Ce livre numérique présente Les Misérables (Texte intégral annoté) de Victor Hugo avec une table des matières dynamique et détaillée.
Ce roman, paru en 1862, un des plus populaires de la littérature française, a donné lieu à de nombreuses adaptations au cinéma. Victor Hugo y décrit la vie de misérables dans Paris et la France provinciale du xixe siècle et s'attache plus particulièrement aux pas du bagnard Jean Valjean qui n'est pas sans rappeler le condamné à mort du Dernier Jour d'un condamné ou Claude Gueux. C'est un roman historique, social et philosophique dans lequel on retrouve les idéaux du romantisme et ceux de Victor Hugo concernant la nature humaine. Victor Hugo, né le 26 février 1802 à Besançon et mort le 22 mai 1885 à Paris, est un poète, dramaturge et prosateur romantique considéré comme l'un des plus importants écrivains de langue française. Il est aussi une personnalité politique et un intellectuel engagé qui a compté dans l'Histoire du XIXe siècle. Victor Hugo a fortement contribué au renouvellement de la poésie et du théâtre ; il a été admiré par ses contemporains et l'est encore, mais il a été aussi contesté par certains auteurs modernes. Il a aussi permis à de nombreuses générations de développer une réflexion sur l'engagement de l'écrivain dans la vie politique et sociale grâce à ses multiples prises de position qui le condamneront à l'exil pendant les vingt ans du Second Empire. Ses choix, à la fois moraux et politiques, durant la deuxième partie de sa vie, et son oeuvre hors du commun ont fait de lui un personnage emblématique que la Troisième République a honoré à sa mort le 22 mai 1885 par des funérailles nationales qui ont accompagné le transfert de sa dépouille au Panthéon de Paris, le 31 mai 1885.
Contenu:
LES MISERABLES - Tome I - Fantine
LES MISERABLES - Tome II - Cosette
LES MISERABLES - Tome III - Marius
LES MISERABLES - Tome IV - L'idylle rue Plumet et l'épopée rue Saint-Denis
Este ebook presenta "Oliver Twist (texto completo, con índice activo)" con un sumario dinámico y detallado.
Oliver Twist es la segunda novela de Charles Dickens. Se publicó originalmente como novela por entregas entre febrero de 1837 y abril de 1839. Oliver Twist es una de las primeras novelas sociales de la historia de la literatura, pues llama la atención a sus lectores sobre varios males sociales de la época, tales como el trabajo infantil o la utilización de niños para cometer delitos. La historia de un pequeño huérfano en la Inglaterra victoriana refleja a la perfección la patética realidad de los niños de bajo nivel social en una época oscura. El joven Oliver es castigado, perseguido y azotado en un mundo de canallas y ladrones, pero su valentía e ingenio le permiten sobrevivir a tanta maldad.
Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870) fue un famoso novelista inglés, uno de los más conocidos de la literatura universal, y el principal de la era victoriana. Fue maestro del género narrativo, al que imprimió ciertas dosis de humor e ironía, practicando a la vez una aguda crítica social. En su obra destacan las descripciones de gente y lugares, tanto reales como imaginarios. Utilizó en ocasiones el seudónimo Boz.
This carefully crafted ebook: "Anne of Green Gables (Anne Shirley Series, Unabridged)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
Anne of Green Gables is a bestselling 1908 novel by Lucy Maud Montgomery. It recounts the adventures of Anne Shirley, a young orphan girl mistakenly sent to Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, a middle-aged brother and sister who have a farm on Prince Edward Island and who had intended to adopt a boy to help them. The novel recounts how Anne makes her way with the Cuthberts, in school and within the town.
Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874 - 1942), was a Canadian author best known for a series of novels beginning with Anne of Green Gables. Montgomery went on to publish 20 novels as well as 530 short stories, 500 poems, and 30 essays.
Este ebook presenta "Obras selectas de Mark Twain" con un sumario dinámico y detallado.
