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Charles Dickens gives us two ghosts stories: the first is "The Signalman", where a visitor comes to a signal-box next to a railway tunnel and the signalman teels him a frightening story. Is there a ghost on the railway? The second story is "The Ghost at the Trial" where...

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...

Presents eleven of the English writer's works including the title story featuring a three hundred-year-old ghost who fails to intimidate the newest occupants of his manor house.

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...

It is 1800. Jenny Tinker arrives in New York with her father, Sam. The Tinkers are English. They’re starting a new life in America. They want a farm, but they haven’t got any money. What can they do? Stephen Rabley tells us how They became to get their “Tinkers...

“Martin Luther King” was the leader of the campaign for black civil rights in the USA in the 1950s and 1960s. This book tells the story of the peaceful demonstrations he held in the southern states demanding equal rights for blacks. He faced enormous opposition but his non-violent struggle...

"Marie Curie" was the brilliant scientist who discovered radium in the earliest years of XX siecle, a discovery that changed the world: doctors were later able to help people with cancer and scientists came to know more about the atom. This book tells her life of struggle, success and...

One day Pole-cat went to visit "Kalulu the Hare". He said, 'Near my home there is a village. In that village all the people are friends. They never quarrel... Frank Worthington tells us a lot of tales from Africa.

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...