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Cover of La tierra de todos
by Vicente Blasco Ibánez
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 29, 2015

En 1910, el escritor valenciano abandonó la creación y cruzó el Atlántico para probar fortuna como colono en la Argentina. Transcurridos los anos, los recuerdos de aquella empresa fracasada impregnan una historia que se desarrolla en los áridos territorios de Río Negro, en la Patagonia, y tiene...
Cover of Idilio en calle Plumet y epopeya en calle Saint-Denis
by Victor Hugo
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 29, 2015

En la tercera y cuarta parte, se cuenta la historia de Fantine, una muchacha que se enamora enormemente pero que de pronto es dejada por su amante estando ella embarazada. Desconsolada , decide darle una educación digna a su hija a quien llama Cossette. Pero la vida de madre soltera es más dura...
Cover of La estrella sobre el bosque
by Stefan Zweig
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 29, 2015

La estrella sobre el bosque (en alemán Der Stern über dem Walde) es un cuento del escritor austriaco Stefan Zweig, escrita entre 1901 y 1902 y publicada en 1904. Sucede durante el Imperio Austrohúngaro de principios del siglo XX, la novela destaca el espíritu decadente y marchito de la alta sociedad centroeuropea.
Cover of Le selve ardenti
by Emilio Salgari
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 29, 2015

Terzo romanzo del ciclo del Far West: le tribu indiane delle Selve Ardenti, seminano terrore e devastazione nelle praterie e Minnehaha e John sono ancora in lotta tra loro.
Cover of Pledged to the Dead
by Seabury Quinn
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015

A tale of a lover who was pledged to a sweetheart who had been in her grave for more than a century, and of the striking death that menaced him—a story of Jules de Grandin.
Cover of Among The Pathans
by William Murray Graydon
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2015

Excerpt: When Jack Chetwynd dropped into the Bundar Cafe at Delhi one scorching afternoon in September of last year and informed me that we were ordered off to the Punjaub, I could have shouted for joy. I did not do it, though, for I well knew how scornfully Jack would regard any such demonstration....
Cover of Riceyman Steps
by Arnold Bennett
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015

The story takes place in 1919-1920 and deals with the final year in the life of its main character, Henry Earlforward, a miser, who keeps a second-hand bookshop in the Clerkenwell area of London. Henry marries Violet Arb, a widow who keeps a neighbouring shop, and who sees in Henry a financially secure...
Cover of L'illusione
by Federico De Roberto
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 29, 2015

"L'illusione", e il primo romanzo del "ciclo" dedicato alla famiglia Uzeda.
Cover of Daniele Cortis
by Antonio Fogazzaro
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 29, 2015

Si conosce con esattezza il periodo di composizione del successivo romanzo, il Daniele Cortis, indicato dallo stesso scrittore: iniziato il 30 maggio 1881, fu compiuto l'11 marzo 1884. In tale periodo Fogazzaro ebbe una relazione, che si prolunghera per una diecina d'anni, con Felicitas Buchner, una...
Cover of Reed Anthony, Cowman
by Andy Adams
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015

From the writer and genuine Western Trail cattle driver, responsible for some of the best and most realistic accounts of cowboy life in literature.
Cover of Le novelle marinaresche di mastro Catrame
by Emilio Salgari
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 29, 2015

Un anziano lupo di mare riunisce ogni notte intorno a sé i marinai e raccontale affascinanti avventure di cui e stato protagonista in tanti anni dinavigazione. Alla fine di ogni storia, il capitano smonta il racconto punto per punto, cercando di dimostrarne l'inautenticita, ma il fascino dell'affabulazione...
Cover of Attraverso l'Atlantico in pallone
by Emilio Salgari
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 29, 2015

Avventure marine e ad alta quota per Mr. Kelly ed il suo fedele servitore, partiti dall'America alla volta dell'Europa a bordo di un pallone aerostatico.
Cover of The Donnington Affair
by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015

In the October 1914 issue of the British magazine The Premier, Sir Max Pemberton published the first part of this story, inviting a number of writers, including Chesterton, to use their talents to solve the mystery of the murder described. Chesterton's solution followed in the form of a Father Brown story in the November issue.
Cover of The Missourian
by Eugene Percy Lyle
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2015

The Missourian, a hero half-splendid and half-grotesque, is one of that band of Confederate who, under Joe Shelby, refused even at the eleventh hour to surrender to the Federal forces and conceived the idea of complete expatriation by offering their services to the tottering throne of Mexico.With...
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