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This book tells the story of Lily Bart, aged 29, beautiful, impoverished and in need of a rich husband to safeguard her place in the social elite, and to support her expensive habits-her clothes, her charities and her gambling. Unwilling to marry without both love and money, Lily becomes vulnerable to the kind of gossip and slander which attach to a girl who has been on the marriage market for too long. Wharton charts the course of Lilys life, providing, along the way, a wider picture of a society in transition, a rapidly changing New York where the old certainties of manners, morals and family have disappeared and the individual has become an expendable commodity. This text was published in October 1905 to widespread critical acclaim. It became an instant bestseller and is regarded today as one of Edith Wharton\'s most accomplished and compelling social satires. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Unwilling to marry without both love and money, Lily becomes vulnerable to the kind of gossip and slander which attach to a girl who has been on the marriage market for too long. Wharton charts the course of Lilys life, providing, along the way, a wider picture of a society in transition, a rapidly changing New York where the old certainties of manners, morals and family have disappeared and the individual has become an expendable commodity. This text was published in October 1905 to widespread critical acclaim. It became an instant bestseller and is regarded today as one of Edith Wharton\'s most accomplished and compelling social satires. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. This text was published in October 1905 to widespread critical acclaim. It became an instant bestseller and is regarded today as one of Edith Wharton\'s most accomplished and compelling social satires. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Más información

René Descartes (1569-1650), the \'father\' of modern philosophy, is without doubt one of the greatest thinkers in history: his genius lies at the core of our contemporary intellectual identity. Breaking with the conventions of his own time and suffering persecution by the Church as a consequence, Descartes in his writings-most of which are philosophical classics-attempted to answer the central questions surrounding the self, God, free-will and knowledge, using the science of thought as opposed to received wisdom based on the tenets of faith. This edition, the most comprehensive one volume selection of Descartes works available in English, includes his great essay, Discourse on Method. Nota: el contenido de se este libro se encuentra en inglés.This edition, the most comprehensive one volume selection of Descartes works available in English, includes his great essay, Discourse on Method. Nota: el contenido de se este libro se encuentra en inglés.Nota: el contenido de se este libro se encuentra en inglés. Más información

Interest in supernatural phenomena was high during Charles Dickens \' lifetime. He had always loved a good ghost story himself, particularly at Christmas time, and was open-minded, willing to accept, and indeed put to the test, the existence of spirits. His natural inclinations toward drama and the macabre made him a brilliant teller of ghost tales, and in the twenty stories presented here, which include his celebrated A Christmas Carol, the full range of his gothic talents can be seen. Chilling as some of these stories are, Dickens has managed to inject characteristically grotesque comedy as he writes of revenge, insanity. Pre-cognition and dream visions, he indulges also in some debunking of contemporary credulity. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Más información

Loma Doone, a Romance of Exmoor is an historical novel of high adventure set in the South West of England during the turbulent time of Monmouths rebellion (1685). It is also a moving love story told through the life of the young farmer John Ridd, as he grows to manhood determined to right the wrongs in his land, and to win the heart and hand of the beautiful Lorna Doone. Continuously in print since its first publication in 1869, Loma Doone has remained perennially popular with a wide readership ever since. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés.Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Más información

Our Mutual Friend, Dickens\' last novel, gives one of his most comprehensive and penetrating accounts of Victorian society. Its vision of a culture stifled by materialistic values emerges not just through its central narratives. but through its apparently incidental characters and scenes. The chief of its several plots centres on John Harmon who returns to England as his father\'s heir. He is believed drowned under suspicious circumstancesa situation convenient to his wish for anonymity until he can evaluate Bella Wilfer whom he must marry to secure his inheritance. The story is filled with colourful characters and incidents the faded aristocrats and parvenus gathered at the Veneering\'s dinner table, Betty Higden and her terror of the workhouse and the greedy plottings of Silas Wegg. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés.Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Más información

The ideas of Plato (c429-3471BC) have influenced Western philosophers for over two thousand years. Such is his importance that the twentieth-century philosopher A. N. Whitehead described all subsequent developments within the subject as foot-notes to Plato\'s work. Beyond philosophy, he has exerted a major influence on the development of Western literature, politics and theology. The Republic deals with the great range of Plato\'s thought, but is particularly concerned with what makes a well-balanced society and individual. It combines argument -and myth to advocate a life organised by reason rather than dominated by desires and appetites. Regarded by some as the foundation document of totalitarianism, by others as a call to develop the full potential of humanity, the Republic remains a challenging and intensely exciting work. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés.The Republic deals with the great range of Plato\'s thought, but is particularly concerned with what makes a well-balanced society and individual. It combines argument -and myth to advocate a life organised by reason rather than dominated by desires and appetites. Regarded by some as the foundation document of totalitarianism, by others as a call to develop the full potential of humanity, the Republic remains a challenging and intensely exciting work. 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 Edmond Dantès, self-styled Count of Monte Cristo, is told with consummate skill. The victim of a miscarriage of justice, Dantès is fired by a desire for retribution and empowered by a stroke of providence. In his campaign of vengeance, he becomes an anonymous agent of fate. The sensational narrative of intrigue, betrayal, escape, and triumphant revenge moves at a cracking pace. Dumas\' novel presents a powerful conflict between good and evil embodied in an epic saga of rich diversity that is complicated by the heros ultimate discomfort with the hubristic implication of his own actions. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. The sensational narrative of intrigue, betrayal, escape, and triumphant revenge moves at a cracking pace. Dumas\' novel presents a powerful conflict between good and evil embodied in an epic saga of rich diversity that is complicated by the heros ultimate discomfort with the hubristic implication of his own actions. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Más información

In Symposium, a group of Athenian aristocrats attend a party and talk about love, until the drunken Alcibiades bursts in and decides to discuss Socrates instead. Symposium gives an unsurpassed picture of the sparkling society that was Athens at the height of her empire. The setting of the other dialogues is more sombre. Socrates is put on trial for impiety, and sentenced to death. Euthyphro discusses the nature of piety, Apology is Socrates speech in his own defence, Crito explains his refusal to escape punishment, and Phaedo gives an account of Socrates last day. These dialogues have never been offered in one volume before. Tom Griffiths Symposium has been described as possibly the finest translation of any Platonic dialogue. All the other translations are new. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés.The setting of the other dialogues is more sombre. Socrates is put on trial for impiety, and sentenced to death. Euthyphro discusses the nature of piety, Apology is Socrates speech in his own defence, Crito explains his refusal to escape punishment, and Phaedo gives an account of Socrates last day. These dialogues have never been offered in one volume before. Tom Griffiths Symposium has been described as possibly the finest translation of any Platonic dialogue. All the other translations are new. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés.These dialogues have never been offered in one volume before. Tom Griffiths Symposium has been described as possibly the finest translation of any Platonic dialogue. All the other translations are new. 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