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The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus

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by Christopher Marlowe
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016

The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, commonly referred to simply as Doctor Faustus, is an Elizabethan tragedy by Christopher Marlowe, based on German stories about the title character Faust, that was first performed sometime between 1588 and Marlowe's death in 1593. The powerful...
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by Arthur Conan Doyle
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018

This ebook compiles Conan Doyle's greatest writings, including novels and short stories such as "A Study in Scarlet", "The Hound of the Baskervilles", "The Lost World", "The Adventure of the Speckled Band", "The Sign of Four" and "The White Company"....
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by Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2016

La primer flor del Carmelo pertenece al ciclo de autos sacramentales escritos por Calderón de la Barca. Los autos sacramentales son obras religiosas de carácter alegórico representadas sobre todo en España y Portugal durante el Corpus Christi. Este género ocupa un papel muy interesante en la...
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by Francisco de Rojas Zorrilla
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2016

Francisco de Rojas Zorrilla (Toledo, 1607-Madrid, 1648). España.Hijo de un militar toledano de origen judío, nació el 4 de octubre de 1607. Estudió en Salamanca y luego se trasladó a Madrid, donde vivió el resto de su vida. Fue uno de los poetas más encumbrados de la corte de Felipe IV. Y en...
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by Lot Vekemans
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2017

An extraordinary play that asks a simple question: is it ever possible to move on? Poison by Dutch writer Lot Vekemans had a critically acclaimed run in New York in 2016, and was premiered in the UK at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, in November 2017, directed by Paul Miller. 'An...
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by Emile Zola
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016

The Dream (Le rêve ) is the sixteenth novel in the Rougon-Macquart series by Émile Zola written in 1888. “The Dream” is a love idyll concerning a poor embroideress, Angelique, and the son of a wealthy aristocratic family, set against the backdrop of a sleepy cathedral town in northern France. The...
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by Alexandre Dumas
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2013

Written in 1847, while Dumas was at the height of his powers, this play recounts the events leading up to the Saint Bartholomew's Day massacre of the French Huguenots--and the subsequent death of King Charles IX. The playwright focuses on the people inadvertently caught up in the slaughter--which, once...
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by Alexandre Dumas
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016

The Count of Monte Cristo is one of the great adventure novels of the nineteenth century. But the author, Alexandre Dumas, also converted many of his fictions into riveting dramas, dividing his classic tale of revenge into four plays. In this fourth and final part, Edmond Dantes (the Count of Monte...
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by Félix María Samaniego
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2016

Félix María Samaniego, célebre por sus fábulas, escribió también este libro de poemas eróticos en la España del siglo XVIII.
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by Tirso de Molina
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2016

Todo es dar en una cosa pertenece a una trilogía dedicada a la familia Pizarro. Todo es dar una cosa (sobre Francisco), Amazonas en las Indias (sobre Gonzalo) y La lealtad contra la envidia (sobre Hernando). Tirso de Molina vivió algún tiempo en la Hispaniola (actual República Dominicana) y regresó...
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by Juan Pérez de Montalbán
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2016

En El hijo del Serafín Juan Pérez de Montalbán mezcló elementos de la tradición teatral con episodios de la vida de fray Pedro de Alcántara, de quien se dice que dormía muy poco; que andaba siempre descalzo y apenas se alimentaba.Aquí se relatan algunos de los milagros atribuidos al santo:...
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by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2016

Los escritos iniciales de Cervantes datan de los tiempos de reclusión en Argel. A su regreso a España, entre 1582 y 1587, escribió sus primeras obras teatrales. Solo se conservan dos: El cerco de Numancia y El trato de Argel. Tras estos textos, en la tradición clásica y el teatro humanista, durante...
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Poème sur le désastre de Lisbonne

( Edition intégrale )

by Voltaire
Language: French
Release Date: November 26, 2018

Le 1er Novembre 1755, un séisme de magnitude 8.5 à 8.7 sur l’échelle de Richter détruit quatre-vingts cinq pour cent de Lisbonne. Le monde européen est effaré. Un siècle plus tard, des philosophes comme Hegel en parlent encore. Adorno compare l’effet du tremblement de terre de Lisbonne...
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by Voltaire
Language: French
Release Date: June 13, 2013

La Henriade Voltaire, écrivain et philosophe français (1694-1778) Ce livre numérique présente «La Henriade», de Voltaire, édité en texte intégral. Une table des matières dynamique permet d'accéder directement aux...
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