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Guy de Maupassant was a master of the short story. This collection reflects his remarkable diversity, with stories that vary in theme and tone, and range from tragedy and satire to comedy and farce. With a simplicity of style that masks complex philosophy, Maupassant can illuminate an entire cede of values by means of a few telling details. He exposes the brutality of war and the hypocrisy it spawns, and depicts the petty limitations, the dissimulations and the vanities inherent at different levels of society. His stories are linked by a trenchant irony and by a preoccupation with the frailty of human nature and the futility of so many lives. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Más información

A year after the publication of The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas produced a sequel worthy in every respect of the original. In Twenty years After the much beloved D\'Artaganan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis reunite to fight the forces of evil. In the original novel they defeated Milady, a formidable foe: now they need to face her vengeful son Mordaunt, as well as countering the machinations of the sinister Cardinal Mazarin. Their adventures also take them to England, where Cromwell is about to topple Charles I. Meanwhile, they must overcome the obstacles which the passing of time has placed between them. Rediscovering strength in unity, they fight for Queen and country. The Musketeer novels were a huge success in Dumas\' own lifetime, and have lost none of their original appeal. Translated into many languages and adapted for cinema and television, they have helped to make Dumas arguably the most successful exporter of French culture to the wider world. Nota: El contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. The Musketeer novels were a huge success in Dumas\' own lifetime, and have lost none of their original appeal. Translated into many languages and adapted for cinema and television, they have helped to make Dumas arguably the most successful exporter of French culture to the wider world. Nota: El contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Nota: El contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Más información

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about, said the author more than a hundred years ago. But this remark seems perhaps even more relevant to our present world where so many seek publicity at any cost. Wilde\'s well-turned phrases and spontaneous insults still cause much amusement and admiration. Most of us miss the opportunities for bon most, finding them long after the moments have passed, but the author seems never to have been short of suitable words - flattering, witty and on occasions savagely cruel. Many of the quotes in this book are taken from Wilde\'s plays, novels and essays which were also packed with witticisms amounting to an outrageous philosophy. Wilde\'s extravagance and unconventional behaviour earned him loyal friends but also bitter enemies and in 1895 after a series of unfortunate events and court cases he was gaoled for two years with hard labor for indecent behaviour. Though from prison ca me a few last brilliant works, Wilde was never to recover his health or standing in society. He died in Paris bankrupt, broken and alone. He is buried at Cimetière du Pere Lachaise - one of Paris\'s finest cemeteries - where today many pilgrims from all parts of the world come to pay their respects and leave tokens in recognition of his genius. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Más información

Lively and mischievous, id le and brave, Tom Brown is both the typical boy of his time and the perennial hero celebrated by authors as diverse as Henry Fielding in Tom Jones and Alee Waugh in The Loom of Youth.The book describes Tom\'s time at Rugby School from his first football match, through his troubled adolescence when he is savagely bullied by the unspeakable Flashman, to his departure for a wider world as a confident young man. This classic tale of a boy\'s schooldays under the benevolent eye of the renowned Dr Arnold still retains the appeal for which it was acclaimed on its first publication in 1857. In its less well-known sequel, Tom Brown at oxford, we follow our hero to St Ambrose\'s college, and, in sharing his undergraduate experiences, gain a vivid impression of university life in the mid nineteenth century. Nota: El contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. The book describes Tom\'s time at Rugby School from his first football match, through his troubled adolescence when he is savagely bullied by the unspeakable Flashman, to his departure for a wider world as a confident young man. This classic tale of a boy\'s schooldays under the benevolent eye of the renowned Dr Arnold still retains the appeal for which it was acclaimed on its first publication in 1857. In its less well-known sequel, Tom Brown at oxford, we follow our hero to St Ambrose\'s college, and, in sharing his undergraduate experiences, gain a vivid impression of university life in the mid nineteenth century. Nota: El contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. This classic tale of a boy\'s schooldays under the benevolent eye of the renowned Dr Arnold still retains the appeal for which it was acclaimed on its first publication in 1857. In its less well-known sequel, Tom Brown at oxford, we follow our hero to St Ambrose\'s college, and, in sharing his undergraduate experiences, gain a vivid impression of university life in the mid nineteenth century. Nota: El contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. In its less well-known sequel, Tom Brown at oxford, we follow our hero to St Ambrose\'s college, and, in sharing his undergraduate experiences, gain a vivid impression of university life in the mid nineteenth century. 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

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These comedies are among the best loved of Shakespeare\'s plays. In each a problem emerges, is then intensified to a point of maximum confusion and potential upset, before the chaos is resolved, however improbably, into general goodwill and a spate of marriages. The triumph of these plays lies in the way they mingle humorous stage business and dexterous word play with a more serious study of identity, gender, dreaming, the meaning of love, even of the theatre itself They reassure us that with al! its faults, the world will always in the end be redeemable. Not for an age but for all time.\' So Ben Jonson established what we now take for granted: Shakespeare\'s unique place among the world\'s great authors. Romeo and Juliet shows us the archetypal story of fated young love; Hamlet, the tortured psyche of the young prince of Denmark; Othello, a strikingly modern representation of racial difference; King Lear, aman stripped of all material and psychological comforts; and Macbeth, a dark investigation of the origins and effects of evil. The plays throw a fascinating light on the concerns of Shakespeare\'s day, yet offer perennial insights into the nature of human emotion.Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés.Not for an age but for all time.\' So Ben Jonson established what we now take for granted: Shakespeare\'s unique place among the world\'s great authors. Romeo and Juliet shows us the archetypal story of fated young love; Hamlet, the tortured psyche of the young prince of Denmark; Othello, a strikingly modern representation of racial difference; King Lear, aman stripped of all material and psychological comforts; and Macbeth, a dark investigation of the origins and effects of evil. The plays throw a fascinating light on the concerns of Shakespeare\'s day, yet offer perennial insights into the nature of human emotion.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

The exploits of sweeney todd, ´the demon barber of fleet street´, have been recounted many time in plays, films and musicals, but the origins of the character largely were forgotten for many years. The string of pearls – the original tale of sweeney todd, a classic of british horror – was first published as a weekly serial in 1846–7 by Edward Lloyd, the king of the Penny Dreadfuls. One of the earliest detective stories, it became an important source for Bram Stoker´s Dracula, but it was after over 150 years of obscurity that it first appeared in book form in the Wordsworth edition published in 2005. Más información