Tabla de contenidos:
Las aventuras de Tom Sawyer
El príncipe y el mendigo
Las aventuras de Huckleberry Finn
Un yanqui en la corte del Rey Arturo
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), fue un periodista, escritor y humorista estadounidense. Llamado por William Faulkner "el padre de la literatura americana", Twain escribió más de 500 obras, comenzando su carrera como tipógrafo, y viajando de una ciudad a otra y de imprenta a otra. Poco a poco se desarrolló como periodista, época en la que adoptó el pseudónimo de Mark Twain, pero sus visiones críticas contra el racismo, el esclavismo y otros temas sociales conflictivos truncaron esta vocación; fue mediante sus relatos y novelas con las que finalmente obtuvo reconocimiento, siendo conocidas hoy en día sobre todo Las aventuras de Tom Sawyer (1976) y Las aventuras de Huckleberry Finn (1984), considerada esta última por muchos como "la gran novela americana".
Este ebook presenta "Cuentos de Charles Perrault (con índice activo)" con un sumario dinámico y detallado.
Publicados originariamente en 1697, los Cuentos de antaño es un libro de Charles Perrault. Se trata de una herencia mezclada de tradición oral con leyendas, que dio la fama e inicio un nuevo estilo de literatura: los cuentos de hadas.En el presente volumen presentamos los títulos más reconocidos y universales, los que figuran en la memoria colectiva y particular de cada uno de nosotros: La bella durmiente del bosque, Caperucita roja, Barba azul, El gato con botas, Las hadas, Cenicienta, Riquete el del copete y Pulgarcito.
Charles Perrault (1628 - 1703) fue un escritor francés, principalmente reconocido por haber dado forma literaria a cuentos clásicos infantiles tales como Caperucita Roja y El gato con botas, atemperando en muchos casos la crudeza de las versiones orales.
Este ebook presenta "Cuentos escogidos (con índice activo)" con un sumario dinámico y detallado. Los cuentos ayudan a los niños a entender y organizar su mundo, además, de proveerles con los más bellos valores y enseñanzas morales. Este libro es una ecopilación de los mejores cuentos de los Hermanos Grimm. Blancanieves, La Cenicienta, Pulgarcito, Caperucita Roja o Hänsel y Gretel. Pero también Rapunzel, Las tres lenguas, El sastrecillo valiente, Los músicos de Bremen... Todos hemos crecido con estas historias.
Los hermanos Grimm es el término utilizado para referirse a los escritores Jakob Grimm y a Wilhelm Grimm. Fueron dos hermanos alemanes célebres por sus cuentos para niños y también por su Diccionario alemán, por sus Leyendas alemanas, la Gramática alemana y la Mitología alemana, lo que les ha valido ser reconocidos como fundadores de la filología alemana.
Este ebook presenta "Cuentos populares rusos (texto completo, con índice activo)" con un sumario dinámico y detallado.
Cuentos populares rusos reúne una selección de los más célebres y atractivos cuentos del folklore de la antigua Rusia de Aleksandr Nikolayevich Afanasiev. Se pueden dividirse a grandes rasgos en cuentos de animales, cuentos costumbristas y cuentos maravillosos. Entre los más conocidos son "Vasilisa la Bella", los cuentos de la bruja Yagá, "El cuento del zarevich Iván, el pájaro de fuego y el lobo gris", "Koschèi el esqueleto perpetuo", entre otros.
Aleksandr Nikolayevich Afanasiev (1826 - 1871), historiador e investigador de la literatura, fue el mayor de los folcloristas rusos de la época, y el primero en editar volúmenes de cuentos de tradición eslava que se habían perdido a lo largo de los siglos. La obra de Afanasiev consta de un total de 680 cuentos tradicionales rusos recogidos en ocho volúmenes que realizó de 1855 a 1863, algunos tan conocidos como Basilisa la Hermosa, La leyenda de Marya Morevna o El soldado y la muerte.
