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Aristotle (384-322BC) is the philosopher who has had most influence on the development of western culture, writing on a wide variety of subjects including the natural sciences as well as the more strictly philosophical topics of logic, metaphysics and ethics. To the poet Dante, he was simply \'the master of those who know\'. The Ethics contains his views on what makes a good human life. While the work continues to stimulate and challenge modern philosophers, the general course of the argument is easily accessible to the non-specialist. Both as a key influence in the history of ideas and as a work containing unique insights into the human condition, this is a book that simply demands to be read. Nota: El contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. The Ethics contains his views on what makes a good human life. While the work continues to stimulate and challenge modern philosophers, the general course of the argument is easily accessible to the non-specialist. Both as a key influence in the history of ideas and as a work containing unique insights into the human condition, this is a book that simply demands to be read. Nota: El contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Nota: El contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Más información

The Old Curiosity Shop (1840-41), with its combination of the sentimental, the grotesque and the socially concerned, and its story of pursuit and courage, which sets the downtrodden and the plucky against the malevolent and the villainous, was an immediate popular success. Little Nell quickly became one of Dickens \' most celebrated characters, who so captured the imagination of his readers that while the novel was being serialised, many of them wrote to him about her fate. Dickens was conscious of the \'many friends the novel had won for him, and \'the many hearts it turned to me when they were full of private sorrow\', and it remains one of the most familiar and well-loved of his works. Nota: El contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Dickens was conscious of the \'many friends the novel had won for him, and \'the many hearts it turned to me when they were full of private sorrow\', and it remains one of the most familiar and well-loved of his works. Nota: El contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Nota: El contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Más información

The Pickwick Papers is Dickens` first novel and widely regarded as one of the major classics of comic writing in English. Originally serialised in monthly instalments, it quickly became a huge popular success with sales reaching 40,000 by the final number. In the century and a half since its first appearance, the characters of Mr Pickwick, Sam Weller and the whole Pickwickian crew have entered the consciousness of all who love English literature in general and the works of Dickens in particular. Nota: El contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Nota: El contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Más información

Wilde\'s only novel first published in 1890, is a brilliantly designed puzzle, intended to tease conventional minds with its exploration of the myriad interrelationships between art, life, and consequence, From its provocative Preface, challenging the reader to believe in \'art for art`s sake, to its sensational conclusion, the story self consciously experiments with the notion of sin as an clement of design. Yet Wilde himself underestimated the consequences of his experiment, and its capacity to outrage the Victorian establishment. Its words returned to haunt him in his court appearances in 1895, and he later recalled the \'note of doom\' which runs like \'a purple thread\' through its carefully crafted prose. Nota: El contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Nota: El contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Más información

The two political classics in this book are the product of a time of intense turmoil in Chinese history. Dating from the Period of the Warring States (403-221 BC), they anticipate Niccolò Machiavelli\'s The Prince by nearly 2000 years. The Art 01 War is the best known of a considerable body of Chinese works on the subject. It analyses the nature of war, and reveals how victory may be ensured. The Book of Lord Shang is a political treatise for the instruction of rulers. These texts are anything but armchair strategy or ivory-tower speculation. They are serious, urgent and practical responses to the desperate situations in which they were written. They have been immensely influential both inside and outside China. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Más información

Shakespeare\\\'s sonnets have an intensity of feeling and meaning unmatched in English sonnet form. They divide into two parts; the first 126 sonnets are addressed to a fair youth for whom the poet has an obsessive love, while the second chronicles his love for the notorious \\\'Dark Lady\\\'.In addition to the sonnets, this volume includes Shakespeare\\\'s two lengthy narrative poems on classical themes, \\\'The Rape of Lucrece\\\' which looks forward to the dark imagery of Macbeth, and \\\'Venus and Adonis\\\' which mixes ribaldry and tragedy in unique Shakespearian manner. \\\'The Phoenix and the Turtle\\\' is a beautiful metaphysical and allegorical short elegy, and takes its place with Shakespeare\\\'s better known poetry.Nota: El contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés.In addition to the sonnets, this volume includes Shakespeare\\\'s two lengthy narrative poems on classical themes, \\\'The Rape of Lucrece\\\' which looks forward to the dark imagery of Macbeth, and \\\'Venus and Adonis\\\' which mixes ribaldry and tragedy in unique Shakespearian manner. \\\'The Phoenix and the Turtle\\\' is a beautiful metaphysical and allegorical short elegy, and takes its place with Shakespeare\\\'s better known poetry.Nota: El contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés.Nota: El contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Más información

This is a fascinating selection of Kipling\'s most famous short stories, bringing together the very best of his work. Lifes Handicap reflects his experiences of India, and contains two horror stories which permeate the collection with an air of haunted destinies. Delusions and obsessions, past lives and the slums of London in 1890 are the fascinatingly diverse topics featured in Many inventions. While Traffics and Discoveries contains three tales in which the subject matter ranges from unexplained mystery and the super natural to an other-worldly house full of elusive but charming children. The Maltese cat is Kipling\'s well-loved story about a polo pony, These stories remind us once again that Kipling is an undisputed master of story-telling. Nota: El contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Delusions and obsessions, past lives and the slums of London in 1890 are the fascinatingly diverse topics featured in Many inventions. While Traffics and Discoveries contains three tales in which the subject matter ranges from unexplained mystery and the super natural to an other-worldly house full of elusive but charming children. The Maltese cat is Kipling\'s well-loved story about a polo pony, These stories remind us once again that Kipling is an undisputed master of story-telling. Nota: El contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. These stories remind us once again that Kipling is an undisputed master of story-telling. Nota: El contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Nota: El contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Más información

In his draft preface, Wilfred Owen includes his well-known statement \'My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the Pity\'. All of his important poems were written in just over a year, and Dulce et Decorum Est, S.I.W., Futility and Anthem for Doomed Youth still have an astonishing power to move the reader. Owen pointed out that \'AII a poet can do today is to warn. That is why all true poets must be truthful\'. His warning was based on his acute observation of the soldiers with whom he served on the Western Front, and his poems reflect the horror and the waste of the First Wortd War. This volume contains all Owen\'s best-known poems, only four of which were published, in his lifetime. He was killed a week before the Armistice in November 1918. Nota: El contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. That is why all true poets must be truthful\'. His warning was based on his acute observation of the soldiers with whom he served on the Western Front, and his poems reflect the horror and the waste of the First Wortd War. This volume contains all Owen\'s best-known poems, only four of which were published, in his lifetime. He was killed a week before the Armistice in November 1918. Nota: El contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Nota: El contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Más información

Oscar Wildes Works are suffused with his aestheticism, brilliant craftsmanship, legendary wit and ultimately, his tragic muse. He wrote tender fairy stories for children employing all his grace, artistry and wit, of which the hest-known is The Happy Prince. Counterpoints to this were his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, which shocked and outraged many readers of his day, and his stories for adults which exhibited his fascination with the relations between serene art and decadent life. Wilde took London by storm with his plays, most notably with his masterpiece the importance of Being Earnest. His essays in particular De Profundis and his Ballad of Reading Gaol, both written after his release from prison strikingly break the bounds of his usual expressive range. His other essays and poems are all included in this comprehensive collection of the works of one of the most exciting writers of the late nineteenth century. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Wilde took London by storm with his plays, most notably with his masterpiece the importance of Being Earnest. His essays in particular De Profundis and his Ballad of Reading Gaol, both written after his release from prison strikingly break the bounds of his usual expressive range. His other essays and poems are all included in this comprehensive collection of the works of one of the most exciting writers of the late nineteenth century. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Vea también la versión de esta obra en Rústica. Más información