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Casona, Alejandro – La dama del alba –
Language: Spanish, Theater Play – Format: ePub

Ambientada en la Asturias rural, se centra en las vivencias de una familia desolada por la muerte de Angélica, una de las hijas. La madre no ha podido superar la desaparición de la joven y ello afecta al día a día del resto de las (More) hijas y del Abuelo. Un día aparece por la casa una mujer llamada Peregrina, que termina resultando ser la encarnación de la muerte.

Blasco Ibañez, Vicente – La barraca –
Language: Spanish, Novel – Format: ePub

Sobre las tierras del tío Barret, que se atrevió a romper las cadenas y a cortar la cabeza del amo, don Salvador, con la consiguiente ruina de su familia, pesa una maldición. Convertidas en símbolo de la lucha contra los (More) terratenientes, nadie debe cultivarlas. La hostilidad se desata contra un forastero, Batiste Borrull, que, con el sueño de sacar a su familia adelante, decide arrendarlas, desatando así una tempestad de odio y resentimiento que culmina trágicamente. En la mejor tradición de la novela naturalista, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (1867-1928) se demora en La barraca (1898) en el análisis de la psicología colectiva y achaca la crueldad de los personajes a los bajos instintos y a la brutalidad del medio en que viven. En estas circunstancias adversas, la lucha del maestro, don Joaquín, para educar a sus alumnos, resulta infructuosa.

Dumas, Alexandre – Los tres mosqueteros –
Language: Spanish, Novel – Format: ePub

La novela cuenta las aventuras de un Gascon de 18 años, llamado d’Artagnan, quien se va a París. Allí conoce a Athos, Porthos y Aramis con quienes establece amistad. Los tres hombres son mosqueteros del rey Luis XIII.
Entre los (More) cuatro amigos van a oponerse al Cardenal Richelieu y sus agentes, entre ellos la bella y misteriosa Milady de Winter, para salvar el honor de la reina de Francia Ana de Asturias. Los Tres Mosqueteros es el ejemplo claro de las novelas de capa y espada.

Kipling, Rudyard – The Jungle Book –
Language: English, Novel – Format: ePub

This classic children’s book by Rudyard Kipling tells the story of Mowgli, a young boy raised by wolves: his escapades and adventures with his dear friends Bagheera the panther and Baloo the bear, his capture by the Monkey-People, (More) his attempt at reintegration into human society, and his ultimate triumph over the lame tiger Shere Khan. The account of Mowgli’s adventures is followed by several short stories, including the tales of the brave white seal, Kotick, and the tenacious mongoose, Rikki-Tikki-Tavi. Packed with adventure and Jungle Law wisdom, this book has pervaded popular culture as the basis of many film and stage adaptations, including the popular Disney movie, and through its adoption as a motivational book by the Cub Scouts.

Kipling, Rudyard – Kim –
Language: English, Novel – Format: ePub

Kim is a fabulous adventure story set in India during the former British Empire. It tells the story of a street-wise but (in typical Kipling fashion) highly moral Anglo-Indian boy who becomes enmeshed the “the Great Game” -– the (More) competition between Britain and Russia for control over Asia. Taking time off from his role as the traveling companion of an aged Tibetan lama, the boy is trained as a spy, matches wits with various evildoers, and wins out in the end. So much more than just a spy story, Kim is one of the most enjoyable books that you will ever read — or have read to you.

Kipling, Rudyard – Just So Stories –
Language: English, Short Stories – Format: ePub

The Just So Stories for Little Children, first published in 1902, were written by British author Rudyard Kipling. They are a collection of fantastic stories, typically about how various animals came to be the way they are today.

Kipling, Rudyard – Captains Courageous –
Language: English, Novel – Format: ePub

Real men don’t take guff from snotty kids. Neither does Disko Troop, skipper of the “We’re Here”, a fishing schooner out of Gloucester, Massachusetts, when his crew fishes Harvey Cheyne out of the Atlantic. There’s no place on the (More) Grand Banks for bystanders, so Harvey is press-ganged into service as a replacement for a man lost overboard and drowned. Harvey is heir to a vast fortune, but his rescuers believe none of what he tells them of his background. Disko won’t take the boat to port until it is full of fish, so Harvey must settle in for a season at sea. Hard, dangerous work and performing it alongside a grab-bag of characters in close quarters is a life-changing experience.
And when Harvey at last is reunited with his parents, who have thought him dead for months, he must face the hard decisions of how he will allow his experience to change his life.

Dickens, Charles – Great Expectations –
Language: English, Novel – Format: ePub

This classic tale tells of an orphan, Pip, who through a series of strange circumstances first finds a trade as a blacksmith’s apprentice and then learns that he has “great expectations” of a future inheritance from an anonymous (More) benefactor. He soon learns to live the profligate life of a gentleman as he gradually sheds his associations with the gentle souls of his past, Joe (the blacksmith) and Biddy (a level-headed young lady). He throws his money at improving the prospects of his roommate and friend Herbert and his heart at an “ice princess” whose heart will never respond. But then an escaped convict from his distant past comes calling, and all Pip’s hopes dissolve.

Alarcón, Pedro Antonio de – El sombrero de tres picos –
Language: Spanish, Novel – Format: ePub, iSilo

En una ciudad andaluza, de nombre desconocido, viven enamorados y en pacífica convivencia el tío Lucas, hombre feo y contrahecho, y su mujer, bella y codiciada por todos los vecinos, la señá Frasquita: ella navarra y él murciano. (More) Ambos rigen un molino de harina en que se reúne la tertulia de los notables de la ciudad. D. Eugenio de Zúñiga y Ponce de León, corregidor del lugar y hombre todavía más feo y contrahecho, con la complicidad del alguacil Garduña, tiende una trampa al molinero para que se ausente de su casa y poder así manifestar sus amores a la molinera, pero por una serie de circunstancias casuales el corregidor se va a ver envuelto en un embrollo considerable.

Alarcón, Pedro Antonio de – El Capitán Veneno –
Language: Spanish, Novel – Format: ePub, iSilo

El día 26 de marzo de 1848 en una escaramuza entre monárquicos y republicanos, cae gravemente herido don Jorge de Córdoba, conocido, por su mal genio, como el Capitán Veneno. El herido es recogido por dos damas, doña Teresa (More) Carrillo de Azpeitia, viuda de un general carlista, y su hija Angustias. El Capitán está tan grave que debe permanecer inmovilizado en la casa de las damas. Allí se ve envuelto por la dulzura de doña Teresa y de Angustias, en medio de su estrechez económica y a la espera de que la reina Isabel II reconozca el título de su difunto esposo. Pero las cosas se complican todavía más…