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American novelist Booth Tarkingtons life spanned the period 1869-1946, giving him a unique insight into the United States as its culture underwent a number of rapid changes. In the humorous novel Harlequin and Columbine, Tarkington explores the cult of celebrity that began to flower in earnest in the early decades of the twentieth century, using the character of an egotistical actor, Talbot Potter, as the focus of his gentle but hilariously spot-on satire.

Generations of children have treasured the story of Sara Crewe, the little girl who imagines shes a princess in order to survive hard times at Miss Minchins London boarding school.

The grand saloon the finest of all those contained in the New Palace formed to this procession of exalted personages and splendidly dressed women a frame worthy of the magnificence they displayed. The rich ceiling with its gilding already softened by the touch of time appeared as if glittering with stars.

Crimen y castigo gira en torno a Rodion Raskolnikov. El protagonista es un estudiante que apenas tiene para sobrevivir, ni siquiera a través de los esfuerzos de su madre (Pulqueria) y su hermana Dunia. Rodion se indigna con Dunia porque quiere casarse con un comerciante, y el sabe que el matrimonio es por interes, para ayudar a Rodion. Asi que tiene la idea de matar y robar a una vieja usurera despiadada que guarda mucho dinero en su casa.Raskolnikov se ve obligado a asesinar tambien a la hermana de la usurera Aliona, Lizaveta, ya que lo sorprende en el lugar del crimen. Pronto la policia se pone a investigar el caso. El protagonista como persona que uso los servicios de la usurera, es interrogado por el comisario, que sospecha de el como uno de los autores e intenta sorprenderlo con preguntas. Ello inquieta mucho a Rodion.El crimen deja a Rodion en gran confusion, se debate consigo mismo sobre si su accion ha sido buena o mala. Confiesa a su amiga Sonia, una muchacha pob...

Ebook con un sumario dinámico y detallado: Jaccuse…! (en francés Yo acuso, pronunciado [ʒaˈkyz]) de Émile Zola es un alegato en favor del capitán Alfred Dreyfus, en forma de carta abierta al presiden

This ebook compiles Edgar Allan Poes 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 edition has been professionally formatted and contains several tables of contents. The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where youll find a new TOC that lists all the chapters and sub-chapters of that specific work.

Linventeur Samuel Fergusson, accompagné de son domestique Joe et de son ami Dick Kennedy, entreprend de traverser le continent africain — alors partiellement inexploré — au moyen dun ballon gonflé à

Complete fictional writings of Lewis Carroll with 285 original illustrations. The collection comes with inline tables of contents and links after each text/chapter which lead back to the respective tables. -------------------------- Contents: Novels " Alices Adventures in Wonderland. (Illustrated by John Tenniel) " Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. (Illustrated by John Tenniel) " Sylvie and Bruno. (Illustrated by Harry Furniss) " Sylvie and Bruno Concluded. (Illustrated by Harry Furniss) Stories " A Tangled Tale. (Illustrated by Arthur B. Frost) " Brunos Revenge and Other Stories. " What the Tortoise Said to Achilles. Poems " Early Verse. " Puzzles from Wonderland. " Prologues to Plays. " Rhyme? And Reason? (Illustrated by Arthur B. Frost & Henry Holiday) " College Rhymes and Notes by an Oxford Chiel. " Acrostics, Inscriptions and Other Verses. " Three Sunsets and Other Poems. (Illustrated by E. Gertrude Thomson)

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 f

"The Three Strangers" is a short story by Thomas Hardy from 1883.The story is a pastoral history told by an omniscient narrator more than 50 years after the event. The sheep-stealer is a kind of folk hero who stole to survive and escaped by outsmarting his hangman.

Sakis (a.k.a Hector Hugh Munro) unique brand of humor has resonated with readers for over a century. Both macabre and also at times vicious, his writing nonetheless manages to perfectly capture the trivial absurdities of the Edwardian era in England.His subjects are almost always louche members of the upper classes - in particular his perfectly observed anti-heroes such as Clovis and Reginald - who wouldnt feel out of place in the world of P.G Wodehouses Bertie Wooster.The fatal flaw of hypocrisy receives particular attention in Sakis world, with vengeful justice often meted out in the most unlikely and unexpected fashion by birds, beasts and children alike.This collection contains both novels by Saki, all of his short story collections, and also his individual short stories the were published outside collections - in total 145 separate works.

In The Captive, Prousts narrator describes living in his mothers Paris apartment with his lover, Albertine, and subsequently falling out of love with her.

