Usher'. Edgar...
The House Husband
James Patterson’s BookShots. Short, fast-paced, high-impact entertainment.
Harry Posehn is the best dad, the best husband... well, maybe not. Detective Teaghan Beaumont is getting closer and closer...
The Fables
Who doesn't know La Fontaine's Fables? This book is an opportunity to rediscover La Fontaine's most famous fables, such as "The Raven and the Fox", "The Hare and the Tortoise" and "The grasshopper and the...
The Wind in the Willows
Rat, Mole, Badger and Toad take part in their shared adventures with life on the river. Kenneth Grahame was born in 1859 in Edinburgh, was educated in Oxford, worked for the Bank of England and died in 1932...
Providence and the Guitar
An interesting story of a team of comedians, provincial artists who have to find a place to sleep and a place to eat day by day, exposed to an insecure crowd.
The providence of God protects those...