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Chekhov

• Overviews of all the stories
  • The complete (319) stories of Anton Chekhov: synopses, comments and ratings
• Stories and anthologies
  • “Easter Eve” and other Chekhov stories
  • "Anyuta" and other Chekhov stories
  • "The Lady with The Dog" and other great stories by Anton Chekhov
  • "Ward No. 6" and other stories by Anton Chekhov
  • Anton Chekhov’s funniest story: "From the Diary of a Violent-tempered Man" (1887)
  • The Huntsman and other Chekhov stories

Dickens

Articles

• "Doctor Marigold’s Prescriptions" (1865) - the full text of a great late story by Charles Dickens
• "In Memoriam to William Makepeace Thackeray" - by Charles Dickens
• "Little Dorrit" (1857) by Charles Dickens
• The 15 novels of Charles Dickens: synopses and comments

Great novels

Articles

• (Our selection of) The World’s Greatest Novels
• More of the World’s Greatest Novels

Poetry

Articles

• "Sonnets From the Prison of Moabit" (1944-45) by Albrecht Haushofer - a modern triumph of the human spirit
• "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" (1859), translated by Edward Fitzgerald
• "Tintern Abbey" (1798) by William Wordsworth - the original and most authentic text
• A selection of Tang Dynasty poems
• An anthology of famous French poems, with their English translations
• An anthology of great English poems
• Petite anthologie de la poésie chinoise de la dynastie Tang (618-907 AD)
• The original Lyrical Ballads (1798) version of "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
• Thoughts on reading "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam", translated by Edward Fitzgerald
• Trésor de la poésie française

Memoirs

Articles

• "Children of Yesterday" - Jan Valtin’s dramatic eyewitness account of the Pacific War in the Philippines 1944-45
• "Out of the Night" (1941) by Jan Valtin - an extraordinary memoir of life in the international Communist movement between the two World Wars
• "Typee" (1846) by Herman Melville - a fascinating account of life in a South Sea island before the spread of Western civilization
• Jack London’s in-depth exploration of the (shocking) living conditions in London’s East End: "The People of the Abyss" (1903)
• The Normandy Campaign - an eyewitness account/La campagne de Normandie - un témoignage

German Studies

Articles

• "The Awful German Language", by Mark Twain
• A German-English literary dictionary (with German-language definitions)
• German Literature - a personal survey
• German prefixes and suffixes - an overview
• Un dictionnaire littéraire allemand-français (avec définitions en allemand)
• Why we think that German has a bigger vocabulary than English (or any other Indo-European language)

Essays

Articles

• "A Plan for the Improvement of English Spelling", by Mark Twain
• "I Love Awfully Bad Writing", by James Clarke
• A comparative study of the vocabulary of the greatest Western authors - and the winner is . . .
• Choses lues
• How to improve your English diction (with useful sayings and proverbs)
• Interesting things read recently that I would like to share with you
• The Great Baseball Scandal - how the Mob won the 1919 World Series, by Nelson Algren

e-books

Articles

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Statistics

Articles

• Evolution of coronavirus cases and deaths by country - October 21

Family History

Articles

• "On va à Sylt, et pas Zut"!
• "Roughing It in Africa" in World War 2, by Newton Fink
• 1910 Family Wedding Photo (la photo de mariage des grands-parents bretons)
• A propos de Po Kiu-I et de ses pins au bas des degrés. A propos de nos oliviers de Monaccia
• A song to celebrate Noah’s birth
• Avraham BERGER (12.2.1946-27.3.2012)
• Conversation in the Louvre
• Descendants of Solomon and Daisy Fink
• Descendants of William Smith and Annie McDonald
• Descendants of Wolf Icek Grossbaum, paternal grandfather of Daisy Fink
• Descendants of Yitzchak BUCHSBAUM, father of Reuven Fink and paternal great-grandfather of Solomon Fink
• Directors Guild of Canada Lifetime Achievement Award to JOHN SMITH
• Extracts from the Minutes of the annual Smith-McWilliam picnics (1907-1945)
• Histoire de Babù Marc et du poirier tordu
• History of the Zorra Church in Embro
• Hommage à Serge
• Je vais changer de métier
• John N. Smith, Officer of the Order of Canada
• John Smith’s Lifetime Achievement Award speech
• L’ALBANIE - Septembre 1968
• L’Homme de Cagne (ou presque) en rollers!
• Laila’s Wedding Speech at the Cradle of Humankind
• Le dernier message généalogique de Serge: ascendance jusqu’à 1530 !
• Les Nouvelles Nénettes de Vernouillet
• Les Nénettes de Vernouillet
• Letters from Paris and South Africa : October-November 2005
• Margot - In Memoriam
• Mot pour Maman
• New thoughts this year 2006
• Photo of the first Smith-McWilliam family picnic in 1907
• Pioneer Days
• Serge Benedetti (13.10.1950-25.7.2012)
• Seule sur le chemin de l’Exode - 1940
• Souvenirs de Silvio Walter et de ma jeunesse dans le Paris des années quarante
• The family tree of James Smith in Scotland since 1685
• The family tree of the parents of James Smith
• The Maisley McWilliams in Canada Family History Book (1846-1939)
• The Ultimate Roller-Ride
• Vol au dessus du chêne breton - Chapitre 2
• Vol au-dessus du chêne breton
• Wedding Toast

