El abuelo es una novela del escritor espanol Benito Perez Galdos publicada en 1897, cerrando el ciclo "espiritualista" de las novelas espanolas contemporaneas. Planteada como novela dialogada en cinco jornadas, el autor la adapto a pieza dramatica en cinco actos, y fue estrenada en el Teatro Espanol de Madrid el 14 de febrero de 1904. Tras haber agotado en Peru su vida en una fracasada 'aventura americana' y casi ciego, el conde de Abrit regresa a su rincon natural en Espana al recibir la noticia de la muerte de su unico hijo. En su solar familiar, el viejo aristocrata recibira una nueva...

Utopia (Libellus vere aureus, nec minus salutaris quam festivus, de optimo rei publicae statu deque nova insula Utopia) is a work of fiction and political philosophy byThomas More (1478-1535) published in 1516 in Latin. The book is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island society and its religious, social and political customs. Many aspects of More's description of Utopia are reminiscent of life in monasteries.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a novel by Mark Twain, first published in the United Kingdom in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885. Commonly named among the Great American Novels, the work is among the first in major American literature to be written throughout in vernacular English, characterized by local color regionalism. It is told in the first person by Huckleberry "Huck" Finn, a friend of Tom Sawyer and narrator of two other Twain novels (Tom Sawyer Abroad and Tom Sawyer, Detective). It is a direct sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. The book is noted for...

Erewhon: or, Over the Range is a novel by Samuel Butler which was first published anonymously in 1872. The title is also the name of a country, supposedly discovered by the protagonist. In the novel, it is not revealed where Erewhon is, but it is clear that it is a fictional country. Butler meant the title to be read as "nowhere" backwards even though the letters "h" and "w" are transposed, as it would have been pronounced in his day (and still is in some dialects of English). The book is a satire on Victorian society. The first few chapters of the novel dealing with the discovery of Erewhon...

La cartuja de Parma es una de las mas reconocidas novelas del escritor frances del siglo XIX Stendhal, junto con Rojo y negro. Se suele citar esta novela como ejemplo de Realismo avant la lettre, un estilo que marcaria, anos despues, una diferencia abismal respecto al Romanticismo corriente de la epoca en que escribio Stendhal. La cartuja de Parma narra la historia del joven patricio italiano Fabrizio del Dongo y sus aventuras durante los ultimos anos del dominio napoleonico en Europa. Los hechos transcurren principalmente en la ciudad de Parma y en el castillo familiar del lago de Como. La...

La Tia Tula es una novela escrita por Unamuno en 1907, publicada en 1921. Esta novela fue incluida en la lista de las 100 mejores novelas en espanol del siglo XX del periodico espanol El Mundo. Es una de las novelas mas conocidas de Unamuno. Aunque comparte con otras novelas el estilo y las preocupaciones habituales del autor, esta novela incluye como factor diferencial el erotismo, un erotismo sutil y solo en escasos momentos explicitado. La trama de la novela se sustenta en la practica antropologica del levirato y el sororato en un contexto de represion sexual. Esta novela narra la vida de...

"A Dream of Armageddon" is a short story by H. G. Wells which was first published in 1901. The story opens aboard a train, when an unwell-looking man strikes up a conversation with the narrator when he sees him reading a book about dreams. The white-faced man says that he has little time for dream analysis because, he says, his dreams are killing him. He goes on to tell how he has been experiencing consecutive dreams of an unspecified future time in which he is a major political figure who has given up his position to live with a younger woman on the island of Capri. The dreamer describes the...

Heidi is a work of children's fiction published in 1881 by Swiss author Johanna Spyri. It is a novel about the events in the life of a young girl in her grandfather's care, in the Swiss Alps. It was written as a book "for children and those who love children." Heidi is a girl who has been raised by her aunt Detie in Maienfeld, Switzerland after the early deaths of her parents, Tobias and Adelheid Detie brings 6-year-old Heidi to her paternal grandfather's house, up the mountain from Dorfli. He has been at odds with the villagers and embittered against God for years and lives in seclusion on...