A Tale of Two Cities (Illustrated) - formato ePub

Publicados por primera vez entre 1843 y 1845, los Cuentos de Navidad de Charles Dickens son unánimemente considerados un clásico universal. No solo consolidaron su maestría como narrador, sino que también...

Barnaby Rudge, subtitulada A Tale of the Riots of Eighty [Relato de los disturbios del año 80], es una novela histórica del escritor inglés Charles Dickens. Barnaby Rudge fue una de las dos únicas novelas...

Oliver Twist, escrita por el renombrado autor Charles Dickens, es una novela clásica que sigue la historia de un joven huérfano en la sociedad victoriana de Londres. La obra se destaca por su fuerte crítica...

Esta edición de Historia de dos ciudades incluye las ilustraciones originales de H. K. Browne («Phiz»), realizadas para su publicación en entregas en 1859. «Cuando representaba, con mis hijos, la obra...

Este clásico de Charles Dickens, deliciosamente adaptado y bellamente ilustrado, que resume el verdadero espíritu de la Navidad, es una lectura casi obligada para mayores y pequeños. Un regalo perfecto...

Las grandes perturbaciones sociales acontecidas en Londres y en París durante la época de la Revolución Francesa, son el escenario de las aventuras de los protagonistas de esta novela. Dickens establece...

Esta es la historia de un hombre avaro y solitario, a quien solamente le importa el dinero y su persona. Sin embargo, en plena época de Navidad, experimenta emociones que antes no conocías y que lo hacen...

Publicada en 1869, Historia de dos ciudades se trata de una novela distinta a la que Dickens nos tiene acostumbrados. Los protagonistas no son los niños o adolescentes desvalidos o ilegítimos, sino simplemente...

Charles Dickens (1812-1870) fue sin lugar a dudas el novelista británico más destacado de la era victoriana. Su Canción de Navidad, el gran éxito con el que daría definitivamente el salto a la fama, se...

Los papeles postumos del Club Pickwick de Charles Dickens, constituye uno de los grandes hitos de la literatura universal.Se trata de la primera novela del autor, quien empezo a publicar la obra,por entregas,...

Charles John Huffam Dickens (Portsmouth, Inglaterra, 7 de febrero de 1812 Gads Hill Place, Inglaterra, 9 de junio de 1870) fue un famoso novelista ingles, uno de los mas conocidos de la literatura universal,...

Historia de Dos Ciudades es una de las novelas del escritor britanico Charles Dickens, publicada en 1859. Esta novela es particularmente distinta a las demas que escribio, las cuales se basan en su mayoria...

En un Londres neblinoso y enfangado, un pleito se eterniza en el decadente Tribunal de la Cancillería. La anquilosada maquinaria judicial asiste al paso de generaciones, al suicidio o al enloquecimiento...

Tiempos difíciles es la décima novela escrita por Charles Dickens. Se publicó por primera vez en 1854 y transcurre en Inglaterra durante la primera industrialización. Su título original en inglés es Hard...

Charles John Huffam Dickens (Portsmouth, Inglaterra, 7 de febrero de 1812 Gads Hill Place, Inglaterra, 9 de junio de 1870) fue un famoso novelista ingles, uno de los mas conocidos de la literatura universal,...

Esther Summerson, abandonada al nacer por sus padres, es la protegida de John Jarndyce, un poderoso gentleman de buen corazón que lleva años pleiteando a causa de una herencia. Esther vive en la residencia...

All they want for Christmas is ...Breanna Henderson lives by lists, strict schedules, and preparations galore. Being pregnant while climbing up a ladder into her best friend Billy's bedroom was definitely...

The highly anticipated follow-up to bestselling BIG HORN, WALKER PRAIRIE is a thrilling Jenn Herrington legal mystery set in Wyoming's rugged Bighorn Mountains. When former prosecutor and mystery writer...

We is a dystopian novel by Russian writer Yevgeny Zamyatin, written 1920-1921. The novel was first published as an English translation by Gregory Zilboorg in 1924 in New York. The novel describes a world...

One more point deserves notice. Butler often refers in "Life and Habit" to Darwin's "Variations of Animals and Plants under Domestication." When he does so it is always under the name "Plants and Animals."...

The beautiful scenery of the Moselle has too long been left without notice. It is true, some of our Artists have presented to us scenes on the banks of this river; but English travellers are, for the...

