Ficción - Literatura en otros idiomas

Jonathan Swift - A Modest Proposal (A Modest Proposal) is a satirical essay written by Jonathan Swift in 1729 The paper proposes the problem of tenant farmers in Ireland who can not feed their children...

Arthur Conan Doyle - A Study in Scarlet is a detective mystery novel written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, introducing his new characters, "consulting detective" Sherlock Holmes and his friend and chronicler,...

Mark Twain - A Horse's Tale is a novel by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), written partially in the voice of Soldier Boy, who is Buffalo Bill's favorite horse, at a fictional frontier outpost with the U.S....

Carles Dickens - "A Message from the Sea" was a short story by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins written in 1860 for the Christmas issue of All the Year Round.

Jules Verne - "A Winter Amid the Ice" (French: Un hivernage dans les glaces) is an 1855 short adventure story by Jules Verne. The story was first printed in April–May 1855 in the magazine Musée des familles....

Jules Verne - Vingt mille lieues sous les mers est un roman d'aventures de Jules Verne, paru en 1869-1870. Cette œuvre a fait l'objet de nombreuses adaptations au cinéma, à la télévision ainsi qu'en...

He was my best friend, my protector, the beating of my heart, the blaze that set my body on fire, the boy I adored, the man I loved, the person I couldn't live without. For me, it took one press of his...

Lily's Reprieve is book one of the Blackstone Chronicles, and is a paranormal bad boy romance. Lily Childs had made her peace with dying. If her leukemia didn't kill her, then serial killer Danny Jordan...

Mark Twain - Life on the Mississippi (1883) is a memoir by Mark Twain of his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War, and also a travel book, recounting his trip...

Anne Frank - The Diary of a Young Girl (also known as The Diary of Anne Frank) is a book of the writings from the Dutch language diary kept by Anne Frank while she was in hiding for two years with her...

Anne Frank - The Diary of a Young Girl (also known as The Diary of Anne Frank) is a book of the writings from the Dutch language diary kept by Anne Frank while she was in hiding for two years with her...

Aristophanes - Lysistrata is a comedy by Aristophanes. Originally performed in classical Athens in 411 BC, it is a comic account of one woman's extraordinary mission to end the Peloponnesian War. Lysistrata...

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,...

This historic novel tells the story of how the legendary Erik the Red led his men to a land of plenty where they built a nation: Greenland. Later, Leif, like his father before him, will also guide his...

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...

La corrupció forma part de la nostra vida diària, potser per això es dóna per descomptada. Aquest assaig pretén oferir algunes claus per entendre com és que és crònica i perenne. I descartar les pseudo-explicacions...

Dos historias que te atrapan y te impactan como dos balazos penetrando a cámara lenta en la mente del lector. «Atraco imperfecto» y «El extraño e imaginario hijo de Marilyn Monroe». Dos historias negras...

Reseña de “Eldir, hijo de Liam” de Andrea V. LunaPor Mariela Villegas R.No sabría cómo comenzar a describir el trabajo de la autora que, además de ser una narradora tremenda, elegante y maravillosa, es...

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...

Tras descubrir que Antoine, el vampiro de quien se ha enamorado, fue partícipe en la muerte de su padre, Madison desea tomar venganza. Se entrega a su lado oscuro, buscando por cielo y tierra a quienes...

Dos mujeres excepcionales, cada una en lo suyo, una para la que el poder lo es todo y no repara en nada para conseguirlo, pero necesita limpiar su pasado, un tanto oscuro. La otra, una joven trigueña,...

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...