Catálogo de libros: Ficción moderna y contemporánea

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  • The Lottery Winner and Other Stories
    Jonathan Mori
    This collection introduces five highly original short stories mostly with strong overtones of science fiction and social comment. From a crazed physicist who is convinced he has found an infallible way to win the lottery to a dystopian desert city of the future which is ruled by state-like corporations; from a tin-pot plan to launch a teapot into orbit around the sun to the rev...
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    12,98 €

  • Sweetapple Cove (Esprios Classics)
    George van Schaick
    'Now I live in a little house, among people who speak with an accent that has become unfamiliar to the great outside world. They have given up their two best rooms to me, at a rental so small that I am somewhat ashamed to tender it, at the end of every week. I also obtain the constant care and the pleasant smiles of a good old housewife who appears to take a certain amount of p...
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    23,72 €

  • Murir Tin (মুড়ির টিন)
    Dilip Kumar Chanda
    'Murir Tin' By Dilip Kumar Chanda. A Complete Bengali Novel in context of fight of a refugee family.'মুড়ির টিন' দিলীপ কুমার চন্দের লেখা, একটি ছিন্নমূল নি:সম্বল উদ্বাস্তু পরিবার কঠিন জীবন যুদ্ধের কাহিনী। ...
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    9,62 €

  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
    Mark Twain
    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain is an 1876 novel about a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River. It is set in the 1840s in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, inspired by Hannibal, Missouri, where Twain lived as a boy.[2] In the novel Tom Sawyer has several adventures, often with his friend, Huckleberry Finn. Originally a commercial failure, the book ende...
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    10,85 €

  • La Presa Issue 7
    Lee Gould editor
    LA PRESA, published three times a year by Embajadoras Press, is a literary journal of poetry and short fiction, articles, essays, and other prose genres, in English and Spanish, by writers from Mexico, Canada, and the USA ...
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    6,97 €

  • Bourbon Penn 18
    Erik Secker
    Bourbon Penn has published award-winning authors and stories and presents here another issue of creeping terror, everyday horrors, and beautiful nightmares. For fans of slipstream, cross-genre, magic realism, absurdist, and the surreal, Bourbon Penn offers an escape into seven liminal worlds: people living in the walls; a turtle in therapy; lumberjacks versus dryads; an impossi...
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    10,38 €

  • About a Girl
    Kathryn White
    When Callie Taylor was eighteen she eloped with her high school sweetheart. Then they broke up. On the same day. And they never told anyone that they were married.Almost a year later, Bill Darcy is back, living in the house next door and caring for his recently-orphaned sister. And he’s determined to win Callie back.Over the course of a single day, Callie finds herself learning...
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    12,90 €

  • Surviving 24
    Saaya Nair
    The world is in war from the lack of resources. Tara’s family just moved to California which is the most populated place in the world. There is a test every year for teens to live on the ocean and get through islands. This year, Tara is one of them. Join Tara on her riveting adventure through the Pacific Ocean and the Hawaiian Islands where she finds friends and enemies. But m...
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    9,56 €

  • The Come Back (Esprios Classics)
    Carolyn Wells
    Carolyn Wells wrote a total of more than 170 books. During the first ten years of her career, she concentrated on poetry, humor, and children’s books. According to her autobiography, The Rest of My Life (1937), she heard That Affair Next Door (1897), one of Anna Katharine Green’s mystery novels, being read aloud and was immediately captivated by the unraveling of the puzzle. Fr...
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    22,88 €

  • A Calendar of Scottish Saints (Esprios Classics)
    Dom Michael Barrett
    The title of Scottish, applied to the holy ones whose names occur in these short notices, must be understood to refer not so much to their nationality as to the field in which, they laboured or the localities where traces of their cultus are to be found. The Calendar here submitted does not pretend to be exhaustive; the saints therein noted are those who appear prominently in s...
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    19,67 €

