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The Jungle Book introduces Mowgli, the boy foundling adopted by a family of wolves, Shere Khan the tiger, Bagheera the black panther and Baloo the sleepy brown bear. How did the Leopard get his spots How did the Elephant get his trunk In Just So Stories Kipling wittily supplies the answers to these and other questions. Puck of Pooks Hill relates how Dan and Unas magical meeting with Puck, the last of the People of the Hills, leads to their adventures with Romans and Crusaders, Saxons and Vikings ... And later, in Rewards and Fairies, the three meet an array of characters ranging from Iron Age warriors to Good Queen Bess and Sir Francis Drake. In Kiplings rattling school yarn Stalky & Co, Stalky, MTurk and the Beetle are the trio of scallywags with a keen desire to break the rules; their unruly activities give the stories an enduring appeal to all children - especially those who have ever wilted beneath the stern glance of a peevish schoolmaster. Kiplings wry, sometimes tongue-in-cheek style will delight and entertain young readers while adults throughout the world will remember his stories with affection. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. How did the Leopard get his spots How did the Elephant get his trunk In Just So Stories Kipling wittily supplies the answers to these and other questions. Puck of Pooks Hill relates how Dan and Unas magical meeting with Puck, the last of the People of the Hills, leads to their adventures with Romans and Crusaders, Saxons and Vikings ... And later, in Rewards and Fairies, the three meet an array of characters ranging from Iron Age warriors to Good Queen Bess and Sir Francis Drake. In Kiplings rattling school yarn Stalky & Co, Stalky, MTurk and the Beetle are the trio of scallywags with a keen desire to break the rules; their unruly activities give the stories an enduring appeal to all children - especially those who have ever wilted beneath the stern glance of a peevish schoolmaster. Kiplings wry, sometimes tongue-in-cheek style will delight and entertain young readers while adults throughout the world will remember his stories with affection. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Puck of Pooks Hill relates how Dan and Unas magical meeting with Puck, the last of the People of the Hills, leads to their adventures with Romans and Crusaders, Saxons and Vikings ... And later, in Rewards and Fairies, the three meet an array of characters ranging from Iron Age warriors to Good Queen Bess and Sir Francis Drake. In Kiplings rattling school yarn Stalky & Co, Stalky, MTurk and the Beetle are the trio of scallywags with a keen desire to break the rules; their unruly activities give the stories an enduring appeal to all children - especially those who have ever wilted beneath the stern glance of a peevish schoolmaster. Kiplings wry, sometimes tongue-in-cheek style will delight and entertain young readers while adults throughout the world will remember his stories with affection. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. In Kiplings rattling school yarn Stalky & Co, Stalky, MTurk and the Beetle are the trio of scallywags with a keen desire to break the rules; their unruly activities give the stories an enduring appeal to all children - especially those who have ever wilted beneath the stern glance of a peevish schoolmaster. Kiplings wry, sometimes tongue-in-cheek style will delight and entertain young readers while adults throughout the world will remember his stories with affection. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Kiplings wry, sometimes tongue-in-cheek style will delight and entertain young readers while adults throughout the world will remember his stories with affection. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Más información

Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) is famed for his magical stories, Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Gloss, both of which are included here illustrated throughout by Sir John Tenniel\'s much-Loved drawings. However, inspired by the insatiable Victorian appetite for party games, tricks and conundrums, this eccentric and polymathical Englishman also wrote many other works of a humorous, witty, whimsical and nonsensical nature. Lewis Carroll created dozens of other verses, stories, acrostics and puzzles, and the mock heroic nonsense verse The Hunting of the Snark all of which are included in this omnibus volume. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés.Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Más información

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) is acknowledged as the greatest dramatist of all time. He excels in plot, poetry and wit, and his talent encompasses the great tragedies of Hamlet, King Lear, Othello and Macbeth as well as the moving history plays and the comedies such as A Midsummer Nights Dream, The Taming of the Shrew» and As You Like It with their magical combination of humour, ribaldry and tenderness. This volume is a reprint of the highly regarded Shakespeare Head Press edition, and it presents all the plays in the chronological order - as far as may be ascertained - in which they were written. It al so includes Shakespeare\'s Sonnets and his longer poems Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. This volume is a reprint of the highly regarded Shakespeare Head Press edition, and it presents all the plays in the chronological order - as far as may be ascertained - in which they were written. It al so includes Shakespeare\'s Sonnets and his longer poems Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece. 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 Tapa Dura. Más información

