The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction Vol: 20 - formato ePub

Ópera prima de Juan Valera, es el relato del enamoramiento de un joven seminarista por la bella Pepita Jiménez. Edición de Enrique Rubio Cremades, catedrático de la Universidad de Alicante Juan Valera...

El bermejino prehistórico o las salamandras azules es un relato de Juan Valera que transcurre a lo largo del Mediterráneo. Desde España hasta Jerusalén los personajes se encuentran y desencuentran afrontando...

Don Lorenzo Tostado forma parte de la segunda parte de la trayectoria literaria de Juan Valera, junto con Elisa, la Malagueña y Mariquita y Antonio. Este relato breve consta de seis capítulos, en los...

Estudios críticos sobre historia y política, de Juan Valera, es un libro clave para entender la visión española de los movimientos de independencia americanos. He aquí un fragmento alusivo a esta cuestión:...

El pájaro verde. Juan Valera Fragmento de la obra Hubo, en época muy remota de esta en que vivimos, un poderoso rey, amado con extremo de sus vasallos y poseedor de un fertilísimo, dilatado y populoso...

La muñequita. Juan Valera Fragmento de la obra La muñequita Hace ya siglos que en una gran ciudad, capital de un reino, cuyo nombre no importa saber, vivía una pobre y honrada viuda que tenía una...

El cuento El cautivo de doña Mencía narra los amores entre una dama, doña Mencía, y el joven Nuño, varios años menor que ella. Doña Mencía renuncia al amor del joven, a pesar de estar apasionadamente...

En Morsamor Juan Valera parodia el relato del dean de Santiago. Hacia 1520 fray Miguel de Zuheros vive en un convento sevillano y lamenta su vida sin riesgos. El padre fray Ambrosio de Utrera, teósofo,...

El doble sacrificio. Juan Valera Fragmento de la obra El padre Guitérrez a don Pepito Málaga, 4 de abril de 1842. Mi querido discípulo: Mi hermana, que ha vivido más de veinte años en ese lugar, vive...

En el momento en que se impone la idea de que la realidad natural, social y humana pueden y deben ser materia novelable, aparecen nuevas ideas acerca de cómo puede ser este género artístico. A partir...

Mucho tiempo ha vivían dos jóvenes esposos en lugar muy apartado y rústico. Tenían una hija y ambos la amaban de todo corazón. No diré los nombres de marido y mujer, que ya cayeron en olvido, pero diré...

La preferencia por culturas y lugares lejanos que se advertía en la obra Parsondes se hace mucho más evidente en sus inconclusas Leyendas del Antiguo Oriente. El proyecto quedó en simple proyecto y de...

Los cordobeses en Creta. Juan ValeraFragmento de la obra: LOS CORDOBESES EN CRETASeñor don Miguel Moya.Mi distinguido amigo: Para El Liberal del domingo próximo me pide usted amablemente que escriba yo...

El último pecado. Juan Valera Fragmento de la obra I El señor don Emilio Cotarelo es un erudito de notable ingenio y de muy buen gusto, a quien debemos estar agradecidos y dar grandes alabanzas los...

El comendador Mendoza, de Juan Valera (1876), sitúa los acontecimientos en 1794. Don Fabrique López de Mendoza vuelve a su pueblo natal, Villabermeja, ya con cincuenta años, después de haber llevado una...

El caballero del azor de Juan Valera es un cuento que transcurre en un tiempo legendario (la España del medievo). Aquí el autor recrea sucesos entre el mito y la historia.Aunque El caballero del azor carece...

Dilys Lloyd's life has long been a whirlwind of emotions and unanswered questions. But once your husband leaves you and then your daughter runs off to Australia with your best friend's husband, things...

Over 48,000 words of gripping, enthralling fiction from best-selling writer Connor Whiteley in one amazing collection. Featuring two novellas and 5 short stories from some of his most popular series,...

Remembered Earth Universe CISLUNAR SERIES The Remembered Earth Universe covers the science and technology of the next hundred years, as mankind moves into cislunar space (defined as that space in and...

AudenOpening my own design firm in Lilac Harbor was hard, but things are finally starting to break my way.Then, I meet my new neighbor and the bane of my existence.Wade Collins.He's a grumpy jerk.He's...

A Cheating Husband. A Dead Best Friend. A Job Gone Wrong. PhD student Anna Brown travels to prison to study three women sharing their chilling, gripping, tense experiences of arson. From its shocking...

A Black Deeper Than Death started as a controversial stand-alone dark fantasy mystery and soon became book one of an eleven-book series with nine short stories weaved through it that redefined the genre. This...