Genealogy

Articles

• Généalogie de Marc Benedetti
• Généalogie de Mateo et Chimène : L’ascendance bretonne (n°379)
• Généalogie de Mateo et Chimène : L’ascendance bretonne (n° 352)
• Généalogie de Mateo et Chimène : L’ascendance bretonne (n° 354)
• Généalogie de Mateo et Chimène : l’ascendance bretonne (n° 355)
• Généalogie de Mateo et Chimène : L’ascendance bretonne (n° 356)
• Généalogie de Mateo et Chimène : L’ascendance bretonne (n° 357)
• Généalogie de Mateo et Chimène : L’ascendance bretonne (n° 358)
• Généalogie de Mateo et Chimène : L’ascendance bretonne (n° 359)
• Généalogie de Mateo et Chimène : L’ascendance bretonne (n° 360)
• Généalogie de Mateo et Chimène : L’ascendance bretonne (n° 361)
• Généalogie de Mateo et Chimène : L’ascendance bretonne (n° 362 à 367)
• Généalogie de Mateo et Chimène : L’ascendance bretonne (n° 368)
• Généalogie de Mateo et Chimène : L’ascendance bretonne (n° 369)
• Généalogie de Mateo et Chimène : L’ascendance bretonne (n° 371)
• Généalogie de Mateo et Chimène : L’ascendance bretonne (n° 372)
• Généalogie de Mateo et Chimène : L’ascendance bretonne (n° 377)
• Généalogie de Mateo et Chimène : L’ascendance bretonne (n° 380)
• Généalogie de Mateo et Chimène : L’ascendance bretonne (n° 381)
• Généalogie de Mateo et Chimène : L’ascendance bretonne (n° 382)
• Généalogie de Mateo et Chimène : L’ascendance bretonne (n°22)
• Généalogie de Mateo et Chimène : L’ascendance bretonne (n°23)
• Généalogie de Mateo et Chimène : L’ascendance bretonne (n°370)
• Généalogie de Mateo et Chimène : L’ascendance bretonne (n°373)
• Généalogie de Mateo et Chimène : L’ascendance bretonne (n°374)
• Généalogie de Mateo et Chimène : L’ascendance bretonne (n°375)
• Généalogie de Mateo et Chimène : L’ascendance bretonne (n°376)
• Généalogie de Mateo et Chimène : L’ascendance bretonne (n°378)
• Généalogie de Mateo et Chimène : L’ascendance bretonne (n°383)
• Généalogie de Mateo et Chimène : L’ascendance corse (n° 20)
• Généalogie de Mateo et Chimène : L’ascendance corse (n°21)
• Généalogie de Mateo et Chimène : Point d’étape
• Généalogie de Mateo, Chimène, Diego, Marc et Tristan en 128 tableaux (sur 16 générations, jusqu’à l’an 1600 !)
• Généalogie de Matéo et Chimène : L’ascendance bretonne (n°353)
• Généalogie de Simone CAPITAINE
• Smith-McWilliam-Campbell genealogy charts
• Une carte du Poher

