Documents pour «Pandora's Box»

Documents pour "Pandora's Box"
Affiche du document The Count of Monte Cristo

The Count of Monte Cristo

Alexandre Dumas

3h01min30

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4318 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 3h01min.
Set against the turbulent years of the Napoleonic era, Alexandre Dumas’s thrilling adventure story is one of the most widely read romantic novels of all time. In it the dashing young hero, Edmond Dantès, is betrayed by his enemies and thrown into a secret dungeon in the Chateau d’If — doomed to spend his life in a dank prison cell. The story of his long, intolerable years in captivity, his miraculous escape, and his carefully wrought revenge creates a dramatic tale of mystery and intrigue and paints a vision of France — a dazzling, dueling, exuberant France — that has become immortal.
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Affiche du document The Turn of the Screw

The Turn of the Screw

Henry James

4h54min45

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393 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 4h55min.
A young governess arrives at Bly, a country home in Essex, England, to care for Miles and Flora, two precocious and pure children. But as ghostly visions take shape, the obsessively protective governess soon fears for the safety of her wards—only to wonder if these hauntings are a conjuring of her own imagination. In challenging what we see—and what we believe we see—in the dark of the night, The Turn of the Screw stands as one of the boldest and most chilling ghost stories ever told.
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Affiche du document The Art of War

The Art of War

Niccolo Machiavelli

1h18min00

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104 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 1h18min.
"The Art of War" is an ancient Chinese military treatise dating from the 5th century BC and is attributed to the ancient Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu. The text is composed of 13 chapters, each of which is devoted to one aspect of warfare and it is commonly thought of as a definitive work on military strategy and tactics. It was placed at the head of China's Seven Military Classics upon the collection's creation in 1080 by Emperor Shenzong of Song, and has long been the most influential strategy text in East Asia. It has had an influence on Eastern and Western military thinking, business tactics, legal strategy and beyond.
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Affiche du document The United States Constitution and Amendments

The United States Constitution and Amendments

Founding Fathers

56min15

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75 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 56min.
"We the people of the United States..." So begins one of the most famous documents in world history, the Constitution of the United States of America. First drafted in 1787 by the Founding Fathers—men like Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, and George Washington—the United States Constitution gives the framework for what became the United States government. This audiobook also contains all the 27 Amendments.
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Affiche du document Beatrix Potter Ultimate Collection

Beatrix Potter Ultimate Collection

Beatrix Potter

3h30min00

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280 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 3h30min.
Beatrix Potter (1866-1943) was an English author, illustrator, natural scientist, and conservationist best known for her children's books featuring animals. Potter's artistic and literary interests were deeply influenced by fairies, fairy tales and fantasy. Her best known picture book is The Tale of Peter Rabbit which was also her first publication. The great success was followed by the number of successful children's books about animals, such as The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, The Tailor of Gloucester and The Tale of Benjamin Bunny. She carried on to write and illustrate until her diminishing eyesight made it difficult to continue. Potter's books continue to sell throughout the world in many languages with her stories being retold in song, film, ballet, and animation.
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Affiche du document Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë

18h23min15

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1471 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 18h23min.
Charlotte Brontë’s most beloved novel describes the passionate love between the courageous orphan Jane Eyre and the brilliant, brooding, and domineering Rochester. The loneliness and cruelty of Jane’s childhood strengthens her natural independence and spirit, which prove invaluable when she takes a position as a governess at Thornfield Hall. But after she falls in love with her sardonic employer, her discovery of his terrible secret forces her to make a heart-wrenching choice. Ever since its publication in 1847, "Jane Eyre" has enthralled every kind of reader, from the most critical and cultivated to the youngest and most unabashedly romantic. It lives as one of the great triumphs of storytelling and as a moving and unforgettable portrayal of a woman's quest for self-respect.
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Affiche du document Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontë

