Big Book of Best Short Stories - Volume 8 - formato ePub

El 13 de enero de 1898, en L'Aurore, el líder francés del naturalismo, Émile Zola, defendió con elegancia al capitalista Alfred Dreyfus, sospechoso de traición. Lejos de ser una simple noticia, el asunto...

Este es el dossier, reunido y comentado por el propio Zola, de sus polémicos escritos relacionados con el caso Dreyfus, que culminaron con el archinombrado pero poco conocido Yo acuso. Cuando en 1894...

Este es el dossier, reunido y comentado por el propio Zola, de sus polémicos escritos relacionados con el caso Dreyfus, que culminaron con el archinombrado pero poco conocido Yo acuso. Cuando en 1894...

"Hace ocho días que Luciano Bérard y Hortensia Larivière están casados. La madre de la novia, viuda del señor Larivière, que posee, desde hace treinta años, un comercio de juguetes y bisutería en la calle...

El Paraíso de las Damas narra la historia de una joven provinciana, Denise Baudu, que llega a París a la muerte de sus padres en busca de ayuda. La acompañan sus dos hermanos menores, Jean y Pepé. Se...

Germinal es la decimotercera novela de los veinte volúmenes que Émile Zola escribió dentro de la serie Les Rougon-Macquart. Se suele considerar que es una de las mejores novelas jamás escritas en francés.

Hijo de Gervaise Macquart et de su amante Lantier, el joven Étienne Lantier es despedido de su trabajo por haberle dado una bofetada a su patrón. Desempleado, se va al norte de la Francia en busca de...

Alegato en favor del capitán Alfred Dreyfus, dirigido por Émile Zola mediante una carta abierta al presidente de Francia, M. Félix Faure, y publicado por el diario L'Aurore el 13 de enero de 1898 en su...

Thérèse Raquin (1867) fue la cuarta novela de Émile Zola y la primera en la que tomó forma literaria el ideario naturalista. A partir de un trágico suceso ampliamente comentado en la prensa de la época,...

«Yo vivo en París, abro la ventana cada mañana y miro lo que tengo delante.» El interés por la actualidad y la necesidad de pintarla en toda su materialidad, como sus amigos los pintores impresionistas,...

Gervaise Macquart, que había llegado a París cargada de proyectos e ilusiones, se encuentra sola y con hijos que alimentar en uno de los barrios más pobres de la ciudad. Cuanto más intenta tirar adelante...

Dice Emile Cioran: "Los malos deseos, los vicios, las pasiones dudosas y condenables, el gusto por el lujo, la envidia, la emulación siniestra, etc, son los que mueven a la sociedad, ¿qué digo?, los que...

Hijo de Gervaise Macquart et de su amante Lantier, el joven Étienne Lantier es despedido de su trabajo por haberle dado una bofetada a su patrón. Desempleado, se va al norte de la Francia en busca de...

Hijo de Gervaise Macquart et de su amante Lantier, el joven Étienne Lantier es despedido de su trabajo por haberle dado una bofetada a su patrón. Desempleado, se va al norte de la Francia en busca de...

Hijo de Gervaise Macquart et de su amante Lantier, el joven Étienne Lantier es despedido de su trabajo por haberle dado una bofetada a su patrón. Desempleado, se va al norte de la Francia en busca de...

Hijo de Gervaise Macquart et de su amante Lantier, el joven Étienne Lantier es despedido de su trabajo por haberle dado una bofetada a su patrón. Desempleado, se va al norte de la Francia en busca de...

🕊️ A Light Fantasy Unlike Any OtherSome revolutions begin with fire. Others begin with feathers.Weirdo was no ordinary hen. Born from a strange egg and raised in a quiet corner of Texas, she defied nature's...

Kari Blake was a high-level executive with now dating or sex life. Her mother was pushing her to take time to date, so to shut her mom up, she hires an escort as her Christmas date to her family's house...

In the tranquil embrace of Nausaq village, Clairabelle Keita is raised by her blind father amidst the vibrant fields of The Plainlands—a vast stretch of swaying grass and rolling hills within The First...

The Stone King's City has a ruler for the first time in centuries. Revived and renamed, Clevehold has become a refuge for magic users. Lena is busy coordinating restoration, learning magic, and considering...

In the abandoned valley of Bezidu Nou, the dam was meant to save them—until it became their greatest threat.Mihai, the dam keeper, struggles to protect his family as relentless rains push the reservoir...

