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Jean Racine · French
La dernière tragédie de Racine fait de la Bible un drame de pouvoir, de prophétie et de langage sacré.
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Jean Racine · French
La dernière tragédie de Racine fait de la Bible un drame de pouvoir, de prophétie et de langage sacré.
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Jules Verne · French
Le premier grand Verne lance le roman d'exploration aérienne entre science, Afrique, péril et invention.
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Jules Verne · French
Une aventure scientifique et souterraine où Verne transforme un cryptogramme en descente vers les origines du monde.
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Oscar Wilde · English
Oscar Wilde's comedy turns false names, courtship, muffins, and social manners into perfectly polished satire.
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Thomas Hardy · English
Hardy's late novel follows Jude Fawley through education, desire, marriage law, and social defeat.
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Thomas Hardy · English
Bathsheba Everdene's choices among loyalty, passion, and vanity shape one of Hardy's richest pastoral dramas.
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Thomas Hardy · English
Hardy's Michael Henchard rises by force of will and falls through pride, secrecy, and unforgiving chance.
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George Eliot · English
A betrayed weaver's hoarded gold is replaced by an adopted child in George Eliot's tale of renewal.
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George Eliot · English
Maggie Tulliver's hunger for love and freedom collides with family duty, provincial judgment, and tragic fate.
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George Eliot · English
George Eliot's first novel studies conscience, desire, labor, and judgment in a vividly drawn rural community.
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Anne Brontë · English
Anne Brontë's bold novel follows Helen Graham's escape from a destructive marriage and defense of moral freedom.
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Charlotte Brontë · English
Charlotte Brontë sets friendship, labor unrest, and women's independence against the pressures of industrial Yorkshire.
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Charlotte Brontë · English
Lucy Snowe's solitary voice turns exile, teaching, faith, and desire into Charlotte Brontë's most inward novel.
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Elizabeth Gaskell · English
Elizabeth Gaskell brings class conflict, industrial change, and moral growth into a powerful Victorian love story.
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Anthony Hope · English
A lookalike English gentleman is drawn into royal impersonation, romance, and danger in Ruritania.
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H. Rider Haggard · English
Quatermain's final great journey turns exploration into a story of loyalty, danger, and imagined kingdoms beyond the map.
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H. Rider Haggard · English
An expedition encounters Ayesha, the immortal queen whose beauty, power, and obsession dominate Haggard's fantasy romance.
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H. Rider Haggard · English
Allan Quatermain leads an expedition through peril, legend, and lost kingship in Haggard's adventure romance.
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John Buchan · English
A wartime Richard Hannay mission crosses Europe and the Near East in search of a dangerous political secret.
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John Buchan · English
Richard Hannay runs across Britain with a secret in his pocket and a spy network at his heels.
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H. G. Wells · English
H. G. Wells sends invention and imperial curiosity to the Moon, where discovery becomes strange, comic, and unsettling.
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Kenneth Grahame · English
A riverside classic where Mole, Rat, Badger, and Toad turn friendship, home, and mischief into lasting enchantment.
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William Shakespeare · English
Shakespeare's stark tragedy of prophecy, murder, conscience, and the political ruin born from unchecked ambition.
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Camilo Castelo Branco · Portuguese
Um romance português de paixão, superstição, conflito familiar, dinheiro e destino trágico.