Jack London

• Overviews of all the stories & novels
  • The 15 novels of Jack London - synopses, comments and ratings
  • The complete (205) stories of Jack London: synopses, comments and ratings
• Jack London stories
  • Far North stories
    • "Lost Face" (1908) - the full text of Jack London’s best short story
    • "The Call of the Wild" (1903) by Jack London - the full text with e-books
    • "The Sunlanders" and other stories of the Far North by Jack London
    • "The White Man’s Way" and other Klondike stories by Jack London
    • Eleven of Jack London’s best Far North stories
    • Jack London’s funniest story : "That Spot" (1908)
    • More of Jack London’s best Far North stories
    • Survival in the Klondike – 10 great stories by Jack London
  • South Sea stories
    • "The Heathen" (1909) - the full text of an unforgettable South Seas tale by Jack London
    • A selection of South Seas/Hawaii stories by Jack London
  • Boxing stories
    • "The Game" (1905) - a boxing story by Jack London
    • The Abysmal Brute (1913) - a boxing novella by Jack London
    • Two great boxing stories by Jack London: "A Piece of Steak" (1909) and "The Mexican" (1911)
  • Sci-fi stories
    • "The Scarlet Plague" (1912): a powerful, end-of-the-civilized-world science-fiction novella by Jack London
    • "The Shadow and the Flash" (1903): an early science-fiction story by Jack London
    • An early science-fiction story by Jack London: "A Thousand Deaths" (1899)
  • Other stories
    • "Before Adam" (1906) - a prehistoric adventure novella by Jack London
    • "By the Turtles of Tasman" and other stories by Jack London
    • "The Cruise of the Dazzler" (1902) - an adventure novella by Jack London
    • "The Hobo and the Fairy" (1911) - a memorable Hobo story by Jack London
    • Jack London’s two war stories
• Jack London novels
  • "Burning Daylight" (1910) - Jack London’s last Klondike novel
  • "Hearts of Three" (1916) - a treasure-hunt adventure novel by Jack London (co-authored by Charles Goddard)
  • "Martin Eden" (1909) by Jack London
  • "The Iron Heel" (1907) - Jack London’s radical statement of faith in the future of socialism
  • "The Mutiny of the Elsinore" (1913) - an adventure novel on the high seas by Jack London
  • "The Sea Wolf" (1904) by Jack London
  • "The Star Rover" (1915) - a novel about prison life in (and out of) San Quentin by Jack London
  • "White Fang" (1906) by Jack London
• Jack London memoirs
  • "The Road" (1907) - Jack London’s vivid account of his hobo days
  • "Through the South Seas with Jack London" by Martin Johnson
  • Jack London’s in-depth exploration of the (shocking) living conditions in London’s East End: "The People of the Abyss" (1903)

Archives

• Book Reviews
  • "Disgrace", by J.M. Coetzee
  • "Fiesta (The Sun Also Rises)", by Ernest Hemingway
  • "L’Envol du Migrateur", d’Ismail Kadaré
  • "La Conversation de Bolzano", par Sandor Marai
  • "Le Jour des Morts", par Cees Nooteboom
  • "Le Loup Bleu", par Yasushi Inoué
  • "Love and Garbage", by Ivan Klima
  • "Manuscrit trouvé à Saragosse", par Jean Potocki
  • "Nouvelle Vie TM", de Pierre Bordage
  • "Quiller KGB", by Adam Hall
  • "Retour à Killybegs", par Sorj Chalandon
  • "Runaway", by Alice Munro
  • "The Art of Travel", by Alain de Botton
  • "The Blind Assassin", by Margaret Atwood
  • "The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus", edited by Brian Aldiss
  • "Vertiges", par W.G. Sebald
  • "Victor Segalen, les tribulations d’un poète en Chine", par Simon Leys
  • Le bûcher de Montségur, par Zoë Oldenburg
  • Pepe Carvalho: a Spanish Hercule Poirot
  • Some E.T.A. Hoffmann books
  • Some George Eliot books
  • Some Ismail Kadare books
  • Some Mario Vargas Llosa books
  • Some P.G. Wodehouse Books
  • Some Thomas Hardy Books
  • Some W.G. Sebald books
  • The Irish Civil War
• Cinema
  • "8 mm", by Joel Schumacher
  • "Black Swan", ou la dialectique d’un parcours d’expression scénique
  • "La Chute (Der Untergang)", par Olivier Hirschbiegel
  • "Le Silence", par Orso Miret
  • "Les Noces Funèbres" (Corpse Bride), de Tim Burton
  • "Ocean’s Twelve", by Steven Soderbergh
  • "The Matrix" by Larry and Andy Wachowski/Joe Silver
  • "The Party", de Blake Edwards
  • Cinéma Vérité in Europe : Rejecting U.S. Culture (+ trad.en Français)
  • Cinéma Vérité in Europe: Rejecting US culture - Commentary
  • The US film industry and French protectionism
• This site/Le site
  • Le site et vous / About this site
• Theatre
  • "La Marche de l’empereur", de Luc Jacquet
  • Cyrano de Bergerac à la Comédie Française
  • Hamlet’s Conspiracy Theories
  • Les Cowboys fringants au Zénith
  • Les marionnettes de Salzbourg font leur Mozart à Paris
  • Tragique et baroque dans "Romeo and Juliet", de William Shakespeare
• Essays
  • "S.M.O.G." by Bruce David
  • "The Genealogy of Morals", by Friedrich Nietzsche
  • "Three Uses of the Knife (on the nature and purpose of drama)", par David Mamet
  • About "The Continental Dream: Will the French Shatter It?"
  • Climat sécuritaire : quel avenir pour les jeunes, à part le soupçon ?
  • Elément de discussion sur "Littérature et engagement"
  • Friedman and the War in Iraq in 2003
  • Good Words
  • Havana-Toronto Elementary Class Exchange
  • La mixité à l’école
  • La pédagogie au cœur du malaise
  • Les limites des mesures locales et quelques axes pour une vraie réflexion politique.
  • Lexique de lecture
  • Marcel Proust and the 4th Dimension
  • My struggle to overcome the CBBS (Compulsive Book-Buyer’s Syndrome)
  • Quand les caméras sapent l’éducation
  • Quand pédagogie rime avec alibi
  • Shakespeare on Football
  • The Dahlia Gardens in the Bois de Vincennes
  • The death penalty in the USA
  • Violence et sécurité
• Poetry
  • "La chanson de Roland", de Turold
  • Poetry Readings
• German Studies
  • Lexical analysis 2 of "The Magic Mountain" - the complete vocabulary
  • Lexical analysis of "The Magic Mountain": more than 3300 neologisms and undefined words!
  • Mes livres allemands - un survol personnel de la littérature de langue allemande
  • The average number of meanings per word in German (and maybe English too)

