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The Wordsworth Classics author series, with this book V as its inaugural volume, presents a newly-edited sequence of authors works. The textual editing endeavours to talk account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal. This book is the most famous and influential of authors history plays. Its powerful patriotic rhetoric has resounded down the ages, gaining eloquent expression in Laurence Oliviers renowned film. Henry himself, astute and charismatic, who led his band of brothers to victory in the Battle of Agincourt, could indeed seem to be this star of England. In recent decades the play has attracted increasing critical attention and is now highly controversial. Kenneth Branaghs film-production reflected the changing valuation. Does this play have a sceptical sub-text which subverts its patriotism Is Henrys achievement beset by irony Has current scepticism distorted a predominantly and proudly nationalistic drama This book demonstrates authors acclaimed ability to bring new complexity to the material that he adapted, so that different eras may find within his work the familiar and the strange, the congenial and the challenging.Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. This book is the most famous and influential of authors history plays. Its powerful patriotic rhetoric has resounded down the ages, gaining eloquent expression in Laurence Oliviers renowned film. Henry himself, astute and charismatic, who led his band of brothers to victory in the Battle of Agincourt, could indeed seem to be this star of England. In recent decades the play has attracted increasing critical attention and is now highly controversial. Kenneth Branaghs film-production reflected the changing valuation. Does this play have a sceptical sub-text which subverts its patriotism Is Henrys achievement beset by irony Has current scepticism distorted a predominantly and proudly nationalistic drama This book demonstrates authors acclaimed ability to bring new complexity to the material that he adapted, so that different eras may find within his work the familiar and the strange, the congenial and the challenging.Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. In recent decades the play has attracted increasing critical attention and is now highly controversial. Kenneth Branaghs film-production reflected the changing valuation. Does this play have a sceptical sub-text which subverts its patriotism Is Henrys achievement beset by irony Has current scepticism distorted a predominantly and proudly nationalistic drama This book demonstrates authors acclaimed ability to bring new complexity to the material that he adapted, so that different eras may find within his work the familiar and the strange, the congenial and the challenging.Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. This book demonstrates authors acclaimed ability to bring new complexity to the material that he adapted, so that different eras may find within his work the familiar and the strange, the congenial and the challenging.Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Más información

This book tells the story of Lily Bart, aged 29, beautiful, impoverished and in need of a rich husband to safeguard her place in the social elite, and to support her expensive habits-her clothes, her charities and her gambling. Unwilling to marry without both love and money, Lily becomes vulnerable to the kind of gossip and slander which attach to a girl who has been on the marriage market for too long. Wharton charts the course of Lilys life, providing, along the way, a wider picture of a society in transition, a rapidly changing New York where the old certainties of manners, morals and family have disappeared and the individual has become an expendable commodity. This text was published in October 1905 to widespread critical acclaim. It became an instant bestseller and is regarded today as one of Edith Wharton\'s most accomplished and compelling social satires. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Unwilling to marry without both love and money, Lily becomes vulnerable to the kind of gossip and slander which attach to a girl who has been on the marriage market for too long. Wharton charts the course of Lilys life, providing, along the way, a wider picture of a society in transition, a rapidly changing New York where the old certainties of manners, morals and family have disappeared and the individual has become an expendable commodity. This text was published in October 1905 to widespread critical acclaim. It became an instant bestseller and is regarded today as one of Edith Wharton\'s most accomplished and compelling social satires. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. This text was published in October 1905 to widespread critical acclaim. It became an instant bestseller and is regarded today as one of Edith Wharton\'s most accomplished and compelling social satires. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Más información

This book introduces Mowgli, the human foundling adopted by a family of wolves. It tells of the enmity between him and the tiger Shere Khan, who killed Mowgliʾs parents, and of the friendship between the man-cub and Bagheera, the Black Panther, and Baloo, the sleepy brown bear, who instructs Mowgli in the Laws of the Jungle.

This text contains some of the most thrilling of the Mowgli stories. It includes Red Dog, in which Mowgli forms an unlikely alliance with the python Kaa, How Fear Came and Letting in the Jungle as well as The Spring Running, which brings Mowgli to manhood and the realisation that he must leave Bagheera, Baloo and his other friends for the world of man.

