Rastro Argus: 17 books

Le Manifeste du parti communiste (en allemand : Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei) est un essai politico-philosophique commandé par la Ligue des communistes(ancienne Ligue des justes), et rédigé par le philosophe allemand Karl Marx. Écrit fin 1847 et début 1848 avec la participation...

Le Discours de la méthode (sous-titré Pour bien conduire sa raison, et chercher la vérité dans les sciences) est un texte philosophique publié anonymement par René Descartes à Leyde le 8 juin 1637. Dans les premières éditions, ce discours servait d'introduction à trois traités scientifiques...

Annie Wood Besant (1847-1933) was a prominent Theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator. She was born in 1847 in London into a middle-class family of Irish origin. She fought for the causes she thought were right, starting with freedom of thought, women's rights, secularism, birth control, Fabian socialism and workers' rights.

“The paradox of all this part of his life lies in this--that, destined as he was to be the greatest enemy of Mahomedanism, he was quite exceptionally a friend of Mahomedans.” (Summary quoted from Gilbert Keith Chesterton). G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936), a prolific English writer, was master...

Amor y pedagogía es una novela de Miguel de Unamuno publicada en 1902 en Barcelona por un amigo del autor, Santiago Valentín Cam.​ Escrita cinco años después de su primera novela, Paz en la guerra, no volvería a publicar un libro en prosa hasta 1912, con su obra filosófica Del sentimiento...

Four Lectures Delivered at the Twenty-fourth Anniversary Meeting of the Theosophical Society at Adyar Madras, December 1899. Annie Besant, née Wood (1 October 1847 – 20 September 1933), was a British socialist, theosophist, women's rights activist, writer, orator, and supporter of both Irish and Indian self-rule.

Cuentos de Azul son los cuentos extraídos de la obra Azul...,libro de cuentos y poemas del poeta nicaragüense Rubén Darío, considerado una de las obras más relevantes del modernismo hispánico. Se publicó por primera vez en Valparaíso el 30 de julio de 1888. Dos años después, en Guatemala,...

Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, commonly known as A Christmas Carol, is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1843 and illustrated by John Leech. A Christmas Carol recounts the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly miser who is...

Publicado em 1887, a obra retrata a classe média oitocentista, e seus problemas como: o casamento, as finanças, a juventude, heranças, intrigas, etc. Ainda que relevante, o personagem que dá título ao romance, é figura secundária dentro do enredo. O protagonista é Teobaldo, André, O Coruja,...

O Mandarim é uma novela do escritor português Eça de Queirós, escrito em Bristol, na Inglaterra, e publicado em Lisboa em 1880. É considerada mais como uma novela do que um romance, pois há só um personagem central e o enredo concentra-se num só ato.

La tía Tula es una novela escrita por Unamuno en 1907, publicada en 1921. Esta novela fue incluida en la lista de las 100 mejores novelas en español del siglo XX del periódico español El Mundo. Es una de las novelas más conocidas de Unamuno. Aunque comparte con otras novelas el estilo y las preocupaciones...

El doctor Centeno es una novela del escritor español Benito Pérez Galdós publicada en 1883.​ Es una de las que abren el ciclo de las "Novelas españolas contemporáneas", compartiendo personajes con las dos siguientes Tormento y La de Bringas, circunstancia que ha llevado a suponer...

Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole was an English novelist. A prolific writer, he published thirty-six novels, five volumes of short stories, two plays and three volumes of memoirs. His skill at scene-setting, his vivid plots, his high profile as a lecturer and his driving ambition brought him a large readership in the United Kingdom and North America.

The book begins: There was a certain window between the kitchen and the pantry that was Hamlet's favorite. Thirty years ago-these chronicles are of the year 1894-the basements of houses in provincial English towns, even of large houses owned by rich people, were dark, chill, odorful caverns hissing...