14h42min00

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1176 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 14h42min.
Considered lurid and shocking by mid-19th-century standards, Wuthering Heights was initially thought to be such a publishing risk that its author, Emily Brontë, was asked to pay some of the publication costs. Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine’s father. After Mr Earnshaw’s death, Heathcliff is bullied and humiliated by Catherine’s brother Hindley and wrongly believing that his love for Catherine is not reciprocated, leaves Wuthering Heights, only to return years later as a wealthy and polished man. He proceeds to exact a terrible revenge for his former miseries. The action of the story is chaotic and unremittingly violent, but the accomplished handling of a complex structure, the evocative descriptions of the lonely moorland setting and the poetic grandeur of vision combine to make this unique novel a masterpiece of English literature.
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Affiche du document The Complete Sherlock Holmes

The Complete Sherlock Holmes

Arthur Conan Doyle

3h06min09

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5433 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 3h06min.
Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who first appeared in publication in 1887. He is the creation of Scottish born author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A brilliant London-based detective, Holmes is famous for his intellectual prowess, and is renowned for his skillful use of deductive reasoning (somewhat mistakenly - see inductive reasoning) and astute observation to solve difficult cases. He is arguably the most famous fictional detective ever created, and is one of the best known and most universally recognizable literary characters in any genre. Conan Doyle wrote four novels and fifty-six short stories that featured Holmes. All but four stories were narrated by Holmes' friend and biographer, Dr. John H. Watson, two having been narrated by Holmes himself, and two others written in the third person. The first two stories, short novels, appeared in Beeton's Christmas Annual for 1887 and Lippincott's Monthly Magazine in 1890. The character grew tremendously in popularity with the beginning of the first series of short stories in The Strand Magazine in 1891; further series of short stories and two serialized novels appeared almost right up to Conan Doyle's death in 1930. The stories cover a period from around 1878 up to 1903, with a final case in 1914. Here you will find the complete Sherlock Holmes stories in the chronological order of their original publication.
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Affiche du document Arsène Lupin: The Collection

Arsène Lupin: The Collection

Maurice Leblanc

3h54min09

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6149 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 3h54min.
The series that inspired the Netflix show. This collection contains 34 Arsène Lupin stories, including: - Arsène Lupin, Gentleman Burglar (1-15) - Arsène Lupin versus Herlock Sholmes (16-25) - The Hollow Needle 26-37) - 813 (38-56) - The Crystal Stopper (57-71) - The Confessions of Arsène Lupin (72-91) - The Teeth of The Tiger (92-128) - The Woman of Mystery (129-150) - The Eight Strokes of The Clock (151-160) - The Secret Tomb (161-180)
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Affiche du document Moby Dick

Moby Dick

Herman Melville

1h24min00

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1952 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 1h24min.
A masterpiece of storytelling, this epic saga pits Ahab, a brooding and fantastical sea captain, against the great white whale that crippled him. In telling the tale of Ahab's passion for revenge and the fateful voyage that ensued, Melville produced far more than the narrative of a hair-raising journey; Moby-Dick is a tale for the ages that sounds the deepest depths of the human soul. Interspersed with graphic sketches of life aboard a whaling vessel, and a wealth of information on whales and 19th-century whaling, Melville's greatest work presents an imaginative and thrilling picture of life at sea, as well as a portrait of heroic determination. The author's keen powers of observation and firsthand knowledge of shipboard life (he served aboard a whaler himself) were key ingredients in crafting a maritime story that dramatically examines the conflict between man and nature. “A valuable addition to the literature of the day,” said American journalist Horace Greeley on the publication of Moby-Dick in 1851 — a classic piece of understatement about a literary classic now considered by many as “the great American novel.” Read and pondered by generations, the novel remains an unsurpassed account of the ultimate human struggle against the indifference of nature and the awful power of fate.
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Affiche du document The Woman of Mystery (Arsène Lupin Book 8)

The Woman of Mystery (Arsène Lupin Book 8)

