This carefully crafted ebook: "Around the World in 80 Days" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
Around the World in 80 Days is a classic adventure novel by Jules Verne, published in 1873. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days set by his friends at the Reform Club. Any delay, any breakdown, any missed connection, and Fogg would lose - everything.
Jules Gabriel Verne (1828 - 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright best known for his adventure novels and his profound influence on the literary genre of science fiction.
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Este ebook presenta "Orgullo y Prejuicio" con un sumario dinámico y detallado.
La novela describe poco más de un año en la vida de un pequeño grupo de jóvenes en el campo cerca de Londres en el cambio de siglo (del XVIII al XIX), durante el reinado de Jorge III. En el centro de esta sociedad se encuentra la adorable y muy alocada familia Bennet, con sus cinco hijas casaderas, de entre 15 y 23 años (de mayor a menor: Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Kitty y Lydia).
Jane Austen (Steventon, 16 de diciembre de 1775 - Winchester, 18 de julio de 1817) fue una destacada novelista británica que vivió durante el período de la Regencia. La ironía que emplea para dotar de comicidad a sus novelas hace que Jane Austen sea contada entre los «clásicos» de la novela inglesa, a la vez que su recepción va, incluso en la actualidad, más allá del interés académico, siendo leídas por un público más amplio.
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Este ebook presenta "El corazón de las tinieblas" con un sumario dinámico y detallado.
El corazón de las tinieblas (Heart of darkness) es el título de un cuento extenso o novela corta de Joseph Conrad, 1899, y en forma de libro en 1902. Ambientado en África, El corazón de las tinieblas está hasta cierto punto inspirada en los seis meses que Joseph Conrad pasó en el Congo colonizado y devastado por el rey Leopoldo II de Bélgica. Hoy es probablemente la obra más conocida de Conrad. Fue incluida en la serie Great Books of the 20th Century ("Grandes libros del siglo XX"), publicada por Penguin Books.
Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, más conocido como Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924), fue un novelista polaco que adoptó el inglés como lengua literaria. Conrad, cuya obra explora la vulnerabilidad y la inestabilidad moral del ser humano, está considerado como uno de los más grandes novelistas de la Literatura Universal.
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Este ebook presenta "El Corsario Negro" con un sumario dinámico y detallado.
El Corsario Negro es una novela escrita por Emilio Salgari y publicada por primera vez en 1912. El noble y apuesto Emilio de Roccanera, más conocido como El Corsario Negro, ha jurado una terrible venganza por la muerte de sus hermanos, el Corsario Verde y el Corsario Rojo, a manos del gobernador de Maracaibo, el flamenco Wan Guld. Y en su cruzada personal, el destino pone en su camino los ojos grises de una mujer de innegable belleza que será su perdición...
Emilio Salgari (1862 - 1911) fue un escritor y periodista italiano. Escribió principalmente novelas de aventuras, ambientadas en los lugares más variados, como Malasia, el mar de las Antillas, la selva india, el desierto y la selva africana, el oeste de Estados Unidos, las selvas de Australia e incluso los mares árticos. En los países de habla hispana su obra fue particularmente popular, por lo menos hasta las décadas de 1970 y 1980.
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Este ebook presenta "El grillo del hogar" con un sumario dinámico y detallado.
El Grillo del Hogar fue escrito por Charles Dickens en 1845 y publicado originalmente en el volumen de Cuentos Navideños. En este relato es posible encontrar como elemento principal un grillo que se transforma en hadas, dicho personaje habita en el hogar de la familia Peerybingle y forma parte de una historia que transcurre en tres días y se desarrolla en el mismo número de cantos. Dickens muestra con el humor usual lo difícil que podía ser la vida para los ingleses de baja situación económica en el siglo XIX, y cómo a pesar de la frugalidad lograban aferrarse a la posibilidad de ser felices.
Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870) fue un famoso novelista inglés y uno de los más conocidos de la literatura universal, quien supo manejar con maestría el género narrativo, el humor, el sentimiento trágico de la vida, la ironía, con una aguda y álgida crítica social así como las descripciones de gentes y lugares, tanto reales como imaginarios.
