Um Cântico de Natal: A Christmas Carol - 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...

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...

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...

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...

У короля Геллерана дилемма. Опасный Темный Эльф, которого он взял в плен и использует в качестве защиты от соседнего государства, Кербии, привлек внимание Вельмара - королевства еще более могущественного....

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....