Lingüística y Lenguas
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Un cuento de navidad
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COP $ 29.000Aprender inglés de la mano de los autores más importantes de la literatura universal es posible con esta colección. Los Clásicos Bilingües contiene el texto en castellano acompañando página a página por su versión el inglés. Para completar la experiencia de aprendizaje se incluye una serie de ejercicios para poner en práctica los nuevos conocimientos del idioma.Más informaciónSolicitar
La máquina del tiempo/The time machine
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COP $ 29.000Aprender inglés de la mano de los autores más importantes de la literatura universal es posible con esta colección. Los Clásicos Bilingües contiene el texto en castellano acompañando página a página por su versión el inglés. Para completar la experiencia de aprendizaje se incluye una serie de ejercicios para poner en práctica los nuevos conocimientos del idioma. Más información
La guerra de los mundos
COP $ 29.000Aprender inglés de la mano de los autores más importantes de la literatura universal es posible con esta colección. Los Clásicos Bilingües contiene el texto en castellano acompañando página a página por su versión el inglés. Para completar la experiencia de aprendizaje se incluye una serie de ejercicios para poner en práctica los nuevos conocimientos del idioma.Más información
Around the world in eighty days
COP $ 29.000Around the World in Eighty Days is-perhaps-the best known work of French writer Jules Verne (1828-1905).The novel narrates the adventures of British gentleman Phileas Fogg and his French valet Passepartout,as they attempt to travel around the world in eighty days to win a wager.The novel was a commercial success and helped Jules Verne achieve worldwide recognition. His work became synonymous with daring adventure,science and futurism.Más informaciónSolicitar
Jane Eyre
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COP $ 29.000Jane Eyre was the first novel of English writer and poet Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855).The novel narrates the life of Jane Eyre,the titular character,and her emotional journey to womanhood as a governess in Thornfield Hall.Charlotte Brontë used the story of Jane Eyre as a canvas for emotional discovery and spiritual sensibility,reaching depths previously reserved almost exclusively for poetry.To this day it remains the most important and recognized work of Charlotte Brontë and one of the most famous novels in the English language.Más informaciónSolicitar
Horror Stories
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COP $ 29.000Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was an American writer and poet and one of the most preeminent figures of Gothic Literature.He is widely recognized as a master of the short story form,but also delved into poetry,essays and literary criticismoHis work often revolved around dark and macabre thernes,using death and the human mind\'s deepest fears to craft cornplex stories about a vast array of subjecrs.He laid the groundwork for the modern detective story,he elevated his prose with poetic imagery and he always pushed the limits of his portrayal of the most basic human nature at least for the standards of the time.Más informaciónSolicitar
Dracula
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COP $ 29.000Dracula is without a shadow of a doubt one of the most recognizable characters in all Gothic and horror literature.The novel was published in 1897 by lrish writer Bram Stoker (1847-1912),and although it enjoyed good reviews,it had very modest sales.His work was compared by critics Edgar ABan Poe and Mary Shelley\'s in both thernes and atmosphere,but Stoker\'s style of epistolary storytelling created a more compelling narrative.Stoker was not the first to come up with vampires or even the name "Dracula",as he was heavily influenced by European folklore,Cothic novels, penny dreadfol serials, and even history books.Nevertheless,me amalgamation of such diverse elements resulted in a story that has transcended me test of time.Más información
Great Expectations
COP $ 29.000Charles Dickens was born in Portsmouth,England,on 7 February 1812.One of the greatest living writers of the Vietorian Era,as his fume and talent is still recognised and celebrated to this day.A master of social commentary,his work touched every aspect and shade of the world and reality that surrounded him.His style was complex and poetic,with a strong comedie touch, and his satire about the British Aristocracy was, and still is,very popular.His short stories and novels are filled with sorne of the most memorable and original characters in aH of English Literature,transcending their own stories and pages ro beco me primordial in Western culture and tradition.Such is the case of Ebenezer Scrooge and Oliver Twist;characters that became the perfect archetype for greed and humiliry,respectively.Many of his works are the perfect historieal document of a time of great change,innovation and social inequaliry,fiHed with hope for a better tomorrow through science and human achievement.Great Expectations (1854) is considered one of rhe author\'s greatest and more sophisticated works.The novel narrates the story of Phillip Pirrip,an orphan blacksmith apprentiee whose life aspiration is to become a gentleman and part of the nobility.Más informaciónSolicitar
Dubliners
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COP $ 29.000Dubliners is a collection of short stories written by Irish author James yoice (1882-1941) and published in 1914.Dubliners was conceived during do very complex time for Ireland and Irish nationalism,when the British Empire and the Catholic Church completely dominated the fate of the country.Joyce used these 15 stories to stage a sort of moral chapter of Ireland\'s history as a way of proposing change, by subverting the stagnation of his countrymen.He saw Dublin as the epicentre of the paralysis and chose to set all the stories in that city,even though he had not lived there several years.Critics were not so kind to Dubliners upon publication,but time gave anorher opportunity ro this collection of short stories.Especially after the rame and impact that joyce achieved with his magnum opus,Ulysses (1922).Today rhis collection remains an important part of Joyce\'s legacy,a unique erploration of style and form amongst his novels,and an immortal slice of the of Ireland at the beginning of the 20th century.Más información
The Scarlet Letter
COP $ 29.000The Scarlet Letter is a novel written by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne and published in 1850.The story takes place in the Puritan Boston of the mid 17th century and revolves around a woman named Hester Prynne,who conceived a child out of wedlock and was forced to wear a scarlet letter \'A\' (Adulreress) which condemns her to alife of struggle and humiliation.The novel deals with the social and moral themes typical of the time and geographical setting.Puritanism was a way of life in rhose days especially in Massachusettsand many women and men faced trials and punishrnenr for their "sins" and "misconducrs".The story centres on Hester and her daughter and how she deals with her morherhood as a social outcast,but the author rakes every chance he gets to comment on morality,human nature,legality and guilt.Tbe Scarlet Letter was received well by critics,with the obligatory outcry from religious leaders for the risqué subject matter of the story, but nevertheless enjoyed a resounding commercial success amongst readers.Ir was one of the first mass-produced books in America,rapidly becoming a symbol of the renaissance of American literature in the 19th century.Nathaniel Hawthorne\'s work has endured the test of time for the human appeal of his stories and the deep psychological complexity of his characters.Más información