The Vendetta - formato ePub

Basada en personajes reales. En la pensión de la viuda Vauquer en París , vive el viejo Goriot, un comerciante que hizo fortuna y solo vive por la felicidad y el amor que le tiene a sus dos hijas, Delphine...

Obra maestra de Balzac, Las ilusiones perdidas cuenta la historia de un joven de provincias con ambiciones artísticas que sueña con triunfar en París. La odisea de Lucien de Rubempré desde la inocencia...

Honoré de Balzac es universalmente conocido por algunas de sus grandes y extensas novelas y, sobre todo, por ese vasto y esencialmente irrealizable proyecto narrativo que fue la Comedia humana. El justo...

El tío Goriot, (Le père Goriot, título traducido también al castellano como Papá Goriot) es una de las novelas más leídas y releídas de Balzac y una de sus más logradas creaciones. Sobre un fondo de trapisondas...

La misa del ateo es una de las más conmovedoras narraciones de Balzac, en la que, con magistral emoción, retrata la generosidad de los sentimientos humanos. En El elixir de la larga vida nos deleita con...

César Birotteau, un hombre con éxito en su negocio de perfumería se deslumbra con su participación en una especulación de terrenos que lo convertirá en un hombre rico; pero los dispendios, el lujo de...

Eugenia Grandet es una novela de Honoré de Balzac publicada por primera vez en el semanario L'Europe littéraire en septiembre de 1833, primer año de la revista. El título de esta primera edición era Eugénie...

Historia de un corazón virginal, heroína sublime por el amor, el sufrimiento y el sacrificio; en medio de una lucha tenaz de egoísmos, pasiones e intereses, sucumbe esta criatura excepcional por su entereza...

En París, una triste tarde de octubre, un joven pierde su última moneda en una casa de juegos. Aturdido y tentado por la idea del suicidio, y mientras aguarda que caiga la noche, entra en una singular...

Este relato breve y sabroso, que es en verdad una tensa novela, la de la lucha de años del pintor Frenhofer por atrapar la vida misma, acabó por ser una fábula: la del arte de hoy. Rodin, Cézanne o Picasso...

El abate Birotteau cree vivir en el mejor de los mundos posibles, al menos en la medida de sus modestas pretensiones. Realiza las tareas de su apostolado como algo rutinario y ocupa una espaciosa y bien...

Beatriz es un estudio psicológico de dos tipos de mujer que forman un violento contraste y entre las que vacila el corazón ingenuo y amoroso de un adolescente, cuyas reacciones describe agudamente el...

"La paz del hogar" es un relato breve que se centra en las relaciones de unos cuantos personajes durante la celebración de una fiesta.

Hacia mediados del mes de julio del año de 1838, uno de esos coches recientemente puestos en circulación por las plazas de París, llamados milores, rodaba por la calle de la Universidad, conduciendo a...

La inmensidad de un plan que abraza a la vez la historia y la crítica de la Sociedad, el análisis de sus males y la discusión de sus principios, me autoriza, creo yo, a dar a mi obra el título con el...

En El cura de Tours, Balzac sigue con esa su disección de los solteros. Esta vez el insecto analizado con ese esmero que sólo es posible tener por este gran entomólogo, es una dueña de pensión -la Srta....

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....

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...

In the torrent of life, we are often faced with various choices and challenges. Sometimes, due to a temporary predicament, we may lose our way and even make the wrong decision. Jayden Torres's story is...

Desperation drives Mary Bell into the heart of Hollow Grove, an ancient forest cloaked in mystery and dread. With her mother's life hanging in the balance, Mary is determined to find a mythical plant...

Tales From the Tomes: Vol. 1 is a collection of four mystical stories of magic and science. Lance Kehisato weaves the future and the past together, creating a string of four stories in different worlds,...

In a world still scarred by the remnants of a devastating war, four unlikely friends stumble upon a long-buried relic: a towering, battle-worn machine named Rust. Designed for destruction but reprogrammed...

Tensions grow as the Empire continues to try and expand, Emperor Cree pressing on his Lord Commander to take over Frier.  His son, Prince Loren Cree IV, begins to show the Crown Prince Mutid who's really...

In the shadowed ruins of Hollowstead Keep lies a mystery as old as time itself. Ethan Caine, a private investigator haunted by his own demons, is hired by the enigmatic Evelyn Locke to retrieve an artifact...

Tate Everson is desperate to escape. Trapped in the clutches of a ruthless criminal syndicate, he fakes his own kidnapping to start anew. But his plan quickly spirals out of control, drawing the attention...

"The Relic's Curse" is a gripping science fiction novel that follows Alyx, a young woman unknowingly chosen by an ancient relic with the power to shape the future of the world. When Alyx and her companion...

Cat has spent her life as a compliant servant, unaware of any world beyond her narrow existence. But when she stumbles into a forbidden forest, she meets an unexpected ally—a fugitive with stories that...

Veteran explorer Sandra badly needs a break, and joins a longer mission of minimum ten years on the Explorer 5, the first starship to leave to Sol System to visit the potentially habitable exoplanets...

Twelve short stories that run the gamut from how the universe began to a famous writer's sister problems.

In the art world, the truth is often obscured by multiple factors, which makes it difficult to find out the facts. Rabia Aksoy from New York and Serkan Kaplan from London have established a strong relationship...

Transcending into a world of swords and sorcery, Eirik discovers that the system has assigned him the role of a side character in a game called the "Queen's Ascendance Program."As long as he assists various...

It is a vibrant story of success, trials and tribulations, with the tragic loss of a brother, Alan. Eventually, Cam, our main character, gets the opportunity to make his family proud and take the reigns...

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...

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,...

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....

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...

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...

Star Maker, regarded as one of the true classics of science fiction, Star Maker is a poetic and deeply philosophical work. The story details the mental journey of an unnamed narrator who is transported...

The day that Henry Smix met and embraced Gasoline Power and went up Main Street hand in hand with it is not yet forgotten. It was a hasty marriage, so to speak, and the results of it were truly deplorable....

The first question to be proposed by a rational being is, not what is profitable, but what is Right. Duty must be primary, prominent, most conspicuous, among the objects of human thought and pursuit....

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...

This book, re-edited and illustrated by e-kitap projesi and published again in ebook format. In this book, telling that Cooterells adventures, and so was a treasure adventure, Naturally then Ben felt...

In Sister Carrie, Dreiser portrayed a changing society, writing about a young woman who flees rural life for the city (Chicago) and struggles with poverty, complex relationships with men, and prostitution....

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...