When it was first published in 1781, The Confessions scandalised Europe with its emotional honesty and frank treatment of the author\'s sexual and intellectual development. Since then, it has had a more profound impact on European thought. Rousseau left posterity a model of the reflective life - the solitary, uncompromising individual, the enemy of servitude and habit and the selfish egoist who dedicates his life to a particular ideal. The Confessions recreates the world in which he progressed from incompetent engraver to grand success; his enthusiasm for experience, his love of nature, and his uncompromising character make him an ideal guide to eighteenth-century Europe, and he was the author of some of the most profound work ever written on the relation between the individual and the state. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés.The Confessions recreates the world in which he progressed from incompetent engraver to grand success; his enthusiasm for experience, his love of nature, and his uncompromising character make him an ideal guide to eighteenth-century Europe, and he was the author of some of the most profound work ever written on the relation between the individual and the state. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés.Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Más información

This astonishing series of aphorisms, put into the mouth of the Persian sage Zarathustra, or Zoroaster, contains the kernel of Nietzsche\'s thought. \'God is dead\', he tells us. Christianity is decadent, leading mankind into a slave morality concerned not with this life, but with the next. Nietzsche emphasises the Übermensch, or Superman, whose will to power makes him the creator of a new heroic mentality. The intensely felt ideas are expressed in prose-poetry of indefinable beauty. Though misused by the German National Socialist party as a spurious justification of their creed, the book also had a profound influence on early twentieth century writers such as Shaw, Mann, Gide, Lawrence and Sartre. It remains, to this day, a beacon of original thought. Nota: El contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Though misused by the German National Socialist party as a spurious justification of their creed, the book also had a profound influence on early twentieth century writers such as Shaw, Mann, Gide, Lawrence and Sartre. It remains, to this day, a beacon of original thought. Nota: El contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Nota: El contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Más información

This simple and haunting story captures the transience of life arid its surrounding emotions. To the Lighthouse is the most autobiographical of Virginia Woolf\'s novels. It is based on her own early experiences, and while it touches on childhood and children\'s perceptions and desires, it is at its most trenchant when exploring adult relationships, marriage and the changing class structure in the period spanning the Great War. Nota: El contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. To the Lighthouse is the most autobiographical of Virginia Woolf\'s novels. It is based on her own early experiences, and while it touches on childhood and children\'s perceptions and desires, it is at its most trenchant when exploring adult relationships, marriage and the changing class structure in the period spanning the Great War. Nota: El contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Nota: El contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Más información

