Oregan Publishing: 537 books

"The book is absorbingly interesting: dramatic, subtle, fascinating with allurement." ― The New York Times. Captain Tom Lingard is on his way to help his friends, a Malay prince and princess, reclaim their stolen land when he gets distracted by a marooned yacht. Lingard feels obliged to...

The Old Tobacco Shop: A True Account of What Befell a Little Boy in Search of Adventure is a children's fantasy novel by William Bowen that was named a Newbery Honor book. Five-year-old Freddie meets the owner of a nearby tobacco shop, Mr. Toby Littleback; his old-maid aunt, Aunt Amanda; and Mr. Punch,...

Los cuentos del escritor nicaragüense Rubén Darío comparten las características del relato modernista en general: amplitud temática, libertad estructural, síntesis de registros discursivos, escasa sustancia anecdótica del argumento, cosmopolitismo, omnipresente subjetividad del narrador, exotismo...

Annie Roe Carr - Nan Sherwood's Winter Holidays 02. Alice Duer Miller - The Burglar And The Wizard 03. Berthold Auerbach - Christian Gellert's Last Christmas 04. Bret Harte - How Santa Claus Came to Simpson's Bar 05. Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol 06. L. Frank Baum - A Kidnapped Santa Claus 07....

La España del siglo XIX es descrita con naturalismo, a través de un personaje en conflicto con sus presuntos orígenes judíos. Ciertos críticos encuentran una aureola de espiritualismo ruso en esta novela.

A retired middle-aged gentleman and his wife take a long walk, arm-in-arm, many miles, up hills, across fields, with a laden knapsack and a heavy picnic basket, and yet they are completely at ease because of the gentleman's invention, a negative gravity device, which they carry to lighten their weight....

A young sea captain tests his mettle off the coast of Siam in this nineteenth-century psychological tale from the author of Heart of Darkness. When his sailing ship is anchored in the Gulf of Siam—now Thailand—a first-time sea captain questions his ability to command. Anxious and eager for his...

This short story was written by Bram Stoker the world famous author of Dracula. In it a married couple, after trying for many years, has a set of identical twins. The dote on the twins for three years unaware that two neighborhood boys have developed an obsession for destroying things. At first the...

Un jeune avocat, naïf et fauché, est chargé de défendre un aventurier redoutable. Entraîné, bien malgré lui, dans d'invraisemblables aventures, de Paris à Deauville, il va tomber amoureux de la maîtresse de son client.

In an isolated town called Vondervotteimittis (wonder-what-time-it-is), the punctilious inhabitants seem to be concerned with nothing but clocks and cabbage. This methodical, boring and quiet little borough is devastated by the arrival of a devilish figure playing a big fiddle who comes straight down...

"Ivan the Fool" (also known as "Ivan the Fool and his Two Brothers") is an 1886 short story (in fact, a literary fairy tale) by Leo Tolstoy, published in 1886. It describes the struggles of three brothers and a sister with the Old Devil. The name "Ivan the Fool" hints to a popular hero of Russian folklore.

CONTENTS: 01 - The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn / Disney Film: The Adventures Of Huck Finn (1993) 02 - The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer / Disney Film: Tom And Huck (1995) 03 - Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp / Disney Film: Aladdin (1992) 04 - Alice's Adventures In Wonderland / Disney Film: Alice In Wonderland...

Die Hauptperson des Romans ist Emma, die nach dem Tod der Mutter allein mit ihrem Vater auf dessen Hof lebt. Sie heiratet den Landarzt Charles Bovary, der die schöne Frau verehrt. Sie verspricht sich von der Heirat ein gesellschaftlich aufregenderes Leben, ist dann aber rasch von dem Dorfalltag und...

"Work, Death, and Sickness" is a fascinating story by Russian author Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy written in 1903. The story takes the form of a parable about the creation of work, death, and sickness. Synopsis: When God first created man, he had no need to work, and he would always live to...