Literatura

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about, said the author more than a hundred years ago. But this remark seems perhaps even more relevant to our present world where so many seek publicity at any cost. Wilde\'s well-turned phrases and spontaneous insults still cause much amusement and admiration. Most of us miss the opportunities for bon most, finding them long after the moments have passed, but the author seems never to have been short of suitable words - flattering, witty and on occasions savagely cruel. Many of the quotes in this book are taken from Wilde\'s plays, novels and essays which were also packed with witticisms amounting to an outrageous philosophy. Wilde\'s extravagance and unconventional behaviour earned him loyal friends but also bitter enemies and in 1895 after a series of unfortunate events and court cases he was gaoled for two years with hard labor for indecent behaviour. Though from prison ca me a few last brilliant works, Wilde was never to recover his health or standing in society. He died in Paris bankrupt, broken and alone. He is buried at Cimetière du Pere Lachaise - one of Paris\'s finest cemeteries - where today many pilgrims from all parts of the world come to pay their respects and leave tokens in recognition of his genius. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Más información

This text is the thirteenth in authors cycle of twenty novels about the Rougon-Macquart dynasty. It tells the story of author, from the illegitimate Macquart branch of the family, who arrives in the mining settlement of Montsou, and witnesses at first hand the appalling conditions in which miners live and work. Gradually becoming embroiled in a bitter dispute between the miners and their employers, he eventually leads the strike which is the centrepiece of the novel. But this is more than the struggle of labor against capital. It is also the struggle of the hungry against the well-fed, against the passivity and resignation passed down over generations of starving people, and ultimately against hunger itself, represented by the fantastical devouring monster of the mine, which swallows up men just as the beast of the modem industrial economy relentlessly swallows up capital. This apparent pessimism about society is offset by the possibility of rebirth and regeneration. For all the inherited misery of the downtrodden, the old order may someday be overturned. 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

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

Charles Darwin\'s travels around the world as an independent naturalist on HMS Beagle between 1831 and 1836 impressed upon him a sense of the natural world\'s beauty and sublimity which language could barely capture. Words, he said, were inadequate to convey to those who have not visited the inter-tropical regions, the sensation of delight which the mind experiences\'. Yet in a travel journal which takes the reader from the coasts and interiors of South America to South Sea islands, Darwin\'s descriptive powers are constantly challenged, but never once overcome. In addition, The Voyage if the Beagle displays Darwin\'s powerful, speculative mind at work, posing searching questions about the complex relation between the Earth\'s structure, animal forms, anthropology and the origins of life itself. Nota: El contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés.Words, he said, were inadequate to convey to those who have not visited the inter-tropical regions, the sensation of delight which the mind experiences\'. Yet in a travel journal which takes the reader from the coasts and interiors of South America to South Sea islands, Darwin\'s descriptive powers are constantly challenged, but never once overcome. In addition, The Voyage if the Beagle displays Darwin\'s powerful, speculative mind at work, posing searching questions about the complex relation between the Earth\'s structure, animal forms, anthropology and the origins of life itself. Nota: El contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés.In addition, The Voyage if the Beagle displays Darwin\'s powerful, speculative mind at work, posing searching questions about the complex relation between the Earth\'s structure, animal forms, anthropology and the origins of life itself. Nota: El contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés.Nota: El contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Más información

When it was first published in 1781, The Confessions scandalised Europe with its emotional honesty and frank treatment of the author\'s sexual and intellectual development. Since then, it has had a more profound impact on European thought. Rousseau left posterity a model of the reflective life - the solitary, uncompromising individual, the enemy of servitude and habit and the selfish egoist who dedicates his life to a particular ideal. The Confessions recreates the world in which he progressed from incompetent engraver to grand success; his enthusiasm for experience, his love of nature, and his uncompromising character make him an ideal guide to eighteenth-century Europe, and he was the author of some of the most profound work ever written on the relation between the individual and the state. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés.The Confessions recreates the world in which he progressed from incompetent engraver to grand success; his enthusiasm for experience, his love of nature, and his uncompromising character make him an ideal guide to eighteenth-century Europe, and he was the author of some of the most profound work ever written on the relation between the individual and the state. 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