A Start in Life - formato ePub

Basada en personajes reales. En la pensión de la viuda Vauquer en París , vive el viejo Goriot, un comerciante que hizo fortuna y solo vive por la felicidad y el amor que le tiene a sus dos hijas, Delphine...

Obra maestra de Balzac, Las ilusiones perdidas cuenta la historia de un joven de provincias con ambiciones artísticas que sueña con triunfar en París. La odisea de Lucien de Rubempré desde la inocencia...

Honoré de Balzac es universalmente conocido por algunas de sus grandes y extensas novelas y, sobre todo, por ese vasto y esencialmente irrealizable proyecto narrativo que fue la Comedia humana. El justo...

El tío Goriot, (Le père Goriot, título traducido también al castellano como Papá Goriot) es una de las novelas más leídas y releídas de Balzac y una de sus más logradas creaciones. Sobre un fondo de trapisondas...

La misa del ateo es una de las más conmovedoras narraciones de Balzac, en la que, con magistral emoción, retrata la generosidad de los sentimientos humanos. En El elixir de la larga vida nos deleita con...

César Birotteau, un hombre con éxito en su negocio de perfumería se deslumbra con su participación en una especulación de terrenos que lo convertirá en un hombre rico; pero los dispendios, el lujo de...

Eugenia Grandet es una novela de Honoré de Balzac publicada por primera vez en el semanario L'Europe littéraire en septiembre de 1833, primer año de la revista. El título de esta primera edición era Eugénie...

Historia de un corazón virginal, heroína sublime por el amor, el sufrimiento y el sacrificio; en medio de una lucha tenaz de egoísmos, pasiones e intereses, sucumbe esta criatura excepcional por su entereza...

En París, una triste tarde de octubre, un joven pierde su última moneda en una casa de juegos. Aturdido y tentado por la idea del suicidio, y mientras aguarda que caiga la noche, entra en una singular...

Este relato breve y sabroso, que es en verdad una tensa novela, la de la lucha de años del pintor Frenhofer por atrapar la vida misma, acabó por ser una fábula: la del arte de hoy. Rodin, Cézanne o Picasso...

El abate Birotteau cree vivir en el mejor de los mundos posibles, al menos en la medida de sus modestas pretensiones. Realiza las tareas de su apostolado como algo rutinario y ocupa una espaciosa y bien...

Beatriz es un estudio psicológico de dos tipos de mujer que forman un violento contraste y entre las que vacila el corazón ingenuo y amoroso de un adolescente, cuyas reacciones describe agudamente el...

"La paz del hogar" es un relato breve que se centra en las relaciones de unos cuantos personajes durante la celebración de una fiesta.

Hacia mediados del mes de julio del año de 1838, uno de esos coches recientemente puestos en circulación por las plazas de París, llamados milores, rodaba por la calle de la Universidad, conduciendo a...

La inmensidad de un plan que abraza a la vez la historia y la crítica de la Sociedad, el análisis de sus males y la discusión de sus principios, me autoriza, creo yo, a dar a mi obra el título con el...

En El cura de Tours, Balzac sigue con esa su disección de los solteros. Esta vez el insecto analizado con ese esmero que sólo es posible tener por este gran entomólogo, es una dueña de pensión -la Srta....

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...

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,...

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....

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...

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...

Star Maker, regarded as one of the true classics of science fiction, Star Maker is a poetic and deeply philosophical work. The story details the mental journey of an unnamed narrator who is transported...

The day that Henry Smix met and embraced Gasoline Power and went up Main Street hand in hand with it is not yet forgotten. It was a hasty marriage, so to speak, and the results of it were truly deplorable....

The first question to be proposed by a rational being is, not what is profitable, but what is Right. Duty must be primary, prominent, most conspicuous, among the objects of human thought and pursuit....

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...

This book, re-edited and illustrated by e-kitap projesi and published again in ebook format. In this book, telling that Cooterells adventures, and so was a treasure adventure, Naturally then Ben felt...

In Sister Carrie, Dreiser portrayed a changing society, writing about a young woman who flees rural life for the city (Chicago) and struggles with poverty, complex relationships with men, and prostitution....

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Tales From the Tomes: Vol. 1 is a collection of four mystical stories of magic and science. Lance Kehisato weaves the future and the past together, creating a string of four stories in different worlds,...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...