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Eran rivales desde la infancia. Pero ahora la línea entre el amor y el odio es más delgada de lo que imaginaban.Cuando Celeste regresa de estudiar en el extranjero, Zane le pide una oportunidad para demostrarle que ya no es el niño con el que crecio. Ella acepta con recelo y, a pesar de la desaprobacion de sus familias, comienzan a frecuentarse. Todo parece ir bien hasta que la tragedia los separa.Herida y confundida, Celeste intenta vengarse de Zane, mientras el se propone llevar la empresa de ella al borde de la ruina. Solo una fusion de compañias y un matrimonio arreglado por sus abuelos puede salvar la situacion, obligandolos a enfrentarse a su pasado.¿Puede el amor resistirlo todo? ¿Podran construir un futuro juntos a partir de las ruinas? Un romance cargado de pasion, secretos y redencion.

Willow the wombat awakens to a serene spring morning, enjoying the peaceful melodies of birdsong and the gentle warmth of sunlight filtering through the forest. Nestled in her cozy burrow beneath the roots of a towering gum tree, she savors the quiet stillness before venturing out, feeling deeply connected to the earth, the dew-kissed grass, and the awakening forest around her. Excited by the first day of spring, Willow sets out across the meadow with a joyful mission: to help the wildflowers bloom and greet the new season with color and life. As she explores the vibrant landscape, she embraces the beauty of nature, the rhythm of the forest, and the promise of a magical day filled with wonder, growth, and the gentle fulfillment of helping the world awaken.

In the Forest of Whispers, Willow the Wise Owl senses a sudden, unsettling change when the night air fills with tension, magic, and a fragile silver glow moving through the trees. As the forests guardian, she carefully observes how every creature and shadow reacts, realizing that a mysterious, delicate beingor ancient magichas entered their world and disturbed the forests balance. By morning, the disturbance deepens when familiar moonlit elements of the forest begin to fade, signaling that something essential has gone missing. Guided by her sharp instincts, patience, and deep connection to the land, Willow prepares to uncover the source of the disappearing moonlight, knowing that the fate of the forest may depend on her wisdom, courage, and willingness to confront a mystery older and more powerful than any she has faced before.

"¿Quién soy yo? ¿Y quién es este que me persigue con mi propio nombre y mi propia sombra?"En William Wilson, Edgar Allan Poe nos entrega uno de los estudios más finos y aterradores sobre la psique humana. La historia sigue a un hombre de caracter voluble y propenso al vicio que, desde sus dias de escuela, es acechado por otro estudiante con su mismo nombre, su misma apariencia y una voz que es el eco exacto de la suya. Es una persecucion que cruza Europa y que culmina en un enfrentamiento fatal donde la linea entre el perseguidor y el perseguido se borra para siempre.La Anatomia de la Conciencia Encarnada: Poe utiliza el mito del doppelganger no como un elemento sobrenatural externo, sino como una proyeccion de la lucha moral interna. El "otro" William Wilson actua como la voz de la conciencia, apareciendo siempre para frustrar los planes mas oscuros del protagonista. Es un relato cargado de una atmosfera paranoica y claustrofobica que explora como el odio hacia uno mismo puede materializarse en una presencia fisica ineludible. Es el referente absoluto del terror psicologico y la narrativa de identidad.Un Hito del Romanticismo Oscuro: Publicado en 1839, este cuento ha influido en obras fundamentales como El extraño caso del Dr. Jekyll y Mr. Hyde de Stevenson o El doble de Dostoievski. Es una pieza indispensable para cualquier biblioteca de clasicos del terror, estudios psicologicos y para quienes buscan una historia que les obligue a mirar con desconfianza su propio reflejo.Enfrentate a tu otro yo. Compre "William Wilson" hoy mismo y descubre que el enemigo mas peligroso es el que llevas dentro.

Wildfire follows a legendary red stallion whose capture and contested claim entangle a solitary horse-hunter and a ranchers daughter amid rivalry, theft, and desert peril. Grey alternates breathless pursuit and race scenes with meditative landscape pages, his luminous prose mapping mesas and sage. Placed within the early twentieth-century Western, the novel tests domestication against freedom and pits outlaw menace against the ranges stern code. Zane Grey, a former dentist turned bestselling chronicler of the frontier, drew on repeated trips through Arizona and Utah with cowboys and local guides. An avid outdoorsman and meticulous note-taker, he fused Romantic reverence for wilderness with Progressive-Era anxieties about exploitation; the result is credible horsemanship, ethnographic texture, and a moral imagination disciplined by hard country. Recommended for readers of Western fiction, nature writing, and equine narratives, Wildfire marries narrative velocity to sensory precision. Scholars of American mythmaking will find a key text, while general readers will discover a moving meditation on loyalty and restraint. Read it for its indelible horse and its desert sublime.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.

