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Pérez Galdós, Benito – La fontana de oro –
Language: Spanish, Novel – Format: ePub

Primera novela de Benito Pérez Galdós, es publicada en 1870. La acción transcurre en la ciudad de Madrid durante los años del Trienio Constitucional y toma su título del café situado cerca de la Puerta del Sol que, con ese mismo (More) nombre, sirvió de lugar de reunión a artistas y tribuna oratoria para políticos liberales.
En la novela, se mezclan los hechos históricos con los asuntos personales siguiendo una pauta de construcción literaria similar a la de los Episodios Nacionales.

Burnett, Frances Hodgson – A Little Princess –
Language: English, Novel – Format: ePub

A Little Princess is a novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Sara Crewe is a very intelligent, polite, and creative young girl. Born to a wealthy soldier in India, Sara was brought all the way to London in Victorian-era England for a (More) formal education. At the upscale boarding school, Sara is forced to tolerate the haughty, disdainful headmistress, Miss Minchin. Unfortunately, things only get worse for Sara when her father’s bankruptcy and death leave her impoverished and at the mercy of the jealous Miss Minchin. Sara undergoes numerous trials as she humbly allows herself to be subjected to servitude, but with the help of several dear friends (both seen and unseen), she remains as proud and unwavering and imaginative as ever, proving to all that she is, as the title says, “a little princess.”

Burnett, Frances Hodgson – Little Lord Fauntleroy –
Language: English, Novel – Format: ePub

Little Lord Fauntleroy is a sentimental children’s novel by American (English-born) author Frances Hodgson Burnett, serialized in St. Nicholas Magazine in 1885. It was a runaway hit for the magazine and was separately published in (More) 1886. The book was a commercial success for its author, and its illustrations by Reginal Birch set fashion trends. Little Lord Fauntleroy also set a precedent in copyright law in 1888 when its author won a lawsuit over the rights to theatrical adaptations of the work.

Chesterton, Gilbert Keith – St. Francis of Assisi –
Language: English, History & Biography – Format: ePub

Chesterton was an orthodox religious person, eventually converting to Roman Catholicism. In 1923, he wrote this short biography of St. Francis of Assisi, after whom Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio chose his papal name, Pope (More) Francis, when he was elected as the 266th and current Pope of the Catholic Church, on 13 March 2013. The biography of St. Francis may help one understand why the Pope chose St. Francis as his namesake. Chesterton begins:
“A sketch of St. Francis of Assisi in modern English may be written in one of three ways. Between these the writer must make his selection; … First, he may deal with this great and most amazing man as a figure in secular history and a model of social virtues. … Second, he may go to the opposite extreme, and decide, as it were, to be defiantly devotional. … Third, he may try to do what I have tried to do here; … I am here addressing the ordinary common man, sympathetic but sceptical, and I can only rather hazily hope that, by approaching the great saint’s story through what is evidently picturesque and popular about it, I may at least leave the reader understanding a little more than he did before of the consistency of a complete character; ….”

Slocum, Joshua – Sailing Alone Around the World –
Language: English, History & Biography – Format: ePub

Joshua Slocum was the first man to sail around the world alone in a small boat. He personally rebuilt an 11.2 metre sloop-rigged fishing boat that he named the Spray. On April 24, 1895, he set sail from Boston, Massachusetts. More (More) than three years later, he returned to Newport, Rhode Island, on June 27, 1898 having circumnavigated the world, a distance of 46,000 miles (74,000 km).
In 1899 he described the voyage in Sailing Alone Around the World now considered a classic of travel literature. It is a wonderful adventure story from the Age of Sail and a book of which Arthur Ransome declared, “boys who do not like this book ought to be drowned at once”.

Cather, Willa – One of Ours –
Language: English, Novel – Format: ePub

One of Ours is a novel by Willa Cather that won the 1923 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel. It tells the story of the life of Claude Wheeler, a Nebraska native around the turn of the 20th century. The son of a successful farmer and an (More) intensely pious mother, he is guaranteed a comfortable livelihood. Nevertheless, Wheeler views himself as a victim of his father’s success and his own inexplicable malaise.

