Ficción

"Captains Courageous" is an 1897 novel, by Rudyard Kipling, that follows the adventures of fifteen-year-old Harvey Cheyne Jr., the spoiled son of a railroad tycoon, after he is saved from drowning by...

The girl stood on the summit of the hill looking down the white highway that stretched to Syracuse. The morning sun shone hotly; sky and sea and earth seemed to kindle and quicken in the ecstasy of heat,...

Who hasn't experienced this: you are late or have forgotten an appointment, missed a birthday or even your wedding day, or you haven't yet managed to complete an important task. You got a bad grade at...

This book is a children's fantasy novel written by E. Nesbit; it is followed by a trilogy of novels which follows the adventures of five children: Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane and the lamb. Their mother...

It was a few minutes of eleven o’clock at night. One of the many editions of the great New York Herald had just gone to press. But in the big, half-lit room where editors, copy readers, reporters and...

There is a floating island in the sea where no explorer has set foot, or, setting foot, has returned to tell of what he saw. Lying at our very doors, in the direct path of every steamer from the Gulf...

In the late twentieth century, Admiral Julian 3rd can get no rest, for he knows his future. He will be reborn as his grandson in the next century to journey through space and make an ominous discovery...

Emma is studying Indo-Germanic studies in Erlangen. When she comes home for the holidays, she has a heated argument with her boyfriend. He gets physical and she flees from him, but cannot escape so easily....

He was an elderly white man who was terribly unwell. He rode pick-a-back on a woolly-headed, black-skinned savage whose lobes had been punctured and stretched till one had torn out, and the other carried...

JERRY is an Irish dog who has been on a lot of adventures. Born in one of the Solomon Islands, he quickly gets to know the guy known as Skipper as his master. Jerry considers Skipper to be a god. To others,...

A whaleboat crew discovers Michael, a friendly, gentle dog, on the shore and believes he may be transformed into a valuable show dog. However, such a project cannot be undertaken without causing harm...

Francis Morgan is a jaded young New Yorker, the affluent heir of businessman and Wall Street mastermind Richard Henry Morgan. Francis believes it's a great idea when his father's business colleague Thomas...

“If you want to win for sure, invent your own game and don't tell anyone the rules.” - Ashley Diamond. Deserted hotel, four random guests and one innocent victim. The killer is obviously one of them,...

"Sanditon" (1817) is an unfinished novel by the English writer Jane Austen.

Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English...

 Unexpectedly, after so many years, he used several times the courage and perseverance of others to stand here and even " abduct " his precious daughter away.     Xiao Zhiyuan smiled and said meaningfully:...

 Unexpectedly, after so many years, he used several times the courage and perseverance of others to stand here and even " abduct " his precious daughter away.     Xiao Zhiyuan smiled and said meaningfully:...

Living to be Righteous Born into a cult Maxwell White believed, in his youthful vigor, that he undoubtedly lived a fully righteous life. In his early twenties, however, Max found himself excommunicated...

... A train had stopped at a rough little village station about thirty miles from town, and a few country people, on their way home, leaned over the bridge above to admire the enormous red eyes of the...

"...The foul and foggy night of early February was descending, some weeks after the scene in the Cockpit, on the river and the town. Night was falling from the heavens; or rather, night seemed to be rising...

"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 to Cassandra...

"The sea fogs" is an account of a trip to Napa Valley (California), first published by Stevenson in short story form in 1879. During this trip the writer's health worsens: influenced by disease, Stevenson...

In one of the central provinces of this long-lived Ancient Empire of China, there lived in very early times a man of the name of Chan. He was a person of a bright, active nature which made him enjoy life,...

William Morris was highly eclectic: novelist, thinker, artist, politician, trend-setter in various subjects such as architecture, design, graphic and interior design. In this novel, which tones are strongly...

Bilal ibn Rabah (Arabic: ???? ?? ????‎) or Bilal al-Habashi (AD 580-640) was an African of Ethiopian heritage companion of Islamic Prophet Muhammad SAW, born in Mecca who is considered as the first muezzin...

At the heart of Islam lies belief in God.The core of the Islamic creed is bearing witness to the phrase, La illaha illa Allah, "There is no true deity deserving worship but God." The testimony to this...

IT was the intention of the writer of the following pages to have bid a last farewell to Leila, but some of her young readers have said “No;” and she feels too grateful for the kindness they have shown...

In the Pacific, a sleeping dragon awakes. Dr. Eva Paz wants only a peaceful life on Roatán for herself and her dolphins, continuing their research in dolphin communication and educating children on the...

Graphene Neurons: At the beginning, the spidery trace of a quite normal pencil on a eventually then crumpled piece of paper. The new ideas of a young programmer are discarded by an all-powerful computer...

The Children By Alice Meynell