The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction Vol: 11 - formato ePub

Una pareja de periodistas –jóvenes, inquietos, pobres, enamorados –anda a la caza de la noticia en el bullicioso Londres de principios de siglo. El centro de la atención pública del momento lo ocupa un...

La novela "Otra vuelta de tuerca" escrita por Henry James es una obra maestra del género de horror gótico. James utiliza un estilo literario que combina el suspense psicológico con una narrativa intrigante...

Christopher Newman, «el americano», «el hombre nuevo», «el gran bárbaro del Oeste», llega a París dispuesto a «ver todas las cosas importantes y hacer lo que hace la gente inteligente». Tomar esposa se...

La vida privada es una novela Henry James. Un variopinto grupo de turistas de la alta sociedad británica, antiguos conocidos, coincide en un hotel del Oberland suizo durante los últimos días del mes de...

Una novela de indudable valor literario y de inmenso valor historico que supone uno de los primeros retratos del feminismo politico y del amor entre dos mujeres. Aparecida en 1886, Las bostonianas es...

Henry James, maestro en fantasmas, reunió en estas cuatro historias todas sus prodigiosas dotes de fabulador de la vida cotidiana. Con el ejercicio de una ambigüedad bien calculada lo que empieza siendo...

Henry James:(Nueva York, 1843 - Londres, 1916) Narrador, critico y dramaturgo estadounidense de obra psicologica y estructuralmente compleja.Entre otras convicciones secretas, cual las que todos albergamos,...

Considerada una de las mejores novelas cortas de Henry James (1843-1916), La lección del maestro supone la máxima expresión de la depuración narrativa del genial escritor norteamericano. La trama gira...

En El arte de la novela Henry james se dirige al que piensa escribir una novela, más que al lector de la novela. No es un manual de gramática y de redacción. Se trata de la manera de ir por la vida tomando...

Cuatro entrevistas, una brevisima novela de Henry James en la que se narran las cuatro ocasiones en que el narrador se encuentra con la señorita Spencer, una anodina maestra de Nueva Inglaterra cuyo principal...

Madame de Mauves es una novela de Henry James, originalmente publicada en la revista The Galaxy en 1874. La historia se centra en el problemático matrimonio de una escrupulosa esposa estadounidense y...

En La vida privada, memorable novela del escritor Henry James, conviven en delicada armonía lo fantástico y lo satírico. El tan sugerente como literario tema del doble, y la disección psicológica de unos...

En “La próxima vez” emerge un humor ácido, escéptico y despiadado que desconocíamos en James.

En “La próxima vez” emerge un humor ácido, escéptico y despiadado que desconocíamos en James.

Washington Square es una novela corta de Henry James (escritor estadounidense, 1843-1916).Fue publicada en 1880, es un drama que nos presenta el conflicto entre una joven dulce e ingenua, y su brillante...

Un paisajista es un relato de Henry James.

This is the third, and probably the last, of the Fairy Books of many colours. First there was the Blue Fairy Book; then, children, you asked for more, and we made up the Red Fairy Book; and, when you...

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...

The "Times.""For its rapid action, in fact, we have seldom read a better story, or one which is more full of incidents, sanguinary, trenchant, and robust."The "Daily Telegraph.""A true and a wonderfully...

The SCENE is the Exterior of a Cottage in West Issacshire on a desperately Arcadian afternoon in August. MR. ICKY, quaintly dressed in the costume of an Elizabethan peasant, is pottering and doddering...

COMMON opinion said that Lord Lynborough ought never to have had a peerage and forty thousand a year; he ought to have had a pound a week and a back bedroom in Bloomsbury. Then he would have become an...

Tales of Space and Time, A collection of short stories: "The Crystal Egg", "The Star", "A Story of the Stone Age", "A Story of the Days to Come" & "The Man who could Work Miracles" Some Books of...

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,...

Quite aside from its natural characteristics, there is an atmosphere about a college town, especially a New England college town, that is unmistakable. It is not so much actively intellectual as passively...

"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...

Agatha-nominated series! A madcap mystery set in the off, off, OFF Broadway world of theater (#4 in the Ivy Meadows Mystery series)There's a new sheriff in town—and she can sing! When Gold Bug Gulch's...

Have you ever felt that itch in the back of your brain you just can't scratch? A particular gnawing on your mind biting away your best thoughts? Meet Wormy: the literal brain worm residing inside the...

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...

The Stygian Lepus Magazine is a thrilling foray into dark speculative fiction. In each new edition, readers explore the depths of imagination, where fear and fascination intertwine.Offering diverse genres...

This is a collection of ten horror microfiction tales, sometimes called bite-sized fiction or 'drabbles'. These stories are limited to precisely one-hundred words and aim to pack a punch, all the while...

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,...

The "Love on the Ice" series delivers a pulse-pounding journey through five heart-stopping books that redefine love on and off the hockey rink!Book #1: Melting the Ice Between Us (Novella)I'm not sticking...

This captivating narrative blends stunning descriptions, powerful dialogues, and profound storytelling to bring a fresh totally unexplored perspective to the ancient legend. Encounter unknown characters...

The perfect neighborhood hides the most dangerous secrets.Sarah thought her new neighbors, Emily and Ryan, had it all: charm, kindness, and a flawless marriage. But beneath their polished smiles lurks...

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....

MYTH: ITS BIRTH AND GROWTH. "Unchecked by external truth, the mind of man has a fatal facility for ensnaring, entrapping, and entangling itself. But, happily, happily for the human race, some fragment...

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...

In offering this study to a public accustomed only to the unquestioning acceptance of the home as something perfect, holy, quite above discussion, a word of explanation is needed. First, let it be clearly...