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1) The Willows
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The Willows is a novella by English author Algernon Blackwood, originally published as part of his 1907 collection The Listener and Other Stories. It is one of Blackwood's best known works and has been influential on a number of later writers. Horror author H.P. Lovecraft considered it to be the finest supernatural tale in English literature. "The Willows" is an example of early modern horror and is connected within the literary tradition of weird...
2) The Dead
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"The Dead" is the final and longest story in the Dubliners, a collection of fifteen short stories by James Joyce. First published in 1904, the stories aim to capture Irish middle class life as it really was around Dublin at the turn-of-the-century. Like many of Joyce's tales in the collection, "The Dead" features a transformative epiphany, where a character experiences a sudden insight into their life that changes the way they see everything. In what...
3) La Ilíada
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La Ilíada, compuesta en el siglo VIII a.C., narra una leyenda micénica situada en el siglo XIII a.C., una edad heroica dominada por los aspectos militares, el individualismo desenfrenado y la persecución de la riqueza y la gloria. La Ilíada cuenta un episodio de la epopeya de la rica y estratégica ciudad de Troya, o Ilión. Es el poema de la cólera de Aquiles, hijo de mortal y diosa y el más destacado de los combatientes griegos, en su afán...
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"The Secret Garden should be on every child's bookshelf."—Amanda Craig, The Time
An enchanting story of transformation and compassion, Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden is widely considered to be one of the most important works of children’s literature. After her parents die of cholera, Mary Lennox, a difficult and sickly little girl, is brought from India to her mysterious uncle’s...
An enchanting story of transformation and compassion, Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden is widely considered to be one of the most important works of children’s literature. After her parents die of cholera, Mary Lennox, a difficult and sickly little girl, is brought from India to her mysterious uncle’s...
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The Black Robe (1881) is a novel by Wilkie Collins. Written toward the end of Collins' career, The Black Robe shows brilliant flashes of the author's trademark sense of mystery and psychological unease, which made him a household name around the world. Recognized as an important Victorian novelist and pioneer of detective fiction, Wilkie Collins was a writer with a gift for thoughtful entertainment, stories written for a popular audience that continue...
6) Rebecca
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The classic Gothic suspense novel by Daphne du Maurier — winner of the Anthony Award for Best Novel of the Century — is now a Netflix film starring Lily James and Armie Hammer.
Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again . . .
The novel begins in Monte Carlo, where our heroine is swept off her feet by the dashing widower Maxim de Winter and his sudden proposal of marriage. Orphaned and working as a lady's maid,...
Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again . . .
The novel begins in Monte Carlo, where our heroine is swept off her feet by the dashing widower Maxim de Winter and his sudden proposal of marriage. Orphaned and working as a lady's maid,...
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Chicago Poems is an early collection of poems by American poet Carl Sandburg. This little volume includes the following poems: Chicago, Sketch, Masses, Lost, The Harbor, They Will Say, Mill-Doors, Halsted Street Car, Clark Street Bridge, Passers-by, The Walking Man of Rodin, Subway, The Shovel Man, A Teamster's Farewell, Fish Crier, Picnic Boat, Happiness, Muckers, Blacklisted, Graceland, Child of the Romans, The Right to Grief, Mag, Onion Days, Population...
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Bartleby, el escribiente es una de las narraciones más originales y conmovedoras de la historia de la literatura. Melville escribió este relato a mediados del siglo XIX, pero por él no parece haber pasado el tiempo. Nos cuenta la historia de un peculiar copista que trabaja en una oficina de Wall Street. Un día, de repente, deja de escribir amparándose en su famosa fórmula: «Preferiría no hacerlo»....
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"Aunque supongo que el terror de la isla no me abandonará nunca, a veces se oculta en lo más recóndito de mi mente: una nube lejana, un recuerdo, una leve desconfianza; pero hay momentos en que la nubecilla se extiende y oscurece el cielo por completo. Entonces miro a la gente que me rodea y el miedo se apodera de mí. Veo unos rostros resplandecientes y animados, otros sombríos o peligrosos, otros inseguros, insinceros; ninguno que tenga la reposada...
