Esta es la historia de dos hombres que se conocian desde que tenian uso de razon. Siempre fueron los mejores amigos, o tan siquiera eso querian creer. El protagonista es Joaquin Monegro, el cual toda su vida estuvo viviendo bajo la sombra de su amigo Abel Sanchez, este era en el colegio el tipo mas agradable de todos, que aunque no tuviera un muy buen promedio, el carisma y aquella fama natural que poseia eran suficientes para ser considerado como el chico mas querido, apreciado y popular de la entera escuela. Por otro lado, Joaquin, era serio y se le reconocia por la gran inteligencia y el...

Joseph Conrad was a Polish novelist who lived most of his life in Britain and didn't learn English until age 21. The young Conrad lived an adventurous life involving gunrunning and political conspiracy, and apparently had a disastrous love affair that plunged him into despair. He served 16 years in the merchant navy. In 1894, at age 36, Conrad reluctantly gave up the sea, partly because of poor health and partly because he had decided on a literary career. This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. "The six stories in this volume are the result of some three or...

Albert Savarus est un roman d'Honore de Balzac paru en 1842 en feuilleton dans Le Siecle, classe dans les Scenes de la vie privee de La Comedie humaine. Le jeune monsieur de Soulas ne pouvait pas se dispenser d'avoir un tigre. Ce tigre etait le fils d'un de ses fermiers, un petit domestique age de quatorze ans, trapu, nomme Babylas. Le lion avait tres-bien habille son tigre?: redingote courte en drap gris de fer, serree par une ceinture de cuir verni, culotte de panne gros-bleu, gilet rouge, bottes vernies et a revers, chapeau rond a bourdaloue noir, des boutons jaunes aux armes des Soulas....

Almayer's Folly, published in 1895, is Joseph Conrad's first novel. Set in the late 19th century, it centers on the life of the Dutch trader Kaspar Almayer in the Borneo jungle and his relationship to his mixed heritage daughter Nina. Almayer's Folly is a tale of personal tragedy as well as a broader meditation on the evils of colonialism. Set in the lush jungle of Borneo in the late 1800s, it tells of the Dutch merchant Kaspar Almayer, whose dreams of riches for his beloved daughter, Nina, collapse under the weight of his own greed and prejudice. Nadine Gordimer writes in her Introduction,...

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