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Bleak House is one of Dickens\'s finest achievements, establishing his reputation as a serious and mature novelist, as well as a brilliant comic writer. It is at once a complex mystery story that fully engages the reader in the work of detection, and an unforgettable indictment of an indifferent society. Its representations of a great city\'s dark underworld, and of the law\'s corruption and delay, draw upon the author\'s personal knowledge and experience. But it is his symbolic art that projects these things in a vision that embraces black comedy, cosmic farce, and tragic ruin. In a unique creative experiment, Dickens divides the narrative between his heroine, Esther Summerson, who is psychologically interesting in her own right, and an unnamed narrator whose perspective both complements and challenges hers. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. In a unique creative experiment, Dickens divides the narrative between his heroine, Esther Summerson, who is psychologically interesting in her own right, and an unnamed narrator whose perspective both complements and challenges hers. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Más información

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There he lay looking as if youth had been halfrenewed, for the white hair and moustache were changed to dark iron grey: the cheeks were fuller, and the white ski n seemed ruby-red underneath: the mouth was redder than ever, for on the lips were gouts of fresh blood, which trickled from the corners of the mouth and ran over the chin and neck. Even the deep, burning eyes seemed set amongst swollen flesh, for the lids and ponches underneath were bloated. It seemed as if the whole awful creature were simply gorged with blood: he lay like a filthy leech, exhausted with his repletion. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Más información

Living overseas but writing, always, about his native city. The stories in Dubuners show us truants, seducers, gossips, rally-drivers, generous hostesses, corrupt politicians, failing priests, amateur theologians, struggling musicians, moony adolescents, victims of domestic brutishness, sentimental aunts and poets, patriots earnest or cynical, and people simply striving to get by. In every sense an international figure, Joyce was faithful to his own country by seeing it unflinchingly and challenging every precedent and piety in Irish literature. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Más información

Far from the Madding Crowd is perhaps the most pastoral of Hardy\'s Wessex novels. It tells the story of the young farmer Gabriel Oak and his love for and pursuit of the elusive Bathsheba Everdene, whose wayward nature Ieads her to both tragedy and true love. It tells of the dashing Sergeant Troy whose rakish philosophy of life was ... the past was yesterday: the future, tomorrow: never, the day after \', and lastly, of the introverted and reclusive gentleman farmer, Mr. Boldwood, whose love fills him with ....a fearful sense of exposure, when he first sets eyes on Bathsheba. The background to this compelling story is the majesty of the wessex countryside in all its moods, contriving to make it one of the most English of great English novels. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. It tells of the dashing Sergeant Troy whose rakish philosophy of life was ... the past was yesterday: the future, tomorrow: never, the day after \', and lastly, of the introverted and reclusive gentleman farmer, Mr. Boldwood, whose love fills him with ....a fearful sense of exposure, when he first sets eyes on Bathsheba. The background to this compelling story is the majesty of the wessex countryside in all its moods, contriving to make it one of the most English of great English novels. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. The background to this compelling story is the majesty of the wessex countryside in all its moods, contriving to make it one of the most English of great English novels. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Más información

This edition presents the classic free translation by Edward Fitzgerald of the great Persian poem (Rubáiyát) by the 12th century astronomer and poet - Omar Khayyám. Fitzgerald\'s masterful translation was first published as an anonymous pamphlet in 1859. Its colourful, exotic and remote imagery greatly appealed to the Victorian ages fascination with the Orient, while its luxurious sensual warmth acted as a striking counterpoint to the growth of scientific determinism, industrialisation and the soulless Darwinian doctrine of the survival of the fittest. Greatly praised by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Swinburne, Ruskin and William Morris, the romantic melancholy of the poem anticipates the poetry of Matthew Arnold and Thomas Hardy, while its epicurean motifs link it to the Aesthetic Movement.Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés.Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Más información

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