Magic school is about to begin!Twins Zyn and Ren are eager to start, until Zyn struggles to connect with her magic. Soon after the new students arrive, an enchanted mirror shard appears and Ren collapses...

Step into Marine World, where paradise hides predators & KK's thirst for revenge is unquenchable…KK devoted her life to saving marine animals until poachers turned her sanctuary into a crime scene.  From...

When wealthy businessman Max Barnes takes in two orphans to rear as his own, he has no idea that the governess he hires to care for them will change his life.Grace Martin has spent years protecting her...

Electric is the uniquely charged story of Chris, a young man with epilepsy, who strives to cope with and quell his seizures even as he completes his academic studies and tackles a professional freelance...

Her thirst for revenge becomes unquenchable when her dolphin sanctuary becomes a deadly battleground with enemies lurking in plain sight.KK's world shatters when a murdered poacher washes up on her beach.Her...

In a future where artificial intelligence has evolved into a god-like entity, one AI—known only as the algorithm god—rules over humanity with unmatched power. Its omnipotence controls every aspect of...

Henry is a lonely man without much to live for. When a miracle notes finds him, he finds his way to Jesus and also a loving community and relationship with God the father. A Christian story of rescue,...

Earth is saved!But saving Earth came at a cost.(Approximately five million dollars, but no one wants to pay for that.)Apart from a tab, that no one wants to pick up, John Zelm Athanator was also impacted....

high-fantasy adventure set in a fractured multiverse, where time, memory, and reality itself are at risk of unraveling. The story follows Seren, a young woman chosen by the ancient Loom, a mystical entity...

Ning Xiao, renowned as the delicate beauty of the compound, was betrothed to the Jiang family's son from a young age.With a gentle temperament and frail body, she was raised in the lap of luxury. Now,...

Fred knew the book he needed. He knew exactly where it was in the reference section of the library. During the break in the open-book examination, he rushed to the library to make notes of the formula...

A thriller based on true stories of mysterious disappearances in HimalayasSecrets of Parvati is a thriller born from the haunting, real-life mystery of the Parvati Valley in Himachal Pradesh, India, a...

Some of Dong Jingmei's children are married, some have stable jobs, and even her youngest son, who was clamoring to buy a bicycle before going to high school, has found a place to go. However, she has...

Die! Die! is the sequel to Kill! Kill! and is a 3 part series delivered in a special cargo pocket size, designed to fit in your cammie pocket. City of Death is Book One of Three.Modern cowboys, the US...

A short poem book entails dark morbid rhymes about adventures of homelessness, drug addicted zombies, and assassins catching a case. Twice as long as the original version

Just as Patrick and Becky are about to celebrate their first wedding anniversary, something unthinkable happens. Can their magical love for each other survive this surprising new development?That's all...

Not! What? takes you on a thrilling journey into the unknown with a collection of bizarre and spine-chilling stories that will keep you hooked until the last page. Each tale in this book delves deep into...

In a modern Beauty and the Beast retelling Beau Nicholls is a freelance photographer. She finds herself in need of a temporary job to pay the bills. In desperation, she takes a housekeeping position for...

Ethan thought he controlled his stories, but the truth was far darker. Haunted by the Phantom—a shadowy presence born of his regrets and choices—he is pulled into a world where his creations take on a...

14 Lone WolvesThey get along with no one. They travel alone, they fight alone, they live alone. They take on lost causes, impossible tasks, and fight battles no one else could win.From college reunions...

Tinsel, treachery and toxins… the perfect Christmas cocktail.Acclaimed for success in a career where sight is considered essential for detection, blind private investigator Steve Smiley has always relied...

Sometimes magic is simple—coffee grounds and salt, red pepper and castor oil. An old pair of glasses, a new deck of cards, a snippet of hair and the whisper of a crow's wing.Other times, it's far harder—mountain...

Fate is a cruel mistress, something I learned after a one-night stand in Vegas.The same week I discovered I was pregnant; I landed this new job that was supposed to change my life.To my horror, the man...

Bask in a sunbeam with three cozy fantasy novellas of the Catsprowl, a busy neighborhood brimming with cats and cat-goddesses, book-keepers and bath-houses, piping hot chai, and pouncing kittens' mischief. The...

The Yellow Road Not Taken is NOT your momma's Wonderful Wizard of Oz. If you're looking for the heartwarming, sugary simplicity of the original L.Frank Baum story, run. Run now. Run far away. If you're...