Hard times - 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...

Victoria Finney has always been the planner. So, when she's blindsided by a terminaldiagnosis, she's not just worried about her own future—she's worried about herhusband, Troy. Determined to ensure he's...

Alan Thurston was an immunologist at Midwestern University Medical School. Like most men in the teaching trade, he also had a research project. If it worked out, he'd be one of the great names in medicine;...

Whose Body? is a 1923 novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, which introduced the character of Lord Peter Wimsey. CHAPTER I "Oh, damn!" said Lord Peter Wimsey at Piccadilly Circus. "Hi, driver!" The taxi man,...

The Pit and The Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe "The Pit and the Pendulum" is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe and first published in 1842 in the literary annual The Gift: A Christmas and New Year's...

Eldorado is a sequel book to the classic adventure tale, The Scarlet Pimpernel. It was first published in 1913. The novel is notable in that it is the partial basis for most of the film treatments of...

The Warden, published in 1855, is the first book in Anthony Trollope's Chronicles of Barsetshire series of six novels. It was his fourth novel.The Warden concerns Mr Septimus Harding, the meek, elderly...

The Mirror of the Sea is a collection of autobiographical essays originally published variously in several magazines between 1904 and 1906. In discussing the work, Conrad described it as "a very intimate...

Glenn Killbourne and his fiancee Carley Burch find a strange test of their love in the mountains and canyons of Arizona. What subtle strange message had come to her out of the West? Carley Burch laid...

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....

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...

"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...

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...

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...

The Purloined Letter Edgar Allan Poe The Purloined Letter" is a short story by American author Edgar Allan Poe. It is the third of his three detective stories featuring the fictional C. Auguste Dupin,...

This collection contains translations of Roumanian tales which, however, comprise but a small portion of the inexhaustible treasure that exists in the nation. The originals are scattered throughout Roumanian...

On the second day of July in the year 1863 the Civil War in America was at its height. Late in the preceding month Lee had turned his face northward, and, with an army of a hundred thou-sand Confederate...

Unseen Genius follows the journey of Jabari, a young inventor with dreams bigger than his circumstances. In each installment, Jabari grapples with the challenges of balancing his family obligations, friendships,...

FIRE MOUNTAIN IS "A THRILLING SEA STORY BY "NORMAN SPRINGER", AUTHOR OF "THE BLOOD SHIP" Years. Bright, aslant eyes, and a suave and ever-ready smile that broke immediately Martin met his gaze. "You...

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "This has got to be one of the most out loud funniest books I've read all year."⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "Any women that are going through menopause need to read this. Such a great book and it's laugh out loud funny." For...

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...

"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...

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...

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...

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 year 146 B.C. was an annus mirabilis in the development of Roman dominion. Of course it had long been a foregone conclusion that Carthage and Corinth must fall before her, but the actual time of their...

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...

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...

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."...

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,...