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This spare, mesmerizing novel is Edith Wharton's money-can't-buy-happiness tale. Young Stephen Glennard, a lawyer, is poor, but he has an unanticipated gambling chip: a collection of love letters from a scorned, but now famous, lover, the distinguished novelist Margaret Aubyn. To raise money for his forthcoming wedding to another woman, Stephen stoops to selling the letters.

A rare piece of humor from beloved author Charles Dickens. This short story follows a lawyer who confronts a ghost in a place he has just rented. The lawyer uses his skills to challenge the thinking of the spectre. A memorable story from a creative author.

This is a story from the Canterbury Tales III: Modern Verse Translation collection.

Tomás tiene una memoria prodigiosa y una agudeza inusual, natural en el que prenden fuerte las raíces de un juicioso estudio. Pero una amante desdeñada, buscando ganarle con bebedizos, logra es malograrle la salud. Tomás se repone... o lo hace a medias, porque este su nuevo estado dará pie a las más satíricas ocurrencias que no dejan de encerrar su cuota de razón.

When a brute of a man tramples an innocent girl, apparently out of spite, two bystanders catch the fellow and force him to pay reparations to the girl's family. The brute's name is Edward Hyde. A respected lawyer, Utterson, hears this story and begins to unravel the seemingly manic behavior of his best friend, Dr. Henry Jekyll, and his connection with Hyde.