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Los viajes de Gulliver

by Jonathan Swift

Los viajes de Gulliver (1726) es una novela satírica de Jonathan Swift. Presentándose como el "Dr. Lemuel Gulliver", pretendió divulgar sus viajes en los que se encuentra con una serie de culturas extrañas....

Keep Out

by Frederic Brown

With no more room left on Earth, and with Mars hanging up there empty of life, somebody hit on the plan of starting a colony on the Red Planet. It meant changing the habits and physical structure of the immigrants,...

Action Comics #28

by Charles Wilkins

Action Comics: Family is Like... Superman returns home to find his cousin Kara confused and bewildered, and she's not the only one! Lois and Clark a couple? Who is the NEW Clark Kent? Plus another family member...

The Marble Faun

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Marble Faun is Hawthorne's most unusual romance, and possibly one of the strangest major works of American fiction. Writing on the eve of the American Civil War, Hawthorne set his story in a fantastical...

The Princess of Cleves

by Madame de la Fayette

La Princesse de Clèves is a French novel, regarded by many as one of the first European novels, and a classic of its era. Its author is most often held to be Madame de La Fayette. Published anonymously in March...

Forty Hadith

by Imam Ruhullah al-Musawi al-Khumayni

Forty Hadith An Exposition on 40 ahadith narrated through the Prophet [s] and his Ahl al-Bayt [a] Translated by: Mahliqa Qara'i (late) and Ali Quli Qara'i Published by: Al-Tawhid P.O Box 37165-111, Qum The Islamic...

Anthem

by Ayn Rand

Anthem is a dystopian fiction novella by Ayn Rand, first published in 1938. It takes place at some unspecified future date when mankind has entered another dark age as a result of the evils of irrationality...

Tales of Old Japan

by Lord Redesdale

Tales of Old Japan is an anthology of short stories, compiled by Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford, Lord Redesdale, writing under the better known name of A.B. Mitford. These stories focus on the varying aspects...

Earthmen Bearing Gifts

by Frederic Brown

Mars had gifts to offer and Earth had much in return--if delivery could be arranged!

The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes #8

by Arthur Conan Doyle

The last twelve stories written about Holmes and Watson, these tales reflect the disillusioned world of the 1920s in which they were written. Some of the sharpest turns of wit in English literature are contrasted...

Juguetes de la niñez y travesuras del ingenio

by Francisco de Quevedo

Obras de entretenimiento en las que predomina la sátira y la burla sobre los dominios social y literario.

Los sueños

by Francisco de Quevedo

Los Sueños, compuestos entre 1606 y 1623, circularon abundantemente manuscritos pero no se imprimieron hasta 1627. Se trata de cinco narraciones cortas de inspiración lucianesca donde se pasa revista a diversas...

El secuestro en Latinoamerica: los ojos de la víctima

by ojosdelavictima

Libro de no ficción sobre la historia reciente del delito más mediático de América Latina. País por país, los secuestros más importantes de los últimos años. Cuatro años de investigación y entrevistas...

Lovecraft y cía

by Carles Bellver Torlà

H. P. Lovecraft y su círculo están presentes en la mitad de las páginas de este libro. En la otra mitad nos encontramos a Robert W. Chambers (El rey de amarillo), a J. R. R. Tolkien y a su amigo C. S. Lewis,...

The Chronicles of Clovis

by Saki

One of Saki's best-known works. A collection of satirical short stories featuring Clovis.

The Diamond as Big as the Ritz

by Francis Scott Fitzgerald

The story tells of John T. Unger, a teenager from the town of Hades, Mississippi, who was sent to a private boarding school in Boston. During the summer he would visit the homes of his classmates, the vast majority...

Porcelain and Pink

by Francis Scott Fitzgerald

First published in the "Smart Set", and first published in book form in Tales of the Jazz Age in 1922. "And do you write for any other magazines?" inquired the young lady. "Oh, yes," I assured her. "I've had...

The Mysterious Affair at Styles

Hercule Poirot #1

by Agatha Christie

In her first published mystery, Agatha Christie introduces readers to the heroic detective, Hercule Poirot. This is a classic murder mystery set in the outskirts of Essex. The victim is the wealthy mistress...

His Last Bow

Sherlock Holmes #7

by Arthur Conan Doyle

His Last Bow is a collection of seven Sherlock Holmes stories (eight in American editions) by Arthur Conan Doyle, as well as the title of one of the stories in that collection. Originally published in 1917,...