Caricias Ao Luar - formato ePub

El soltero más codiciado de Londres, el Conde Chantcliffe, se encuentra inmerso en una competencia por lograr las atenciones de una belleza llamada Elaine Dale, quien no acepta directamente la propuesta...

Después de la muerte de Lady Meridale, el Marqués de Meridale tuvo de ausentarse de su Castillo para luchar en el regimiento contra Napoleón y después quedándose al servicio del Príncipe Regente en Carlton...

El Marqués de Anglestone encontró la manera de escapar del enredo en el que quería envolverlo Lady Hester, quien pretendía hacer creer a todos que el niño que iba a tener era de él… algo totalmente falso....

Harto de la guerra, de honores y de mujeres, el Conde de Wynstock regresa a casa, a Inglaterra. Allí estaba su vida pasada y probablemente su vida futura. Lo perseguía la fama de sus hazañas frente a...

Alecia Stanbrook, hija de un escritor muy pobre, acepta la petición de su Prima, Charis Langley, que se haga pasar por ella durante una visita a su tutor, quien es General del Ejército Británico de Ocupación,...

Cuando Odella descubrió accidentalmente una red de espionaje alservicio de Napoleón, inmediatamente se puso en contacto con el Lord Representante de la Corona. Este la envió a entrevistarse con el Marqués...

Cuando el Conde de Ardwick finalmente decide casarse, pero es rechazado por una belleza ambiciosa con su ojo en el ducado. Entonces la suerte coloca a Lady Lupita Lang en el sendero del Conde, pero Lupita...

Amanda Burke, hija de un modesto vicario, tenía poca experiencia con los hombres, hasta el día en que el disoluto Lord Ravenscar la vio en su jardín y decidió que ella debía ser suya. La familia de Amanda...

Meta Lindley es una guapa joven inglesa inteligente y una espía de la Reina Victoria. Meta y su hermano habían acordado alquilar la casa de su familia a un Príncipe ruso, pero Meta se da cuenta que se...

El asesinato de su padre por culpa de una espía rusa marcó la infancia de Lolita, que diez años más tarde seguía con el propósito de vengarlo. Lolita llega sola a Londres precedente de Italia, para enfrentarse...

Thea, Princesa de Kostas, no estaba dispuesta a casarse por conveniencias de Estado con el anciano Rey Otho, Monarca de un país vecino y a quien su Padre pretendía imponerle.Para evitarlo, la Princesa...

Tras servir en el Ejército de Ocupación en Francia, el Conde de Monkforde regresó a Inglaterra. El panorama no podía ser más desolador, pues su casa y su Finca se hallaban empobrecidas y sus recursos...

Por una estraña casualidad, un acidente llenó de magia la vida de Catherine que estaba recluída en el campo y no estaba acostumbrada a la compañia de un caballero tan ingenioso como el Mayor Adrian Chester....

Shenda se dirige al Castillo Arrow a través del Bosque cuando su perro cae en un trampa. En el camino encuentra a un apuesto forastero quien lo libera con facilidad, luego de deshacerse de la trampa el...

Sola en el mundo, Norita Combe estaba muy lejos de sospechar el cambio que iba a producirse en su vida cuando, encontró refugio como institutriz ante la pequeña hija del altivo Marqués de Hawkhurst, un...

Cuando el fuego destruye la casa de su familia, Erlina no tiene más remedio que buscar refugio en Meldon Hall. La casa está en mal estado, por lo que se sorprende al encontrar al Marqués de Meldon, viviendo...

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,...

Ik verkocht mijn ziel aan de Duivel en hij overhandigde me aan iemand die veel dodelijker was. Na de dood van mijn vader klopten zijn vijanden op mijn deur. Ik had geen andere keuze en ging akkoord met...

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."...