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Much ado about nothing
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COP $ 28.000The Wordsworth Classics \' Shakespeare Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeares works. The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal. Much Ado about Nothing has long been celebrated as one of Shakespeares most popular comedies. The central relationship, between Benedick and Beatrice, is wittily combative until love prevails. Broader comedy is provided by Dogberry, Verges and the watchmen. The drama ranges between the destructively sinister and the lyrically romantic, giving the whole a complex and sometimes problematic character. Numerous revivals, in the theatre and on screen, have displayed the lively variety and interpretative openness of this engaging comedy. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Más informaciónSolicitar
Orlando
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COP $ 28.000Virginia Woolfs Orlando, the longest and most charming love letter in literature, playfully constructs the figure of Orlando as the fictional embodiment of Woolfs close friend and lover, Vita Sackville-West. Spanning three centuries of boisterous, fantastic adventure, the novel opens as Orlando, a young nobleman in Elizabeths England, awaits a visit from the Queen and traces his experience with first love as England, under James I, lies locked in the embrace of the Great Frost.At the midpoint of the novel, Orlando, now an ambassador in Constantinople, ,awakes to find that he is a woman, and the novel indulges in farce and irony to consider the roles of women in the 18th and 19th centuries. As the novel end s in 1928, a year consonant with full suffrage for women, Orlando, now a wife and mother, stands poised at the brink of a future that holds new hope and promise for women. Wordsworth Classics presents this new edition, proclaimed by Woolfs, contemporary Rebecca West as a poetic masterpiece of the first rank, restoring Woolfs original photographs and index, and with an introduction and notes by Merry M. Pawlowski, Us scholar in Modernist and Woolf studies. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés.At the midpoint of the novel, Orlando, now an ambassador in Constantinople, ,awakes to find that he is a woman, and the novel indulges in farce and irony to consider the roles of women in the 18th and 19th centuries. As the novel end s in 1928, a year consonant with full suffrage for women, Orlando, now a wife and mother, stands poised at the brink of a future that holds new hope and promise for women. Wordsworth Classics presents this new edition, proclaimed by Woolfs, contemporary Rebecca West as a poetic masterpiece of the first rank, restoring Woolfs original photographs and index, and with an introduction and notes by Merry M. Pawlowski, Us scholar in Modernist and Woolf studies. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés.Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Más informaciónSolicitar
The Iliad
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COP $ 28.000The product of more than a decades continuous work (1598-1611), Chapman\'s translation of Homer\'s great poem of war is a magnificent testimony to the power of the Iliad. In muscular, onward-rolling verse Chapman retells the story of Achilles, the great warrior, and his terrible wrath before the walls of besieged Troy, and the destruction it wreaks on both Greeks and Trojans. Chapman regarded the translation of this epic, and of Homers Odyssey (also available in Wordsworth Editions) as his lifes work, and dedicated himself to capturing the \'soul\' of the poem. Swinburne praised the resulting translation for its \'romantic and sometimes barbaric grandeur, its freshness, strength, and inexhaustible fire.Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Más información
The Iliad and the odyssey
COP $ 48.000Hector bidding farewell to his wife and baby son, Odysseus bound to the mast listening to the Sirens, Penelope at the loom, Achilles dragging Hector\'s body round the walls of Troy- scenes from Homer have been reportrayed in every generation. The questions about mortality and identity that Homer\'s heroes ask, the bonds of love, respect and fellowship that motivate them, have gripped audiences for three millennia. Chapman\'s Iliad and Odyssey are great English epic poems, but they are also two of the liveliest and most readable translations of Homer. Chapman\'s freshness makes the everyday world of nature and the craftsman as vivid as the battlefield and Mount Olympus. His poetry is driven by the excitement of the Renaissance discovery of classical civilisation as at once vital and distant, and is enriched by the perspectives of humanist thought. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés.Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Más información
The man in the iron mask
