Literatura

One of the great classics of Western literature, Les Misérables is a magisterial work which is rich in both character portrayal and meticulous historical description. Characters such as the absurdly criminalised Valjean, the street urchin Gavroche, the rascal Thenardier, the implacable detective Javert, and the pitiful figure of the prostitute Fantine and her daughter Cosette, have entered the pantheon of literary dramatis personae. The reader is also treated to the unforgettable descriptions of the Battle of Waterloo and Valjean\'s flight through the Paris sewers. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés.Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés.Adquiera también el Volume one. Más información

One of the great classics of Western literature, Les Misérables is a magisterial work which is rich in both character portrayal and meticulous historical description. Characters such as the absurdly criminalised Valjean, the street urchin Gavroche, the rascal Thenardier, the implacable detective Javert, and the pitiful figure of the prostitute Fantine and her daughter Cosette, have entered the pantheon of literary dramatis personae. The reader is also treated to the unforgettable descriptions of the Battle of Waterloo and Valjean\\\'s flight through the Paris sewers. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés.Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés.Adquiera también el Volume two. 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

This edition of the poetry of Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) includes all the poems contained in the Definitive Edition of 1940. In his lifetime, Kipling was widely regarded as the unofficial Poet Laureate, and he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. His poetry is striking for its many rhythms and popular forms of speech, and Kipling was equally at hare with dramatic monologues as he was with extended ballads. He is often thought of as glorifying war, militarism and the British Empire, but an attractive reading of his poems does not confirm that view. This edition reprints George Orwel\'s hard-hitting account of Kiplinp\'s poems, first published in 1942, and generally regarded as one of the most important contributions to critical discussion of Kipling.Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. His poetry is striking for its many rhythms and popular forms of speech, and Kipling was equally at hare with dramatic monologues as he was with extended ballads. He is often thought of as glorifying war, militarism and the British Empire, but an attractive reading of his poems does not confirm that view. This edition reprints George Orwel\'s hard-hitting account of Kiplinp\'s poems, first published in 1942, and generally regarded as one of the most important contributions to critical discussion of Kipling.Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. This edition reprints George Orwel\'s hard-hitting account of Kiplinp\'s poems, first published in 1942, and generally regarded as one of the most important contributions to critical discussion of Kipling.Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Más información

Daisy Miller is one of Henry Jamess most attractive heroines: she represents youth and frivolity. As a tourist in Italy, her American freedom and freshness of spirit come up against the corruption and hypocrisy of European manners. From its first publication, readers on both sides of the Atlantic have quarrelled about her, defending or attacking the liberties that Daisy takes and the conventions that she ignores. All three tales in this collection, Daisy Miller, An international Episode and Lady Barbarina, express Jamess most notable subject, the international theme, the encounters, romantic and cultural, between Americans and Europeans. His heroes and heroines approach each other on unfamiliar ground with new freedoms, yet find themselves unexpectedly hampered by old constraints.In An International Episode, an English lord visiting Newport, Rhode Island, falls in love with an American girl, but their relationship becomes more complicated when she travels to London.The unusual outcomes of these three tales pose a number of social questions about marriage and the traditional roles of men and women. Is an international marriage symbolic of the highest cultural fusion of values or is it an old style raid and capture Is marriage to remain the feminine destination Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. In An International Episode, an English lord visiting Newport, Rhode Island, falls in love with an American girl, but their relationship becomes more complicated when she travels to London.The unusual outcomes of these three tales pose a number of social questions about marriage and the traditional roles of men and women. Is an international marriage symbolic of the highest cultural fusion of values or is it an old style raid and capture Is marriage to remain the feminine destination Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. The unusual outcomes of these three tales pose a number of social questions about marriage and the traditional roles of men and women. Is an international marriage symbolic of the highest cultural fusion of values or is it an old style raid and capture Is marriage to remain the feminine destination 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