Livres de Littérature

Molière’s comedy-ballet mocks social climbing, false refinement, teachers, money, and vanity.

Marivaux’s elegant comedy of disguise, class, courtship, self-knowledge, and emotional testing.

Beaumarchais’s brilliant social comedy of servants, aristocrats, desire, wit, and pre-Revolutionary tension.

A fast Molière farce of tricks, fathers, young lovers, servants, disguises, and comic beatings.

A major Hawthorne collection featuring allegorical tales, historical sketches, and psychological shadows.

Twain’s dark novel of identity, race, fingerprints, switched infants, and Southern hypocrisy.

Milton’s tragic poem on blindness, captivity, vocation, vengeance, and spiritual trial.

Irving’s collection of European sketches, supernatural anecdotes, traveler’s tales, and comic observation.

Hawthorne’s romance of utopian reform, desire, performance, and disillusionment in a communal experiment.

A Leatherstocking tale of frontier conflict, initiation, wilderness, and moral testing.

A Mark Twain story collection led by the famous Hadleyburg satire, with sketches on reputation, fraud, belief, and social comedy.

A Leatherstocking adventure of scouting, war, loyalty, and romance around the Great Lakes frontier.

Cooper’s western Leatherstocking novel, closing Natty Bumppo’s life on the open plains.

The first Barsetshire novel, centered on conscience, charity, reform, journalism, and church income.

Hawthorne’s early story collection of Puritan shadows, moral allegory, and New England imagination.

A compact Brazilian romantic novel of love, disgrace, secrecy, sacrifice, and social restoration.

A foundational Argentine romantic-political novel set amid dictatorship, exile, danger, and love.

Alencar’s short romantic novel beginning with a delay, a glimpse, and a pursuit of mysterious love.

Lima Barreto’s socially sharp novel of race, class, suburb life, seduction, and injustice in Rio.

The great Middle High German heroic epic of Siegfried, Kriemhild, betrayal, vengeance, and downfall.

Schiller’s historical drama of freedom, friendship, court power, forbidden love, and political idealism.

Lamartine’s lyrical tale of memory, Naples, youthful love, loss, and romantic melancholy.

A Golden Age comedy about lies, reputation, love, social performance, and the comedy of suspicion.

A dark Brazilian Romantic classic of tavern tales, transgression, death, desire, and Gothic excess.