A Little Princess - formato ePub

El pequeño Cedric Errol es un niño de siete años, que vive en Nueva York en compañía de su madre viuda. Su padre, un capitán inglés, ha muerto hace pocos años. Un apacible día, la modesta vida de Cedric...

La presente novela nos cuenta cómo Mary, una niña rebelde, solitaria y soñadora, queda huérfana en la India, por lo que viaja a Inglaterra para quedar al cuidado y vivir con su tío. Este habita en pleno...

Esta singular novela de Frances Hodgson Burnett, una de las favoritas de Nancy Mirford, empieza como La Cenicienta y termina como Rebeca. Emily Fox-Seton, que se gana la vida haciendo encargos para las...

Mary es una niña inglesa nacida en la India. Sus padres no se preocupan de ella, y como nadie la quiere, es solitaria, antipática y amargada. Sorpresivamente queda huérfana y es enviada a Inglaterra,...

Una niña en «el cuarto diurno de los niños» (porque también hay un «cuarto nocturno de los niños»), un sitio lóbrego e inhóspito en una casa estrecha en una calle estrecha... pero en el elegante barrio...

«La novela demuestra sobradamente su merecida pertenencia a la narrativa inglesa decimonónica. José María Guelbenzu, Babelia, El País. La formación de una marquesa (1901) está vista a través de los ojos...

Un clásico entrañable cuya vigencia permanece intacta.Mary Lennox tiene diez años y ha perdido a sus padres por culpa de una epidemia que ha azotado la India. Tras su defunción, Mary viaja desde el país...

Sara Crewe es una niña extraordinaria que ha vivido una vida de ensueño a lado de su padre, el capitán Richard Crew, llena de aventuras y fantasía. Pero la vida de Sara cambia cuando llega. Ala escuela...

Mary Lennox, una niña solitaria que a nadie le cae bien, llega desde la India para vivir con su tío en Yorkshire, Inglaterra. En su nuevo destino, Mary no puede hacer mucho más aparte de explorar esa...

"El jardín secreto" es un clásico de la literatura en lengua inglesa, elegido por el público de "The Big Read" de la BBC como una de las 100 mejores novelas de todos los tiempos. El relato de Mary Lennox,...

Mary Lenox no es una niña simpática: la falta de atención y afecto convirtió a esta pequeña en un ser amargado, rencoroso y tiránico. Sin embargo, tras una terrible serie de sucesos, Mary se ve obligada...

Sara Crewe, una princesita que vive feliz con su padre en la India colonial, ingresa en un selecto colegio de Inglaterra. A pesar de su fama de persona estricta, la señorita Minchin, directora del colegio,...

Centenario Frances Hodgson Burnett (1924-2024) --- "El jardín secreto" es uno de los clásicos más populares de la literatura infantil de todos los tiempos, y a cien años de la muerte de su autora no ha...

La colección «Alfaguara Clásicos» nos trae esta preciosa edición íntegra e ilustrada por Elizabeth Moreno de El jardín secreto de Frances Hodgson Burnett, una oda a la amistad y al amor, y un clásico...

Mary Lennox es una niña de diez años que vive en la India. Tras la muerte de sus padres, se ve obligada a mudarse a la imponente mansión de su tío en Yorkshire, Inglaterra. Ante tantos cambios, encuentra...

The novel consists of two plots or movements. Apparently wholly disconnected, but always, as the logic of events carries them on, bending nearer and nearer, until the principal dramatis personae meet...

A Murder. A Fashion Show. A Whole Lot Of Mirrors. Fashion shows kill people.Detective Adeline Ford investigates a heartless murder. She recalls her modelling days. Adeline returns to the dark world of...

When darkness comes, it doesn't ask permission.Paramedic Lucy Barker thinks she's seen it all, after years of responding to violent accidents and medical emergencies on the streets of York. But when she...

Aria He was my new stepbrother, crashing into my life from out of nowhere and playing the perfect guy card flawlessly. But I'm not fooled, even if those dark eyes make my heart stutter. I won't let him...

While not about the Lifeline team, these high-adrenaline companion stories deliver thrills in the great outdoors and heated passion indoors. Falling FreestyleDara and her best friends, Kane and Jack,...

Through these pages glide the undead.A chess player. A cookWriters. Students. Teachers. Lovers.The cursed. The damned.The grief-stricken. The penitant.The vengeful. The merciful. Ghostly features 13 haunting...

A Vineyard. An Arsonist. A Murderer.People love wining and dying.When Private Eye Bettie English investigates a series of attacks on a vineyard, she realises a murderer lurks in plain sight.Livelihoods...

