The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876)
"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" is about a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River.
"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" is about a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle featuring his famous detective.
Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular plays during his lifetime and along with Hamlet, is one of his most frequently performed plays. Today, t...
The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education, and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of early 19th-century England. Elizabeth is the second of five daughters of a country gentleman living near the fictional town of Meryton in Hertf...
The story is about an orphan, Oliver Twist, who endures a miserable existence in a workhouse and then is placed with an undertaker. He escapes and travels to London where he meets the Artful Dodger, leader of a gang of juvenile pickpockets. Naively unaware of their unlawful activities, Oliver is led to the lair of the...
Northanger Abbey follows seventeen-year-old Gothic novel aficionado Catherine Morland and family friends Mr. and Mrs. Allen as they visit Bath. It is Catherine's first visit there. She meets new friends, such as Isabella Thorpe, and goes to balls. Catherine finds herself pursued by Isabella's brother, the rough-manner...
"Moby-Dick" tells the adventures of wandering sailor Ishmael, and his voyage on the whaleship Pequod, commanded by Captain Ahab. Ishmael soon learns that Ahab has one purpose on this voyage: to seek out Moby Dick, a ferocious, enigmatic white sperm whale. In a previous encounter, the whale destroyed Ahab's boat and bi...
"Jane Eyre" follows the emotions and experiences of its eponymous character, including her growth to adulthood, and her love for Mr. Rochester, the byronic master of fictitious Thornfield Hall.
El anticristo constituye la más dura e implacable crítica jamás lanzada, no ya contra la "buena nueva" de Jesús, sino contra la manipulación que de la figura y el mensaje de éste hizo, según Nietzsche, la Iglesia católica y, en concreto San Pablo. El autor expone lo que para él fue la actitud vital genuina de Cristo...
"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" tells of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures. The tale plays with logic, giving the story lasting popularity with adults as well as children.
"The Picture of Dorian Gray" tells of a young man named Dorian Gray, the subject of a painting by artist Basil Hallward. Basil is impressed by Dorian's beauty and becomes infatuated with him, believing his beauty is responsible for a new mode in his art. Dorian meets Lord Henry Wotton, a friend of Basil's, and becomes...
Cazadores de sueños -¿Nunca soñaste con hadas, sirenas o incluso ángeles? -le preguntó con su aterciopelada voz- ¿Nunca soñaste con ser uno de ellos, con poder tocarlos, verlos, sentirlos...? Seres realmente hermosos con un encanto desgarrador., que te cautivan y te enamoran con ssu belleza. Pero no te confundas, t...
Esta es una adaptacion del cuento latinoamericano "El almohadón de plumas" de Horacio Quiroga. Espero que les guste y comenten sus opiniones.
Autor: HERMAN MELVILLE La historia la narra Ismael, un superviviente del último viaje del Pequod, el barco ballenero comandado por el Capitán Acab. Ismael nos cuanta como se enrola siendo un chaval en el Pequod, un barco que emprenderá un largo viaje mar adentro cazando ballenas, para extraer su preciado aceite. Al po...
Unica novela publicada de Emily Brontë Cumbres borrascosas, la épica historia de Catherine y Heathcliff, situada en los sombríos y desolados páramos de Yorkshire, constituye una asombrosa visión metafísica del destino, la obsesión, la pasión y la venganza. Publicada por primera vez en 1847.