When the corpse of Sir Charles Baskerville is found on the grounds of his Dartmoor estate next to a mysterious animal footprint, thoughts turn to a fabled family curse:
When the reporter Edward Malone is sent to interview the formidable Professor Challenger about his accounts of strange prehistoric beasts on a remote plateau in South America,...
La sulfureuse femme fatale Irene Adler fait chanter le roi de Boheme et menace de souiller sa réputation aupres de sa pieuse et délicate fiancée, héritiere d'une famille princiere scandinave. Qui mieux que Sherlock Holmes peut déjouer ses plans ?
Quel ignoble individu a bien pu abandonner cette jeune femme devant l'église le jour de son mariage ? Pourquoi ce mendiant repoussant et difforme aurait-il assassiné Neville St Clair ? Et qui a si terriblement mutilé ce patient du docteur Watson ?
A neuf ans, Sayuri est vendue par son péré á une maison de plaisir de Kyoto. Dotée d'extraordinaires yeux bleus, le petite fille se plie avec docilité á l'initation difficile qui fera d'elle une vraie geisha.
Darkness at Noon is set in an unnamed country ruled by a totalitarian government. Rubashov, once a powerful player in the regime, finds the tables turned on him when he is arrested and tried for treason.
A doctor performs an experiment on a young woman that goes horribly wrong, and a series of increasingly strange events follow: sinister woodland rituals, disappearances, suicides...
Arthur Miller's play A View from the Bridge is a tragic masterpiece of the inexorable unravelling of a man, set in a close-knit Italian-American community in 1950s New York.
Arthur Miller's depiction of innocent men and women destroyed by malicious rumour, The Crucible is a powerful indictment of McCarthyism and the 'frontier mentality' of Cold War America, published in Penguin Modern Classics.