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Este ebook presenta "El sabueso de los Baskerville (texto completo, con índice activo)" con un sumario dinámico y detallado".
El sabueso de los Baskerville, también traducido como El perro de los Baskerville o El mastín de los Baskerville, es una novela de Arthur Conan Doyle, publicada por entregas entre 1901 y 1902.
Sir Charles Baskerville, un adinerado hombre de negocios es hallado muerto en las cercanías de su casa. Todo indica que su corazón se detuvo y las escasas pistas sugieren que estaba huyendo de alguien; o quizá de algo que nadie quiere nombrar: la maldición de los Baskerville, encarnada en un infernal sabueso de proporciones descomunales. Pero ya sea obra de un criminal o de una criatura fantasmal, Sherlock Holmes está dispuesto a agotar todas las hipótesis antes de admitir que el diablo ha decidido castigar a la familia Baskerville. Un caso que lleva al límite de lo racional el talento detectivesco de Sherlock Holmes y su infatigable compañero, el Doctor Watson.
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930), escritor y médico escocés. Además de haber creado al inmortal detective Sherlock Holmes, escribió novelas del género fantástico, como "El mundo perdido", otras de corte histórico, obras de teatro, y poesía.
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Este ebook presenta "La desheredada" con un sumario dinámico y detallado.
La desheredada es una novela escrita por Benito Pérez Galdós en 1881. La protagonista de esta historia, cuya trama transcurre en la década de 1870, es Isidora Rufete, una joven criada en un ambiente humilde que cree tener una documentación que prueba que ella es hija ilegítima de de la marquesa de Aransis y, por esta razón, vive una realidad ficticia basada en su presunta nobleza y gasta mucho más de lo que está a su alcance. Para recuperar su supuesto nivel aristocrático, la muchacha comienza a despreciar propuestas laborales y rechaza el amor de Augusto Miquis. Mientras ella desaprovecha las oportunidades que le acerca la vida, su hermano Mariano cae en la delincuencia y termina preso.
Benito María de los Dolores Pérez Galdós (1843 - 1920), conocido como Benito Pérez Galdós, fue un novelista, dramaturgo y cronista español. Se trata del mayor representante de la novela realista del siglo XIX en España, y uno de los más importantes escritores de la lengua española.
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Este ebook presenta "Julio César" con un sumario dinámico y detallado.
La tragedia de Julio César es una obra escrita por William Shakespeare, probablemente en 1599. Recrea la conspiración en contra del dictador romano Julio César, su homicidio y sus secuelas. Constituye uno de los tantos trabajos shakespearianos basados en hechos históricos. Narra el asesinato de César, siendo los verdaderos protagonistas de la obra por un lado Bruto y Casio y por otro Marco Antonio, personajes romanos de la época de César. Es una obra eminentemente masculina y castrense: los hombres y la guerra, los hombres y el poder que cambia de manos a través de la guerra y del golpe de estado.
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) fue un dramaturgo, poeta y actor inglés. Conocido en ocasiones como el Bardo de Avon, Shakespeare es considerado el escritor más importante en lengua inglesa y uno de los más célebres de la literatura universal. Sus obras de teatro son consideradas auténticos clásicos atemporales y su influencia a lo largo de la historia de la literatura es indiscutible.
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Este ebook presenta "La abadía de Northanger" con un sumario dinámico y detallado.
La abadía de Northanger de Jane Austen fue publicada originalmente en 1818. Narra la historia de Catherine Morland, una joven ingenua y aficionada a la lectura de novelas góticas. Invitada por los Tilney -que erróneamente la consideran una rica heredera-, a pasar una temporada en su casa de campo, se dedicará a investigar tortuosos e imaginarios secretos de familia. Pero cuando finalmente todo se aclara y comprende que la vida no es una novela, la inocente Catherine pondrá los pies en la tierra y encauzará su futuro según dictan las normas morales y sociales.
Jane Austen (1775-1817) escribió desde muy pequeña. En 1811 consiguió publicar Sentido y sensibilidad, a la que muy pronto seguirían Orgullo y prejuicio (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) y Emma (1816), que obtuvieron un gran éxito. Póstumamente aparecieron La abadía de Northanger y Persuasión (1818). Es una de las más grandes novelistas británicas de todos los tiempos.
