Joseph: 10167 books

Joseph Conrad en Tifón (1902) describe la tempestad salvaje que sufre el Nan-Shan, un vapor que transporta a doscientos culíes (trabajadores indígenas) de regreso a China con sus ahorros celosamente guardados. Esto le da pie para un penetrante análisis de comportamientos humanos variados, que...

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...

Pocos autores pueden compararse con la desmesura de la invención, la variedad de registros, la profundidad de inmersión de su viaje hacia los lugares más oscuros y recónditos de la mente y la delicadeza descriptiva de Joseph Conrad. Se recoge aquí en lengua española por vez primera la totalidad...

Un refinado hombre de negocios cuya reputación parece «más sólida que el Banco de Inglaterra» confiesa, en una serie de cartas dirigidas a una etérea mujer, haber malversado los fondos de la herencia de un magnate que le encomendaron administrar tiempo atrás....

Lord Jim es una novela escrita por Joseph Conrad y publicada originalmente en la Blackwood's Magazine entre octubre de 1899 y noviembre de 1900. La novela narra la historia de Jim, un marinero que abandona una nave en peligro y es censurado públicamente por esto, y sus intentos por aceptar su paso y redimirse.

As science becomes more deeply embedded in a complex technological infrastructure, has this changed the relationship between the sciences and the various technologies that support them? As our technologies help shrink our world, can we restrict our ethical concerns or must we find a way to face the...

John Inglesant Volume I Joseph Henry Shorthouse, english novelist (1834-1903) This ebook presents «John Inglesant Volume I», from Joseph Henry Shorthouse. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. TABLE OF CONTENTS -01- ABOUT THIS BOOK -02- DEDICATION -03- VOLUME I. JOHN INGLESANT

Travel through the Italian countryside with Joseph Bastianich in search of the country’s eighty-nine finest wines.** Joseph Bastianich is steeped in Italian wines like no one else. Not only is he the co-owner, with Mario Batali, of some of America’s premier Italian restaurants, but he also...

Donaldson “was born in Glasgow, where his father was employed by a mercantile house. With some school companions he ran away to sea and made a voyage to the West Indies, which disenchanted him of a sea life, and he returned home and was sent back to school by his father. Early in 1809 he again ran...

The second book in the Floyd & Mikki series by veteran author Joseph Tatner. Picking up where the highly acclaimed novel, "Floyd & Mikki: Zombie Hunters," left off, the two main characters continue their search for a place to call home in a dystopian world populated by the undead. Their love for each...

Joseph A. Altsheler's WORLD WAR I SERIES for young readers features three novels, THE GUNS OF EUROPE, THE FOREST OF SWORDS, and THE HOSTS OF THE AIR, dealing with the world war in Europe.  It was the singular fortune of the author to be present at the beginning of this, the most gigantic struggle...

On every street, on every corner, in every country of the world, THE BLOOD PARADE files by.The debut collection from Joseph F. Parda (author of the international best-seller BEAVERS!) transports you into a dark domain populated by angels, demons, and cosmic horrors that defy description. Gathered...

Dr. Susan Shader is the most fascinating -- and sexiest -- heroine to come along since Clarice Starling made her debut in The Silence of the Lambs. Introduced in Joseph Glass's widely praised first novel, Eyes, Susan is a renowned psychiatrist and criminal profiler for the Chicago Police Department...

In Never Assume, the first story in The Absurd Tales of Mr Griffs series, Mr Griffs and his difficult neighbour, Steve Moran, go head to head. Mr Griffs loves everything his neighbour hates. While Mr Griffs enjoys wearing baggy clothes, Steve only dresses in designer suits. Mr Griffs relishes his...