Literary Fiction
The Romantic
As a simple story told, "The Romantic" is one of Sinclair’s tightest and most compelling. Charlotte Redhead, a young British secre…
Abel Sánchez
Unamuno nos pone frente a frente con una de las pasiones humanas más viles y destructivas: La envidia.Joaquín y Abel son amigo…
Cousin Pons
Cousin Pons is one of the final works in Balzac's long novel series titled The Human Comedy. It was published in 1847, along with Cousin Bet…
In Vino Veritas
In Vino Veritas is one section of Kierkegaard's Stages on Life's Way, originally published in 1845. In a conscious reference to Plato's Symp…
Der Sohn der Hagar
Paul Keller war seinerzeit einer der bekanntesten deutschen Schriftsteller. Der Sohn der Hagar (1907) dreht sich um den jungen Musiker Rober…
Ressurreição
Primeiro romance de Machado de Assis, publicado em 1872, quando o escritor tinha 33 anos. Segundo o autor, ao escrever este primeiro romance…
Bola de sebo
Cuento largo o novela breve, que supuso el primer texto con cierto éxito del maestro Guy de Maupassant. Durante la guerra franco-prus…
The Awkward Age
Nanda Brookenham is coming of age, and thus 'coming out' in London society - which leads to complications in her family's social set in Lond…
El Equipaje del Rey José
El equipaje del rey José (1875) es la primera novela de la segunda serie de los Episodios nacionales de Benito Pérez Gald&oacu…
Jacob's Room
Virginia Woolf’s third novel lacks a conventional narrative style and some say even a plot. It follows Jacob from his childhood, through his…
The Colonel's Dream
In this novel, Chesnutt described the hopelessness of Reconstruction in a post-Civil War South that was bent on reestablishing the former st…
To The Lighthouse
The Ramsey family, with house guests, visit the Isle of Skye at least twice. The plot is not at all the point though, as this is a book abou…
The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid
A milkmaid, Margery, encounters a mysterious foreigner and perhaps prevents him from committing suicide. In gratitude, the man offers her an…
Mrs. Armytage
Mrs Armytage is a widowed landowner, spirited, independent and very much used to having her own way and exercising total dominance over her …
Marianela
Marianela, publicada en 1878, forma parte de lo que se ha llamado "novelas tesis" del autor, de forma que algunos de sus personaje…
Don Quichot van La Mancha
Door het lezen van te veel ridderromans is Don Quichot zijn verstand kwijtgeraakt. Denkend dat hij zelf een dolende ridder is, verlaat hij z…
The Tysons
Another frank May Sinclair exploration of fin de siècle English love and sex, marriage and adultery, "The Tysons" is the st…
Mr. Britling Sees It Through
"Mr. Britling Sees It Through" is H. G. Wells' attempt to make sense of World War I. It begins with a lighthearted account of an …
Cuentos del Oeste
Bret Harte ha sido llamado con razón «el Dickens de los pioneros»: ilustrando con humor y sentimiento el coraje y la virt…
A Common Story
Alexander Fedoritch Adouev is the naïve, pampered son of Anna Pavlovna, a provincial landowner. He decides to go off to Saint Petersbur…