"May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you - haunt me, then"
Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights, the home of his landlord.
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Livres Classiques
'Thus, gentle Reader, I have given thee a faithful History of my Travels for Sixteen Years, and above Seven Months; wherein I have not been so studious of Ornament as of Truth.
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![The Waves](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/H/9781784870843-waves.jpg)
Virginia Woolf wanted to write about the vast unknown uncertain continent that is the world and us in it' Jeanette Winterson, from her introduction to The Waves The Waves is an astonishingly beautiful and poetic novel.
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![Frankenstein](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureF/R/9781435159624-frankenstein.jpg)
Stepping far afield from his medical studies, Victor Frankenstein brings to life a human form he has fashioned from scavenged body parts. Horrified by his achievement, he turns his back on his creation, only to learn the danger of such neglect.
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![Emma](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureE/M/9781435171367-emma.jpg)
Emma Woodhouse believes herself to be an excellent matchmaker, though she herself does not plan on marrying. But as she meddles in the relationships of others, she causes confusion and misunderstandings throughout the village, and she just may be overlooking a true love of her own.
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![Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass (Barnes & Noble Collectible Editions)](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureA/L/9781435159549-alice-adventures-wonderland-through-looking-glass-barnes--amp;-noble-collectible-editions.jpg)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland transports you down the rabbit-hole into a wondrous realm that is home to a White Rabbit, a March Hare, a Mad Hatter, a tea-drinking Dormouse, a grinning Cheshire-Cat, the Queen of Hearts and her playing card retainers, and all manner of marvelous creatures.
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![House of Sky and Breath](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureH/O/9781526628220-house-breath.jpg)
THE FIERCEST PASSION.
THE CRUELLEST FATE.
The #1 Sunday Times bestseller and sequel to the #1 New York Times bestseller. Sarah J. Maas's sexy, groundbreaking CRESCENT CITY series continues with this second instalment.
Bryce Quinlan and Hunt Athalar have made a pact. As they process the events of the Spring they will keep things platonic until Winter Solstice.
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![The Story of King Arthur and His Knights (Barnes & Noble Collectible Editions)](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/H/9781435162112-story-king-arthur-knights-barnes--amp;-noble-collectible-editions.jpg)
When the young Arthur pulls the embedded sword from the stone, his future as the King of England is foretold. This imaginative retelling of the classic legends recounts the story of Arthur's formation of the Knights of the Round Table, his securing of the enchanted sword Excalibur, his wooing of the Lady Guinevere and many other beloved Arthurian tales.
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![Fahrenheit 451](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureF/A/9791035817695-fahrenheit.jpg)
Plongez dans la version originale et intégrale du classique qui questionne notre rapport à la culture et aux réseaux sociaux et fait des livres, des objets de rébellion politique Avec la collection NOT SO CLASSIC, lire en anglais devient un vrai plaisir grâce à : des notes de vocabulaire en ...
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![The Wings of the Dove](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/H/9780393978810-wings-dove.jpg)
Emerging from the grit and stigma of poverty to a life of fairytale privilege under the wing of her aunt, the beautiful and financially ambitious Kate Croy is already romantically involved with promising journalist Merton Densher when they become acquainted with Milly Theale, a New York socialite of immense wealth.
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![Mrs Dalloway](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureM/R/9780241468647-dalloway.jpg)
Virginia Woolf's masterpiece, now in a beautiful clothbound edition designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith 'One of the most moving, revolutionary artworks of the twentieth century' Michael Cunningham Clarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing for a party and remembering those she once loved. In another part of London, Septimus Warren Smith is suffering from shell-shock and on the brink of [...]
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![The Cop and the Anthem and Other Stories](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/H/9780241447468-anthem-other-stories.jpg)
The Penguin English Library - collectable general readers' editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century to the end of the Second World War.
