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The Great Gatsby: The Original 1925 Edition (A F. Scott Fitzgerald Classic Novel)
F. Scott Fitzgerald • 2021
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby<br/>The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, the novel depicts narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and Gatsby's obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan.<br/>A youthful romance Fitzgerald had with socialite Ginevra King, and the riotous parties he attended on Long Island's North Shore in 1922 inspired the novel. Following a move to the French Riviera, he completed a rough draft in 1924. He submitted the draft to editor Maxwell Perkins, who persuaded Fitzgerald to revise the work over the following winter. After his revisions, Fitzgerald was satisfied with the text, but remained ambivalent about the book's title and considered several alternatives. The final title he desired was Under the Red, White, and Blue. Painter Francis Cugat's final cover design impressed Fitzgerald who incorporated a visual element from the art into the novel.<br/>Gatsby continues to attract popular and scholarly attention. The novel was most recently adapted to film in 2013 by director Baz Luhrmann, while contemporary scholars emphasize the novel's treatment of social class, inherited wealth compared to those who are self-made, race, environmentalism, and its cynical attitude towards the American dream. The Great Gatsby is widely considered to be a literary masterpiece and a contender for the title of the Great American Novel.<br/>A True Classic that Belongs on Every Bookshelf!
Crime and Punishment (Vintage Classics)
Fyodor Dostoevsky • 1993
<b>Hailed by <i>Washington Post Book World</i> as “the best [translation] currently available" when it was first published, this second edition of <i>Crime and Punishment </i>has been updated in honor of the 200th anniversary of Dostoevsky’s birth. • <b>ONE OF <i>TIME MAGAZINE</i>'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME</b></b><br><br>With the same suppleness, energy, and range of voices that won their translation of <i>The Brothers Karamazov</i> the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Prize, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky offer a brilliant translation of <i>Crime and Punishment, </i>Dostoevsky's astounding pyschological thriller, newly revised for his bicentenniel. <br><br>In <i>Crime and Punishment</i>, when Raskolnikov, an impoverished student living in the St. Petersburg of the tsars, commits an act of murder and theft, he sets into motion a story that is almost unequalled in world literature for its excruciating suspense, its atmospheric vividness, and its depth of characterization and vision. Dostoevsky’s drama of sin, guilt, and redemption transforms the sordid story of an old woman’s murder into the nineteenth century’s profoundest and most compelling philosophical novel.
Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics)
Jane Austen • 2002
Austen's most popular novel, the unforgettable story of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy<br/><br/>Few have failed to be charmed by the witty and independent spirit of Elizabeth Bennet in Austen’s beloved classic Pride and Prejudice. When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited; he is indifferent to her good looks and lively mind. When she later discovers that Darcy has involved himself in the troubled relationship between his friend Bingley and her beloved sister Jane, she is determined to dislike him more than ever. In the sparkling comedy of manners that follows, Jane Austen shows us the folly of judging by first impressions and superbly evokes the friendships, gossip and snobberies of provincial middle-class life. This Penguin Classics edition, based on Austen's first edition, contains the original Penguin Classics introduction by Tony Tanner and an updated introduction and notes by Viven Jones.<br/><br/>For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
The Picture of Dorian Gray: The Original 1890 Edition (A Oscar Wilde Classic Novel)
Oscar Wilde • 2023
“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.” ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray<br/><br/>The Picture of Dorian Gray is a 1891 gothic and philosophical novel by Irish writer and playwright Oscar Wilde. First published as a serial story in the July 1890 issue of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, the editors feared the story was indecent, and without Wilde's knowledge, deleted five hundred words before publication.<br/><br/>Despite that censorship, The Picture of Dorian Gray offended the moral sensibilities of British book reviewers, some of whom said that Oscar Wilde merited prosecution for violating the laws guarding the public morality. In response, Wilde aggressively defended his novel and art in correspondence with the British press.<br/><br/>Wilde revised and expanded the magazine edition of The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) for publication as a novel; the book edition (1891) featured an aphoristic preface — an apologia about the art of the novel and the reader. The content, style and presentation of the preface made it famous in its own literary right, as social and cultural criticism. In April 1891, the editorial house Ward, Lock and Company published the revised version of The Picture of Dorian Gray.<br/><br/>A True Classic that Belongs on Every Bookshelf!