There are times when being a legendary shifter is a plain pain in the butt, and this is one of those times...Farness Duncan, more commonly known as Ness or Nessie, had lived his life quite happily for...

Angel Whitlock, owner of Dig It nursery, knows three things. She knows everything about native Australian plants, she knows that her friends will always have her back, and now she knows that she needs...

The Scarlet Pimpernel is the first novel in a series of historical fiction by Baroness Orczy, published in 1905. It was written after her stage play of the same title enjoyed a long run in London, having...

Adam Bede, novel written by George Eliot, published in three volumes in 1859. The title character, a carpenter, is in love with an unmarried woman who bears a child by another man. Although Bede tries...

The Watsons is an unfinished novel by Jane Austen. She began writing it c. 1803 and probably abandoned it after her father's death in January 1805. It has five chapters, and is less than 18,000 words...

The gods of ancient Rome have awakened after sleeping for two millennia under a curse,and they're awake just in time to finish off the mortals or save them from themselves.Charon the Ferryman has just...

A Bride of the Plains is a historical novel written in 1915 by Baroness Orczy, the author of the famous The Scarlet Pimpernel series. It is dedicated to the memory of Lajos Kossuth, and in the dedication...

- The eighth book in the sweeping science-fantasy NEXUS series and sequel to Fear of the Light - The gunslinger and the assassin. Star-crossed. Hopeful. He's dangerously in love. He's willing to sacrifice...

WHEN children advance beyond the nursery age, no story is so wonderful as a true story. Fiction to them is never as appealing as fact. I have often been faced with the inquiry: whether or not a story...

MORE than a thousand years have rolled away since a castle looked down cheerfully from a height amid the Franconian plains into the well-watered Kinzig Valley, with its pleasant villages and towns. It...

AS you open this book you will probably ask, "What is a golden deed?" Let me tell you. It is the doing of something for somebody else doing it without thought of self, without thought of reward, fearlessly,...

The King in Yellow is a book of short stories by American writer Robert W. Chambers, first published by F. Tennyson Neely in 1895. The book is named after a play with the same title which recurs as a...

My name is Ratichon—Hector Ratichon, at your service, and I make so bold as to say that not even my worst enemy would think of minimizing the value of my services to the State. For twenty years now have...

Daniel Defoe's faith-filled The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe finds Crusoe bored with his prosperity and consumed by an irresistible longing to return to the island he left many years before....

The senator took an elevator directly to the helicopter landing on the roof of the building. It was several minutes before he had located the little runabout he had bought for his wife the previous Christmas....

"A Daughter of the Snows" is Jack London's first novel. The novel features a strong female heroine, Frona Welse. Frona was born into a wealthy family and educated at Stanford but she takes to the Yukon...

This don't pretend to be "Literature." This is just a tale for red-blooded folks who want a story and not just a lot of "psychological" stuff or "analysis." Boy, you'll love it! Read it here, see it...

Mme. Vauquer (nee de Conflans) is an elderly person, who for the past forty years has kept a lodging-house in the Rue Nueve-Sainte-Genevieve, in the district that lies between the Latin Quarter and the...

When does life begin?... A well-known book says "forty". A well-known radio program says "eighty". Some folks say it's mental, others say it's physical. But take the strange case of Mel Carlson who gave...

The speaker had just pushed his horse over the brow of a slope which he and his servant had for some time been mounting, through the steamy warmth of a foggy May morning. The thick haze which lay heavy...

You will, I know, permit me to address you these essays which are more the product of your erudition than of my enthusiasm. With the motives of their appearance you are familiar. We have wondered together...

Mr. Greene, a wealthy Englishman on a European holiday with his family, carried his money and his wife's jewels in one of their many boxes. On transferring from the boat on Lake Como to their hotel, the...

For half a century the housewives of Pont-l'Eveque had envied Madame Aubain her servant Felicite. For a hundred francs a year, she cooked and did the housework, washed, ironed, mended, harnessed the...

The Return of the Native is English author Thomas Hardy's sixth published novel. It first appeared in the magazine Belgravia, a publication known for its sensationalism, and was presented in twelve monthly...

"We heard the tecbir, so the Arabs call Their shout of onset, when with loud appeal They challenge heaven, as if commanding conquest." Hugh de Payens, having now laid in Europe the foundations of the...