Mark Twain: The Best Works - formato ePub

Mientras residía en Londres, inicia Twain en el otoño de 1894 un viaje en barco de vapor desde Vancouver hasta Ciudad del Cabo, siguiendo la imaginaria línea del Ecuador, viaje que en 1897 publicará como...

La Colección de Mark Twain es una recopilación de las obras más destacadas del renombrado autor Mark Twain, conocido por su estilo satírico y su crítica social en la literatura del siglo XIX. Este libro...

Esta pequeña historia humorística, que oyó Mark Twain en un campamento minero, fue parte de sus primeras conferencias, y más tarde se convertiría en su primera publicación en un diario.

Esta es la continuación de la novela Las aventuras de Tom Sawyer. Huck Finn, íntimo amigo de Tom, huye hacia Ohio junto a su amigo y esclavo Jim, ya que en ese lugar está abolida la esclavitud. Viven...

En esta novela, dos niños, un príncipe y un mendigo, intercambian sus papeles, dejando al descubierto las enormes diferencias e injusticias sociales que existían en el reinado de Enrique VIII de Inglaterra....

Con Un yanquien la corte del rey Arturo, nos trasladamos de repente, y por obra de un extraño fenómeno, de la América colonizadora a la Inglaterra de los reyes legendarios. De la época del autor a los...

Huckleberry Finn, el mejor amigo de Tom Sawyer, recibe los cuidados y la protección de la viuda de Douglas, pero al mismo tiempo se dedica a sus juegos de siempre ayudando a Tom en su banda de ladrones....

Mark Twain crea una bella ficción en la que, por un exacto y casual parecido físico, un futuro rey conoce amargamente la situación desdichada de su pueblo, mientras que el hijo de una familia pobre y...

La presente novela de Mark Twain es considerada, en la actualidad, como obra maestra de la literatura universal. A través de Tom Sawyer, el autor representa la imaginación juvenil y sus ansias de aventuras....

Las aventuras de Huckleberry Finn, obra de Mark Twain, considerado el Dickens norteamericano, representa una de las primeras grandes novelas estadounidenses.

Las aventuras de Tom Sawyer es una novela del autor estadounidense Mark Twain publicada en 1876, actualmente considerada una obra maestra de la literatura.

Dos niños nacen el mismo día en la misma casa en una pequeña población del viejo Sur: Chambers, hijo de la esclava Roxy, y Tom, hijo del amo Driscoll. Los dos son en apariencia blancos y casi idénticos....

Aunque menos conocida que su hermana mayor Las aventuras de Tom Sawyer, esta novela corta es una muestra perfecta del relampagueante talento narrativo de Mark Twain.

Las relaciones entre sexo femenino y masculino ¿han sido las mismas? Responde a esta pregunta presentándonos a Adán importunado por la curiosidad de su compañera que, con naturaleza inquisitiva, practicidad...

Considerada obscena y tachada de pornográfica, Año 1601 es un cuento breve e irreverente, una «obra maestra casi desconocida» del genial Mark Twain.

Mark Twain - Aunque mi aspecto es el de un hombre de sesenta años, y casado, no es verdad; débese ello a mi condición y sufrimientos, pues soy soltero y solo tengo cuarenta y un años.

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...