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Salgari, Emilio – Le meraviglie del duemila –
Language: Italian, Novel – Format: ePub

Le meraviglie del duemila (scritto anche Le meraviglie del 2000) è un romanzo del 1907 scritto da Emilio Salgari. Rientra nel filone del romanzo scientifico ed è considerato il testo più importante della protofantascienza (More) italiana. Narra di un viaggio nel futuro. Due uomini, grazie alla scoperta di un principio attivo di una strana pianta esotica che sospende le funzioni vitali, riescono a viaggiare nel tempo per ben cento anni, spostandosi dal 1903 al 2003.
Si trovano quindi a vivere in una società profondamente modificata e potranno così conoscere un mondo popolato da macchine volanti, treni sotterranei e velocissimi, città sottomarine e molte altre meraviglie tecnologiche.

Verga, Giovanni – Tutte le Novelle –
Language: Italian, Short Stories – Format: ePub

Giovanni Verga è lo scrittore italiano considerato come il maggior esponente della corrente letteraria del verismo, non solo per i suoi famosi romanzi “I Malavoglia” e “Mastro Don Gesualdo”, ma soprattutto per le sue novelle, fra (More) cui la “Cavalleria Rusticana” che venne poi sviluppata in forma teatrale dallo stesso Verga e diventò un’opera lirica di Pietro Mascagni. Questo libro contiene tutte le raccolte di novelle scritte da Verga.

Wren, Percival Christopher – Beau Geste –
Language: English, Novel – Format: ePub, iSilo

Beau Geste is a 1924 adventure novel by P. C. Wren.
Michael “Beau” Geste is the protagonist. The main narrator (among others), by contrast, is his younger brother John. The three Geste brothers are a metaphor for the British (More) upper class values of a time gone by, and “the decent thing to do” is, in fact, the leitmotif of the novel. The Geste brothers are orphans and have been brought up by their aunt at Brandon Abbas. The rest of Beau’s band are mainly Isobel and Claudia (only daughter of Lady Patricia, and in a way, also reason enough for Michael to join the French Foreign Legion), and Lady Patricia’s relative Augustus (always considered “the heir” of Sir Hector Brandon).
When a precious jewel known as the “Blue Water” goes missing, suspicion falls on the young people, and Beau leaves Britain to join the Foreign Legion (la Légion étrangère), followed by his brothers, Digby (his twin) and John. There, after some adventure and separation from Digby, the sadistic Sergeant Major Lejaune gets command of the little garrison at Fort Zinderneuf in French North Africa, and only an attack by Tuaregs prevents a mutiny and mass desertion (only the Geste brothers and a few loyals are against the plot). Throughout the book and adventures, Beau’s behaviour is true to France and the Legion, and he dies at his post. At Brandon Abbas, the last survivor of the three brothers, John, is welcomed by their aunt and his fiancée Isobel, and the reason for the jewel theft is revealed to have been a matter of honour, and to have been the only “decent thing” possible.

Twain, Mark – The Prince and the Pauper –
Language: English, Novel – Format: ePub, iSilo

The Prince and the Pauper (1882) represents Mark Twain’s first attempt at historical fiction. The book, set in 1547, tells the story of two young boys who are identical in appearance: Tom Canty, a pauper who lives with his abusive (More) father in Offal Court, London, and Prince Edward son of Henry VIII of England. Due to a series of circumstances, the boys accidentally replace each other, and much of the humor in the book originates in the two boys’ inability to function in the world that is so familiar to the other (although Tom soon displays considerable wisdom in his decisions). In many ways, the book is a social satire, particularly compelling in its condemnation of the inequality that existed between the classes in Tudor England. In that sense, Twain abandoned the wry Midwestern style for which he was best known and adopts a style reminiscent of Charles Dickens.

Conrad, Joseph – Heart of Darkness –
Language: English, Novel – Format: ePub, iSilo

Set in a time of oppressive colonisation, when large areas of the world were still unknown to Europe, and Africa was literally on maps and minds as a mysterious shadow, Heart of Darkness famously explores the rituals of (More) civilisation and barbarism, and the frighteningly fine line between them. We get the tale through a classic unreliable narrator, relating as Marlow, a ship’s captain, tells how he was sent by the Company to retrieve the wayward Kurtz, and was shaken to discover the true depths of darkness in that creature’s, and in his own, soul. Conrad based the work closely on his own terrible experience in the Congo. This work has been reinterpreted and adapted into many modern forms, the most well known being the film Apocalypse Now.

Teresa de Jesús, Santa – El libro de su vida –
Language: Spanish, Spiritual – Format: ePub

El libro de la Vida es el primero que escribe santa Teresa de Jesús, el más espontáneo y fresco, fiel reflejo de su personalidad y su experiencia humana y sobrenatural.
El texto está cuajado de advertencias sobre la perseverancia, (More) sobre etapas en que se vuelve muy atrás, sobre no querer uno levantar el vuelo sólo. Y continuas llamadas a la humildad, comienzo de toda la oración y también fruto de la misma. El libro se publicó varios años después de la muerte de Santa Teresa.

Anonymous – El Cantar de Mio Cid –
Language: Spanish, Poetry – Format: ePub, iSilo

El “Cantar de Mio Cid” se ha convertido en una de las gestas más afamados de la Edad Media, y el único cantar épico de la literatura española conservado casi completo. Su base argumental es una parte de la vida del caballero (More) castellano Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, quien trata de recuperar la honra perdida a través de diversas hazañas.

Pardo Bazán, Emilia – Los pazos de Ulloa –
Language: Spanish, Novel – Format: ePub

Los pazos de Ulloa es una novela de Emilia Pardo Bazán (1852-1921) publicada en 1886.
Es una de las novelas que mejor ejemplifica la corriente naturalista, al reflejar la aceptación de las teorías positivistas aplicadas a la (More) literatura por el escritor francés y padre del naturalismo Émile Zola.

Poe, Edgar Allan – La caída de la casa Usher –
Language: Spanish, Short Stories – Format: ePub

Un joven caballero es invitado al viejo caserón de un amigo de la adolescencia, Roderick Usher, artista enfermizo y excéntrico que vive completamente recluido en compañía de su hermana, Lady Madeline, también delicada de salud. (More) Usher vive presa de una enfermedad indefinible, lo que hace a todos temer por su vida. La que acaba muriendo es su hermana. Sus restos mortales son depositados en una cripta, pero no tardan en producirse terribles acontecimientos que desembocarán en un trágico final.

Poe, Edgar Allan – El retrato oval –
Language: Spanish, Short Stories – Format: ePub

Este relato narra la historia de un hombre herido que pasa la noche en un castillo abandonado recientemente. El castillo era suntuoso y estaba decorado con hermosos tapices y cuadros. El hombre coge un pequeño libro que encuentra (More) debajo de la almohada en el que hay una breve descripción de los cuadros y las obras de arte. Se fija en un retrato oval de una señora y procede a leer su historia.