This carefully crafted ebook: "The Benefits of Farting Explained + A Modest Proposal" contains 2 books in one volume and is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
The Benefits of Farting Explained by Jonathan Swift was published in pamphlet form in 1722. What is the nature, essence and definition of a fart? What are the consequences and disadvantages of suppressing one? Why is farting considered to be a taboo? Swift's The Benefit of Farting argues eloquently, in a forceful and a posteriori fashion, that most of the distempers thought to affect the fairer sex are due to flatulence not adequately vented. To complete the excursus into this venerable and age-old human activity, Charles James Fox's Essay upon Wind provides a detailed analysis, classification and history of farting, peppered with wit and curious anecdotes about particularly eminent farts of the past.
A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People From Being a Burthen to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Public, commonly referred to as A Modest Proposal, is a satirical essay written and published anonymously by Jonathan Swift in 1729. Swift suggests that the impoverished Irish might ease their economic troubles by selling their children as food for rich gentlemen and ladies. This satirical hyperbole mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor, as well as Irish policy in general.
Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745) was an Anglo-Irish poet, writer and cleric who gained reputation as a great political writer and an essayist. Jonathan, who became Dean of St. Patrick's in Dublin, is also known for his excellence in satire. His most remembered works include Gulliver's Travels, A modest Proposal, An Argument against Abolishing Christianity and A Tale of a Tub.
This carefully crafted ebook: "Gulliver's Travels illustrated by Arthur Rackham" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
Gulliver's Travels (Original title - Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships), a misanthropic satire of humanity, was written in 1726 by Jonathan Swift. Like many other authors, Swift uses the journey as the backdrop for his satire. He invents a second author, Captain Lemuel Gulliver, who because of a series of mishaps en route to recognized ports, ends up, instead, on several unknown islands living with people and animals of unusual sizes, behaviors, and philosophies, but who, after each adventure, is somehow able to return to his home in England where he recovers from these unusual experiences and then sets out again on a new voyage.
Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745) was an Anglo-Irish poet, writer and cleric who gained reputation as a great political writer and an essayist. Jonathan, who became Dean of St. Patrick's in Dublin, is also known for his excellence in satire. His most remembered works include Gulliver's Travels, A modest Proposal, An Argument against Abolishing Christianity and A Tale of a Tub.
This carefully crafted ebook: "The Night before Christmas - or A Visit from St. Nicholas (with the original illustrations by Jessie Willcox Smith)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
The poem, which has been called "arguably the best-known verses ever written by an American", is largely responsible for some of the conceptions of Santa Claus from the mid-nineteenth century to today. Prior to the poem, American ideas about St. Nicholas and other Christmastide visitors varied considerably.
On Christmas Eve night, while his wife and children sleep, a man awakens to noises outside his house. Looking out the window, he sees St. Nicholas in an air-borne sleigh pulled by eight reindeer. After landing his sleigh on the roof, the saint enters the house through the chimney, carrying a sack of toys with him. The man watches Nicholas filling the children's Christmas stockings hanging by the fire, and laughs to himself. They share a conspiratorial moment before the saint bounds up the chimney again. As he flies away, Saint Nicholas wishes everyone a "Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good night."
Clement Clarke Moore ( 1779 - 1863) was an American Professor of Oriental and Greek Literature, as well as Divinity and Biblical Learning, at the General Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church. Located on land donated by the "Bard of Chelsea" himself, the seminary still stands today on Ninth Avenue between 20th and 21st Streets, in an area known as Chelsea Square. Moore's connection with that institution continued for over twenty-five years. He is the author of the yuletide poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas", which later became famous as "'Twas the Night Before Christmas".
This carefully crafted ebook: The Nutcracker and The Mouse King is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (German: Nussknacker und Mauseknig) is a story written in 1816 by E. T. A. Hoffmann in which young Marie Stahlbaum's favorite Christmas toy, the Nutcracker, comes alive and, after defeating the evil Mouse King in battle, whisks her away to a magical kingdom populated by dolls.
Content:
Christmas Eve
The Gifts
The Favorite
Wonders upon Wonders
The Battle
The Sickness
The Story of the Hard Nut
The Story of the Hard Nut Continued
Conclusion of the Story of the Hard Nut
The Uncle and Nephew
The Victory
The Puppet Kingdom
The Capital
The Conclusion
E.T.A. Hoffmann, original name Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann (1776 1822), German writer, composer, and painter known for his stories in which supernatural and sinister characters move in and out of men's lives, ironically revealing tragic or grotesque sides of human nature.
