(0)Louisa May Alcott
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Publisher
Canongate Books
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
I committed a crime, it is true, a mad crime, but are not insane jealousy, passionate love, betrayed and lost, and the terrible pain I endure, enough to make anyone commit a crime without actually being a criminal? Guy de Maupassant
A lover's most unlikely jealousy, a mother's patient wait for revenge, a young actress driven to destruction by a cruel husband, a story of jilted love and murder in a London lodging house, and...
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Language
Español
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Descubre una magnífica biblioteca en un solo libro con '100 Clásicos de la Literatura'. Esta recopilación es un tesoro sin igual de historias emblemáticas, enriquecidas con personajes memorables y tramas que han marcado épocas. De las plumas de autores como Jane Austen, Louisa May Alcott, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Arthur Conan Doyle, hasta Victor Hugo, esta colección incluye obras de renombre como 'Mujercitas', 'Orgullo y Prejuicio', 'El Sabueso...
Publisher
Amazon.com
Pub. Date
c2016
Language
English
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Language
English
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Hours of great reading await, with tales from some of the 19th and 20th century's most renowned horror and dark fantasy authors! Explore the uncanny world of mummies, ancient Egypt, and dark sorcery, with these 20 stories:
• SYMPATHY FOR MUMMIES, by John Gregory Betancourt.
• SOME WORDS WITH A MUMMY, by Edgar Allan Poe.
• THE POWER OF WAKING, by Nina Kiriki Hoffman.
• THE MUMMY'S FOOT, by Jessie Adelaide Middleton.
• LOST IN A PYRAMID, OR...
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Language
English
Description
Three magical stories from three American authors, weaving magic creating true American Fairy Tales. In "The Princess Who Could Not Dance", a Princess learns to let go and let nature teach her how to dance. In "Rosy's Journey", a young girl embarks on a long journey to find her father. In "The Golden Windows", a boy learns what true riches he has in his life. Three magical stories from three American authors, weaving magic creating true American Fairy...
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Language
English
Description
This anthology of unabridged short stories represents some of the most significant works from the most influential American authors of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Included are Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving, Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe, Mermaids by Louisa May Alcott, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark Twain, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge...
Author
Publisher
Canongate Books
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
The third of CSA Word's popular women's short story collections
CSA Word's collections of 'stories by or about women', narrated by such excellent readers as Rosalind Ayres, Juliet Stevenson and Harriet Walters are consistently fascinating – The Times
Nine unabridged works by time-honoured female and male writers exploring what love, family, and marriage mean. This collection brings together stories by Edith...