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Cover of La Celestina
by Fernando de Rojas
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 9, 2017

La Celestina es el nombre con el que se conoce desde el siglo XVI a la obra titulada primero Comedia de Calisto y Melibea y después Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea, atribuida casi en su totalidad al bachiller Fernando de Rojas. Sus logros estéticos y artísticos, la caracterización psicológica...
Cover of La Celestina
by Fernando de Rojas
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 17, 2019

"La Celestina" (1499-1502), de Fernando de Rojas, es una de las obras más leídas y comentadas de la literatura española. Escrita enteramente a manera de diálogo, se considera que esta marca el final de la Edad Media y el comienzo del Renacimiento en la literatura española. Por su forma se le...
Cover of El vientre de París
by Émile Augier
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 3, 2018

Émile Zola, fundador del naturalismo, compuso con "El vientre de París" la tercera novela del ciclo Rougon-Macquart, que escribió entre 1871 y 1893, con el que erigió un sorprendente y completo relato de la vida francesa, especialmente de la parisina, durante el Segundo Imperio. "El...
Cover of El hombre que pudo reinar
by Rudyard Kipling
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 15, 2018

Esta novela corta es considerada una de las mejores de Kipling. "El hombre que pudo reinar" narra la historia de dos suboficiales británicos en la India que se convierten en reyes de Kafiristán, una parte remota de Afganistán. El relato está inspirado en las hazañas de James Brooke,...
Cover of The Great Shadow
by Arthur Conan Doyle
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2019

"The Great Shadow" is a masterpiece, a wonderful glimpse of life at the end of the Napoleonic era, including an exciting rendition of the Battle of Waterloo.  Set in an English-Scottish border village during the waning days of the Napoleonic era, this adventure story introduces us...
Cover of La aldea perdida
by Armando Palacio Valdés
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 2, 2018

Obra exponente del realismo español y la sociedad asturiana de la época. La novela refleja el lento y traumático cambio de una sociedad. De un sistema totalmente agrícola, se va cambiando poco a poco a un sistema industrial en la Asturias de finales del siglo XIX principios del XX. Es un relato...
Cover of Entre naranjos
by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 8, 2019

La novela "Entre Naranjos" conforma, junto a otros títulos como "Arroz y tartana", "La barraca" o "Cañas y barro", la mejor época literaria de Vicente Blasco Ibáñez. Así lo señalan los expertos en su obra, quienes definen estas novelas valencianas como...
Cover of Helen of Troy
by Andrew Lang
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2018

In Greek mythology, Helen of Troy (Greek: Ἑλένη, Helénē, pronounced [helénɛː]), also known as Helen of Sparta, was said to have been the most beautiful woman in the world. She was married to King Menelaus of Sparta but was abducted by Prince Paris of Troy after the goddess Aphrodite promised...

She

Cover of She

She

by Henry Rider Haggard
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2019

"She" by Henry Rider Haggard is one of the first and probably the most famous of the ‘lost world’ novels. Henry Rider Haggard published it in serial form in 1886-87 and with minimal revisions as a novel in 1887. It was incredibly popular and is still one of the best-selling books of...
Cover of An Outcast of the Islands
by Joseph Conrad
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2019

This masterpiece details the undoing of Peter Willems, a disreputable, immoral man who, on the run from a scandal in Makassar, finds refuge in a hidden native village, only to betray his benefactors over lust for the tribal chief's daughter. The story features Conrad's recurring character Tom Lingard,...
Cover of The Golden Verses of Pythagoras
by Pythagoras
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2019

"The Golden Verses of Pythagoras" present a brief glimpse into the mind and the worldview of Pythagoras and probably formed part of his instructions to his disciples. They embody what we know about his teachings today. Besides exhortations to live a moral, simple and contemplative life, these pithy aphorisms allow a glimpse of a bit of the Pythagorean schools' deeper knowledge.
Cover of Le Kama Sutra
by Vatsyayana
Language: French
Release Date: April 6, 2018

Un bréviaire de l’amour datant de l’Antiquité de l’Inde pour mettre le feu aux poudres et le rose aux joues…  Le Kama Sutra, petit ouvrage indispensable aux parfums d’Orient pour développer le goût de la rêverie et des prouesses techniques en matière de sexualité … Un catalogue...
Cover of A Reversible Santa Claus
by Meredith Nicholson
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2018

A humorous and exciting story of a burglar who reformed on Christmas Eve and returned the things he had stolen. Amazing and hilarious novel for the Christmas time. Nicholson really knows how to make us enjoy. A masterpiece!  
Cover of An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill
by Buffalo Bill (William Frederick Cody)
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2019

William F. 'Buffalo Bill' Cody (1846-1917) was a famous American 'Indian fighter,' buffalo hunter and entertainer, known best for his 'Wild West' circus-like shows. As a young man Cody served in in the Union army during the Civil War. His 'Wild West' show toured the world between 1883-1906 and was...
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