This carefully crafted ebook: "The Complete Story Girl Series: The Story Girl + The Golden Road" contains 2 books in one volume and is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
The Story Girl is a 1911 novel by L. M. Montgomery. It narrates the adventures of a group of young cousins and their friends who live in a rural community on Prince Edward Island, Canada. The book is narrated by Beverley, who together with his brother Felix, has come to live with his Aunt Janet and Uncle Alec King on their farm while their father travels for business.
The sequel to the book is The Golden Road, written in 1913. When Sara Stanley, the Story Girl, returns to Carlisle to spend the winter with the King family, she comes up with a great idea. To help them through the dreary months ahead, she, Felicity, Cecily and Dan will publish a magazine.
Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874 - 1942), was a Canadian author best known for a series of novels beginning with Anne of Green Gables. Montgomery went on to publish 20 novels as well as 530 short stories, 500 poems, and 30 essays.
This carefully crafted ebook: "The Complete Pat of Silver Bush Series: Pat of Silver Bush + Mistress Pat" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
Pat of Silver Bush (1933) is a novel written by Lucy Maud Montgomery, noted for her Anne of Green Gables series. It portrays a girl named Patricia Gardiner, who hates changes of any kind and loves her home, Silver Bush, more than anything else in the world. She is very devoted to her family: her father and mother, her brothers Joe and Sid, and her sisters Winnie and Rachel. The book begins when Pat is 7 years old and ends when she is 18.
This book has a sequel, Mistress Pat (1935), which describes Patricia Gardiner's life in her twenties and early thirties, during which she remained single and took care of her beloved home, Silver Bush. Pat hated changes as much as ever, and found in Silver Bush a refuge where she was shielded from them, but changes happened nevertheless. In the course of eleven years, new servants, new neighbors and new lovers came and went, her brothers and sisters all got married, and life at Silver Bush was no longer as pleasant as before, but Pat clung to her love of it desperately. It was only in the face of horrible disasters that Pat found where her heart belonged for the rest of her life.
Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874 - 1942), was a Canadian author best known for a series of novels beginning with Anne of Green Gables. Montgomery went on to publish 20 novels as well as 530 short stories, 500 poems, and 30 essays.
This carefully crafted ebook: "The Collected Unabridged Anne Shirley Stories" contains 12 books in one volume and is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
Anne Shirley is a fictional character introduced in the 1908 novel Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery. The central character, Anne, an orphaned girl, made Montgomery famous in her lifetime and gave her an international following. The first novel was followed by a series of sequels with Anne as the central character.
Table of contents:
Anne of Green Gables (1908)
Anne of Avonlea (1909)
Anne of the Island (1915)
Anne's House of Dreams (1917)
Rainbow Valley (1919)
Rilla of Ingleside (1921)
Chronicles of Avonlea (1912)
Further Chronicles of Avonlea (1920)
The Story Girl (1911)
The Golden Road (Sequel to The Story Girl, 1913)
Kilmeny of the Orchard (1910)
The Watchman and Other Poems (1916)
There are two books in the Anne of Green Gables series which were published after 1922 and can't yet be included in this collection because of copyright restrictions in the USA: "Anne of Windy Poplars" (1936) and "Anne of Ingleside" (1939).
Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874 - 1942), was a Canadian author best known for a series of novels beginning with Anne of Green Gables. Montgomery went on to publish 20 novels as well as 530 short stories, 500 poems, and 30 essays.
This carefully crafted ebook: "Anne of Green Gables + Anne of Avonlea + Anne of the Island" contains the 3 First Anne Shirley Classics Unabridged books in one volume and is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
Table of contents :
Anne of Green Gables
Anne of Avonlea
Anne of the Island
Anne of Green Gables (1908), a sentimentalized but often charming story of a spirited, unconventional orphan girl who finds a home with an elderly couple, which helped her achieve international success with both adults and children.