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Este ebook presenta "Otelo" con un sumario dinámico y detallado.
Otelo: el moro de Venecia es una obra teatral de Shakespeare escrita alrededor de 1603. Otelo es un príncipe negro, orgulloso de su éxito como general al servicio de Venecia, cuya sociedad lo aprecia gracias a sus méritos militares, y que ha conquistado la mano y el amor de Desdémona, hija de un notable. Yago, un alférez, envidioso y maquiavélico, convierte a Otelo en blanco de su resentimiento. Sus calumnias, dirigidas contra el punto vulnerable del moro -su matrimonio interracial- resultan eficaces. Persuadido de la infidelidad de Desdémona, corroído por los celos, despojado de toda confianza en sí mismo, Otelo cae en la trampa de su propia caída, convirtiendo la obra en la doméstica de todas las tragedias de Shakespeare: el sangriento final de un matrimonio.
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) fue un dramaturgo, poeta y actor inglés. Conocido en ocasiones como el Bardo de Avon (o simplemente El Bardo), Shakespeare es considerado el escritor más importante en lengua inglesa y uno de los más célebres de la literatura universal. Sus obras de teatro son consideradas auténticos clásicos atemporales y su influencia a lo largo de la historia de la literatura es indiscutible.
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Este ebook presenta "Estudio en Escarlata" con un sumario dinámico y detallado".
Estudio en escarlata (A Study in Scarlet) es una novela de misterio escrita por Sir Arthur Conan Doyle y publicada en julio de 1887. Un cadáver hallado en extrañas circunstancias en una casa deshabitada provoca que los agentes de policía de Scotland Yard se pierdan en divagaciones equivocadas. Y, por si fuera poco, un nuevo asesinato parece complicar aún más la historia. Para resolver el misterio, habría que remontarse en el tiempo a otros asesinatos ocurridos hace 30 años en la ciudad mormona de Salt Lake City... Sólo Sherlock Holmes, gracias a sus implacables poderes deductivos y forenses, será capaz de solventar el crimen.
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) fue un escritor y médico escocés. Además de haber creado al inmortal detective Sherlock Holmes, escribió novelas del género fantástico, como "El mundo perdido", otras de corte histórico, obras de teatro, y poesía.
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Ce livre numérique présente "Anna Karénine (Texte intégral)" avec une table des matières dynamique et détaillée et une liste descriptive de l'ensemble des personnages du roman.
Anna Karénine est un roman de Léon Tolstoï paru en 1877. Il est considéré comme un chef-d'oeuvre de la littérature. L'auteur y oppose le calme bonheur d'un ménage honnête formé par Lévine et Kitty Chtcherbatski aux humiliations et aux déboires qui accompagnent la passion coupable d'Alexis Vronski et d'Anna Karénine ; les premiers brouillons étaient d'ailleurs intitulés "Deux mariages, deux couples". Anna Karénine met en scène la noblesse russe, sur laquelle Tolstoï porte un regard critique. Le personnage d'Anna Karénine aurait été en partie inspiré de Maria Hartung (1832-1919), la fille aînée du poète Alexandre Pouchkine.
Traduction: J.-Wladimir Bienstock
Léon Tolstoï est un des écrivains majeurs de la littérature russe, surtout par ses romans et ses nouvelles, riches d'analyse psychologique et de réflexion morale et philosophique. Ainsi, l'une de ses grandes oeuvres, Guerre et Paix (1869), est une reconstitution historique et réaliste des guerres napoléoniennes en Russie, mais c'est aussi une réflexion sur la violence inspirée par des conflits comme la guerre de Crimée (1853-1856) durant laquelle il a été mobilisé et qu'il relate dans les Récits de Sébastopol. Par ailleurs, Tolstoï entame à partir des années 1870 une quête spirituelle et religieuse qui se reflète dans ses oeuvres : il multiplie alors les considérations philosophiques qu'il mêle aux événements romanesques comme dans Anna Karénine, l'histoire d'une passion dramatique dont la publication finale date de 1877, et plus encore dans Résurrection (1899), où le héros en plein débat moral rencontre la figure du Christ.
