This book contains the following works with an Active Table of Contents- Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell : The Complete Novels - Thomas Hardy : The Complete Novels - Nathaniel Hawthorne : The Complete Novels - Victor Hugo: The Complete Novels- Robert Louis Stevenson: The Complete Novels - Rudyard Kipling : The Complete Novels and Stories- H.
The fantastic adventures of the Three Musketeers continue - starting with an intrigue surrounding D'Artagnan who has, for twenty years, remained a lieutenant.
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.
The Mayor of Casterbridge opens with a shocking and haunting scene: In a drunken rage, Michael Henchard sells his wife and daughter to a visiting sailor at a local fair.
This is another amazing book by scotish author Samuel Smiles, whose books inspired authors such as Orison Swett Marden, Wallace Wattles and several others of the New Thought Movement.
A popular pastor and poet at the turn of the 20th century, Henry Van Dyke sings the praises of acts of kindness and generosity, of good will and good cheer, and of the spirit of Christmas.
Contents:Watch and WardRoderick HudsonThe AmericanThe EuropeansConfidenceWashington SquareThe Portrait of a LadyThe BostoniansThe Princess Casamassima The ReverberatorThe Tragic MuseThe Other HouseThe Spoils of PoyntonWhat Maisie Knew The Awkward AgeThe Sacred FountThe Wings of the DoveThe AmbassadorsThe Golden BowlThe OutcryThe Whole FamilyThe Ivory TowerThe Sense of the Past
Friedrich Nietzsche's "The Antichrist" might be more aptly named "The Antichristian," for it is an unmitigated attack on Christianity that Nietzsche makes within the text instead of an exposition on evil or Satan as the title might suggest.
The tale depicts the eighth and final voyage of Sinbad the Sailor, along with the various mysteries Sinbad and his crew encounter; the anomalies are then described as footnotes to the story.
An undertaker finds himself trapped in the vault where coffins are stored during winter for burial in the spring, and is mysteriously injured when he escapes.
Su modelo de "mujer del futuro" viene encarnada en el personaje de Feíta, hija de don Benicio Neira, un hidalgo venido a menos, situado en la clase media, cuya hija alberga unos inmensos deseos de instrucción, de autonomía personal, de trabajo para independizarse… que la alejan de las "señoritas" de su clase y del resto de sus hermanas.
In a publishing career that spanned less than a decade, Jane Austen used the romantic endeavours of her well-plotted characters as a stage from which to address issues of gender politics and class-consciousness rarely expressed in her day.