This grim maritime Gothic tale tells the story of Captain Walshawe, a man haunted by his own cruelty and crimes. Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu fuses nautical adventure with supernatural horror, creating a morally charged story of punishment and fate. A dark, unforgettable classic of Victorian fiction.

"He was a man who feared neither God nor Devil, but he feared a life without gold even more."Captain Walshawe is a man of legendary cruelty and even greater debt. Living in the decaying Wauling Manor, he views his pious and suffering wife not as a companion, but as a financial obstacle. When she dies, the Captains avarice leads him to commit a chilling act of spiritual sacrilege involving a "soul candle"a ritual intended to secure her fortune for himself, regardless of the cost to her eternal rest. But as the shadows lengthen in the drafty halls of Wauling, the Captain discovers that some bargains cannot be undone, and the spirit he thought he had extinguished is far from gone.The Horror of Character: Unlike many Gothic tales that rely on external monsters, the primary horror here is Captain Walshawe himself. Le Fanu paints a portrait of a man so consumed by selfishness that he becomes more frightening than the specters that haunt him. His "wickedness" is a tangible force that stains the very walls of his home.The Symbolic "Soul-Candle": Le Fanu utilizes a unique and terrifying supernatural device in this storythe candle that represents the life or soul of the deceased. This element introduces a tactile, ticking-clock tension to the haunting, as the Captains fate becomes literally tied to a flickering flame in the dark.A Masterclass in the Uncanny: The haunting of Wauling is subtle and psychological. It manifests in the sound of a silk dress brushing against a door, the smell of a guttering candle, and the oppressive feeling of a presence that refuses to leave. It is Le Fanu at his most focused, proving that the most terrifying ghosts are those created by our own transgressions.The Inevitability of Justice: As with much of Le Fanus work, the story serves as a grim reminder that one cannot cheat the afterlife. The Captains attempt to manipulate the spiritual world for material gain results in a haunting that is both a punishment and a mirror of his own moral vacuum.Face the darkness of Wauling. Purchase this classic of psychological horror today.

Wicked Captain Walshawe, of Wauling is a haunting gothic short novel by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, one of the greatest masters of supernatural fiction. The story explores moral corruption, hidden crimes, and the slow, terrifying approach of supernatural retribution. Le Fanus restrained yet deeply unsettling style builds psychological tension rather than relying on shock, creating an atmosphere of dread that lingers long after the final page. Rich in gothic mood, moral complexity, and eerie suggestion, this tale is essential for readers who appreciate classic horror rooted in character and conscience.

Whose Body? is a 1923 novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, which introduced the character of Lord Peter Wimsey.CHAPTER I"Oh, damn!" said Lord Peter Wimsey at Piccadilly Circus. "Hi, driver!"The taxi man, irritated at receiving this appeal while negotiating the intricacies of turning into Lower Regent Street across the route of a 19 bus, a 38-B and a bicycle, bent an unwilling ear."Ive left the catalogue behind," said Lord Peter deprecatingly, "uncommonly careless of me. Dyou mind puttin back to where we came from?""To the Savile Club, sir?""No110 Piccadillyjust beyondthank you.""Thought you was in a hurry," said the man, overcome with a sense of injury."Im afraid its an awkward place to turn in," said Lord Peter, answering the thought rather than the words. His long, amiable face looked as if it had generated spontaneously from his top hat, as white maggots breed from Gorgonzola.The taxi, under the severe eye of a policeman, revolved by slow jerks, with a noise like the grinding of teeth.The block of new, perfect and expensive flats in which Lord Peter dwelt upon the second floor, stood directly opposite the Green Park..

Set during the U.S. Civil War, Who Would Have Thought It? follows the New England Norval household after the arrival of Lola, a Mexican girl wealthy in her own right, whose presence exposes Northern piety and abolitionist rhetoric as racialized self-interest. Mixing sentimental domesticity with sensation fiction and political satire, Ruiz de Burton uses melodrama and irony to anatomize hypocrisy across religious and civic spheres. The novels transregional vantage situates New England reform within imperial and hemispheric circuits, overturning the moral geography of mid-nineteenth-century American letters. Ruiz de Burton, a Californio-born writer and among the first Mexican American novelists in English, married U.S. Army officer Henry Burton and lived between California and the East during and after the war. Her battles over land and citizenship under the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, and proximity to federal power, sharpened her critique of legal dispossession, racial hierarchy, and sanctimonious reformism. Readers of American realism, Civil War culture, and borderlands studies will find this novel indispensable. It pairs gripping plot with a decolonial intelligence that revises the canon from within. Assign it alongside Stowe, Alcott, or Howells to witness a contemporaneous counterpoint, witty, acrid, and prescient about the entanglements of virtue, capital, and race.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.

