The Coral Merchant - formato ePub

Un ex combatiente condecorado por el gobierno obtiene una licencia para tocar el organillo en las calles de Viena. A pesar de su mala fortuna y su invalidez (perdió una pierna en la guerra), está convencido...

En Izquierda y derecha Joseph Roth describe un mundo particular conformado a la luz de la posguerra luego de la Primera Guerra Mundial: el de la familia Bernheim. Paul y Theodor, hermanos, exhiben dos...

Este libro reúne seis relatos de Joseph Roth, cinco de los cuales se publicaron de forma póstuma. En ellos desfilan personajes muy disímiles: un bebedor empedernido que vive en la calle y parece encontrar...

La joven Fini es una mujer de la Viena de los años veinte que trabaja en una oficina y vive en un piso pequeño, donde la esperan una madre posesiva y un padre que ha vuelto lisiado de la guerra. Dilapidando...

"Cada página, cada línea, es como la estrofa de un poema, cincelado con el más preciso dominio del ritmo y de la melodía".Stefan Zweig De las afueras de una Viena de principios del siglo XX a las colinas...

El alumno aventajado reúne tres pequeñas obras maestras de Joseph Roth, prologadas por Friderike Zweig. «Bajo la influencia del alcohol era un hombre alegre y optimista, capaz de culminar las tareas más...

En la tradición de lengua alemana, el Feuilleton es un artículo periodístico que, bajo diversas formas literarias, evoca temas de actualidad en un tono personal. Los Feuilletons que componen Viajes y...

"Ha llegado el momento de irnos. Quemarán nuestros libros, pensando en nosotros. Si uno se llama Wassermann, Döblin o Roth no puede esperar más. Tenemos que marcharnos, para que sólo prendan fuego a los...

Durante las décadas de 1920 y 1930 Joseph Roth viajó por toda Europa. Sus vagabundeos, que lo llevaron de un hotel a otro, le brindaron la incomparable oportunidad de observar y escribir sobre los lugares...

 "El profeta mudo es una novela que puede fecharse a partir de ciertos datos históricos: ello explica la hipótesis según la cual este manuscri­to, que se daba por perdido, era en realidad una novela sobre...

Fuga sin fin (1924) es la historia de Franz Tunda, un oficial austríaco que, después de haber sido hecho prisionero, vive bajo falsa identidad todo el proceso de la revolución rusa. Sin embargo, algo...

El protagonista de 'La Cripta de los Capuchinos', heredero de una familia de origen humilde ennoblecida por Francisco José, describe su vida en la Viena deslumbrante de los albores de la Primera Guerra...

Joseph Roth concibió 'Fresas' como una pieza literaria sobre su infancia, una suerte de recreación de Brody, la ciudad limítrofe en la que se crió, situada entre el Imperio austrohúngaro y la Rusia zarista....

La extraordinaria maestría de Joseph Roth se manifiesta en esta novela con especial lirismo y vigor. La historia de Mendel Singer, que abandona a un hijo tullido en su aldea natal para partir con el resto...

En este ensayo, que se ha convertido en referencia obligada, Joseph Roth perfila el dibujo íntimo, no siempre exento de ironía, de los judíos del Este de Europa, un pueblo que a la sazón se convirtió,...

 "Mientras el tren daba otra sacudida y empezaba a rodar suavemente, saludé con la mano y miré a la muchacha a los ojos. Sólo por aquella mirada he escrito esta historia". En este breve relato iniciático...

Victoria Finney has always been the planner. So, when she's blindsided by a terminaldiagnosis, she's not just worried about her own future—she's worried about herhusband, Troy. Determined to ensure he's...

Alan Thurston was an immunologist at Midwestern University Medical School. Like most men in the teaching trade, he also had a research project. If it worked out, he'd be one of the great names in medicine;...

Whose Body? is a 1923 novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, which introduced the character of Lord Peter Wimsey. CHAPTER I "Oh, damn!" said Lord Peter Wimsey at Piccadilly Circus. "Hi, driver!" The taxi man,...

The Pit and The Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe "The Pit and the Pendulum" is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe and first published in 1842 in the literary annual The Gift: A Christmas and New Year's...

Eldorado is a sequel book to the classic adventure tale, The Scarlet Pimpernel. It was first published in 1913. The novel is notable in that it is the partial basis for most of the film treatments of...

The Warden, published in 1855, is the first book in Anthony Trollope's Chronicles of Barsetshire series of six novels. It was his fourth novel.The Warden concerns Mr Septimus Harding, the meek, elderly...

The Mirror of the Sea is a collection of autobiographical essays originally published variously in several magazines between 1904 and 1906. In discussing the work, Conrad described it as "a very intimate...

Glenn Killbourne and his fiancee Carley Burch find a strange test of their love in the mountains and canyons of Arizona. What subtle strange message had come to her out of the West? Carley Burch laid...

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....

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...

"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...

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...

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...

The Purloined Letter Edgar Allan Poe The Purloined Letter" is a short story by American author Edgar Allan Poe. It is the third of his three detective stories featuring the fictional C. Auguste Dupin,...

This collection contains translations of Roumanian tales which, however, comprise but a small portion of the inexhaustible treasure that exists in the nation. The originals are scattered throughout Roumanian...

On the second day of July in the year 1863 the Civil War in America was at its height. Late in the preceding month Lee had turned his face northward, and, with an army of a hundred thou-sand Confederate...

Unseen Genius follows the journey of Jabari, a young inventor with dreams bigger than his circumstances. In each installment, Jabari grapples with the challenges of balancing his family obligations, friendships,...

FIRE MOUNTAIN IS "A THRILLING SEA STORY BY "NORMAN SPRINGER", AUTHOR OF "THE BLOOD SHIP" Years. Bright, aslant eyes, and a suave and ever-ready smile that broke immediately Martin met his gaze. "You...

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "This has got to be one of the most out loud funniest books I've read all year."⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "Any women that are going through menopause need to read this. Such a great book and it's laugh out loud funny." For...

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...

"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...

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...

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...

All they want for Christmas is ...Breanna Henderson lives by lists, strict schedules, and preparations galore. Being pregnant while climbing up a ladder into her best friend Billy's bedroom was definitely...

The year 146 B.C. was an annus mirabilis in the development of Roman dominion. Of course it had long been a foregone conclusion that Carthage and Corinth must fall before her, but the actual time of their...

The highly anticipated follow-up to bestselling BIG HORN, WALKER PRAIRIE is a thrilling Jenn Herrington legal mystery set in Wyoming's rugged Bighorn Mountains. When former prosecutor and mystery writer...

We is a dystopian novel by Russian writer Yevgeny Zamyatin, written 1920-1921. The novel was first published as an English translation by Gregory Zilboorg in 1924 in New York. The novel describes a world...

The beautiful scenery of the Moselle has too long been left without notice. It is true, some of our Artists have presented to us scenes on the banks of this river; but English travellers are, for the...

One more point deserves notice. Butler often refers in "Life and Habit" to Darwin's "Variations of Animals and Plants under Domestication." When he does so it is always under the name "Plants and Animals."...

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,...