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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

Rebecca Randall is one of seven fatherless children, but is full of fun and strange ideas. She leaves her family at Sunnybrook Farm and goes to live with her two aunts in Riverboro. There she goes to school for the first time, embarks on a madcap scheme to sell soap, nearly runs away, befriends the kindly stagecoach driver Jeremiah Cobb, and with \'Mr Aladdin\' helps to repair her family\'s fortunes. This charming story of the good-natured, but never goody-goody Rebecca has delighted generations of children on both sides of the Atlantic. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés.Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Más información

Shakespeare\\\'s sonnets have an intensity of feeling and meaning unmatched in English sonnet form. They divide into two parts; the first 126 sonnets are addressed to a fair youth for whom the poet has an obsessive love, while the second chronicles his love for the notorious \\\'Dark Lady\\\'.In addition to the sonnets, this volume includes Shakespeare\\\'s two lengthy narrative poems on classical themes, \\\'The Rape of Lucrece\\\' which looks forward to the dark imagery of Macbeth, and \\\'Venus and Adonis\\\' which mixes ribaldry and tragedy in unique Shakespearian manner. \\\'The Phoenix and the Turtle\\\' is a beautiful metaphysical and allegorical short elegy, and takes its place with Shakespeare\\\'s better known poetry.Nota: El contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés.In addition to the sonnets, this volume includes Shakespeare\\\'s two lengthy narrative poems on classical themes, \\\'The Rape of Lucrece\\\' which looks forward to the dark imagery of Macbeth, and \\\'Venus and Adonis\\\' which mixes ribaldry and tragedy in unique Shakespearian manner. \\\'The Phoenix and the Turtle\\\' is a beautiful metaphysical and allegorical short elegy, and takes its place with Shakespeare\\\'s better known poetry.Nota: El contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés.Nota: El contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Más información

This simple and haunting story captures the transience of life arid its surrounding emotions. To the Lighthouse is the most autobiographical of Virginia Woolf\'s novels. It is based on her own early experiences, and while it touches on childhood and children\'s perceptions and desires, it is at its most trenchant when exploring adult relationships, marriage and the changing class structure in the period spanning the Great War. Nota: El contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. To the Lighthouse is the most autobiographical of Virginia Woolf\'s novels. It is based on her own early experiences, and while it touches on childhood and children\'s perceptions and desires, it is at its most trenchant when exploring adult relationships, marriage and the changing class structure in the period spanning the Great War. Nota: El contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Nota: El contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Más información