The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)

In eve of the presidential change-over, the banking is nationalized, and by means of a President's decree, the currency is devaluated in more than a hundred percent, the inflation goes up to three digits and the Mexicans' savings in "mexdollars" become pesos with little value. By the end of that six years governmental period, in which the good administration of the oil abundance was proclaimed, the country was in fact plundered and left with empty arks. This was the scenario of Mexico in 1982 and the one that serves as a background for the fictitious characters of "State Crime," a novel where ...

Excerpt from Cuento del Lar: Tragedia Rústica en Cuatro Actos, en Prosa y Verso, Estrenada en el Teatro Odeon, de Madrid, el Dia 7 de Marzo de 1918 María Santoncha. Concha Torres. Camacjón Díaz. Carmen Munoz. Miguel Muñoz. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare ...

Excerpt from El Diario de una Dama: Novela Cuando me hallaba en el convento, mis notas trimestrales terminaban casi siempre con la siguiente descripcion de mi fisonomia moral: Caracter apacible; espiritu pru dente; gravedad superior a sus anos; carac ter bien equilibrado, pero de conciencia algo inquieta. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the...

Para encontrar el cielo, tendrán primero que pagar al diablo... Primera entrega de «La llamada de la oscuridad»", con la que Christina Dodd ha revolucionado la novela romántica paranormal. Hace mil años, Konstantine Varinski, un cruel guerrero de la estepa rusa, selló un pacto sombrío: a cambio de la habilidad de transformarse en un depredador, entregó al diablo su alma. Y con ella, el alma de sus descendientes. Ann Smith no ha podido evitar que su apuesto y dinámico jefe, Jasha Wilder, la atraiga locamente. Cuando al fin se decide a poner toda la carne en el asador para seducirlo,...