Maupassant

• Overviews of all the stories
  • The complete (300) stories of Guy de Maupassant: synopses, comments and ratings
• Stories and anthologies
  • "An Outing in the Countryside" and other stories by Guy de Maupassant
  • "At the Spa" and other previously untranslated stories by Guy de Maupassant
  • "Boule de Suif" and other famous stories by Guy de Maupassant
  • "La petite Roque" and other stories by Guy de Maupassant
  • "On the Water" and other stories by Guy de Maupassant
  • "Solitude" and other previously untranslated stories by Guy de Maupassant
  • "The Night" and other stories by Guy de Maupassant
  • The adventures of the Marquise and the Baroness — three of Guy de Maupassant’s most amusing (and amoral) stories

A. E. van Vogt

• Overviews of all the stories & novels
  • The complete stories (103) and novels (35) of A. E. van Vogt: synopses, comments and ratings
• Anthologies
  • "Away and Beyond" - A. E. van Vogt’s other great 1952 anthology
  • "Destination Universe!" - A. E. van Vogt’s superb first anthology of his science-fiction short stories (1952)
  • Fifteen golden-age science-fiction stories by A. E. van Vogt
  • The "Mixed Men" series of golden-age s-f stories by A. E. van Vogt
  • The Silkie Stories (1964-1967) by A. E. van Vogt
• Short stories
  • "Dormant" (1948) - a great golden-age sci-fi story by A. E. van Vogt
  • "Femworld" - a late (1979) tale by A. E. van Vogt
  • "Haunted Atoms" (1951) - a rare golden-age sci-fi story by A. E. van Vogt
  • "Juggernaut" (1944) by A. E. van Vogt
  • "M33 in Andromeda" (1943) by A. E. van Vogt
  • "The Cataaaaa" (1947) - one of A. E. van Vogt’s most original golden-age science-fiction stories
  • "The First Rull" (1978) by A. E. van Vogt
  • "The Monster" (1948) - A. E. van Vogt’s best short story
  • "The Perfect Day" (1981) by A. E. van Vogt - never before published in English
  • "The Replicators" (1965) by A. E. van Vogt
  • "The Ship of Darkness" (1948) - a golden-age s-f/fantasy story by A. E. van Vogt
• Novelettes and Novellas
  • "Black Destroyer" (1939) - the original text of A. E. van Vogt’s first published s-f story
  • "Centaurus II" (1947) by A. E. van Vogt - a golden-age novelette never before republished
  • "Discord in Scarlet" (1939) by A. E. van Vogt - the original text and graphics
  • "Not Only Dead Men" (1942) - the complete text of an early s-f story by A. E. van Vogt
  • "Ride In, Killer!" (1951) - a golden-age Western story by A. E. van Vogt
  • "Rogue Ship" (1950) by A. E. van Vogt
  • "The Beast" - an early van Vogt novella now available for the first time since 1943
  • "The Ghost" (1942) by A. E. van Vogt
  • "The Proxy Intelligence" (1968) by A. E. van Vogt
  • "The Sea Thing" (1940) by A. E. van Vogt
  • "The Star-Saint" (1951) by A. E. van Vogt
  • "The Ultra Man" (1966) by A. E. van Vogt
  • "The Weapon Shop" (1942) by A. E. van Vogt
  • "The Weapon Shops of Isher" (1949) - a major golden-age novella by A. E. van Vogt never before republished!
  • "The Witch" (1943) by A. E. van Vogt
  • "Vault of the Beast" (1940) - the full text of A. E. van Vogt’s first s-f story
  • "War of Nerves" (1950) by A. E. van Vogt
• Novels
  • "Slan" (1940) - A. E. van Vogt’s first and most famous novel (the complete text)
  • "The Book of Ptath" (1943) - A. E. van Vogt’s only fantasy novel
  • "The House That Stood Still" (1950) by A.E. van Vogt
  • "The Players of Null-A" (1948-49) by A. E. van Vogt
  • "The Shadow Men" (1950) - an outstanding golden-age sci-fi novel by A. E. van Vogt never before republished
  • "The Voyage of The Space Beagle" (1950) by A. E. van Vogt - the complete text of this great science-fiction writer’s best novel
  • "The Weapon Makers" (1943) - the original version of A. E. van Vogt’s first "Weapon Shop" novel (never before republished)
  • "The Weapon Shops of Isher" by A. E. van Vogt - the novel (1951)
  • "The World of Null-A" (1945) by A. E. van Vogt - the full text

