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A Study in Scarlet introduces the worlds most famous detective, Sherlock Holmes, and his loyal companion, Dr. John Watson. Arthur Conan Doyle combines logical deduction, mystery, and compelling characterization to create a new standard for detective fiction. This foundational novel launched an enduring literary legacy and remains essential reading for mystery lovers.

A Tale of Two Cities moves between London and Paris through the French Revolution, entwining Lucie Manette, Charles Darnay, and the dissipated yet redeemable Sydney Carton. Dickens fuses melodrama with the measured architecture of the historical novel, developing motifs of doubling, resurrection, and inexorable "footsteps." This unabridged edition restores Phizs original plates, whose chiaroscuro and crowd scenes intensify the books antithesesjustice and vengeance, private sentiment and public tumultwithin the 1859 culture of serial print. Composed as Dickens launched All the Year Round, the novel bears the tensile pacing of weekly serials and his exacting editorial control. Long preoccupied with reform and urban spectacle, and steeped in Carlyles French Revolution, he also drew on the stage pathos of his recent play The Frozen Deep; Cartons self-abnegation retains that theatrical psychology. Scholars and general readers alike will value this editions ethical clarity and narrative drive. It rewards courses and book clubs for its symmetries, rhetorical music, and political ambivalence, while Phizs images supply contemporaneous visual cues. A humane, urgent classic, newly vivid in text and image.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

A Tale of Two Cities is one of Charles Dickenss most famous novels, set against the turmoil of the French Revolution. Through unforgettable characters and dramatic contrasts between London and Paris, Dickens explores injustice, resurrection, and the redemptive power of sacrifice. Emotional, gripping, and morally profound, this novel remains one of the greatest works of historical fiction ever written.

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..."Set against the blood-stained backdrop of the French Revolution, Charles Dickenss sweeping epic brings to life two citiesLondon and Parisbound together by destiny. As the shadow of the Guillotine lengthens over France, the lives of a peaceful London family become inextricably linked to the chaos of the Reign of Terror.A Story of Rebirth and Redemption: At the heart of the novel is the physician Dr. Manette, "recalled to life" after eighteen years of unjust imprisonment in the Bastille. His daughter, Lucie, and the noble Charles Darnay seek a quiet life in England, but the sins of the past and the vengeance of the French peasantrypersonified by the chilling Madame Defargerefuse to be forgotten.The Greatest Sacrifice in Literature: Witness the transformation of Sydney Carton, the cynical, dissipated lawyer who finds a higher purpose in his unrequited love for Lucie. His journey from self-loathing to a "far, far better thing" remains one of the most powerful character arcs ever written. A Tale of Two Cities is a profound meditation on the cycle of violence, the power of resurrection, and the endurance of the human spirit.Experience the pulse of history and the power of the heart. Purchase "A Tale of Two Cities" today and discover why it remains a timeless literary legend.

"Curiosity doesnt just kill the catit wakes things that should stay buried."In A Thin Ghost and Others, M. R. James invites you into the quiet world of dusty archives, secluded cathedrals, and English country estatesonly to reveal the terrors lurking in the shadows. This collection features five haunting tales, including the titular "The Residence at Whitminster" and the unsettling "The Diary of Mr. Poynter." Jamess ghosts arent your typical white-sheeted spirits; they are hairy, leathery, and intensely tactile creatures of malice. With a slow-burn build-up and a focus on atmospheric dread, these stories prove that the most terrifying things are those we find in the corner of our eye.The Master of Atmosphere: James is the undisputed king of the "quiet" horror story. He relies on the power of suggestion and the unsettling feeling of being watched. Whether its a strange pattern on a piece of fabric or a figure seen from a distance that shouldnt be there, James knows exactly how to make your skin crawl without ever raising his voice.Scholarly Suspense: As a medieval scholar himself, James brings an authentic sense of history to his fiction. His protagonists are often academics who believe their knowledge protects them, only to find that the ancient world has teeth. The realism of the settings makes the intrusion of the supernatural all the more jarring and effective.Why It Is Essential for Horror Fans: If you prefer psychological dread over jump scares, A Thin Ghost and Others is a must-read. These stories influenced everyone from H.P. Lovecraft to modern filmmakers. They are the perfect accompaniment to a cold, windy night and a flickering fire.Disturb the peace of the past. Purchase "A Thin Ghost and Others" today.

