The Man-Made World - formato ePub

Publicado por primera vez en 1892, El tapiz amarillo está escrito como el diario secreto de una mujer que, debilitado su gusto por el matrimonio y la maternidad, es obligada a una cura de reposo en el...

En esta recopilación se puede apreciar la maestría de Charlotte Perkins Gilman para el cuento corto, reflexivo y con gran conciencia social.Textos divertidos a la par que trágicos, donde sus protagonistas...

Está despojado, el papel, en grandes parches. . . El color es repelente. . . En los lugares donde no se ha desvanecido y donde está el sol, puedo ver una figura extraña, provocadora y sin forma, que parece...

Mujeres y economía (1898) es el primer ensayo de la escritora norteamericana Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935). Prácticamente desconocida en nuestro país, dentro del ámbito anglosajón está considerada...

Una selección de relatos de horror que muestra lo más oscuro del mundo vegetal. Una antología que reúne a nombres como Roald Dahl, Eudora Welty o H.P. Lovecraft. Orquídeas sanguinarias, bosques enteros...

Mary Shelley, Rosa Mulholland, Emma Frances Dawson, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Madeline Yale Wynne, Violet Hunt, Vernon Lee. Es evidente que hoy la literatura de terror ganó una centralidad que hasta hace...

La historia de la literatura universal está plagada de ejemplos de mujeres malignas que han manipulado la voluntad de los hombres utilizando como armas su inteligencia y belleza, mostrando la debilidad...

Mujeres que reclaman su derecho a trabajar en un mundo de hombres, valientes guerreras indias, forajidas del Oeste americano, inmigrantes sin pelos en la lengua, heroínas atrapadas en tenebrosos bosques…...

This book, newly updated, contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure! The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all...

In the perfect isolation of the Amazon, three American men discover a community of women living there, they're totally upset: how these women can survive without the reproductive power of men, their experience...

This story is, first, for young women to read; second, for young men to read; after that, for anybody who wants to. Anyone who doubts its facts and figures is referred to "Social Diseases and Marriage,"...

Moving the Mountain is novel written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. It was published serially in Perkins Gilman's periodical The Forerunner and then in book form, both in 1911. The book was one element...

"The Yellow Wallpaper" is a 6,000-word short story by American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, first published in January 1892 in New England Magazine. It is regarded as an important early work of American...

Herland is a utopian novel from 1915, written by feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The book describes an isolated society composed entirely of women, who reproduce via parthenogenesis (asexual reproduction)....

A MUST READ FOR EVERY TEENAGE GIRL AND WOMEN OF ALL AGES! This book will impart the passion and feeling behind the women of the Suffrage movement whithout whom women of today would not have the right...

A must-read for fans of utopian science fiction, Herland describes a society comprised solely of female inhabitants. The residents of the isolated community have perfected a form of asexual reproduction,...

-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...

'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...

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...

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,...

*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;...

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...

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...

'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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

'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,...

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 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...

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...

THE BRAND NEW FESTIVE ROMANCE FROM ISLA GORDONSIX PASSENGERS . . . When six ex-friends are invited to a winter wedding in Canada, the last thing they want is a reunion. But bride-to-be Bryn is desperate,...

Anna is on the brink of losing it all when she is handed the career opportunity of a lifetime - working as a ghostwriter for charismatic neuroscientist Nate. Nate's work at the mysterious Pain Laboratory...

The latest Bob Skinner mystery from the legendary Quintin Jardine.'The legendary Quintin Jardine . . . such a fine writer' DENZIL MEYRICKAn expensive mobile home, abandoned in a new housing development,...