Pamela Andrews is a fifteen-year-old maidservant at an estate in Bedfordshire. When Lady B, her employer, dies, her son Mr. B takes an interest in the innocent young girl, quickly turning from generosity to outright attempts at seducing her. As Pamela rejects his advances, she considers returning home to live in poverty with her parents. When he catches wind of her plan, however, Mr. B accuses Pamela of having an affair, notifying her parents and...

'Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady' tells the tragic story of a heroine whose quest for virtue is continually thwarted by her family, and is one of the longest novels in the English language. Clarissa Harlowe is a beautiful and virtuous young lady whose family has become wealthy only recently and now desires to become part of the aristocracy. Their original plan was to concentrate the wealth and lands of the Harlowes into the possession of...

En un tiempo donde las cartas están ya casi en desuso, a través de ellas, se cuenta cada sentimiento entre la musa y quien escribe. Tomando trazas de lo que se vive, se imagina o ambas. Aunque allí vive una guerra donde la soledad, tras mil batallas, lanza el mayor de los ataques jamás imaginado. Abarcando incluso la realidad. Amenazando una pasión que va deshaciéndose como una vela y se viste por momentos de añoranza, de sentimientos confesados,...

Novela epistolar escrita por José Miguel Varas que tiene por protagonista a un periodista chileno que encuentra la correspondencia entre un pintor mapuche que vive en Bagdad y un doctor en lenguas romances con residencia en Praga.

Financial difficulties resulting from an extravagant lifestyle and excessive gambling led Fyodor Dostoevsky to pen his first novel "Poor Folk". First published in 1846, "Poor Folk" is the story of impoverished cousins Varvara Dobroselova and Makar Devushkin. The two live in run-down apartments across the street from each other in St. Petersburg. Through a series of letters to each other we learn of the suffering, humiliation, and isolation that results...

Ginny makes a to do list for her seventh grade year, which includes landing a role in the school play, trying to make friends, ignoring her horoscope, and going to see her grandpa Joe in Florida; but she always seems to come up short in accomplishing any of it.

El libro es una recopilación de cartas imaginarias escritas con gran belleza. En ellas cuenta, con prosa poética y sátira, a veces, la vida y las penurias de un poeta en Cuba. Se sirve de las metáforas para mostrarnos lo que quisiera decir pero debe esconder tras bellas palabras. El autor es natural de Sancti Spíritus; es políglota y entre otro destacados galardones, ha obtenido los premios Fayad Jamís y Escombray. Asimismo, Manuel González...

Las cartas que madame de Sévigné escribió a la condesa de Grignan, su hija, han pasado a la historia por ser una cima absoluta de la literatura epistolar, aún más, de la literatura amorosa. En efecto, la marquesa de Sévigné, viuda de un vividor, vuelca en su hija recién casada un amor filial complejo y anhelante, hasta descubrir—alarmada, por más que Sévigné no sea ninguna beata—que la ama más que a Dios. Figura destacada en la brillante...

United States Supreme Court Justice Bailey Stewart, well known for her honesty, fairness, and consistency in interpreting the Constitution, becomes privy to some startling revelations, ones that will test her curiosity to know more and determine what might the public have a right to know. Befriended by an unknown, but seemingly well-versed source identified as Ivanhoe, she becomes entrenched in what has been purported to be the truths, half-truths...

The international bestseller: a compelling love story from the leading Israeli novelist of his generation "We could be like two people who inject themselves with truth serum, and at long last have to tell it-the truth. I want to be able to say to myself, 'I bled truth with her,' yes, that's what I want. Be a knife for me, and I, I swear, will be a knife for you." An awkward, neurotic seller of rare books writes a desperate letter to a beautiful...