Literatura
The Count of Monte Cristo
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COP $ 28.000The 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 informaciónThe voyage of the beagle
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COP $ 48.000Charles 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 informaciónEl concepto de generación literaria
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COP $ 42.000Es importante empezar afirmando que cualquier periodización es extrema a la historia misma, y subjetiva por lo que el termino generación difícilmente puede ser esqueleto de ninguna historia. Desde su nacimiento, dicho concepto está cargado de un concepto lo más variopinto: la pretendida utilidad pedagógica encubre una visión nacionalista de la historia literaria, el concepto designa realidades diversas, según sea quien lo usa; su razón de existir se debe a ser la manifestación de una concepción ideológica, pasando por una cierta necesidad de amparo de hombre de hoy y de ayer, hasta un mecanismo de poder cultural y de fuerte contenido publicitario y economista, además de otras consideraciones de corte personal de escritores y críticos. En realidad, se justifica y se usa teóricamente el concepto generación porque implica una cosmovisión determinada e instala subyacentemente unas directrices ideológicas en la interpretación de cualquier historia. Más informaciónLittle Dorrit
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COP $ 28.000Little Dorrit is a classic tale of imprisonment, both literal and metaphorical, while Dickens\' working title for the novel, Nobody\'s Fault, highlights its concern with personal responsibility in private and public life. Dickens \' childhood experiences inform the vivid scenes in Marshal sea debtors prison, while his adult perceptions of governmental failures shape his satirical picture of the Circumlocution Office. The novel\'s range of characters - the honest, the crooked, the selfish and the self-denying - offers a portrait of a society about whose values Dickens had profound doubts. Little Dorrit is indisputably one of Dickens \' finest works, written at the height of his powers. George Bernard Shaw called it \'a masterpiece among masterpieces, a verdict shared by the novel\'s many admirers. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés.The novel\'s range of characters - the honest, the crooked, the selfish and the self-denying - offers a portrait of a society about whose values Dickens had profound doubts. Little Dorrit is indisputably one of Dickens \' finest works, written at the height of his powers. George Bernard Shaw called it \'a masterpiece among masterpieces, a verdict shared by the novel\'s many admirers. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés.Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Más informaciónFathers and sons
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COP $ 28.000Fathers and sons is one of the greatest of nineteenth century Russian novels and has long been acclaimed as Turgenev\'s finest work. It is a political novel set in a domestic context with a universal theme - the generational divide between fathers and sons. Set in 1859 at the moment when the Russian autocratic state began to move hesitantly towards social and political reform, the novel explores the conflict between the Iiberal-minded fathers of Russian reformist sympathies and their free-thinking intellectual sons whose revolutionary ideology threatens the stability of the state. At its centre is Evgeny Bazarov, a strong-willed antagonist of all forms of social orthodoxy who proclaims himself a nihilist and believes in the need to overthrow all the institutions of the state. As the novel develops Bazarov\'s political ambitions become fatally meshed with emotional and private concerns, and his end is a tragic failure. The novel caused a bitter furore on its publication in 1862, and this, a year later, drove Turgenev from Russia. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Más informaciónThe complete illustrated Lewis Carroll
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COP $ 73.000Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) is famed for his magical stories, Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Gloss, both of which are included here illustrated throughout by Sir John Tenniel\'s much-Loved drawings. However, inspired by the insatiable Victorian appetite for party games, tricks and conundrums, this eccentric and polymathical Englishman also wrote many other works of a humorous, witty, whimsical and nonsensical nature. Lewis Carroll created dozens of other verses, stories, acrostics and puzzles, and the mock heroic nonsense verse The Hunting of the Snark all of which are included in this omnibus volume. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés.Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Más informaciónThe complete works of William Shakespeare (R...
