Ficción - Literatura en otros idiomas

En juin 1857, Charles Baudelaire publie Les Fleurs du Mal, quelques mois seulement après que Flaubert a été jugé pour « outrage à la morale publique et religieuse et aux bonnes moeurs » à cause d’extraits...

Persuasion is the last novel fully completed by Jane Austen. It was published at the end of 1817, six months after her death. The story concerns Anne Elliot, a young Englishwoman of 27 years, whose family...

On June 2, 1630, Father Urbain Grandier, the parish priest of St.-Pierre-du-Marche of Loudun, France, was accused of witchcraft by a group of Ursuline nuns. Grandier, a politically-influential priest...

There are dreadful -- perhaps scurrilous -- rumors about the Borgias of renaissance Italy, and here Dumas, author of such classics as THE THREE MUSKETEERS, in his Celebrated Crimes series, dishes up the...

Twenty Years After (1845), the sequel to The Three Musketeers, is a supreme creation of suspense and heroic adventure. Two decades have passed since the musketeers triumphed over Cardinal Richelieu and...

From 1839 to 1841, Dumas, with the assistance of several friends, compiled Celebrated Crimes, an eight-volume collection of essays on famous criminals and crimes from European history. He featured Beatrice...

‘Nisida’ was first published as part of the Celebrated Crimes series in 1840. Alexandre Dumas (24 July 1802 – 5 December 1870), also known as Alexandre Dumas, père, was a French writer. His works have...

"Murat" is an essay belonging to his collected title "Celebrated Crimes" which features famous criminals and crimes from European history. It is one of the stories in La Salle d'Armes and later included...

Pictures from Italy is a travelogue by Charles Dickens, written in 1846. The book reveals the concerns of its author as he presents, according to Kate Flint, the country "like a chaotic magic-lantern...

The last story published by Twain, in 1909, tells of Captain Elias Stormfield's journey to heaven and his experiences there. This irreverent satire punctures conventional religious views of the afterlife...

Set in the Old West, this story of a man with special gifts is a Parody of Sherlock Holmes.

Anne Shirley, now in village parlance Mrs. Dr. Blythe, has six healthy youngsters who figure in the story and contribute the title, their own name for their favorite playground, but it is the manse family...

A enthralling story about the inequalities of the 19th-century English legal system Bleak House is one of Charles Dicken's most multifaceted novels. Bleak House deals with a multiplicity of characters,...

Master Humprey, a lonely London man, decides to start up a club where the members would read aloud the manuscripts that Master Humphrey kept in an old longcase clock. The members include Mr Pickwick,...

Though he ranked as the most popular Victorian-era novelist by far, Charles Dickens craved creative innovation and often collaborated with other writers of the era. This clever collection of collaborative...

The famous, funny and inspiring stories from one of the world's greatest storytellers. From the 'satiable curiosity of the elephant's child to the crab who played with the sea, from the ingenious invention...

Even if you're a die-hard fan of the Disney animated classic The Jungle Book, you may not know that the tales upon which the popular movie was based comprised a significant proportion of British author...

Collection of Stories Include: The hero.--The Countess of Amalfi.--The return of Turlendana.--Turlendana drunk.--The gold pieces.--Sorcery.--The idolaters.--Mungia.--The downfall of Candia.--The death...

In order to make himself appear more important, a miller lies to a king, telling him that his daughter can spin straw into gold. The king calls for the girl, shuts her in a tower room filled with straw...

For fans of folklore and mythology, this comprehensive volume offers the best of both worlds: an astute introduction to and overview of the common themes and motifs in Russian fairy tales, plus an eclectic...

Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men is a fantasy novel written by George MacDonald, first published in London in 1858. The story centres on the character Anodos and takes its inspiration from German...

There's a killer on the loose, murdering my friends… and now he's coming for me.Rebecca Morgan's a good detective with bad luck and a tragic past. Her superiors were prepared to overlook her drinking...

In this volume you will find 7 children’s stories by the master story-teller - Hans Christian Andersen. These 7 stories are accompanied by 28 exquisite colour plates by another master, Edmund Dulac. Included...

"I say you're a bad lot!" "And I reply that you're a liar!" "Take that!" "Here's the repayment!" The man who had spoken first went down like a log. He was a red-headed creature, with a rasping voice and...

My sister's best friend has always taken my breath away… Declan Tennyson At twenty-two most guys my age are living it up. Swiping left and right, trying to find what's good for the night, instead of what's...

Tory has more bug-out bags and escape plans to get out of Atlanta than there are stars in the sky. And it appears she's gonna need them. With her habit of digitally visiting different servers across the...

Rachel Riordan is not a lawyer. Not even on TV. She's a secretary, and not a very good one at that. But when billionaire Grant Hemming, President of Hemming Industries, asks her to look over a contract,...

What should Trista do when faced with a hunky werebear who can't decide if he wants to kill her or screw her? Half-hyena, Trista has spent years rotating between Grayslake, Redby, and Boyne Falls. When...

CONTENTS: CHAPTER I ABOUT MY STORY CHAPTER II OF MY CHILDHOOD CHAPTER III MY HOME CHAPTER IV MY FATHER CHAPTER V THE DISTRICT SCHOOL CHAPTER VI THE SCHOOL READERS CHAPTER VII THE LAST DAY OF SCHOOL...

When it came to holy matrimony, writer H.G. Wells had a rather interesting personal history. He married his first cousin, soon left her for one of his students, and then had multiple affairs (and children)...