Compagnon d’infortune de Chéri-Bibi, Palas, de son vrai nom Raoul de Saint-Dalmas est un jeune homme d’excellente famille accusé d’avoir assassiné son bienfaiteur et gaspillé son patrimoine.
Filled with the spectacle of the Paris Opera House in the nineteenth century, this classic work of suspense remains a riveting journey into the dark regions of the human heart.
Living secretly beneath the Paris Opera House, 'The Phantom of the Opera', Erik has haunted those who work there with his demands and shrouded the opera house in fear with the legend of his disfigured face.
Dejstvie knigi razvorachivaetsja v seredine XIX veka. Osnovnye igroki na geopoliticheskoj arene te zhe, chto i segodnja: Britanija, SSHA, Rossija, Kitaj. . .
Our narrator’s days are numbered. Estranged from his family, living alone with only his cat Cabbage for company, he was unprepared for the doctor’s diagnosis that he has only months to live.
One of the best-loved works of the nineteenth century, Middlemarch explores the complex social relationships in a town that moves and breathes with a life of its own.
Wrongly accused of theft and exiled from a religious community many years before, the embittered weaver Silas Marner lives alone in Raveloe, living only for work and his precious hoard of money.
Written 70 years ago, 1984 was George Orwell’s chilling prophecy about the future. And while 1984 has come and gone, his dystopian vision of a government that will do anything to control the narrative is timelier than ever...