Dracula is an 1897 novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, featuring as its primary antagonist the vampire Count Dracula. Dracula has been attributed to many literary genres including vampire literature, horror fiction, the gothic novel and invasion literature. Structurally it is an epistolary novel, that is, told as a series of diary entries and letters. Literary critics have examined many themes in the novel, such as the role of women in Victorian culture, conventional and conservative sexuality, immigration, colonialism, postcolonialism and folklore. Although Stoker did not invent the vampire,...

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (often shortened to Huck Finn) is a novel written by American humorist Mark Twain. It is commonly used and accounted as one of the first Great American Novels. It is also one of the first major American novels written using Local Color Regionalism, or vernacular, told in the first person by the eponymous Huckleberry "Huck" Finn, best friend of Tom Sawyer and hero of three other Mark Twain books. The book is noted for its colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi River. By satirizing Southern antebellum society that was already a...

This is the tale of a 19th-century citizen of Hartford, Connecticut who awakens to find himself inexplicably transported back in time to early medieval England at the time of the legendary King Arthur in AD 528.

Mark Twain nous decrit, avec beaucoup de talent, les frasques et mesaventures de Tom Sawyer, jeune garcon a l'esprit vif et debordant d'imagination, eleve par sa tante, au bord du Mississipi. Tom ne loupe pas une occasion de se distinguer pour plaire a la jolie Becky, et il est toujours pret pour vivre des aventures en compagnie de son inseparable ami Huckleberry Finn, fils de l'ivrogne du village. Un soir dans un cimetiere, Tom et Huck sont temoins d'un meurtre. Muff Potter est accuse du crime, mais Tom et Huck savent que le veritable assassin est Joe l'Indien... Les Aventures de Tom Sawyer...

Life on the Mississippi is a memoir by Mark Twain detailing his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before and after the American Civil War. The book begins with a brief history of the river. It continues with anecdotes of Twain's training as a steamboat pilot, as the 'cub' of an experienced pilot. He describes, with great affection, the science of navigating the ever-changing Mississippi River. In the second half, the book describes Twain's return, many years later, to travel on a steamboat from St. Louis to New Orleans. He describes the competition from railroads, the new,...

Un yanqui en la corte del Rey Arturo (A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court) es una obra literaria del escritor estadounidense Mark Twain que enmarca ideas religioso-politicas y conocimientos tecnologicos de la epoca del autor en una ficcion caballeresca satirica. Tras intervernir en una pelea y sufrir un golpe en la cabeza, el protagonista, Hank Morgan, es transportado hacia atras en el tiempo llevando consigo todo el conocimiento tecnologico del siglo XIX y su ideologia republicana y protestante al siglo VI en la corte del leyendas arturicas. Hank es condenado a morir en la hoguera....

Roughing It follows the travels of young Mark Twain through the Wild West during the years 1861-1867. After a brief stint as a Confederate cavalry militiaman, he joined his brother Orion Clemens, who had been appointed Secretary of the Nevada Territory, on a stagecoach journey west. Twain consulted his brother's diary to refresh his memory and borrowed heavily from his active imagination for many stories in the novel. Roughing It illustrates many of Twain's early adventures, including a visit to Salt Lake City, gold and silver prospecting, real-estate speculation, and his beginnings as a...

Tom Sawyer, Detective is an 1896 novel by Mark Twain. It is a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), and Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894). Tom Sawyer attempts to solve a mysterious murder in this burlesque of the immensely popular detective novels of the time. Like the two preceding novels, the story is told using the first-person narrative voice of Huck Finn.

En esta novela, Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) indaga sobre el mito de la eterna juventud, al recrear el tema de un pacto diabolico para conservar la belleza y permanecer eternamente joven. Un pintor queda fascinado por la extraordinaria hermosura de Dorian, su joven modelo, que vive en plena era victoriana satisfaciendo todos sus deseos, sin limites ni prejuicios. El pintor declara que seria dichoso si Dorian pudiese permanecer para siempre exactamente como es. Este deseo se traduce en un pacto que lleva a Dorian a cometer todo tipo de atrocidades, hasta llegar al crimen. A medida que se desarrolla...

Candido figura a la cabeza de todas las novelas y cuentos de Voltaire como la pieza indiscutible del arte narrativo del Siglo de las Luces. Es una novela de aprendizaje, y su heroe un optimista que ha asimilado las teorias del providencialismo leibniziano: cree a pies juntillas que el mundo es un paraiso, a pesar de que, desde la primera linea, la realidad se encarga de negarlo. La estructura tiene un hilo conductor claro: el viaje, los vientos de la vida llevan de aqui para alla a Candido, convertido en un juguete del destino que recorre un mundo estragado por catastrofes naturales, por...