Oregan Publishing: 537 books
by Emilia Pardo Bazán
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 4, 2018
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 4, 2018
El niño de Guzmán narra una historia costumbrista.Pedro, un joven español que ha sido educado en el extranjero en las buenas maneras del continente y con una gran nostalgia de su país. Es el típico joven de mundo. Fue educado por un fraile irlandés fascinado por una España irreal ( La de la Gaviota de Faber).
by Emilia Pardo Bazán
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 4, 2018
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 4, 2018
Su modelo de "mujer del futuro" viene encarnada en el personaje de Feíta, hija de don Benicio Neira, un hidalgo venido a menos, situado en la clase media, cuya hija alberga unos inmensos deseos de instrucción, de autonomía personal, de trabajo para independizarse… que la alejan de las "señoritas" de su clase y del resto de sus hermanas.
by Emilia Pardo Bazán
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 4, 2018
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 4, 2018
La presencia del espacio urbano de Madrid es un aspecto fundamental de esta novela; dicho espcaio acompaña a los personajes en su pugna contra los estereotipos, el debate interior en torno a los valores éticos y morales transmitidos y el rechazo social a la mujer independiente.
by Emilia Pardo Bazán
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 4, 2018
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 4, 2018
Londres, 1824, el relojero Dorff es asaltado por dos emboscados y recibe la ayuda de Renato de Giac, marqués de Brezé. Más tarde, ya en casa de Dorff, éste le entrega a Renato un manuscrito y un cofre con documentos importantísimos que los que están en el poder en Francia, Luis XVIII y su jefe...
by Emilia Pardo Bazán
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 4, 2018
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 4, 2018
Escrita en la "década prodigiosa" de la narrativa española del XIX esta novela supuso una primera aproximación a los dominios del realismo-naturalismo. A caballo entre la novela y el cuaderno de viaje, la obra narra las ingratas consecuencias del desatinado matrimonio entre un funcionario...
by Emilia Pardo Bazán
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 4, 2018
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 4, 2018
Novela basada en dos leyendas artúricas: "Tristán e Isolda" y "Merlín y Viviana", entreteje textos conocidos con versiones nuevas con el objetivo de moralizar a un público lector, presumiblemente de fe única, poseedor de prejuicios religiosos arraigados en la cultura de la época.
by Edward Phillips Oppenheim, E. Phillips Oppenheim, Golden Deer Classics
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
CONTENTS: - Berenice (1907): Oppenheim in a new vein--the story of the love of a novelist of high ideals for an actress. - The Double Four (1911): A novel about secret societies in New York. - The Moving Finger (1911): A mystifying story dealing with a wealthy M.P.'s experiment with a poor young man....
by William Strunk Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
The Elements of Style is an American English writing style guide. It is one of the most influential and best-known prescriptive treatments of English grammar and usage in the United States. It originally detailed eight elementary rules of usage, ten elementary principles of composition, and "a few matters...
Harvard Classics Volume 18
Modern English Drama
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Contents: 1. All for Love, by John Dryden 2. The School for Scandal, by Richard Brinsley Sheridan 3. She Stoops to Conquer, by Oliver Goldsmith 4. The Cenci, by Percy Bysshe Shelley 5. A Blot in the 'Scutcheon, by Robert Browning
by Washington Irving, Golden Deer Classics
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is a short story by American author Washington Irving, contained in his collection of 34 essays and short stories entitled The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Written while Irving was living abroad in Birmingham, England, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" was first...
by Joseph Conrad, Golden Deer Classics
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2018
"The Lagoon" is a short story by Joseph Conrad composed in 1896 and first published in Cornhill Magazine in 1897. The story is about a white man, referred to as "Tuan", who is travelling through an Indonesian rainforest and is forced to stop for the night with a distant Malay friend...
Harvard Classics Volume 47
Elizabethan Drama 2
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
Contents: 1. The Shoemaker's Holiday, by Thomas Dekker 2. The Alchemist, by Ben Jonson 3. Philaster, by Beaumont and Fletcher 4. The Duchess of Malfi, by John Webster 5. A New Way to Pay Old Debts, by Philip Massinger Also available: The Complete Harvard Classics Collection (51 Volumes + The Harvard...
by Gustave Flaubert
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2018
An historical novel that interweaves historical and fictional characters. The action takes place immediately before and during the Mercenary Revolt against Carthage in the third century BC. This book, which Flaubert researched painstakingly, is largely an exercise in sensuous and violent exoticism....
Harvard Classics Volume 26
Continental Drama
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Contents: 1. Life is a Dream, by Pedro Calderón de la Barca 2. Polyeucte, by Pierre Corneille 3. Phèdre, by Jean Racine 4. Tartuffe, by Molière 5. Minna von Barnhelm, by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 6. William Tell, by Friedrich von Schiller