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![The Island of Doctor Moreau](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/H/9780141389394-island-doctor-moreau.jpg)
'The creatures I had seen were not men, had never been men. They were animals, humanised animals...' A shipwrecked Edward Prendick finds himself stranded on a remote Noble island, the guest of a notorious scientist, Doctor Moreau.
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![Alices's adventures in wonderland](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureA/L/9780141199689-alices-adventures-wonderland.jpg)
Their dream worlds of nonsensical Wonderland and the back-to-front Looking Glass kingdom depict order turned upside-down: a baby turns into a pig, time is abandoned at an unruly tea-party and a chaotic game of chess makes a seven-year-old girl a Queen. But, amongst the eccentric humour and witty conundrums, are poignant moments of nostalgia for a lost childhood.
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![Middlemarch](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureM/I/9781435169579-middlemarch.jpg)
Eliot surrounds her main figures with a gallery of characters drawn from every social class, from laborers and shopkeepers to the rising middle class to members of the wealthy, landed gentry. Together they form an extraordinarily rich and precisely detailed portrait of English provincial life in the 1830s.
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![Sanditon](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureS/A/9780241436585-sanditon.jpg)
Written in the last months of Austen's life, Sanditon features a glorious cast of hypochondriacs and speculators in a newly established seaside resort, and shows the author contemplating a changing society with scepticism and amusement.
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![Jude the Obscure](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureJ/U/9780241382691-jude-obscure.jpg)
Jude Fawley’s hopes of a university education are lost when he is trapped into marrying the earthy Arabella, who later abandons him. Moving to the town of Christminster where he finds work as a stonemason, Jude meets and falls in love with his cousin Sue Bridehead, a sensitive, freethinking "New Woman.
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![Mrs Dalloway](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureM/R/9780241371947-dalloway.jpg)
Past, present and future are brought together one momentous June day in 1923.
Clarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing for a party while reminiscing about her childhood romance with Peter Walsh, and dwelling on her daughter Elizabeth's rapidly-approaching adulthood.
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![The Sign of Four](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/H/9780141395487-sign-four.jpg)
For Mary Morstan has received several large pearls - one a year for the last six years - and now a mystery letter telling her she is a wronged woman. If she would seek justice she is to meet her unknown benefactor, bringing with her two companions.
But unbeknownst to them all, others stalk London's fog-enshrouded streets: a one-legged ruffian with revenge on his mind - and his [...]
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![The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/H/9780241347782-adventures-sherlock-holmes.jpg)
This collection of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes includes many of the famous cases - and great strokes of brilliance - that made the legendary detective one of fiction's most popular creations.
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![Melmoth the Wanderer](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureM/E/9780241366547-melmoth-wanderer.jpg)
The Penguin English Library Edition of Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Maturin'My hour is come ...
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![The Garden Party](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/H/9780241341643-garden-party.jpg)
A windless, warm day greets the Sheridan family on the day of their garden party. As daughter Laura takes the reins on party preparations the news of a neighbour's demise casts a cloud over the host and threatens the entire celebration.
The Penguin English Library - collectable general readers' editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century to the end of the [...]
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![A Handful of Dust](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureA/9780241341100-handful-dust.jpg)
After seven years of marriage, the beautiful Lady Brenda Last is bored with life at Hetton Abbey, the Gothic mansion that is the pride and joy of her husband, Tony. She drifts into an affair with the shallow socialite John Beaver and forsakes Tony for the Belgravia set.
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![The Day of the Locust](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/H/9780241341674-locust.jpg)
Tod Hackett is a brilliant young artist - and a man in danger of losing his heart. Brought to an LA studio as a set-designer, he is soon caught up in a fantasy world where the cult of celebrity rules.
But when he becomes besotted by the beautiful Faye, an aspiring actress and occasional call-girl, his dream rapidly becomes a nightmare.
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![The Scarlet Pimpernel](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/H/9780241341339-scarlet-pimpernel.jpg)
The French Terror is raging, and few are safe from the threat of the guillotine. Sir Percy Blakeney, a foppish Englishman, decides to rescue imprisoned aristocrats before they can be executed. Showing great daring and aided by a band of brave comrades, he disguises himself as the formidable Scarlet Pimpernel.