Em um mundo em que os fios da vida so costurados por mos incertas, Dante, um jovem preso ao peso das expectativas alheias, encontra-se em uma jornada inesperada quando cruza o caminho de Arthur, um enigma humano com um coraço envolto em misterios. Entre conflitos internos e dialogos que oscilam entre o sutil e o devastador, a historia explora a delicada dança entre a dor e o desejo, o real e o imaginario.Dante, com sua alma fragmentada e atormentada, e arrastado para uma tempestade de sentimentos que desafiam sua viso de mundo, enquanto Arthur, ora mentor, ora tormento, se revela um catalisador de transformaçes inevitaveis. Em A ti, escrevo em linhas tortas, o amor, a loucura e a efemeridade da existencia humana se entrelaçam como um poema em chamas. As paginas vibram com a busca pelo significado na imperfeiço e, a cada capitulo, uma nova camada de emoço e descortinada, revelando que, talvez, viver seja a mais bela e tragica das artes.

Quando o passado ameaça destruir o futuro, só o amor pode dar forças para recomeçar. A um passo de você é mais uma história sexy e emocionante da autora best-seller Jamie McGuire. Darby Dixon estava

Words will go their own way, and carry the poet with them, on many a wild goose chase, in and out of the past, haunted by and revisiting the island where he came of age. In the new collection from the Welsh Forward Prize-shortlisted poet, nature writer and editor of the eco-literary magazine Archipelago, McNeillie explores his deep sense, in his older age, of not belonging anywhere other than in mind and in the wild.McNeillie recovers and renews Pytheas the Greeks exploration of fourth century BC Britain and Thomas Pennants account of Wales, but A Wild Goose Chase lays these historical accounts of the natural world beside the authors own experiences. The poems moving and not unmelancholy late recollections blur temporal and spatial boundaries as they stay alive to the impacts of climate change and globalization.

Across Patagonia (1880) is Lady Florence Dixies brisk, unsentimental chronicle of a horseback traverse of the Patagonian steppe and Andean foothills. Combining adventure narrative with precise topographical observation, she dwells on the tyranny of wind, the discipline of campcraft, perilous river crossings, and encounters with guanaco, puma, and condor. Written within the vigorous tradition of late-Victorian travel writing, the book converses with earlier scientific travelers such as Darwin while staking a rare female claim to authority, alternating lyrical panorama with cool assessments of colonization and pastoral prospects. Born into the Douglas family, Dixie was a skilled horsewoman, journalist, and outspoken advocate of womens emancipation. Those commitmentsand a taste for strenuous sportpropelled her toward a region British readers still imagined as terra incognita. Drawing on field notebooks and reporters habits of verification, she fashions a voice at once empirical and audacious, challenging the masculinized codes of exploration. This edition will reward readers of travel literature, environmental history, and gender studies alike. As a primary source for the cultural geography of the Southern Cone and a gripping tale of endurance, Across Patagonia remains indispensableboth for its vivid pages and for the independence of mind that animates them.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Adam Bede, novel written by George Eliot, published in three volumes in 1859. The title character, a carpenter, is in love with an unmarried woman who bears a child by another man. Although Bede tries to help her, he eventually loses her but finds happiness with someone else.Adam Bede was Eliots first long novel. She described the work as "a country storyfull of the breath of cows and the scent of hay." Its masterly realismevident, for example, in the recording of Derbyshire dialectbrought to English fiction the same truthful observation of minute detail that John Ruskin had commended in the paintings of the Pre-Raphaelites. But what was new in this work of English fiction was the combination of deep human sympathy and rigorous moral judgment.Awake, my soul, and with the sunThy daily stage of duty run;Shake off dull slothHere some measurement was to be taken which required more concentrated attention, and the sonorous voice subsided into a low whistle; but it presently broke out again with renewed vigour Let all thy converse be sincere,Thy conscience as the noonday clear.

