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Charles Baudelaire es un poeta francés. "Dante d'une époque déchue", en palabras de Barbey d'Aurevilly, "tourné vers le classicisme, alimentado por el romanticismo", en la encrucijada entre el Parnaso y el simbolismo, campeón de la "modernidad", ocupa un lugar considerable entre los poetas franceses por una colección ciertamente breve en comparación con la obra de su contemporáneo Victor Hugo, pero que habrá marcado su vida: Las flores del mal. Estas 100 citas pretenden dar acceso a su obra monumental a través de una selección de sus pensamientos más sorprendentes, en un formato accesible para todos.

Durante visita a um museu, o narrador admira uma determinada múmia asteca em excelente estado de conservação, quando é interpelado por um misterioso homem que alega estar morto e reivindica para si a "fabricação" da preciosidade arqueológica. A partir deste incidente, desenrola-se uma interessante história a respeito da origem da múmia, repleta de curiosidades sobre o submundo das falsificações de relíquias pré-colombianas destinadas à venda para homens da ciência e turistas ingênuos.

Ten-year-old Jeanie Leclare has just moved to the West Coast from Saskatchewan. She’s desperately lonely and longs for a new friend. When the girl sitting in front of her at school seems friendly, she feels a little better. Then an excavator arrives and demolishes the cute house next door. Everyone, including Jeanie’s new friend, Isabelle, is aghast. But Jeanie has a secret, a secret that she knows will turn her new classmates against her. At recess time, the excavator heads for a huge and beautiful cedar next to the school. Isabelle leads a band of kids to stop it.

Il fatto importante di questo volume, è che metterà nelle tue mani uno scettro di potere con il quale potrai aprire la tua strada verso la salute, il successo, una vita abbondante ed una personalità magnetica. Yoga. Appropriata respirazione. Respirazione ritmica. Salute olistica. Omeopatia. Prana - energia vitale. Kundalini.

This volume features William F Harvey's original undead hand story "The Beast with Five Fingers" that sparked many movies including Sam Raimi's "The Evil Dead". Poe's classic "The Tell Tale Heart" is joined by Lovecraft's creepy tale of alienation "The Outsider", and a chilling Dickens ghost story "The Signalman".

Una grabación completa por un elenco de artistas, en español, de la obra clásica de Charles Dickens Un Cuento de Navidad (A Christmas Carol). Se le da la oportunidad a un hombre llamado Scrooge de cambiar un destino maldito por ser tomado en un viaje a través del tiempo por los fantasmas de las Navidades pasadas, presentes, y futuras.

Charles d'Azérat est de ces hommes dont la vie semble taillée pour l'épopée. Officier des forces spéciales, il raconte dans À cœur ouvert, son engagement sans concession pour son pays. Chef de groupe au prestigieux commando parachutiste de l'air n°10 (CPA 10), il relate les missions à haut risque qu'il a vécues ces dernières années avec ses hommes. De l'Afrique à l'Orient, ce livre retrace l'itinéraire hors norme d'un officier-commando qui avance dans la poussière, sous le feu ennemi, affrontant la faim, la fatigue et défiant parfois la mort.

Set in London's backstreet slums, Oliver Twist is the story of a workhouse orphan captured and thrust into a den of thieves, where some of Dickens' most depraved villains preside: the incorrigible Artful Dodger; the barbarous bully Bill Sikes; and the terrible Fagin, whose knavery threatens to send them all to the gallows. This was the first of Dickens' works to depict realistically London's impoverished underworld, and to illustrate his belief that poverty leads to crime.

Little Dorrit is Amy, born in debtor’s prison, the youngest child of debtor William Dorrit, an inmate of the Marshalsea. The two are befriended by a man whose wife hires Little Dorrit as a seamstress. When William Dorrit inherits a fortune, he escapes the Marshalsea. The family, assuming a station befitting their wealth, travel to Italy.

From the moment of its publication in 1748, The Spirit of the Laws proved to be a controversial work provoking widespread interest. Within three years it had been translated into various European languages - and was swiftly added to the List of Prohibited Books by the Roman Catholic Church. It...

La favola di "Enrichetto dal Ciuffo" è stata tratta dalla collana "I Racconti delle Fate" di Carlo Collodi: una raccolta di fiabe che Collodi ha tradotto dal francese e che, come dice egli stesso nella prefazione, "nel voltare in italiano (...) qua e là mi feci lecite alcune leggerissime varianti, sia di vocabolo, sia di andatura di periodo, sia di modi di dire: e questo ho voluto notare qui di principio, a scanso di commenti, di atti subitanei di stupefazione e di scrupoli grammaticali o di vocabolario.

The Chuzzlewits are a family divided by money and selfishness; even young Martin, the eponymous hero, is arrogant and self-centred. He offends his grandfather by falling in love with the latter’s ward, Mary, and sets out to make his own fortune in life, travelling as far as America - which produces from Dickens a savage satire on a new world tainted with the vices of the old. Martin’s nature slowly changes through his bitter experience of life and his enduring love for Mary.

The Shadow is the part of us made up of all that we hide from others: our shame, our fears and our wounds, but also our divine spirit, our blinding beauty and our hidden talents. The Shadow is not bad - in fact it is the source of our creativity and power - but until we bring it into the light...

Provoking an unprecedented outpouring of public grief when it was first published, it follows the story of Little Nell and her feckless grandfather. Forced to leave their magical shop of curiosities in London, they are pursued across the English countryside by the grotesquely evil dwarf Quilp. They escape - but at what cost?

A Tale of Two Cities is one of Charles Dickens's most exciting novels. Set against the backdrop of the French Revolution, it tells the story of a family threatened by the terrible events of the past. Doctor Manette was wrongly imprisoned in the Bastille for 18 years without trial by the aristocratic authorities.

This is a story from the Classic Ghost Stories collection.

After escaping from the dark and dismal workhouse where he was born, Oliver finds himself on the mean streets of Victorian-era London and is unwittingly recruited into a scabrous gang of scheming urchins. In this band of petty thieves, Oliver encounters the extraordinary and vibrant characters who have captured audiences' imaginations for more than 150 years.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. What if one winter night could open the locked door of a human heart? In *A Christmas Carol, in Prose: Being a Ghost Story of Christmas*, Charles Dickens creates one of the most beloved and enduring stories in English literature. First published in 1843...

Petit par la taille mais immense par le courage, le Petit Poucet affronte la peur et l'abandon. Ce conte intense et émouvant met en valeur l'ingéniosité et la survie, dans une aventure captivante à écouter...

Ce conte original explore la beauté intérieure et l'esprit. À travers des dons magiques inversés, Perrault invite à réfléchir sur l'amour, l'intelligence et la relativité des apparences, dans une narration raffinée...