The Gold Bug
The author wrote extraordinary stories and this is undoubtedly one of them. Its protagonist is William Legrand, a passionate entomologist. Together with a servant named Jupiter, they live on an island off...
Literature - Short Stories
The Complete Tales of Beatrix Potter
In 1901 a story called That Naughty Rabbit was published. It instantly became a best seller. This and the twenty-two little books that followed constitute one of the most prestigious collections of children...
Ramona and his father
This is the most popular children's book in the Ramona series. The illustrations, suggestive, are by Alan Tiegreen. The Quim family consists of Bea, the older sister, Ramona and her parents. They have a pet...
Albert and Lucerne
The book brings together two short writings by Lev Tolstoy centered on music, very dear to the author, and written at the same time: 1857 and 1858. The topic that unites them is music. It has an exceptional...
Ivan the Fool
All the devil's efforts to corrupt Ivan, to provoke his greed and ambition with money and other promises are in vain. Ivan ruins again and again the tricks that the devil uses to get him on his own side. In...
The Legend of Saint-Julian the Hospitaller
Julian the Hospitaller is the character - presented as a saint - of a medieval legend, transmitted by Santiago de Voragine, in his Golden Legend, written around 1262, and since then widely spread throughout...
Bridge to Therabithia
Jess Aarons, a boy of 11 living on the USA country, quite shy, is training to become the school's fastest runner. But on the very first day of classes, a new girl, Leslie Burke, wins in a race against all...
Italian folktales
In the 1950s, Italo Calvino began to work on the selection of two hundred tales from Italian folklore. A fantastic world with its medieval influence and the chivalric epic.
In the fairy tales,...
The quarter
After Mahfuz's death, this unpublished manuscript was found. There are eighteen stories on a theme already treated by the author with great success, the neighborhood and the inhabitants of the city where...
Tales of Mystery and Imagination
This book contains some of the most known short stories from this author: 'The Pit and the Pendulum', 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue', 'The Purloined Letter' and 'The Fall of the House of Usher'. Edgar...