  • Little Tales of the Desert (Esprios Classics)
    Ethel Twycross Foster
    'MARY was worried. To-morrow would be Christmas. Christmas! a day always spent close to New York City, that place where Santa Claus obtained all the contents of his wonderful pack. Here she was, out in the heart of the great Arizona Desert. Her little head was sorely puzzled over many things. Around her were sand, rocks and mountains; no snow, no ice, save on the tops of the di...
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    18,48 €

  • Feats on the Fiord (Esprios Classics)
    Harriet Martineau
    Harriet Martineau (12 June 1802 - 27 June 1876) was a British social theorist and Whig writer, often cited as the first female sociologist. Martineau wrote many books and a multitude of essays from a sociological, holistic, religious, domestic, and perhaps most controversially, feminine perspective. She also translated various works by Auguste Comte, and she earned enough to su...
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    22,94 €

  • Principle and Practice (Esprios Classics)
    Harriet Martineau
    Harriet Martineau (12 June 1802 - 27 June 1876) was a British social theorist and Whig writer, often cited as the first female sociologist. Martineau wrote many books and a multitude of essays from a sociological, holistic, religious, domestic, and perhaps most controversially, feminine perspective. She also translated various works by Auguste Comte, and she earned enough to su...
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    19,86 €

  • John of the Woods (Esprios Classics)
    Abbie Farwell Brown
    Abbie Farwell Brown was an American author. Brown was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the first of two daughters of Benjamin F. Brown, a descendant of Isaac Allerton, and Clara Neal Brown, who contributed to The Youth’s Companion. Her sister Ethel became an author and illustrator under the name Ann Underhill. Brown was active in New England literary life. She edited the 20-volum...
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    19,90 €

  • A Preservative Against Religious Prejudices (Esprios Classics)
    Baron D'Holbach / Baron d’Holbach
    Paul-Henri Thiry, Baron d’Holbach, was a French-German author, philosopher, encyclopedist and prominent figure in the French Enlightenment. He was born Paul Heinrich Dietrich in Edesheim, near Landau in the Rhenish Palatinate, but lived and worked mainly in Paris, where he kept a salon. ...
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    22,89 €

  • The Variety Store
    Ethel Harris
    A collection of short stories based on the authors world from 1930 to present. ...
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    32,53 €

  • A Village Commune, Volume 1 (Esprios Classics)
    Ouida
    Ouida was the pseudonym of the English novelist Maria Louise Ramé. During her career, Ouida wrote more than 40 novels, as well as short stories, children’s books and essays. Moderately successful she lived a life of luxury, entertaining many of the literary figures of the day. ...
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    21,43 €

  • Chena Acenar Prangane (চেনা অচেনার প্রাঙ্গণে)
    Anindya Shankar Ray
    'Chena Acenar Prangane' Anindya Shankar Ray. A Collection of twenty one Bengali Stories. সাহিত্যিক অনিন্দ্য শঙ্কর রায়ের লেখা ২১টি গল্পের অসাধারণ সংকলন। ...
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    9,55 €

  • The Cruise of the Dry Dock (Esprios Classics)
    T. S. Stribling / TSStribling
    Thomas Sigismund Stribling (March 4, 1881 - July 8, 1965) was an American writer and lawyer who published under the name T.S . Stribling. He won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1933 for his novel The Store. After moving to Nashville, Tennessee in 1907, Stribling picked up a job at the Taylor-Trotwood Magazine as a writer and salesman of ads and subscriptions and as 'a sort ...
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    23,71 €

  • Little Dorrit, Volume II (Esprios Classics)
    Charles Dickens
    Little Dorrit is a novel by Charles Dickens, originally published in serial form between 1855 and 1857. The story features Amy Dorrit, youngest child of her family, born and raised in the Marshalsea prison for debtors in London. Arthur Clennam encounters her after returning home from a 20-year absence, ready to begin his life anew. The novel satirizes the shortcomings of both g...
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    31,20 €

  • Chamber of Wonders
    Naomi Myrvaagnes
    The poems in Chamber of Wonders explore the mainstays of lyric poetry: memory, dream, the creative process, the human being as an aspirational animal. Musical and playful, inquiring and celebratory, each poem has chosen its own form and speaks with its unique voice.This is a book that invites nods of recognition and pleasure. It is the work of a writer who insists quietly that ...
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    12,96 €

