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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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COP $ 29.000The Picture of Dorian Gray was written by lrish author Osear Wilde (1854-1900).The novel was first published in 1890 in the July issue of Lippincotts Monthly Magazíne, and later in a longer and revised book form in 1891.Basil Hallward is an artist looking for inspiration when he meets Dorian Gray,and impressed by his beauty he decides to make me young man the subject of a full portrait.A friendship rapidly blossoms and through Basil,Dorian meets Lord Henry Wotton,an hedonistic aristoerat living only for sensual fulfillment.Young Dorian is swayed by mis philosophy and begins to live the life of a libertine in the eonstant seareh for pleasure.The Picture of Dorian Gray eaused outrage in British reviewers and readers alike for its alleged immorality and indeeeney,and sparked in Osear Wilde a furious defenee of the ereative proeess and the importanee of freedom in artistic expression.Nevertheless,me book suffered so me eensorship in its first release,bur later was revised and expanded by the author ro fix this issue.Más informaciónSolicitar
Pride and Prejudice
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COP $ 29.000Pride and Prejudice is the second published novel of English writer Jane Austen (1775-1817).Originally entitled First Impressions,the first draft of the novel was completed between 1796 and 1797,and later revised and expanded between 1811 and 1812.Ir was renamed Pride and Prejudice and published in 1813,by Thomas Egerton.The novel tells me srory of how the arrival of two rich and eligible achelors,Mr.Bingley and Mr.Darcy,affects the lives of the five married Bennet sisters,especially Jane and Elizabeth,the main roragonists .Más informaciónSolicitar
Alice in the Wonderland
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COP $ 29.000Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) was the pseudonym of English mathematician and writer Charles Lutwidge Dogson.His fragile health and intellectual curiosity led him to develop a shy and withdrawn personality that clashed with the adults around him,although he always felt at ease amongst children.His most famous works are Alice in Wonderland (1865) and its continuation,through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There (1871),both filled with magic and fantasy and written especially for kids.The author achieved great commercial success with his noveIs and became one of the most quoted English writers,after Shakespeare.In Alice in Wonderland, the world of the adults,the incomprehensible real world,boring and complex for children,quickly makes way for a more interesting and colourfullandscape,full with strange characters and amazing adventures for Alice and her readers.Carroll was a master of literary nonsense,as a way of subverting language conventions or logical reasoning,creating a very thin line between humour and surrealism to emphasize the whimsical nature of his fantasy.Paradoxes and word play are a staple of the author\'s work,captivating children and adults alike and all over the world.Más informaciónSolicitar
Necronomicon
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COP $ 29.000The work of American writer H.P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) is vast and varied.His short stories represent the majority of his bibliography and cover every dark theme imaginable,with his characteristic and bombastic sryle.Lovecraft\'s approach to horror was ahead of its time and still resonates with modern readers because it was based in thernes that transcended the human race,in situations that made man insignificant in the cosmic scale of things.He was deeply influenced by the gothic horror of Edgar Allan Poe and the mysticism of Arthur Machen,but later expanded on those themes with the perils of superstition and scientific progress,the morbid obsession of forbidden knowledge,the unavoidable fate of death and destruction,and the existence of cosmic deities and monsters that once ruled the Earth,and will eventually rule again after the destruction or enslavement of the human race.This mixture of ingredients and the language he used to express his ideas rnade Lovecraft\'s style a success among lovers of the macabre and me mysterious.Más informaciónSolicitar
The Metamorphosis
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COP $ 29.000The Metamorphosis is arguably Franz Kafka\'s most recognized literary work. Published in Germany in 1915 as Die Verwandlung,this dark short novel or novella,has made its way as one of the most important works of literary fiction of the 20th Century.Gregor Samsa,a traveling salesman living with his family in Prague-part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at that time,wakes up one day to find himself transformed, without rhyme or reason,into an indescribable creature.Understandably,Gregor Samsa\'s life changes abruptly and dramatically and the novel focuses in how this change affects the mind of the protagonist and the ones around him.This situation is very taxing on Gregor and his family,but is handled by the author and the characters very naturally,very stoically,as if there\'s nothing to do about it but to move on and make the best of it.This way of handling life and the impossible situations it brings is very particular of Kafka and his narrative.He often explored the mundanity through tragedy and insurmountable odds-many times to the point of absurdity as a way of exposing human nature and commenting on society and the surrounding world.Más informaciónSolicitar
A Tale of two Cities
