The tale opens with the unnamed narrator arriving at the house of his friend, Roderick Usher, having received a letter from him in a distant part of the country complaining of an illness and asking for his comfort.
Esta coleccion de cuentos siete ha dado a conocer en textos impecables, basados en las primeras ediciones o en manuscritos de Emilia Pardo Bazan obras significativas en la escritura d ela autora espanola.
La novela narra la historia del huérfano Pip, quien describe su vida desde su niñez hasta su madurez tratando de convertirse en un hombre de nobleza a lo largo de su vida.
The Sphinx is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe about a man who decides to visit a relative living near the Hudson River north of New York City for two weeks during a cholera epidemic that occurred during the summer of 1832.
At the age of ten, Fanny Price leaves the poverty of her Portsmouth home to be brought up among the family of her wealthy uncle, Sir Thomas Bertram, in the chilly grandeur of Mansfield Park.
Described by Hardy as a tale of "mystery, entanglement, surprise and moral obliquity", his first published novel violated the literary decorum of its day with blackmail, murder, and romance.
The Tao Te Ching is fundamental to the Taoist school of Chinese philosophy and strongly influenced other schools, such as Legalism and Neo-Confucianism.
CONTENTS:1901 - From Poverty to Power1902 - As A Man Thinketh1903 - All These Things Added1903 - Through the Gates of Good or Christ and Conduct1904 - Byways to Blessedness1904 - Out From The Heart1907 - Poems of peace; including the lyrical dramatic poem Eolaus1908 - The Life Triumphant - Mastering the Heart And Mind1909 - Morning And Evening Thoughts1909 - The Mastery of Destiny1910 - Above Life's Turmoil1910 - From Passion to Peace1911 - Eight Pillars of Prosperity1911 - Man-King of Mind, Body and Circumstance1912 - Light on Life's Difficulties1913 - Foundation Stones to Happiness and Success1913 - James Allen's book of meditations for Every Day in the Year1914 - Men And Systems1915 - The Shining Gateway1919 - The Divine Companion
Belinda, with a modest self-possession quite her own, promptly answered for this Spectre in a low, clear voice:The lights extinguished; by the hearth I leant,Half weary with a listless discontent.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's 'The Sorrows of Young Werther' is a seminal work in the Sturm und Drang movement and remains a classic in the world of German literature.
Rudyard Kipling's 'Plain Tales From The Hills' is a collection of over 40 short stories that capture the essence of British colonial life in India during the late 19th century.
This volume contains the three trilogies of the amazing FORSYTE SAGA, by John Galsworthy, English novelist and playwright who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932, mostly for these series of books that we now present in one volume.
Lana soll mit den anderen Bewohnern des jüdischen Ghettos deportiert werden, doch kurz vorher wählt der junge Lagerkommandant von Alnor sie und einige weitere aus, für ihn auf seinem Anwesen zu arbeiten.
