J.Borja - Libros y biografía

Charles Dickens - Master Humphrey is a lonely man who lives in London. He keeps old manuscripts in an antique longcase clock by the chimney-corner. One day, he decides that he would start a little club,...

Mrs. Molesworth - Molesworth has a decided liking for the marvellous. We feel doubtful whether children really like these things. For the most part, they are severely practical, not to say sceptical,...

Edgar Allan Poe - "The Fall of the House of Usher" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe first published in 1839. The story begins with the unnamed narrator arriving at the house of his friend, Roderick...

Edgar Allan Poe - "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe published in Graham's Magazine in 1841. C. Auguste Dupin is a man in Paris who solves the mystery of the brutal murder...

James Joyce - Dubliners is a collection of fifteen short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. They form a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early...

Mark Twain - Eve's Diary is a comic short story by Mark Twain. It was first published in the 1905 Christmas issue of the magazine Harper's Bazaar, and in book format in June 1906 by Harper and Brothers...

Mark Twain - “He reports the American joke correctly. In Boston they ask, How much does he know? in New York, How much is he worth? in Philadelphia, Who were his parents? And when an alien observer turns...

Michel de Montaigne - The Essays (French: Essais) of Michel de Montaigne are contained in three books and 107 chapters of varying length. Montaigne's stated design in writing, publishing and revising...

Mary W. Shelley - Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, is a novel written by English author Mary Shelley about eccentric scientist Victor Frankenstein, who creates a grotesque creature in an unorthodox...

Charles Dickens - Un soir de Noël, Scrooge, vieil homme d'affaires avare et cupide, a une hallucination en rentrant chez lui : il voit le fantôme de Jacob Marley, son associé décédé des années auparavant,...

Jules Verne - Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon is a novel by Jules Verne, published in 1881. It has also been published as The Giant Raft. This novel involves how Joam Garral, a ranch owner who lives...

H. G. Wells - The Invisible Man is a science fiction novella by H. G. Wells published in 1897. Originally serialized in Pearson's Weekly in 1897, it was published as a novel the same year. The Invisible...

Jules Verne - This narrative will comprehend not only all the explorations made in past ages, but also all the new discoveries which have of late years so greatly interested the scientific world.

Jules Verne - Le Château des Carpathes est un roman gothique de Jules Verne, publié en 1892, 42 ans après L’étranger des Carpathes de Karl Von Wachsmann (1844) et 5 ans avant le Dracula de Bram Stoker...

Herman Melville - The voyage of the whaling ship Pequod, commanded by Captain Ahab, who leads his crew on a hunt for the great whale Moby Dick, reveals a profound meditation on society, nature, and the...

Charles Dickens - “It happened in this wise But, sitting with my pen in my hand looking at those words again, without descrying any hint in them of the words that should follow, it comes into my mind...

Charles Dickens - “Once upon a time, a good many years ago, there was a traveller, and he set out upon a journey. It was a magic journey, and was to seem very long when he began it, and very short when...

Charles Dickens - Doctor Marigold, named for the man who delivered him, is a "cheap-jack" who hawks sundries from a traveling cart he inhabits with his wife and his daughter Sophy. The mother beats Sophy,...

Alexis de Tocqueville - Tocqueville begins his book by describing the change in social conditions taking place. He observed that over the previous seven hundred years the social and economic conditions...

Arthur Conan Doyle - In Beyond the City, the desire for money and romance drives the characters beyond the typical boundaries of their middle class Victorian lives. Lust, deceit, and financial scandals...

Thomas Paine - Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–76 that inspired people in the Thirteen Colonies to declare and fight for independence from Great Britain in the summer of 1776....

Guy de Maupassant - “For several days in succession fragments of a defeated army had passed through the town. They were mere disorganized bands, not disciplined forces. The men wore long, dirty beards...

Anonymous - For university professor Mia Rose Curry, it was all academic: her course in alternative sexuality was a safe, socially acceptable way for her to talk about the things she desired most—but...

Charles Dickens - At one period of its reverses, the House fell into the occupation of a Showman. He was found registered as its occupier, on the parish books of the time when he rented the House, and...

Jane Austen - Northanger Abbey was the first of Jane Austen's novels to be completed for publication, though she had previously made a start on Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice. According...

Fyodor Dostoyevski - The Brothers Karamazov is a passionate philosophical novel set in 19th century Russia, that enters deeply into the ethical debates of God, free will, and morality. It is a spiritual...

Charles Dickens - Our Mutual Friend (written in the years 1864–65) is the last novel completed by Charles Dickens and is one of his most sophisticated works, combining psychological insight with social...

Arthur Conan Doyle - Sir Nigel is a historical novel set during the early phase of the Hundred Years' War, spanning the years 1350 to 1356, by the British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Written in 1906,...

Hermann Hesse - Siddhartha is a 1922 novel by Hermann Hesse that deals with the spiritual journey of self-discovery of a man named Siddhartha during the time of the Gautama Buddha. The book, Hesse's ninth...

Edgar Thurston - This book deals mainly with some aspects of what may be termed the psychical life of the inhabitants of the Madras Presidency, and the Native States of Travancore and Cochin. In my "Ethnographic...