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Margaret of Anjou, wife of England’s Henry VI, played a key role in launching the storied War of the Roses – the 30-year civil conflict fuelled by the Lancasters and the Yorks, each vying for the British throne in the 15th century.

J'accuse...! by Émile Zola. J'accuse est le titre d'un article rédigé par Émile Zola lors de l'affaire Dreyfus et publié dans le journal L'Aurore du 13 janvier 1898 sous forme d'une lettre ouverte au Président de la République Félix Faure. Il s'est inspiré d'un dossier fourni en 1896 par l'écrivain Bernard Lazare. "J'accuse!" (I accuse!) was published January 13, 1898 in the maiden issue of the newspaper L'Aurore (The Dawn). It had the effect of a bomb. In the words of historian Barbara Tuchman, it was "one of the great commotions of history." Zola's intent was to force his own ...

A series of five essays by G.K. Chesterton, published in "Black and White" magazine in 1903, under the heading "The Creed of a Credulous Person". (Summary by Maria Therese)

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Alice’s adventures in Wonderland is probably one of the most well known and popular children's novels in the English language. Written in 1865 by Charles Lutwidge Dodgeson, better known by his pen name ‘Lewis Carrol’. Lewis, a mathematician, poet, photographer and inventor, tells a surreal fantasy tale, of Alice, who visits a world of unnatural logic after following a very smart White Rabbit, down a rabbit hole. The world she discovers is inhabited by the strangest and most endearing characters; The ‘Mad Hatter’, the sleepy ‘...

Madame Bovary: Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary. Mœurs de province, couramment abrégé en Madame Bovary, est un roman de Gustave Flaubert paru en 1857 chez Michel Lévy frères, après une préparution en 1856 dans la Revue de Paris. Il s'agit d'une œuvre majeure de la littérature française. L'histoire est celle de l'épouse d'un médecin de province, Emma Bovary, qui lie des relations adultères et vit au-dessus de ses moyens, essayant ainsi d'éviter l’ennui, la banalité et la médiocrité de la vie provinciale. À sa parution, le roman fut attaqué par le procureur de Paris du ...

The life and accomplishments of England's sole title holder of "The Great." King Alfred defended England from Viking invasions and ushered in an era of learning and progress for the British Isles. Summary by Ryan Cherrick.

There are certain names which are familiar, as names, to all mankind; and every person who seeks for any degree of mental cultivation, feels desirous of informing himself of the leading outlines of their history, that he may know, in brief, what it was in their characters or their doings which has given them so widely-extended a fame. Consequently, great historical names alone are selected; and it has been the writer's aim to present the prominent and leading traits in their characters, and all the important events in their lives, in a bold and free manner, and yet in the plain and simple ...

La Comédie Humaine: Le Père Goriot by Honoré de Balzac. Le Père Goriot est un roman d’Honoré de Balzac, écrit en 1834, dont la publication débute dans la Revue de Paris et qui paraît en 1835 en librairie. Il fait partie des Scènes de la vie privée de la Comédie humaine. Le Père Goriot établit les bases de ce qui deviendra un véritable édifice : la Comédie humaine, construction littéraire unique en son genre, avec des liens entre les volumes, des passerelles, des renvois. Le Père Goriot (English: Father Goriot or Old Goriot) is an 1835 novel by French novelist and ...

Candide ou L'optimisme: Voltaire. Candide est un conte philosophique. Il a pour personnage principal un jeune homme, Candide, qui vit dans un château avec sa cousine, Cunégonde, et son oncle. Il y est éduqué par un précepteur philosophe, Pangloss, qui suit la théorie de Leibniz, philosophe du XVIIe siècle, selon laquelle, notamment, « tout est pour le mieux dans le meilleur des mondes possibles ». Candide adhère d’abord à cette idée ; mais lorsque son oncle le chasse du château après l’avoir surpris en train d’embrasser Cunégonde, la vie va lui faire revoir cette opinion...

The Odyssey by Homer. Homer's "The Odyssey" forms the template of practically every adventure story that has been told in the West since it was composed nearly three thousand years ago: a bold and ingenious hero (in this case Ulysses, one of the principal warriors who fought at Troy) undertakes a long and perilous journey in the course of which he (or she) must confront many different dangers and temptations, both physical and psychological, before engaging in one final struggle that will prove decisive for the hero, and for all who depend upon the hero. Many episodes in this work have ...

