The Hero (1901) - formato ePub

Un testimonio extraordinario sobre la búsqueda de la felicidad de vivir.Novela imprescindible de unos de los autores más leídos del siglo XX.Esta novela es la historia de un personaje que busca el sentido...

Las dificultades de un personaje para encontrar el amor en un entorno hostil.La trayectoria de un hombre que quiere ser mejor.Una larga historia llena de sinuosidades.El protagonista de esta novela nace...

Una novela en la que la experiencia femenina del amor, de la pasión, del adulterio y del afán de redención, desembocan en un mayor conocimiento de uno mismo, del otro y de las relaciones humanas.«A veces...

Un viaje revelador que alterará el corazón de Charley Mason y su privilegiada vida familiar con el marco histórico de Europa durante el período de entreguerras.Sus «vacaciones» en París lo cambiarán para...

La esposa imperfecta es una fina sátira ambientada en los círculos literarios del Londres de entreguerras.Al relatar la vida del escritor Edward Driffield y de su extraordinaria mujer, Rosie, una de las...

Basado en las experiencias de Somerset Maugham como agente secreto del espionaje británico en Europa durante la Primera Guerra Mundial.Ashenden o el agente secreto se compone de una serie de relatos encadenados...

The Moon and Sixpence is a fictional novel heavily influenced by the life of French painter Paul Gauguin. The novel is told first-person, dipping episodically into the mind of the artist. Charles Strickland...

A nine year old boy's mother dies shortly after the death of his father. He is sent to live with his aunt and uncle in a small East-Anglian village, where his uncle is vicar. This uncle holds the boy's...

The Painted Veil is the powerful novel of transgression and redemption by popular and prolific British author W. Somerset Maugham. The book tells the story of the lovely and superficial Kitty Garstin...

Many war heroes return from battle to a world that has changed dramatically. In the case of James Parsons, the protagonist of W. Somerset Maugham’s The Hero, his family and hometown have remained exactly...

On a Chinese Screen, also known as On a Chinese Screen: Sketches of Life in China, is a travel book by W. Somerset Maugham, first published in 1922. It is a series of short sketches Maugham made during...

Maugham's first published novel - a vividly realistic portrayal of slum life. Down among the drab slums of Lambeth, eighteen-year-old Liza is the darling of Vere Street. Vibrant and bewitching, she has...

This compilation contains three complete novels and eight major short stories from the canon of one of the twentieth century’s most enduringly popular fiction writers.From London to Hong Kong, from Paris...

A daring, brilliant and dramatic novel -- a new revelation of Maugham's genius. A tangle of African adventures, a false tale, doubt and the final reconciliation of the lovers make up this pleasant story.

A seven scene play by the man behind Of Human Bondage.

Maugham spent the winter months of 1919-20 travelling 1500 miles up the Yangtze River. Always more interested in people than places, he gave full rein to a sensitive and philosophical nature. On a Chinese...

When a confident college student's world is turned upside down by an unexpected discovery, she finds herself entangled in a relationship that challenges her understanding of love and identity. As she...

In Cops Gone Bad by Donald E. McInnis,  the young lawyer Andrew Jackson Hawke finds himself deeply embroiled in another aspect of the legal system. This time he faces something few people talk about:...

Ronda sat on her patio and watched the sunrise in deep thought about her family. After being woken up by a call from her father at four in the morning. After her father received a strange call about his...

With her fingerprints on the murder weapon and a police chief with his own agenda, Sydney ushers in the New Year behind bars. Soon there is another body, more damning fingerprints, and a crazy Cajun who's...

She lost everything she built, he was built to lose everything, and the Heavens themselves are duty-bound to keep them apart. Charlotte Brant, former detective and present-day pariah, has just been rebuilding...

Forged masterpieces. A failed assassination. The metaverse.In the heart of the Austrian Alps, Doctor Genevieve Lenard and her team are drawn into a web of danger and deception when a former colleague...

A Steamy Romantasy Suspense Series A century of war.A cursed and dying world. A tenuous truce. And a rigid prophecy that could save it all. Take a steamy, harrowing but steamy carriage ride across Kambria...