This collection brings together perhaps the finest of Dickens shorter novels, filled with event, character, and the unsurpassed brilliance of his story telling.Oliver Twist enhanced and strengthened Dickens reputation and contains classic Dickensian themes grinding poverty, desperation, fear, temptation and the eventual triumph of good in the face of great adversity.Hard times was attacked by Macaulay for its Sullen socialism, but 20th-century critics George Bernard Shaw and F.R. Leavis praised it in the highest terms.A tale of two cities (1859), Dickens greatest historical novel, traces the lives of a group of people caught up in the cataclysm of the French Revolution and the Terror. A fascinating range of characters and Dickens usual superb command of language combine to make this an exciting and tantalizing story.Great Expectations traces the life of Phillip Pirrip (Pip), from a body of shallow dreams to a man of character. From its dramatic opening on the bleak Kentish marshes, the story abounds with memorable characters the blacksmith Joe Gargery, the mysterious convict Abel Magwitch, the eccentric Miss Havisham and the beautiful Estella.Nota:El contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés.Oliver Twist enhanced and strengthened Dickens reputation and contains classic Dickensian themes grinding poverty, desperation, fear, temptation and the eventual triumph of good in the face of great adversity.Hard times was attacked by Macaulay for its Sullen socialism, but 20th-century critics George Bernard Shaw and F.R. Leavis praised it in the highest terms.A tale of two cities (1859), Dickens greatest historical novel, traces the lives of a group of people caught up in the cataclysm of the French Revolution and the Terror. A fascinating range of characters and Dickens usual superb command of language combine to make this an exciting and tantalizing story.Great Expectations traces the life of Phillip Pirrip (Pip), from a body of shallow dreams to a man of character. From its dramatic opening on the bleak Kentish marshes, the story abounds with memorable characters the blacksmith Joe Gargery, the mysterious convict Abel Magwitch, the eccentric Miss Havisham and the beautiful Estella.Nota:El contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés.Hard times was attacked by Macaulay for its Sullen socialism, but 20th-century critics George Bernard Shaw and F.R. Leavis praised it in the highest terms.A tale of two cities (1859), Dickens greatest historical novel, traces the lives of a group of people caught up in the cataclysm of the French Revolution and the Terror. A fascinating range of characters and Dickens usual superb command of language combine to make this an exciting and tantalizing story.Great Expectations traces the life of Phillip Pirrip (Pip), from a body of shallow dreams to a man of character. From its dramatic opening on the bleak Kentish marshes, the story abounds with memorable characters the blacksmith Joe Gargery, the mysterious convict Abel Magwitch, the eccentric Miss Havisham and the beautiful Estella.Nota:El contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés.A tale of two cities (1859), Dickens greatest historical novel, traces the lives of a group of people caught up in the cataclysm of the French Revolution and the Terror. A fascinating range of characters and Dickens usual superb command of language combine to make this an exciting and tantalizing story.Great Expectations traces the life of Phillip Pirrip (Pip), from a body of shallow dreams to a man of character. From its dramatic opening on the bleak Kentish marshes, the story abounds with memorable characters the blacksmith Joe Gargery, the mysterious convict Abel Magwitch, the eccentric Miss Havisham and the beautiful Estella.Nota:El contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés.Great Expectations traces the life of Phillip Pirrip (Pip), from a body of shallow dreams to a man of character. From its dramatic opening on the bleak Kentish marshes, the story abounds with memorable characters the blacksmith Joe Gargery, the mysterious convict Abel Magwitch, the eccentric Miss Havisham and the beautiful Estella.Nota:El contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés.Nota:El contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Más información

In The Social Contract Rousseau (1712-1778) argues for the preservation of individual freedom in political society. An individual can only be free under the law, he says, by voluntarily embracing that law as his own. Hence, being free in society requires each of us to subjugate our desires to the interests of all, the general will. Some have seen in this the promise of a free and equal relationship between society and the individual, while others have seen it as nothing less than a blueprint for totalitarianism. The Social Contract is not only one of the great defences of civil society; it is also unflinching in its study of the darker side of political systems. Some have seen in this the promise of a free and equal relationship between society and the individual, while others have seen it as nothing less than a blueprint for totalitarianism. The Social Contract is not only one of the great defences of civil society; it is also unflinching in its study of the darker side of political systems. Más información

The Wordsworth Classics\' Shakespeare Series 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. The Taming of the Shrew is one of the most famous and controversial of Shakespeare\'s comedies. The central relationship, in which Petruchio boisterously \'tames a rebellious Kate, has often appeared problematic. In the theatre, it has been treated in a diversity of ways; so that Kates apparent capitulation varies between the ironic and the sincere.Feminists have been divided in their responses. The provocative vitality of this comedy has been transmitted by numerous adaptations for stage and screen, notably the film directed by Franco Zeffirelli and the Cole Porter musical, Kiss Me, Kate. The Taming of the Shrew is one of the most famous and controversial of Shakespeare\'s comedies. The central relationship, in which Petruchio boisterously \'tames a rebellious Kate, has often appeared problematic. In the theatre, it has been treated in a diversity of ways; so that Kates apparent capitulation varies between the ironic and the sincere.Feminists have been divided in their responses. The provocative vitality of this comedy has been transmitted by numerous adaptations for stage and screen, notably the film directed by Franco Zeffirelli and the Cole Porter musical, Kiss Me, Kate. Feminists have been divided in their responses. The provocative vitality of this comedy has been transmitted by numerous adaptations for stage and screen, notably the film directed by Franco Zeffirelli and the Cole Porter musical, Kiss Me, Kate. Más información