À la fin de sa vie, il devient une sorte de maître à penser prônant une vie simple et morale et combattant les institutions oppressives et les formes de violence : il a eu de ce fait une grande influence sur des personnalités comme Mahatma Gandhi, Romain Rolland et bien d'autres.
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Ce livre numérique présente Les Misérables (Texte intégral annoté) de Victor Hugo avec une table des matières dynamique et détaillée.Ce roman, paru en 1862, un des plus populaires de la littérature française, a donné lieu à de nombreuses adaptations au cinéma. Victor Hugo y décrit la vie de misérables dans Paris et la France provinciale du xixe siècle et s'attache plus particulièrement aux pas du bagnard Jean Valjean qui n'est pas sans rappeler le condamné à mort du Dernier Jour d'un condamné ou Claude Gueux. C'est un roman historique, social et philosophique dans lequel on retrouve les idéaux du romantisme et ceux de Victor Hugo concernant la nature humaine. Victor Hugo, né le 26 février 1802 à Besançon et mort le 22 mai 1885 à Paris, est un poète, dramaturge et prosateur romantique considéré comme l'un des plus importants écrivains de langue française. Il est aussi une personnalité politique et un intellectuel engagé qui a compté dans l'Histoire du XIXe siècle. Victor Hugo a fortement contribué au renouvellement de la poésie et du théâtre ; il a été admiré par ses contemporains et l'est encore, mais il a été aussi contesté par certains auteurs modernes. Il a aussi permis à de nombreuses générations de développer une réflexion sur l'engagement de l'écrivain dans la vie politique et sociale grâce à ses multiples prises de position qui le condamneront à l'exil pendant les vingt ans du Second Empire. Ses choix, à la fois moraux et politiques, durant la deuxième partie de sa vie, et son oeuvre hors du commun ont fait de lui un personnage emblématique que la Troisième République a honoré à sa mort le 22 mai 1885 par des funérailles nationales qui ont accompagné le transfert de sa dépouille au Panthéon de Paris, le 31 mai 1885.
Contenu:
LES MISERABLES - Tome I - Fantine
LES MISERABLES - Tome II - Cosette
LES MISERABLES - Tome III - Marius
LES MISERABLES - Tome IV - L'idylle rue Plumet et l'épopée rue Saint-Denis
LES MISERABLES - Tome V - Jean Valjean
NOTES
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War and Peace is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy, first published in 1869. The work is epic in scale and is regarded as one of the most important works of world literature. It is considered Tolstoy's finest literary achievement, along with his other major prose work Anna Karenina.
This complete english version translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude was originally published in 1922. It includes all 15 books + the first and second epilogue. The Maudes are classical translators of Leo Tolstoy who worked directly with the author and gained his personal endorsement.
This e-book is carefully crafted and contains a detailed table of contents.
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame (French: Notre-Dame de Paris, "Our Lady of Paris") is a novel by Victor Hugo published in 1831. The French title refers to the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, on which the story is focused, and it is also a metaphor for Esmeralda, who is the center of the human drama within the story. The story begins on Epiphany (6 January), 1482, the day of the Feast of Fools in Paris, France. Quasimodo, a deformed hunchback who is the bell-ringer of Notre Dame, is introduced by his crowning as the Pope of Fools. Esmeralda, a beautiful Gypsy with a kind and generous heart, captures the hearts of many men, including those of Captain Phoebus and Pierre Gringoire, a poor street poet, but especially those of Quasimodo and his adoptive father, Claude Frollo, the Archdeacon of Notre Dame...
This e-book presents the classic and unabridged translation by Isabel F. Hapgood, carefully formatted and with a detailed table of contents.
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Widely considered a pinnacle in realist fiction, Tolstoy considered Anna Karenina his first real novel and Dostoevsky declared it to be "flawless as a work of art". His opinion was shared by Vladimir Nabokov, who especially admired "the flawless magic of Tolstoy's style", and by William Faulkner, who described the novel as "the best ever written". The novel is currently enjoying enormous popularity, as demonstrated by a recent poll of 125 contemporary authors by J. Peder Zane, published in 2007 in The Top Ten, which declared that Anna Karenina is the "greatest novel ever written".
