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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, satirical novel by Mark Twain, published in 1889. It is the tale of a commonsensical Yankee who is carried back in time to Britain in the Dark Ages, and it celebrates homespun ingenuity and democratic values in contrast to the superstitious ineptitude of a feudal monarchy.
There is an old saying that one half of the world does not know how the other half lives, but as far as this is true, very few of us really understand. In the East, indeed, it is almost amazing. There are people involved in trade, some of whom are very profitable, about whom the world as a whole has never heard of, and which an ordinary Englishman, in all likelihood, would refuse to believe, even if the most reliable evidence had been provided before him.
In the primary arc, a rich young woman is abused, humiliated and abandoned by her new husband, Jacob Fuller, whom she married against the wishes of her father. The young Fuller resents her father’s rejection and dismissal of him as a ne’er-do-well and resolves to exact his revenge by mistreating his new bride.
Like many other Burroughs stories, A Fighting Man of Mars resembles The Arabian Nights. The story is purportedly relayed back to earth via the Gridley Wave, a sort of super radio frequency previously introduced in Tanar of Pellucidar, the third of Burrough’s Pellucidar novels, which thus provides a link between the two series. The story-teller is Ulysses Paxton, protagonist of the previous novel, The Master Mind of Mars, but this story is not about him; rather, it is the tale of Tan Hadron of Hastor, a lowly, poor padwar (a low-ranking officer) who is in love with the beautiful, haughty Sanoma Tora, daughter of Tor Hatan, a minor but rich noble. As he is only a padwar, Sanoma spurns him. Then Sanoma Tora is kidnapped, and the novel moves into high gear.
En el Madrid de los primeros años del siglo XX se mezcla la aristocracia, el artisteo y el folclore en los tablaos y cafés, llenándose de la algarabía de los golfos, la melancolía de los bohemios, la petulante educación de la nobleza venida a menos y el derroche de los burgueses. Un pintoresco popurrí que se presta a habladurías y cotilleos. Son los personajes que protagonizan esta novela fiel reflejo de esa mezcla, destacando el triángulo amoroso formado por la condesa Monreal, Willy, el escultor, y Lucerito Soler. Pero, por encima de todo, la decadencia, la demolición del ser humano por vía de la pérdida de su estatus y su riqueza, destrucción que puede tocar hasta a los más poderosos, transformándoles en caricaturas de lo que una vez fueron, traicionados, vilipendiados y convertidos en foco de risas y bromas de mal gusto.Antonio de Hoyos y Vinent en A flor de piel le hace el amor al lenguaje en cada descripción, adentrándose en el terreno de la sensualidad y el deseo más mundano con elegancia. Desata la crudeza de la traición y el olvido, del poder del dinero y la capacidad del ser humano de ser interesado y cruel, sin importar los años ni la cercanía.Una historia que te enganchará desde la primera página y que saborearás hasta el final, como se degustan los manjares más deliciosos.
A General History introduced many features which later became common in pirate literature, such as pirates with missing legs or eyes, the notion of pirates burying treasure, and the name of the pirate flag the Jolly Roger. The author specifically cites two pirates as having named their flag Jolly Roger (named after the first Pirate and his crew): Welsh pirate Bartholomew Roberts in June 1721, and English pirate Francis Spriggs in December 1723.[10] The book gives an almost mythical status to the more colourful characters, such as the infamous English pirates Blackbeard and Calico Jack. It provides the standard account of the lives of many people still famous in the 21st century, and has influenced pirate literature of Scottish novelists Robert Louis Stevenson and J. M. Barrie.
A Horse’s Tale is a fictional novel written by American author Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), written partially in the voice of Soldier Boy, who is Buffalo Bill’s favorite horse, at a fictional frontier outpost with the U.S. 7th Cavalry.
A House of Pomegranates is a collection of fairy tales, written by Oscar Wilde, that was published in 1891 as a second collection for The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888). Wilde once said that this collection was “intended neither for the British child nor the British public.”
The stories included in this collection are as follows:
The Young King
The Birthday of the Infanta
The Fisherman and his Soul
The Star-Child.
The Journal is a tale of his experiences during the plague that afflicted London in 1665; the work is thus fiction but is peppered with statistics, data, charts, and government documents. H.F. begins by relating rumors that the plague had come to Holland, and closely follows the bills of mortality.
Un grupo de historias bien escritas protagonizadas por la generación anterior, alrededor de 60 años o más. Dado que fueron escritos a principios del siglo XX, es una mirada interesante a cómo envejecía la gente en ese momento. Obra inédita nunca antes publicada en español
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