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Este ebook presenta «Madame Bovary (texto completo, con índice activo)» con un sumario dinámico y detallado. Madame Bovary es una novela escrita por Gustave Flaubert y publicada en 1857. Es la historia de Emma Bovary, una mujer infelizmente casada que trata de escapar mediante relaciones prohibidas con otros hombres. La monotonía y las desilusiones de la vida cotidiana (el subtítulo es «Costumbres provincianas»), el adulterio y el suicidio aparecen como temas de esta novela. Las mujeres todavía no se habían emancipado y se esperaba que obedecieran a sus maridos, que se quedaran en casa mientras ellos iban a trabajar o abandonadas durante meses durante las guerras. Emma Bovary también sirve de voz a Flaubert, quien se declaró identificado con el personaje. Gustave Flaubert (1821 – 1880) fue un escritor francés. Está considerado uno de los mejores novelistas occidentales y es conocido principalmente por su primera novela publicada, Madame Bovary, y por su escrupulosa devoción a su arte y su estilo.

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This carefully crafted ebook: «The Collected Works of Jules Verne in English» is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Table of Contents: Novels: Five Weeks In A Balloon – 1863 A Journey To The Center Of The Earth – 1864 The Adventures Of Captain Hatteras – 1864 From The Earth To The Moon – 1865 In Search Of The Castaways – 1865 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea – 1869 Around The Moon – 1869 Around The World In Eighty Days – 1872 The Fur Country – 1872 The Mysterious Island – 1874 The Survivors Of The Chancellor – 1874 Michael Strogoff – 1876 Off On A Comet – 1877 The Underground City (or The Child of the Cavern) – 1877 Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen – 1878 Eight Hundred Leagues On The Amazon – 1881 Godfrey Morgan – 1882 Robur The Conqueror – 1886 The Purchase of the North Pole (or Topsy-Turvy) – 1889 The Adventures Of A Special Correspondent (or Claudius Bombarnac) – 1893 Facing The Flag – 1896 An Antarctic Mystery – 1897 The Master Of The World – 1904 Novellas & Stories: A Voyage In A Balloon (Or A Drama In The Air) – 1851 Master Zacharius Or The Clockmaker Who Lost His Soul – 1854 A Winter Amid The Ice – 1855 The Blockade Runners – 1871 Doctor Ox's Experiment (Or A Fantasy Of Dr Ox) – 1872 In The Year 2889 – 1889 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.

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Ce livre numérique présente «Les Cosaques (La guerre et l'amour au Caucase)» avec une table des matières dynamique et détaillée. Notre édition a été spécialement conçue pour votre tablette/liseuse et le texte a été relu et corrigé soigneusement. Les Cosaques est un roman de Léon Tolstoï publié en 1863. Ses liens avec son frère aîné Nicolas, qui avait intégré l'armée, l'emmenèrent au combat dans le Caucase, face aux montagnards dirigés par le chef rebelle Chamil. Il y vécut l'aventure et la gloire qu'espéraient tant de jeunes gens de son âge. Il relata plus tard son expérience dans Les Cosaques. Résume: Olénine, jeune junker désenchanté, quitte Moscou pour joindre les rangs de l'armée russe au Caucase. Le but avoué de ce voyage est de commencer une nouvelle vie afin d'oublier son passé lourd entre autres de ses dettes de jeux. Arrivé au Caucase, Olénine est séduit par la nature qui l'entoure. Le village dans lequel il réside, près du Terek, offre une vue saisissante des montagnes avoisinantes. Olénine est accueilli par un vieux cosaque du nom d'Erochka qui le prend sous son aile. Il lui apprend les mœurs locales et lui enseigne les rudiments de la chasse. Lucas, le héros du village, convoite la fille des locataires d'Olénine, Marion, la plus belle cosaque du village. Mais Olénine, qui a sympathisé avec Lucas, est également amoureux de la belle…

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Este ebook presenta «Los cuatro jinetes del Apocalipsis» con un sumario dinámico y detallado. Se trata de una novela ambientada en 1914 en Francia y narra las vicisitudes de la Primera Guerra Mundial. El punto de vista es el de un natural de un país neutral aunque claramente decantado por el lado francés de los Aliados frente a Alemania. Debido a sus diferencias políticas, dos familias provenientes de un tronco común, los Desnoyers y los Von Hartrott, se enfrentan. Tras la muerte del patriarca, Julio Madariaga, los Hartrott se marchan a Alemania y los Desnoyers a Francia. Ambas familias terminan combatiendo en bandos opuestos en la Primera Guerra Mundial. La novela discurre ágilmente por los escenarios dantescos de una Europa rota, sobre cuyos desolados campos de batalla el gran vitalista que fue Blasco hace latir finalmente, salvaje e invencible, el deseo de vivir. Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (1867 – 1928) fue un escritor, periodista y político español.