To escape his abusive father and the stifling constraints of civilization, a young boy fakes his own death and flees down the Mississippi River on a raft. He is joined by Jim, a runaway slave seeking his freedom, and together they navigate the treacherous currents of the antebellum South. The novel is a biting satire of racism and social hypocrisy, told through the distinct and honest voice of an unforgettable narrator. It is a profound journey of moral growth and an American masterpiece.

Huck Finn fakes his own murder to escape a drunken father and floats down the Mississippi with Jim, a runaway slave. As they encounter the frauds, feuds, and violence of the river towns, Huck battles his deformed conscience, eventually deciding that he would rather "go to hell" than betray his friend. The novel is a searing indictment of racism and a celebration of the natural nobility of the human spirit. It remains a defining work of American literature, narrated in a vernacular that rings with truth.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn follows Huck and the enslaved Jim down the Mississippi in a picaresque, first-person narrative whose colloquial idiom reshaped American prose. Through feuds, cons, and Hucks resolve to "go to hell" for Jim, Twain marries satire to realism, exposing antebellum hypocrisy while turning the river into a mobile stage for moral testing. Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens), a Missourian raised in the slaveholding river town of Hannibal, drew on his years as a Mississippi steamboat pilot and on journalistic craft. After Tom Sawyer, he redirected nostalgic play into corrosive inquiry, using dialect and episodic structure to probe race, authority, and the distortions of romantic sentiment. Recommended to readers of American literature and ethics alike, this novel rewards close attention with humor, velocity, and unsettling clarity. Approach it for its lively voice; stay for its searching meditation on freedom, complicity, and conscience. Despite controversies over language, it remains an essential, deeply generative text for classrooms and independent readers.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

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¿Y si alguien del futuro ya estuviera reescribiendo nuestro presente?William Gibson lleva décadas fijando su mirada en el futuro, desde que acuñó el término ciberespacio y lo popularizó en su novela especulativa clasica Neuromante a principios de los años 80.Ahora Gibson esta de vuelta con Agency, un thriller de ciencia ficcion fuertemente influido por los acontecimientos mas actuales.San Francisco, 2017. Clinton esta en la Casa Blanca, el Brexit nunca ocurrio y Verity Jane tiene un nuevo trabajo.Verity Jane, una talentosa "susurradora de aplicaciones", acepta trabajar como beta tester de un nuevo producto: un asistente digital, accesible a traves de unas gafas de aspecto ordinario. "Eunice", la IA de apariencia humana en las gafas, manifiesta un rostro, un pasado fragmentario y un astuto dominio de la estrategia de combate. Al darse cuenta de que sus enigmaticos empleadores aun no saben lo poderosa y valiosa que es Eunice, Verity decide que lo mejor es que no lo descubran.Mientras tanto, un siglo mas tarde, en Londres y en una linea temporal completamente distinta, Wilf Netherton trabaja entre plutocratas y saqueadores, supervivientes del lento pero inexorable apocalipsis conocido como el Jackpot. Su jefa, la enigmatica Ainsley Lowbeer, puede observar pasados alternativos e influir en sus resultados finales. Verity y Eunice son su proyecto actual. Wilf puede ver lo que Verity y Eunice no: su propia version del jackpot, a la vuelta de la esquina, y el papel que ambas podrian desempeñar en el.En un juego de poderes cruzados, entre cleptocracias, espias corporativos y algoritmos con libre albedrio, Agency explora los limites de lo humano, lo tecnologico y lo geopolitico con la lucidez implacable de William Gibson.Mas que ciencia ficcion: una lectura urgente sobre el poder, la historia y la posibilidad de elegir.