Plot: A bachelor, Vronsky is willing to marry her if she would agree to leave her husband Karenin, a government official, but she is vulnerable to the pressures of Russian social norms, her own insecurities and Karenin's indecision. Although Vronsky eventually takes Anna to Europe where they can be together, they have trouble making friends. Back in Russia, she is shunned, becoming further isolated and anxious, while Vronsky pursues his social life. Despite Vronsky's reassurances she grows increasingly possessive and paranoid about his imagined infidelity.
About the Maude translation: the translation by Aylmer Maude (1858-1938) and Louise Shanks Maude (1855-1939) is highly considered by scholars. This unabridged and annotated translation from the original russian by Louise and Aylmer Maude was originally published in 1918. The Maudes are classical translators of Leo Tolstoy who worked directly with the author and gained his personal endorsement.
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This edition of "Pride and Prejudice" has been carefully formatted for your ebook reader with a functional table of contents and contains all the original watercolor illustrations by C.E. Brock.
Pride and Prejudice is a novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1813. 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 Hertfordshire, near London.
Though the story is set at the turn of the 19th century, it retains a fascination for modern readers, continuing near the top of lists of 'most loved books' such as The Big Read. It has become one of the most popular novels in English literature and receives considerable attention from literary scholars. Modern interest in the book has resulted in a number of dramatic adaptations and an abundance of novels and stories imitating Austen's memorable characters or themes. To date, the book has sold some 20 million copies worldwide.
As Anna Quindlen wrote, "Pride and Prejudice is also about that thing that all great novels consider, the search for self. And it is the first great novel to teach us that that search is as surely undertaken in the drawing room making small talk as in the pursuit of a great white whale or the public punishment of adultery."
Jane Austen (1775 - 1817) was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature. Her realism and biting social commentary have gained her historical importance among scholars and critics.
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Prentice Mulford was one of the leaders of the New Thought Movement. Mulford's book, Thoughts are Things served as a guide to this new belief system and is still popular today. "Thoughts are Things" will help you use the power of your thoughts to improve your life and to bring yourself peace of mind. Learn how to think in a way that will help you succeed and make you happier in every aspect of your life. The inclusion of Mulford's brilliant essay "The God in Yourself" makes this the definitive edition.
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Twenty Thousand (20,000) Leagues Under the Sea (French: Vingt mille lieues sous les mers) is a classic science fiction novel by French writer Jules Verne published in 1870. It tells the story of Captain Nemo and his submarine Nautilus as seen from the perspective of Professor Pierre Aronnax. As the story begins in 1866, a mysterious sea monster, theorized by some to be a giant narwhal, is sighted by ships of several nations; an ocean liner is also damaged by the creature. The United States government finally assembles an expedition in New York City to track down and destroy the menace. Professor Pierre Aronnax, a noted French marine biologist and narrator of the story, who happens to be in New York at the time and is a recognized expert in his field, is issued a last-minute invitation to join the expedition, and he accepts.
This ebook edition contains all 70 original illustrations by Alphonse de Neuville and Édouard Riou.
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This carefully crafted ebook: "The Complete Wizard of Oz Collection (All unabridged Oz novels by L.Frank Baum)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
The Oz books form a book series that begins with The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) and relate the fictional history of the Land of Oz. Oz was created by author L. Frank Baum, who went on to create the illusion that characters such as Dorothy and Princess Ozma relayed their adventures in Oz to Baum themselves, by means of wireless telegraph.
This ebook presents all the Wizard of Oz novels written by Lyman Frank Baum. Later Wizard of Oz books written by Ruth Plumly Thompson and other authors, as well as comic strips, are not included in this collection.
Lyman Frank Baum (May 15, 1856 - May 6, 1919) was an American author of children's books, best known for writing The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. His works anticipated such century-later commonplaces as television, augmented reality, laptop computers (The Master Key), wireless telephones (Tik-Tok of Oz), women in high risk, action-heavy occupations (Mary Louise in the Country), and the ubiquity of advertising on clothing (Aunt Jane's Nieces at Work).