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COP $ 29.000A Tale of Two Cities was written by English author Charles Dickens (1812-1870) in 1859,and published in 31 weekly instalments in the literary periodical All the Year Round that same year.The book stands out not only for being one of Dickens\' most accomplished and famous works,but also because it was one of the few historical fiction novels he ever wrote.The French Revolution was already a not so distant memory by the novel\'s publication,but rhe consequences and new world order that carne with it was still deeply ingrained in Dickens\' time.As the majority of the author\'s work the novel transcended literary form and has been adapted to various media forms from silent films to television series and radio serials proving to many generations the appeal of Dickens and his stories.Más informaciónSolicitar
Moby Dick
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COP $ 29.000Moby Dick;the Whale is the work of American writer and poet,Herman Melville (1819-1891).Best known simply as Moby Dick, the novel narrates the story of Ahab,Captain of the whaler Pequod and his quest to kill rhe great white whale that gives the novel its name,as revenge for sinking his previous vessel and losing one of his legs.Melville relied on his experiences at sea,to craft a very complex and thorough narrative about whaling and me hardships of being a sailor,especially one on the hunt for the greatest creatures the oceans have ever seen.He also delved deeply into historical texts,scientific papers and personal interviews,in order to build and maintain the realness of his story,and also to bring the written page closer and closer to existence.Moby Dick was not a commercial success during the author\'s lifetime,as critics in England where the novel was first published-were less rhan welcoming to the literary devices ofMelville and his tale of revenge.The new century brought a renewed interest in undiscovered and rerlooked American literature,especially amongst academic circlesMás informaciónSolicitar
To the Lighthouse
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COP $ 29.000To the Lighthouse is me fifth novel by English modernist writer Virginia Woolf(1882-1941).Published in 1927,the novel narrates the visits of the Ramsay family ro the Isle of Skye in Scodand between 1910 and 1920.1he story follows the tradition of modernist Iiterarure,focusing on philosophical introspection and stream of consciousness narration over plot,Like her contemporaries James Joyce and Mareel Proust,Virginia Woolf\'s goal was to make an aecurate depietion of the eomplexity of human relationships and the emotional spaces people inhabit through life.To the Lighthouse adheres to this literary teehnique,but still maintains the story of the Ramsays and the events that unfold in their summer home during two days separated by ten years. 1he aetion shifts point of view several times and has very little dialogue,and yet retains the attention of the reader by the emotional threads of its charaeters and rheir thoughts.1he plot of me novelas simple as ir is bears many similarities with Virginia Woolf\'s life,as she used her writing to understand and de al with unresolved issues with her family.To the Lighthouse is eonsidered today one of Virginia Woolf\'s best works,and a great example of modernist sensibilities.Más informaciónSolicitar
Romeo and Juliet
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COP $ 29.000William Shakespeare (1564-1616) is often regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and one of the most ce!ebrated playwrights of all time.He was extremely prolific during his lifetime and wrote 38 plays,154 sonnets and several long form poems.His work has been rranslated ro every known language and adapted innumerable times ro radio,television,film,theatre and even video games.Shakespeare enjoyed fame and respect during his lifetime, but global recognition and admiration carne with time,thanks ro literary critics and academic studies.His plays are particularly important because of their legacy and their exploration of rhe human condition through deep characterization,language and plot.Romeo and Juliet (1597) is probably one of the most recognizable and adapted love stories of all time.The tragedy of two star-crossed lovers,both members of warring farnilies and doomed from the start to a forbidden love.The plot was inspired by an ltalian tale but expanded by Shakespeare with subplots and more characters.The additions and new leve of complexity helped set apart Romeo and Juliet from other contemporary romances,creating an imrnortal story in the process.Más informaciónSolicitar
Diario de a bordo del primer viaje de cristó...
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COP $ 61.000Cristóbal Colón unió así su nombre a otros ensanchadores del mundo conocido, como Alejandro Magno y Marco Polo. Su permanente y sostenida confusión acerca de hacia dónde viajó, no fue óbice para que con su acción se duplicara el mapamundi y alentó sobremanera la inteligencia europea, la que, una vez consciente (o sin llegar a estarlo totalmente) de los yerros del navegante genovés, emprendió la otra aventura, la de la conquista y evangelización de los hombres autóctonos de las tierras descubiertas. Una enorme empresa mercantil y política se puso en marcha para perjuicio de las culturas originales del continente suramericano y beneficio de los bolsillos de muchos en el viejo continente. Como han estado contestes la mayoría de los historiadores, la falta de documentos es la causa principal de que muchas respuestas y preguntas sobre los viajes colombinos permanezcan aún en las sombras de las dudas y las conjeturas. De esta forma, el diario del primero de los viajes del Almirante de la Mar Océana se convierte en el texto cardinal de la epopeya.Más información