Elia Wilkinson Peattie was a prolific fiction writer who detailed her experiences as a woman in the West in dozens of essays, short stories, and novels.
Pygmalion, una de las obras más conocidas de George Bernard Shaw, fue un gran éxito en los escenarios de Londres y Nueva York, una película entretenida y un gran éxito con su versión musical, My Fair Lady.
Le Morte d'Arthur (originalmente escrito Le Morte Darthur, francés medio para "la muerte de Arturo" [1]) es una reelaboración de los cuentos existentes de Sir Thomas Malory sobre el legendario Rey Arturo, Ginebra, Lancelot, Merlín y los Caballeros.
Mit seinem 'Romantischen Drama' DER STUDENT VON PRAG verbreitete Hanns Heinz Ewers schon 1913 ein Thema auf der Leinwand, das eine Obsession des deutschen Films werden sollte: die Sorge um die Grundlagen des Ich.
Deviating from the long line of strong and stoic male protagonists who featured in his other novels, American author Winston Churchill turns his attention to the fairer sex in the charming novel A Modern Chronicle.
Escrita en su manera distintivamente deslumbrante, la historia de Oscar Wilde de un joven de moda que vende su alma por la eterna juventud y belleza es la obra más popular del autor.
Se proporciona una rica selección de antecedentes y materiales de origen en tres áreas: Contextos incluye probables inspiraciones para Drácula en los trabajos anteriores de James Malcolm Rymer y Emily Gerard.
After retiring from a distinguished military career, Brigadier General Charles King used his life experiences as inspiration for a series of acclaimed novels and screenplays.
A writer of remarkably diverse talents, Elizabeth Gaskell produced fiction and non-fiction ranging from short stories that offered detailed cross-sections of Victorian life and society to a well-regarded biography of author Charlotte Bronte.
The novel A Start in Life is part of the Scenes of Private Life section of Honore de Balzac's masterpiece of nineteenth-century realism, The Human Comedy.
Virtually every aspect of the modern Western worldview has its roots in the remarkably diverse body of philosophy that emerged from a small patch of land in the Mediterranean thousands of years ago.
Candide es la historia de un hombre gentil que, aunque golpeado y golpeado en todas direcciones por el destino, se aferra desesperadamente a la creencia de que vive en "el mejor de los mundos posibles".
Populated by a parade of fascinating characters, this slice-of-life story provides a glimpse into life in the Appalachian region in the early twentieth century.
Though it has now fallen out of favor among many practitioners and scholars, Freud's concept of psychoanalysis -- an approach that focuses primarily on adverse events in early childhood and irrational drives that are overcome via extended talk therapy -- was and continues to be enormously influential, not only in the realm of psychology, but also in the larger culture.
This short novel, part of the Scenes of Private Life section of Honore de Balzac's vast masterpiece The Human Comedy, includes the first appearances of key characters who return later in the series.
Born and educated in Ireland, the eighteenth-century philosopher George Berkeley developed an influential school of thought that later came to be described as "e;subjective idealism.
Mit seinem 'Romantischen Drama' DER STUDENT VON PRAG verbreitete Hanns Heinz Ewers schon 1913 ein Thema auf der Leinwand, das eine Obsession des deutschen Films werden sollte: die Sorge um die Grundlagen des Ich.
Arsène Lupin ist ein charmanter Dieb, ein liebenswerter Schwindler, ein galanter Frauenschwarm und als Meister der Verkleidung führt er die Polizei an der Nase herum.
In Mark Twain's 1889 novel A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Hank Morgan awakes from a blow to the head only to find that he has been mysteriously transported back in time.
Anna Karenina ist ein Roman von Lew Tolstoi, der in den Jahren 1873 bis 1878 in der Epoche des russischen Realismus entstand und als eines von Tolstois bedeutendsten Werken gilt.
Whether you're a long-time fan of Thomas Hardy's works or a first-time reader who is curious about the author of such masterpieces as Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Far From the Madding Crowd, this collection of short stories offers a gratifying introduction to the renowned British naturalist's literary talent.
Der Bau ist eine 1923–1924 entstandene, unvollendete Erzählung von Franz Kafka, die postum erstmals 1928 in der Zeitschrift Witiko und 1931 von Max Brod veröffentlicht wurde.
Un niño del siglo XIX de una ciudad del río Mississippi relata sus aventuras mientras viaja río abajo con un esclavo fugitivo, se encuentra con una familia involucrada en una pelea, dos sinvergüenzas que fingen ser de la realeza y la tía de Tom Sawyer que lo confunde con Tom.
Though he is now best remembered for his fiction, famed wit and bon vivant Oscar Wilde also dabbled in drama over the course of his long and varied literary career.
Suprimida regularmente desde su publicación, My Secret Life detalla las experiencias eróticas del narrador "Walter", un caballero victoriano de riqueza y estatus.
