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Un fracaso amoroso inspiró el tema de Pasado de amor, publicada en 1929. En ella narra, como componentes autobiográficos de la trama, las mil estratagemas que debió practicar para conseguir acceso su amor arrojando mensajes por la ventana dentro de una rama ahuecada, enviándole cartas escritas en clave e intentando cavar un largo túnel hasta su habitación para secuestrarla. Finalmente, cansados ya del pretendiente, los padres de la joven la llevaron lejos y Quiroga se vio obligado a renunciar a su amor.

Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque is a collection of previously-published short stories by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1840.

When Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy D'Urbervilles and seek a portion of their family fortune, meeting her 'cousin' Alec proves to be her downfall. A very different man, Angel Clare, seems to offer her love and salvation, but Tess must choose whether to reveal her past or remain silent in the hope of a peaceful future. With its sensitive depiction of the wronged Tess and powerful criticism of social convention, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, subtitled "A Pure Woman," is one of the most moving and poetic of Hardy's novels.

Jean Webster (pseudonym for Alice Jane Chandler Webster, July 24, 1876 - June 11, 1916) was an American writer and author of many books including Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy. Her best-known books feature lively and likeable young female protagonists who come of age intellectually, morally, and socially, but with enough humor, snappy dialogue, and gently biting social commentary to make her books palatable and enjoyable to contemporary readers.

Sylvie and Bruno, first published in 1889, and its 1893 second volume Sylvie and Bruno Concluded form the last novel by Lewis Carroll published during his lifetime. The novel has two main plots: one set in the real world at the time the book was published (the Victorian era), the other in the fictional world of Fairyland. While the latter plot is a fairytale with many nonsense elements and poems, similar to Carroll's most famous children's book Adventures in Wonderland, the story set in Victorian Britain is a social novel, with its characters discussing various concepts and aspects of religion, society, philosophy and morality.

A California earthquake sends Dorothy Gale and her new friends--Zeb the farm boy, Jim the cab-horse, and Eureka the mischievous kitten--tumbling through a crack in the ground. Deep beneath the earth, Dorothy is reunited with her old friend the Wizard of Oz and his troupe of nine tiny piglets. Together, Dorothy, the Wizard, and their friends travel through many fantastic lands, where they encounter the Mangaboos, people growing like vegetables in the ground; cross the Valley of Voe, where dama-fruit has turned everyone invisible; and are captured by mysterious flying Gargoyles. At last, the intrepid travelers reach Oz, where they have many unforgettable encounters with such favorites as the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman, the Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger, Princess Ozma and the wooden Sawhorse.

The Trial (German: Der Process) is a novel by Franz Kafka about a character named Josef K., who awakens one morning and, for reasons never revealed, is arrested and prosecuted for an unspecified crime. According to Kafka's friend Max Brod, the author never finished the novel and wrote in his will that it was to be destroyed. After his death, Brod went against Kafka's wishes and edited The Trial into what he felt was a coherent novel and had it published in 1925.

Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne was an English aristocrat, a prolific writer, and a scientist. Her writing addressed a number of topics, including gender, power, manners, scientific method, and philosophy. Her utopian romance, The Blazing World, is one of the earliest examples of science fiction. She is singular in having published extensively in natural philosophy and early modern science. She published over a dozen original works; inclusion of her revised works brings her total number of publications to twenty one.

This novella explores life following a devastating plague that wipes out most of humanity.

The summer occupants of "Sunnyside" find the dead body of Arnold Armstrong, the son of the owner, on the circular staircase. Following the murder a bank failure is announced. Around these two events is woven a plot of absorbing interest.

It's startling enough to have a Phoenix hatch in your house, but even more startling when it reveals you have a magic carpet on the floor. Conceited it may be, but the Phoenix is also good-hearted, and obligingly accompanies the children on their adventures through time and space-which, magic being what it is, rarely turn out as they were meant...

Cervantes intentó con este relato construir una obra narrativa cuyo género, a diferencia del Quijote, que parodiaba los nuevos géneros novelísticos del Renacimiento, sí estaba avalado por la práctica de la literatura clásica; de este modo partía de un modelo narrativo que recogían las preceptivas literarias neoaristotélicas renacentistas. Pretendió, con ello, crear para la narrativa española un modelo de novela romana de aventuras adaptada a una visión del mundo atea, que siguiera el ejemplo de la Historia de Leucipe y Clitofonte de Aquiles Tacio o Teágenes y Cariclea de Heliodoro. Esta última se había descubierto en el Renacimiento

Llevaba una tertulia literaria en su casa de Barcelona, que fue muy concurrida por numerosas damas de la época. Su obra esta considerada dentro del Romanticismo. Escribió literatura infantil y juvenil. Sus historias se desarrollan sobre todo durante la Edad Media y en la época de los Reyes Católicos. Dominan las temáticas amorosas centradas en los celos. En muchas de sus obras ocurren elementos sobrenaturales como los son las apariciones de la Virgen, las estatuas animadas, fantasmas, etc.