Who Goes There! distills Robert W. Chamberss long preoccupation with thresholdssocial and psychologicalinto episodes where a sentrys challenge becomes a test of identity. In urbane, magazine-honed prose, he fuses quick dialogue and painterly description with a cool penumbra of the uncanny. Poised between findesiecle weirdness and the brisk society romance that made him a bestseller, the book probes loyalty, masquerade, and the perilous art of passing. Trained as an artist in Paris and New York, Chambers brought an illustrators eye and a market-savvy feel for serial suspense to his fiction. Early exposure to Symbolist aesthetics and the succes de scandale of The King in Yellow shaped his tonal range. Here those strands meet: surface and costume serve intrigue, while cosmopolitan milieus sharpen questions of recognition and concealment. Recommended for readers tracing the evolution of American popular modernity from decadent unease to highsociety melodrama. Admirers of The King in Yellow, scholars of genre permeability, and general audiences alike will value its crisp dialogue, atmospheric set pieces, and elegant meditation on how we answer, and evade, the call to declare ourselves.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.

A world-class writer Hamid Ismailov, author of The RailwayA stunning novel, mesmeric, revelatory, singular Sara Baume, author of Seven SteeplesOn the eve of his wedding, young Alyoshka pines for an earlier love. Ilne chose to leave the nomadic Nenets community seven years before, moving to the city and taking his heart with her. Under increasing pressure to marry, Alyoshka struggles against the ancient Nenets customs of home and family, unwilling to give up his hope for another life.Meanwhile, other painful transitions shake the foundations of the small camp. Deep in grief, Ilnes father Petko feels he has no role left to play in the community, while Vanu strikes out on a difficult journey to try to soothe his troubled friends.Deep in northern Siberia, minor human tragedies play out against the cold expanse of the tundra. With bursts of lyricism and a Chekhovian eye for human frailty, Anna Nerkagi crafts a multi-voiced drama of lost love and the clash between youthful dreams and the complex ties of home.

White Fang is one of Jack Londons most enduring adventure novels, telling the gripping story of a wild wolf-dog navigating the brutal forces of nature and humanity. Set in the frozen Yukon during the Gold Rush, the novel traces White Fangs journey from the savage wilderness to the challenges of domestication. Exploring themes of survival, cruelty, compassion, and transformation, this classic stands as a profound meditation on instinct, environment, and the bond between humans and animals.

"He was a killer, a thing of claw and fang... until he learned the law of love."Born in the freezing wilds of the North, White Fang is three-quarters wolf and one-quarter doga creature caught between two worlds. His early life is a brutal lesson in the "Law of Meat": eat or be eaten. From the cold caves of the Yukon to the cruel hands of Gray Beaver and the sadistic "Beauty" Smith, White Fang is molded into a fierce, solitary fighter. But his life takes a dramatic turn when he is rescued by Weedon Scott. Through patience and kindness, White Fang must undergo the ultimate trial: unlearning the instincts of the wild to discover the meaning of loyalty.Nature vs. Nurture: Jack London uses White Fangs life as a laboratory to explore the power of environment. The novel demonstrates how cruelty creates a "monstrosity" of hate, while affection can transform a predator into a protector. It is a masterpiece of animal psychology that challenges our understanding of the boundary between "tame" and "wild."The "Wild" Reimagined: The opening of the novel, featuring the terrifying pursuit of two men by a starving wolf pack, is one of the most famous sequences in literature. London portrays the North not as a playground, but as a "Wild" that is indifferent to human suffering, setting the stage for White Fangs incredible resilience.The Final Transition: The climax takes White Fang from the snow-covered Yukon to the sun-drenched valleys of California. Here, he must face his final challenge: protecting his new family from a threat that his wild instincts are uniquely qualified to handle.Witness the journey of a lifetime. Purchase "White Fang" today and experience the power of the bond between man and beast.

