Le jour de sa promotion - cela se passait aux environs du 15 mars -, Teglev se promenait le long des quais, en compagnie de quelques camarades impatients d'etrenner leurs uniformes tout neufs.
Penrod for girls in the form of Florence, the bratty younger cousin of luminous Julia Atwater, enlivens this romantic comedy set in Tarkington's Indiana of the early 20th Century.
This little-known novella from one of the masters of the form is so unusual for Joseph Conrad's work in several respects, although not in its exotic maritime setting or its even more exotic prose-it is unusual in that it is one of his very few works to feature a woman as a leading character, and to take the form of a romance.
One Thousand and One Nights is a collection of stories collected over many centuries by various authors, translators and scholars in various countries across the Middle East and South Asia.
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.
Published to popular acclaim in 1809, this satire, considered the first important contribution to American comic literature, was Washington Irving's first book.
First published serially in Gilman's magazine the Forerunner in 1909-10, the novel tells the story of Diantha Bell, a young woman who leaves her home and her fiance to start a housecleaning business.
One of the earliest science fantasy stories ever written, From the Earth to the Moon follows three wealthy members of a post-Civil War gun club who design and build an enormous columbiad -- and ride a spaceship fired from it all the way to the moon!
This collection includes, "The Cat-hood of Maurice", "The Mixed Mine", "Accidental Magic", "The Princess and the Hedge-Pig", "Septimus Septimusson", "The White Cat", "Belinda and Bellamant", "Justnowland", "The Related Muff", "The Aunt and Anabel; "Kenneth and the Carp" and "The Magician's Heart"
La autora se aleja de las premisas Naturalismo centrándose en el estudio psicológico de los personajes, empleando para ello una inusitada y compleja técnica narrativa.
Le jour de sa promotion - cela se passait aux environs du 15 mars -, Teglev se promenait le long des quais, en compagnie de quelques camarades impatients d'etrenner leurs uniformes tout neufs.
Don Quijote de la Mancha, escrito por Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, editado en 1605, es una de las obras más destacadas de la literatura española y la literatura universal, y una de las más traducidasLa novela consta de dos partes: la primera, El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha, fue publicada en 1605; la segunda, El ingenioso caballero don Quijote de la Mancha, en 1615.
Set in late November 1827, the tale is begun by an unidentified narrator whose story is the loose outer frame for the central tale of Augustus Bedloe, a wealthy young invalid whom the narrator has known "casually" for eighteen years yet who still remains an enigma.
This carefully crafted ebook: "THE THREE MUSKETEERS - Complete Collection: The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, The Vicomte of Bragelonne, Ten Years Later, Louise da la Valliere & The Man in the Iron Mask" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
Decouvrez ou redecouvrez l'histoire de Charles Bovary qui, apres avoir suivi ses etudes dans un lycee de province, s'etablit comme officier de sante et se marie a une riche veuve.
Edgar Allan Poe's satirical short story about a female writer who is told by her editor that she must kill herself and then record the sensations of her death.
This collection contains the following classic Russian novels:- Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol- Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov- Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy- Anna Karenina by LeoTolstoy- The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky- Mother by Maxim Gorky