The Power of The Coming Race is a powerful novel that fired the imagination of readers starting in the 1870's. Among the earliest examples of what would become the genre of science fiction, among many authors it influenced H. G. Wells, Samuel Butler, and Edgar Rice Burroughs. The book tells the story of a young American adventurer who discovers a portal to an underground world at the bottom of a mine shaft. In this world lives a highly advanced race, with a dark secret.

Arthur Raffles is a prominent member of London society, and a national sporting hero. As a cricketer he regularly represents England in Test matches. He uses this as a chance to commit a number of burgalries, primarily stealing valuable jewellry from his hosts. In this he is assisted by his friend, the younger, idealistic Bunny Manders. Both men are constantly under the surveillance of Inspector Mackenzie of Scotland Yard who is always thwarted in his attempts to pin the crimes on Raffles.

Al amable mundo de convenciones sociales estrictas en el que se mueve, aparentemente sin roces ni contrariedades, la alta sociedad de Nueva York de finales del siglo pasado, regresa de Europa la inquietante condesa Olenska. Independiente, osada, diferente, Ellen involucrará muy pronto en su misterio a su joven primo Newland Archer y perturbará sin poder evitarlo el encanto de una vida social que ignora de manera voluntaria su inminente fin.En el fondo de esta extraordinaria historia de una gran pasión subyace el conflicto entre dos mundos: el de las viejas familias patricias norteamericanas y el de los nuevos ricos, quienes, al terminar la novela, se han apoderado ya de las costumbres y de los espíritus

The Metamorphosis (German: Die Verwandlung) is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915. The story begins with a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, waking to find himself transformed into a "monstrous vermin".

Valancy lives a drab life with her overbearing mother and prying aunt. Then a shocking diagnosis from Dr. Trent prompts her to make a fresh start. For the first time, she does and says exactly what she feels. As she expands her limited horizons, Valancy undergoes a transformation, discovering a new world of love and happiness. One of Lucy Maud Montgomery's only novels intended for an adult audience, The Blue Castle is filled with humour and romance.

La novela forma un díptico con Doña Milagros y se centra en las relaciones entre hombres y mujeres en el matrimonio

Este libro de Zweig, emocionante como un relato de aventuras, ofrece el retrato de un hombre intrépido, que sin duda cautivó por su inaudito valor a un artista como Stefan Zweig, quien une magistralmente la seriedad de la investigación histórica con el ardor de su prosa, haciendo de esta obra una delicia para los amantes de este tipo de literatura.

The Reluctant Dragon is an 1898 children's story by Kenneth Grahame. The story takes place in the Berkshire Downs in Oxfordshire (where the author lived and where, according to legend, St George did fight a dragon). It is Grahame's most famous short story. In story, a young boy discovers an erudite, mushroom-loving dragon living in the Downs above his home. The two become friends, but soon afterwards the dragon is discovered by the townsfolk, who send for St George to rid them of it.

Séneca escribe a Polibio, un liberto de Claudio César integrante de la corte administrativa del emperador, con motivo de la muerte de su hermano. Aquí, las ideas estoicas de Séneca ya se pueden apreciar en todo su vigor, aunque en obras posteriores estas ideas alcanzarán una mayor sutileza y complejidad. El tema fundamental es la actitud de la persona ante la vida, el dolor y la muerte, núcleo principal de la moral estoica.

In this historical adventure set during the French Revolution, the elusive Scarlet Pimpernel sets out to rescue men, women and children facing the horrors of the guillotine, while evading the relentless pursuit of his arch enemy, Chauvelin.

Ozma of Oz: A Record of Her Adventures with Dorothy Gale of Kansas, Billina the Yellow Hen, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, Tik-Tok, the Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger; Besides Other Good People Too Numerous to Mention Faithfully Recorded Herein published on July 30, 1907, was the third book of L. Frank Baum's Oz series. It was the first in which Baum was clearly intending a series of Oz books. It is the first Oz book where the majority of the action takes place outside of the Land of Oz. Only the final two chapters take place in Oz itself.This reflects a subtle change in theme: in the first book, Oz is the dangerous land through which Dorothy must win her way back to Kansas; in the third, Oz is the end and aim of the book. Dorothy's desire to return home is not as desperate as in the first book, and it is her uncle's need for her rather than hers for him that makes her return.

