Resultados para "Volume 2" en Literatura y ficción

Step into ancient Greece for twelve vivid, child-friendly adventures about clever choices, hard-won courage, and unexpected friendship. Meet Chiron at his school for heroes, soar with Daedalus and Icarus, race beside Atalanta, hear Orpheus sing in the dark, travel with Arion and his dolphin...

Audible Studios presents the second volume of the best-selling PG Wodehouse collection. In this volume, Stephen Fry lends his voice to the Blandings stories. This collection contains: Summer Lightning, Heavy Weather, Blandings Castle and Elsewhere, Lord Emsworth and Others, Uncle Fred in the Spring Time.

Circo Máximo es la historia de Trajano y su gobierno, guerras y traiciones, lealtades insobornables e historias de amor imposibles. Hay una vestal, un juicio, inocentes acusados, un abogado brillante, mensajes cifrados, fortalezas inexpugnables, dos aurigas rivales, gladiadores y tres carreras...

El ex marine de las Fuerzas especiales, Liam Mason, es un rebelde de corazón y lejos de lo que era su hermano menor, Nathan Mason. Trabajar para el cartel tiene sus altibajos y entrenar al ejército de renegados peligros del cartel es un negocio que a menudo tiene un precio. Sin embargo, cuando Liam se acerca demasiado al hijo de su jefa, el líder del cartel pronto tiene su corazón concentrado en acabar la vida del ex soldado.

Ulysses is regarded by many as the single most important novel of the 20th century. It tells the story of one day in Dublin, 16 June 1904, largely through the eyes of Stephen Dedalus (Joyce's alter ego from Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man) and Leopold Bloom, an advertising salesman. Both begin a normal day, and both set off on a journey around the streets of Dublin, which eventually brings them into contact with one another.

War and Peace is one of the greatest monuments in world literature. Set against the dramatic backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, it examines the relationship between the individual and the relentless march of history. Here are the universal themes of love and hate, ambition and despair, youth and age, expressed with a swirling vitality which makes the book as accessible today as it was when it was first published in 1869.

A second collection of tales from the master of ghost stories, M. R. James, whose stories have for many years inspired the BBC's A Ghost Story for Christmas TV adaptations. This volume includes 'A Warning to the Curious', 'The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral', 'The Mezzotint', and 'A Neighbour's Landmark'.

Este volumen sigue el camino de Valjean tras su huida y su encuentro con la pequeña Cosette, esclavizada por los crueles Thénardier. Mientras Francia recuerda aún las heridas de Waterloo, Hugo contrapone la violencia de la historia con la ternura del vínculo que nace entre Valjean y la niña. Perseguidos por Javert, hallarán refugio en un convento, donde comienza una nueva vida. Una parte marcada por la aventura, el misterio y la luz, que muestra cómo el amor puede florecer incluso en los rincones más sombríos de la miseria.

The Time Traveller’s Almanac is the largest, most definitive collection of time travel stories ever assembled. Gathered by intrepid chrononauts and world-renowned anthologists Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, here is over a century's worth of literary travels into past and the future. The anthology...

Following the loss of most of his colleagues in a violent ambush, Kenton has become Lord Mastrell of the few remaining Sand Masters, magicians who can manipulate sand to do their bidding. With the ruling council poised against him, the hot-headed Kenton must become a diplomat to have any hope of preventing the eradication of his people forever. However, there’s another complication: assassins are coming for him from all directions, and Kenton’s only true ally is Khriss, a visitor from the other side of the planet who has an agenda of her own to pursue.

¿Cuál es la peor condena que le puede caer a un preso de Illinois? Ni la cadena perpetua, ni la inyección letal. El peor castigo es el destino a la prisión de Black Rock, una fortaleza de muros negros cuya localización exacta nadie la conoce. El nuevo alcalde de la insólita penitenciaría controla a todos y cada uno de los convictos que hasta allí son arrastrados.

1.- "El Fresno" (28:03) 2.- "El conde Magnus" (25:03)3.- "El Álbum del canónigo Alberico" (25:08)

Ben Denton presents Book 2 in the Ashlani's Reincarnation series...

À l’occasion du cinquième anniversaire de la disparition de sa femme Hannah, Noah Sheridan, policier de petite ville, emmène son fils Milo dans une station de ski locale pour passer un peu de temps père-fils. En un clin d’œil, le réseau électrique tombe en panne. Les téléphones et les voitures cessent de fonctionner. Ce qui commence comme une journée de vacances se transforme rapidement en un combat mortel pour survivre.

Murasaki Shikibu, born into the middle ranks of the aristocracy during the Heian period (794-1185 CE), wrote The Tale of Genji - widely considered the world’s first novel - during the early years of the 11th century. Expansive, compelling, and sophisticated in its representation of ethical concerns and aesthetic ideals, Murasaki’s tale came to occupy a central place in Japan’s remarkable history of artistic achievement and is now recognized as a masterpiece of world literature.

In Spanish Stories for Beginners, Vol. 2: You will find 10 easily understandable, engaging, and fun stories that will not only help you to dramatically expand your vocabulary, but will give you the tools to improve your grasp of the Spanish language.

A devil, a familiar, and magic gone wild—Tam’s life is more than a little complicated! Can he turn the chaos into triumph, or will it drag him someplace far darker? Having narrowly escaped capture by the Zinferan army, Tam, Eli, and Luca find themselves on the run. Their goal? Find a way home to Daxaria. Preferably alive! But as Tam carries on his family legacy, he continues to land himself in a whole cauldron of hot water!

The portal surge is over. Kade Noelstra’s build is complete. He’s about to reach D-Rank and take his first steps on the Stormsteel Path, but Phoenix and Kade’s friends still need his help. The fortress guarding the S-Rank Carlsbad Portal has requested more supplies and reinforcements, and Kade’s best friend has to be in the convoy. He needs Kade with him.

Darius has enjoyed a nice break from an action packed integration into the GGA. With Earth in limbo, and a lost colony likely in need of help, he knows his vacation is on borrowed time. He owes the Merchant Marines, Pavia, and humanity itself to do more, to be more. So when life is turned upside down again, he ventures back into the stars, helping those he can, when he can. The adventure is intense, his family bonds are tight, and the dangers ever-present.

Moon, Jade, and other favorites from the Indigo Cloud Court return with two new novellas from Martha Wells, who continues to enthusiastically ignore genre conventions in her exploration of the fascinating world of the Raksura. Her novellas and short stories contain all the elements fans have come to love from the Raksura books: courtly intrigue and politics, unfolding mysteries that reveal an increasingly strange wider world, and threats both mundane and magical.