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Una obra en la que trata de representar todas las formas literarias, es para incluir una observación relativa a algunos trabajos, y sobre todo a éste. Cada una de sus composiciones está basada en ideas más o menos nuevas cuya expresión le parece útil, puede haber considerado la prioridad de...

El protagonista nos va narrando las diferentes épocas de su vida. Desde su infancia en Lúzaro, pasando por su juventud en tierras gaditanas, y sus aventuras como capitán de fragata hasta llegar a la conciencia de una vida malgastada. Shanti Andía muestra una nostalgia inmensa por el mar...

Ultimo tomo de la trilogía "la lucha por la vida" en "Aurora roja" encontramos una novela política, antiurbana, que parece reproducir la idea marxista de la lucha obrera.

A mystery novel featuring Reginald Brett, Barrister Detective, an insightful, Sherlockian investigator.

In Salambo geht es vordergründig um die Belagerung Karthagos 241 v. Chr. durch ein Söldnerheer und den Sieg des Karthager Feldherrn Hamilkar über die Barbaren. Es geht um den Söldnerführer Matho und seine wilde Liebe zu Hamilkars Tochter Salammbô, die Schwester Hannibals. Es geht um Schlachten, Foltermethoden, Götterkulte.

From the "Make Believe Stories": The Nodding Donkey dated his birth from the day he received the beautiful coat of varnish in the workshop of Santa Claus at the North Pole. Before that he was just some pieces of wood, glued together. His head was not glued on, however, but was fastened in...

Blackmail, murder and the secret of an ancient quarry go to make a very exciting yarn.

The burlesque adventures of Tartarin, a local hero of Tarascon, a small town in southern France, whose invented adventures and reputation as a swashbuckler finally force him to travel to a very prosaic Algiers in search of lions. Instead of finding a romantic, mysterious Oriental fantasy land, he...

15 sermons preached at Princeton Seminary in the early 1900's by the great scholar of Biblical Theology. Also includes his address on "The Nature and Aims of Biblical Theology."

This fourth novel of Boothby's Dr. Nikola series reveals that Nikola has discovered all of the facts necessary to extend a human being's life. He has studied science and magic secrets of Tibetan monks. He explains: "It has been a long and tedious search, but such labour only makes success the...

Williams' classic edition of Hoare's classic translation is here augmented with almost 200 new annotations concerning quotations, language, geography, history, and customs alluded to in the text.

A story of love behind a throne, telling how a young American met a lovely girl and followed her to a new and strange country.

Deux familles Corses, les Orthofieri et les Christiania, se vouent une haine réciproque depuis le meurtre de César Christiani, assassiné, comme la justice d'alors l'a cru, par un membre de la famille Orthofieri. Cent ans plus tard, la vérité va éclater grâce au petit-fils de César , Charles,...

La suite du Roi des gueux. Les personnages dont le lecteur a fait connaissance dans le premier volume, continuent d'oeuvrer pour eux-memes, mais n'ont-ils pas tous le meme but: se venger de leurs ennemis et prendre le pouvoir?