Libri di Letteratura

A romance of Exmoor, outlaw violence, family feud, and steadfast love in seventeenth-century England.

A chimney sweep’s dreamlike underwater journey becomes a strange Victorian fable of conscience, reform, and wonder.

Irish myth, philosophy, comedy, and fairy-tale adventure meet in James Stephens’s playful modern fantasy.

A comic, exuberant novel in which Innocent Smith disrupts respectability and defends the joy of ordinary life.

Chesterton imagines future London as a comic battlefield of local patriotism, romance, and absurd political seriousness.

A speculative satire where a reversed utopia exposes strange laws about illness, machines, morality, and social order.

Don Juan Manuel reúne cuentos ejemplares donde consejo, prudencia y poder se vuelven narración memorable.

Una raccolta medievale di novelle brevi, motti, esempi morali e scene cortesi della prima prosa italiana.

A sharp family novel about Victorian authority, hypocrisy, inheritance, and one young man’s escape into intellectual freedom.

Rabelais fait de l’éducation du géant une satire humaniste de la guerre, du savoir et des institutions.

Meredith’s comedy studies vanity, courtship, wit, and the social theater of choosing a husband.

An expedition encounters Ayesha, the immortal queen whose beauty, power, and obsession dominate Haggard's fantasy romance.

Quatermain's final great journey turns exploration into a story of loyalty, danger, and imagined kingdoms beyond the map.

A lookalike English gentleman is drawn into royal impersonation, romance, and danger in Ruritania.

Lucy Snowe's solitary voice turns exile, teaching, faith, and desire into Charlotte Brontë's most inward novel.

Charlotte Brontë sets friendship, labor unrest, and women's independence against the pressures of industrial Yorkshire.

George Eliot's first novel studies conscience, desire, labor, and judgment in a vividly drawn rural community.

Maggie Tulliver's hunger for love and freedom collides with family duty, provincial judgment, and tragic fate.

A betrayed weaver's hoarded gold is replaced by an adopted child in George Eliot's tale of renewal.

Hardy's Michael Henchard rises by force of will and falls through pride, secrecy, and unforgiving chance.

Oscar Wilde's comedy turns false names, courtship, muffins, and social manners into perfectly polished satire.

Le premier grand Verne lance le roman d'exploration aérienne entre science, Afrique, péril et invention.

La dernière tragédie de Racine fait de la Bible un drame de pouvoir, de prophétie et de langage sacré.

Goethes Versepos verbindet bürgerliche Liebe, Flucht und Ordnungssinn vor dem Hintergrund der Revolutionszeit.