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Chicago Poems is an early collection of poems by American poet Carl Sandburg. This little volume includes the following poems: Chicago, Sketch, Masses, Lost, The Harbor, They Will Say, Mill-Doors, Halsted Street Car, Clark Street Bridge, Passers-by, The Walking Man of Rodin, Subway, The Shovel Man, A Teamster's Farewell, Fish Crier, Picnic Boat, Happiness, Muckers, Blacklisted, Graceland, Child of the Romans, The Right to Grief, Mag, Onion Days, Population...
2) The Willows
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Set on the snaking, sinuous Danube River, Algernon Blackwood's tale The Willows represents a high point in the development of the horror genre. Indeed, acknowledged master H.P. Lovecraft regarded it as the best supernatural tale ever written. More awe-inspiring and thought-provoking than gory or terrifying, The Willows is a must-read for fans of classic ghost stories.
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Get set for a thrill ride of supernatural proportions with Stanley J. Weyman's The House of the Wolf. Though billed as a romance, this suspenseful tale is packed with action and adventure that will appeal to a broad audience. Whether you're in it for the werewolf scenes or the melting looks and passionate embraces of the leading hero and heroine, it's a can't-miss read for fans of classic action-adventure romances.
4) The pearl
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"For the diver Kino, finding a magnificent pearl means the promise of better life for his impoverished family. His dream blinds him to the greed and suspicions the pearl arouses in him and his neighbors, and even his loving wife cannot temper his obsession or stem the events leading to tragedy. Kino and his wife illustrate the fall from innocence of people who believe that wealth erases all problems"--P. [4] of cover.
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Estudio en escarlata, publicada en 1887, es una novela que marca el debut del legendario detective Sherlock Holmes y de su leal amigo, el Dr. John Watson. Esta novela pionera introdujo a los lectores en las brillantes habilidades deductivas y la aguda observación de Holmes.
La historia comienza con el Dr. John Watson, un veterano de guerra recién llegado a Londres, que conoce a Sherlock Holmes y decide compartir un apartamento en el 221B de...
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La vida en Saint Petersburg, un pequeño pueblo situado a orillas del Mississippi, al suroeste de Estados Unidos, es tan tranquila que incluso puede resultar aburrida. Pero Tom Sawyer, un muchacho curioso y travieso, se entretiene con cualquier hecho cotidiano, como pintar una valla, o no tan cotidiano, como perseguir a un malvado asesino o ir en busca de un tesoro, acompañado de su inseparable amigo Huck. Así, Tom es un niño idealista y sensible...
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The thrilling classic story of good and evil battling for one man's soul, from the author of Kidnapped and Treasure Island. Both a thrilling page-turner and a moral allegory, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde depicts the struggle between good and evil, vying for the soul of one man as a kindly London doctor seeks to suppress his dark side with a serum he's formulated—with terrifying results. Robert Louis Stevenson's classic endures as...
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Los críticos coinciden en reconocer que Galdós escribió Fortunata y Jacinta "en la cima de su poder creador", y el propio autor parecía consciente de ello. De ahí que, a pesar de ser un escritor de 'incontenible fertilidad', en esta ocasión emplease año y medio en concluir el manuscrito de la novela. No se sabe si en ese inusitado tesón por crear la obra perfecta pudo influir la reciente publicación de La Regenta, obra máxima de
...9) La eneida
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La Eneida, el gran poema épico de la cultura latina, posee además de su evidente función programática y política enaltecedora de Augusto, excelsos valores estéticos que siguen fascinando a los lectores actuales.
Publio Virgilio Marón (70-19 a.C.) gozó, más que de la admiración, de la veneración de todos los romanos, puesto que fue decisivo en la educación espiritual de su sociedad. Pero, al margen de su ascendencia y prestigio nacionales,...
10) The harvester
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A man at one with nature finds himself enchanted by a vision in this classic Midwestern romance from the naturalist and author of The Keeper of the Bees.
David Langston, the Harvester, allows his dog to decide his fate every year-to join the money-making scramble in the noise and grime of the city, or continue harvesting the goldenseal, mullein, and ginseng in the woods around their country home. Every year, his dog Bel chooses correctly-for...