Maurice Leblanc

7h59min15

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639 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 7h59min.
The series that inspired the Netflix show Lupin. A chance encounter irrevocably alters the course of one man's life, and the tensions between France and Germany boil over... In "The Woman of Mystery", Leblanc paints a wonderful tale of WWI in France, twined together with the mystery surrounding the murder of main character Paul's father.
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Affiche du document The Teeth of the Tiger (Arsène Lupin Book 7)

The Teeth of the Tiger (Arsène Lupin Book 7)

Maurice Leblanc

11h09min00

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892 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 11h09min.
A large inheritance is up for grabs—and a murderer is on the loose—in the series that inspired the Netflix show Lupin. When a wealthy man named Cosmo Mornington dies, he leaves an immense inheritance to any living heir that can be found, and names his dear friend Don Luis Perenna as executor. But Mornington’s heirs aren’t easy to locate. By provision of the will, if none turn up after three months, the full sum of one hundred million francs will go to Perenna himself . . . otherwise known as master thief Arsène Lupin. While the French authorities have good reason not to trust Perenna, suspicion only escalates as Mornington’s distant family members reach a series of untimely ends. But in a deadly race against time, there’s no one better suited to catch a killer than the greatest thief in the world.
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Affiche du document The Secret Tomb (Arsène Lupin Book 12)

The Secret Tomb (Arsène Lupin Book 12)

Maurice Leblanc

8h08min15

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651 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 8h08min.
The classic series that inspired the Netflix show Lupin. Dorothy, rope-dancer and palmist, arrives at the Château de Roborey with her circus, she’s already observed strange excavations at the grounds. Fate drags her and her motley crew of war orphans into a quest for long-lost ancestral treasure, but a new-found nemesis is close on her trail.
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Affiche du document The Eight Strokes of the Clock (Arsène Lupin Book 11)

The Eight Strokes of the Clock (Arsène Lupin Book 11)

Maurice Leblanc

6h28min30

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518 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 6h28min.
With wit and daring, a master thief battles cops, crooks, and killers—in the classic series that inspired the Netflix show Lupin. In Paris, six women have vanished, only to be found a week later, emaciated and disfigured, their skulls split open. What little evidence the police have suggests that the murderer is a woman and that she is preparing to strike again. When Prince Rénine’s lover disappears on a cold night in October, he fears that she is about to become the latest victim. Most noblemen would be helpless to rescue her before the hatchet falls, but Rénine is an alias of Arsène Lupin, the world’s greatest thief, and he will stop at nothing to catch the killer. Fearsome creatures may lurk in the back alleys of Paris, but none is as dangerous, or as brilliant, as Arsène Lupin.
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Affiche du document The Hollow Needle: Further Adventures of Arsène Lupin (Arsène Lupin Book 3)

The Hollow Needle: Further Adventures of Arsène Lupin (Arsène Lupin Book 3)

Maurice Leblanc

6h54min45

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553 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 6h55min.
A boy detective takes on the most brilliant thief in Europe, in the classic series that inspired the Netflix show Lupin. In a country manor, a terrible noise awakes the household. Downstairs, the estate’s secretary has been murdered. There are signs of a break-in, but everything appears to be in its proper place. What kind of thief would commit murder to steal nothing? The first detective on the case is Isidore Beautrelet, a precocious teenager who wears a fake beard to disguise the fact that he has not yet graduated from high school. Although the other investigators do not take him seriously, Beautrelet is the one to pick up the trail of Arsène Lupin, the gentleman thief. Lupin, it is soon discovered, is chasing the most valuable object he has ever had the opportunity to steal: the Hollow Needle. Passed down for generations by the kings of France, it holds a secret that could undo the republic. No one has ever managed to foil one of Lupin’s fiendish plans, but Beautrelet is counting on beginner’s luck.
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Affiche du document The Crystal Stopper (Arsène Lupin Book 5)

The Crystal Stopper (Arsène Lupin Book 5)