Verne, Jules – Viaje al centro de la tierra –
Language: Spanish, Novel – Format: ePub

El profesor alemán Otto Lidenbrock descubre un escrito cifrado de un sabio islandés del siglo XII que afirma haber llegado al centro de la Tierra: Arne Saknussemm (basado en la figura de Arne Magnussen, escritor y recopilador de (More) sagas nórdicas).
El profesor Lidenbrock pretende seguir los pasos de Saknussemm, y emprende una expedición acompañado por su escéptico sobrino Axel y el impasible guía islandés Hans.
El grupo ingresa por un volcán hacia el interior del globo terráqueo, en donde vivirán innumerables peripecias, incluyendo el asombroso descubrimiento de un mar interior y un mundo mesozoico completo enterrado en las profundidades, así como la existencia de iluminación de carácter eléctrico.

Trollope, Anthony – Doctor Thorne (Chronicles of Barsetshire 3) –
Language: English, Novel – Format: ePub

Doctor Thorne (1858) is the third novel in Anthony Trollope’s series known as the “Chronicles of Barsetshire”.It is mainly concerned with the romantic problems of Mary Thorne, niece of Doctor Thomas Thorne (a member of a junior (More) branch of the family of Mr Wilfred Thorne, who appeared in Barchester Towers), and Frank Gresham, the only son of the local squire, although Trollope as the omniscient narrator assures the reader at the beginning that the hero is really the doctor.Major themes of the book are the social pain and exclusion caused by illegitimacy, the nefarious effects of the demon drink, and the difficulties of romantic attachments outside one’s social class. The novel also gives a vivid picture of electioneering and all the just-legal shenanigans that accompany the event. Most of the action takes place in a village of Barsetshire and a country house not far off.

Dinesen, Isak – El festín de Babette –
Language: Spanish, Short Stories – Format: ePub

El Festín de Babette es una deliciosa y apetecible novela que cuenta la experiencia de una cocinera francesa que huye de su país tras la revolución de la Comuna de 1871. Los avatares de la vida la conducen hasta un pequeño pueblo (More) de pescadores de la península de Jutlandia donde entra a servir en la casa de dos ancianas solteras: Martina y Filipa, hijas de un pastor luterano que fue líder espiritual de la pequeña aldea. Babette convive en ese asfixiante ambiente durante catorce años, pero un día recibe la noticia de que le han tocado 10.000 francos en la lotería, y decide gasta ese capital en una cena francesa para todos los feligreses.
Karen Blixen (de nombre real Karen Dinesen y conocida por su seudónimo literario Isak Dinesen) nació en Rungstedlund (Dinamarca), el 17 de abril de 1885.Desde niña Karen sintió inclinaciones artísticas, especialmente por la escritura y la pintura.
Su libro más famoso es la novela `Memorias de África` (1937), centrado en sus experiencias en el continente africano.

Dinesen, Isak – Memorias de África –
Language: Spanish, Novel – Format: ePub

“Entre el río en el suave paisaje inglés y los montes africanos, corre el sendero de su vida, es uan ilsuión óptica que parezca torcerse y desviarse, lo que le rodeaba es lo que se desvía”. (Ibd. Isak Dinesen).
Recién casada, una (More) joven danesa, hija y hermana de militares, aristócrata y refinada, viajó a Africa, a Kenia, donde permaneció durante diecisiete años. Y esa experiencia dio lugar a una novela que es una encendida declaración de amor a unos paisajes, a unas gentes y a unas culturas que se situaban en el polo opuesto de lo que había sido su pasado familiar y social. Ela mor de la protagonsita pro un aventurero demócrata inglés, Denys Finch- Hatton, el contacto diario con los nativos y su fascinación por el entorno que la rodea hacen de África su nuevo hogar. En este relato se basa la película del mismo nombre, también traducida en algunos países como África Mía que dirigida por Sidney Pollack, fue galardonada con ocho Premios Oscars en 1985.
Karen Blixen (de nombre real Karen Dinesen y conocida por su seudónimo literario Isak Dinesen) nació en Rungstedlund (Dinamarca), el 17 de abril de 1885.Desde niña Karen sintió inclinaciones artísticas, especialmente por la escritura y la pintura. Su libro más famoso es la novela `Memorias de África` (1937), centrado en sus experiencias en el continente africano.