Romeo and Juliet is a tragic play written early in the career of William Shakespeare about two teenage "star-cross'd lovers" whose untimely deaths ultimately unite their feuding households.
All's Well That Ends Well is a play by William Shakespeare, originally classified as a comedy, though now often counted as one of his problem plays, so-called because they cannot be easily classified as tragedy or comedy.
The story concerns a family who move to a house near the railway after the father is imprisoned as a result of being falsely accused of selling state secrets to the Russians.
A lone traveler seeks shelter from an approaching storm in an apparently abandoned house, only to find that it is occupied by a "loathsome old, white-bearded, and ragged man.
The novel begins in the 1790s in the coastal town of Monkshaven (modeled on Whitby, England) against the background of the practice of impressment during the early phases of the Napoleonic Wars.
Women and Economics - A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution is a book written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and published in 1898.
"Three Sundays in a Week" depicts a grumpy Uncle Rumgudgeon who refuses to grant his nephew Bobby permission to marry his daughter and, therefore, inherit a portion of Rumgudgeon's estate.
Downloadin EPUB format, also available for Kindle or in PDFA novel about the fortunes of a mining community called Aberfoyle which is near Stirling, Scotland.
Rudin, by Ivan Turgenev, is a Russian fiction classic and a nostalgic story of a man in his late twenties, torn between his much loved but barbaric homeland and a comfortable but unsatisfactory life in Europe.
"William Wilson" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1839, with a setting inspired by Poe's formative years on the outskirts of London.
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.
A quelques pas devant moi, sur une pelouse bordee de framboisiers verts, se tenait une jeune fille, grande et elancee, vetue d'une robe rose a raies et coiffee d'un petit fichu blanc ; quatre jeunes gens faisaient cercle autour d'elle, et elle les frappait au front, a tour de role, avec une de ces fleurs grises dont le nom m'echappe, mais que les enfants connaissent bien : elles forment de petits sachets qui eclatent avec bruit quand on leur fait heurter quelque chose de dur.
Mary Lennox is a sour-faced 10-year-old girl, who is born in India to selfish wealthy British parents who had not wanted her and were too wrapped up in their own lives.
Las Novelas ejemplares son una serie de novelas cortas que Miguel de Cervantes escribio entre 1590 y 1612, y que despues acabaria publicando en 1613 en una coleccion editada en Madrid por Juan de la Cuesta, dada la gran acogida que obtuvo con la primera parte del Quijote.
"The Story of Doctor Dolittle" introduces us to this respected English physician and naturalist, whose love of animals and growing household menagerie leads to him learning the secret of speaking to animals from his parrot Polynesia, and then taking up veterinary practice.
Der reiche englische Gentleman Phileas Fogg, geradezu Exzentriker in Sachen Punktlichkeit und taglichen Gewohnheiten und zudem ein leidenschaftlicher Whist-Spieler, wettet mit anderen Mitgliedern des Reform Club in London, dass es ihm gelingen werde, in 80 Tagen um die Welt zu reisen.
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