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"Escribo esto bajo una fuerte tensión mental, ya que cuando llegue la noche habré dejado de existir". Tras haber vivido una traumática experiencia, un marinero anónimo a principios de la Primera Guerra Mundial, cuenta lo que le ha sucedido antes de quitarse la vida.Todo comienza cuando siendo sobrecargo en un barco es prisionero por los alemanes, y logra escapar en un bote salvavidas. Después de varios días a la deriva, se cree destinado a morir,...

El aristócrata solterónTras una majestuosa boda, la novia desaparece durante la recepción. El adinerado Lord Simon, su nuevo esposo, no tiene la más mínima idea si su nueva esposa se encuentra viva, secuestrada o si a escapado con otro hombre a sus espaldas.La ansiedad y los nervios de perderla influirán para que Simon, desesperadamente y con el corazón en la mano, solicite la ayuda de Sherlock Holmes y su fiel compañero Watson. Se supone...

A young Algerian, Meursault, afflicted with a sort of aimless inertia, becomes embroiled in the petty intrigues of a local pimp and, somewhat inexplicably, ends up killing a man. Once he's imprisoned and eventually brought to trial, his crime, it becomes apparent, is not so much the arguably defensible murder he has committed as it is his deficient character. In the story of an ordinary man who unwittingly gets drawn into a senseless murder on a sun-drenched...

La Pequeña My es una auténtica fiera, pequeña pero feroz, inteligente, valiente y una de las mejores amigas de Mumin. La Pequeña My es el tipo de persona que quiere decidir las cosas por sí misma y dondequiera que vaya, siempre ocurre algo emocionante. Por eso, sin duda, es la acompañante ideal para las andanzas de Mumin, ¡pero esta vez la protagonista de las aventuras es ella!Entra en el tranquilo y atemporal mundo de los Mumin, donde Mumin,...

Volume 5 Contents: Philosophy of Furniture--A Tale of Jerusalem--The Sphinx--Hop-Frog--The Man of the Crowd--Never Bet the Devil Your Head--Thou Art the Man--Why the Little Frenchman Wears his Hand in a Sling--Bon-Bon--Some Words with a Mummy--The Poetic Principle--Old English Poetry--[POEMS OF LATER LIFE]--The Raven--The Bells--Ulalume--To Helen--Annabel Lee--A Valentine--An Enigma--To my Mother--For Annie--To F--To Frances S. Osgood--Eldorado--Eulalie--A...

"Ten years on from her last novel, Edna O'Brien reminds us why she is thought to be one of the great Irish writers of this and any generation. When a wanted war criminal from the Balkans, masquerading as a faith healer, settles in a small west coast Irish village, the community are in thrall. One woman, Fidelma McBride, falls under his spell and in this astonishing novel, Edna O'Brien charts the consequences of that fatal attraction. The Little Red...

First published in Italy in 1957 amid international controversy, Doctor Zhivago is the story of the life and loves of a poet/physician during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution. Taking his family from Moscow to what he hopes will be shelter in the Ural Mountains, Zhivago finds himself instead embroiled in the battle between the Whites and the Reds. Set against this backdrop of cruelty and strife is Zhivago's love for the tender...

Charles Marlow embarks on his first seafaring journey to the East as a young man on board the Judea, a barque headed towards Bangkok under the command of Captain John Beard. The Judea sets sail on a journey that is meant to take about 150 days, but bad luck and danger follow the vessel wherever she goes. "Youth" is a semi-autobiographical short story based on author Joseph Conrad's own experiences aboard the ship the Palestine in 1882. Much of the...

George decides that his grumpy, selfish old grandmother must be a witch and concocts some marvelous medicine to take care of her.

"The Tell-Tale Heart" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe first published in 1843. It follows an unnamed narrator who insists on his sanity after murdering an old man with a "vulture eye". The murder is carefully calculated, and the murderer hides the body by cutting it into pieces and hiding it under the floorboards. Ultimately the narrator's guilt manifests itself in the hallucination that the man's heart is still beating under the floorboards.

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