The final volume of Remembrance of Things Past chronicles the years of World War I, when, as M. de Charlus reflects on a moonlit walk, Paris threatens to become another Pompeii. Years later, after the wars end, Prousts narrator returns to Paris, where Mme. Verdurin has become the Princesse de Guermantes. He reflects on time, reality, jealousy, artistic creation, and the raw material for literature-his past life.

This ebook compiles Edgar Allan Poes 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 edition has been professionally formatted and contains several tables of contents. The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where youll find a new TOC that lists all the chapters and sub-chapters of that specific work.

Valeria Woodvilles first act as a married woman is to sign her name in the marriage register incorrectly, and this slip is followed by the gradual disclosure of a series of secrets about her husbands earlier life, each of which leads on to another set of questions and enigmas. Her discoveries prompt her to defy her husbands authority, to take the law into into a labyrinthine maze of false clues and deceptive identities, in which the exploration of the tangled workings of the mind becomes linked to an investigation into the masquerades of femininity. Probably the first full-length novel with a woman detective as its heroine, The Law and the Lady is a fascinating example of Collinss later fiction. First published in 1875, it employs many of the techniques used in The Moonstone, developing them in bizarre and unexpected ways, and in its Gothic and fantastic elements The Law and the Lady adds a significant dimension to the history of detective fiction.

This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors last namesA Royal Prisoner [Marcel Allain]The Man Who Knew Too Much,The Man Who Was Thursday: a Nightmare [G.K Chesterton]The Hound of the Baskervilles,The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes [Arthur Conan Doyle]The Nebuly Coat [John Meade Falkner]The Chestermarke Instinct,The Middle of Things,The Orange-Yellow Diamond,The Paradise Mystery [Joseph Smith Fletcher]Helen Vardons Confession,The Singing Bone{R. Austin Freeman]File No.113, Monsieur Lecoq,The Lerouge Case,The Mystery of Orcival [Emile Gaboriau]The Riddle of the Frozen Flame [Thomas W. Hanshew]A Thief in the Night ,Raffles: Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman, The Amateur Cracksman [Ernest William Hornung]Malcolm Sage, Detective [Herbert George Jenkins]The Room in the Dragon Volant, Wylders Hand [Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu]The Stretton Street Affair [William Le Queux]The Crystal Stopper [Maurice Leblanc]The Voice in the Fog [Harold MacGrath]Anderson Crow, Detective [George Barr McCutcheon]Ashton-Kirk, Investigator [John T. McIntyre]Martin Hewitt, Investigator, The Red Triangle [Arthur Morrison]The Black Box [Edward Phillips Oppenheim]The Burglars Fate and The Detectives [Allan Pinkerton]The Sleuth of St. Jamess Square [Melville Davisson Post]The Hand in the Dark, The Shrieking Pit [Arthur John Rees]More Tish, The Case of Jennie Brice [Mary Roberts Rinehart]Bat Wing, The Hand of Fu-Manchu, The Quest of the Sacred Slipper, The Sins of Severac Bablon [Sax Rohmer]The Brand of Silence [Harrington Strong]Number Seventeen,The Stowmarket Mystery,The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley [Louis Tracy]The Lone Wolf [Louis Joseph Vance]Raspberry Jam [Carolyn Wells]The Mystery of the Barranca [Herman Whitaker]Peter the Brazen [George F. Worts]The Big Bow Mystery [Israel Zangwill]Also Available :50 Mystery and Detective masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 1

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. She was taken care of primarily by servants, who pacify her as much as possible to keep her out of the way. Spoiled and with a temper, she is unaffectionate, angry, rude and obstinate. Later, there is a cholera epidemic which hits India and kills her mother, father and all the servants. She is discovered alone but alive after the house is empty. She is sent to Yorkshire, England to live with her uncle, Archibald Craven at his home called Misselthwaite Manor.

When Tarzan is orphaned as a baby deep in the African jungle, the apes adopt him and raise him as their own. By the time the boy is ten, he can swing through the trees and talk to the animals. By the time he is eighteen, he has the strength of a lion and rules the apes as their king. But Tarzan knows hes different. Will he ever discover his true identity?

Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, popularly known as Fanny Hill, is a novel by John Cleland.Written in 1748 while Cleland was in debtors prison in London, it is considered the first modern "erotic novel" in English, and has become a byword for the battle of censorship of erotica.

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who first appeared in publication in 1887. He is the creation of Scottish born author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A brilliant London-based detective, Holmes is famous for his intellectual prowess, and is renowned for his skillful use of deductive reasoning (somewhat mistakenly - see inductive reasoning) and astute observation to solve difficult cases. He is arguably the most famous fictional detective