When the narrator espies a deserted house from his railway carriage, he cannot resist the challenge of taking up residence in a place no one else will inhabit.

a little collection of fairy tales called The House of Pomegranates by Oscar Wilde. I opened this book up and found a whole different book than the one I had expected

Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.

This wonderful collection of fairy stories, put together by Andrew Lang at the end of the 19th century, gathers many of the best loved tales of childhood - 'Old stories', Lang calls them in his preface, 'that have pleased so many generations'.

El ni o de Guzm n narra una historia costumbrista.Pedro, un joven espa ol que ha sido educado en el extranjero en las buenas maneras del continente y con una gran nostalgia de su pa s.

Para algunos analistas de la obra de Tolst i, esta historia reflejar a las luchas intelectuales y espirituales que poco tiempo atr s el autor hab a atravesado, en la crisis que tuvo cuando alcanz los 50 a os y que superar a con un radical cambio espiritual.

El libro sobre el que versa esta breve reflexi n no es una obra de ltima hornada, desde luego no una con la que podamos tratar temas de actualidad en alguno de sus aspectos.

I recommend reading it on a long train journey, as I did. Though the rolling stock and landscape have changed, you can still look out of the window and see, from time to time, old engine sheds, rusting girders, sooty brickwork and freight cars, much like those that Dickens and the other authors describe.

As the story opens, the orphaned Frank is dying of what appears to be brain fever, brought on by a great fright. Lord Saul is overtaken by a fit of laughter when he hears that Frank is dying. However, he does not laugh for long.

Doctor Marigold, named for the man who delivered him, is a cheap-jack who hawks sundries from a traveling cart. His lonely fortunes reverse when he adopts a deaf and mute girl whose mother is dead and whose stepfather, owner of a traveling circus, beats her.

Le professeur Aronnax, son domestique Conseil et le harponneur Ned Land, qui cherchaient capturer un fantastique monstre marin, se retrouvent prisonniers du capitaine N mo, bord de son sous-marin le Nautilus.

There is nothing more irritable than departments, regiments, courts of justice, and, in a word, every branch of public service. Each individual attached to them nowadays thinks all society insulted in his person.

The Beast in the Jungle is the story of John Marcher, who believes he is destined for a special fate. This conviction is so profound that instead of delving into life, Marcher chooses to live at life's fringe, waiting for this special event to occur.

Not all the dragons are fire breathing monsters. Some of them have delightfully human traits. They have wonderfully different personalities, appearances and behavior.

One morning, a barber and his wife are munching on some breakfast when he finds a nose in his bread roll. He recognizes the nose-it belongs to one of his clients, Collegiate Assessor Kovalev. Neither of them is particularly grossed out by this.

Ambientada en 1547, cuenta la historia de dos ni os de apariencia f sica id ntica: Tom Canty, un mendigo que vive con su padre cruel en Offal Court, Londres, y el pr ncipe Eduardo, hijo de Enrique VIII de Inglaterra.

F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story Bernice Bobs Her Hair centers on the social life of two wealthy young females in the 1920's. Marjorie Harvey is one of the most popular girls in town; her cousin Bernice is visiting for the summer.

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The novel begins in the famous apartment 221B Baker Street, home to Sherlock Holmes who is visited by clients in need of assistance in resolving various issues.

The author looks back on his days as a teenager aboard the fishing boats of San Francisco Bay. In the early 1900s, men of all stripes descended on these waters to plunder its rich oyster beds.