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Extremadamente prolijo, tiene en su haber más de 200 fábulas. en este volumen te presentamos: -La mujer intratable -La mujer y el marido borracho -La mujer y la gallina -La mula -La paloma sedienta -La paloma y la hormiga -La rana gritona y el león -La rana que decía ser médico y la zorra -La...

Sexta entrega de las fábulas de Esopo. En este volumen encontrarás: *Hércules y Atenea *Hércules y el boyero *Hércules y Plutón *Hermes y el escultor *Hermes y el lenador *Hermes y la Tierra *Hermes y Tiresias *La alondra monuda *La anciana y el recipiente de vino *La bruja *La cabra...

Les Mysteres de Paris est un roman français publié en feuilletons par Eugene Sue dans Le Journal des Débats entre le 19 juin 1842 et le 15 octobre 1843.

Les Mysteres de Paris est un roman français publié en feuilletons par Eugene Sue dans Le Journal des Débats entre le 19 juin 1842 et le 15 octobre 1843.

A man mysteriously murdered at night, the figures 2x4 x 1x2 scrawled on his shirt front, a broken shoe-polish label beside him. Cleek solved it. Can you?

All Alan Dundas wanted, when he started digging into the ancient clay river bed on his land, was a watering hole for his stock. In 1900s Australia, the land without a history, the last thing he expected to find was a dome of golden metal beneath his land. Or a series of traps barring his entrance,...

L'Assommoir (1877) is the seventh novel in Émile Zola's twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart. Usually considered one of Zola's masterpieces, the novel—a harsh and uncompromising study of alcoholism and poverty in the working-class districts of Paris—was a huge commercial success and established Zola's fame and reputation throughout France and the world.

FOREWORD: In this strange story of another day, the author has ''dipped into the future'' and viewed with his mind's eye the ultimate effect of America's self-satisfied complacency, and her persistent refusal to heed the lessons of Oriental progress. I can safely promise the reader who takes up this...

A picaresque novel, partially based on Smollett's experience as a naval-surgeon’s mate in the British Navy.

In this collection of shorter stories we visit Malay pirates, have a couple of tales of India, a shipwreck off the Channel Islands and a bursting dam in California, and finish off escaping from captivity in China.

This is the chapter on 16th century Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe from Sir Robert S. Ball's Great Astronomers, second edition, which begins: "The most picturesque figure in the history of astronomy ... Tycho Brahe was alike notable for his astronomical genius and for the extraordinary vehemence...

Combining thrills of Mexican-American border life, German-Mexican plots, the adventures of a cowpuncher-miner and the happy termination of his quest for love and wealth, this tale holds the reader's attention from beginning to end.

Melancólico relato en el que un escritor, admirado convenientemente por todo lo que ha escrito hasta entonces, está sin embargo seguro que apenas ha comenzado, que, ahora que está enfermo y próximo a morir, es cuando recién está en condiciones de emprender una obra.

James expone concisamente en las pocas páginas de este relato, ese difícil trayecto que separa al escritor de su crítico, ese abismo que divide dos mundos irreconciliables pero a su vez mutuamente necesarios. Aquí se nos presenta a un joven crítico literario que es invitado por un prestigioso...