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René Descartes (1569-1650), the \'father\' of modern philosophy, is without doubt one of the greatest thinkers in history: his genius lies at the core of our contemporary intellectual identity. Breaking with the conventions of his own time and suffering persecution by the Church as a consequence, Descartes in his writings-most of which are philosophical classics-attempted to answer the central questions surrounding the self, God, free-will and knowledge, using the science of thought as opposed to received wisdom based on the tenets of faith. This edition, the most comprehensive one volume selection of Descartes works available in English, includes his great essay, Discourse on Method. Nota: el contenido de se este libro se encuentra en inglés.This edition, the most comprehensive one volume selection of Descartes works available in English, includes his great essay, Discourse on Method. Nota: el contenido de se este libro se encuentra en inglés.Nota: el contenido de se este libro se encuentra en inglés. Más información

Hans Christian Andersen is the best-loved of all tellers of fairy tales.This collection of over forty of Andersens most popular stories includes The Mermaid, The Real Princess, The Red Shoes, The Little Match Girl, The Snow Queen, The Tinder Box, The Ugly Duckling and many more.It is delightfully illustrated in black-and-white by those remarkable brothers, Charles, Thomas and William Heath Robinson.Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. This collection of over forty of Andersens most popular stories includes The Mermaid, The Real Princess, The Red Shoes, The Little Match Girl, The Snow Queen, The Tinder Box, The Ugly Duckling and many more.It is delightfully illustrated in black-and-white by those remarkable brothers, Charles, Thomas and William Heath Robinson.Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. It is delightfully illustrated in black-and-white by those remarkable brothers, Charles, Thomas and William Heath Robinson.Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Más información

This book presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare\'s works. The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal. This book has been widely acclaimed as Shakespeares most powerful tragedy. Elemental and passionate, it encompasses the horrific and the heart-rending. Love and hate, loyalty and treachery, cruelty and self-sacrifice: all these contend in a tempestuous drama which has become an enduring classic of the worlds literature. In the theatre and on screen King Lear continues to challenge and enthrall. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés.This book has been widely acclaimed as Shakespeares most powerful tragedy. Elemental and passionate, it encompasses the horrific and the heart-rending. Love and hate, loyalty and treachery, cruelty and self-sacrifice: all these contend in a tempestuous drama which has become an enduring classic of the worlds literature. In the theatre and on screen King Lear continues to challenge and enthrall. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés.Love and hate, loyalty and treachery, cruelty and self-sacrifice: all these contend in a tempestuous drama which has become an enduring classic of the worlds literature. In the theatre and on screen King Lear continues to challenge and enthrall. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés.Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Más información

Antony and Cleopatra is one of Shakespeare\'s greatest tragedies: a spectacular, widely-ranging drama of love and war, passion and politics. Antony is divided between the responsibilities of Imperial power and the intensities of his sexual relationship with Cleopatra. She, variously generous and ruthless, loving and Jealous, petulant and majestic, emerges as Shakespeare´s most complex depiction of a woman: "Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety.\'"Unsurpassed in sumptuous eloquence and powerful characterisation. Antony and Cleopatra deservedly retains its popularity in the theatre, its insights into the corruptions of power and the ambiguities of desire remain timely. This volume is part of the new Wordsworth Classics\' Shakespeare Series, in which each volume has been freshly edited by Cedric Watts.Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. "Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety.\'"Unsurpassed in sumptuous eloquence and powerful characterisation. Antony and Cleopatra deservedly retains its popularity in the theatre, its insights into the corruptions of power and the ambiguities of desire remain timely. This volume is part of the new Wordsworth Classics\' Shakespeare Series, in which each volume has been freshly edited by Cedric Watts.Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Unsurpassed in sumptuous eloquence and powerful characterisation. Antony and Cleopatra deservedly retains its popularity in the theatre, its insights into the corruptions of power and the ambiguities of desire remain timely. This volume is part of the new Wordsworth Classics\' Shakespeare Series, in which each volume has been freshly edited by Cedric Watts.Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. This volume is part of the new Wordsworth Classics\' Shakespeare Series, in which each volume has been freshly edited by Cedric Watts.Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Más información

As You like it is one of Shakespeares finest romantic comedies, variously lyrical, melancholy, satiric, comic and absurd. Its highly implausible plot generates a profusion of love-lorn men, a resourceful heroine in disguise, sexual ambiguity, melancholy philosophising and finally a multiplicity of marriages. The ironic medley of pastoral artifice, romantic ardour and quizzical reflection has helped to make As You Like it perennially popular in the theatre. The text of this edition is taken, by arrangement, from the Cambridge University Press \'New Shakespeare\', edited by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch and John Dover Wilson.Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. The text of this edition is taken, by arrangement, from the Cambridge University Press \'New Shakespeare\', edited by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch and John Dover Wilson.Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Más información

Dickens\'s first historical novel is set against the infamous \'No Popery riots that were instigated by Lord George Gordon in 1780 and terrorised London for days. Prejudice, intolerance, misplaced religious and nationalistic fervour, together with the villains who would exploit these for political ends, are Dickenss targets. His vivid account of the riots at the heart of the novel is interwoven with the mysterious tale of a long unsolved murder, and a romance that combines forbidden love, passion, treachery and heroism. A typically rich cast of comic characters, from the snivelling Miss Miggs and the posturing Simon Tappertit to the half-witted Barnaby Rudge of the title, ensures high entertainment.Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. A typically rich cast of comic characters, from the snivelling Miss Miggs and the posturing Simon Tappertit to the half-witted Barnaby Rudge of the title, ensures high entertainment.Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Más información