This book purports to be a manuscript dictated by a strange being named I-Am-The-Man to a man named Llewyllyn Drury. Drury's adventure culminates in a trek through a cave in Kentucky into the core of the earth. It blends passages on the nature of physical phenomena, such as gravity and volcanoes, with spiritualist speculation and adventure-story elements (like traversing a landscape of giant mushrooms). ...
This novel features the character of David Copperfield, and is written by Charles Dickens in the first person. Dickens wrote this book as a description of Copperfield's life until middle age, with all the adventures and the numerous friends and enemies Copperfield met along his way. It is his journey of change and growth from infancy to maturity, as people enter and leave his life and he passes through the stages of his development. ...
Esta edicion de los dramas de Shakespeare incluye El Mercader de Venecia, Macbeth, Romeo y Julieta, y Otelo. "El Mercader de Venecia" – Bassanio, un veneciano que pertenece a la nobleza pero es pobre, le pide a su mejor amigo, Antonio, un rico mercader, que le preste 3000 ducados que le permitan enamorar a la rica heredera Porcia. Antonio, que tiene todo su dinero empleado en sus barcos en el extranjero, decide pedirle prestada la suma a S ...
La protagonista del drama, Electra, es una joven de dieciocho anos de padre desconocido, que, tras la muerte de su madre, Eleuteria, fue acogida por una tia, Evarista, y su marido, don Urbano. Electra conoce al sobrino de Evarista, Maximo y se enamora de el. Confiando sus sentimientos a don Salvador de Pantoja —"tetrico personaje"– este le 'descubre' a Electra que Maximo y ella son hijos de Eleuteria y por lo tanto hermanos, pero sin c ...
Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie is an epic poem which follows an Acadian girl named Evangeline and her search for her lost love Gabriel, set during the time of the Expulsion of the Acadians. Evangeline describes the betrothal of a fictional Acadian girl named Evangeline Bellefontaine to her beloved, Gabriel Lajeunesse, and their separation as the British deport the Acadians from Acadie in the Great Upheaval. The poem then follows Evangeline across ...
A Description of Millenium Hall is a utopian novel that takes the form of a frame tale and a series of adventures, as the narrator's long-lost cousin relates how each of the residents arrived at the female Utopia, Millenium Hall. The adventures are remarkable for their reliance on a nearly superstitious form of divine grace, where God's will manifests itself with the direct punishment of the wicked and the miraculous protection of the ...
Lilith, The Legend of the First Woman is a rendition of the old rabbinical legend of Lilith, the first woman, whose life story was dropped unrecorded from the early world, and whose home, hope, and Eden were passed to another woman. The author warns us in her preface that she has not followed the legend closely. In her hands, Lilith becomes an embodiment of mother-love that has existed forever, and it is her name that lends its itself to the lul ...
Hazel Woodus is a innocent gypsy girl living in the woods in the company of the wounded animals in her rural surroundings. Unfortunately for Hazel, she is not blessed with the presence in her life of a partner who can share both the physical and spiritual aspects of life with her. Her innocent exuberance catches the eye of the kindly minister, Edward Marston, and the cruel squire, Jack Reddin. She eventually marries Edward, but their love remain ...
Fortunata y Jacinta, novela realista con un complicado triangulo amoroso entre dos mujeres de diferentes clases sociales y un mismo hombre, el burguesito Juan Santa Cruz. Situada en el Madrid de la segunda mitad de dicho siglo, relata las vidas cruzadas de Fortunata y Jacinta, mujeres de distinta extraccion social unidas por un destino tragico. ...
