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Cumbres Borrascosas es la única novela de Emily Brontë. Fue publicada por primera vez en 1847 bajo el seudónimo de Ellis Bell. Su hermana Charlotte editó una segunda edición póstuma. Aunque ahora se considera un clásico de la literatura inglesa, el recibimiento inicial de Cumbres Borrascosas...

Louisa May Alcott's Marjorie's Three Gifts (1876) is a short story about a little poor girl who has many things on her mind. On her birthday, she is lost in thinking about how to help all the poor children.

"The Shunned House" is a novelette by H. P. Lovecraft in the horror fiction genre. Written on October 16–19, 1924, it was first published in the October 1937 issue of Weird Tales.

A hunters' bivouac under the shadows of a Mississippian forest, in a spot where the trees stand unthinned by the ax of the woodman. It is upon the Arkansas side of the great river, not tar from the town of Helena, and in the direction of Little Rock, the capital of the State...

Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist and poet best known as the author of the novel Little Women (1868) and its sequels Little Men (1871) and Jo's Boys (1886). Raised by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May and Amos Bronson Alcott in New England, she grew up among many of the well-known...

La Grande Bretèche is a short story by Honoré de Balzac published in 1831. Dr. Horace Bianchon discovers near the town of Vendôme an abandoned manor: La Grande Bretèche. Intrigued by the ruins, the doctor tries unsuccessfully to enter the house night after night. Upon returning to the inn where...

Gorgias is a Socratic dialogue written by Plato around 380 BC. The dialogue is based on a conversation between Socrates and a small group of sophists (and other guest) at a dinner gathering, Socrates debates with the sophist seeking the true definition of rhetoric, attempting to pinpoint the essence of rhetoric and unveil the flaws of the sophistic oratory popular in Athens at this time.

Euthydemus, written c. 384 BCE, is a dialogue by Plato which satirizes what Plato presents as the logical fallacies of the Sophists. In it, Socrates describes to his friend Crito a visit he and various youths paid to two brothers, Euthydemus and Dionysodorus, both of whom were prominent Sophists from Chios and Thurii.

The Menexenus is a Socratic dialogue of Plato, traditionally included in the seventh tetralogy along with the Greater and Lesser Hippias and the Ion. The speakers are Socrates and Menexenus, who is not to be confused with Socrates' son Menexenus. The Menexenus of Plato's dialogue appears also in the Lysis, where he is identified as the "son of Demophon", as well as the Phaedo.

Empezó el puchero. No necesito que me contéis lo que la señora Peerybingle dijera; yo me entiendo. Dejad que la señora Peerybingle se pase hasta la consumación de los siglos asegurando la imposibilidad de decidir cuál empezó: yo digo que fue el puchero. Tengo motivos para saberlo. El puchero...

M. Taine's very interesting account of the mental development of an infant, translated in the last number of MIND, has led me to look over a diary which I kept thirty-seven years ago with respect to one of my own infants. I had excellent opportunities for close observation, and wrote down at once whatever was observed.

O Crime do Padre Amaro é uma das obras do escritor português Eça de Queirós mais difundidas por todo o mundo. Trata-se de uma obra polêmica, que causou protestos da Igreja Católica, ao ser publicada em 1875, em Portugal.

O Primo Basílio é um romance de Eça de Queirós. Publicado em 1878, constitui uma análise da família burguesa urbana noséculo XIX .

Oh, Coddington, and ye Assistants of the General Court! what craze possessed you to change this fair title of the red aboriginal for the petty appellation of "Rhodes"...