The book is dedicated to the tragic events of the night of August 24, 1572 (the feast of St. Bartholomew according to the Catholic calendar), when a massacre...

The book presents a rich collection of mystical, mysterious and creepy stories created by Western European and American writers of the 18th–20th centuries. F...

Prosper Mérimée (1803–1870) is best known for his short stories, but he was also a novelist, playwright, and renowned in the fields of history and archaeolog...

Vivid romantic images, psychological sketches of relationships and morals, an exciting plot - in the short stories of the classic of French literature of the...

In “The Chronicle of the Reign of Charles IX,” Merimee turned to depicting significant social upheavals that were turning point in nature. The action of his ...

They avoid daylight and emerge from their hiding places only at dusk. They are cautious, cunning and cunning; they are not reflected in mirrors, they can gli...

For the first time, a complete edition of the letters of Prosper Merimee (1803-1870) to his friend Jenny Daquin (1811-1895) was published in French in Novemb...

The book includes works by famous French writers of the 19th and 20th centuries. At the center of the story, there is certainly either a psychological myster...

“If you go north-west from Porto-Vecchio into the interior of the island, the terrain begins to rise quite steeply, and after a three-hour walk along winding...

An extensive collection of “terrible” French prose provides a fairly broad panorama of Gothic literature. It opens with the repeatedly translated and publish...