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Sapper stories focus on the individuals than overall strategy. They describe what the things are like for the soldiers in the trenches. The story of an excellent young man, noble and deeply versed in the intricacies of etiquette. Most of the human race was unaware of its existence; but the „ladies” and „gentlemen” in the Mogmoth Emporium of Mogg considered him the ultimate arbiter of elegance. There...

Roman de Maurice Leblanc (le père de célèbre Arsène Lupin), dans lequel l’aventure le dispute à l’inventivité et à la justesse de vue. Simon Dubosc désespère d’obtenir la main d’Isabel, qui est la fille du Lord Bakefield, descendant direct d’un compagnon de Guillaume le Conquérant. Et puis il n’ y a pas plus d’autres choix pour lui que de s’échapper avec Isabel, parce qu’il accepte le défi fou. Mais,...

Arthur Conan Doyle never wasted time in getting his stories moving. His plots are always direct and refreshingly lucid, and the narrative has a velocity that sweeps you along right to the end. This was no doubt a large part of his immense worldwide success. Volume 6 continues the exciting adventures of the world’s most famous pipe-smoking detective, Sherlock Holmes, collecting works written by Sir...

In The Pilot (1824), James Fenimore Cooper invented a new literary genre: the sea novel. Bold, vigorous, original, it is a tale of high adventure that vividly captures the majesty and power of the seafaring life. Cooper drew on his direct knowledge of ships and sailors to present a truer picture of life on the sea than had ever before achieved in literature. As a boy of seventeen he had experienced...