'El hombre que pudo reinar' cuenta la historia de dos aventureros británicos en la India británica, que se convierten en reyes de Kafiristán, una zona remota de Afganistán. Fue inspirado por las hazañas de James Brooke, un inglés que se convirtió en el «Rajá blanco» de Sarawak, en Borneo, y por los viajes del aventurero estadounidense Josiah Harlan, quien reclamó el título de Príncipe de Ghor.

Sirio es un perro lobo singular: no tiene una vista de lince, y es bastante patoso pero, gracias a las técnicas desarrolladas por Thomas Trelone, posee la inteligencia y la sensibilidad de una persona. Criado en la Gales rural por la esposa del científico, crece aislado del resto del mundo contando con una sola amiga: Plaxy, la hija del matrimonio. Cuando los separan para que ella asista a la escuela y él se inicie en el pastoreo, Sirio tomará conciencia de su condición única. Ésta le valdrá un sinfín de limitaciones y desengaños, condenado a la soledad absoluta, como un perpetuo extraño tanto para los humanos como para los demás perros.

Product Description: Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (Edimburgo, 22 de mayo de 1859-Crowborough, 7 de julio de 1930)1 fue un escritor y médico británico, creador del célebre detective de ficción Sherlock Holmes. Fue un autor prolífico cuya obra incluye relatos de ciencia ficción, novela histórica, teatro y poesía...read more

Product Description: " Slavonian dynasty, Constantine Copronymus (741-75) advanced in his conquest of Slavonia as far as Berea, to the S. of Thessalonica, which is evident from an inspection of the frontiers of the empire, made by order of the Empress Irene in 783. The Emperor... "

Product Description: Meredith was born in Portsmouth, England, a son and grandson of naval outfitters.[1] His mother died when he was five. At the age of 14 he was sent to a Moravian School in Neuwied, Germany, where he remained for two years. He read law and was articled as a solicitor, but abandoned that profession for journalism and poetry...read more

Product Description: The novel recounts the story of self-absorbed Sir Willoughby Patterne and his attempts at marriage; jilted by his first bride-to-be, he vacillates between the sentimental Laetitia Dale and the strong-willed Clara Middleton. More importantly, the novel follows Clara's attempts to escape from her engagement to Sir Willoughby, who desires women to serve as a mirror for him and consequently cannot understand why she would not want to marry him...read more

Product Description: The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid fails to conform to one of the most common expectations of a short story, namely that it is of such a length that it may be read at a single sitting. In its initial American publication, in Harper's, it is obviously a short novel or novella, running in seven instalments from June 23rd to August 4th...read more

Product Description: The plot concerns the activities of a group of church musicians, the Mellstock parish choir, one of whom, Dick Dewy, becomes romantically entangled with a comely new school mistress, Fancy Day. The novel opens with the fiddlers and singers of the choir—including Dick, his father Reuben Dewy, and grandfather William Dewy—making the rounds in Mellstock village on Christmas Eve...read more

Product Description: Thomas Hardy, OM (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, especially William Wordsworth...read more

Product Description: Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) is Thomas Hardy's fourth novel and his first major literary success. It originally appeared anonymously as a monthly serial in Cornhill Magazine, where it gained a wide readership. Critical notices were plentiful and mostly positive...read more

Product Description: The experience of Hester and Dimmesdale recalls the story of Adam and Eve because, in both cases, sin results in expulsion and suffering. But it also results in knowledge – specifically, in knowledge of what it means to be immoral...read more

Product Description: London was part of the radical literary group "The Crowd" in San Francisco and a passionate advocate of unionization, socialism, and the rights of workers. He wrote several powerful works dealing with these topics, such as his dystopian novel The Iron Heel, his non-fiction exposé The People of the Abyss, and The War of the Classes...read more

Product Description: It was the great ball of the season at Fort Ellsworth. For a special reason it had begun unusually late; but, though the eighth dance was on, the great event of the evening had not happened yet. Until that should happen, the rest, charming though it might be, was a mere curtain-raiser to keep men amused before the first act of the play...read more