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Crime and Punishment is a psychological novel written by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. It was first published in the magazine The Russian Messenger in 1866, into twelve pieces, and later published as a novel. Along with War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, is considered that the novel is one of the...

The Brothers Karamazov is a passionate philosophical novel set in 19th century Russia, that enters deeply into the ethical debates of God, free will, and morality. It is a spiritual drama of moral struggles concerning faith, doubt, and reason, set against a modernizing Russia, with a plot which revolves...

El criterio es, según su propio autor, «un ensayo para dirigir las facultades del espíritu humano por un sistema diferente de los seguidos hasta ahora». Se trata, pues, de un método original y, en sus líneas esenciales, indispensable para aprender a pensar...

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, is a novel written by English author Mary Shelley about eccentric scientist Victor Frankenstein, who creates a grotesque creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was eighteen, and the novel was published when...

The Abbot (1820) is a historical novel by Sir Walter Scott. A sequel to The Monastery, it is one of Scott's Tales from Benedictine Sources and is set in the time of Mary, Queen of Scots. The story follows the fortunes of certain characters Scott introduced in The Monastery, but it also introduces new characters such as Roland Graeme.

The poem mainly centers on the Greek hero Odysseus (known as Ulysses in Roman myths) and his journey home after the fall of Troy. It takes Odysseus ten years to reach Ithaca after the ten-year Trojan War. In his absence, it is assumed he has died, and his wife Penelope and son Telemachus must deal...

The Iliad, sometimes referred to as the Song of Ilion or Song of Ilium) is an ancient Greek epic poem in dactylic hexameter, traditionally attributed to Homer. Set during the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of the city of Troy (Ilium) by a coalition of Greek states, it tells of the battles and events during the weeks of a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles.

Viaje al centro de la Tierra es una novela de Julio Verne, publicada el 25 de noviembre de 1864, que trata de la expedición de un profesor de mineralogía, su sobrino y un guía al interior del globo. (Jules Verne; Nantes, 1828 - Amiens, 1905) Escritor francés, considerado...

"El faro del fin del mundo" ("Le phare du bout du monde") es una novela del escritor francés Julio Verne (1828-1905), corregida por su hijo Michel Verne (1861-1925) y publicada en la "Magasin d’Education et de Récréation" ("Magazín de...

La inagotable imaginacion de Julio Vere lo lleva, una vez mas, a trazar la extraordinaria aventura de siete desvalidos naufragos en una isla salvaje, aparentemente deshabitada y llena de acosos y peligros.

Pilgrim's Progress is an allegorical novel by John Bunyan, originally published in English in 1678. The full title is The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which is to come, delivered under the similitude of a dream.

A Little Princess is a 1905 children's novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. It is an expanded version of Burnett's 1888 short story entitled Sara Crewe: or, What Happened at Miss Minchin's, which was first serialized in St. Nicholas Magazine from 1887 to 1888. According to Burnett, after she composed...

«La incógnita» y «Realidad» son dos ejemplos particularmente descollantes, por el propósito que movió a Galdós a escribir una novela epistolar («La incógnita») que se metamorfosea en una novela dialogada («Realidad»)...

Fortunata y Jacinta, de Benito Pérez Galdós, es, según la opinión mayoritaria de la crítica literaria, la mejor novela de su autor, y junto a La Regenta de Leopoldo Alas, una de las más populares y representativas del realismo literario español.