Ficción - Literatura en otros idiomas

WHEN children advance beyond the nursery age, no story is so wonderful as a true story. Fiction to them is never as appealing as fact. I have often been faced with the inquiry: whether or not a story...

MORE than a thousand years have rolled away since a castle looked down cheerfully from a height amid the Franconian plains into the well-watered Kinzig Valley, with its pleasant villages and towns. It...

AS you open this book you will probably ask, "What is a golden deed?" Let me tell you. It is the doing of something for somebody else doing it without thought of self, without thought of reward, fearlessly,...

The King in Yellow is a book of short stories by American writer Robert W. Chambers, first published by F. Tennyson Neely in 1895. The book is named after a play with the same title which recurs as a...

My name is Ratichon—Hector Ratichon, at your service, and I make so bold as to say that not even my worst enemy would think of minimizing the value of my services to the State. For twenty years now have...

Daniel Defoe's faith-filled The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe finds Crusoe bored with his prosperity and consumed by an irresistible longing to return to the island he left many years before....

The senator took an elevator directly to the helicopter landing on the roof of the building. It was several minutes before he had located the little runabout he had bought for his wife the previous Christmas....

"A Daughter of the Snows" is Jack London's first novel. The novel features a strong female heroine, Frona Welse. Frona was born into a wealthy family and educated at Stanford but she takes to the Yukon...

This don't pretend to be "Literature." This is just a tale for red-blooded folks who want a story and not just a lot of "psychological" stuff or "analysis." Boy, you'll love it! Read it here, see it...

Mme. Vauquer (nee de Conflans) is an elderly person, who for the past forty years has kept a lodging-house in the Rue Nueve-Sainte-Genevieve, in the district that lies between the Latin Quarter and the...

When does life begin?... A well-known book says "forty". A well-known radio program says "eighty". Some folks say it's mental, others say it's physical. But take the strange case of Mel Carlson who gave...

The speaker had just pushed his horse over the brow of a slope which he and his servant had for some time been mounting, through the steamy warmth of a foggy May morning. The thick haze which lay heavy...

You will, I know, permit me to address you these essays which are more the product of your erudition than of my enthusiasm. With the motives of their appearance you are familiar. We have wondered together...

Mr. Greene, a wealthy Englishman on a European holiday with his family, carried his money and his wife's jewels in one of their many boxes. On transferring from the boat on Lake Como to their hotel, the...

For half a century the housewives of Pont-l'Eveque had envied Madame Aubain her servant Felicite. For a hundred francs a year, she cooked and did the housework, washed, ironed, mended, harnessed the...

The Return of the Native is English author Thomas Hardy's sixth published novel. It first appeared in the magazine Belgravia, a publication known for its sensationalism, and was presented in twelve monthly...

"We heard the tecbir, so the Arabs call Their shout of onset, when with loud appeal They challenge heaven, as if commanding conquest." Hugh de Payens, having now laid in Europe the foundations of the...

Trees filtering light onto dapple grass. Trees like tall, languid ladies with feather fans coquetting airily with the ugly roof of the monastery. Trees like butlers, bending courteously over placid walks...

Eski Yunanda, air Homerosun yazd varsaylan büyük bir destandr. Bir baka Homeros destan olan Ödeysseia ile birlikte, bat edebiyatnn en eski örnei ve tüm zamanlarn en güzel iirlerinden saylr. Hem lyada...

The Hedgehog House by Gabriela Charatsari is a heartwarming children's book about Bella, a 10-year-old girl who initially despises nature and animals. Bella's family takes a holiday to a remote cottage...

Karena berada di waktu dan tempat yang tepat, Narottama mendapati dirinya kini punya 5 kekasih jelita, yang semuanya masih perawan. Apa yang terjadi selanjutnya? Bisakah dia menggilir kelima kekasihnya...

It is 2080 and an electronics engineer by accident discovers a pain relief method which could threaten the Mobility and Pharmaceutical industries, both of which take steps to prevent its use, but with...

In the vast, luxurious world of the Faruk Rachid family, Kaled Faruk Rachid stands as a powerful and seemingly invincible CEO in Dubai, head of the oil-rich Faruk Rachid empire. Alongside his brothers...

On New Year's Eve, Artemis Mortimer expected to see many things, but not his own murder. Given a second chance at life by forces beyond his understanding, he is caught in the sights of a necromancer dead...

Despite physical distance, subtle links exist between souls that remain interconnected. Their love is a mess, yet it is the light amidst the chaos. Their reunion is a disaster, and their separation brings...

On dit que les plans les mieux conçus...Spencer Hayden se ment à lui-même. Il se dit depuis des années qu'il n'a pas besoin de famille. Il n'a besoin de personne. Il vient de quitter l'armée et pense...

In the not-so-distant future of 2225, the Earth has been ravaged by the catastrophic effects of climate change. Once-fertile lands have turned to dust, crops have withered, and the delicate balance of...

Modern life has changed beyond all recognition over the last 50 years, it would seem, but this is an illusion. This new research into cave paintings reveals that much that we take today as of recent origin...

Every Saturday, Grandpa liked to watch a murder mystery. Grandma didn't. That would have been fine if she just didn't like murders. Or mysteries. Or even Saturdays. The problem, however, ran much deeper....

One heartbroken, lonely manAnother man struggling to find his life againRyan Matson dreams of a new life, one with a future where drugs aren't in control. But lying to himself isn't helping him achieve...