The Ghost of Frédéric Chopin - formato ePub

Ganadora del Gran Premio de la Academia Francesa, esta novela de Éric Faye se basa en un caso real para explorar el influjo que la memoria de los lugares que habitamos ejerce sobre nuestra conciencia.De...

S’il pleut encore en 2050, ce sera une pluie chaude qui tirera de la terre et de l’atmosphère des senteurs d’Asie, celles de Nishiki-dôri ou bien du night market de Gongguan, pas loin duquel j’avais habité...

Le Japon est la planète habitée la plus proche de la Terre : pas facile, de prime abord, d'en saisir les codes, d’explorer ses facettes cachées, d’identifier ses tabous et ses obsessions. Des réalisateurs...

« Dans les temps qui avaient précédé notre rencontre, je m’étais représenté Sandrine Broussard d’une manière très subjective, sur la base de ce qu’on me racontait. À vrai dire, peu m’importait de savoir...

En 1966, un GI américain s'évapore lors d'une patrouille dans la zone démilitarisée, entre les deux Corées. À la fin des années 1970, sur les côtes japonaises, des hommes et des femmes, de tous âges...

C’est au Costaguana, une république imaginaire d’Amérique latine, que repose l’écrivain B. Osborn. Comme chaque année, Aurelia, sa veuve, entreprend un long voyage pour se rendre sur sa tombe, dans les...

The third book in the Walter Presents Library: a bewitching Prague-set mystery about a woman who claims to transcribe music from the ghost of Chopin Prague, 1995: journalist Ludvík Slaný is assigned to...

Solange Brillat est une jeune femme de vingt-sept ans, célibataire, modeste employée dans un cabinet d'experts-comptables. Fille unique, elle rend régulièrement visite à ses parents dans le Massif Central....

Les trains de nuit ont offert à Éric Faye ses premières insomnies heureuses. Moscou, Prague, Split, Sarajevo, Berlin, Pékin? autant de nuits blanches partagées avec le « petit peuple du couloir » : fumeurs,...

Le titre est emprunté au film Casablanca : c’est en se souvenant de leur idylle dans le Paris d’avant l’occupation allemande que les deux amants réussissent à continuer à vivre, à se séparer s’il le faut...

Le mystère des Trois Frontières place dans une géographie imaginaire dominée par l’espace de la forêt la trajectoire d’un narrateur ethnologue. La disparition brutale et inexpliquée de sa compagne Andonia...

Fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Paris est divisée. Son histoire, c’est celle de Berlin. Saint-Sulpice à l’Ouest, Montmartre à l’Est. L’uchronie pour peindre la Ville lumière aux couleurs du totalitarisme....

Croisière en mer des pluies"Trop tard, de toute façon. Tout le monde ne pense qu'à ça, ici, n'est-ce pas. On s'enivre, on se sent libre mais, au fond, on ne pense qu'à retourner là-bas. On imagine le...

Par un jour d'hiver, le village de Sauveterre-le-Vieux est évacué pour que soient désamorcés des obus datant de la Première Guerre mondiale. Tandis que les démineurs travaillent, un habitant, Marin Sérianne,...

Le roman s'ouvre sur le transfert du corps d'Antoine Blin, du Panthéon… au cimetière de sa banlieue natale. Ce modeste employé des postes, un floué de la vie, un gibier pour les arnaqueurs de tout poil,...

« Enfant, j’étais parfois somnambule et me levais en pleine nuit pour faire quelques pas, dans un état second. Le somnambule a peur de lui-même, voilà ce dont je me souviens. Il est seul, parmi les hommes,...

The perfect neighborhood hides the most dangerous secrets.Sarah thought her new neighbors, Emily and Ryan, had it all: charm, kindness, and a flawless marriage. But beneath their polished smiles lurks...

When high-ranking official Henry Caldwell is found brutally murdered in his opulent estate, Detective Paul Johnson is called to the scene of what appears to be a straightforward case of political retribution....

This captivating narrative blends stunning descriptions, powerful dialogues, and profound storytelling to bring a fresh totally unexplored perspective to the ancient legend. Encounter unknown characters...

Emmaline has been in a coma for two crucial years of her teenage life. Waking life is almost as disorienting, but finally she is reunited with her sister and father. Now she must make up for lost time,...

Children are not brought up in society to focus on politics. They are often encouraged to enjoy their life and their childhood. It is often said that kids should just be kids. But when there is a political...

