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De herdeira oculta… a princesa grávida! Pia, depois de uma noite apaixonada nos braços de um desconhecido, tinha-se sentido bonita e livre, livre para deixar de ser a herdeira solitária.Até que descobriu que estava à espera dos filhos gémeos do príncipe herdeiro de Atilia!O implacável Ares estava disposto a reivindicar os seus herdeiros, mas não iria prometer mais nada a Pia, porque não podia.Qual era o verdadeiro segredo de Pia? Estava a apaixonar-se inevitavelmente por aquele príncipe de...
| Автор | Caitlin Crews |
Edgar Allan Poe, der Meister des Unheimlichen, Grauenhaften und Grotesken, verfasste mehr als 70 Kurzgeschichten, von denen sich die bekanntesten 21 hier versammelt finden: «Die Grube und das Pendel» handelt von den grauenhaften Foltermethoden zur Zeit der Spanischen Inquisition, «Die Maske des Roten Todes» erzählt von der Unaufhaltbarkeit einer Seuche und «Das Fass Amontillado» von einem perfiden Racheakt. Doch Poe konnte nicht nur das Unheimliche und Makabre in Worte fassen, er erschuf auch...
| Автор | Эдгар По |
"Inventé la libertad al anochecer de la Epifanía. Viajaba en el circuito camionero Justo Sierra y parque de Armas, escoltado por el desfile anual del Día de Reyes. La jauría de niños, los regalos, las bocinas, el estruendo, la dejaron frente a mí, en el asiento de minusválidos del autobús. De inmediato clavé mi mirada en ella. Quedé deslumbrado por ese rostro. Desconozco qué me atraía más en él: la nariz diminuta o los labios abultados". Este párrafo inicial del cuento «Confesionario»,...
| Автор | Ricardo García Muñoz |
"Ustedes van a fusilarme y no puedo mentir. Diga lo que diga, mi destino está decidido… Todo lo viví en carne propia, la mentira es el único pecado que no cargo en mi alma. El Todopoderoso me espera para juzgarme y no tiene caso cargar con más culpas." Preso, en espera de ser fusilado, Ignacio Allende lo cuenta todo. Sobre la invasión napoleónica a España, sobre los derechos de los criollos. Sobre el temible general Calleja. Sobre la rebelión insurgente a la que se unió con brío y...
| Автор | José Luis Trueba Lara |
This book contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure! Novels Alcott, Louisa May: Little Women Austen, Jane: Pride and Prejudice Austen, Jane: Emma Balzac, Honoré de: Father Goriot Barbusse, Henri: The Inferno Brontë, Anne: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Brontë, Charlotte: Jane Eyre Brontë, Emily: Wuthering Heights Burroughs, Edgar Rice: Tarzan of the Apes Butler, Samuel: The Way of All Flesh Carroll, Lewis: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Cather,...
| Автор | Эмили Бронте |
A Description of Millenium Hall is a utopian novel that takes the form of a frame tale and a series of adventures, as the narrator's long-lost cousin relates how each of the residents arrived at the female Utopia, Millenium Hall. The adventures are remarkable for their reliance on a nearly superstitious form of divine grace, where God's will manifests itself with the direct punishment of the wicked and the miraculous protection of the innocent. In one tale, a woman about to be ravished...
| Автор | Sarah Scott |
"A Double Barrelled Detective Story" by Mark Twain. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and...
| Автор | Mark Twain |
The new edition of the leading textbook on Roman art, updated with new images and expanded geographic and cultural scope A History of Roman Art is an expansive survey of the painting, mosaic, sculpture, decorative arts, and architecture of ancient Rome. This acclaimed textbook provides a fully-illustrated narrative history of Roman art that spans a millennium, from the early origins of Rome to the era of Emperor Constantine. Interwoven throughout the text are themes of Rome's...
| Автор | Steven L. Tuck |
"It was the best of times, it was the worst times," so begins the famous first lines of one of Charles Dickens most popular novels. «A Tale of Two Cities» is a story set in the late 18th century during the French Revolution and the title cities in question are that of London and Paris. At the heart of the novel is the story of a young Englishman who sacrifices his life to save the husband of a woman he loves. «A Tale of Two Cities» is a classic love story set against the backdrop of...
