House Classics

Die wirkmächtigste politische Fabel der Literaturgeschichte - gelesen von Christoph Maria Herbst. Die Tiere auf dem Hof des Säufers Mr. Jones leiden unter seinem gewalttätigen Regiment. Aber genug ist genug! Die intelligenten Schweine arbeiten ein Programm für die Befreiung vom menschlichen Unterdrücker aus. Die Rebellion ist erfolgreich. Doch selbst die, die sich aus der Unterdrückung befreien, können zu Unterdrückern werden - und bald schon leiden die Tiere unter der Diktatur der Schweine.

Milo está triste y aburrido porque no sabe qué hacer. Nada le parece interesante ni tampoco se le ocurre ningún sitio al que le gustaría ir. Pero un día todo cambia cuando encuentra un regalo muy extraño en su habitación. Este extraordinario regalo es la caseta mágica que lo conducirá al Reino de Sabiduría: un lugar insólito en el cual se venden letras en los mercados y los mineros desentierran números.

Como el drama, el relato corto se ajusta al proyecto literario de Chéjov. La presente edición reproduce que la selección de los mejores cuentos que realizó el escritor estadounidense Richard Ford y se los ofrece al oyente hispanoparlante en una formidable traducción castellana.

The secret Georgia is hiding. When it’s laid bare and her life is on the line, will Tim prove to Georgia what real love looks? Georgia Petrillo becomes a mail-order bride and runs away from her abusive fiancé and greedy parents. She arrives in the sleepy town of Copper Trail to meet her fiancé Tim Clark, who isn’t expecting her but marries her almost instantly at her demand. However, Tim soon finds out that the woman he wrote to is very different in real life, and all kinds of troubles arise. Read all the books in Love Me Love My Dog Western Romance Series bestselling author, Katie ...

Combatir con calamares gigantes, sobrevivir a un terrible remolino, navegar bajo los hielos de la Antártida... Embarca en el Nautilus, el submarino del misterioso capitán Nemo, con el biólogo Aronnax y sus amigos, y disfruta de una aventura fascinante.

After losing her copywriting job, young Gwynne Dacres seeks a place to live when she stumbles upon Mrs. Garr's old boarding house. Despite the gruff landlady and an assortment of shifty tenants, Gwynne rents a room for herself. She spends her first few nights at 593 Trent Street tensely awake, the house creaking and groaning as if listening to everything that happens behind its closed doors. A chain of chilling events leads to the gruesome discovery of a mutilated body in the basement kitchen, dead of unknown circumstances. Was it an accident or murder?

John Buchan's hero Edward Leithen chances upon a worldwide plan for domination. With his own life (and those of his friends) depending on the outcome of his struggle, he engages in combat with the anarchic brain behind The Power-House. The author, despite being very busy in public service, wrote over 50 books during his life, but his particular talent was for writing fast-moving adventure stories. The Power-House, a good example of this genre, was first published in 1916.

At the age of eighteen, Lucy Gayheart heads for Chicago to study music. She is beautiful and impressionable and ardent, and these qualities attract the attention of Clement Sebastian, an aging but charismatic singer who exercises all the tragic, sinister fascination of a man who has renounced life only to turn back to seize it one last time. Out of their doomed love affair—and Lucy's fatal estrangement from her origins—Willa Cather creates a novel that is as achingly lovely as a Schubert sonata.

Ambientada en la Nueva Inglaterra de los puritanos del siglo XVII, La letra escarlata (1849) narra el terrible impacto que un simple acto de pasión desencadena en las vidas de tres miembros de la comunidad: Hester Prynne, una mujer de espíritu libre e independiente, objeto del escarnio público y condenada a llevar la «A» de «Adúltera»; el reverendo Dimmesdale, un alma atormentada por la culpa aunque digno de la estima general, y Chillingworth, un ser siniestro, cruel y vengativo, que maquina en la sombra.