Sometimes you have to brave uncharted waters to find where you belong… An emotionally captivating, uplifting new series about enduring hope, unexpected blessings, and the healing power of found-family.  Abigail...

With this ring, I thee claim… For months I've waited, biding my time with sweet little Rhylee. Tonight, the waiting ends, and she will be mine. Not only will I have the thrill of putting my sous chef...

From a futuristic colony where a woman dreams of rockets, to a drab estate where a girl finds magic, SJ Bradley\'s inventive and experimental stories showcase remarkable range. Vividly rendered, they...

Hidden behind the walls of Grangegorman Mental Hospital in 1941, four lives collide, all afflicted by the human cost of wars, betrayals and trauma.Gus, a shrewd attendant, is the keeper of everyone's...

'An engrossing and vivid novel brimming with compassion for nature .' - Anna Ittenere, The Sea Library Magazine. A family drama unfolds across Australia and New Zealand. There is betrayal but it's not...

In the Tasmanian bush six contestants battle it out to win $250,000. Only five finish. In Bass Strait the Blue Gazelle yacht tackles fierce winds, high waves and a phantom vessel in its race to win the...

My life would make so much more sense if I'd been born into a Regency romance… And just like any Regency miss faced with a disapproving Duke, my relationship with Justin has always been a bit rocky. I...

When the shadows of the past gather, trouble isn't far behind ... Fenella Rose-Waterman is happy running The Cranky Lizard winery until a broken relationship lifts the lid on the Pandora's Box of her...

The Archangel Gabriel has quite enough on his plate with a murderous vampire on the loose, the enigmatic Lord Hallam's return to parliament after a ten-year absence, and the near riots at London's notorious...

- Kirkus Awards & Accolades winner- Featured in Kirkus Reviews magazine September 2024. Less than 25% of submissions receive this honor!Fleeing barbaric witch hunts in England, Sybil Cotterill sails...

Time. Limited. Inescapable. Precious beyond measure. But what happens when time doesn't follow the rules we all know? What are the possibilities? The perils? In this innovative and thought-provoking collection,...

MERCY, a Novel (Revised 2024)    CATALINA RICHARDSON, RN, is both dedicated nurse and black sheep of Mercy Hospital's Ward 2. Battle-weary from continually bucking a system choked by hospital politics,...

Two missing persons. Two wildly differing circumstances.Juliette Page, an elderly lady with Alzheimer's, disappeared in the company of her caretaker twelve hours ago. Her daughter, Cynthia Hayes, is frantic...

A New Alien. A Band Of Superheroes. An Alien Mind.Aliens have weird minds.Superheroes Matilda Plum helps humans. She helps aliens occasionally. Matilda meets a brand new alien with a very weird problem.Matilda...

Apple -- I gave Deacon my heart, but he said I was too young. So he left. For over a year. Didn't want me around. Hurt and humiliated, I left for Grim Road MC. If anyone will understand my need to hide...

An Alien Race. An Extreme Weight Loss Solution. A Bizarre Situation.Aliens infect obese people in the near future.I infect obese people so I secure the future of my race. When a doctor threats my life,...

Samira had two choices.  She could return back to her home country and face starvation and imprisonment. Or she could live life on the run knowing she could be caught any time. She chose the third option. Samira...

An Office Romance with a Fairy Tale Twist. A millionarie shoe magnate suddenly finds himself attracted to his executive assistant.    

In small-town Wyoming, a tough sheriff and a former Navy SEAL are thrown together by circumstance. Their fiery chemistry leads to constant clashes, but as they work to solve a mystery, they can't ignore...

After returning from Faerie and failing to make a lasting stand at Air house, Rosalinde must reclaim her fractured kingdom from dark forces threatening to tear it apart. With the weight of her lineage...

In the 23rd century you can jack into the web, shop at a mall floating half a mile above the street, kill yourself with the drug of the week, and wake up in a new body.The rich can have what they want...

DeclanWhen I joined The Insidious Seven MC sixteen years ago, I thought I'd left my troubled past behind. Little did I know that those old ghosts would come back with a vengeance. After we took down a...

Welcome to Westhaven - or welcome back, in my case. Hurrying home to be at my dad's bedside wasn't exactly how I planned my small-town homecoming, especially when my shoot-for-the-stars successful life...

A clueless omega and an oblivious beta dance around their fated attraction. Will they figure it out before the pride's past catches up with them?Life in Valentine Growville is more exciting than Burke,...