  • The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories (Esprios Classics)
    George Gissing
    George Robert Gissing (22 November 1857 - 28 December 1903) was a British novelist who published 23 novels between 1880 and 1903. Gissing also worked as a teacher and tutor throughout his life. He published his first novel, Workers in the Dawn, in 1880. His best-known novels, which are published in modern editions, include The Nether World (1889), New Grub Street (1891) and The...
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    25,96 €

  • Foam on the Crest of Waves
    Silke Stein
    A troubled young girl tries to become a mermaid to cope with her mother’s drowning in this sparkly modern twist on the classic Little Mermaid tale that explores love, loss, and second chances. - In a small fishing town on the Mendocino coast, the tides of time have washed over rumors and suspicions, yet the members of a maimed family still struggle to cope with their memories. ...
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    24,92 €

  • The Devil’s Pool (Esprios Classics)
    George Sand
    Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin (July 1804 - 8 June 1876), best known by her pen name George Sand, was a French novelist, memoirist and socialist. One of the most popular writers in Europe in her lifetime, being more popular than both Victor Hugo and Honoré de Balzac in England in the 1830s and 1840s, Sand is recognised as one of the most notable writers of the European Romantic e...
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    21,48 €

  • The Pond (Esprios Classics)
    Carl Ewald
    Carl Ewald (born October 15, 1856 at Bredelykke in Gram in Schleswig, died February 23, 1908) was a Danish author, best known for his Darwinist- inspired art adventures on nature. After working as a journalist at a local newspaper in Svendborg , he settled down as a freelance journalist in Copenhagen . He joined the ideas in the Modern Breakthrough and became co-editor of Ove R...
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    19,64 €

  • Old Crow (Esprios Classics)
    Alice Brown
    Alice Brown (December 5, 1857 - June 21, 1948) was an American novelist, poet and playwright, best known as a writer of local color stories. She was born in Hampton Falls, New Hampshire and graduated from Robinson Seminary in Exeter in 1876. She later worked as a school teacher for five years, but moved to Boston to write full-time in 1884. She first worked at the Christian Reg...
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    31,98 €

  • In the Brooding Wild (Esprios Classics)
    Ridgwell Cullum
    Ridgwell Cullum (13 August 1867 - 3 November 1943) was a British writer who wrote a large number of adventure novels over more than 30 years, usually set in sparsely populated regions of the United States or Canada. He left home aged 17 to join a gold rush in the Transvaal in South Africa, where he became involved in the conflict between British and Boer settlers; he travelled ...
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    21,44 €

  • The Immortal Moment
    May Sinclair
    May Sinclair was the pseudonym of Mary Amelia St. Clair (24 August 1863 - 14 November 1946), a popular British writer who wrote about two dozen novels, short stories and poetry. She was an active suffragist, and member of the Woman Writers’ Suffrage League. She once dressed up as a demure, rebel Jane Austen for a suffrage fundraising event. Sinclair was also a significant criti...
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    23,25 €

  • The Red Lily, Volume 2 (Esprios Classics)
    Anatole France
    Anatole France born François-Anatole Thibault, 16 April 1844 - 12 October 1924 was a French poet, journalist, and novelist with several best-sellers. Ironic and skeptical, he was considered in his day the ideal French man of letters. He was a member of the Académie Française, and won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Literature 'in recognition of his brilliant literary achievements, char...
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    18,53 €

  • The Slugger’s Game, and Vikings of the Gloves (Esprios Classics)
    Robert E. Howard / Robert EHoward
    Robert Ervin Howard (1906-1936) was an American pulp writer of fantasy, horror, historical adventure, boxing, western, and detective fiction. He is well known for having created the character Conan the Cimmerian, a literary icon whose pop-culture imprint can be compared to such icons as Tarzan of the Apes, Sherlock Holmes, and James Bond. Voracious reading, along with a natural...
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    18,48 €


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