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![The Beetle](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/H/9780241341353-beetle.jpg)
Eminent politician Paul Lessingham is the toast of Westminster, but when 'the Beetle' arrives from Egypt to hunt him down, the dark and gruesome secret that haunts him is dragged into the light. Bent on revenge for a crime committed against the disciples of an Egyptian goddess, the Beetle terrorizes its victims and will stop at nothing until it has satisfaction.
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![Peter Pan](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureP/E/9780241341391-peter.jpg)
It was Friday night. Mr and Mrs Darling were dining out. Nana had been tied up in the backyard. The poor dog was barking, for she could smell danger.
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![At the Mountains of Madness](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureA/T/9780241341315-mountains-madness.jpg)
Long acknowledged as a master of nightmarish vision, H.P. Lovecraft established the genuineness and dignity of his own pioneering fiction in 1931 with his quintessential work of supernatural horror, At the Mountains of Madness.
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![Heart of Darkness](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureH/E/9780141199788-heart-darkness.jpg)
he Penguin English Library Edition of Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad'The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. What was there after all? Joy, fear, sorrow, devotion, rage - who can tell? - but truth - truth stripped of its cloak of time.
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![Lord Jim](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureL/O/9780141441610-lord.jpg)
his compact novel, completed in 1900, as with so many of the great novels of the time, is at its baseline a book of the sea. An English boy in a simple town has dreams bigger than the outdoors and embarks at an early age into the sailor's life.
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![The Little Mermaid and Other Fairy Tales (MinaLima Edition)](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/H/9780062692597-little-mermaid-other-fairy-tales-minalima-edition.jpg)
Featuring beloved characters such as the Little Mermaid, Thumbelina, and the Snow Queen, a deluxe full-color edition of Hans Christian Andersen's classic fairytales, illustrated with stunning drawings and interactive artwork from MinaLima, the award-winning design studio behind the graphics for the ...
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![The Tenant of Wildfell Hall](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/H/9780141199351-tenant-wildfell-hall.jpg)
In this sensational, hard-hitting and passionate tale of marital cruelty, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall sees a mysterious tenant, Helen Graham, unmasked not as a 'wicked woman' as the local gossips would have it, but as the estranged wife of a brutal alcoholic bully, desperate to protect her son.
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![Villette](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureV/I/9780141199887-villette.jpg)
With neither friends nor family, Lucy Snowe sets sail from England to find employment in a girls' boarding school in the small town of Villette.
There she struggles to retain her self- possession in the face of unruly pupils, an initially suspicious headmaster and her own complex feelings, first for the school's English doctor and then for the dictatorial professor Paul Emmanuel. [...]
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![The Scarlet Letter](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/H/9780141199450-scarlet-letter.jpg)
Set in the harsh Puritan community of seventeenth-century Boston, this tale of an adulterous entanglement that results in an illegitimate birth reveals Nathaniel Hawthorne's concerns with the tension between the public and the private selves.
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![The Valley of Fear](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/H/9780141395562-valley-fear.jpg)
The deadly hand of Professor Moriarty once more reaches out to commit a vile and ingenious crime, but a mole in Moriarty's criminal organization alerts Sherlock Holmes of the evil deed by means of a cipher . . .
When Holmes and Watson arrive at a Sussex manor house they appear to be too late. The discovery of a body suggests that Moriarty's henchmen have been at their work.
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![The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb and Other Cases](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/H/9780141395500-adventure-engineer-thumb-other-cases.jpg)
As usual with the Sherlock Holmes stories it is very hard to say which are the best - but there are many stories here which would get the vote - ranging from The Boscombe Valley Mystery to the wonderful Adventure of Silver Blaze, from the Adventure of the Norwood Builder to A Case of Identity, but above to the uniquely strange and macabre Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb.
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