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"El duelo" es una novela de Joseph Conrad publicada por primera vez en 1908. La historia comienza durante las guerras napoleónicas y concluye con la restauración de los Borbones en una Francia postnapoleónica....

Los ensayos marítimos de Joseph Conrad. Un libro fascinante, de una calidez y proximidad sorprendentes.Las crónicas que conforman este libro repasan las vivencias marítimas de Conrad, primero como marinero...

El libro 'El corazón de las tinieblas' escrito por Joseph Conrad es una obra maestra de la literatura que explora las profundidades de la condición humana a través de la historia de un viaje épico por...

Victoria (1915) es para muchos criticos la ultima de las grandes novelas de Conrad (El corazon de las tinieblas, Nostromo, El agente secreto), y tal vez la mas lograda.

Las crónicas que conforman este libro repasan las vivencias marítimas de Conrad, primero como marinero en Francia y más adelante en la marina mercante británica. Estos textos componen un vivísimo retrato...

Escrita en 1900, Lord Jim es la gran novela sobre el tenue filo que separa las dos caras de una misma moneda: la cobardía y el valor. Marcado por un trágico incidente en el que se ve envuelto en una de...

Joseph Conrad nació en Polonia cuando ésta pertenecía a Rusia. Víctima de la diáspora de aquellos pueblos, se enroló en la marina inglesa, pasando así casi toda su vida embarcado, hasta comenzar a escribir. El...

Los duelistas”, o “El duelo”, o “Una cuestión de honor”, que por todos esos títulos se conoce esta breve novela de Conrad, narra la historia de un duelo entre dos oficiales de la Grande Armée que, por...

El corazon de las tinieblas Un descenso a los infiernos del colonialismo. La novela que inspiró Apocalipsis Now. El corazón de las tinieblas es una de las novelas más estremecedoras de todos los tiempos,...

Escritas entre 1897 y 1915, tres de las cuatro narraciones de Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) incluidas en el presente volumen se hallan unidas por la técnica del relato dentro del relato. El misterio anima...

Cuentos de inquietud reúne cinco narraciones cuyo nexo es el desasosiego, la zozobra que se crea en el lector al introducirse en ellos: Karain: un recuerdo; Los idiotas; Una avanzada del progreso; La...

El velero Narcissus inicia su regreso a casa, de Bombay hacia Inglaterra, y el gigante negro James Wait se incorpora, muy enfermo, a la tripulación. Caprichoso y tirano, Wait logra avasallar desde el...

Novela de madurez escrita por un Joseph Conrad plenamente dueño de sus recursos narrativos y conocedor de la naturaleza humana, La línea de sombra es una breve historia que narra de forma inolvidable...

La aventura y la angustia de la encrucijada de un destino. Hay momentos en que todo lo que ha sido un hombre, todo lo que ha hecho, todas las experiencias, relaciones e intereses de su vida, pueden condensarse...

La república de Costaguana, en la tenaza entre las sombras de su Sierra y las profundidades de su Golfo Plácido, es el teatro de un mundo que hierve de realidad en sus torbellinos de revolución y contrarrevolución,...

Se recogen en este volumen cuatro novelas cortas que Joseph Conrad recopiló en 1915: El Plantador de Malata, Por culpa de los dólares (ambas inéditas en castellano desde 1931), El socio y La posada de...

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...

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...

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...