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South Sea Tales is a book by Jack London, an American novelist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction.South Sea Tales is a series of short stories by Jack London. It consists of eight moving and thrilling stories such as: The Whale Tooth, The Terrible Solomons or The Seed of McCoy.

1984 is a novel by George Orwell, an English novelist, essayist, and journalist. He is best known for the allegorical novella Animal Farm and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.1984, is a dystopian social science fiction novel by the English novelist George Orwell. 1984 centers on the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and repressive regimentation of persons and behaviors within society. Orwell, himself a democratic socialist, modeled the totalitarian government in the novel after Stalinist Russia and Nazi Germany. More broadly, the novel examines the role of truth and facts within politics and the ways in which they are manipulated.

In "A Dolls House", housewife Nora hides her financial problems from her husband Torvald. When Torvald learns of her deceit, he becomes angry. Disgusted by his selfishness and after realizing that she is no longer content to be anyones doll wife", Nora leaves him to become an independent woman.First performed in December of 1879, Henrik Ibsens play "A Dolls House" was met with both incredible success and immediate criticism for its, at the time, highly controversial views on marriage and family. Whereas critics claimed "A Dolls House" threatened to dismantle traditional Victorian values, fans found its realistic, complex depictions of individuals and families relatable, inspiring, and refreshing.

The Woman in White is an epistolary novel written by Wilkie Collins in 1859, serialized in 18591860, and first published in book form in 1860. It is considered to be among the first mystery novels and is widely regarded as one of the first (and finest) in the genre of sensation novels.As was customary at that time, The Woman in White was first published as a magazine serial. The first episode appeared on 29 November 1859, following Charles Dickenss own A Tale of Two Cities in Dickenss magazine All the Year Round in England, and Harpers Magazine in America. It caused an immediate sensation. Julian Symons (in his 1974 introduction to the Penguin edition) reports that "queues formed outside the offices to buy the next instalment. Bonnets, perfumes, waltzes and quadrilles were called by the books title. Gladstone cancelled a theatre engagement to go on reading it. And Prince Albert sent a copy to Baron Stockmar."

During a business visit to Count Draculas castle in Transylvania, a young English solicitor finds himself at the center of a series of horrifying incidents. Jonathan Harker is attacked by three phantom women, observes the Counts transformation from human to bat form, and discovers puncture wounds on his own neck that seem to have been made by teeth. Harker returns home upon his escape from Draculas grim fortress, but a friends strange malady involving sleepwalking, inexplicable blood loss, and mysterious throat wounds initiates a frantic vampire hunt. The popularity of Bram Stokers 1897 horror romance is as deathless as any vampire. Its supernatural appeal has spawned a host of film and stage adaptations, and more than a century after its initial publication, it continues to hold readers spellbound.

The Great Wall of China (Beim Bau der Chinesischen Mauer) is a short story written by Franz Kafka in 1917. It was not published until 1931, seven years after his death. Max Brod selected stories and published them in the collection Beim Bau der Chinesischen Mauer.

Oscar Wildes story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is one of his most popular works. Written in Wildes characteristically dazzling manner, full of stinging epigrams and shrewd observations, the tale of Dorian Grays moral disintegration caused something of a scandal when it first appeared in 1890. Wilde was attacked for his decadence and corrupting influence, and a few years later the book and the aesthetic/moral dilemma it presented became issues in the trials occasioned by Wildes homosexual liaisons, trials that resulted in his imprisonment. Of the books value as autobiography, Wilde noted in a letter, "Basil Hallward is what I think I am: Lord Henry what the world thinks me: Dorian what I would like to be--in other ages, perhaps."

King Lear is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1603 and 1606, and is considered one of his greatest works. The play is based on the legend of King Leir of Britain. It has been widely adapted for stage and screen, with the part of Lear being played by many of the worlds most accomplished actors.

"There are few novels which grip so thrillingly as those first read in childhood, and for me none which has quite matched the excitement of Robert Louis Stevensons Treasure Island." P. D. James"It is a breathless journey and the closest thing to a real pirate adventure without an eye patch and a time machine... It is a unique work of genius." Eoin Colfer"Over Treasure Island I let my fire die in winter without knowing I was freezing." J. M. Barrie Treasure Island [is] the realization of an ideal, that which is promised in its provocative and beckoning map; a vision not only of white skeletons but also green palm trees and sapphire seas." G. K. ChestertonA mysterious seaman hides at a country inn; cut-throats raid a sleepy English village; suddenly, young Jim Hawkins becomes the owner of a map leading to a lost tropical island and a fortune in stolen gold. Three adventures Jim, Squire Trelawney, and Dr. Livesey set out to find the treasure. But they trust the one they should most fear, Long John Silver. Charming, brave ruthless, murderous, Silver fills the squires ship with pirates. And on the desolate, fever-infested island, the quest for gold becomes a deadly war of hide and seek. Desperate defenders against merciless killers battling over a cursed treasure won with blood, buried with blood, sought with blood. Incredible wealth that Jim and his friends can only claim...

