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Things as They Are; or The Adventures of Caleb Williams (often abbreviated to Caleb Williams) (1794) by William Godwin is a three-volume novel written as a call to end the abuse of power by what Godwin saw as a tyrannical government. Intended as a popularization of the ideas presented in his 1793...

Le confessioni d'un italiano e un romanzo di Ippolito Nievo di carattere storico, la cui vicenda si svolge nei cinquant'anni che vanno dalla campagna napoleonica in Italia alle rivoluzioni del 1848. Nel romanzo viene narrata, sotto forma di un'autobiografia fittizia, la vicenda di Carlino Altoviti,...

Qui ne connaît pas l'intrigue de ce roman ? La terre en l'an 802701 a les apparences d'un paradis. Les apparences seulement. Car derrière ces jardins magnifiques, ces bosquets somptueux, cet éternel été où les hommes devenus oisifs n'ont à se préoccuper de rien, se cache un secret...

Cuatro ensayos fundamentales sobre la reflexión de crítica y estética de Oscar Wilde.

La Esfinge sin secreto es una extraña historia de amor, donde el secreto de una dama, es justamente no tener secretos. El rancio sabor gótico-romántico se filtra como en tantas otras obras del autor, así como una extraordinaria elegancia y desbordante imaginación tal como expondría en sus ensayos sobre las teorías estéticas.

Written circa 1917, and published published much later in "Vanity Fair". It was later first published in book form in Tales of the Jazz Age in 1922. Written, like "Tarquin of Cheapside," while I was at Princeton, this sketch was published years later in "Vanity Fair."...

This short story was first published in the "Smart Set" in 1921, although it had been written 5 years previous. It was first published in book form in Tales of the Jazz Age in 1922. "Written almost six years ago, this story is a product of undergraduate days at Princeton. Considerably...

El jorobadito, es una recopilación de nueve cuentes en los que el autor trata temáticas como la angustia, la humillación, la marginación la hipocresía de la burguesía, el aburrimiento entre otras. Temáticas recurrentes igualmente en sus novelas. Los títulos de los nueve cuentos: -El jorobadito -Escritor...

A collection of 12 stories published serially in The Ludgate, London, Jun 1897 to May 1898, in which the criminal mastermind, Felix Gryde, conducts his nefarious criminal work -- theft, kidnapping, ransom, assassination, fraud -- and he never gets caught. The author's introduction: "The...

The Curse of Capistrano is a 1919 novella by Johnston McCulley and the first work to feature the fictional character Zorro (zorro is the Spanish word for fox). After the enormous success of the 1920 film adaptation, The Mark of Zorro, the story was republished under that name. Prior to being published...

Sirius is Thomas Trelone's great experiment - a huge, handsome dog with the brain and intelligence of a human being. Raised and educated in Trelone's own family alongside Plaxy, his youngest daughter, Sirius is a truly remarkable and gifted creature. His relationship with the Trelones, particularly...

Last Men in London (1932) is a science fiction novel by Olaf Stapledon. The narrator is the same member of the eighteenth and final human species who purportedly induced Stapledon to write Last and First Men. Last Men in London is the story of this being's exploration of the consciousness of a present-day...

Le Côté de Guermantes est le troisième tome d'À la recherche du temps perdu de Marcel Proust publié entre 1921 et 1922 chez Gallimard. Dans son édition originelle, le roman est divisé en deux tomes dont la deuxième partie, Le côté de Guermantes I, est suivie de Le Côté de Guermantes II.

El pozo y el péndulo (título original en inglés: The Pit and the Pendulum) es uno de los cuentos más famosos y celebrados de Edgar Allan Poe. Está considerado como uno de los relatos más espeluznantes dentro de la literatura de terror, pues transmite el abandono, la desorientación, el desconcierto...