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Les trois mousquetaires

Alexandre Dumas

Le roman raconte les aventures d'un gascon désargenté de 18 ans, d'Artagnan, monté à Paris faire carrière. Il se lie d'amitié avec Athos, Porthos et Aramis, mousquetaires du roi Louis XIII. Ces quatre..

The Agamemnon of Aeschylus

Aeschylus

Agamemnon is the first of the three linked tragedies which make up The Oresteia trilogy by the ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus, followed by “The Libation Bearers” and “The Eumenides”. The trilogy a..

Volpone

Ben Jonson

Volpone is a comedy play by English playwright Ben Jonson first produced in 1605–1606, drawing on elements of city comedy and beast fable. A merciless satire of greed and lust, it remains Jonson's mos..

Peter Pan

J. M. Barrie

Peter Pan and Wendy (1911) is the brainchild of Scottish playwright and novelist J.M. Barrie, who wrote the book after the the success of his play Peter Pan; or, The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up (1904) Be..

The Willows

Algernon Blackwood

The Willows is a novella by English author Algernon Blackwood, originally published as part of his 1907 collection The Listener and Other Stories. It is one of Blackwood's best known works and has bee..

Beauty and the Beast

Jeanne-Marie

Beauty and the Beast is a fairy tale written by French novelist Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve and published in 1740 in La Jeune Américaine et les contes marins...

Breckinridge Elkins

Robert E. Howard

Breckinridge Elkins is a fictional character created by pulp writer Robert E. Howard. He was featured in twenty-six humorous Western short stories, most of which originally appeared in the pages of Ac..

Heart of the West

O. Henry

The Heart of the West is entirely comprised of stories set in the American West, and may have been partially based on tales—tall or true—which O Henry heard during his wanderings in Texas and Mexico.T..