He's a prince. She's a bodyguard for the royal family. He's off-limits, but for one night they're breaking all the rules. As an arctic fox-shifter and royal bodyguard, Kira Seaton lives to protect her...

Chasing Avani to BarcelonaAvani, a sweet, loving, Caring of a woman, had built a successful business in Barcelona, escaping the familiar fog of London. But a piece of her heart still belonged there, with...

On a beautiful Spring morning, Mr. H saw more than sunshine and meadow larks on his walk to town...  He discovered Peter Kelton's body strapped to the water mill's wheel. And in the tiny town of Dunsworth,...

Between the suffocating heat, the alcoholic father he's still stuck living with, the draft, a mediocre paycheck as a service station attendant, and helping his friends Jamie and Wes take care of their...

Facing an eviction, a job offer and a murder means Cassie Clinton's life is about to change... When my friend Louise gushes about the new Serenity Suites retirement community she's setting up, I'm more...

Lying on a lounger outside a flyblown café near Naples, Mike reflects on the last few months. He'd set off for the wedding of the charismatic Al, whose closed community is in the Calder Valley. Three...

Every ending is a new beginning.Cooper Braaten is closing in on answers and vengeance. With a single minded determination to destroy the Council and finish what was started by his SEALs after the attack...

I was raw iron they put into the furnace, and made shapeless and malleable.  Then they poured me into a mould of their own making and by the time they chipped that mould away, I was something horrifying....

IT'S A WILD, WILD, WILD SIXTH WORLD…There are a million stories in the dark, gritty world of Shadowrun, and this all-new volume brings sixteen of the best together for an in-depth look at this dark future...

In a world where the institutions we rely on can suddenly fail, where society's fragile fabric can unravel, and where collapse—whether through conflict, natural disaster, or systemic breakdown—becomes...

Brady Francis is an engineering professor who practically grew up in Riverbend, Indiana. When he receives a job offer from Indiana Polytechnic that will help him turn his research in ocean cleanup technology...

Delilah -- I love my family. I really do. But having three older brothers and an overprotective father doesn't make it easy to have a life. They've run off every guy I've ever tried to date. It's time...

A newly turned vampire and a necromancer shouldn't work. But what if they do? Briley Reed never expected to be a vampire or thought she'd find herself heading to Eerie, but a brutal attack changes everything....

Three books with the romance author Ashira Datya. all three books from the Magik Saga: Resisting Evil, Evil Resists, and A Pack's Destruction all in a convenient collection.

For the first time in my life I'm surrounded by attractive, eligible males. If only I could choose one.KearneyDraconian Warriors are not only drop dead gorgeous, they're more accommodating than any other...

A Soldier at War: The World War II Letters of Borys Bohun, is a personal journey of one man's war experience. The author relied heavily on two primary source documents to provide much of the historical...

Out of Wild SherwoodBeware the Vengeance of Outlaws and Faeries. ~ . ~ . ~ .Dangerous Gold ~ Strong Temptation for Two Young ThievesTwo young outlaws decide to steal the Nottingham mayor's gold as revenge...

What's more dangerous?Hunting the human trafficker or saving the governor's daughter? I am the collector for the family, and the governor owes me.But when his daughter crashes the auction, I'm intrigued.I...

Law school student by day, escort by night – the perfect prey for billionaire mafia boss. Penelope has always dreamed of becoming a lawyer, but law school is more expensive than she had anticipated. She...

They have nothing in common but a difficult past… and a taste for unusual pleasures... Once a ThiefThe good girl: A successful district attorney with a reputation to uphold, Katherine can't afford to...

Two university students, Canadian Lucas Horne and the rich and beautiful Colombian Avalina Vargas, meet during a jungle trek to Colombia's Lost City where they become infatuated with each other. After...

USA Today Bestselling Romance Author Britney Bell writing as Kandi Lane brings you a professional football coach from the San Antonio Xtremes.Coach Logan Bennett is only looking for a few minutes of stress...

A dragon egg to obtain and a Quest to win.A portal to master and a love to retrieve.A lineage to discover and a high kingship to secure. Arlan has returned to Dál Gaedhle, taking Rhiannon's heart with...

"DO THIS FOR US! THE ONE'S WHO FAILED TO STOP HIM!" A story that shapes reality... "I can't save everyone." ... or destroys it. "I AM THE BEACON OF LIGHT WHO WILL DEFEAT YOU ONCE AND FOR ALL!" Reality...