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COP $ 73.000William Shakespeare (1564-1616) is acknowledged as the greatest dramatist of all time. He excels in plot, poetry and wit, and his talent encompasses the great tragedies of Hamlet, King Lear, Othello and Macbeth as well as the moving history plays and the comedies such as A Midsummer Nights Dream, The Taming of the Shrew» and As You Like It with their magical combination of humour, ribaldry and tenderness. This volume is a reprint of the highly regarded Shakespeare Head Press edition, and it presents all the plays in the chronological order - as far as may be ascertained - in which they were written. It al so includes Shakespeare\'s Sonnets and his longer poems Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. This volume is a reprint of the highly regarded Shakespeare Head Press edition, and it presents all the plays in the chronological order - as far as may be ascertained - in which they were written. It al so includes Shakespeare\'s Sonnets and his longer poems Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Vea también la versión de esta obra en Tapa Dura. Más informaciónAntología poética universal. Tomos I y II
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COP $ 325.000Expresión genuina del sentimiento humano, de indefinible encanto, que en personas, obras de arte, etc., halaga y suspende el ánimo, infundiendo suave y puro deleite. Artificio de la belleza por medio de la palabra que nace de lo más sublime de la sensibilidad humana. ¿Por qué esta Antología poética universal Porque la poesía es móvil del universo. Hoy en día (y tómese esta expresión dicha y aplicada en el día de hoy, o sea en pleno siglo XX) todos se encuentran con un gran porcentaje de personas a las cuales la poesía, si no les parece cosa anticuada o de los "viejos de antes", no les llama la atención al leerla ni les mueve la mínima fibra de sensibilidad al escucharla, ¡y resulta que nunca, en ningún tiempo, la poesía ha tenido más vigencia, sentido y significación que en estos días! La poesía, ante todo, significa cultivo del espíritu, cultivo de lo mejor del hombre. Nota: contiene grabados a plumilla en blanco y negro¿Por qué esta Antología poética universal Porque la poesía es móvil del universo. Hoy en día (y tómese esta expresión dicha y aplicada en el día de hoy, o sea en pleno siglo XX) todos se encuentran con un gran porcentaje de personas a las cuales la poesía, si no les parece cosa anticuada o de los "viejos de antes", no les llama la atención al leerla ni les mueve la mínima fibra de sensibilidad al escucharla, ¡y resulta que nunca, en ningún tiempo, la poesía ha tenido más vigencia, sentido y significación que en estos días! La poesía, ante todo, significa cultivo del espíritu, cultivo de lo mejor del hombre. Nota: contiene grabados a plumilla en blanco y negroNota: contiene grabados a plumilla en blanco y negro Más informaciónChristmas books
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COP $ 28.000Each of these five short stories was written specifically for Christmas, and is infused with tremendous vitality as Dickens combines his concern for social ills with the myths and memories of childhood and traditional Christmas spirit-lore. The very words \'Merry Christmas were first coined in A Christmas Carol, the first of these books, which has become a touchstone of English Christmas fiction, and an enduring favourite the world over. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. The very words \'Merry Christmas were first coined in A Christmas Carol, the first of these books, which has become a touchstone of English Christmas fiction, and an enduring favourite the world over. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Más informaciónLife's little ironies
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COP $ 28.000The proverbial phrase \'Lifes little ironies was coined by Hardy for his third volume of short stories. These tales and sketches possess all the power of his novels: the wealth of description, the realistic portrayal of the quaint lore of Wessex, the \'Chaucerian \' humour and characterisation, the shrewd and critical psychology, the poignant estimate of human nature and the brooding sense of wonder at the essential mystery of life. The tales which make up Life\'s Little Ironies tenderly re-create a rapidly vanishing rural world and scrutinise the repressions of fin-de-siécle bourgeois life. They share many of the concerns of Hardys last great novels, such as the failure of modern marriage and the insidious effects of social ambition on the family and community life. Ranging widely in length and complexity, they are unified by Hardys quintessential irony, which embraces both the farcical and the tragic aspects of human existence.Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés.The tales which make up Life\'s Little Ironies tenderly re-create a rapidly vanishing rural world and scrutinise the repressions of fin-de-siécle bourgeois life. They share many of the concerns of Hardys last great novels, such as the failure of modern marriage and the insidious effects of social ambition on the family and community life. Ranging widely in length and complexity, they are unified by Hardys quintessential irony, which embraces both the farcical and the tragic aspects of human existence.Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés.Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Más información