10) The Wouldbegoods
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The Bastable children are up to yet more adventures in this sequel to The Story of the Treasure Seekers—a delightful classic that will charm children and adults alike
The Bastable children have been banished to the country in disgrace—following a particularly damaging reenaction of a jungle scene featuring expensive stuffed animals and a garden hose. The gang of six, Dora, Oswald, Dicky, Alice, Noel,
...11) Uneasy Money
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A penniless English lord, an inheritance up for grabs, and a beautiful beekeeper get into a hornet's nest of trouble in this classic romantic comedy.
Bill Chalmers may hold the title of Lord Dawlish, but he's too broke to marry his fiancée, who insists he become rich before they wed. So he heads to New York to make his fortune-only to have someone else's dropped in his lap. It seems an American millionaire whom Bill once helped with golf has left...
12) Charlotte Temple
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First published in England in 1791 and the United States in 1794, Susanna Rowson's "Charlotte Temple" was America's first best-selling novel. The story is an example of the seduction novel genre, which was wildly popular in early American literature and focuses on the dangers to young ladies of being seduced by unscrupulous men. In Rowson's novel, the main character is Charlotte Temple, a lovely and naïve young British girl who falls for the overwhelming...
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Nora se cree felizmente casada con Torvaldo. Llevan ocho años de casados y tienen tres hijos. Además, Torvaldo Helmer asumirá en el año nuevo el puesto de director de un banco. Todo parece perfecto, pero Nora guarda un secreto. Así se lo confiesa a su amiga Linde. Años atrás, su esposo estaba a punto de morir. Debía cambiar de clima, pero económicamente les era imposible pagar un...
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Holmes sends Dr Watson to Lausanne to investigate Lady Frances Carfax's disappearance. Holmes is too busy in London. Lady Frances is a lone, unwed woman denied a rich inheritance on account of her gender. She does, however, carry valuable jewels with her. It is also her habit to write to her old governess, Miss Dobney, every other week, but for the past five weeks, there has not been a word from her. She has left the Hôtel National for parts unknown....
15) Les misérables
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Story of Valjean, the ex-convict who rises against all odds from galley slave to mayor, and the fanatical police inspector who dedicates his life to recapturing Valjean.
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Here is Kazuo Ishiguro's profoundly compelling portrait of Stevens, the perfect butler, and of his fading, insular world in post-World War II England. Stevens, at the end of three decades of service at Darlington Hall, spending a day on a country drive, embarks as well on a journey through the past in an effort to reassure himself that he has served humanity by serving the "great gentleman," Lord Darlington. But lurking in his memory are doubts about...
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En alguna batalla durante la guerra de Independencia de los Estados Unidos, fue enterrado en Sleepy Hollow un mercenario alemán al que una bala de cañón le arrancó la cabeza. Desde entonces, se dice que su espectro vaga por los bosques buscando su cabeza perdida...Situada en 1784, este relato narra la historia de Ichabod Crane, un joven supersticioso proveniente de Connecticut, que llega a la comunidad de Tarry Town en Sleepy Hollow, para ser...
18) Las olas
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"Las olas" fue publicada en 1931 y es la séptima novela de Virginia Woolf. Considerada como la novela más experimental de la autora, la historia, si puede llamarse así, se teje a través de seis monólogos a cargo de un grupo de seis amigos. Uno a uno, los seis personajes principales de esta historia, Bernard, Susan, Rhoda, Neville, Jinny y Louis exploran su propio mundo interior, creando una atmósfera que recuerda a las olas de mar. Muchos críticos...
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This summer, Random House Audio, OverDrive and First Book partnered to produce a “community-sourced” audiobook.
This project, dubbed Lend Your Voice, asked hundreds of amateur narrators to add their voices to a recording of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz during one hot weekend in June during the American Library Association Annual Conference in Washington, D.C.
All of the narrators did a great job—most nailed it in one take and wanted to read...
20) Pan
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This is the story of Lieutenant Thomas Glahn, an ex-military man, who lives alone in a hut in the woods with his faithful dog Aesop. Glahn's life changes when he meets Edvarda, a merchant's daughter from a nearby town, with whom he quickly falls in love. While they feel strongly for each other, they do not truly understand the other's perspective and tragedy soon befalls the lovers. Edvarda is not entirely faithful to Glahn, and he is profoundly affected...
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