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El gran escritor Julio Verne toma la tradici n de la novela g tica del siglo XIX para escribir un libro alejado, en principio, de lo que nos tiene acostumbrados. Pueblos atemorizados por la presencia de un castillo maldito habitado por el Diablo; rivalidades por amores pasados; psicofon as y apariciones; muertos resucitados. Todo ello en Transilvania, Rumania.Sin embargo, fiel a su tradici n, usa todos esos elementos para adelantarse al desarrollo tecnol gico de su poca e imaginar m quinas que hoy estamos usando o que quiz en un futuro cercano podremos disfrutar.El castillo de los C rpatos es uno de los textos menos conocidos de Verne, pero resulta de igual val a ante el lector.

La relaci n que tiene el individuo con todos los vinculo con los que se relaciona (pares, objeto de amor, etc.) pueden ser considerados fen menos sociales. Estos entran en oposici n con otros fen menos que los hemos denominado narcisistas, donde la satisfacci n pulsional se sustrae del influjo de otras personas o renuncia a estas. La psicolog a de las masas trata al individuo como miembro de un linaje de un pueblo, de una casta, de un estamento, de una instituci n, o como integrante de una multitud organizada en forma de masa durante cierto lapso y para determinado fin. Freud, parte de considerar a la pulsi n social, como no originaria e irreducible, y contemplando la posibilidad de que su origen pueda hallarse en el seno de la familia.

The Communist Manifesto, was first published on February 21, 1848, and is one of the world's most influential political manuscripts. Commissioned by the Communist League and written by communist theorists Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, it laid out the League's purposes and program. The Manifesto suggested a course of action for a proletarian (working class) revolution to overthrow the bourgeois social order and to eventually bring about a classless and stateless society, and the abolition of private property.

Women and Economics - A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution is a book written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and published in 1898. It is considered by many to be her single greatest work, and as with much of Gilman's writing, the book touched a few dominant themes: the transformation of marriage, the family, and the home, with her central argument: "the economic independence and specialization of women as essential to the improvement of marriage, motherhood, domestic industry, and racial improvement."

Emily Starr and Teddy Kent have been friends since childhood, and as Teddy is about to leave to further his education as an artist, Emily believes that their friendship is blossoming into something more. On his last night at home, they vow to think of each other when they see the star Vega of the Lyre. As Emily grows as a writer and learns to deal with the loneliness of having her closest friends gone, life at New Moon changes. Mr. Carpenter, Emily's most truthful critic and favorite teacher dies (warning Emily, even as he dies to "Beware --- of --- italics."). She becomes closer to Dean Priest, even as she fears he wants love when she only has friendship to give. Worst of all, Emily and Teddy become distant as he focuses on building his career and she hides her feelings behind pride.

This Edwardian social comedy explores love and prim propriety among an eccentric cast of characters assembled in an Italian pensione and in a corner of Surrey, England. A charming young Englishwoman, Lucy Honeychurch, faints into the arms of a fellow Britisher when she witnesses a murder in a Florentine piazza. Attracted to this man, George Emerson-who is entirely unsuitable and whose father just may be a Socialist-Lucy is soon at war with the snobbery of her class and her own conflicting desires. Back in England, she is courted by a more acceptable, if stifling, suitor and soon realizes she must make a startling decision that will decide the course of her future: she is forced to choose between convention and passion.

La Fanfarlo es un relato corto, una nouvelle de inspiracion autobiografica que el poeta Baudelaire vio publicada en 1847, cuando solo tenia veinticinco anos. El joven poeta Samuel Cramer intenta ayudar a su antiguo amor Madame de Cosmelly: debe deshacer el romance entre el esposo de esta y la celebre bailarina Fanfarlo. Se hace pasar por un enamorado de la actriz, pero se toma tan en serio el papel que cae en su propia trampa.

Stories in this collection: The Man with the Nailed Shoes The Stranger's Latchkey The Anthropologist at Large The Blue Sequin The Moabite Cipher The Mandarin's Pearl The Aluminium Dagger A Message from the Deep Sea

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (October 16, 1854 - November 30, 1900) was an Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and short story writer. Known for his barbed wit, he was one of the most successful playwrights of late Victorian London, and one of the greatest celebrities of his day. As the result of a famous trial, he suffered a dramatic downfall and was imprisoned for two years of hard labour after being convicted of the offence of "gross indecency". The scholar H. Montgomery Hyde suggests this term implies homosexual acts not amounting to buggery in British legislation of the time.

