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"THE MAN-WOLF By Emile Erckmann and Alexandre Chatrian About Christmas time in the year 18—, as I was lying fast asleep at the Cygne at Fribourg, my old friend Gideon Sperver broke abruptly into my room, crying— "Fritz, I have good news for you; I am going to take you to Nideck, two leagues from this place. You know Nideck, the finest baronial castle in the country, a grand monument of the glory of our forefathers?" Now I had not seen S ..."
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The Conscript A Story of the French War of 1813 by Emile Erckmann, AlexandreChatrian 316 Pages, Published 2019 by Wentworth Press ISBN-13: 978-0-530-14015-5, ISBN: 0-530-14015-2
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"This extraordinary collection puts together five classics of gothic literature, depicting traditions based in legends that have been present for millenia on the collective unconscious of humanity. The volume presents Dracula, by Bram Stoker; Frankestein by Mary Shelley; Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson; The Invisible Man; by H. G. Wells and The Man Wolf, by Erckmann/Chatrian, one of the first Werewolf novels ever writte ..."
"Un Chef de chantier à l'Isthme de Suez. I: - Lorsque j'étais employé au canal de Suez, en 1865 et les années suivantes, me dit mon ami GOGUEL, j'avais l'habitude de me lever une ou deux heures avant le travail, pour respirer la fraîcheur du matin et voir si tout était en ordre dans nos environs. Le campement du SERAPEUM, - où se trouvaient nos chantiers, - situé sur l'emplacement de l'antique temple de SERAPIS ruiné depuis deux mille an ..."
Waterloo by AlexandreChatrian 246 Pages, Published 2018 by Palala Press ISBN-13: 978-1-377-35437-8, ISBN: 1-377-35437-7
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"Chapitre 1: - Lorsque Zacharias Kobus, juge de paix à Hunebourg, mourut en 1832, son fils Fritz Kobus, se voyant à la tête d'une belle maison sur la place des Acacias, d'une bonne ferme dans la vallée de Meisenthâl, et de pas mal d'écus placés sur solides hypothèques, essuya ses larmes, et se dit avec l'Ecclésiaste: - "Vanité des vanités, tout est vanité !" Quel avantage a l'homme des travaux qu'il fait sur la terre ? Une génération pas ..."