At age seventeen, Toni Bentley was chosen by Balanchine, then in his final years, to join the New York City Ballet. From both backstage and onstage, she carries us through the serendipitous history and physical intricacies and demands of Serenade: its dazzling opening, with seventeen women in a double-diamond pattern; its radical, even jazzy, use of the highly refined language that is ballet; its place in the choreographer’s own dramatic story of his immigration to the United States from Soviet Russia.

Pooh and all of his friends are here: Piglet, Eeyore, Tigger, Rabbit, Owl, Kanga, Roo, and Christopher Robin. As they explore the Hundred Acre Wood, they have all sorts of adventures: tracking the Heffalump, visiting with Rabbit (and getting stuck in a very tight place), dressing up as a little black rain cloud to get honey from the bees, and even going on an "expotition" to the North Pole!

The Complete Series 8 Books in one boxed set! Sweet Clean Contemporary Romance Series Vail, Colorado. Home to eight strong, intelligent women with vastly different personalities and talents. Their faith in God and one another will be tested as they face danger head-on, come face-to-face with old mysteries and misunderstandings, and ultimately discover that true love is worth risking everything for. Read all the books in Vail Romance Complete Series by bestselling author Brenda Clemmons! Book 1: Dresses, Dreams and Cowboy Boots Book 2: The Cowboy Pirate Book 3: The Pony’s Tail Ranch Book 4...

A Day In the Life of Suburban Hotwives These naughty housewives know how to get through the boredom of quiet suburban existence! Long novel of classic erotica. Includes: Sexual situations, age gap, doctor exam, and more.

Heidi es una niña que se va a vivir con su abuelo a una aldea en los Alpes. Allí hará amigos para siempre, vivirá aventuras con los animales que la rodean y subirá a los Alpes hasta que anochezca.

The exciting saga of the Lucas family and friends continues in this new box set collection three following the lives of Kara, Wendy, and Erica. As, one by one, each woman finds the man she wants to spend her life with, the ongoing attacks on the Lucas ranch continue to baffle the town of Windfall, Montana. Never giving up, and trusting in God to provide, the women set their minds to conquer the many challenges that stand between them and true love! You'll get THREE full-length novels (Books 7- 9) from bestseller and Top 20 Kindle All-Star authors Brenda Clemmons with Katie Wyatt! Read all ...

Sapphira Dodderidge, a Virginia lady of the 19th century, marries beneath her and becomes irrationally jealous of Nancy, a beautiful slave. One of Cather's later works.

Available as a value box set amazon.com/dp/B0862F2BLM(copy and paste the link into your browser) Annie Burton is a free spirit. She flies by the seat of her pants and, well … it’s an adventure. On her way out west to meet the man she’s promised to marry, James Anderson, she comes across a young boy in need of help. Wolf is an orphan looking to change his stars. He’s heading out West to find rivers of gold and to carve a life for himself. When these souls meet, it’s chaos all the way. Then, when Annie and her fiancé meet for the first time, James is startled to discover his bride-...

Paris in the aftermath of the Great Magicians War. Its streets are lined with haunted ruins, Notre-Dame is a burnt-out shell, and the Seine runs black, thick with ashes and rubble. Yet life continues among the wreckage. The citizens retain their irrepressible appetite for novelty and distraction, and The Great Houses still vie for dominion over France's once grand capital. House Silverspires, previously the leader of those power games, now lies in disarray.

Anthony Trollope’s The Small House at Allington is the fifth book in a series called The Chronicles of Barsetshire but is the most well-known of the series due to its writing quality and timeline placement within the series. The novel follows the Dales, a family who occupies a large estate. Christopher is the owner of the estate, and allows his widowed sister and her children to live on a small house on the property. The novel largely follows the children, Lilian and Isabella, as they are courted and try to find their place among society.

Now, this is a story about the doll family I liked, and the doll family I didn't. When you read it you are to remember something I am going to tell you. This is it: If you think dolls never do anything you don't see them do, you are very much mistaken. When people are not looking at them, they can do anything they choose. They can dance and sing and play on the piano and have all sorts of fun... but they can only move about and talk when people turn their backs and are not looking.