From Bay Street Finance Maven... Dana McIntyre is a Bay Street Financial maven. Successful and respected, she has built a reputation for having the right answers at the right time. It all comes crashing...

BrianHere's the deal. My baby sister's off living her fairytale honeymoon, and one of my best friends ditched his responsibilities to chase after true love. So now, the reins of a multi-billion-dollar...

Peril prowls the empire's roads and the halls of power. With danger around every corner, there are decisions to make and consequences to bear as Lord Scanlon's schemes to usurp the empire wax and wane...

Seasoned operative Ariana Ramos is not what she seems at first glance.She is petite and trim, particularly beautiful, and pure dynamite.She is also the first operative since Soleada Garcia to be assigned...

When explorers unearth Amelia Earhart's journal, they awaken a deadly secret buried with it—one that blurs the line between history and haunting. A thrilling speculative adventure that intertwines history...

They destroyed her life and her innocence leaving her to die. Now using her cursed bloodline she's about to make them all suffer for what they did. But when one deals with Evil no one is safe. As the...

Ronnie Cassidy After fleeing her abusive ex, Veronica 'Ronnie' Cassidy finds herself broke down in the middle of a snowstorm. Rescued by rough and burly biker, Griff Brooks, she has to ride out the blizzard...

Enjoy this steamy wolf shifter paranormal romance series by best-selling author Ebony Quinn… In a world where wolf shifters turn feral without their fated mates, one cursed pack is running out of time... Amber...

Sometimes a family is an onion farmer discovering herself on sabbatical, her alien girlfriend, and their arctic moon. A short, sapphic romance/coming out story starring a trans protagonist.

Technology is power, especially in the world where both are sparse. Would those possessing the knowledge be persuaded to share?Drawn by a vague rumor of an industrialized state out west, Golden Dragon...

Can an architect and a construction worker find love amidst the concrete and the steel? Thanks to his friendship with a celebrity, Seth Mitchell's reputation as a partying ladies' man precedes him. But...

A half-siren girl befriends a deaf boy.A vendetta between a teenager and her dad's stubborn ram continues into the afterlife.A hunter must atone for killing a god's sacred bull.A sacrificial maiden uncovers...

A boy with legendary magic. A cursed pirate captain. An eternal ship. Will Ilyanson has a secret which he keeps close to his chest, even though it could save him from his mundane existence as the son...

Haven and Sunshine are back at the beginning, surrounded by the souls and memories of those who went before.They may finally have a chance to find the peace they so desperately seek, but too soon it is...

A resurrected man, bound by dark magic, confronts unspeakable horrors on a cursed ranch. On the outskirts of a desolate Colorado ranch, something far more sinister than greed or corruption lurks. Abel...

In Book Two of The Montgomery Billionaires series by bestselling author Juliette N Banks, Atlas Montgomery is faced with a forbidden temptation at his brother's wedding. I had her once. In my arms and...

A power-hungry megacorporation. A gang of cyberpunk rebels in their sights. A teen who may be the world's salvation, if hired killers don't get to him first. The far future. Adam dreams of simpler times....

Helen had lied to everyone. What she told even her closest friends was that her marriage just wasn't what she thought it was. But the truth was much harsher.She'd known things were wrong when Josh stopped...

Non-conformance is subversive!Diversity is deviancy!Indoctrination is education!Religion is purity!Welcome to the New World Order.In a society where non-conformance is considered subversive and deviant,...

The Repairer of Reputations takes place in a near-future America, where the protagonist, Hildred Castaigne, is recovering from a head injury and becomes obsessed with a mysterious man named Mr. Wilde,...

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,...

‘Oh how I wish the Comfort Food Café was real!’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Welcome to The Comfort Food Café! It’s been a tough year for Maxine Connolly – so tough she's almost given...

"The Adventure of the Speckled Band" by Arthur Conan Doyle follows Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson as they investigate the mysterious death of a woman in a locked room. Her sister, fearing for her life,...