The narrator, Egaeus, is a studious young man who grows up in a large gloomy mansion with his cousin Berenice. He suffers from a type of obsessive disorder, a monomania that makes him fixate on obje……続きを見る
The tale opens with the unnamed narrator arriving at the house of his friend, Roderick Usher, having received a letter from him in a distant part of the country complaining of an illness and asking ……続きを見る
"The Inn of the Two Witches" is one of the best-known short stories written by Joseph Conrad (1857-1924). First published in 1915, it is an intriguing tale of adventure and mystery. The story comes ……続きを見る
The Red and the Black, Stendhal's masterpiece, is the story of Julien Sorel, a young dreamer from the provinces, fueled by Napoleonic ideals, whose desire to make his fortune sets in motion events b……続きを見る
"The Lagoon" is a short story by Joseph Conrad composed in 1896 and first published in Cornhill Magazine in 1897. The story is about a white man, referred to as "Tuan", who is travelling through an ……続きを見る
Mr Verloc, the secret agent, keeps a shop in London's Soho where he lives with his wife Winnie, her infirm mother, and her idiot brother, Stevie. When Verloc is reluctantly involved in an anarchist ……続きを見る
Set in late November 1827, the tale is begun by an unidentified narrator whose story is the loose outer frame for the central tale of Augustus Bedloe, a wealthy young invalid whom the narrator has k……続きを見る
Nel XXV secolo, lo scienziato Martial Novalic ha individuato una cometa in rotta di collisione con la Terra. La fine del mondo sembra vicina e gli uomini scatenano tutti i loro istinti...
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"An Anarchist: A Desperate Tale" is one of the best-known short stories written by Joseph Conrad (1857-1924). First published in 1906, the tale is centered around anarchist movement and political vi……続きを見る
An epic poem is a lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily concerning a serious subject containing details of heroic deeds and events significant to a culture or nation. This collection comprises the foll……続きを見る
The Assignation is a short story with Gothic touches and a tragic ending. The story was published as The Visionary in January 1834 in Louis A. Godey's monthly magazine, Lady's Book. After Poe revise……続きを見る
"The Partner" is a short story written by Joseph Conrad (1857-1924). First published in 1911, it is an intriguing sea tale on a mysterious shipwreck. This edition is enriched with two other Conrad's……続きを見る
"The Oval Portrait" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe involving the disturbing circumstances surrounding a portrait in a chateau. It is one of his shortest stories, filling only two pages in its i……続きを見る
Welcome to the Wonderful World of Oz! Collected here is the ultimate Kindle edition of the beloved series starring such timeless characters as Dorothy, the Tin Man, the Scarecrow, the Cowardly Lion,……続きを見る
A Personal Record (1912) both documents and fictionalizes Joseph Conrad's early life and the opening stages of his careers as a writer and as a seaman. It is also an artistic and political manifesto……続きを見る
"Ivan the Fool" (also known as "Ivan the Fool and his Two Brothers") is an 1886 short story (in fact, a literary fairy tale) by Leo Tolstoy, published in 1886. It describes the struggles of three br……続きを見る
A Tale of Jerusalem was written in the year 1832 by Edgar Allan Poe. This book is one of the most popular novels of Edgar Allan Poe, and has been translated into several other languages around the w……続きを見る
Prince Roman is a Pole who gives up his comfortable position in the aristocracy to fight as a (virtually) unknown soldier resisting Russian oppression. When captured, he has every opportunity to esc……続きを見る
"The book is absorbingly interesting: dramatic, subtle, fascinating with allurement." ー The New York Times. Captain Tom Lingard is on his way to help his friends, a Malay prince and princess, recla……続きを見る
It happened in the 'seventies in winter, on the day after St. Nicholas's Day. There was a fete in the parish and the innkeeper, Vasili Andreevich Brekhunov, a Second Guild merchant, being a church e……続きを見る
Il Principe (The Prince) is a political treatise by the Florentine public servant and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli. Originally called De Principatibus (About Principalities), it was writte……続きを見る
Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who first appeared in publication in 1887. He is the creation of Scottish born author and physician Sir Arthur Con……続きを見る
An intense, psychologically charged domestic drama, The Return is a brilliant and haunting exploration of the insecurities that lie at the heart of human relationships.
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The story follows an unnamed narrator who visits a mental institution in southern France (more accurately, a "Maison de Santé") known for a revolutionary new method of treating mental illnesses call……続きを見る
"The Warrior's Soul" is one of the best-known short stories written by Joseph Conrad (1857-1924). First published in 1917, it is a war tale of loyalty, murder and exile, set during Napoleon's retrea……続きを見る
MINE is a strange and wonderful lot! The chances are that there is not a single wretched beggar suffering under the luxury and oppression of the rich who feels anything like as keenly as I do either……続きを見る
Under Western Eyes (1911) is a novel by Joseph Conrad. The novel takes place in St. Petersburg, Russia, and Geneva, Switzerland, and is viewed as Conrad's response to the themes explored in Crime an……続きを見る
What's madness? Only something just a tiny bit wrong in the make of your brain. Why shouldn't there be a mad ship--I mean mad in a ship-like way, so that under no circumstances could you be sure she……続きを見る
This little-known novella from one of the masters of the form is so unusual for Joseph Conrad's work in several respects, although not in its exotic maritime setting or its even more exotic proseーi……続きを見る