Anne of Avonlea (1909) follows Anne from the age of 16 to 18, during the two years that she teaches at Avonlea school.
Anne of the Island (1915). Anne attends Redmond College in Kingsport, where she is studying for her BA.
Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874 - 1942) was a Canadian author with roots in Scotland. She lost her mother at an early age, and was raised by her maternal grandparents. She began to keep a diary and discovered at the age of 10 that she could write poetry. The novels about Anne and Emily are semi-autobiographical and contain many of her own memories from the 1880s and 1890s on Prince Edward Island in Canada. Montgomery went on to publish 20 novels as well as 530 short stories, 500 poems, and 30 essays.
Este ebook presenta "Las aventuras de Tom Sawyer (texto completo, con índice activo)" con un sumario dinámico y detallado.
Las aventuras de Tom Sawyer es una novela de Mark Twain, publicada en 1876. Es el relato de unos meses en la vida de un chico huérfano que vive en Saint Petersburg, un pueblecito situado a orillas del Misisipi, al suroeste de Estados Unidos. La vida es tan plácida que incluso puede resultar aburrida. Pero Tom Sawyer, un muchacho curioso y travieso, es capaz de sacar provecho a cualquier hecho cotidiano, como pintar una valla, o no tan cotidiano, como perseguir a un malvado asesino o ir en busca de un tesoro escondido en una cueva, acompañado de su inseparable amigo Huck.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), fue un popular escritor, orador y humorista estadounidense. Escribió obras de gran éxito como El príncipe y el mendigo o Un yanqui en la corte del Rey Arturo, pero es conocido sobre todo por su novela Las aventuras de Tom Sawyer y su secuela Las aventuras de Huckleberry Finn.
This carefully crafted ebook: "The Call of the Wild + White Fang + The Son of the Wolf (3 Unabridged Classics)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
First published in 1903, The Call of the Wild is regarded as Jack London's masterpiece. Based on London's experiences as a gold prospector in the Canadian wilderness and his ideas about nature and the struggle for existence, The Call of the Wild is a tale about unbreakable spirit and the fight for survival in the frozen Alaskan Klondike. The story takes place in the extreme conditions of the Yukon during the 19th-century Klondike Gold Rush where strong sled dogs were in high demand. After Buck, a domesticated dog, is snatched from a pastoral ranch in California, he is sold into a brutal life as a sled dog. The work details Buck's struggle to adjust and survive the cruel treatment he receives from humans, other dogs, and nature. He eventually sheds the veneer of civilization altogether and instead relies on primordial instincts and the lessons he has learned to become a respected and feared leader in the wild.
White Fang is the story of a wild dog's journey toward becoming civilized in the Canadian territory of Yukon during the Klondike gold rush at the end of the nineteenth century. White Fang is a companion novel (and a thematic mirror) to Jack London's best-known work, The Call of the Wild, which concerns a kidnapped civilized dog turning into a wild wolf. The book is characteristic of London's precise prose style and his innovative use of voice and perspective. Much of the novel is written from the viewpoint of the animals, allowing London to explore how animals view their world and how they view humans. White Fang examines the violent world of wild animals and the equally violent world of supposedly civilized humans. The book also explores such complex themes as morality and redemption.
The Son Of The Wolf is a collection of short stories, all with a common subject - the northern part of the American continent, the pursuit of gold during the rush in Yukon, and mainly the dealings between the locals (Native Americans) and the European settlers. Though the stories are different, they have much in common, and the mostly the same characters appear throughout them. Jack London gained a lot of fame by writing about the Klondike gold rush, and rightly so. London certainly has a very good insight into the minds of the men and women that occupy the raw, unforgiving North. The stories tell of endurance, hardships and strife but also about true friendship, brave men and virtuous women.
