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Edwin Drood disappears suddenly, leaving behind a circle of close acquaintances in which each person may be hiding a secret. John Jasper, a respected yet tormented man, seems connected to this mysterious disappearance. The investigation unfolds in a heavy atmosphere of suspicion where appearances are deceptive. The story builds constant tension around an unfinished mystery. The author constructs a dark and intriguing plot, maintaining doubt about everyone’s true intentions.

Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy, four sisters with distinct personalities, grow up together in a modest but close-knit family. Each pursues her dreams while facing the realities of life, love, and responsibility. Their family bond remains a pillar in the face of trials and difficult choices. The novel follows their development with sensitivity and realism. The author offers a warm chronicle of family, personal growth, and individual aspirations.

Adolf Verloc, a double agent living in London, leads an outwardly ordinary life while engaging in clandestine activities. Assigned a dubious mission, he becomes caught in a chain of events that quickly escapes his control. Around him, his wife Winnie and others suffer the consequences of his choices. The narrative gradually reveals tensions between political manipulation and personal tragedy. The author presents a dark exploration of terrorism, loyalty, and the human cost of ideology.

Pip, a young orphan raised in modest circumstances, sees his life upended when a mysterious benefactor offers him a chance to become a gentleman. Fascinated by the world of wealth and by Estella, a cold and unattainable young woman, he distances himself from his origins. But his ambitions confront him with illusions and unexpected truths. Through his journey, the novel explores the search for identity, social class, and disillusionment. The author delivers a story rich in emotion about social ascent, pride, and maturity.

Jacques, a man torn between passion and disillusionment, maintains a complex relationship with Thérèse, a seductive and elusive woman. Their affair evolves through attraction, jealousy, and power games. In a refined social environment, feelings mingle with interests and appearances. Their exchanges reveal the contradictions of desire and love. The author draws a lucid and elegant portrait of human relationships, exploring the fragility of emotions and the illusions maintained by the heart.

Doctor Mabuse, a manipulative and strategic criminal, orchestrates complex operations to control his environment and the people around him. Using his intelligence and talent for manipulation, he acts from the shadows, eluding the authorities. Opposite him, investigators try to understand his methods and stop him. This story plunges into a dark world where power and illusion merge. The author presents a fascinating character, embodiment of organized crime and psychological domination.

A collection of nineteen comic short stories published in 1914. In the first, which gives the book its title, Annette Brougham, a young pianist composing a waltz in Chelsea, London, goes upstairs to complain to her neighbor, a painter who knocks on the floor whenever she plays. The other stories range from English country houses to New York, with awkward lovers, a dreaded butler, an exceptional swimmer and even a knight of the Round Table. Light, whimsical humor throughout.

A German novel set one summer, around 1880, in the mountains of Bavaria, near Fall, a small village on the Isar, a mountain river. Friedl, a young huntsman in the king's service, protects the game and is searching for a poacher who kills chamois and roe deer and who can be recognised by the nine nails in the soles of his shoes. He loves Modei, who tends cows in a mountain hut and is the mother of a little boy. But the child's father, Blasi, also has nine nails under his shoes. A novel of love and hunting, full of the simple life of Bavarian villages and mountain pastures.

A speculative novel narrated by Arthur Marcel, a well-off Englishman returning from three years of travel. On the liner bringing him back from New York, he meets Herbert Brande, a brilliant scientist who believes the universe is a mistake, and his sister Natalie, who fascinates him. To stay close to her, he joins the secret society that Brande leads. He discovers that its members communicate by thought, do away with anyone whose loyalty is in doubt, and intend to destroy the Earth with the energy locked inside atoms. A dark and strange story in which science becomes a threat to the whole world.

An adventure novel for young readers, the twelfth volume of the Rover Boys series. The three Rover brothers, Dick, Tom and Sam, spend the end of summer at Valley Brook, the family farm in New York State. A mountain outing leads them to a cave where thieves hide their loot, while two swindlers steal their Uncle Randolph’s bonds. Then come their last months at Putnam Hall, a military boarding school: rivalries between pupils, races on snow and ice, Christmas at the farm. A lively, cheerful story about friendship and courage.

Humorous science-fiction novella published in 1960. James diGriz, known as “Slippery Jim”, a brilliant former con man forcibly recruited by the Special Corps, a secret police force operating among the stars, is bored filing archives when he discovers that Cittanuvo, a small peaceful planet, is secretly building a giant battleship of a type that vanished a thousand years ago. He sets off alone to investigate, disguised as an admiral, and his discovery draws him into a chase across the galaxy. A lively, ironic tale told by a hero as clever as he is insolent.

In Budapest, a band of schoolboys holds a vacant lot between a timber yard and the tenements, the only place they have to play. The Red Shirts, who rule the nearby botanical garden, mean to take it, and war is organised with ranks, a flag and a council of war. Nemecsek, a private and the only boy without a stripe, brings more courage to it than all the officers together. The novel explores loyalty, schoolboy honour and the price the weakest pay for a common cause. Molnár treats these games with the seriousness of grave matters.