Content:
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900)
The Marvelous Land of Oz (1904)
The Woggle-Bug Book (1905)
Ozma of Oz (1907)
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz (1908)
The Road to Oz (1909)
The Emerald City of Oz (1910)
The Patchwork Girl of Oz (1913)
Little Wizard Stories of Oz (1913, collection of 6 short stories)
Tik-Tok of Oz (1914)
The Scarecrow of Oz (1915)
Rinkitink in Oz (1916)
The Lost Princess of Oz (1917)
The Tin Woodman of Oz (1918)
The Magic of Oz (1919, posthumously published)
Glinda of Oz (1920, posthumously published)
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Jack London is best known as the author of The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set in the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories "To Build a Fire", "An Odyssey of the North", and "Love of Life".
This ebook presents the collected 78 short stories of the North by Jack London in one book, carefully crafted and formatted for your eReader with a detailed table of contents.
Content:
- The Son of the Wolf (1900):
The White Silence, The Son of the Wolf, The Men of Forty Mile, In a Far Country, To the Man on the Trail, The Priestly Prerogative, The Wisdom of the Trail, The Wife of a King, An Odyssey of the North.
- The God of His Fathers: Tales of the Klondike (1901):
The God of His Fathers, The Great Interrogation, Which Make Men Remember, Siwash, The Man with the Gash, Jan, the Unrepentant, Grit of Women, Where the Trail Forks, A Daughter of the Aurora, At the Rainbow's End, The Scorn of Women.
- Children of the Frost (1902):
In the Forests of the North, The Law of Life, Nam-Bok the Unveracious, The Master of Mystery, The Sunlanders, The Sickness of Lone Chief, Keesh, the Son of Keesh, The Death of Ligoun, Li Wan, the Fair, The League of the Old Men.
- The Faith of Men (1904):
A Relic of the Pliocene, A Hyperborean Brew, The Faith of Men, Too Much Gold, The One Thousand Dozen, The Marriage of Lit-lit, Bâtard, The Story of Jees Uck.
- Love of Life & Other Stories (1907):
Love of Life, A Day's Lodging, The White Man's Way, The Story of Keesh, The Unexpected, Brown Wolf, The Sun Dog Trail, Negore, The Coward.
- Lost Face (1910):
Lost Face, Trust, To Build a Fire, That Spot, Flush of Gold, The Passing of Marcus O'Brien, The Wit of Porportuk.
- Smoke Bellew (1902):
The Taste of the Meat, The Meat, The Stampede to Squaw Creek, Shorty Dreams, The Man on the Other Bank, The Race for Number Three.
- + 19 Uncollected Stories:
The Devil's Dice Box, The Test: A Clondyke Wooing, Even Unto Death, The King of Mazy May, Pluck and Pertinacity, A Northland Miracle, Thanksgiving on Slav Creek, The "Fuzziness" of Hoockla-Heen, The League of Old Men, To Build a Fire, Up the Slide, Chased by the Trail, A Flutter in Eggs, The Hanging of Cultus George, The Little Man, The Mistake of Creation, The Town-Site of Tra-Lee, Wonder of Woman, A Klondike Christmas.
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Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and short story writer. The Age of Innocence (1920) won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for literature, making Wharton the first woman to win the award. Many of Wharton's novels are characterized by a subtle use of dramatic irony. Having grown up in upper-class pre-World War I society, Wharton became one of its most astute critics, in such works as The House of Mirth and The Age of Innocence. In addition to writing several respected novels, Wharton produced a wealth of short stories and is particularly well regarded for her ghost stories.
This carefully crafted ebook is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents and the following works: Afterward, The Age of Innocence, Artemis to Actaeon and Other Verses, Autres Temps..., Bunner Sisters, The Choice, Coming Home, Crucial Instances, The Custom of the Country, The Descent of Man & Other Stories, The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, Volume 1, The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, Volume 2, Ethan Frome, Fighting France, The Fruit of the Tree, The Glimpses of the Moon, The Greater Inclination, The Hermit and the Wild Woman, The House of Mirth, In Morocco, Kerfol, The Long Run, Madame de Treymes, The Reef, Sanctuary, Summer, Tales of Men and Ghosts, The Touchstone, The Triumph of Night, The Valley of Decision, Xingu.
