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Following the success of Pickwick Papas and Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby was hailed as a comic triumph and firmly established Dickens as a \'Literary gentleman\'. It has a full supporting cast of delectable characters that range from the iniquitous Wackford Squeers and his Family, to the delightful Mrs. Nickleby, taking in the eccentric Crummles and his travelling players, the Mantalinis, the Kenwigs and many more. Combining these with typically Dickensian elements of burlesque and farce, the novel is eminently suited to dramatic adaptation. So great was its impact as it left Dickens\' pen that many pirated versions appeared in print and on stage before the original was even finished. Often neglected by critics, Nicholas Nickleby has never ceased to delight readers and is widely regarded as one of the greatest comic masterpieces of nineteenth-century literature. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés.Combining these with typically Dickensian elements of burlesque and farce, the novel is eminently suited to dramatic adaptation. So great was its impact as it left Dickens\' pen that many pirated versions appeared in print and on stage before the original was even finished. Often neglected by critics, Nicholas Nickleby has never ceased to delight readers and is widely regarded as one of the greatest comic masterpieces of nineteenth-century literature. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés.Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Más información

A Pair of Blue Eyes is celebrated for its central scene which shocked and stimulated Victorian readers. Forever after it caused Hardy to be embroiled in arguments concerning the sexual morality of his novels in which he strove to show the stifling effects of social conventions on the human spirit. Rich with biographical echoes, the story reveals the full emergence of the schematic ironies which characterize Hardys later great works, and gives a suggestion or the tragic philosophy that carne to dominate all he wrote. The loving nature of the blue-eyed heroine, Elfride Swancourt, pervades this early novel which has a singular, unpolished charm.Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Más información

The story of the walking and talking puppet Pinocchio is one of the best-loved children\\\'s tales of all time. Carved by old Gepetto, Pinocchio has an enormous nose which grows even longer whenever he tells a lie. Pinocchio is such a scamp that he gets into all sorts of mischief. He runs away to join a puppet show, he teams up with a rascally fox and wily cat, and plays truant from school which has dreadful consequences. Eventually the conscience of a talking cricket and Pinocchio\\\'s guardian fairy restore him to good behaviour, obedience and care for others. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés.Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Más información

The Red Badge of Courage is one of the greatest war novels of all time. It reports on the American Civil War through the eyes of Henry Fleming, an ordinary farm boy turned soldier, It evokes the chaos and the dull clatter of war: the acrid smoke, the incessant rumours of coming battles, the filth and cold, the numbing monotony, the unworldly wail of the dying. Like an Impressionist painter, Crane also captures the strange beauty of war: the brilliant red flags against a blue sky, steel bayonets flashing in the morning sun as soldiers step off into battle. In the midst of this chaotic outer world, he creates an intricate inner world as he takes us inside the head of Henry Fleming. Crane is now recognised as one of a handful of daring innovators who helped shape modern American fiction. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés.Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Más información

Rewards and Fairies is a collection of stories and a sequel to Puck of Pooks HiII and, as Kipling wrote, The tales had to be read by children, before people realised they were meant for grown-ups. Through, the agency of Puck, two children - Dan and Una - meet a glittering array of historical characters from flint and iron age tribes to Good Queen Bess and Sir Francis Drake. Other tales include stories of England following the Norman Conquest and the Europe of Napoleon and Talleyrand. Rewards and Fairies includes two of Kiplings best-Loved and most quoted poems: The Way Through the Woods and If .Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Más información

One of Sir Walter Scott\'s most celebrated novels, Rob Roy is set in the north of England and Scotland in the years before, during and after the first Jacobite rising of 1715. Rob Rey is a swashbuckling chieftain of the Clan MacGregor who is forced to become an outlaw for his alleged espousal of the Jacobite cause. He achieves great fame by his kindness to and sympathy for the poor and oppressed and he is sought out by Francis Osbaldstone and his spirited sweetheart Diana Vernon in their struggle with their malign kinsman, Rashleigh. Rob Roy is a truly heroic tale set against the turmoil surrounding the Hanovarian succession. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés.Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Más información

