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  Martin Eden (Unabridged)

  Jack London

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  Martin Eden is a 1909 novel by American author Jack London about a young proletarian autodidact struggling to become a writer. It was first serialized in The Pacific Monthly magazine from September 1908 to September 1909 and then published in book form by Macmillan in September 1909. - Eden represents writers' frustration with publishers by speculating that when he mails off a manuscript, a "cunning arrangement of cogs" immediately puts it in a new envelope and returns it automatically with a rejection slip. The central theme of Eden's developing artistic sensibilities places the novel in the tradition of the Künstlerroman, in which is narrated the formation and development of an artist.Living in Oakland at the beginning of the 20th century, Martin Eden struggles to rise above his destitute, proletarian circumstances through an intense and passionate pursuit of self-education, hoping to achieve a place among the literary elite. His principal motivation is his love for Ruth Morse. Because Eden is a rough, uneducated sailor from a working-class background and the Morses are a bourgeois family, a union between them would be impossible unless and until he reached their level of wealth and refinement.

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  El misterio de Marie Roget (The...

  Edgar Allen Poe

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  "Edición de audiolibros sin música de fondo. El misterio de Marie Roget. Se basa en el asesinato real de Mary Cecilia Rogers, un crimen que paralizó Nueva York debido a la violencia sin precedentes que el asesino se volvió contra ella. Mary Cecilia Rogers nació en Connecticut en 1820, desapareció el 4 de octubre de 1838 en circunstancias poco claras. Unos días más tarde, los periódicos anunciaron que había sido encontrada y que había huido para casarse con un oficial naval.El caso fue cerrado, pero tres años más tarde, mary Cecilia Rogers desapareció de nuevo el 25 de julio de 1841. Su cuerpo sin vida fue encontrado flotando en el río Hudson. Una autopsia superficial reveló que había sido asesinado.La muerte de Mary Cecilia Rogers ocupó las portadas de todos los periódicos estadounidenses. Unos meses más tarde, la investigación en pleno apogeo, el novio de la chica fue encontrado muerto en su habitación con una botella de veneno a su lado y una nota de arrepentimiento, donde confesó como un cobarde por dejar a María cuando más lo necesitaba. La policía aceptó el suicidio, y tanto la justicia como la opinión pública declararon que el cobarde había recibido el castigo que merecía.Edgar Allan Poe siguió el caso con el mismo interés de sus compatriotas, lo que la hace doblemente impresionante resolución el caso de dar con los motivos del asesinato se basó únicamente en informes de los medios de comunicación. Cien años más tarde, los criminalistas de la policía de Nueva York estuvieron totalmente de acuerdo con la hipótesis del poeta, y señalan que la línea de investigación es probable que sugeriera a Edgar Allan Poe, un notable escritor que a veces interpretaba a un detective

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  The Invisible Man

  H. G. Wells

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  Published in 1897, "The Invisible Man" is a science fiction novella by H.G. Wells. The story follows Griffin, a scientist who discovers a way to become invisible. Initially excited by his newfound power, he soon realizes the isolation and moral complications that come with it. Unable to reverse the process, Griffin turns increasingly desperate and violent. The novella explores themes of identity, ethics, and the unintended consequences of unchecked scientific experimentation

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  The Tudor Cup

  Neil Munro

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  Neil Munro (1863-1930) was a Scottish journalist, newspaper editor, author and literary critic who is now mainly known for his humorous short stories.'The Tudor Cup' is an amusing tale based on stereotypes. Two crooked London art dealers are set on swindling an eccentric Scottish Laird of a valuable artefact in his collection: a Tudor cup of silver. A similar cup had sold recently at Sotheby's for a small fortune. But the canny Scot sees straight through the swindle and manages to double-cross the duo quite ingeniously.

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  Getting on in the World...

  Booker T. Washington

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  Booker Taliaferro Washington (April 5, 1856 - November 14, 1915) was an American educator, author, orator, and adviser to several presidents of the United States. Between 1890 and 1915, Washington was the dominant leader in the African American community and of the contemporary black elite. Washington was from the last generation of black American leaders born into slavery and became the leading voice of the former slaves and their descendants. They were newly oppressed in the South by disenfranchisement and the Jim Crow discriminatory laws enacted in the post-Reconstruction Southern states in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.GETTING ON IN THE WORLD: It is natural and praiseworthy for a person to be looking for a higher and better position than the one he occupies. So long as a man does his whole duty in what he is engaged in, he is not to be condemned for looking for something better to do. Now the question arises:-How are you going to put yourself in a condition to be in demand for these higher and more important positions?

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  Our New House

  Bram Stoker

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  When a young couple moves into their new home, they are taken aback by the strange behavior of their new landlord. While at first he bid them to do all of the fixing-up the home needed on their own, he quickly changed his tune and was persistent in his attempts to help them tackle some of the rooms himself. The source of his desire to help lies in the fact that the old tenant may have hidden a fortune within the walls; a fortune that winds up belonging to the young couple after all!

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