The Complete Novels of Jane Austen, Vol 1: Sense & Sensibility/Pride & Prejudice/Mansfield Park
10 best books like The Complete Novels of Jane Austen, Vol 1: Sense & Sensibility/Pride & Prejudice/Mansfield Park (Jane Austen): 2001: A Space Odyssey, V for Vendetta, The Songs of Distant Earth, The Violent Bear It Away, Historia de la vida del Buscón, Five Complete Hercule Poirot Novels: ABC Murders / Cards on the Table / Death on the Nile / Murder on the Orient Express / Thirteen at Dinner, The Robot Novels: The Caves of Steel / The Naked Sun / The Robots of Dawn, San Manuel Bueno, mártir, Nightfall, Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, Volume II
| Author | Arthur C. Clarke |
| ISBN | 0451457994 |
On the Moon, an enigma is uncovered.
So great are the implications of this discovery that for the first time men are sent out deep into our solar system.
But long before their destination is reached, things begin to go horribly, inexplicably wrong...
One of the greatest-selling...
| Author | Alan Moore |
| ISBN | 1401207928 |
"Remember, remember the fifth of November..."
A frightening and powerful tale of the loss of freedom and identity in a chillingly believable totalitarian world, V for Vendetta stands as one of the highest achievements of the comics medium and a defining work for creators Alan Moore and David...
| Author | Arthur C. Clarke |
| ISBN | 0007115865 |
Just a few islands in a planetwide ocean, Thalassa was a veritable paradise—home to one of the small colonies founded centuries before by robot Mother Ships when the Sun had gone nova and mankind had fled Earth.
Mesmerized by the beauty of Thalassa and overwhelmed by its vast resources, the...
| Author | Flannery O'Connor |
| ISBN | 0374505241 |
First published in 1960, The Violent Bear It Away is now a landmark in American literature. It is a dark and absorbing example of the Gothic sensibility and bracing satirical voice that are united in Flannery O'Conner's work. In it, the orphaned Francis Marion Tarwater and his cousins, the schoolteacher...
Historia de la vida del Buscón
| Author | Francisco de Quevedo |
| ISBN | 1594566534 |
Sepan Vuestras Mercedes que hablamos de la aportación novelesca de Francisco de Quevedo y Villegas al género picaresco, escrita en su periodo de juventud y de la que él renegaría después, quizás para evitarse más problemas de los que ya tenía, porque solía tenerlos. Conceptista, grotesca...
| Author | Agatha Christie |
| ISBN | 0517309769 |
Perfect collection for any Agatha Christie newbie! Avenel Books have put together the very best Hercule Poirot stories in one collection. The stories found here are "Death on the Nile", "Murder on the Orient Express", "The ABC Murders", "Cards on the Table", and "Thirteen at Dinner". The only title...
| Author | Isaac Asimov |
| ISBN | 0345331192 |
In The Caves of Steel, Isaac Asimov first introduced Elijah Baley and R. Daneel Olivaw, who would later become his favorite protagonists. The book's central crime is a murder, which takes place before the novel opens. Roj Nemmenuh Sarton, a Spacer Ambassador, lives in Spacetown, the Spacer outpost...
| Author | Miguel de Unamuno |
| ISBN | 8423919102 |
San Manuel Bueno, mártir, obra maestra de Miguel de Unamuno, es considerada como su testamento espiritual. La novela muestra un espacio no descriptivo en el que se asientan los símbolos clave de la dialéctica entre fe y duda: el lago, la montaña, la nieve, la villa sumergida, etc. San Manuel asume...
| Author | Isaac Asimov |
| ISBN | 0553290991 |
Imagine living on a planet with six suns that never experiences Darkness. Imagine never having seen the Stars. Then, one by one your suns start to set, gradually leading you into Darkness for the first time ever. Image the terror of such a Nightfall.
Scientists on the planet Kalgash discover...
| Author | Arthur Conan Doyle |
| ISBN | 0553212427 |
Since his first appearance in Beeton’s Christmas Annual in 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes has been one of the most beloved fictional characters ever created.
Now, in two paperback volumes, Bantam presents all fifty-six short stories and four novels featuring Conan...
Lucky Starr and the Big Sun of Mercury
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Lucky Starr and the Big Sun of Mercury is the fourth novel in the Lucky Starr series, six juvenile science fiction novels by Isaac Asimov that originally appeared under the pseudonym Paul French. The novel was first published by Doubleday & Company in March 1956. Since...
| Author | Roger MacBride Allen |
| ISBN | 0441005144 |
When a key politician is murdered, suspicion falls on Caliban...the only robot without guilt or conscience, with no need to obey or respect humanity... a robot without the Three Laws.But the stakes go deeper than one man's life. Caliban is challenging long-held ideas of a robot's place in society....
| Author | Michael P. Kube-McDowell |
| ISBN | 0743479246 |
3.5 estrellas
Me es complicado reseñar este libro, ya que ADORO la ficción, pero tengo un pequeño problema con algunos de sus géneros: Denme un libro con 10 razas de dragones y seré capaz de describir con gran detalle cada tipo, denme 2 tipos de robot y seré incapaz de distinguirlos.
Odisea...
| Author | Juan Valera |
| ISBN | 9871136145 |
La obra de Juan Valera en general y Pepita Jiménez , en particular, ha sido considerada por la crítica como una anomalía dentro de las etapas que marcan el desarrollo de la historia de la literatura española, ni romántica, ni realista, la ya clásica novela del escritor cordobés asoma como una...
| Author | Charles de Coster |
| ISBN | 1596054247 |
Ulenspiegel was living at Koolkerke, in the intimate favour of a farmer's widow, a sweet and gentle person who refused him nothing of what was hers to give. He was very happy there, petted and made much of, until one day a treacherous rival, an alderman of the village, lay in wait for him early in the morning...
| Author | Emilia Pardo Bazán |
| ISBN | 8437615372 |
Emilia Pardo Bazán reivindicó un naturalismo autóctono. Esta obra muestra la saga de una clase social en decadencia: la aristocracia rural gallega. Dramáticas escenas entre personajes y descripciones intensas de una estructura política corrupta alternan con las evocaciones del campo....
La estancia de Machado en Soria y el contacto con la tierra y alma castellanas, contagiaron al poeta de su hondura esencial hasta lograr una indentificacion con su interioridad lirica. A parte de la exposicion de lo temporal, de lo objetivo y de lo efimero, el poeta comunica en Campos de Castilla su preocupacion...
| Author | Hendrik Conscience |
| ISBN | 1410103927 |
Came across this on the Boxall 1000 list. An interesting story about a fascinating period of history that I knew next to nothing about.
Parts of the book were better than others. The dialogue at times felt very forced and laboured and in some parts downright syrupy and melodramatic. Strangely...
The Idiot & The Possessed
Two full Length novels collected in one edition formatted for te Kindle.
FYODOR MIKHAILOVICH DOSTOYEVSKY [1821-1881] was a Russian writer of novels and short stories .
In 1841, he graduated from Saint Petersburg Academy of Military Engineering. In 1845, he published his first...