When a Mans a Man charts a tenderfoots apprenticeship on a Southwestern cattle ranch, treating the range as a forge for moral character. Wright mixes brisk episodesroundups, bronc-breaking, and bunkhouse debatewith plainspoken, sermon-tinged prose. In dialogue with Owen Wisters The Virginian yet more explicitly didactic, the novel refocuses Progressive-Era concerns about class and masculinity into a pastoral ethic where nature teaches discipline, community enforces honor, and useful work redeems wayward privilege. Harold Bell Wright, a former Disciples of Christ minister and one of Americas first massmarket bestsellers, drew on extended sojourns in the Southwest after illness pushed him westward. His friendships with ranchers and conviction that fiction should reform conduct shaped a method both pictorial and exhortatory. Following The Shepherd of the Hills and The Winning of Barbara Worth, he adapted his moral program to Western materials. Readers of classic Westerns, cultural history, and masculinity studies will find this novel both an engaging range tale and a revealing document of American ideals. Its swift action, clear moral arc, and affectionate portrait of ranch community make it a rewarding choice for thoughtful general 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 · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

After 37 years of faithful marriage, a man faces a dilemma: his need for sex, closeness, and intimacy is as strong as ever, but what about his wifes? Gone. How to deal with this?After a particularly heated argument, he decides to seek the services of sex workers. In the beds and arms of Viennas hostesses, he finds not only amorous adventures, but also honest conversations about the "sex work business" and insights into the dark side of the red-light districtand ultimately even his "princess."An honest self-narrative about lust and the question of what remains when love suddenly comes to a standstill.

Wessex Tales is a collection of tales written by English novelist and poet Thomas Hardy, many of which are set before Hardys birth in 1840. Through them, Thomas Hardy talks about nineteenth century marriage, grammar, class status, how men and women were viewed, medical diseases and more.In 1888, Wessex Tales contained only five stories (The Three Strangers, The Withered Arm, Fellow-Townsmen, Interlopers at the Knap, and The Distracted Preacher) all published first in periodicals. For the 1896 reprinting, Hardy added "An Imaginative Woman," but in 1912 moved this to another collection, Lifes Little Ironies, while at the same time transferring two stories "A Tradition of Eighteen Hundred and Four" and "The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion" from Lifes Little Ironies to Wessex Tales.

Wendy the Wolf awakens to the vibrant morning of her forest home, enchanted by the sights, scents, and subtle music of nature all around her. Inspired by the symphony of rustling leaves, babbling brooks, and birdsong, she dreams of creating her own melody that captures the forests life and her own joy. Tentatively, she begins experimentinghumbling herself to listen, mimic, and blend her voice with the natural rhythms, discovering that music is as much about courage and curiosity as skill. Through patience, observation, and playful experimentation, Wendy finds her first note, imperfect yet hers, marking the beginning of a magical journey where she learns to transform the whispers of the woods into her own song and embrace the creative harmony of the world around her.

Waverly (1814) virtually inaugurates the historical novel, entwining Edwards education with the Jacobite Rising of 1745. Stationed in Scotland, the ingenuous officer drifts from Hanoverian loyalty toward Fergus and Flora Mac-Ivor, counterpoised by Rose Bradwardine and her whimsical Baron. Scotts digressive, ironic narrator layers dialect, humor, and antiquarian detail across settings from Tully-Veolan to Prestonpans, balancing romance with skeptical realism to meditate on loyalty, modernization, and the forging of British identity. Scottlawyer, ballad-collector, and Sheriff-Deputemarried Enlightenment training to Tory sympathy for order and tradition. Years of legal practice and fieldwork among Borders and Highlands, plus conversations with Jacobite descendants, furnished the novels documentary texture. Writing anonymously, he sought to reconcile Scotlands fractured past with a commercial, imperial present and to preserve vanishing customs without sentimental falsification. For readers of historical fiction, political history, and the literature of national identity, Waverly remains indispensable: adventurous yet reflective, generous in sympathy yet clear-eyed about rebellions costs. Begin here to see how the modern historical novel was madeand why later writers learned history by learning Scott.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.

Set during the Jacobite Rising of 1745, the novel traces Edward Waverley, a young Hanoverian officer, as he drifts from English complacency into Highland loyalties, torn between prudence and charisma. In the unabridged text, Scotts ironic narrator blends romance with documentary verisimilitudedialect, antiquarian notes, legal minutiaeso that Tully-Veolans faded feudalism and Prestonpans sudden violence become a meditation on historical change. Scott, a Scottish advocate and Sheriff-Depute, had already secured fame as a narrative poet and as editor of the Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border. His legal training, Tory historicism, and immersion in oral tradition equipped him to dramatize how private attachments meet public cataclysm; publishing anonymously, he fashioned an experiment that reconciles commercial, unionist modernity with a residual, charismatic Jacobite memory. Recommended to readers of Romanticism, Scottish history, and the origins of the historical novel, this unabridged edition offers comic vitality (Baron Bradwardine, Bailie Macwheeble), vivid landscapes, and humane balance. For scholars and curious newcomers alike, it shows how fiction can make history intelligible without simplificationand how moderation can be an adventure.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.