Ficción - Literatura en otros idiomas

Mrs. Molesworth - Molesworth has a decided liking for the marvellous. We feel doubtful whether children really like these things. For the most part, they are severely practical, not to say sceptical,...

Edgar Allan Poe - "The Fall of the House of Usher" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe first published in 1839. The story begins with the unnamed narrator arriving at the house of his friend, Roderick...

Edgar Allan Poe - "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe published in Graham's Magazine in 1841. C. Auguste Dupin is a man in Paris who solves the mystery of the brutal murder...

James Joyce - Dubliners is a collection of fifteen short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. They form a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early...

Mark Twain - Eve's Diary is a comic short story by Mark Twain. It was first published in the 1905 Christmas issue of the magazine Harper's Bazaar, and in book format in June 1906 by Harper and Brothers...

Mark Twain - “He reports the American joke correctly. In Boston they ask, How much does he know? in New York, How much is he worth? in Philadelphia, Who were his parents? And when an alien observer turns...

Michel de Montaigne - The Essays (French: Essais) of Michel de Montaigne are contained in three books and 107 chapters of varying length. Montaigne's stated design in writing, publishing and revising...

Mary W. Shelley - Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, is a novel written by English author Mary Shelley about eccentric scientist Victor Frankenstein, who creates a grotesque creature in an unorthodox...

Jules Verne - Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon is a novel by Jules Verne, published in 1881. It has also been published as The Giant Raft. This novel involves how Joam Garral, a ranch owner who lives...

H. G. Wells - The Invisible Man is a science fiction novella by H. G. Wells published in 1897. Originally serialized in Pearson's Weekly in 1897, it was published as a novel the same year. The Invisible...

Jules Verne - This narrative will comprehend not only all the explorations made in past ages, but also all the new discoveries which have of late years so greatly interested the scientific world.

Herman Melville - The voyage of the whaling ship Pequod, commanded by Captain Ahab, who leads his crew on a hunt for the great whale Moby Dick, reveals a profound meditation on society, nature, and the...

Charles Dickens - “It happened in this wise But, sitting with my pen in my hand looking at those words again, without descrying any hint in them of the words that should follow, it comes into my mind...

Every day Charlie goes to sketch a beautiful building that's been under construction. She's drawn to it for some reason, and it makes her paints come alive. On the day the painting is to be finished,...

Ethers flow into the continent of Althuria from an unseen world.Formerly disgraced factions now work together, in order to unseat the divine triarchy of living Dieties who rule Althuria.The Draakin scheme,...

Enchanted Wishes is a collection of short stories about magical wishes coming true. Some are life-changing, while others can ruin a person's life forever. Stories in this Collection: Dreaming of Noelle:...

This is book three of the Driftwood Trilogy. It can also be seen as the final book in the continuation of the Crossfire Trilogy.

More than four hundred years ago, one of the most impressive and bigger jewels on history disappeared one day with noone knowing what happened with it. Many think it was fuel for greedy men who cut it...

Somali Sunrise is the sequel to Driftwood. Although it is the second book in the Driftwood Trilogy, many readers may regard it as the 'fourth' book in the Crossfire Trilogy, because it straddles both...

The moment Maximilian Farell signed her decalogue, Eve knew she had sold her soul to the devil, a sexy, handsome, and arrogant devil who would not only teach her how to fully discover, but would bind...

An ill-fate lady's love story……The protagonist of this book is He Mengxia, a primary school teacher. He lived in the home of a distant relative, Cui Shi, and also served as a tutor of his family. Cui...

It is not enough for her to have to take care of a troublesome sister—who she barely knows—now she has to write about lust, a feeling she has never experienced before because, at twenty-six years old,...

Charles Dickens - “Once upon a time, a good many years ago, there was a traveller, and he set out upon a journey. It was a magic journey, and was to seem very long when he began it, and very short when...

Charles Dickens - Doctor Marigold, named for the man who delivered him, is a "cheap-jack" who hawks sundries from a traveling cart he inhabits with his wife and his daughter Sophy. The mother beats Sophy,...

Alexis de Tocqueville - Tocqueville begins his book by describing the change in social conditions taking place. He observed that over the previous seven hundred years the social and economic conditions...

Arthur Conan Doyle - In Beyond the City, the desire for money and romance drives the characters beyond the typical boundaries of their middle class Victorian lives. Lust, deceit, and financial scandals...

Thomas Paine - Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–76 that inspired people in the Thirteen Colonies to declare and fight for independence from Great Britain in the summer of 1776....

Guy de Maupassant - “For several days in succession fragments of a defeated army had passed through the town. They were mere disorganized bands, not disciplined forces. The men wore long, dirty beards...

Anonymous - For university professor Mia Rose Curry, it was all academic: her course in alternative sexuality was a safe, socially acceptable way for her to talk about the things she desired most—but...

Charles Dickens - At one period of its reverses, the House fell into the occupation of a Showman. He was found registered as its occupier, on the parish books of the time when he rented the House, and...