Published a year after Nancy Mitford's first novel Highland Fling, Christmas Pudding gives a flavour of life for the Bright Young Things of the twenties and thirties, and a taste of what was to come in her later novels.
En abril de 1849 Fiodor Dostoievski, con otros veintisiete jovenes, era detenido y acusado de "crimenes contra la seguridad del Estado"; unos meses despues, se le sometia a un simulacro de ejecucion, y finalmente a una condena de ocho anos de trabajos forzados en Siberia.
Dmitrij Semënovič racconta a un gruppo di amici una vicenda, risalente a quando il narratore aveva 15 anni di età, riguardante un amico di famiglia le cui vicende gli ricordano quelle del protagonista del dramma scespiriano Re Lear, il sovrano che aveva abdicato e diviso il regno fra le sue figlie.
"Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are.
The Complete Novels of Jane Austen brings together the indelible characters, picturesque locations, and masterful storytelling of Jane Austen, one of the most beloved and celebrated authors of all time.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a semi-autobiographical novel by James Joyce, first serialized in The Egoist from 1914 to 1915 and published in book form in 1916.
Il romanzo prende le mosse dal progetto di don Marcantonio Ravì di dare in moglie la giovane figlia Stellina a Don Diego Alcozer, che è vecchio, ma assai ricco e veterano di ben quattro matrimoni e altrettante vedovanze.
Vollständige Ausgabe, mit interaktivem Personenverzeichnis und erklärenden FußnotenMit einführendem Aufsatz zu Autor und WerkDer letzte Roman von Fjodor M.
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 "life of calm strength and superlative victory.
Walter Gilman, a student of mathematics and folklore at Miskatonic University, takes a room in the Witch House, a house in Arkham thought to be accursed.
Es la sexta y ultima coleccion de cuentos de Emilia Pardo Bazan que narra historias de amores enormes, mediocres, irrisorios, molestos, pequenos, sorprendentes, entranables, dramaticos o felices.
CONTENIDO:Cuentos de horror [Ambrose Bierce]El monte de las ánimas [Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer]El Horror de Dunwich [Howard Phillips Lovecraft]La Llamada de Cthulhu [Howard Phillips Lovecraft]El Horla [Guy de Maupassant]Relatos escogidos II [Edgar Allan Poe]Berenice [Edgar Allan Poe]Relatos escogidos III [Edgar Allan Poe]EL BARRIL DE AMONTILLADO [Edgar Allan Poe]La máscara de la muerte roja [Edgar Allan Poe]El pozo y el péndulo [Edgar Allan Poe]La caída de la Casa Usher [Edgar Allan Poe]Relatos escogidos [Edgar Allan Poe]El corazón delator [Edgar Allan Poe]El gato negro [Edgar Allan Poe]El retrato oval [Edgar Allan Poe]Cuentos de amor, de locura y de muerte [Horacio Quiroga]Drácula [Bram Stoker]
Favorites for nearly 100 years, these classic novels follow the adventures of the spirited redhead Anne Shirley, who comes to stay at Green Gables and wins the hearts of everyone she meets.
The narrator, an elderly lawyer who has a very comfortable business helping wealthy men deal with mortgages, title deeds, and bonds, relates the story of the strangest man he has ever known.
The Castle of Otranto - Horace Walpole The History of Caliph Vathek - William Beckford The Mysteries of Udolpho - Ann Radcliffe Caleb Williams - William Godwin Wieland: or, The Transformation - Charles Brockden BrownNorthanger Abbey - Jane AustenFrankenstein - Mary Shelley Melmoth the Wanderer (Lock and Key Version) - Charles Robert Maturin The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Washington Irving The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner - James Hogg St.
This volume edited by ShandonPress contains the following classic children's novels:- A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett - The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett - Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery - Little Women by Louisa May Alcott - Black Beauty by Anna Sewell - A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain- Just so Stories by Rudyard Kipling - The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang - Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson - The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald - Five Children and It by Edith Nesbit - Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin - The Magic Fishbone by Charles Dickens - Grimm's Fairy Tales by Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm - Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) by J.
Obras Contenidas:Un viaje de noviosLa tribunaEl cisne de VilamortaLos pazos de UlloaLa madre naturalezaInsolaciónLa pruebaUna cristianaLa piedra angularDoña MilagrosMemorias de un solterón: Adán y EvaEl tesoro de GastónEl saludo de las brujasEl Niño de GuzmánMisterioLa sirena negraDulce sueñoLa última fadaCuentos de amor