| Автор | Чарльз Диккенс |
"It was the best of times, it was the worst times," so begins the famous first lines of one of Charles Dickens most popular novels. «A Tale of Two Cities» is a story set in the late 18th century during the French Revolution and the title cities in question are that of London and Paris. At the heart of the novel is the story of a young Englishman who sacrifices his life to save the husband of a woman he loves. «A Tale of Two Cities» is a classic love story set against the backdrop of...
| Автор | Чарльз Диккенс |
"It was the best of times, it was the worst times," so begins the famous first lines of one of Charles Dickens most popular novels. «A Tale of Two Cities» is a story set in the late 18th century during the French Revolution and the title cities in question are that of London and Paris. At the heart of the novel is the story of a young Englishman who sacrifices his life to save the husband of a woman he loves. «A Tale of Two Cities» is a classic love story set against the backdrop of...
| Автор | Чарльз Диккенс |
"It was the best of times, it was the worst times," so begins the famous first lines of one of Charles Dickens most popular novels. «A Tale of Two Cities» is a story set in the late 18th century during the French Revolution and the title cities in question are that of London and Paris. At the heart of the novel is the story of a young Englishman who sacrifices his life to save the husband of a woman he loves. «A Tale of Two Cities» is a classic love story set against the backdrop of...
| Автор | Чарльз Диккенс |
"It was the best of times, it was the worst times," so begins the famous first lines of one of Charles Dickens most popular novels. «A Tale of Two Cities» is a story set in the late 18th century during the French Revolution and the title cities in question are that of London and Paris. At the heart of the novel is the story of a young Englishman who sacrifices his life to save the husband of a woman he loves. «A Tale of Two Cities» is a classic love story set against the backdrop of...
| Автор | Чарльз Диккенс |
"It was the best of times, it was the worst times," so begins the famous first lines of one of Charles Dickens most popular novels. «A Tale of Two Cities» is a story set in the late 18th century during the French Revolution and the title cities in question are that of London and Paris. At the heart of the novel is the story of a young Englishman who sacrifices his life to save the husband of a woman he loves. «A Tale of Two Cities» is a classic love story set against the backdrop of...
| Автор | Чарльз Диккенс |
"It was the best of times, it was the worst times," so begins the famous first lines of one of Charles Dickens most popular novels. «A Tale of Two Cities» is a story set in the late 18th century during the French Revolution and the title cities in question are that of London and Paris. At the heart of the novel is the story of a young Englishman who sacrifices his life to save the husband of a woman he loves. «A Tale of Two Cities» is a classic love story set against the backdrop of...
| Автор | Чарльз Диккенс |
"It was the best of times, it was the worst times," so begins the famous first lines of one of Charles Dickens most popular novels. «A Tale of Two Cities» is a story set in the late 18th century during the French Revolution and the title cities in question are that of London and Paris. At the heart of the novel is the story of a young Englishman who sacrifices his life to save the husband of a woman he loves. «A Tale of Two Cities» is a classic love story set against the backdrop of...
| Автор | Чарльз Диккенс |
"A Tale of Two Cities" is a novel set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The novel depicts the plight of the French peasantry demoralized by the French aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution, the corresponding brutality demonstrated by the revolutionaries toward the former aristocrats in the early years of the revolution, and many unflattering social parallels with life in London during the same period. Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was an English...
| Автор | Charles Dickens |
"An Appeal to the Young" by Peter Kropotkin (translated by Henry Hyndman). Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are...
| Автор | Peter Kropotkin |
First published in 1909, “Anne of Avonlea” is Lucy M. Montgomery’s second installment in the much loved “Anne of Green Gables” book series. Following the life of Anne Shirley from age sixteen to eighteen this chapter in Anne’s life sees her having left Green Gables for the grown up world of Avonlea where she is to begin a job teaching school. Gilbert Blythe, who we are introduced to in the first book as Anne’s enemy, is now a good friend teaching at the nearby White Sands School. Anne studies at...
| Автор | Люси Мод Монтгомери |