Agnes Grey is a quietly radical governess novel that renders, with austere precision, the daily humiliations and moral trials of a young woman earning her living in middle-class Victorian homes. In lucid first-person prose, it favors close observation over melodrama, exposing how money, manners, and parental indulgence shape children and their keepers. Episodes among the Bloomfields and Murrays accumulate like case studies, anatomized with restrained irony. Its plain style and ethical seriousness place it between Austens moral realism and the Brontes concern for womens autonomy. Anne Bronte (18201849), the youngest sister, drew directly on her posts at Blake Hall and with the Robinsons, publishing the novel in 1847 as Acton Bell. Her Anglican conscience, sympathy for animals, and exposure to the precarious economics of womens work inform Agness steady, unsentimental voice. The compression of her poetry and her disenchanted witness to genteel households sharpen the books critique, prefiguring the more expansive social protest of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. Readers of Victorian fiction, feminist history, and the ethics of care will value this concise, bracing narrative. For its exact prose, moral clarity, and unsentimental romance with Mr. Weston, Agnes Grey deserves a place beside Jane Eyre.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Agnes Grey is Anne Brontes semi-autobiographical debut novel, offering a realistic and deeply moral portrait of a young governesss struggle for dignity and independence. With understated strength, Bronte critiques social injustice, class prejudice, and the limited options available to women. Subtle, sincere, and compassionate, this novel stands as an important early feminist work in Victorian literature.

El agujero negro es la séptima aventura de la serie "El vidente" y promete mucha emoción, aventura y suspenso. Inspirado por la aventura revelada en Kalenquer, nuestros amigos tratarán de entender el mayor desafio de todos: "El agujero negro", un punto en el que todo converge y cambia.Para ello, es necesario superar el desafio de las focas, algo que nunca ha logrado un ser humano. En este camino, encuentran un maestro, un viaje, retos, experiencias ricas, dolor, sufrimiento, reconocimiento, victoria y fe. Un libro que te inspirara a ser un ser humano mas activo, conectado con Dios y con el buen conocimiento. Lea bien a todos.

En Ahora miro la que fui con más amor, reflexiono en clave poética sobre la relación con la imagen y el cuerpo propio, el racismo, la violencia contra las mujeres y el feminismo, la migración, la desigualdad, la violencia y la corrupcion politica; tambien me paseo por la emociones y relaciones que nos atraviesan, que nos rompen o nos fortalecen como el amor, el erotismo, la amistad, la muerte; asi como, por mi relacion con la escritura. Con esta publicacion aspiro a que mi poesia les acompañe y les permita sentir menos soledad en ese proceso de transitar, entender, confrontar y resistir la desigualdad, la discriminacion, la violencia, el dolor y la injusticia; al mismo tiempo que la extiendo como una invitacion, a mirar lo que han sido y lo que son, con mas amor Esther Pineda G.Es sociologa, Magister Scientiarum en Estudios de la Mujer, Doctora en Ciencias Sociales y Posdoctora en Ciencias Sociales egresada de la Universidad Central de Venezuela. Es investigadora en derechos de las mujeres y discriminacion racial.Autora de los libros Machismo y vindicacion. La mujer en el pensamiento sociolosoco (2017). Cultura femicida. El riesgo de ser mujer en America Latina (2019), Bellas para morir. Estereotipos de genero y violencia estetica contra la mujer (2020), Morir por ser mujer. Femicidio y feminicidio en America Latina (2021), Ser afrodescenciente en America Latina. Racismo, estigma y vida cotidiana (2023), El racismo y la brutalidad policial en los Estados Unidos. Del Jim Crow a Donald Trump (2023) y La mujer espectaculo. La convergencia de las narrativas sexistas y feministas en los medios de comunicacion (2024) publicados por Editorial Prometeo.

Em um vilarejo pacato entre montanhas no Japão, Akemi, uma jovem com alma delicada e forte, encontra beleza e propósito nas histórias de suas raízes milenares. Entre campos de arroz e sombras de cere