Few first novels have created as much popular excitement as "The Pickwick Papers"-a comic masterpiece that catapulted its 24-year-old author to immediate fame. Readers were captivated by the adventures of the poet Snodgrass, the lover Tupman, the sportsman Winkle &, above all, by that quintessentially English Quixote, Mr Pickwick, & his cockney Sancho Panza, Sam Weller. From the hallowed turf of Dingley Dell Cricket Club to the unholy fracas of the Eatanswill election, via the Fleet debtors prison, characters & incidents sprang to life from Dickenss pen, to form an enduringly popular work of ebullient humour & literary invention.

Dracula is a gothic novel written, in 1897, by Bram Stoker using the format of diaries and letters. Its main character was inspired by the real life of Prince Vlad III of Wallachia (1431-1476), famous for being a valorous and sanguinary leader, devoted to driving away the invading Ottoman troops. The plot and the atmosphere created by the author, mostly dark and mysterious, contributed to the enormous success of the book and to its several cinematographic transpositions like, for example, the Murnaus movie (1922) and the one, more recent, by Francis Ford Coppola (1992).Abrahm Stoker was born in Clontarf, a suburb of Dublin, in 1847. Because of his poor health, he spent most of his childhood in bed. Inevitably, this left a mark on the rest of his life and led him to show interest in themes as the continuous sleeping and the undead, fundamental topics of his masterpiece: Dracula. Stoker was friend and personal assistant of the English theater actor Henry Irving for many years. His novels include: The Snakes Pass (1890) and The Mystery of the Sea (1902). He died in London in 1912.

Dark spruce forest frowned on either side the frozen waterway. The trees had been stripped by a recent wind of their white covering of frost, and they seemed to lean towards each other, black and ominous, in the fading light. A vast silence reigned over the land. The land itself was a desolation, lifeless, without movement, so lone and cold that the spirit of it was not even that of sadness. There was a hint in it of laughter, but of a laughter more terrible than any sadnessa laughter that was mirthless as the smile of the sphinx, a laughter cold as the frost and partaking of the grimness of infallibility. It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life. It was the Wild, the savage, frozen-hearted Northland Wild.

This comprehensive eBook presents significant works of this famous and brilliant writer in one ebook - estimated 6200 pages easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate: Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems by Samuel and William Wordsworth The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth Lyrical Ballads with Other Poems The Prose Works of William Wordsworth The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, of William Wordsworth Selections from Wordsworth and Tennyson by William Wordsworth and Alfred Tennyson Tennyson Poems of William Wordsworth The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere The Foster-Mothers Tale Lines left upon a Seat in a Yew-tree which stands near the Lake of Esthwaite The Nightingale, a Conversational Poem The Female Vagrant Goody Blake and Harry Gill Lines written at a small distance from my House, and sent by my little Boy to the Person to whom they are addressed Simon Lee, the old Huntsman Anecdote for Fathers We are seven Lines written in early spring The Thorn The last of the Flock The Dungeon The Mad Mother The Idiot Boy Lines written near Richmond, upon the Thames, at Evening Expostulation and Reply The Tables turned; an Evening Scene, on the same subject Old Man travelling The Complaint of a forsaken Indian Woman The Convict Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey etc.

This comprehensive eBook presents significant works of this famous and brilliant writer in one ebook - easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate: Eugene Oneguine, Onegin The Daughter of the Commandant The Queen Of Spades Boris Godunov: a drama in verse Marie; a story of Russian love The Bakchesarian Fountain The Captains Daughter The Shot

The Sound and the Fury is a novel by William Faulkner, first published in 1929. Its widely regarded as one of the most important works of 20th-century American literature, known for its experimental narrative techniques, particularly the use of stream of consciousness. The novel tells the story of the decline of the Compson family, a once-prominent Southern family in Mississippi.William Faulkner (18971962) was one of the most influential American writers of the 20th century. He was born in Mississippi, and much of his work is set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, a richly detailed world based on the American South.Faulkners writing is known for its complex narrative techniques, such as stream of consciousness, multiple perspectives, and nonlinear timelines.

Swanns Way is The first volume of the book In serch of the lost time, that established Proust as one of the finest voices of the modern age-satirical, skeptical, confiding, and endlessly varied in his response to the human condition. Swanns Way also stands on its own as a perfect rendering of a life in art, of the past re-created through memory.

The Reef is a 1912 novel by American writer Edith Wharton. It concerns a romance between a widow and her former lover.The novel takes place in Paris and rural France, but primarily features American characters. While writing the novel, Edith Wharton visited England, Sicily, and Germany, among other locations.In a letter to Bernard Berenson in November 1912, Wharton expressed regret regarding her novel, calling it a poor miserable lifeless lump. She wrote, Anyhow, remember its not me, though I thought it was when I was writing it& that next time Im going to do something worthwhile!!

