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In these delightful tales, Oscar Wilde employs all his grace, artistry and wit. The Happy Prince tells of the statue of a once pleasure-Loving Prince which, with the help of a selfless Swallow, helps people in distress. As well as The Nightingale and the Rose, The Devoted Friend and The Remarkable Rocket, this collection contains The Selfish Giant, a remarkable story of the redemptive power of love.Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés.Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Más información

The Turn of the Screw is the classic ghost story for which Henry James is best remembered. Set in an English country house, it is a chilling tale of the supernatural told by a master of the genre. The Aspern Papers is a tale of Americans in Europe, a theme in which Henry James is at his most assured and accomplished. The author cleverly evokes the drama of the comédie humaine against the majestic setting of a Venetian palace. Nota: El contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. The Aspern Papers is a tale of Americans in Europe, a theme in which Henry James is at his most assured and accomplished. The author cleverly evokes the drama of the comédie humaine against the majestic setting of a Venetian palace. Nota: El contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Nota: El contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Más información

Pride and Prejudice , which opens with one of the most famous sentences in English Litcrature, is an ironic novel of manners. In it the garrulous and empty-headed mrs Bennet has only one aim – that of finding a good match for each of her five daughters. In this she is mocked by her cynical and indolent husband. With its wit, its social precision and, above all, its irresistible heroinc, Pride and Prejudice has proved one of the most enduringly popular novels in the English language. Más información

The Last of the Mohicans (hereinafter Mohicans for short) was published in 1826 and was the second,of the group of five novels, known as \'the Leatherstocking Tales\', for which James Fenimore Cooper is now best known. The name derives from the central character who appears in all of them at various stages ofhis life and under various ticles. In the first of the novels to be published, The Pioneers (1823), he is called Leatherstocking; in Mohicans he is Hawk-eye; in the third of them, The Prairie (1827), he is known as the Trapper. The two later novels in the series, The Pathfinder (1840) and The Deerslayer (1841), take their ticles from his other aliases. 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

Considered by many to be authors\' finest novel, this text traces the growth of the book\'s narrator, Philip Pirrip (Pip), from a boy of shallow dreams to a man with depth of character. From its famous dramatic opening on the bleak Kentish marshes, the story abounds with some of authors\' most memorable characters. Among them are the kindly blacksmith Joe Gargery, the mysterious convict Abel Magwitch, the eccentric Miss Haversham and her beautiful ward Estella, Pip\'s good-hearted room-mate Herbert Pocket and the pompous Pumblechook. As Pip unravels the truth behind his own \'great expectations\' in his quest to become a gentleman, the mysteries of the past and the convolutions of fate through a series of thrilling adventures serve to steer him towards maturity and his most important discovery of all - the truth about himself.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