La obra más importante de este genial periodista estadounidense.Nacido en 1842 en Ohio, y desaparecido misteriosamente en México hacia 1913, Bierce fue un escritor ácido, cínico, desenfadado e inteligente. Nada escapó de su original pluma, ni las instituciones de su país ni el feminismo. Este diccionario se presenta hoy en una edición revisada y ampliada con más de 800 nuevas palabras. Cada una de sus definiciones supone un instante de regocijo para el lector. Un libro para tener siempre a mano y leer cada noche.

Es el conjunto de nueve cartas publicadas por un periodista, podo conocido aún como poeta, en las paginas de "El Contemporáneo" a lo largo de 1864 desde mayo a octubre luego de una estancia en el monasterio de Veruela. Las cartas que componen Desde mi celda testimonian el decisivo papel desempeñado por ese entorno cisterciense en el paso a la madurez personal de Gustavo Adolfo. Implican un doble viaje: uno físico con su ida y su vuelta. Y otro simbólico que lo condujo desde los sueños de triunfo y de gloria hasta el deseo de aniquilación total. "Las cartas desde mi celda" parecen recogidas por primera vez en 1871.

Henry James (Nueva York, 15 de abril de 1843-Londres, 28 de febrero de 1916) fue un escritor y crítico literario estadounidense, nacionalizado británico al final de su vida, que es conocido por sus novelas y relatos basados en la técnica del punto de vista, que le permite el análisis psicológico de los personajes desde su interior.

The story is written in the first person as a series of journal entries. The narrator is a woman whose husband - a physician - has confined her to the upstairs bedroom of a house he has rented for the summer. She is forbidden from working and has to hide her journal entries from him so that she can recuperate from what he has diagnosed as a "temporary nervous depression - a slight hysterical tendency;" a diagnosis common to women in that period. The windows of the room are barred, and there is a gate across the top of the stairs, allowing her husband to control her access to the rest of the house.The story illustrates the effect of confinement on the narrator's mental health, and her descent into psychosis. With nothing to stimulate her, she becomes obsessed by the pattern and color of the room's wallpaper.

David Herbert Lawrence (11 September 1885 - 2 March 1930) was an important and controversial English writer of the 20th century, whose prolific and diverse output included novels, short stories, poems, plays, essays, travel books, paintings, translations, literary criticism and personal letters. His collected works represent an extended reflection upon the dehumanizing effects of modernity and industrialisation. In them, Lawrence confronts issues relating to emotional health and vitality, spontaneity, sexuality, and instinctive behaviour.

The main character Jerusha Abbott was brought up at the John Grier Home, an old-fashioned orphanage. The children were wholly dependent on charity and had to wear other people's cast-off clothes. Jerusha's unusual first name was selected by the matron off a gravestone (she hates it and uses "Judy" instead), while her surname was selected out of the phone book. At the age of 15, she has finished her education and is at loose ends, still working in the dormitories at the institution where she was brought up. One day, after the asylum's trustees have made their monthly visit, Judy is informed by the asylum's dour matron that one of the trustees has offered to pay her way through college. He has spoken to her former teachers and thinks she has potential to become an excellent writer. He will pay her tuition and also give her a generous monthly allowance. Judy must write him a monthly letter, because he believes that letter-writing is important to the development of a writer. However, she will never know his identity; she must address the letters to Mr. John Smith, and he will never reply. Jerusha catches a glimpse of the shadow of her benefactor from the back, and knows he is a tall long-legged man. Because of this, she jokingly calls him Daddy-Long-Legs. She attends a "girls' college" on the East Coast. She illustrates her letters with childlike line drawings, also created by Jean Webster. The book chronicles Jerusha's educational, personal, and social growth. One of the first things she does at college is to change her name to "Judy." She designs a rigorous reading program for herself and struggles to gain the basic cultural knowledge to which she, growing up in the bleak environment of the orphan asylum, was never exposed. At the end of the book, the identity of 'Daddy-Long-Legs' is revealed as 'Master Jervie, ' whom she had met and fallen in love with while she was still unaware that he was 'Daddy-Long-Legs.'