Back from the Great War, a penniless and disillusioned young soldier finds himself in the home of Miss Marilla Chadwick, a sweet old lady who is expecting her nephew for dinner. Mary Amber, Miss Marilla's neighbor, is also there. He hates girls. She hates men. What will be the result? He will fight girl in the concrete! - Summary by LikeManyWaters

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum. The story chronicles the adventures of a girl named Dorothy Gale in the Land of Oz. As Baum says in the introduction "It aspires to being a modernized fairy tale, in which the wonderment and joy are retained and the heartaches and nightmares are left out." And it succeeds wonderfully. It is one of the best-known stories in American popular culture and has been widely translated. This is the first of thirteen more Oz books.

La Princesse de Clèves: Madame de La Fayette. La Princesse de Clèves, de Marie-Madeleine de La Fayette, fut publié anonymement en 1678 et connut un grand succès dès sa parution. Sur la fastueuse toile de fond de la cour d’Henri II, la très jeune Mademoiselle de Chartres, parangon de beauté et de vertu, devient la Princesse de Clèves en épousant un homme exemplaire qu’elle estime sans pouvoir aimer. Ce n’est que trop tard que madame de Clèves rencontre son double masculin, le duc de Nemours, dont elle se découvre progressivement, et bien malgré elle, amoureuse. Au hasard ...

H. P. Lovecraft’s name is synonymous with horror fiction. His major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror: the idea that life is incomprehensible to human minds and that the universe is fundamentally alien. This collection contains 24 Lovecraft works that are in the public domain. You'll find more versions of these stories throughout LibriVox's short story collections and short horror story collections. (adapted from Wikipedia)

Howard Phillips Lovecraft, better known as H.P. Lovecraft, was an American author of horror, fantasy, poetry and science fiction, especially the subgenre known as weird fiction and many feel he is the acknowledged master of creepy, weird and unsettling stories. These are seven stories by Lovecraft that literally span his career; some being written when he was barely a teenager and one (The Shunned House) only published after he had died. Each story is unique and strange in it's own way but all of them come from the same mind that gave us the Cult of Cthulhu and other wonderful tales that ...

A scientific expedition to Antartica discovers the ruins of a civilization millions of years old, built by the Elder Things, beings who came to Earth shortly after the formation of the Moon. But are the ancient Elder Things extinct, or do they still roam the Earth? A classic tale of horror by H.P. Lovecraft that first appeared in Astounding Stories in 1936. - Summary by The Narrator

Les Contes de la bécasse: Guy de Maupassant. Contes de la bécasse est un recueil de nouvelles de Guy de Maupassant, publié en 1883. La toute première nouvelle du recueil, La Bécasse, sert de préambule, de récit-cadre, au recueil. Durant la période de la chasse à la bécasse, le vieux baron des Ravots, amateur de chasse et d'histoires, organise des dîners au cours desquels la cérémonie du « conte de la bécasse » désigne celui qui aura le privilège de manger toutes les têtes de bécasse ; l'heureux élu doit ensuite conter une histoire pour « indemniser les déshérités ...

The worshipers of this ancient tentacled horror are still with us, waiting for this terrible being to awake and take vengeance again on an earth filled with nonbelievers. Lovecraft delves into this eons old cult in the greatest detail of any of his stories about Cthulhu and gives us hints about how it is worshiped and the abominable rituals involved. Creepy. Very creepy. - Summary by phil chenevert

One of the greatest English tragic novels, TESS OF THE D’URBERVILLES (1891) is the story of a “pure woman” who is victimized both by conventional morality and its antithesis. Born near Dorchester, Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) set most of his stories in the region between Berkshire and Dorset in the fictional county of Wessex. He was a controversial writer whose work often showed the result of flouting the rigid Victorian moral code — his novel JUDE THE OBSCURE was (allegedly) burned by the Bishop of Wakefield for its shocking content. Hardy was an unflinching observer and in TESS has left ...

In the most cold and remote region of the planet lies mountains towering higher than the Himalayas and containing abominable secrets the mind can scarcely fathom. When an intrepid expedition stumbles across the remains of an ancient race of creatures that predates humanity by millions of years, they believe they've discovered the scientific find of the century. Instead, they've unearthed a terror beyond all reckoning which may devour them both body and soul. Enter into the icy realms of one of H. P. Lovecraft's most seminal cornerstones of the Cthulhu mythos.... If you dare! - Summary by Ben ...