Literatura

The Jungle Book introduces Mowgli, the boy foundling adopted by a family of wolves, Shere Khan the tiger, Bagheera the black panther and Baloo the sleepy brown bear. How did the Leopard get his spots How did the Elephant get his trunk In Just So Stories Kipling wittily supplies the answers to these and other questions. Puck of Pooks Hill relates how Dan and Unas magical meeting with Puck, the last of the People of the Hills, leads to their adventures with Romans and Crusaders, Saxons and Vikings ... And later, in Rewards and Fairies, the three meet an array of characters ranging from Iron Age warriors to Good Queen Bess and Sir Francis Drake. In Kiplings rattling school yarn Stalky & Co, Stalky, MTurk and the Beetle are the trio of scallywags with a keen desire to break the rules; their unruly activities give the stories an enduring appeal to all children - especially those who have ever wilted beneath the stern glance of a peevish schoolmaster. Kiplings wry, sometimes tongue-in-cheek style will delight and entertain young readers while adults throughout the world will remember his stories with affection. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. How did the Leopard get his spots How did the Elephant get his trunk In Just So Stories Kipling wittily supplies the answers to these and other questions. Puck of Pooks Hill relates how Dan and Unas magical meeting with Puck, the last of the People of the Hills, leads to their adventures with Romans and Crusaders, Saxons and Vikings ... And later, in Rewards and Fairies, the three meet an array of characters ranging from Iron Age warriors to Good Queen Bess and Sir Francis Drake. In Kiplings rattling school yarn Stalky & Co, Stalky, MTurk and the Beetle are the trio of scallywags with a keen desire to break the rules; their unruly activities give the stories an enduring appeal to all children - especially those who have ever wilted beneath the stern glance of a peevish schoolmaster. Kiplings wry, sometimes tongue-in-cheek style will delight and entertain young readers while adults throughout the world will remember his stories with affection. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Puck of Pooks Hill relates how Dan and Unas magical meeting with Puck, the last of the People of the Hills, leads to their adventures with Romans and Crusaders, Saxons and Vikings ... And later, in Rewards and Fairies, the three meet an array of characters ranging from Iron Age warriors to Good Queen Bess and Sir Francis Drake. In Kiplings rattling school yarn Stalky & Co, Stalky, MTurk and the Beetle are the trio of scallywags with a keen desire to break the rules; their unruly activities give the stories an enduring appeal to all children - especially those who have ever wilted beneath the stern glance of a peevish schoolmaster. Kiplings wry, sometimes tongue-in-cheek style will delight and entertain young readers while adults throughout the world will remember his stories with affection. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. In Kiplings rattling school yarn Stalky & Co, Stalky, MTurk and the Beetle are the trio of scallywags with a keen desire to break the rules; their unruly activities give the stories an enduring appeal to all children - especially those who have ever wilted beneath the stern glance of a peevish schoolmaster. Kiplings wry, sometimes tongue-in-cheek style will delight and entertain young readers while adults throughout the world will remember his stories with affection. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Kiplings wry, sometimes tongue-in-cheek style will delight and entertain young readers while adults throughout the world will remember his stories with affection. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Más información

The Woodlanders contains some of Thomas Hardys finest writing. Educated beyond her station, Grace Melbury returns to the woodland village of Little Hintock and cannot marry her intended. Giles Winterborne. Her alternative choice proves disastrous, and in a moving tale that has vibrant characters, many humorous moments and genuine pathos coupled with tragic irony, Hardy eschews a happy ending. With characteristic derision, he exposes the cruel indifference of the archaic legal system of his day, and shows the tragic consequences of untimely adherence to futile social and religious proprieties. Nota: El contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Nota: El contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Más información

Virginia 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 información

The 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

Hector 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 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 información

In 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 información

When 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 información

The 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