Classic fiction: general and literary

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his famous detective and illustrated by Sidney Paget.

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.

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The book tells the adventures of five American prisoners of war on an uncharted island in the South Pacific.

This book contains the Tom Sawyer complete collection.

Shocking his stodgy colleagues at the exclusive Reform Club, enigmatic Englishman Phileas Fogg wagers his fortune, undertaking an extraordinary and daring enterprise: to circumnavigate the globe in eighty days.

In the years since its publication in 1902, "As a Man Thinketh" has set thousands of men on the pathway to personal and financial growth.

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Based on Melville's actual experiences after having jumped ship in the Marquesas Islands, this work was extremely popular, and provoked disbelief among its readers until the events it described were corroborated by Melville's fellow castaway, Richard Greene.

"Because of the Dollars" is a short story written by Joseph Conrad (1857-1924).

Lorsque Jacques Aratov, jeune homme taciturne et solitaire, fait la connaissance de l'actrice Claire Militch, il reste indifférent à son charme et, plus tard, à son implicite déclaration.

"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is a short story by American author Washington Irving, contained in his collection of 34 essays and short stories entitled The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.

Extrait : Et il avait fallu mentir honteusement, odieusement, partir pour la Suisse, accoucher mysterieusement.

Tommy Stubbins, John Dolittle's nine-year-old assistant, accompanies the good doctor and his crew of animal companions on an exciting, hazardous voyage to find Long Arrow, a native American who is reputed to be the world's greatest living naturalist.

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The narrator, Egaeus, is a studious young man who grows up in a large gloomy mansion with his cousin Berenice.

This ebook compiles Edgar Allan Poe's complete tales and poems, including "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket", "The Fall of the House of Usher", "The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Raven" and "The Cask of Amontillado".

"The Colour Out of Space" is a first-person narrative written from the perspective of an unnamed surveyor from Boston.

Wollstonecraft's philosophical and gothic novel revolves around the story of a woman imprisoned in an insane asylum by her husband.

Alice Adams is a 1921 novel by Booth Tarkington that received the 1922 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel.

This collection of Lupin short stories presents more puzzling criminal involvements of the classic French hero-thief and his men.

Suite des Cages flottantes.

Durch das Land der Skipetaren folgen Kara Ben Nemsi und seine Gefahrten den Spuren der Verbrecher.

Gaston Leroux est un romancier francais, ne le 6 mai 1868 a Paris (10e arr.

This ebook compiles Edgar Allan Poe's greatest writings, including novels, short stories and poems such as "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket", "The Fall of the House of Usher", "The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Raven" and "The Cask of Amontillado".

This book contains the complete novels of Fyodor Dostoyevsky in the chronological order of their original publication.

Contenu de la collection:À LA RECHERCHE DU TEMPS PERDUDu côté de chez Swann (1913)À l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs (1919)Le côté de Guermantes (1920–21)Sodome et Gomorrhe (1921–22)La prisonnière (1923)Albertine disparue (La fugitive) (1925)Le temps retrouvé (1927)Les plaisirs et les jours (1896)John Ruskin: La bible d'Amiens, translated by Proust (1904)John Ruskin: Sésame et les lys, translated by Proust (1906)Pastiches et mélanges (1919)Chroniques (1927)Jean Santeuil (1952, 1971) (see update v.

This ebook compiles Edgar Allan Poe's greatest writings, including novels, short stories and poems such as "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket", "The Fall of the House of Usher", "The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Raven" and "The Cask of Amontillado".

Moby-Dick is an 1851 novel by Herman Melville.

The story is the testament of a tortured, morphine-addicted man who relates an incident that occurred during his service as an officer during World War I.

A Personal Record (1912) both documents and fictionalizes Joseph Conrad's early life and the opening stages of his careers as a writer and as a seaman.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his famous detective and illustrated by Sidney Paget.

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.

The rich landowner Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead in the park of his manor surrounded by the grim moor of Dartmoor, in the county of Devon.

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.

This collection contains all Jane Austen's writings in one, convenient ebook.

The Code of Hammurabi (Codex Hammurabi) is a well-preserved ancient law code, created ca.

"The Doom that Came to Sarnath" (1920) is a fantasy short story by American writer H.

Here you will find the complete Father Brown stories in the chronological order of their original publication.

"Thou Art the Man", originally titled "Thou Art the Man!

A young sea captain tests his mettle off the coast of Siam in this nineteenth-century psychological tale from the author of Heart of Darkness.

The story describes of a strange hybrid race, half-human and half an unknown creature that resembles a cross between a fish and frog, that dwells in the seaside village of Innsmouth (formerly a large town, but lately fallen into disrepair).

Contents:The Son of the WolfThe God of his Fathers & Other StoriesA Daughter of the SnowsThe Call of the WildThe Sea WolfThe Faith of Men & Other StoriesThe GameTales of the Fish PatrolMoon-Face & Other StoriesWhite FangBefore AdamLove of Life & Other StoriesThe RoadThe Iron HeelMartin EdenBurning DaylightLost FaceAdventureThe Abysmal BruteSouth Sea TalesWhen God Laughs & Other StoriesThe Scarlet PlagueThe House of PrideA Son of the SunThe Valley of the MoonThe Night-BornThe Mutiny of the ElsinoreThe Strength of the StrongThe Star RoverThe Little Lady of the Big HouseThe Turtles of TasmanJerry of the IslandsMichael, Brother of JerryHearts of ThreeThe Red OneOn the Makaloa MatChildren of the FrostDutch Courage and Other Stories

Der franzosische Ich-Erzahler wartet auf dem damaligen Theaterplatz (heutiger Rathenauplatz) von Frankfurt am Main vergeblich auf drei Stadtverordnete, die an seiner Ballonfahrt teilnehmen wollten.

"November", ein Fruhwerk Flauberts, kreist um den Eros als magisch-betaubende Kraft.

ChildhoodBoyhoodYouthThe CossacksWar and PeaceFather SergiusAnna KareninaIvan the FoolEvil allures, but good enduresWhere Love is, There God is AlsoThe Death of Ivan IlychThe Imp and the CrustAn Old AcquaintanceThe Young TsarMaster and ManEsarhaddon, King of AssyriaWork, Death, and SicknessThere are No Guilty PeopleLittle Girls Wiser Than Men

Het portret van Dorian Gray (Engelstalige titel The Picture of Dorian Gray) is de enige gepubliceerde roman van Oscar Wilde, en voor het eerst uitgebracht in Engeland in 1890.

We knew him in those unprotected days when we were content to hold in our hands our lives and our property.

"To the Queen" (or "To The Queen by the players") is a short poem attributed to William Shakespeare.