The Head of the House of Coombe - formato ePub

El pequeño Cedric Errol es un niño de siete años, que vive en Nueva York en compañía de su madre viuda. Su padre, un capitán inglés, ha muerto hace pocos años. Un apacible día, la modesta vida de Cedric...

La presente novela nos cuenta cómo Mary, una niña rebelde, solitaria y soñadora, queda huérfana en la India, por lo que viaja a Inglaterra para quedar al cuidado y vivir con su tío. Este habita en pleno...

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Mary es una niña inglesa nacida en la India. Sus padres no se preocupan de ella, y como nadie la quiere, es solitaria, antipática y amargada. Sorpresivamente queda huérfana y es enviada a Inglaterra,...

Una niña en «el cuarto diurno de los niños» (porque también hay un «cuarto nocturno de los niños»), un sitio lóbrego e inhóspito en una casa estrecha en una calle estrecha... pero en el elegante barrio...

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Un clásico entrañable cuya vigencia permanece intacta.Mary Lennox tiene diez años y ha perdido a sus padres por culpa de una epidemia que ha azotado la India. Tras su defunción, Mary viaja desde el país...

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Mary Lennox, una niña solitaria que a nadie le cae bien, llega desde la India para vivir con su tío en Yorkshire, Inglaterra. En su nuevo destino, Mary no puede hacer mucho más aparte de explorar esa...

"El jardín secreto" es un clásico de la literatura en lengua inglesa, elegido por el público de "The Big Read" de la BBC como una de las 100 mejores novelas de todos los tiempos. El relato de Mary Lennox,...

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Mary Lenox no es una niña simpática: la falta de atención y afecto convirtió a esta pequeña en un ser amargado, rencoroso y tiránico. Sin embargo, tras una terrible serie de sucesos, Mary se ve obligada...

Sara Crewe, una princesita que vive feliz con su padre en la India colonial, ingresa en un selecto colegio de Inglaterra. A pesar de su fama de persona estricta, la señorita Minchin, directora del colegio,...

Centenario Frances Hodgson Burnett (1924-2024) --- "El jardín secreto" es uno de los clásicos más populares de la literatura infantil de todos los tiempos, y a cien años de la muerte de su autora no ha...

Mary Lennox es una niña de diez años que vive en la India. Tras la muerte de sus padres, se ve obligada a mudarse a la imponente mansión de su tío en Yorkshire, Inglaterra. Ante tantos cambios, encuentra...

When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It was true, too. She had a little thin face and a little...

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The stories begin with those which children like bestthe old Blue Beard, Puss in Boots, Hop o my Thumb, Little Red Riding Hood, The Sleeping Beauty, and Toads and Pearls. These were first collected, written,...

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"Eugene Witla, wilt thou have this woman to thy wedded wife, to live together after God's ordinance in the holy estate of matrimony? Wilt thou love her, comfort her, honour her, and keep her in sickness...

Then came a glimmer of daylight that grew and grew, and presently ended in another arch that looked out over a scene so like a picture out of a book about Italy that everyone's breath was taken away,...

In giving to the world the record of what, looked at as an adventure only, is I suppose one of the most wonderful and mysterious experiences ever undergone by mortal men, I feel it incumbent on me to...

Jaime Febrer arose at nine o'clock. Old Antonia, the faithful servant who cherished the memory of the past glories of the family, and who had attended upon Jaime from the day of his birth, had been bustling...

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Children are not brought up in society to focus on politics. They are often encouraged to enjoy their life and their childhood. It is often said that kids should just be kids. But when there is a political...

Emmaline has been in a coma for two crucial years of her teenage life. Waking life is almost as disorienting, but finally she is reunited with her sister and father. Now she must make up for lost time,...

Aidan Black left the Marine Corps to skip the red tape, but it's a woman from his past he's now trying to avoid… one who believes him capable of murder. Briar Sutton is the last person I expect to see...

Cillian is no stranger to the pull of dark magic as he is the son of both the Dark realm Princess and the Light realm Prince. What doesn't help is that he may have been further infused with dark magic...

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SAMSARA'S DEAD HAVE CHOSEN NEL. AND THE CACOPHONY CALLED FOR JUSTICE. Archaeologist Dr. Nel Bently has never been farther from home. With a tenuous ceasefire from Lin's rebellion force and genocidal Harris...

Nina Rosethorn, a university student, survives a lightning strike and returns home to Vancouver. But the incident triggers a haunting ability: premonitions manifest in her nightmares. Determined to prevent...

Dangerously good-looking. Dangerously breathtaking. This dangerously sinful cowboy is going to steal her heart. When the outback's bare-knuckle champion, Dex Riggs, arrives in Sophie's emergency room,...

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When high-ranking official Henry Caldwell is found brutally murdered in his opulent estate, Detective Paul Johnson is called to the scene of what appears to be a straightforward case of political retribution....

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The contents of the work which gave such pleasure to this learned antiquary are as follows:I. IntroductionSimilarity of Arts and CustomsSimilarity of NamesOrigin of the WorkImitationCasual CoincidenceMiltonDante.II....

he Brothers Karamazov, is the final novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Dostoyevsky spent nearly two years writing The Brothers Karamazov, which was published as a serial in The Russian Messenger...