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1) Utopia
Gregor Samsa despierta una mañana transformado en un bicho monstruoso. No se trata de una pesadilla: este viajante de comercio no volverá a recuperar nunca más su identidad humana. La familia le margina en su cuarto por miedo y vergüenza, y a partir de ese momento todo cambia en sus vidas... En el cuento corto LA METAMORFOSIS Kafka nos habla de su propia vida llena de sentimientos ambivalentes que hacen al lector interrogarse por su propia
...4) A lost lady
To the people of Sweet Water, a fading railroad town on the Western plains, Mrs. Forrester is the resident aristocrat, at once gracious and comfortably remote. To her aging husband she is a treasure whose value increases as his powers fail. To Niel Herbert, who falls in love with her as a boy and becomes her confidant...
5) Heidi
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's second novel starring the great detective Sherlock Holmes, The Sign of the Four weaves together a complex plot involving stolen treasure, a secret pact between guards and prisoners, and the Indian Rebellion of 1857. Revealing and humanizing Holmes beyond his portrayal in A Study in Scarlet, this novel from 1890 shows us the detective's drug habits and introduces Watson's wife-to-be, Mary Morstan.
11) Tik-Tok of Oz
Haley's job is to keep billionaire rockstar Jax Jamieson out of trouble...
Not to fall for him.
I was hired to work for a legend. Instead, I'm being seduced by a man.
When I took an internship on rock god Jax Jamieson's tour, I never thought he'd look twice at me. He's older, cocky, jaded and nothing like the college guys I'm used to.
He's gorgeous, rich, talented, and the biggest rockstar in the world.
Too bad I
Before Sherlock Holmes, There Was Private Detective Ebenezer Gryce
The Leavenworth Case by Anna Katharine Green is one of the very first mystery masterpieces of our modern times. Set in New York City, detective Ebenezer Gryce accepts to investigate the curious murder case of one very rich man, Horatio Leavenworth. Many clues lead to the two nieces but are they truly responsible for their uncle's death? Maybe this is where "The butler did
...A wonderful new collection of Henry James's short stories about the relationship between art and life, edited by Michael Gorra.
This volume gathers seven of the very best of Henry James's short stories, all exploring the relationship between art and life. In 'The Aspern Papers', a critic is determined to get his hands on a great poet's papers hidden in a faded Venetian house - not matter what the human cost. 'The Author of Beltraffio',
15) Freckles
Indefatigable orphan Freckles faces some fairly steep obstacles: in addition to having no family, no name, and no knowledge of his own history, the young man has also lived his whole life without a right hand. Will his scrappy attitude and can-do spirit allow him to overcome these challenges and find love, material success and happiness?
Four very different women, looking to escape dreary London for the sunshine of Italy, take up an offer advertised in the Times for a “small medieval Italian Castle on the shores of the Mediterranean to be let furnished for the month of April.” As each blossoms in the warmth of the Italian spring, quite...
This first-ever fully annotated edition of one of the most beloved novels in the world is a sheer delight for Jane Austen fans. Here is the complete text of Pride and Prejudice with more than 2,300 annotations on facing pages, including:
Rules of etiquette, class differences, the position of women, legal and economic realities, leisure activities, and more.
18) My mortal enemy
As a young woman, Myra Henshawe gave up a fortune to marry for love—a boldly romantic gesture that became a legend in her family. But this worldly, sarcastic, and perhaps even wicked woman may have been made for something greater than...
H. P. Lovecraft proclaimed his Dunwich Horror "so fiendish" that his editor at Weird Tales "may not dare to print it." The editor, fortunately, knew a good thing when he saw it.
One of the core Cthulhu stories, The Dunwich Horror introduces us to the grim village of Dunwich, where each member of the Whateley family is more grotesque than...