The Marriage Contract - formato ePub

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....

El coronel Chabert, una de las primeras novelas del gran Balzac, reconocido mundialmente. El protagonista, cuyo nombre da título a la obra, es dado por muerto durante las campañas napoleónicas. Cuando...

-THE DOUBLE- centers on a government clerk who goes mad. It deals with the internal psychological struggle of its main character, Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin, who repeatedly encounters someone who is his...

Emma is a comic novel by Jane Austen, first published in December 1815, about the perils of misconstrued romance. The main character, Emma Woodhouse, is described in the opening paragraph as "handsome,...

Upon being arrested for the gruesome murder of her father, all college student Kanna Hijiriyama tells the police is, "It's up to you to find the motive." Amidst the media frenzy about the woman "too beautiful...

17. yüzyıl İspanya'sında edebiyat düşkünü bir maceraperest; günümüzdeyse klasikleşmiş bir yazar: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. İspanyol donanmasına katılıp Kıbrıs'ta, İnebahtı'da, Tunus'ta, Navarin'de...

'Truly unnerving' Jane Bailey'I raced through it in little more than a single session' 5* Reader Review They said a mother knows best and I believed them. Was I wrong? It is supposed to be a dream. James...

Agatha Christie meets Julie Caplin in this exciting new cosy crime series that captures the glamour of the 1930s with the gorgeous escapist destinations! November 1930....

NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES 'Clavell never puts a foot wrong . . . Get it, read it, you'll enjoy it mightily' DAILY MIRRORThis is James Clavell's tour-de-force; an epic saga of one Pilot-Major John Blackthorne,...

The first book in the New York Times bestselling series with over ten million copies in print! ‘Terrifyingly fun! Max Brallier’s The Last Kids on Earth delivers big thrills...

WHAT YOU WERE FIGHTING FOR is a wonderful collection of short stories that provokes the mind with its weird and intriguing tales. We catch glimpses of worlds that are similar to our own, but always different...

'OMG this book is so tense! I couldn't stop reading!' Lauren North'Totally gripping . . . I absolutely loved it!' Lisa Timoney A twisty, addictive page-turner about marriage, secrets and betrayal - perfect...

In this smart and swoony adventure rom-com, a journalist and a movie star find themselves teaming up to cover up a murder... What could possibly go wrong?When freelance journalist Khin Haymar is assigned...

'So much fun!' KATIE FFORDEIla has her pride. And she's about to discover just how much trouble that can be... It's 1976 and in the Vile Parle suburb of Mumbai, bastion of the Maharashtrian middle-class,...

Return to the snow-covered mountains of the Isle of Skye this winter in book two of The Skye Sisters Trilogy – where new loves and unknown family are just waiting to be found… Available to pre-order now!...

A prize-winning railway murder mystery from Japan, this crime classic is a hair-raising delight perfect for fans of Agatha Christie.Early one morning, a body is found lying next to the railway tracks...

THERE'S A PUZZLING MYSTERY WHEN A BELOVED PUB BURNS DOWN...BUT LIBBY SARJEANT IS ON THE CASE.After learning of a suspicious attempt to burn down a beloved old pub, The Crooked Horse, amateur detective...

'Once I started I just did not want to stop. So atmospheric and written in such a way I felt like I was truly there transported back in time living it all... A highly thrilling, fast paced and totally...

AN IMPOSSIBLE LOVE. AN ENCHANGED LEGACY. A DANGEROUS DISCOVERY.The stunning conclusion to Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling What the River Knows. A lush immersive historical fantasy set in Egypt...

THE PITCH-BLACK REDISCOVERED CLASSIC OF 2024 From the Booker-shortlisted author of Great Granny Webster, this twisted modern classic is perfect for fans of Shirley Jackson and Celia Dale. 'One of the...

A new job. A new home. A new start.It's all Anna wants.But in a closed rural community, strange traditions and a suspicion of outsiders mean everything is not as it seems. Three teenage girls have vanished...

Christmas is just around the corner, and Ronja and Melissa's father is out of work. When ten-year-old Ronja hears about a job selling Christmas trees, she thinks it might be the stroke of luck they all...

A cold case returns to haunt Blix, as a cold-blooded killer taunts him with evidence of further victims, while Ramm investigates a murder with no body… Blockbuster, explosive Nordic Noir.`Contemporary...

Follow the bank of the Koitogawa river until you reach the beach. From there a path of white seashells will lead you to the Chibineko Kitchen. Step inside, they'll be expecting you. These are the directions...

On a cold winter evening in a secluded fjord in Iceland, a neighbour visits the house of a family that has not been seen in a week. No one comes to the door when he knocks. After breaking down the back...

FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE NORTH WIND COMES A DARKLY REIMAGINED TALE OF FORBIDDEN LOVE, INSPIRED BY THE GREEK MYTH OF HERO AND LEANDER AND THE SCOTTISH BALLAD TAM LIN.    Brielle of Thornbrook has dedicated...

THE ONLY WAY TO SURVIVE...IS IF SOMEONE CONFESSES TO MURDER.***GUARDIAN CRIME AND THRILLERS OF THE MONTH***'Fiendishly clever and impossible to put down' SHARI LAPENA'Writes with his foot pressed hard...

*A Short History of the Apocalypse: your comprehensive guide to the challenges of Armageddon*Join Frankie Boyle (Saturday Night Swindle; Celebrity Vengeance) and Charlie Skelton (head writer: Ad Naseum;...

She'll save Christmas just to spite him...There's only one thing standing in the way of Cat King saving a small town's Christmas festival: Grumpy town manager Noah Yates.Single dad Noah takes his responsibilities...

If you were given the opportunity to disappear and start your life again, would you take it?Paris 1933. Four people's lives are dramatically torn apart by a single terrifying event. Two days before Christmas...

A child who will be named Johannes is born. An old man named Johannes dies. Between these two points, Jon Fosse gives us the details of an entire life, starkly compressed. Beginning with Johannes's father's...

'This sleek ride of a novel further cements Phillips's position as one of our most profound writers of speculative fiction.' New York Times In a hot and gritty city populated by super-intelligent robots...