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...

Esta singular novela de Frances Hodgson Burnett, una de las favoritas de Nancy Mirford, empieza como La Cenicienta y termina como Rebeca. Emily Fox-Seton, que se gana la vida haciendo encargos para las...

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...

«La novela demuestra sobradamente su merecida pertenencia a la narrativa inglesa decimonónica. José María Guelbenzu, Babelia, El País. La formación de una marquesa (1901) está vista a través de los ojos...

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...

Sara Crewe es una niña extraordinaria que ha vivido una vida de ensueño a lado de su padre, el capitán Richard Crew, llena de aventuras y fantasía. Pero la vida de Sara cambia cuando llega. Ala escuela...

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,...

La colección «Alfaguara Clásicos» nos trae esta preciosa edición íntegra e ilustrada por Elizabeth Moreno de El jardín secreto de Frances Hodgson Burnett, una oda a la amistad y al amor, y un clásico...

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...

The novel consists of two plots or movements. Apparently wholly disconnected, but always, as the logic of events carries them on, bending nearer and nearer, until the principal dramatis personae meet...

-THE DOUBLE- centers on a government clerk who goes mad. It deals with the internal psychological struggle of its main character, Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin, who repeatedly encounters someone who is his...

Upon being arrested for the gruesome murder of her father, all college student Kanna Hijiriyama tells the police is, "It's up to you to find the motive." Amidst the media frenzy about the woman "too beautiful...

17. yüzyıl İspanya'sında edebiyat düşkünü bir maceraperest; günümüzdeyse klasikleşmiş bir yazar: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. İspanyol donanmasına katılıp Kıbrıs'ta, İnebahtı'da, Tunus'ta, Navarin'de...

'Truly unnerving' Jane Bailey'I raced through it in little more than a single session' 5* Reader Review They said a mother knows best and I believed them. Was I wrong? It is supposed to be a dream. James...

Agatha Christie meets Julie Caplin in this exciting new cosy crime series that captures the glamour of the 1930s with the gorgeous escapist destinations! November 1930....

Emma is a comic novel by Jane Austen, first published in December 1815, about the perils of misconstrued romance. The main character, Emma Woodhouse, is described in the opening paragraph as "handsome,...

The first book in the New York Times bestselling series with over ten million copies in print! ‘Terrifyingly fun! Max Brallier’s The Last Kids on Earth delivers big thrills...

WHAT YOU WERE FIGHTING FOR is a wonderful collection of short stories that provokes the mind with its weird and intriguing tales. We catch glimpses of worlds that are similar to our own, but always different...

'OMG this book is so tense! I couldn't stop reading!' Lauren North'Totally gripping . . . I absolutely loved it!' Lisa Timoney A twisty, addictive page-turner about marriage, secrets and betrayal - perfect...

In this smart and swoony adventure rom-com, a journalist and a movie star find themselves teaming up to cover up a murder... What could possibly go wrong?When freelance journalist Khin Haymar is assigned...

'So much fun!' KATIE FFORDEIla has her pride. And she's about to discover just how much trouble that can be... It's 1976 and in the Vile Parle suburb of Mumbai, bastion of the Maharashtrian middle-class,...

Return to the snow-covered mountains of the Isle of Skye this winter in book two of The Skye Sisters Trilogy – where new loves and unknown family are just waiting to be found… Available to pre-order now!...

A prize-winning railway murder mystery from Japan, this crime classic is a hair-raising delight perfect for fans of Agatha Christie.Early one morning, a body is found lying next to the railway tracks...

THERE'S A PUZZLING MYSTERY WHEN A BELOVED PUB BURNS DOWN...BUT LIBBY SARJEANT IS ON THE CASE.After learning of a suspicious attempt to burn down a beloved old pub, The Crooked Horse, amateur detective...

'Once I started I just did not want to stop. So atmospheric and written in such a way I felt like I was truly there transported back in time living it all... A highly thrilling, fast paced and totally...

AN IMPOSSIBLE LOVE. AN ENCHANGED LEGACY. A DANGEROUS DISCOVERY.The stunning conclusion to Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling What the River Knows. A lush immersive historical fantasy set in Egypt...

THE PITCH-BLACK REDISCOVERED CLASSIC OF 2024 From the Booker-shortlisted author of Great Granny Webster, this twisted modern classic is perfect for fans of Shirley Jackson and Celia Dale. 'One of the...

A new job. A new home. A new start.It's all Anna wants.But in a closed rural community, strange traditions and a suspicion of outsiders mean everything is not as it seems. Three teenage girls have vanished...

Christmas is just around the corner, and Ronja and Melissa's father is out of work. When ten-year-old Ronja hears about a job selling Christmas trees, she thinks it might be the stroke of luck they all...

A cold case returns to haunt Blix, as a cold-blooded killer taunts him with evidence of further victims, while Ramm investigates a murder with no body… Blockbuster, explosive Nordic Noir.`Contemporary...

Follow the bank of the Koitogawa river until you reach the beach. From there a path of white seashells will lead you to the Chibineko Kitchen. Step inside, they'll be expecting you. These are the directions...

On a cold winter evening in a secluded fjord in Iceland, a neighbour visits the house of a family that has not been seen in a week. No one comes to the door when he knocks. After breaking down the back...

FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE NORTH WIND COMES A DARKLY REIMAGINED TALE OF FORBIDDEN LOVE, INSPIRED BY THE GREEK MYTH OF HERO AND LEANDER AND THE SCOTTISH BALLAD TAM LIN.    Brielle of Thornbrook has dedicated...

THE ONLY WAY TO SURVIVE...IS IF SOMEONE CONFESSES TO MURDER.***GUARDIAN CRIME AND THRILLERS OF THE MONTH***'Fiendishly clever and impossible to put down' SHARI LAPENA'Writes with his foot pressed hard...

*A Short History of the Apocalypse: your comprehensive guide to the challenges of Armageddon*Join Frankie Boyle (Saturday Night Swindle; Celebrity Vengeance) and Charlie Skelton (head writer: Ad Naseum;...

She'll save Christmas just to spite him...There's only one thing standing in the way of Cat King saving a small town's Christmas festival: Grumpy town manager Noah Yates.Single dad Noah takes his responsibilities...

If you were given the opportunity to disappear and start your life again, would you take it?Paris 1933. Four people's lives are dramatically torn apart by a single terrifying event. Two days before Christmas...

A child who will be named Johannes is born. An old man named Johannes dies. Between these two points, Jon Fosse gives us the details of an entire life, starkly compressed. Beginning with Johannes's father's...

'This sleek ride of a novel further cements Phillips's position as one of our most profound writers of speculative fiction.' New York Times In a hot and gritty city populated by super-intelligent robots...

ONE WAY IN. NO WAY OUT.'Deaf teenager goes missing in Esseberg. Mountain rescue are launching a search party but conditions hinder their efforts. The tunnel is being kept open all night as an exception.'When...