Aidan Black left the Marine Corps to skip the red tape, but it's a woman from his past he's now trying to avoid… one who believes him capable of murder. Briar Sutton is the last person I expect to see...

This is a collection of ten horror microfiction tales, sometimes called bite-sized fiction or 'drabbles'. These stories are limited to precisely one-hundred words and aim to pack a punch, all the while...

The Stygian Lepus Magazine is a thrilling foray into dark speculative fiction. In each new edition, readers explore the depths of imagination, where fear and fascination intertwine.Offering diverse genres...

The "Love on the Ice" series delivers a pulse-pounding journey through five heart-stopping books that redefine love on and off the hockey rink!Book #1: Melting the Ice Between Us (Novella)I'm not sticking...

"Hast thou seen that lordly castle,That castle by the sea?Golden and red above itThe clouds float gorgeously."Do you remember GratianGratian Conyfer, the godson of the four winds, the boy who lived at...

The stories begin with those which children like bestthe old Blue Beard, Puss in Boots, Hop o my Thumb, Little Red Riding Hood, The Sleeping Beauty, and Toads and Pearls. These were first collected, written,...

"Eugene Witla, wilt thou have this woman to thy wedded wife, to live together after God's ordinance in the holy estate of matrimony? Wilt thou love her, comfort her, honour her, and keep her in sickness...

Quite aside from its natural characteristics, there is an atmosphere about a college town, especially a New England college town, that is unmistakable. It is not so much actively intellectual as passively...

Jaime Febrer arose at nine o'clock. Old Antonia, the faithful servant who cherished the memory of the past glories of the family, and who had attended upon Jaime from the day of his birth, had been bustling...

SAMSARA'S DEAD HAVE CHOSEN NEL. AND THE CACOPHONY CALLED FOR JUSTICE. Archaeologist Dr. Nel Bently has never been farther from home. With a tenuous ceasefire from Lin's rebellion force and genocidal Harris...

Dangerously good-looking. Dangerously breathtaking. This dangerously sinful cowboy is going to steal her heart. When the outback's bare-knuckle champion, Dex Riggs, arrives in Sophie's emergency room,...

Nina Rosethorn, a university student, survives a lightning strike and returns home to Vancouver. But the incident triggers a haunting ability: premonitions manifest in her nightmares. Determined to prevent...

Star Maker, regarded as one of the true classics of science fiction, Star Maker is a poetic and deeply philosophical work. The story details the mental journey of an unnamed narrator who is transported...

The contents of the work which gave such pleasure to this learned antiquary are as follows:I. IntroductionSimilarity of Arts and CustomsSimilarity of NamesOrigin of the WorkImitationCasual CoincidenceMiltonDante.II....

Agatha-nominated series! A madcap mystery set in the off, off, OFF Broadway world of theater (#4 in the Ivy Meadows Mystery series)There's a new sheriff in town—and she can sing! When Gold Bug Gulch's...

Have you ever felt that itch in the back of your brain you just can't scratch? A particular gnawing on your mind biting away your best thoughts? Meet Wormy: the literal brain worm residing inside the...

In Sister Carrie, Dreiser portrayed a changing society, writing about a young woman who flees rural life for the city (Chicago) and struggles with poverty, complex relationships with men, and prostitution....

The first question to be proposed by a rational being is, not what is profitable, but what is Right. Duty must be primary, prominent, most conspicuous, among the objects of human thought and pursuit....

Tales of Space and Time, A collection of short stories: "The Crystal Egg", "The Star", "A Story of the Stone Age", "A Story of the Days to Come" & "The Man who could Work Miracles" Some Books of...

The "Times.""For its rapid action, in fact, we have seldom read a better story, or one which is more full of incidents, sanguinary, trenchant, and robust."The "Daily Telegraph.""A true and a wonderfully...

This book, re-edited and illustrated by e-kitap projesi and published again in ebook format. In this book, telling that Cooterells adventures, and so was a treasure adventure, Naturally then Ben felt...

The SCENE is the Exterior of a Cottage in West Issacshire on a desperately Arcadian afternoon in August. MR. ICKY, quaintly dressed in the costume of an Elizabethan peasant, is pottering and doddering...

When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It was true, too. She had a little thin face and a little...

The day that Henry Smix met and embraced Gasoline Power and went up Main Street hand in hand with it is not yet forgotten. It was a hasty marriage, so to speak, and the results of it were truly deplorable....

COMMON opinion said that Lord Lynborough ought never to have had a peerage and forty thousand a year; he ought to have had a pound a week and a back bedroom in Bloomsbury. Then he would have become an...