A satirical science-fiction novel narrated by Stephen Silk, a young diplomat of the Solar League. After publishing an article judged too frank, he is appointed ambassador to New Texas, an independent planet settled by descendants of Texans, which feeds the galaxy with its meat. His predecessor has just been murdered there, and Silk discovers that on New Texas killing a politician is not necessarily a crime: a court decides only whether the victim deserved it. He must also thwart the invasion plans of a neighbouring alien people. A lively political comedy full of humour.

A spy novel. During the First World War, in a small town on the Norfolk coast of England, a German Zeppelin loses its observation car in the night. The next day a stranger enters the home of Philippa, Lady Cranston: he brings news of her brother, a prisoner in Germany, whom he has helped. But he serves the enemy, and he asks to live in the town under a false name. Torn between duty to her country, love for her brother and her attraction to this man, Philippa must choose. An elegant suspense story woven with a love story.

Descartes first recounts his education, the books he set aside and the travels that showed him how varied opinion is. He then sets out four rules for conducting his thought, and a provisional morality for living while he doubts. Methodical doubt leads him to the one certainty that withstands it, I think therefore I am, and from there he rebuilds. The work explores knowledge, the place of self-evidence and a science founded on reason rather than authority. He wrote it in French, as a personal narrative, to be read outside the schools.

A science-fiction mystery set in a future where humanity has colonized Mars. Young Lieutenant David Corriston is on his way to an immense space station orbiting the Earth, the hub through which every spaceship passes. During the voyage, the bodyguard of Helen Ramsey, daughter of a powerful Martian magnate, is killed before his eyes, and then the young woman vanishes. On the station he is said to be suffering from space-shock, while he uncovers impostors hidden behind masks. A fast-paced story that blends detective plot and space adventure.

A humorous American novel. In New York in the early twentieth century, a ruined young man earns his living with magic tricks and trained animals, including mice dyed every colour; one of them, a green one, escapes into the studio of his neighbour Ethelinda, a young painter. Having become her husband, William Destyn invents a device that picks up “psychic currents” and connects two people destined for each other. With his wife and his sister-in-law Sacharissa, he founds a company, The Green Mouse, to get rich; but every trial leads to unexpected and comic encounters. A light fantasy that makes fun of science and love.

A young woman is taken by her physician husband to a summer house, to rest from a nervous condition that followed a birth. Forbidden to write or to work, she keeps a secret journal and spends her days in a room hung with yellow wallpaper. The pattern on the wall slowly takes up all her attention, and she believes she can see a shape moving behind it. The story explores domestic confinement, the rest cure and a medical authority that dismisses its patient. Gilman makes of it a short first-person text in which constraint becomes a nightmare.

Mark Twain, a keen observer, recounts his experience as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi, blending personal memories with descriptions of the river. He traces the evolution of this vital route for commerce and American life. Through anecdotes and portraits, he brings a transforming world back to life. The river becomes a central character, both fascinating and unpredictable. This narrative combines humor, nostalgia, and analysis, offering a vivid immersion into a bygone era. The author precisely captures the spirit of a territory and its inhabitants.

Diogenes Laërtius traces the lives and ideas of the great philosophers of antiquity, from Thales to Epicurus. Through anecdotes, sayings and sometimes surprising stories, he reveals the personalities and doctrines of these major figures. Each portrait offers an accessible glimpse of their thinking and their way of life. The work blends history, philosophy and lively storytelling, making these thinkers feel close and human. The author offers a unique immersion in the origins of Western thought and its emblematic figures.

In the year 2353, Tom Corbett, a cadet at Space Academy, is to show visitors around his spaceship, the Polaris, with his unit-mates Roger and Astro at a great exhibition on Venus. At night, two men dig a tunnel under the exhibition and steal the plans of a key that opens the safes of every spaceship. They become space pirates and free the dangerous outlaw Bull Coxine. Tom disguises himself as a prisoner and gets aboard their ship. A fast, clear science-fiction novel for young readers that combines an investigation with a chase across the solar system.

Elizabeth Bennet, the second of five sisters, belongs to a family of minor English gentry where marriage decides a daughter's future. The arrival of a wealthy neighbour and of his friend Darcy, thought haughty, unsettles the whole neighbourhood. Between gossip and hasty judgements, Elizabeth faces a man she believes she already knows. The novel examines social prejudice, pride of rank and the place of women in early nineteenth-century England. Austen's exact irony turns a comedy of manners into a study of feeling and convention.

Ann Veronica, a determined young woman, refuses to submit to rigid social expectations and seeks to live on her own terms. She leaves home to pursue her ambitions, facing judgment and obstacles. Her encounters and experiences confront her with the realities of the world and her own choices. The story explores independence, love, and individual freedom. The author presents a committed work highlighting tensions between personal desire and social norms.

Darwin, a passionate naturalist, observes the living world and seeks to understand the mechanisms that govern the diversity of species. Drawing on his travels and research, he develops a revolutionary theory based on natural selection. This idea challenges established beliefs and transforms the understanding of life. The author sets out his arguments with rigor, offering a foundational work that illuminates the processes of evolution and the links between all forms of life.