Luis Bonafoux Quintero probablemente fue el periodista espanol mas brillante, admirado, seguido, odiado y temido de los ultimos anos del siglo XIX y los primeros del XX. Famosisimo en su tiempo, esta hoy completamente olvidado. Fundo y dirigio periodicos, fue el primer corresponsal en Paris de un periodico madrileno, El Heraldo, fue el primero que hablo en Espana del caso Dreyfus y de Zola, el unico que se atrevio a enfrentarse a Clarin. Estuvo perseguido por sus escritos en Puerto Rico, Cuba, Espana, Francia e Inglaterra. Viajo por medio mundo, Puerto Rico, La Habana, Paris, Madrid, Salamanca, Argelia, Roma, Marruecos, Berlin, Venecia, Reinosa, Londres, y escribio lo que vio. Afirma Jose Luis Cano (1990) que sus cronicas provocaban escandalo, amenazas y duelos a pistola.

This novella explores life following a devastating plague that wipes out most of humanity.

The Iron Heel is a dystopian novel by American writer Jack London, first published in 1908. Generally considered to be "the earliest of the modern Dystopian," it chronicles the rise of an oligarchic tyranny in the United States. It is arguably the novel in which Jack London's socialist views are most explicitly on display. A forerunner of soft science fiction novels and stories of the 1960s and 1970s, the book stresses future changes in society and politics while paying much less attention to technological changes.

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, generally known as Frankenstein, is a novel written by the British author Mary Shelley. The title of the novel refers to a scientist, Victor Frankenstein, who learns how to create life and creates a being in the likeness of man, but larger than average and more powerful. In popular culture, people have tended to refer to the Creature as "Frankenstein", despite this being the name of the scientist. Frankenstein is a novel infused with some elements of the Gothic novel and the Romantic movement. It was also a warning against the "over-reaching" of modern man and the Industrial Revolution, alluded to in the novel's subtitle, The Modern Prometheus. The story has had an influence across literature and popular culture and spawned a complete genre of horror stories and films. It is arguably considered the first fully realized science fiction novel.

Gotas de sangre: Crimenes y criminales, es un compendio de escritos cortos, relatos, historias, que en un momento dado han sido el reflejo de un grupo social en particular, fantastico o no, atrae al lector. Los relatos descriptivos y entretenidos, hace volver a la historia, a la epoca y denotan objetivamente el nivel sociologico del acontecimiento.

Azul... es un libro de cuentos y poemas del poeta nicaraguense Ruben Dario, considerado una de las obras mas relevantes del modernismo hispanico. Se publico por primera vez en Valparaiso el 30 de julio de 1888. Dos anos despues, en Guatemala, aparecio una segunda edicion, corregida y aumentada.

The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In, a short novel by Charles Dickens, was written and published in 1844, one year after A Christmas Carol. It is the second in his series of "Christmas books" five short books with strong social and moral messages that he published during the 1840's.

"The Canterville Ghost" is a parody featuring a dramatic spirit named Sir Simon and the United States minister (ambassador) to the Court of St. James's, Hiram B. Otis. Mr. Otis travels to England with his family and moves into a haunted country house. Lord Canterville, the previous owner of the house, warns Mr. Otis that the ghost of Sir Simon de Canterville has haunted it ever since he killed his wife, Eleonore, three centuries before. But Mr. Otis dismisses the ghost story as bunk and disregards Lord Canterville's warnings. When the Otises learn that the house is indeed haunted, they succeed in victimizing the ghost and in disregarding age-old British traditions. What emerges is a satire of American materialism, a lampoon of traditional British values, and an amusing twist on the traditional gothic horror tale.

The Battle of Life: A Love Story is a novel by Charles Dickens, first published in 1846. It is the fourth of his five "Christmas Books", coming after The Cricket on the Hearth and followed by The Haunted Man. It is noteworthy in that it is the only one out of the five books that does not have any use of supernatural elements. It bears the greatest resemblance to The Cricket on the Hearth in two aspects: that it is not a social novel and that it is resolved with a romantic twist. As is typical with Dickens, the ending is a happy one, and some might argue an overly happy one.