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Huckleberry "Huck" Finn is a fictional character created by Mark Twain, who first appeared in the book The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and is the protagonist and narrator of its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. He is 12 or 13 years old during the former and a year older ("thirteen or fourteen or along there," Chapter 17) at the time of the latter. Huck also narrates Tom Sawyer Abroad and Tom Sawyer, Detective, two shorter sequels to the first two books. This carefully crafted ebook is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents and the following works: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer Abroad, Tom Sawyer, Detective.
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This carefully crafted ebook is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents of the complete works of Oscar Wilde, containing more than 150 works.
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854 - 1900) was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his epigrams and plays, and the circumstances of his imprisonment which was followed by his early death. At the turn of the 1890s, he refined his ideas about the supremacy of art in a series of dialogues and essays, and incorporated themes of decadence, duplicity, and beauty into his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890). The opportunity to construct aesthetic details precisely, and combine them with larger social themes, drew Wilde to write drama. He wrote Salome (1891) in French in Paris but it was refused a licence. Unperturbed, Wilde produced four society comedies in the early 1890s, which made him one of the most successful playwrights of late Victorian London. At the height of his fame and success, while his masterpiece, The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), was still on stage in London, Wilde had the Marquess of Queensberry, the father of his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, prosecuted for libel, a charge carrying a penalty of up to two years in prison. The trial unearthed evidence that caused Wilde to drop his charges and led to his own arrest and trial for gross indecency with other men. After two more trials he was convicted and imprisoned for two years' hard labour. In 1897, in prison, he wrote De Profundis which was published in 1905, a long letter which discusses his spiritual journey through his trials, forming a dark counterpoint to his earlier philosophy of pleasure. Upon his release he left immediately for France, never to return to Ireland or Britain. There he wrote his last work, The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898), a long poem commemorating the harsh rhythms of prison life. He died destitute in Paris at the age of forty-six.
Content:
The Plays: VERA, THE DUCHESS OF PADUA, LADY WINDERMERE'S FAN, A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE, SALOMÉ, SALOME (English Version), AN IDEAL HUSBAND, THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST.
The Poetry: more than 100 poems.
The Novel: THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY, including THE REVISED 20 CHAPTER VERSION.
The Short Stories: THE PORTRAIT OF MR. W. H., THE HAPPY PRINCE AND OTHER TALES, A HOUSE OF POMEGRANATES, LORD ARTHUR SAVILE'S CRIME AND OTHER STORIES.
The Non-Fiction: THE DECAY OF LYING, PEN, PENCIL AND POISON - A STUDY IN GREEN, THE CRITIC AS ARTIST, THE TRUTH OF MASKS, THE RISE OF HISTORICAL CRITICISM, THE ENGLISH RENAISSANCE OF ART, HOUSE DECORATION, ART AND THE HANDICRAFTSMAN, LECTURE TO ART STUDENTS, LONDON MODELS, POEMS IN PROSE, THE SOUL OF MAN UNDER SOCIALISM, PHRASES AND PHILOSOPHIES FOR THE USE OF THE YOUNG, A FEW MAXIMS FOR THE INSTRUCTION OF THE OVER-EDUCATED, DE PROFUNDIS, OSCAR WILDE'S LETTER TO ROBERT BROWNING, PERSONAL IMPRESSIONS OF AMERICA, THE DECORATIVE ARTS, THE HOUSE BEAUTIFUL, THE TRUTH OF MASKS.
The Journalism: A HANDBOOK TO MARRIAGE, A RIDE THROUGH MOROCCO, ARISTOTLE AT AFTERNOON TEA, BALZAC IN ENGLISH, DINNERS AND DISHES, HAMLET AT THE LYCEUM, LONDON MODELS, MR MORRIS ON TAPESTRY, MR WHISTLER'S TEN O'CLOCK, MRS LANGTRY AS HESTER GRAZEBROOK, OLIVIA AT THE LYCEUM, THE AMERICAN INVASION, TWO BIOGRAPHIES OF KEATS, TWO LETTERS TO THE DAILY CHRONICLE, WOMAN'S DRESS.
Apocrypha: TELENY.
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