Maurice Leblanc

6h53min15

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551 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 6h53min.
The series that inspired the Netflix show:The infamous gentleman thief must save his partners from the guillotine. Dashing outlaw and master of disguise Arsène Lupin is always one step ahead of the law. But he may have finally met his match in Deputy Alexis Daubrecq. Recently, the cunning detective has foiled Lupin’s most artful thefts—and even a kidnapping. When Lupin and two of his criminal associates try to rob Deputy Daubrecq’s villa, something goes terribly wrong. Lupin’s two partners are arrested and sentenced to death. Now it’s up to Lupin to save them from the guillotine. But to do it, he must not only evade Daubrecq, but also match wits with a ruthless blackmailer who holds incriminating evidence in a crystal stopper.
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Affiche du document The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin (Arsène Lupin Book 1)

The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin (Arsène Lupin Book 1)

Maurice Leblanc

5h57min45

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477 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 5h58min.
The classic series that inspired the hit show Lupin: On a transatlantic voyage, Europe’s greatest criminal plots a daring caper . . . The ship is several days out to sea when the telegram comes through with a warning: Among the passengers is a disguised criminal: the fearsome Arsène Lupin. For months, Paris society has quaked at the name of the gentleman thief, whose manners are kind, whose tastes are exquisite, and who steals only from the best. When Lupin is spotted aboard the boat, his scandalous career appears to be finished. But in truth, it is just beginning. The moment he steps ashore, Lupin is captured by his nemesis, the detective Ganimard, and taken to France’s infamous Prison de la Santé, where Ganimard plans to lock him up and throw away the key. But no jail in the world can hold the world’s most ingenious thief for long; he has only to slip his shackles before beginning the adventure of a lifetime, recounted in this witty collection of stories.
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Affiche du document This Side of Paradise

This Side of Paradise

F. Scott Fitzgerald

9h44min15

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779 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 9h44min.
Young midwesterner Amory Blaine is certain he is destined for greatness. On his quest, he enrolls in Princeton, finds an ephemeral first love, fulfills his duty in war, and becomes enraptured by debutante Rosalind Connage, who defines all that Amory has desired and everything he could lose. As conventions, romance, and money fail him, Amory’s restless pursuit of enlightenment takes him down a dark path, but closer to understanding himself and his place in the world. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote This Side of Paradise in the hopes of attaining celebrity and to win back the spirited Zelda Sayre. He achieved both—becoming an overnight literary success and marrying Zelda barely a week after publication.
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Affiche du document Howards End

Howards End

E. M Forster

11h58min30

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958 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 11h58min.
"Only connect..." A chance acquaintance brings together the preposterous bourgeois Wilcox family and the clever, cultured and idealistic Schlegel sisters. As clear-eyed Margaret develops a friendship with Mrs Wilcox, the impetuous Helen brings into their midst a young bank clerk named Leonard Bast, who lives at the edge of poverty and ruin. When Mrs Wilcox dies, her family discovers that she wants to leave her country home, Howards End, to Margaret. Thus as Forster sets in motion a chain of events that will entangle three different families, he brilliantly portrays their aspirations to personal and social harmony.
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Affiche du document Arsène Lupin versus Herlock Sholmes (Arsène Lupin Book 2)

Arsène Lupin versus Herlock Sholmes (Arsène Lupin Book 2)

Maurice Leblanc

6h42min45

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537 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 6h43min.
Arsene Lupin duels with a world-famous English detective in the series that inspired the hit Netflix show. A mathematics professor is combing through the artifacts in a Parisian secondhand shop when a writing desk catches his eye. He buys it for his daughter in celebration of her impending marriage, but just three days later it has disappeared—stolen by the master thief Arsene Lupin. It would be nothing but an inconvenience for the professor, save for one fact: the desk contained his daughter’s dowry in the form of a winning lottery ticket worth one million francs. To retrieve his ticket, the professor engages with Lupin in a delicate game of cat and mouse. The desk is but the start of the master thief’s greatest adventure: the affair of the Blonde Lady, which will require the intervention of a world-famous English detective who is nearly as brilliant as Lupin himself.
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