Literatura

Guy de Maupassant was a master of the short story. This collection reflects his remarkable diversity, with stories that vary in theme and tone, and range from tragedy and satire to comedy and farce. With a simplicity of style that masks complex philosophy, Maupassant can illuminate an entire cede of values by means of a few telling details. He exposes the brutality of war and the hypocrisy it spawns, and depicts the petty limitations, the dissimulations and the vanities inherent at different levels of society. His stories are linked by a trenchant irony and by a preoccupation with the frailty of human nature and the futility of so many lives. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Más información

This is a fascinating selection of Kipling\'s most famous short stories, bringing together the very best of his work. Lifes Handicap reflects his experiences of India, and contains two horror stories which permeate the collection with an air of haunted destinies. Delusions and obsessions, past lives and the slums of London in 1890 are the fascinatingly diverse topics featured in Many inventions. While Traffics and Discoveries contains three tales in which the subject matter ranges from unexplained mystery and the super natural to an other-worldly house full of elusive but charming children. The Maltese cat is Kipling\'s well-loved story about a polo pony, These stories remind us once again that Kipling is an undisputed master of story-telling. Nota: El contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Delusions and obsessions, past lives and the slums of London in 1890 are the fascinatingly diverse topics featured in Many inventions. While Traffics and Discoveries contains three tales in which the subject matter ranges from unexplained mystery and the super natural to an other-worldly house full of elusive but charming children. The Maltese cat is Kipling\'s well-loved story about a polo pony, These stories remind us once again that Kipling is an undisputed master of story-telling. Nota: El contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. These stories remind us once again that Kipling is an undisputed master of story-telling. Nota: El contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Nota: El contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Más información

Edgar Allan Poe received scant recognition for his efforts, until the publication of "The Raven" in 1845. The poem\'s popularity gave him a new visibility in literary circles. This title presents a collection of his tales and poems. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Para más información, por favor consulte la tabla de contenido.Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Para más información, por favor consulte la tabla de contenido.Para más información, por favor consulte la tabla de contenido. Más información

A year after the publication of The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas produced a sequel worthy in every respect of the original. In Twenty years After the much beloved D\'Artaganan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis reunite to fight the forces of evil. In the original novel they defeated Milady, a formidable foe: now they need to face her vengeful son Mordaunt, as well as countering the machinations of the sinister Cardinal Mazarin. Their adventures also take them to England, where Cromwell is about to topple Charles I. Meanwhile, they must overcome the obstacles which the passing of time has placed between them. Rediscovering strength in unity, they fight for Queen and country. The Musketeer novels were a huge success in Dumas\' own lifetime, and have lost none of their original appeal. Translated into many languages and adapted for cinema and television, they have helped to make Dumas arguably the most successful exporter of French culture to the wider world. Nota: El contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. The Musketeer novels were a huge success in Dumas\' own lifetime, and have lost none of their original appeal. Translated into many languages and adapted for cinema and television, they have helped to make Dumas arguably the most successful exporter of French culture to the wider world. Nota: El contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Nota: El contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Más información

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The Gateway of the Monster.The Red Hand.The Ghost Hunter to Sherlock Holmes the supernatural was a closed book: but other great detectives have always been ready to do battle with the dark instead. This volume brings together sixteen chilling cases of these supernatural sleuths, pitting themselves against the peril of ultimate evil. Here are encounters from the casebooks of the Victorian haunted house investigators John Bell and Flaxman Low, from Carnacki, the Edwardian battler against the abyss, and from horror master Arthur Machen\'s Mr Dyson, a man-about-town and meddler in strange things. Connoisseurs will find rare cases such as those of Allen Upward\'s \'The Ghost Hunter\', Robert Barr\'s Eugene Valmont (who may have inspired Agatha Christie\'s Hercule Poirot) and Donald Campbell\'s young explorer Leslie Vane, the James Bond of the jazz age, who battles against occult enemies of the British Empire. And the collection is completed by some of the best tales from the pens of modern psychic sleuth authors.Connoisseurs will find rare cases such as those of Allen Upward\'s \'The Ghost Hunter\', Robert Barr\'s Eugene Valmont (who may have inspired Agatha Christie\'s Hercule Poirot) and Donald Campbell\'s young explorer Leslie Vane, the James Bond of the jazz age, who battles against occult enemies of the British Empire. And the collection is completed by some of the best tales from the pens of modern psychic sleuth authors. Más información

