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This is the last collection of short stories written by the witty British author, Hector Hugh Munro, better known by his pen names "Saki" or "H. H. Munro", compiled posthumously by his friend, Rothay Reynolds. The title story is a humorous tale of trying to indoctrinate...

La novela "El juguete rabioso" es sin duda, la más autobiográfica de sus novelas. Dividida en 4 partes, cuenta la historia de Silvio Astier, el protagonista, quien se encuentra siempre en situaciones en las que termina fracasando. Frustrado de nunca poder cumplir sus objetivos, decide...

Recopilación de obras completas que incluye las poesías, epigramas, sonetos y diálogos (diálogo entre un galán y el eco) que han sobrevivido hasta nuestros días.

"The pay is small enough," said Captain Kettle, staring at the blue paper. "It's a bit hard for a man of my age and experience to come down to a job like piloting, on eight pound a month and my grub."

The plot follows a country doctor's hapless struggle to attend a sick young boy on a cold winter's night. A series of surreal events occur in the process, including the appearance of a mysterious groom in a pig shed.

They roamed the vanished world that yesterday was America.

The Vagabonds of Space are cast into the hands of the vibration-maddened natives of Titan, satellite of Saturn.

The Mutineer: A Romance of Pitcairn Island by Louis Becke and Walter Jeffery: The tale of the mutiny of His Majesty's armed ship Bounty, which led to the founding of the Pitcairn community, is well known. All that needs to be told here is from Tahiti with a cargo of breadfruit trees for planting in...

VIIe VIe siecles avant J.-C. On le considere comme le pere de la fable. Mais a-t-il vraiment existé ? Rien n'est sur, il est convenu désormais de parler plutôt de textes ésopiques que de fables d'Ésope. Ces fables constituent une somme de la sagesse populaire des Grecs. Elles inspireront ensuite...

VIIe VIe siecles avant J.-C. On le considere comme le pere de la fable. Mais a-t-il vraiment existé ? Rien n'est sur, il est convenu désormais de parler plutôt de textes ésopiques que de fables d'Ésope. Ces fables constituent une somme de la sagesse populaire des Grecs. Elles inspireront ensuite...

A Dreamer's Tales is the fifth book by Irish fantasy writer Lord Dunsany, considered a major influence on the work of J. R. R. Tolkien, H. P. Lovecraft, Ursula LeGuin and others. It was first published in hardcover by George Allen & Sons in September, 1910, and has been reprinted a number of times...

William Wilson es un relato corto de Edgar Allan Poe. Su ambientación está inspirada en los años de formación de Poe fuera de Londres. El cuento sigue el tema del "doble". Fue publicado por vez primera por la revista Burton's Gentleman's Magazine en octubre de 1839, y más tarde apareció en la colección de 1840 Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque.

Harold Monkhouse is usually such an uncomplaining patient so when his brother Amos calls in one night, what he doesn't expect is to see him at death's door. Suspicions aroused, he demands an urgent second opinion. And when Harold is later found dead from arsenic poisoning, Amos is left in no doubt...

Facing a six-hour deadline of death, young Larry raids a hostile world of rat-men and tinkling Devil Crystals.