The Red and the Black: A Chronicle of the 19th Century - formato ePub

Marie-Henri Beyle, más conocido por el seudónimo de Stendhal, fue un destacado escritor francés del siglo XIX. Nacido en 1783 en Grenoble, Stendhal dejó una huella imborrable en el mundo de la literatura...

«Fue en Italia, en el siglo diecisiete, donde una aristócrata dijo cogiendo un espejo con delectación al caer la tarde de un día muy caluroso: qué pena que esto no sea pecado.»Stendhal parecía pensar...

Stendhal es un escritor desprejudiciado, con una visión realista del género humano y sin embargo también es un romántico. Sus textos son espejos de realidades (no en vano el mismo acuñó esta metáfora),...

La cartuja de Parma (en francés: La Chartreuse de Parme) es una de las más reconocidas novelas del escritor francés del siglo XIX Stendhal, junto con Rojo y negro. Se suele citar esta novela como ejemplo...

Vittoria Accoramboni (15 de febrero de 1557 - 22 de diciembre de 1585), duquesa de Bracciano, fue una aristócrata italiana famosa por su gran belleza y su desdichado final. Su agitada vida ha servido...

Nacimiento, ascensión y caída de un héroe, Julien Sorel; sentimientos encontrados finamente descritos por Henri Beyle, Stendhal, en una de las novelas clave del siglo XIX: el amor que se transforma en...

«Fue en Italia, en el siglo diecisiete, donde una aristócrata dijo cogiendo un espejo con delectación al caer la tarde de un día muy caluroso: qué pena que esto no sea pecado». Stendhal parecía pensar...

Los Cenci es una de las ocho Crónicas italianas de Stendhal, escritor francés cuyo nombre real es Henri Beyle, nacido en 1783, que junto a «La abadesa de Castro», «Vittoria Accoramboni», «La duquesa de...

Novelador por antonomasia de las grandes pasiones, Sthendhal publica, en 1822, Del Amor, tratado que significa la culminación y resumen de sus experiencias y especulaciones teóricas acerca de las relaciones...

…Una noche oscura y lluviosa del verano de 182..., salía del café, en el que acababa de perder todo su dinero, un joven teniente del 96° regimien­to, de guarnición en Burdeos. El joven renegaba de su...

Se recoge en este volumen la práctica totalidad, exceptuando las llamadas Crónicas italianas, de los relatos de Stendhal. El lector podrá encontrar aquí cuentos bastante conocidos como Mina de Vanghel,...

Julien Sorel, con dieciocho años, hijo de un carpintero que lo odia porque es un vago y lee libros, es contratado por el señor de Rênal como preceptor de sus hijos, «un gasto necesario para mantener nuestro...

El 15 de mayo de 1796 las tropas napoleónicas entran en Milán, liberándolo del dominio austríaco. El marqués del Dongo no tarda en conspirar contra el invasor, pero su mujer entabla secretamente buenas...

-Julián Sorel, convencido de que su educación le permitirá ascender de categoría social, inicia su labor como preceptor de los hijos del alcalde de Verrières, hasta llegar a convertirse en amante de su...

-Julián Sorel, convencido de que su educación le permitirá ascender de categoría social, inicia su labor como preceptor de los hijos del alcalde de Verrières, hasta llegar a convertirse en amante de su...

La historia tiene lugar en Francia a principios de la monarquía de Julio (Revolución de 1830). Lamiel es una chica apasionada de novelas de aventuras y bandoleros. Vive en Carville, un pequeño pueblo...

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...

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,...

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...

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....

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...

"Hast thou seen that lordly castle,That castle by the sea?Golden and red above itThe clouds float gorgeously."Do you remember GratianGratian Conyfer, the godson of the four winds, the boy who lived at...

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...

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....

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....

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...

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...