the shadow turned round; and I saw a terrible death\'s-head, which darted a look at me from a pair of scorching eyes. I felt as if I were face to face with Satan. Erik, the Phantom of the Paris Opera House, is one of the great icons of horror literature. This tormented and disfigured creature has made his home in the labyrinthine cellars of this opulent building where he can indulge in his great passion for music, which is a substitute for the love and emotion denied him because of his ghastly appearance. It is in the Opera House that he encounters Christine Daae whom he trains in secret to become a great singer. Erik\'s passionate obsession with a beautiful woman beyond his reach is doomed and leads to the dramatic tragic finale. Gaston Leroux\'s novel is a marvellous blend of detective story, romance and spine-tingling terror which has fascinated readers ever since the work was first published.Erik, the Phantom of the Paris Opera House, is one of the great icons of horror literature. This tormented and disfigured creature has made his home in the labyrinthine cellars of this opulent building where he can indulge in his great passion for music, which is a substitute for the love and emotion denied him because of his ghastly appearance. It is in the Opera House that he encounters Christine Daae whom he trains in secret to become a great singer. Erik\'s passionate obsession with a beautiful woman beyond his reach is doomed and leads to the dramatic tragic finale. Gaston Leroux\'s novel is a marvellous blend of detective story, romance and spine-tingling terror which has fascinated readers ever since the work was first published. Más información

The wolf has always been a creature of legend and romance, while kings, sorcerers and outlaws have been proud to be called by the name of the wolf, it\'s no wonder, then, that tales of transformation between man and wolf are so powerful and persistent. This original collection offers some of the greatest, rarest and most unusual werewolf stories ever. From the forests of Transylvania to the ordered lawns of an English country estate, here are all the classic aspects of the tale. You will encounter shadows that lope under the moon, chilling howls, family curses, crimson feasts, the desperate chase and the deathly duel. But you will also find the werewolf in less expected guises - as an adversary for Sherlock Holmes, as a myth of the Wild West, and as a figure restored to its origins in folk and fairy tales. With an informative introduction by Mark Valentine that follows the traces of the werewolf in literature, and its links to Dracula, Jekyll Hyde, and The Hound of the Baskervilles, this superb collection will make you fear the full moon.You will encounter shadows that lope under the moon, chilling howls, family curses, crimson feasts, the desperate chase and the deathly duel. But you will also find the werewolf in less expected guises - as an adversary for Sherlock Holmes, as a myth of the Wild West, and as a figure restored to its origins in folk and fairy tales. With an informative introduction by Mark Valentine that follows the traces of the werewolf in literature, and its links to Dracula, Jekyll Hyde, and The Hound of the Baskervilles, this superb collection will make you fear the full moon. Más información

This book introduces Mowgli, the human foundling adopted by a family of wolves. It tells of the enmity between him and the tiger Shere Khan, who killed Mowgliʾs parents, and of the friendship between the man-cub and Bagheera, the Black Panther, and Baloo, the sleepy brown bear, who instructs Mowgli in the Laws of the Jungle.

This text contains some of the most thrilling of the Mowgli stories. It includes Red Dog, in which Mowgli forms an unlikely alliance with the python Kaa, How Fear Came and Letting in the Jungle as well as The Spring Running, which brings Mowgli to manhood and the realisation that he must leave Bagheera, Baloo and his other friends for the world of man.

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