With an Introduction, Notes and Bibliography by Anne Varty, Royal Holloway, University of London. Wilde, glamorous and notorious, more famous as a playwright or than as a poet, invites readers of his verse to meet an unknown and intimate figure. The poetry of his formative years includes the haunting elegy to his young sister and the grieving lyric at the death of his father. The religious drama of his romance with Rome is captured here, as well as its resolution in his renewed love of ancient Greece. He explores forbidden sexual desires, pays homage to the great theatre stars and poets of his day, and observes cityscapes with impressionist intensity. His final masterpiece, The Ballad of Reading Gaol, tells the painful story of his own prison experience and calls for universal compassion. This edition of Wilde\\\'s verse presents the full range of his achievement as a poet. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Wilde, glamorous and notorious, more famous as a playwright or than as a poet, invites readers of his verse to meet an unknown and intimate figure. The poetry of his formative years includes the haunting elegy to his young sister and the grieving lyric at the death of his father. The religious drama of his romance with Rome is captured here, as well as its resolution in his renewed love of ancient Greece. He explores forbidden sexual desires, pays homage to the great theatre stars and poets of his day, and observes cityscapes with impressionist intensity. His final masterpiece, The Ballad of Reading Gaol, tells the painful story of his own prison experience and calls for universal compassion. This edition of Wilde\\\'s verse presents the full range of his achievement as a poet. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. He explores forbidden sexual desires, pays homage to the great theatre stars and poets of his day, and observes cityscapes with impressionist intensity. His final masterpiece, The Ballad of Reading Gaol, tells the painful story of his own prison experience and calls for universal compassion. This edition of Wilde\\\'s verse presents the full range of his achievement as a poet. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. This edition of Wilde\\\'s verse presents the full range of his achievement as a poet. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Más información

Martin Chuzzlewit is Charles Dickens\' comic masterpiece about which his biographer, Forster, noted that it marked a crucial phase in the authors development as he began to delve deeper into the \'springs of character \' Old Martin Chuzzlewit, tormented by the greed and selfishness of his family, effectively drives his grandson, young Martin, to undertake a voyage to America. It is a voyage which will have crucial consequences not only for young Martin, but also for his grandfather and his grandfathers servant, Mary Graham, with whom young Martin is in love. The commercial swindle of the Anglo-Bengalee Company and the fraudulent Eden Land Corporation have a topicality in our own time. This strong sub-plot shows evidence of Dickens\' mastery of crime where characters such as the criminal Jonas Chuzzlewit, the old nurse Mrs. Gamp, and the arch-hypocrite Seth Pecksniff are the equal to any in his other great novels. Generations of readers have also delighted in Dickenss wonderful description of the London boardinghouse - \'Todgers\'.Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés.The commercial swindle of the Anglo-Bengalee Company and the fraudulent Eden Land Corporation have a topicality in our own time. This strong sub-plot shows evidence of Dickens\' mastery of crime where characters such as the criminal Jonas Chuzzlewit, the old nurse Mrs. Gamp, and the arch-hypocrite Seth Pecksniff are the equal to any in his other great novels. Generations of readers have also delighted in Dickenss wonderful description of the London boardinghouse - \'Todgers\'.Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés.Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Más información

When Dan and Una stage a performance of A Midsummer Nights Dream in a fairy ring, they are astonished by the appearance of Puck in person. He explains that he is the last of the People of the HiIIs, who started as gods before descending into this world. Puck leads the two children in a series of extraordinary historical adventures in which they meet Romans and Crusaders, Saxons and Vikings. Kiplings charming songs and verses, including the famous Smugglers Song, are placed between each thrilling story. The book is beautifully illustrated by H.R.Millar. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés.Puck leads the two children in a series of extraordinary historical adventures in which they meet Romans and Crusaders, Saxons and Vikings. Kiplings charming songs and verses, including the famous Smugglers Song, are placed between each thrilling story. The book is beautifully illustrated by H.R.Millar. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés.Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Más información