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This carefully crafted ebook: «The Miller's Daughter (Unabridged)» is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The Miller's Daughter is a poignant tale in which Zola highlights the futility of war and the destruction it causes. The happiness and peace of the protagonists is wrecked when Prussian soldiers enter their village. Zola excells himself in the in-depth portrayal of human emotions and feelings. Émile Zola (1840 – 1902), French novelist, critic, and political activist who was the most prominent French novelist of the late 19th century. He was noted for his theories of naturalism, which underlie his monumental 20-novel series Les Rougon-Macquart, and for his intervention in the Dreyfus Affair through his famous open letter, «J'accuse.»

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En una sociedad confusa, relativa y tecnológica, el Dr. Plenc rescata, en esta obra, las metáforas más simples (pero también más profundas) que Jesús presenta en el Evangelio de San Juan. En ese rescate, encontrarás sentido para tu existencia y plenitud para tu vida. Por eso, entre tanta levedad, frivolidad e inestabilidad, son refrescantes las palabras, las enseñanzas y las promesas de Jesús, el gran YO SOY.

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This carefully crafted ebook: «Windy McPherson's Son (Unabridged)» is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The book is the story of Sam McPherson's rise in the world of business and search for emotional enlightenment in later life. The author is strongly coherent in the fact that a man needs to find success that will satisfy his ego regardless of the effect that it can have on his child. Windy goes about his business but the inferiority that accompanies his life gives his son the illusion that life offers little hope. Sherwood Anderson (1876 – 1941) was an American novelist and short story writer, known for subjective and self-revealing works. Anderson published several short story collections, novels, memoirs, books of essays, and a book of poetry. He may be most influential for his effect on the next generation of young writers, as he inspired William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, and Thomas Wolfe.

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This carefully crafted ebook: «The Poetry Collections of Lewis Carroll» is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Table of Contents: Early Verse Puzzles from Wonderland Prologues to Plays Rhyme? And Reason? College Rhymes and Notes by an Oxford Chiel Acrostics, Inscriptions and Other Verses Three Sunsets and Other Poems The Hunting of the Snark Charles Lutwidge Dodgson better known by the pseudonym Lewis Carroll (1832 – 1898), was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer. His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass, as well as the poems «The Hunting of the Snark» and «Jabberwocky», all examples of the genre of literary nonsense. He is noted for his facility at word play, logic, and fantasy.

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This carefully crafted ebook: «Anne's House of Dreams (Anne Shirley Series, Unabridged)» is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Anne's House of Dreams is a novel by Maud Montgomery, first published in 1917. The novel is from a series of books written primarily for girls and young women, about a young girl named Anne Shirley. It follow the course of Anne's life. It is set principally on Canada's Prince Edward Island and chronicles Anne's early married life, as she and her childhood sweetheart Gilbert Blythe begin to build their life together. 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.

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This carefully crafted ebook: «Three Biographies of Lewis Carroll: The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll + Lewis Carroll in Wonderland and at Home + The Story of Lewis Carroll» is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Table of Contents: «The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll» by Stuart Dodgson Collingwood «Lewis Carroll in Wonderland and at Home» by Belle Moses «The Story of Lewis Carroll» by Isa Bowman The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll is a biography written by Carroll's nephew and published only 11 months after his death in December 1898. It accidentally started the entire image of Lewis Carroll as a pedophile by deliberately suppressing all the evidence for his sometimes unconventional relationships with women, explaining that some of those women had been little girls… Lewis Carroll in Wonderland and at Home: The Story of His Life was published in 1910. It is a biography of Lewis Carroll written by Belle Moses. The Story of Lewis Carroll was published in 1899 and was written by Isa Bowman, an actress. Her title was based on the fact that she had once – thanks to Dodgson's influence – played Alice on stage. Her book was a memoir of her relationship with her «uncle» and benefactor. Stuart Dodgson Collingwood (1870–1937) was an English clergyman and headmaster. He wrote two books about his uncle, Lewis Carroll. Belle Moses (1834 – 1891), was an author of a memoir about Lewis Carroll and a mother of Robert Moses, «master builder» of mid-20th century New York City. Isa Bowman (1874–1958) was an actress, a close friend of Lewis Carroll and author of a memoir about his life, The Story of Lewis Carroll, Told for Young People by the Real Alice in Wonderland.

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