Insolacion es una novela escrita por Emilia Pardo Bazan y publicada en 1889. En ella, la autora se aleja de las premisas Naturalismo que la habian caracterizado en su obra magna, Los pazos de Ulloa y se centra mas en el estudio psicologico de los personajes, empleando para ello una inusitada y compleja tecnica narrativa que la acerca a la narracion espiritualista. Es notable en esta novela el marcado feminismo y la puesta en duda de los valores morales y la doble vara de medir de la sociedad de la epoca, a traves de la historia de la aventura sexual de una viuda con un hombre mas joven que...

"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 ofCapri. The dreamer describes the...

In this classic collection of stories drawn from his own experiences, the author looks back on his days as a teenager aboard the fishing boats of San Francisco Bay. In the early 1900s, men of all stripes descended on these waters to plunder its rich oyster beds. To stop the run on the waters, a patrol was established. Jack London began his youthful adventures on the wrong side of the law, as an oyster pirate. But conscience and common sense got the better of him, and at the age of 16 he became a member of the Fish Patrol. Dedicated to enforcing the many laws that were passed to protect the...

The Invisible Man is a science fiction novella by H. G. Wells., it was published as a novel in 1897. The Invisible Man of the title is Griffin, a scientist who has devoted himself to research into optics and invents a way to change a body's refractive index to that of air so that it neither absorbs nor reflects light and thus becomes invisible. He successfully carries out this procedure on himself, but fails in his attempt to reverse it.

El Grande Oriente es la cuarta entrega de la segunda serie de los Episodios Nacionales de Benito Perez Galdos. Toma su titulo de la obediencia masonica llamada Grande Oriente Nacional de Espana. Fue publicada en 1876. En este episodio se narran los sucesos posteriores al fallido intento del cura Matias Vinuesa para restaurar el absolutismo y los conflictos en el Gobierno liberal (dirigido en parte por los masones), mientras los realistas, intentaran recuperar el poder. Es el ano 1821 y el protagonista de la serie, Salvador Monsalud (que ha sustituido a Gabriel de Araceli en el protagonismo de...

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain is an 1876 novel about a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River. It is set in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, inspired by Hannibal, Missouri, where Twain lived. Tom lives with his aunt Polly and often gets into trouble. Aunt Polly tells him to whitewash the fence, so he tells his friends that painting the fence is fun and they beg him to let them help. Tom falls in love with a new girl, Becky, but she finds out that he liked another girl before and breaks up with him. Tom and Huckleberry visit a graveyard and witness the murder of Dr....

The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the crime novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902, it is set largely on Dartmoor in Devon in England's West Country and tells the story of an attempted murder inspired by the legend of a fearsome, diabolical hound of supernatural origin. Sherlock Holmes and his companion Dr. Watson investigate the case. This was the first appearance of Holmes since his apparent death in "The Final Problem," and the success of The Hound of the...

Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel; a bildungsroman which depicts the personal growth and personal development of an orphan nicknamed Pip. It is Dickens's second novel after David Copperfield to be fully narrated in the first person. The novel is set in Kent and London in the early to mid-19th century and contains some of Dickens' most memorable scenes, including the opening in a graveyard, where the young Pip is accosted by the escaped convict, Abel Magwitch. Great Expectations is full of extreme imagery - poverty; prison ships...

In writing this ponderous tome, the author's desire has been to describe the eminent characters and remarkable events of our annals in such a form and style that the YOUNG may make acquaintance with them of their own accord. For this purpose, while ostensibly relating the adventures of a chair, he has endeavored to keep a distinct and unbroken thread of authentic history. The chair is made to pass from one to another of those personages of whom he thought it most desirable for the young reader to have vivid and familiar ideas, and whose lives and actions would best enable him to give...

Gerona es la septima novela de la primera serie de los Episodios Nacionales de Benito Perez Galdos. Continua con el relato novelado de la Guerra de Independencia entre Espana y Francia. En esta ocasion, se narra el asedio de las tropas francesas a la ciudad de Gerona a lo largo de la segunda mitad del ano 1809. El protagonismo no recae sobre Gabriel de Araceli (protagonista del resto de novelas de la primera serie), sino que es Andres Marijuan, un personaje secundario de anteriores entregas, quien relata a Gabriel, a traves de unas memorias escritas durante el sitio, en primera persona, sus...