Editora: Charles River Editors
McTeague: A Story of San Francisco tells the story of a couple's courtship and marriage. When McTeague is barred from practicing dentistry the relationship between him and his wife quickly descends into mayhem.
Victor-Marie Hugo (26 February 1802 - 22 May 1885) was a French poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote abundantly in an exceptional variety of genres: lyrics, satires, epics, philosophical poems, epigrams, novels, history, critical essays, political speeches, funeral orations, diaries, and letters public and private, as well as dramas in verse and prose.BOOK 5: THE DESCENT: And in the meantime, what had become of that mother who according to the people at Montfermeil, seemed to have abandoned her child? Where was she? What was she doing?Ver livro
The second of L. Frank Baum's Oz books, this grand adventure reunites the Scarecrow, Tin Woodsman, and Glinda the Good Witch as they battle a revolution in the Emerald City. A lively crew of new characters includes Jack Pumpkinhead, the Sawhorse, and the Ozma of Oz.Ver livro
Surely the Time Traveler threw great dinner parties! His guests were treated to a once-in-forever trial of a miniature time machine - an exquisite miniature that acted so flawlessly as to appear to be stage magic. That his guests did not believe the explanation - the machine vanished into the mists of the future - was patent. Still, a couple of the more thoughtful had reservations about branding the demonstration an outright trickery. And what about the nearly-complete full-size Machine in the Traveler's laboratory?Confronted at the next party by the disheveled Traveler, who had apparently suffered privations and who displayed two curious flowers of no known type, the Narrator's wonderment increased. For the Traveler provided a perfectly arresting story to explain his condition - a surprising tale of a far future where humankind divides into a carefree above-ground race, the Eloi, and a mechanical subterranean race, the Morlocks. A tale in which it appears that the inheritors of the Earth inhabit it as cattle for the feeding of their underground cousins!Believe, or disbelieve? But perhaps the inventive genius of a man who can translate "thousands of millions of days" of time travel into an exact date should not be doubted!Ver livro
Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author? The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme. Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature. Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made. If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something. In this one decade the post-war period brings us the Jazz Age and the beginnings of the Great Depression, two ends of a human race in turmoil as the elite are confronted with the masses in a great social surge that will being further problems that stain humanity. Authors here begin to make a literary sense of what has happened and how their characters and narratives are dealing with questions that need answers.> 1 - The Top 10 - The 1920's - An Introduction 2 - In A Grove by Ryunosuke Akutagawa 3 - The Other Woman by Sherwood Anderson 4 - The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell 5 - Bernice Bobs Her Hair by F Scott Fitzgerald 6 - A Jury of Her Peers by Susan Glaspell 7 - A Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka 8 - The Rocking Horse Winner by D H Lawrence 9 - The Color Out of Space by H P Lovecraft 10 - The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield 11 - The String Quartet by Virginia WoolfVer livro
Originally published anonymously in the form of a pamphlet, the intriguing ghost story entitled: A True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal the Next Day after her Death to One Mrs. Bargrave at Canterbury the 8th of September, 1705 has long been the cause of academic speculation and dispute. The theme of the story is an uncanny interaction between the spiritual world and the physical world, as well as the nature of death itself. The story describes a posthumous visit by Mrs. Veal to her friend Mrs. Bargrave, during which strange insights and confidences are exchanged.Ver livro
