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Fantasy
La Passe-miroir
Christelle Dabos • 2020
Gothic
Carmilla
Joseph Sheridan Lefanu • 2019
<p><i>"To this hour the image of Carmilla returns to my memory with ambiguous alternations--sometimes the playful, languid, beautiful girl; sometimes the writhing fiend I saw in the ruined church. Sometimes, I start from a reverie, certain I heard the light step of Carmilla at the drawing-room door."</i><br></p> <p><p>Isolated in a remote mansion in a central European forest, Laura longs for companionship--until a carriage accident brings another young woman into her life: the secretive and sometimes erratic Carmilla. As Carmilla's actions become more puzzling and volatile, Laura develops bizarre symptoms, and as her health goes into decline, Laura and her father discover something monstrous.</p> <p><p>Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's compelling tale of a young woman's seduction by a female vampire was a source of influence for Bram Stoker's <i>Dracula</i>, which it predates by over a quarter century. <i>Carmilla</i> was originally serialized from 1871 to 1872 and went on to inspire adaptations in film, opera, and beyond, including the cult classic web series by the same name.</p>
Frankestein
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley • 2008
Fiction
Une Étude En Rouge: Sherlock Holmes (French Edition)
Arthur Conan Doyle • 2022
Alice au pays des merveilles
AMORETTI • 2010
LE CÉLÈBRE CONTE DE LEWIS CARROLL ILLUSTRÉ PAR AMORETTI.Les illustrations de François Amoretti, dans un encrage soyeusement aquarellée, feront de ce beau livre un ouvrage à la modernité renouvelée, sans déroger au charme d'antan qui fait toute la personnalité de ce texte.
Le Petit Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry • 2001
The Little Mermaid
Hans Christian Andersen • 2016
The Little Mermaid Hans Christian Andersen "The Little Mermaid" is a fairy tale by the Danish author Hans Christian Andersen about a young mermaid who is willing to give up her life in the sea and her identity as a mermaid to gain a human soul. The Little Mermaid dwells in an underwater kingdom with her widowed father (the sea king or Mer-King), her dowager grandmother, and her five older sisters, each of whom had been born one year apart. When a mermaid turns fifteen, she is permitted to swim to the surface for the first time to glimpse the world above, and when the sisters become old enough, each of them visits the upper world one at a time every year. As each returns, the Little Mermaid listens longingly to their various descriptions of the world inhabited by human beings. When the Little Mermaid's turn comes, she rises up to the surface, watches a birthday celebration being held on a ship in honor of a handsome prince, and falls in love with him from a safe distance. A violent storm hits, sinking the boat, and the Little Mermaid saves the prince from drowning. She delivers him unconscious to the shore near a temple. Here, she waits until a young woman from the temple and her ladies in waiting find him. To her dismay, the prince never sees the Little Mermaid or even realizes that it was she who had originally saved his life.
Mercure
Amélie Nothomb • 1999
Shojo
Princess Jellyfish 1
Akiko Higashimura • 2016
Non-fiction
Stupeur Et Tremblements
Amelie Nothomb • 2006
To Read
Notre-Dame de Paris
Victor Hugo • 2004
La Maison des feuilles
Mark Z. DANIELEWSKI • 2022
