Ficción - Literatura en otros idiomas

Thomas Paine (February 9, 1737 [O.S. January 29, 1736]- June 8, 1809) was an American and English political activist, philosopher, political theorist and revolutionary. As the author of the two most influential...

Anna Sewell - Black Beauty is an 1877 novel by English author Anna Sewell. It was composed in the last years of her life, during which she remained in her house as an invalid. The novel became an immediate...

Haggard - Allan's Wife by H. Rider Haggard, first published in London by Spencer Blackett in December 1889. The title story was new, with its first publication intended for the collection, but two unauthorized...

Francis Younghusband - In 1890 Younghusband was sent on a mission to Chinese Turkestan, accompanied by George Macartney as interpreter. He spent the winter in Kashgar, where he left Macartney as British...

Thomas Paine (February 9, 1737 [O.S. January 29, 1736]- June 8, 1809) was an American and English political activist, philosopher, political theorist and revolutionary. As the author of the two most influential...

Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels - The Communist Manifesto (Das Kommunistische Manifest), originally titled Manifesto of the Communist Party (German: Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei), is an 1848 publication...

Edgar Allan Poe - Moins connus que les Histoires extraordinaires ou les Histoires grotesques, ces textes intéresseront tous les amateurs de Poe.

Theodor Fontane - Effi Briest ist ein Roman von Theodor Fontane, 1895 veröffentlicht, der als einer der Meisterwerke der deutschen literarischen Realismus und dem Fontane erreichte den Höhepunkt seiner...

Andrew Lang - The Arabian Nights has enthralled readers for centuries. These are the tales that saved the life of Shahrazad, whose husband, the king, executed each of his wives after a single night of...

Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol is a novella by English author Charles Dickens, first published by Chapman & Hall on 19 December 1843. It tells the story of bitter old miser Ebenezer Scrooge and...

Charles Dickens - THERE was once a child, and he strolled about a good deal, and thought of a number of things. He had a sister, who was a child, too, and his constant companion. These two used to wonder...

Charles Dickens - A Child's History of England is a book by Charles Dickens. It first appeared in serial form in Household Words, running from January 25, 1851 to December 10, 1853. Dickens also published...

Edgar Allan Poe - "The Mystery of Marie Rogêt", often subtitled A Sequel to "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe written in 1842. This is the first murder mystery based...

Jules Verne - Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (French: Vingt mille lieues sous les mers: Tour du monde sous-marin, literally Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World)...

L’Armand, un jove lletraferit, es recolzarà en els llibres que l’envolten a l’objecte de trobar les respostes vitals. Fins que un dia un succés mortal donarà un tomb radical a la seva existència, i convertirà...

The present romance, the second in the Mysterious Island triad, was originally issued in Paris with the title of L'Abandonné. Jules Verne's list of stories already ran then to some twenty volumes—a number...

Anna Karenina is one of the greatest love stories in world literature." As Matthew Arnold wrote in his celebrated essay on Tolstoy: "We are not to take Anna Karenina as a work of art; we are to take it...

La ment incansable s´aventura en el misteriós cor dels humans. Incordia a la Raó i idolatra la Fantasia. Existencialista amb pinzellades Surrealistes o Dadaistes, l'autor ens recita: la Vida, la Mort,...

S´acosta el setembre i en Roger vol començar les classes de pintura a l´escola Davinci de Barcelona. Marxar del seu poble, Deltebre, implica acomiadar-se de la seva germana, mare soltera d´una nena de...

All proceeds from the sale of this book will go to the Madrid British Cemetery El total de la venta se destinará al Cementerio Británico en Madrid

While they are making their trip to Marín with their parents, David, Jaime and Teresa are unconsciously preparing themselves for their adventure. Without knowing it, their curiosity about the legends...

William Shakespeare - A Midsummer Night's Dream, a comedy believed to have been written by William Shakespeare between 1590 and 1597, portrays the events surrounding the marriage of Theseus, the Duke...

William Shakespeare - Antony and Cleopatra is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. The play was probably performed first circa 1607 at the Blackfriars Theatre or the Globe Theatre by the King's Men. Its...

Alexandre Dumas. The Count of Monte Cristo is a classic adventure novel by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet. The latter did not appear in the title of the work as Alexandre Dumas paid a large sum of...

Agatha Christie. The search of secret documents, written during the First World War, which were lost in the sinking of the Lusitania, resulting in a fight between British intelligence and an international...

A decade of traveling, anecdotes, challenges and life experiences across seven different countries. "With my own eyes" is not simply a guide for globetrotters or a tool to learn about other cultures and...

Jules Verne - An Antarctic Mystery (French: Le Sphinx des glaces, The Sphinx of the Ice Fields), is an 1897, two-volume novel by Jules Verne and is a response to Edgar Allan Poe's 1838 novel The Narrative...

Voltaire - Candide is characterised by its sarcastic tone, as well as by its erratic, fantastical and fast-moving plot. A picaresque novel with a story similar to that of a more serious bildungsroman,...

Charles Dickens - Grâce à Mr Pickwick et à son club on se délecte des conventions sociales d'un certaine Angleterre. Ce roman satirique, où l'absurde se fait poésie, est un chef d'oeuvre d'humour!

L’estació de Vicksburg narra les aventures del català Joan Basora, convertit en traficant d’esclaus, i les seves experiències en el món de l’esclavitud des de les costes africanes, el seu comerç a Cuba...