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El Retrato de Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde • 1890
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde from Coterie Classics <p> All Coterie Classics have been formatted for ereaders and devices and include a bonus link to the free audio book. <p>“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.” ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray <br> A man sells his soul for eternal youth and scandalizes the city in Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray.</p></p>
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy • 1877
Love... it means too much to me, far more than you can understand.At its simplest, Anna Karenina is a love story. It is a portrait of a beautiful and intelligent woman whose passionate love for a handsome officer sweeps aside all other ties - to her marriage and to the network of relationships and moral values that bind the society around her. The love affair of Anna and Vronsky is played out alongside the developingromance of Kitty and Levin, and in the character of Levin, closely based on Tolstoy himself, the search for happiness takes on a deeper philosophical significance. One of the greatest novels ever written,Anna Karenina combines penetrating psychological insight with an encyclopedic depiction of Russian life in the 1870s. The novel takes us from high society St Petersburg to the threshing fields on Levin's estate, with unforgettable scenes at a Moscow ballroom, the skating rink, a race course, a railway station. It creates an intricate labyrinth of connections that is profoundly satisfying, and deeply moving. Rosamund Bartlett's translation conveys Tolstoy'sprecision of meaning and emotional accuracy in an English version that is highly readable and stylistically faithful. Like her acclaimed biography of Tolstoy, it is vivid, nuanced, and compelling.
Maic: EdiciĂłn revisada
Tina Vallès • 2025
Finished
Eleanor & Park
Rainbow Rowell • 2013
"Set over the course of one school year in 1986, this is the story of two star-crossed misfits--smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try"--
Orgullo y Prejuicio
Jane Austen • 1813
Noches Blancas
Fyodor Dostoyevsky • 1848
La Metamorfosis
Franz Kafka • 1915
Pulp
Charles Bukowski • 2002
“The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.”—Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author<br/>“He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.”—Leonard Cohen, songwriter<br/>Opening with the exotic Lady Death entering the gumshoe-writer's seedy office in pursuit of a writer named Celine, this novel demonstrates Charles Bukowski's own brand of humor and realism, opening up a landscape of seamy Los Angeles. Pulp is essential fiction from Buk himself.
REBELION EN LA GRANJA
George Orwell • 1900
Poetry
Veinte poemas de amor y una canciĂłn desesperada
Pablo Neruda • 2020
Envelope Poems
Emily Dickinson • 2016
Poemas de Amor
Idea Vilariño • 1957
RincĂłn de Haikus
Mario Benedetti • 1999
On Love
Charles Bukowski • 2016
A companion to On Writing and On Cats: A raw and tender poetry collection that captures the Dirty Old Man of American letters at his fiercest and most vulnerable, on a subject that hits home with all of us. Charles Bukowski was a man of intense emotions, someone an editor once called a “passionate madman.” In On Love, we see Bukowski reckoning with the complications and exaltations of love, lust, and desire. Alternating between tough and gentle, sensitive and gritty, Bukowski lays bare the myriad facets of love—its selfishness and its narcissism, its randomness, its mystery and its misery, and, ultimately, its true joyfulness, endurance, and redemptive power. Bukowski is brilliant on love—often amusing, sometimes playful, and fleetingly sweet. On Love offers deep insight into Bukowski the man and the artist; whether writing about his daughter, his lover, his friends, or his work, he is piercingly honest and poignantly reflective, using love as a prism to see the world in all its beauty and cruelty, and his own fragile place in it. “My love is a hummingbird sitting that quiet moment on the bough,” he writes, “as the same cat crouches.” Brutally honest, flecked with humor and pathos, On Love reveals Bukowski at his most candid and affecting.
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Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury • 2013
"Sixty years after the original publication, Ray Bradbury's internationally acclaimed novel 'Fahrenheit 451' stands as a classic of world literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Today its message has grown more relevant than ever before. Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television "family." But when he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn't live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known. This sixtieth-anniversary edition commemorates Ray Bradbury's masterpiece with a new introduction by Neil Gaiman ; personal essays on the genesis of the novel by the author ; a wealth of critical essays and reviews by Nelson Algren, Harold Bloom, Margaret Atwood, and others ; rare manuscript pages and sketches from Ray Bradbury's personal archive ; and much more. Here, at last, is the definitive edition of a classic of world literature."--taken from back cover.
Persuasion, Jane Austen
Jane Austen • 1997
Last novel by Jane Austen completed just a few months prior to her death in 1816. The main character is Ane Elliot, the daughter of a vain and foolish baronet and widower, Sir Walter Elliot. Anne is 27 and unmarried. She had been engaged to a young naval officer, Frederick Wentworth, but was persuaded to break off the engagement. Later she meets him again and love is rekindled, but does the 8 years absence make a problem? This is less satiric that Austen's earlier works. Persuasion is the brilliant story of a woman who was "forced into prudence" in her youoth but learned true romance as she grew older.
