E Bookarama: 314 books

"La prisionera" es el quinto volumen de la obra maestra de Proust "En busca del tiempo perdido". y también el más angustioso y controvertido. En éste el narrador se detiene en el amor convertido en obsesión, en la naturaleza de los celos y del sufrimiento amoroso. Albertine,...

El grandísimo narrador que fue Rudyard Kipling consiguió con "Kim" una historia inolvidable desde todos los puntos de vista, tanto formales como estilísticos. La prosa colorida y sonora de esta novela es tan maravillosa que seduce casi sin proponérselo: la sensualidad de las descripciones,...

"The Double Traitor" is one of the greatest First World War spy novels. In the thrilling plot the main focus remains on the European political intrigues. E. Phillips Oppenheim (1866-1946) was an internationally renowned author of mystery and espionage thrillers. His novels and short stories...

Barnum was an incredibly successful promoter and showman. He created and ran a travelling circus that was known as “The Greatest Show On Earth”. He was aware of the public’s obsession for the whacky, weird and outrageous and he exploited this by exaggerating and even making up his acts.  Preferring...

Chopin was a romantic era Polish composer. This work is a memoir by Liszt who knew Chopin both as man and artist. This memoir gives a unique understanding to the psychological character of the compositions of Chopin. It also offers Liszt's insight into some of Chopin's polonaises, especially the grand...

**Les Misérables **was an instant popular success and was quickly translated into several languages. Set in the Parisian underworld and plotted like a detective story, the work follows the fortunes of the convict Jean Valjean, a victim of society who has been imprisoned for 19 years for stealing...

"The White People" is a highly influential horror story of a young girl’s discovery of ancient magic. It was written in the late 1890s as part of a longer unfinished novel, some sketches from which went into his book Ornaments in Jade. Fans of supernatural fiction often cite this story...

"The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe is a narrative poem of a young man who is bereaved by the death of the woman he loved. He compulsorily constructs self-destructive meaning around a raven’s repetition of the word 'Nevermore', until he finally despairs of being reunited with his beloved Lenore...

"El último mohicano" es la obra más conocida y leída de James Fenimore Cooper.  Situada en la época de las luchas entre Gran Bretaña y Francia por el control de América del Norte, "El último mohicano" es una novela cuyo entramado histórico resulta especialmente...

George Alfred Henty´s best novel, an exciting and informative adventure story. "The Dragon and the Raven" is set during the reign of King Alfred when Danish forces have invaded the English countryside. Although the English try to repulse these attacks, they are overrun by the savagery...

"The Aeneid" is an epic poem written by the Roman poet Virgil between 29 and 19 BCE. Virgil composed this epic for his patron, Augustus Caesar, the first Emperor of Rome. Augustus wanted the Romans to have an epic of their own, a story that would be to Rome what the "Iliad" and...

Also known as "Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure", "The Memoirs of Fanny Hill" was published in 1750 and it chronicles the life of a London prostitute, describing with scatological and clinical precision many varieties of sexual behaviour. Although elegantly written, the...

John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) was an English philosopher and economist. He wrote one of his most famous essays, "On Liberty", in 1859. "On Liberty" is the philosophy classic that laid the foundation of modern liberal politics, by applying the concept of utilitarianism to...

Marco Polo es uno de los viajeros más famosos de la historia. En su juventud acompañó a su padre en un viaje hacia el Oriente. Juntos llegaron al magnífico imperio del Gran Kan. Esta novela relata las aventuras del joven Marco a lo largo de su prodigioso recorrido, lleno de maravillas y peligros. El...