James is a little bear in a family of five. In James and the Jealous, Naughty Seagull, he saves a seagull with a broken wing and it now lives with him. James wants to play ball, but the seagull is far too small, so James’s father buys him a puppy called Jim. Jim has a kind nature, but he is getting most of James’s attention now and the seagull becomes jealous. She tries all types of tricks to get Jim in big trouble. One day a neighbor’s cat is sizing the seagull up for a tasty meal, when Jim comes …
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) fue el creador de la literatura fantástica de horror, que habría de influir sobre toda la literatura europea, y especialmente sobre los "poetas malditos": Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Mallarmé y Verlaine. Escribió sesenta y ocho cuentos, entrelos que sobresalen El gato negro (que da nombre a este volumen), El tonel de amontillado, Ligeia, Los crímenes de la calle Morgue, La carta robada, etcétera, que constituyen lo que se ha dado en llamar Narraciones extraordinarias.
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) created the horror fantasy genre which influenced the European literature of the time and especially the cursed poets: ‘Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Mallarmé and Verlaine.’ He wrote …
El fantasma de Canterville, del escritor británico Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), es uno de sus relatos más famosos junto con su novela El retrato de Dorian Gray. El fantasma, es un personaje simpático que provoca más lástima que miedo y que es redimido por el amor. En esta edición se añade El crimen de lord Arthur Saville, personaje perseguido falsamente por el destino que jamás podrá ejecutar su mandato, así como dos breves cuentos más.
The Canterville Ghost was written by the British author Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) and it is one of his most famous novels together with The Picture of Dorian Gray. The Ghost is …
A comprehensive, panoramic view of Nigeria’s oldest sports competition. This book traces the history of the Federation Cup through its life history spanning over 70 years. Its previous formats include The War Memorial Cup, The Governor’s Cup, Challenge Cup, and the Coca Cola FA Cup. It also covers the history of Nigerian football, from the playing fields of Victorian and Edwardian Lagos, Calabar, and Zaria in the early 1900s, through the early football competitions, such as the Beverley, Trenchard, and Lagos City Cup competitions. The growth of football administration, the great players and games of the competition through the years …
Being Allessandra’s. Alessandra wasn’t just the top of my favorites list. Hers was the only name on the list, the girl above all girls, the woman above all women—I’d wanted her to hurt me for almost a quarter century. It wouldn’t be right to say that we ‘got back together’ at our Twentieth High School Reunion. We’d never been together. There had just been that one high school kiss. She’d drawn blood. Now we are together! Trying to figure out if/how we can make a life with each other. In the meantime, the pain feels SO good! Double-Cucked & Regressed. …
A toddler learns about being a big sister in Bia Gets a New Baby Brother. Bia is a precocious two-year-old who is curious about everything! What she is most curious about now is her new baby brother. It’s hard for Bia to understand why the baby can’t do all the things that she can do. And his crying is really getting on her nerves! New big brothers and sisters will immediately relate to Bia as they learn important new rules about the new baby in the family. Told with simple language and charming pictures, Bia Gets a New Baby Brother …
A reflection on the fragile banking sector nowadays and the possibility of progressing towards a system of public and safe money, issued by the Central Bank.
Miguel A. Fernández Ordóñez introduces his text with a quote from Mervyn King, former governor of the Bank of England: «Among all ways of organizing the banking system, the one that we have today is the worst.»
Ordóñez shares his opinion and he proposes a radical change within the banking system: a Central Bank which would be the only one authorized to create money. His reform would allow families and companies to deposit …
Este volumen busca reivindicar el legado de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley y celebrar los doscientos años de la publicación de su obra maestra, "Frankenstein o el Moderno Prometeo" (1818). Para ello, expone la permeabilidad del mito del científico y su criatura a través de una serie en ensayos que exploran adaptaciones contemporáneas en diversos medios (literatura, cine, televisión, videojuegos, YouTube) que demuestran la relevancia de Frankenstein en nuestros días. Los capítulos permiten al lector conocer las reescrituras populares del teatro del siglo XIX y su impacto en la ficción cinematográfica más reciente; descubrir la influencia de Shelley sobre otras escritoras con …
Dominic Ridler, author of the bestselling novels A Sexual Odyssey and A Well Trained Pup, tantalizes us even further with his latest sensual story, The Owned Girl. After five glorious years of marriage and multiple discussions on how to steam up their already explosive sex life, Matthew suggests to his wife, Annabel, that they bring in a third person. To have, to hold and to own. When Matthew brings home his former student, the alluring Beth, Annabel can see the instant attraction. Lithe, beautiful and with the face of an innocent, Beth is definitely a prize worth keeping. “Please will …
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