Stefan Zweig

Articles

• "Burning Secret" (1911) by Stefan Zweig
• "In the Snow" and other stories by Stefan Zweig
• "Letter From an Unknown Woman" (1922) by Stefan Zweig
• "The Conquest of Constantinople May 29, 1453" - Stefan Zweig’s dramatic account of a decisive moment in history
• The complete stories of Stefan Zweig - synopses, comments and ratings

Stories

Articles

• "Clothes Make People (Kleider machen Leute)" by Gottfried Keller (1874) - one of the most famous German-language stories now available in English
• "In the Penal Colony" (1919) by Franz Kafka
• "Lalie’s Story", from Zola’s novel "L’Assommoir" (1877)
• "Shock-Headed Peter (Der Struwwelpeter)" (1845) by Heinrich Hoffmann, an extraordinary set of illustrated lessons showing children how to behave – or else!
• "The Bottle Imp" (1891) - a South Sea fable by Robert Louis Stevenson
• "The Golden Cup" (1812) by Ludwig Tieck - a classic of German romanticism
• "The Promenade (der Spaziergang)" (1917) by Robert Walser
• "War" (1918): Luigi Pirandello’s memorable story about parenthood in wartime
• A selection of Nelson Algren’s best short stories
• Three Grimm Brothers "Witch Tales" (1812-1815)

Sci-fi

Articles

• "A Matter of Size" (1934) by Harry Bates
• "Correspondence Course" (1945) by Raymond F. Jones
• "Exit the Professor" (1947) - a comic masterpiece by Henry Kuttner
• "Farewell to the Master (The Day the Earth Stood Still)" (1940) by Harry Bates
• "He Who Shrank" (1936) by Henry Hasse
• "Liberation of Earth" (1953) by William Tenn
• "Mitkey Rides Again" (1950) by Frederic Brown
• "Skirmish (Bathe Your Bearings in Blood!)" (1950) by Clifford Simak
• "The Golden Egg" (1941) by Theodore Sturgeon
• "The Star Mouse" (1942) by Frederick Brown
• "The Twonky" (1942) by Henry Kuttner and C.L. Moore (Lewis Padgett)
• "The Wishes We Make" (1943) by E. Mayne Hull
• "Uncommon Sense" (1945) by Hal Clement
• "When Time Was New" (1964) by Robert F. Young
• "Who Goes There?" (1938) - an iconic sci-fi story by John Campbell
• Kingsley Amis "SF-drink" stories
• The funniest golden-age s-f story: "The Proud Robot" (1943) by Henry Kuttner (Lewis Padgett)
• The Funniest Science-Fiction Story: “MUGWUMP 4” (1959) by Robert Silverberg – the complete text

Thrillers

Articles

• "Little Caesar" (1929) by W. R. Burnett
• "Rogue Male" (1939) by Geoffrey Household
• "The Most Dangerous Game" (1964) by Gavin Lyall