This carefully crafted ebook: "The Complete Brothers Grimm's Fairy Tales (over 200 fairy tales and legends)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
Jacob Grimm (1785-1863) and his brother Wilhelm (1786-1859) were philologists and folklorists. The brothers rediscovered a host of fairy tales, telling of princes and princesses in their castles, witches in their towers and forests, of giants and dwarfs, of fabulous animals and dark deeds. Together with the well-known tales of «Rapunzel», «The Goose-Girl», «Sleeping Beauty», «Hansel and Gretel» and «Snow White» there are the darker tales such as «Death's Messengers» which deserve to be better known, and which will appeal not only to all who are interested in the history of folklore, but also to all those who simply love good storytelling. The two brothers wished to preserve their German folklore in a collection of tales that they believed had been handed down for generations. When they began in 1812 they had just 86 stories that rather harshly reflected the difficult life of European peasantry. Subsequent editions would grow to hold over 200 tales. As time passed, the Brothers Grimm found that their collection of fairy tales, with all of its royalty, magical creatures, and brave adventures, entranced those who read them. This compilation of fairy tales which includes the complete canon of over 200 tales has become a beloved set of classical stories the world over.
Content:
THE GOLDEN BIRD, HANS IN LUCK, JORINDA AND JORINDEL, THE TRAVELLING MUSICIANS, OLD SULTAN, THE STRAW, THE COAL, AND THE BEAN, BRIAR ROSE, THE DOG AND THE SPARROW, THE TWELVE DANCING PRINCESSES, THE FISHERMAN AND HIS WIFE, THE WILLOW-WREN AND THE BEAR, THE FROG-PRINCE, CAT AND MOUSE IN PARTNERSHIP, THE GOOSE-GIRL, THE ADVENTURES OF CHANTICLEER AND PARTLET, RAPUNZEL, FUNDEVOGEL, THE VALIANT LITTLE TAILOR, HANSEL AND GRETEL, THE MOUSE, THE BIRD, AND THE SAUSAGE, MOTHER HOLLE, LITTLE RED-CAP [LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD], THE ROBBER BRIDEGROOM, TOM THUMB, RUMPELSTILTSKIN, CLEVER GRETEL, THE OLD MAN AND HIS GRANDSON, THE LITTLE PEASANT, FREDERICK AND CATHERINE, SWEETHEART ROLAND, SNOWDROP, THE PINK, CLEVER ELSIE, THE MISER IN THE BUSH, ASHPUTTEL, THE WHITE SNAKE, THE WOLF AND THE SEVEN LITTLE KIDS, THE QUEEN BEE, THE ELVES AND THE SHOEMAKER, THE JUNIPER-TREE, THE TURNIP, CLEVER HANS, THE THREE LANGUAGES, THE FOX AND THE CAT, THE FOUR CLEVER BROTHERS, LILY AND THE LION, THE FOX AND THE HORSE, THE BLUE LIGHT, THE RAVEN, THE GOLDEN GOOSE, THE WATER OF LIFE, THE TWELVE HUNTSMEN, THE KING OF THE GOLDEN MOUNTAIN, DOCTOR KNOWALL, THE SEVEN RAVENS, THE WEDDING OF MRS FOX, THE SALAD, THE STORY OF THE YOUTH WHO WENT FORTH TO LEARN WHAT FEAR WAS, KING GRISLY-BEARD, IRON HANS, CAT-SKIN, SNOW-WHITE AND ROSE-RED etc.
This carefully crafted ebook: "The Complete 12 Novels of Mark Twain" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
Table of Contents:
A Tale of Today
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Prince and the Pauper
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
The American Claimant
Tom Sawyer Abroad
Pudd'nhead Wilson
Tom Sawyer, Detective
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
A Horse's Tale
The Mysterious Stranger
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 - 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. He wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called "the Great American Novel."
This carefully crafted ebook: "The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain is a collection of 169 short stories by the author. All the tales he wrote over the course of his lengthy career are gathered here, including such immortal classics as "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg," "The Diary of Adam and Eve," and "The $30,000 Bequest." Twain's inimitable wit, his nimble plotting, and his unerring insight into human nature are on full display in these wonderfully entertaining stories.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 - 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. He wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called "the Great American Novel."
