The Island of Doctor Moreau - formato ePub

La guerra de los mundos es una novela escrita por el renombrado autor H. G. Wells que se destaca por su combinación única de ciencia ficción y crítica social. Publicada por primera vez en 1898, la historia...

Un misterioso hombre llamado Griffin llega a una pequeña posada un frío y tormentoso día. Lleva un abrigo largo y guantes, y su cara está completamente cubierta en vendas. Los dueños de la posada no preguntan...

Escrita en 1897, poco después de «La máquina del tiempo», El hombre invisible cuyo personaje central ha alcanzado, como Drácula o Frankenstein, un lugar en el imaginario del mundo moderno­ da forma definitiva...

En este volumen presentamos las cuatro novelas fundamentales de H. G. Wells, centradas en temas que siguen preocupando en la actualidad y continúan marcando el camino de la investigación científica, con...

Publicada en 1896, entre «La máquina del tiempo» y «El hombre invisible», LA ISLA DEL DOCTOR MOREAU es una de las novelas más inquietantes de la literatura moderna, inscribiéndose de lleno en la crítica...

Obra que se halla en los inicios de la novela de ciencia-ficción, La máquina del tiempo (1895) sigue conservando el mismo poder de fascinación y vigor narrativo que le valieron el éxito inmediato en el...

Las fábulas ideadas por H.G. Wells (1866-1946), uno de los padres, acaso el más notable, de la ciencia ficción, han demostrado a lo largo del tiempo mantener un vigor y tocar unos resortes del inconsciente...

- Esta edición es única; - La traducción es completamente original y se realizó para Ale. Mar. SAS; - Todos los derechos reservados. A finales del siglo XIX, llegan informes de todo el mundo sobre extrañas...

- Esta edición es única; - La traducción es completamente original y se realizó para el Ale. Mar. SAS; - Todos los derechos reservados. La clásica novela de ciencia ficción de H. G. Wells, La guerra...

Cubierta diseñada por Adrià Molins.Traducción de José C. Vales. —Hace mucho tiempo tuve la idea de una máquina… —¡Para viajar en el tiempo! —exclamó el jovencito. —Y podría viajar absolutamente...

Es en 1898 cuando H. G. Wells nos relata, por primera vez, la idea de que no estamos solos en el universo; es más, nos han estado vigilando y no tienen buenas intenciones. Todo empieza con un cilindro...

¿Hacia dónde irá la humanidad, miles de años en el futuro? ¿Evolucionaremos a seres avanzados, de inteligencia y sociedades superiores? ¿Volveremos a la edad de piedra, perdiendo el conocimiento de nuestros...

La isla del doctor Moreau, nos cuenta, de manera magistral, el terror del alcance de la imaginación, el lado oscuro de la ciencia y la capacidad del ser humano para convertir la naturaleza en una aberración....

Nacido de una conversación del autor con su hermano sobre el imperialismo inglés y su impacto en las sociedades víctimas de la cruel expansión del imperio, La Guerra de los Mundos relata la lucha de la...

Esta edición es única; La traducción es completamente original y fue realizada para Ale. Mar. SAS; Todos los derechos reservados. La historia de Bert Smallways, un brillante mecánico y aeronauta, que...

- Esta edición es única; - La traducción es completamente original y se realizó para el Ale. Mar. SAS; - Todos los derechos reservados. La historia de Bert Smallways, un brillante mecánico y aeronauta...

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...

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...

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...