House Classics

«El cuento no es más ni menos arte que la novela». Esta era la premisa a partir de la cual Clarín, la más importante figura del naturalismo español, se enfrentaba al género en el que se iba a desarrollar. La precisión de los mecanismos narrativos, la fluidez de un relato aparentemente sencillo y la limpieza de estilo convierten los cuentos de Clarín en verdaderas joyas, que renuncian al efecto fácil de lo llamativo para recorrer el difícil camino de lo mesurado.

Dr. Morgan Pierce shares a wealth of knowledge that he has learned over his 57 years of personal and professional life journey. Starting from small beginnings, he has learned key concepts of life mastery that anyone can benefit from. Dr. Pierce is a self-made millionaire who has studied the lives of successful people for over three decades. He has examined why many of them have succeeded despite failures along the way. Dr. Morgan Pierce shares with his students the importance of understanding that it’s not how you start off in life that counts. It’s how you finish.

En un reino lejano, una pareja de reyes se preparaba para festejar el nacimiento de hija, invitando a todas las figuras importantes de su reino, excepto a un hada que era famosa por ser colérica. Enojada por no haber sido invitada a la fiesta, el hada puso una maldición sobre la bebé, profetizando que, al cumplir los dieciocho años, se sumiría en un sueño eterno.

Los hermanos De Witt, protegidos del gran rey Luis de Francia, encuentran la muerte a manos de la enloquecida población de La Haya, que los cree culpables de conspiración. Pero antes de morir dejan a su ahijado Cornelius unos comprometedores documentos que lo llevarán a la cárcel. Allí, en compañía de la joven Rosa, se afanará en conseguir lo que más desea en el mundo: el bulbo del tulipán negro.

M.R. James (1862-1936) was provost of King's College, Cambridge, and Eton College. He was a highly regarded scholar and academic in his time but today is remembered for his ghost stories, which are considered among the finest in the genre. The seven stories in this Volume One are: "A School Story", "Rats", "A Warning to the Curious", "Two Doctors", "The Haunted Doll's House", "Casting the Runes", "There Was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard".

Lexington confessed to a crime he didn't commit to save Elle's life. Now she's summoned the one and only person who can spare him, but it comes at a dangerous price: confessing every one of her secrets to the King. That she is the one who has been curing the Bitten, and who the true father of her unborn child is. Trying to do good comes with unforeseen consequences - a cured Bitten, one who should have just walked away, and tried to forget, wants revenge. The cycle must stop, and the only way to do it is to expose all vampires to the world.

When it comes to short stories, Edgar Allan Poe is considered by many to be the master of terror and the macabre. This is one of his most famous stories. A man visits a friend but finds something very strange is going on with him - and his house.

Considered to be Dickens' finest novel, Bleak House is a suspenseful tale about the injustices of the 19th-century English legal system. This novel set the standard for modern day legal thrillers.

He found himself a traveler in the strangest of lands. Where invisible secrets come starkly into sight. Where the fairest of companions leads the way into unsuspected danger and darkness. Where hidden battles burst into the open. Where so much is grasped…and so much more seems unattainable.

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Este volumen, que reúne 11 fascinantes relatos, permite saborear el atractivo original de las aventuras del detective más famoso del mundo. En este libro Sherlock Holmes se enfrenta a varios casos que incluyen caballos de carreras desaparecidos y tratados navales robados; pero nada podría anticipar el desafío de El problema final, en el que el doctor Watson nos narra, con el corazón apesadumbrado, la historia del encuentro más dramático entre Holmes y su genial y despreciable archienemigo, el profesor Moriarty.

The first collection of the exploits of A.J. Raffles and his friend Bunny Manders was published as The Amateur Cracksman in 1899. The characters of Raffles and Bunny were possibly inspired by his brother-in-law's creations, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, although they are on the opposite side of the law.

Barry Lyndon narra el ascenso y caída de una ambición desmesurada: la de Redmond Barry, un joven irlandés decidido a convertirse en un hombre rico e importante. Hipócrita y vanidoso, usa todos sus ardides para escalar en el mundo social del siglo XVIII, hasta alcanzar la cúspide al casarse con lady Lyndon, la joven viuda de un acaudalado conde. Será entonces, sin embargo, cuando descubrirá que, tras subir la montaña, solo queda bajarla.

Matilda Case isn't normal. Normal people aren't stitched together, inhumanly strong, and ageless, as she and the other galvanized are. Normal people's bodies don't hold the secret to immortality -something the powerful Houses will kill to possess. And normal people don't know that they're going to die in a few days.

With the ring of sorrows still missing, and the covenant between othernaturals and mortals broken, Chrysabelle and Malkolm's problems are just beginning. Chrysabelle still owes Malkolm for his help, but fulfilling that debt means returning to Corvinestri, the hidden vampire city neither of them is welcome in. The discovery that Chrysabelle has a brother could mean reneging on her promise to Malkolm, something that might make him angry enough to loose the beast living inside him. And fulfilling her vow could prove devastating for Chrysabelle.

In Agatha Christie’s short story “The Case of the Missing Will,” Poirot must help clever student Violet Marsh meet the terms of an unusual will by her Uncle Andrew. She must live in his house for a month and “prove her wits” if she is ever to receive his fortune. But is there another will?

In The Shunned House, H. P. Lovecraft crafts a chilling tale of horror and the supernatural. The story follows the narrator and his uncle as they investigate a decaying, abandoned house that has a long history of death and illness associated with it. As they dig deeper into the mysteries surrounding the house, they uncover terrifying and otherworldly forces that defy explanation. The unsettling atmosphere, combined with Lovecraft’s masterful storytelling, creates an eerie, unforgettable journey into fear and the unknown.

In The Haunted House, Charles Dickens weaves a captivating tale of mystery and the supernatural, set in a remote, abandoned mansion. The story is part of a collection that features a group of people coming together to recount ghostly encounters and eerie experiences in the haunted house. With each chapter revealing a new chilling narrative, Dickens expertly explores themes of fear, the unknown, and the darker side of human imagination.

Journalist Angus Logan returns to the island of La Roque, where he grew up as part of the Courvel family. Maurice de Courvel has died under extremely mysterious circumstances. What has happened to the island since Angus’ departure is equally shocking. As the details of what have led to the violent death slowly begin to unravel, Angus cannot escape his own past and the danger that has begun to surround him.