Espionaje en el fin del mundo

A subtle distillation of wisdom, stylistic grace and symmetry of form Sunday TimesIts hard to think of a more recent novel that has sung so eloquently the joys of being alone GuardianAn inspirational classic from Nobel Prize-winner Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha is a beautiful tale of self-discoveryDissatisfied with the ways of life he has experienced, Siddhartha, the handsome son of a Brahmin, leaves his family and his friend, Govinda, in search of a higher state of being. Having experienced the myriad forms of existence, from immense wealth and luxury to the pleasures of sensual and paternal love, Siddhartha finally settles down beside a river, where a humble ferryman teaches him his most valuable lesson yet.Hermann Hesses short, elegant novel, echoing the life of the Buddha, has been cherished by readers for decades as an unforgettable spiritual primer. A tender and unforgettable moral allegory, it is an undeniable classic of modern literature.Part of the Pushkin Press Classics series: timeless storytelling by icons of literature, hand-picked from around the globeTranslated by Hilda RosnerHermann Hesse (1877-1963) is counted among the leading novelists and thinkers of the twentieth century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1946 for a body of literature renowned for its humanist, philosophical and spiritual insight. His most famous works include Siddhartha, Journey to the East, Demian, Steppenwolf, and Narcissus and Goldmund.

Revisados y actualizados, contienen un índice de contenidos al inicio del libro que permite acceder a cada tíltulo de forma fácil y directa.El retrato de Dorian Gray por Oscar Wilde Mujercitas por Louisa May Alcott Hombrecitos por Louisa May Alcott Orgullo y Prejuicio por Jane Austen Peter Pan por J.M. Barrie Trilogia de Caspak 1. La Tierra Olvidada por el Tiempo por Edgar Rice Burroughs Trilogia de Caspak 2. Los Pueblos que el Tiempo Olvido por Edgar Rice Burroughs Trilogia de Caspak 3. Desde el Abismo del Tiempo por Edgar Rice Burroughs Desde mi celda por Gustavo Adolfo Becquer La Historia de Tristan e Isolda por Joseph Bedier Fuente Ovejuna por Felix Lope de Vega y Carpio El Perro del Hortelano por Felix Lope de Vega y Carpio El Hombre que Fue Jueves por G. K. Chesterton La Ley y la Dama por Wilkie Collins España Contemporanea por Ruben Dario Crimen y Castigo por Fedor Mikhailovitch Dostoievski El Sabueso de los Baskerville por Arthur Conan Doyle Las Aventuras de Sherlock Holmes por Arthur Conan Doyle Veinte Años Despues por Alexandre Dumas Agua de nieve por Concha Espina El Curioso Caso de Benjamin Button por Francis Scott Fitzgerald El Profeta por Kahlil Gibran Antologia Poetica por Miguel Hernandez La Odisea por Homero Los Cuatro Jinetes del Apocalipsis I por Vicente Blasco Ibañez Los Cuatro Jinetes del Apocalipsis II por Vicente Blasco Ibañez Tres Hombres en una Barca por Jerome K. Jerome La Metamorfosis por Franz Kafka Cartas a Milena por Franz Kafka Ideario Español por Mariano Jose de Larra El Casarse Pronto y Mal por Mariano Jose de Larra La Quimera del Oro por Jack London Romancero Gitano por Federico Garcia Lorca El Rey Arturo y los Caballeros de la Mesa Redonda por Thomas Malory Lo Que el Viento se Llevo por Margaret Mitchell El Avaro por Moliere Lolita por Vladimir Nabokov La Republica por Platon La Caida de la Casa de Usher por Edgar Allan Poe La Divina Comedia por Dante Alighieri Metafisica por Aristoteles Sentido y Sensibiildad por Jane Austen Las Flores del Mal por Charles Baudelaire El Decameron por Giovanni Boccaccio Agnes Grey (Español) por Anne Bronte Las Aventuras de Pinocho por C. Collodi El Ultimo Mohicano por James Fenimore Cooper Noches Blancas por Fedor Mikhailovitch Dostoievski Estudio en Escarlata por Arthur Conan Doyle El Signo de los Cuatro por Arthur Conan Doyle Los Tres Mosqueteros por Alexandre Dumas Cancion del Pirata por Jose de Espronceda Madame Bovary I por Gustave Flaubert Psicologia de las Masas y Analisis del Yo por Sigmund Freud Bailen por Benito Perez Galdos El Jardin del Profeta por Kahlil Gibran Fausto Parte I por Johann Wolfgang Goethe. Fausto Parte II por Johann Wolfgang von Goethe LOS MISERABLES por Victor Hugo Y MUCHOS MAS.