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Lunes o martes, el único volumen de cuentos de Virginia Woolf que vio la luz pública durante su vida, en 1921.

En este cuento, Virginia Woolf explora los matices de la música, de un modo acorde a sus propias impresiones. Es decir, cuestionando y ahondando constantemente en esas impresiones. ?Es la experiencia estética una fuga, una manera de escapar del mundo?

Emily Byrd Starr longs to attend Queen's Academy to earn her teaching license, but her tradition-bound relatives at New Moon refuse. She is instead offered the chance to go to Shrewsbury High School with her friends, on two conditions. The first is that she board with her disliked Aunt Ruth, but it...

Emily Starr and Teddy Kent have been friends since childhood, and as Teddy is about to leave to further his education as an artist, Emily believes that their friendship is blossoming into something more. On his last night at home, they vow to think of each other when they see the star Vega of the...

Recopilación de cuentos varios: -El doctor Pértinax -De la comisión -Doctor Angelicus -Medalla... de perro chico -Un candidato -Un repatriado -Doble vía -Cuesta abajo -El oso mayor -Tambor y gaita

La Galatea suele considerarse como una novela pastoril. Es verdad que los personajes son pastores, pero la novela va mucho más allá, desarrolla un estudio psicológico del amor, siendo este el propósito de Cervantes al escribirla. La novela empezó a redactarse cuando Cervantes volvió de su cautiverio...

Tragédie : Étéocle, fils incestueux d'OEdipe et de Jocaste, est monté sur le trône de Thebes a la mort de son pere. Il refuse de céder la place a son frere Polynice qui revendique le droit légitime d'exercer le pouvoir en alternance avec lui. Polynice fait donc le siege de Thebes et plonge...

Mastro Don Gesualdo, pubblicato nel 1889, e uno tra i piu conosciuti romanzi di Giovanni Verga. Narra la vicenda dell'omonimo protagonista, ed e ambientato a Vizzini, in Sicilia, nella prima meta dell'Ottocento in periodo risorgimentale. L'operazione linguistica condotta dallo scrittore risulta in...

Ambientato negli anni che precedono la seconda guerra di indipendenza, sullo sfondo del lago di Lugano, e la storia della famiglia del nobile Franco Maironi, cattolico e liberale, e della piccolo borghese Luisa Rigey, al cui matrimonio si era opposta la filoaustriaca marchesa Orsola, nonna di Franco....

Le troisieme et dernier tome de l'épopée de Dante. Béatrice fait passer Dante au Paradis, qui est construit a l'inverse de l'Enfer (neuf cercles concentriques dirigés vers le haut). Ici on croise de nombreux saints. Chaque cercle correspond en fait a un ciel (ciel de la Lune, de Mercure, de Vénus,...

All told, this particular session covered a good many hours. The four kept up a more or less connected mental conversation with each other as they went along, except, of course, when the events became too exciting. Mainly they were trying to catch their agents in the proper mood for receiving telepathic communications, and it proved no easy matter.

Undaunted by crazy tales of an indestructible presence on Asteroid Z-40, Harley 2Q14N20 sets out alone to face and master it.

Jack and Mark build an airship and head North, hoping to find a rare plant that grows only in Alaska. But a freak earthquake causes a chunk of the Earth, along with our protagonists, to fly into outer space.

Dakta death, horrible beyond the weirdest fever-dreams of Earth-men, faced Space Ship Commander Gerry Norton. The laconic interplanetary explorer knew too much. He stood in the dynamic path of Lansa, Lord of the Scaly Ones, the crafty monster bent on conquering the fair City of Larr and all the rich, shadowless lands of the glorious Amazons of Venus.