While going through the possessions of a deceased guest who owed them money, the mistress of the inn and her son find a treasure map that leads them to a pirate's fortune.
Mary Lennox is a sour-faced 10-year-old girl, who is born in India to selfish wealthy British parents who had not wanted her and were too wrapped up in their own lives.
Beyond Good and Evil (German: Jenseits von Gut und Bose), subtitled "e;Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future"e; (Vorspiel einer Philosophie der Zukunft), is a book by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, first published in 1886.
Friedrich Nietzsche's "e;The Antichrist"e; might be more aptly named "e;The Antichristian,"e; for it is an unmitigated attack on Christianity that Nietzsche makes within the text instead of an exposition on evil or Satan as the title might suggest.
El Zarco es una novela del escritor, periodista y maestro mexicano Ignacio Manuel Altamirano, considerada la más sobresaliente de su producción narrativa.
La Navidad en las montañas nos conduce al utópico encuentro, la víspera de Navidad, entre un militar liberal en la Guerra de Reforma y un cura de aldea, quien resulta un genuino guía espiritual.
Training in public speaking is not a matter of externals--primarily; it is not a matter of imitation--fundamentally; it is not a matter of conformity to standards--at all.
The unceasing change, the insecurity, and the misery of life make it necessary to find some basis of certainty on which to rest if happiness and peace of mind are to be maintained.
Offering his patented brand of spiritual advice that relied as much on self-empowerment as inspiration, James Allen - one of the most popular writers in the field at the turn of the 20th century - sets out to show the elements of character and conduct that go towards building a "e;life of calm strength and superlative victory.
Each evening, just before retiring, we will have a little Round-Up of the day's doings, of the problems in our business and home life, of our hopes and ambitions.
A finely honed abridgement of Emerson's principal essays with an introduction that clarifies the essence of Emerson's ideas and establishes their relevance to our own troubled era.