Novela

Who wants to live in a house, wear clean clothes, be good, and go to school every day? Not young “Huckleberry Finn”, that’s for sure. So Huck runs away, and is soon floating down the great Mississippi River on a raft. With him is Jim, a black slave who...

The Leander pearls were stolen nineteen years ago. The thief was caught, but the pearls were never found, and there is still a $25,000 reward for anyone who finds them. Then somebody comes to private detective Carmady with a story about a guy who knows where the pearls are...

Set against the bleak winter landscape of New England, “Ethan Frome” tells the story of a poor farmer, lonely and downtrodden, his wife Zeena, and her cousin, the enchanting Mattie Silver. In the playing out of this short novel's powerful and engrossing drama, Edith Wharton constructed her least characteristic...

Mr Ross lives on an island where no visitors come. He stops people from taking photographs of him. He is young and rich, but he looks sad. And there is one room in his house which is always locked. Carol Sanders and her mother come to the island to...

Please, Mr Murdstone! Don't beat me! I've tried to learn my lessons, really I have, sir!' sobs “David Copperfield”. Although he is only eight years old, Mr Murdstone does beat him, and David is so frightened that he bites his cruel stepfather's hand. For that, he is kept locked...

Clare West collects and edits the present antology of murder: “Crime Never Pays”. The unlawful, intentional killing of a human being - a terrible crime. But murder stories are always fascinating. Who did it? And how? Or why? And was it murder, or just only an accident? Who will...

This story takes place in France in 1661 and is the last adventure of the famous Three Musketeers and their friend D’Artagnan. Louis XIV is the King, but he is not a good king. He has a secret twin brother, Philippe, hidden away in the Bastille prison. Aramis, the...

Novela sentimental y de intriga protagonizada por una joven pobre y sin familia que se casa con un hombre maduro, propietario de una lujosa mansión inglesa llamada Manderley. Recién instalada en la casa, empieza a sentir a su alrededor la presencia de “Rebecca”, primera mujer del señor Maxim De...

En ésta su obra más conocida, Herman Melville vuelca todas sus experiencias como marinero, a la vez que hace una profunda introspección en la psicología del protagonista, agobiado por la soledad y el trabajo agotador, en medio de un ambiente como de misticismo, por lo que contiene abundantes reflexiones...

Emily Brontë tells us in this famous novel how the wind is strong on the Yorkshire moors. There are few trees, and fewer houses, to block its path. There is one house, however, that does not hide from the wind. It stands out from the hill and challenges the...