This carefully crafted ebook: "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer + The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" contains 4 books in one volume and is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain is an 1876 novel about a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River. The story is set in St. Petersburg, Missouri, where Tom Sawyer and his friend Huckleberry Finn have the kinds of adventures many boys can imagine: racing bugs during class, impressing girls, especially Becky Thatcher, with fights and stunts in the schoolyard, getting lost in a cave, and playing pirates on the Mississippi River.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, published in 1884, is taken as a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. It is told in the first person by Huckleberry "Huck" Finn, best friend of Tom Sawyer and narrator of two other Twain novels.
Tom Sawyer Abroad, published in 1894, features Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn in a parody ofJules Verne-esque adventure stories. In the story, Tom, Huck, and Jim set sail to Africa in a futuristic hot air balloon, where they survive encounters with lions, robbers, and fleas to see some of the world's greatest wonders.
Tom Sawyer, Detective was published in 1896. In the novel Tom Sawyer attempts to solve a mysterious murder. Like Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the story is told using the first-person narrative voice of Huck Finn.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 - 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. He wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called "the Great American Novel."
This carefully crafted ebook: "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas + Around the World in Eighty Days + The Mysterious Island " contains 3 books in one volume and is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is a classic science fiction novel by Jules Verne published in 1870. It tells the story of Captain Nemo and his submarine Nautilus, as seen from the perspective of Professor Pierre Aronnax.
Around the World in Eighty Days is a classic adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, published in 1873. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a £20,000 wager set by his friends at the Reform Club.
The Mysterious Island is a novel by Jules Verne, published in 1874. In the novel a group of men escape imprisonment during the American Civil War by stealing a balloon. Blown across the world, they are air-wrecked on a remote desert island. In a manner reminiscent of Robinson Crusoe, the men apply their scientific knowledge and technical skill to exploit the island s bountiful resources, eventually constructing a sophisticated society in miniature. The book is also an intriguing mystery story, for the island has a secret...
Jules Verne (1828-1905) was a French novelist who pioneered the genre of science fiction. A true visionary with an extraordinary talent for writing adventure stories, his writings incorporated the latest scientific knowledge of his day and envisioned technological developments that were years ahead of their time. Verne wrote about undersea, air, and space travel long before any navigable or practical craft were invented. Verne wrote over 50 novels and numerous short stories. Some of his most successful novels appeared as a series collectively known as Extraordinary Voyages.
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The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne is subtitled Dropped from the Clouds, Abandoned and The Secret of the Island. It is a translation of L'Île mystérieuse first published in England by Sampson and Low and in the United States by Scribner and Henry L. Shepard using the same translation of W. H. G. Kingston. English translators often altered their translations to suit current political views of Church and Empire. The novel is about six Northerns prisoners that flee Richmond during the American Civil War. Their escape is done by balloon and brings them to an inhabited island lost in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. The book tells the tale of how these men survive.
Jules Gabriel Verne (1828 - 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright best known for his adventure novels and his profound influence on the literary genre of science fiction.
This carefully crafted ebook: "The Mysterious Island Trilogy" contains two translations in one volume and is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
The Mysterious Island was originally published as L'Ile mystéreuse in parts in France between 1873 and 1875 in a periodical. It was the last part of a trilogy. The Mysterious Island made the links between the two novels Captain Grant's Children (1865), and Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas (1869). This idea had been born even before the start of writing of The Mysterious Island.
The first English translation was available by Sampson Low in 1875, translated by W.H.G. Kingston. He was a famous author of boys' adventure and sailing stories. However, it is now known that the actual translator of Mysterious Island and his other Verne novels was actually his wife, Agnes Kinloch Kingston. Based on this first English version followed many other variants of translations or abridged versions.
In 1876 the Stephen W. White translation appeared first in the columns of The Evening Telegraph of Philadelphia and subsequently as an Evening Telegraph Reprint Book. This translation is more faithful to the original story and restores the death scene of Captain Nemo, but there is still condensation and omission of some sections such as Verne's description of how a sawmill works.
Jules Gabriel Verne (1828 - 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright best known for his adventure novels and his profound influence on the literary genre of science fiction.