COP $ 28.000The Man in the Iron Mask is the final episode in the cycle of novels featuring Dumas\' celebrated foursome of D\'Artagnan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis, who first appeared in The Three Musketeers. Some thirty-five years on, the bonds of comradeship are under strain as they end up on different sides in a power struggle that may undermine the young Louis XIV and change the face of the French monarchy. In the fast-paced narrative style that was his trademark. Dumas pitches us straight into the action. What is the secret shared by Aramis and Madame de Chevreuse Why does the Queen Mother fear its revelation Who is the mysterious prisoner in the Bastille And what is the nature of the threat he poses Dumas, the master storyteller, keeps us reading and guessing until the climactic scene in the grotto of Locmaria, a fitting conclusion to the epic saga of the musketeers. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. In the fast-paced narrative style that was his trademark. Dumas pitches us straight into the action. What is the secret shared by Aramis and Madame de Chevreuse Why does the Queen Mother fear its revelation Who is the mysterious prisoner in the Bastille And what is the nature of the threat he poses Dumas, the master storyteller, keeps us reading and guessing until the climactic scene in the grotto of Locmaria, a fitting conclusion to the epic saga of the musketeers. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Dumas, the master storyteller, keeps us reading and guessing until the climactic scene in the grotto of Locmaria, a fitting conclusion to the epic saga of the musketeers. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Más informaciónSolicitar
The poems of Wilfred Owen
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COP $ 48.000In 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 informaciónSolicitar
Othello
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COP $ 28.000The Wordsworth Classics \' Shakespeare Series, with Henry V and The Merchant of Venice as its inaugural volumes, presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeares works. The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal. Othello has long been recognised as one of the most powerful of Shakespeare \'s tragedies. This is an intense drama of love, deception, jealousy and destruction. Desdemona\'s love for Othello, the Moor, transcends racial prejudice: but the envious Iago conspires to devastate their lives. In its vivid rendering of racism, sexism, contested identities, and the savagery lurking within civilisation, Othello is arguably the most topical and accessible tragedy from Shakespeares major phase as a dramatist. Productions on stage and screen regularly renew its power to engross, impress and trouble the imagination. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés.Othello has long been recognised as one of the most powerful of Shakespeare \'s tragedies. This is an intense drama of love, deception, jealousy and destruction. Desdemona\'s love for Othello, the Moor, transcends racial prejudice: but the envious Iago conspires to devastate their lives. In its vivid rendering of racism, sexism, contested identities, and the savagery lurking within civilisation, Othello is arguably the most topical and accessible tragedy from Shakespeares major phase as a dramatist. Productions on stage and screen regularly renew its power to engross, impress and trouble the imagination. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés.Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Más información
The forsyte saga
COP $ 28.000When The Forsyte Saga was shown on television in 1967 it was hugely successful. The nation was gripped by the masterful visual telling of the Forsyte family\'s troubled story and adapted its activities to suit the next transmission. The Forsyte Saga comprising The Man of Property, In Chancery and To Let, is here produced by Wordsworth for the first time in a single volume. Initially, the narrative centres on Soames Forsyte - a successful solicitor living in London with his beautiful wife Irene. A pillar of the late Victorian upper middle class, materially wealthy, his appears to be a golden existence endowed with all the necessary possessions for a \'Man of Property; But beneath this very proper exterior lies a core of unhappiness and brutal relationships. The marriage of Soames and Irene disintegrates in bitter recrimination. Creating a feud within the family that will have tar-reaching consequences. As the years pass, the feud between the two factions of the troubled family deepens and the shadows of past miseries return to haunt the lives of a new, younger generation. Irenes son Jon has fallen in love with Fleur, the daughter of the embittered Soames. The consequences will be tragic. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés.Initially, the narrative centres on Soames Forsyte - a successful solicitor living in London with his beautiful wife Irene. A pillar of the late Victorian upper middle class, materially wealthy, his appears to be a golden existence endowed with all the necessary possessions for a \'Man of Property; But beneath this very proper exterior lies a core of unhappiness and brutal relationships. The marriage of Soames and Irene disintegrates in bitter recrimination. Creating a feud within the family that will have tar-reaching consequences. As the years pass, the feud between the two factions of the troubled family deepens and the shadows of past miseries return to haunt the lives of a new, younger generation. Irenes son Jon has fallen in love with Fleur, the daughter of the embittered Soames. The consequences will be tragic. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés.The marriage of Soames and Irene disintegrates in bitter recrimination. Creating a feud within the family that will have tar-reaching consequences. As the years pass, the feud between the two factions of the troubled family deepens and the shadows of past miseries return to haunt the lives of a new, younger generation. Irenes son Jon has fallen in love with Fleur, the daughter of the embittered Soames. The consequences will be tragic. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés.Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Más informaciónSolicitar
The old curiosity shop
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COP $ 28.000The 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
Henry V
COP $ 28.000The 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