11) Pan
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This is the story of Lieutenant Thomas Glahn, an ex-military man, who lives alone in a hut in the woods with his faithful dog Aesop. Glahn's life changes when he meets Edvarda, a merchant's daughter from a nearby town, with whom he quickly falls in love. While they feel strongly for each other, they do not truly understand the other's perspective and tragedy soon befalls the lovers. Edvarda is not entirely faithful to Glahn, and he is profoundly affected...
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"Aunque supongo que el terror de la isla no me abandonará nunca, a veces se oculta en lo más recóndito de mi mente: una nube lejana, un recuerdo, una leve desconfianza; pero hay momentos en que la nubecilla se extiende y oscurece el cielo por completo. Entonces miro a la gente que me rodea y el miedo se apodera de mí. Veo unos rostros resplandecientes y animados, otros sombríos o peligrosos, otros inseguros, insinceros; ninguno que tenga la reposada...
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Relato en el que una misteriosa peste ataca la ciudad de Próspero, príncipe de una ficticia nación, al cual le complacía darse todo tipo de placeres, de los que un rey puede disfrutar, como el buen gusto, las artes, los bailes orquestados y fiestas rodeadas de diversión y sarcasmo.
Al darse cuenta de que la peste atacaba a toda su región, decide encerrarse en su castillo, junto con varios cientos de nobles de su corte los cuales intentan
14) Crimen y Castigo
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<p>Es una novela de carácter psicológico y se considera una de las más influyentes e internacionales de la literatura rusa. Asimismo, los diálogos mantenidos entre el protagonista, Raskólnikov, y el inspector de policía, son considerados por algunos autores, como el prestigioso literato Stefan Zweig, una de las cimas de la literatura universal.</p><p><br></p><p>La historia...
15) A rogue's life
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The following pages were written more than twenty years since, and were then published periodically in Household Words.In the original form of publication the Rogue was very favorably received. Year after year, I delayed the republication, proposing, at the suggestion of my old friend, Mr. Charles Reade, to enlarge the present sketch of the hero's adventures in Australia. But the opportunity of carrying out this project has proved to be one of the...
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Mrs. Pittman's well-to-do Pittsburgh family didn't approve of her marriage, so the young bride moved away and lost touch with her relatives. Years later, she has returned to her native city as a widow and now runs a boarding house, one of the only jobs available to respectable women in the early twentieth century. Rooms at Mrs. Pittman's place are cheap because of the annual floods from the Allegheny River, which inundate the building's basement and...
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Here is Kazuo Ishiguro's profoundly compelling portrait of Stevens, the perfect butler, and of his fading, insular world in post-World War II England. Stevens, at the end of three decades of service at Darlington Hall, spending a day on a country drive, embarks as well on a journey through the past in an effort to reassure himself that he has served humanity by serving the "great gentleman," Lord Darlington. But lurking in his memory are doubts about...
18) Roads of Destiny
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I go to seek on many roads What is to be. True heart and strong, with love to light- Will they not bear me in the fight to order, shun or wield or mold My Destiny? Unpublished Poems of David Mignot. The song was over. The words were David's; the air, one of the countryside. The company about the inn table applauded heartily, for the young poet paid for the wine. Only the notary, M. Papineau, shook his head a little at the lines, for he was a man of...
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Memorias del subsuelo fue escrita en un momento en el que el autor padecía grandes trastornos emocionales producto de que su mujer se estaba muriendo y él mantenía una relación sentimental con una joven, lo que le causaba dudas y remordimiento. Al tiempo del fallecimiento de su esposa, Maria, también falleció su hermano más cercano, Mijaíl. A estos problemas personales, se agregaban además situaciones político sociales muy complejas, tales...
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Silvio Astier, inteligente y de opiniones agudas, vive en un entorno marginal. Expulsado del colegio y humillado por la pobreza, intenta escapar de esta realidad a toda costa, iniciándose en la vida adulta, primero como ladrón y luego en distintos trabajos. En su intento por encauzar su vida, Silvio vivirá distintas experiencias absurdas y conocerá diversos personajes siniestros y ruines, que le mostrarán una realidad hostil.
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