Ficción

Joe Fleming earns his livelihood as a sailmaker and supports his mother and sisters. He adds to his income by taking part in prize-fights at sporting clubs. He is due to be married to Genevieve, who works...

The Sea-Wolf is a 1904 psychological adventure novel by Jack London about a literary critic Humphrey van Weyden. The story starts with him aboard a San Francisco ferry, called Martinez, which collides...

IN THE midst of New England mountains, covered with pine and cedar, lies the quiet town of Nineveh, looking towards the sea. Years ago it had mills where lumber was sawed and grain was ground; but now...

"Gulliver's Travels" is a satire by Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, that is both a satire on human nature and a parody of the "travellers' tales" literary subgenre. It is Swift's best...

Dracula is an 1897 novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, featuring as its primary antagonist the vampire Count Dracula. Dracula has been attributed to many literary genres including vampire literature, horror...

A treasure chest can be many different shapes, colours and materials. Some have a padlock with a little key, to guard secrets and memories. But there's a special kind of treasure chest that holds the...

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• All content is redone in a new style, with the author's name and the title of the novel at the top. • For a better glance, a small graphic is added at the beginning of each chapter. • With a picture...

• All content is redone in a new style, with the author's name and the title of the novel at the top. • For a better glance, a small graphic is added at the beginning of each chapter. • With a picture...

• All content is redone in a new style, with the author's name and the title of the novel at the top. • For a better glance, a small graphic is added at the beginning of each chapter. • With a picture...

When Elizabeth Ryan is demoted on Christmas Eve, she resigns herself to a dismal future: selling kitchen utensils in a large department store. The New Year looks bleak, but a chance encounter on a karaoke...

When Syrina finds Anna and Pasha, survivors of General Mann’s assault on the valley hidden in the peaks of the Black Wall, she realizes they may be the key to discovering what she is. But after feelings...

SpotZ the Frenchie is not an ordinary dog. He has a big heart and does not think twice before doing what it tells him to do. This leads to all of his mischievous journeys, making him a very naughty puppy...

Friends who are all eight years old. They are bursting with energy and passion, and they are always on the search for new and exciting experiences. When their parents take them camping in a location...

This edition includes the following editor's introduction: Edith Wharton, the feminism of a Pulitzer Prize winner “Crucial Instances” is Edith Wharton's classic 1901 short story collection, the second...

This edition includes the following editor's introduction: Jack London, an infinite passion for adventure that drove all his work First published in 1905, “The Game” is a novella by American author...

Nearly a quarter of a century ago, Lucy Fountain, a young lady of beauty and distinction, was, by the death of her mother, her sole surviving parent, left in the hands of her two trustees, Edward Fountain,...

Born to a rich family, young Albornoz's father hopes he would pursue a military career. But to his disappointment, the boy displays more interest towards matters of the church, and in seeking understanding on...

This edition includes the following editor's introduction: Jack London, an infinite passion for adventure that drove all his work First published two years after his death in 1918, “The Red One” contains...

"Kidnapped" is a novel written by R.L.Stevenson in 1886. The story is told in first person by the protagonist. The book is set in Scotland in the years of the civil war, in the mid-1700 's, the historical...

"Old longings nomadic leap, Chafing at custom's chain; Again from its brumal sleep Wakens the ferine strain." Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not...

In a castle of Westphalia, belonging to the Baron of Thunder-ten-Tronckh, lived a youth, whom nature had endowed with the most gentle manners. His countenance was a true picture of his soul. He combined...

The Floressas Des Esseintes, to judge by the various portraits preserved in the Château de Lourps, had originally been a family of stalwart troopers and stern cavalry men. Closely arrayed, side by side,...

Pictures! Pictures! Pictures! Often, before I learned, did I wonder whence came the multitudes of pictures that thronged my dreams; for they were pictures the like of which I had never seen in real wake-a-day...

• All content is redone in a new style, with the author's name and the title of the novel at the top. • For a better glance, a small graphic is added at the beginning of each chapter. • With a picture...

• All content is redone in a new style, with the author's name and the title of the novel at the top. • For a better glance, a small graphic is added at the beginning of each chapter. • With a picture...

• All content is redone in a new style, with the author's name and the title of the novel at the top. • For a better glance, a small graphic is added at the beginning of each chapter. • With a picture...

Do you know where it is -- the Hollow Land? I have been looking for it now so long, trying to find it again the Hollow Land for there I saw my love first. I wish to tell you how I found it first of all;...

"The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe published in "Graham's Magazine" in 1841. It has been recognized as the first modern detective story; Poe referred to it as one of his...

Carthinal is alone in the world. His parents and grandparents have died. Without money and a place to live, he faces an uncertain future. After joining a street gang, Carthinal begins a life of crime. Soon...