365 dias para ser mas culto (Spanish Edition)
David S. Kidder • 2010
Una breve historia de casi todo
Bill Bryson • 2023
El arte de amar (Spanish Edition)
Erich Fromm • 2015
El arte de amar es una obra con la que Erich Fromm ha ayudado a varias generaciones a reflexionar sobre el amor y a responder a algunas preguntas aparentemente sencillas: ¿Qué significa amar? ¿Cómo desprendernos de nosotros mismos para experimentar este sentimiento? El amor no es solo una relación personal, es un rasgo de madurez que se manifiesta en diversas formas: amor erótico, amor fraternal, amor filial, amor a uno mismo... El amor no es algo pasajero y mecánico, como a veces nos induce a creer la sociedad de hoy. Muy al contrario, el amor es un arte, el fruto de un aprendizaje. Por ello, si queremos aprender a amar, debemos actuar como lo haríamos si quisiéramos aprender cualquier otro arte, ya sea música, pintura, carpintería o el arte de la medicina. O, por lo menos, no dedicar nuestra energía a buscar éxito y dinero, prestigio y poder, sino a cultivar el verdadero arte de amar.<br>
Sapiens. De animales a dioses / Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Spanish Edition)
Yuval Noah Harari • 2016
Las 48 leyes del poder
Robert Greene • 1999
La Casa de los Espiritus
Isabel Allende • 1987
Romeo y Julieta
SHAKESPEARE WILLIAM • 2012
El extranjero
Unknown Author • unde
Hamlet
William Shakespeare • 1992
Diario: Ana Frank (Clasicos) (Spanish Edition)
Ana Frank • 2022
1984
George Orwell • 1983
75th ANNIVERSARY EDITION “Orwell saw, to his credit, that the act of falsifying reality is only secondarily a way of changing perceptions. It is, above all, a way of asserting power.”—The New Yorker In 1984, London is a grim city in the totalitarian state of Oceania where Big Brother is always watching you and the Thought Police can practically read your mind. Winston Smith is a man in grave danger for the simple reason that his memory still functions. Drawn into a forbidden love affair, Winston finds the courage to join a secret revolutionary organization called The Brotherhood, dedicated to the destruction of the Party. Together with his beloved Julia, he hazards his life in a deadly match against the powers that be. Lionel Trilling said of Orwell’s masterpiece “1984 is a profound, terrifying, and wholly fascinating book. It is a fantasy of the political future, and like any such fantasy, serves its author as a magnifying device for an examination of the present.” Though the year 1984 now exists in the past, Orwell’s dystopian classic remains an urgent call for the individual willing to speak truth to power.
El viejo y el mar
Ernest Hemingway • 2021
Noches blancas
Fiódor Dostoievski • 2024
La muerte en Venecia
Thomas Mann (ecrivain) • 1988
Veinticuatro horas en la vida de una mujer
Stefan Zweig • 2025
Novela de ajedrez
STEFAN ZWEIG • 2023
Niebla
Miguel De Unamuno • 1986
Indigno de ser humano
Osamu Dazai • 2023
Cumbres Borrascosas
Emily Brontë • 2008
Penas del joven werther
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE • 1984
La metamorfosis
Franz Kafka • 2019
Los viajes de Gulliver
JONATHAN SWIFT • 2011
El Corazon Delator (Spanish Edition)
Edgar Allan Poe • 2016
Lazarillo de Tormes
Joseph V. Ricapito • 1984
Historia de dos ciudades
Charles Dickens • 2015
El título "Historia de dos ciudades" hace referencia a París y Londres en los años sacudidos por la Revolución Francesa. Tales son los escenarios de esta novela llena de acción y aventuras que salta de una orilla a otra del canal de la Mancha y que ofrece un vivo retrato del ambiente y los acontecimientos del París revolucionario dominado por la sombra de la guillotina. Entre los muchos y pintorescos personajes que discurren por sus páginas, sobresalen los de Charles Darnay y Sidney Carton, quienes, marcados por muy distintos orígenes y peripecias vitales, acaban fundiendo sus existencias como dos caras de una misma moneda.
Nuestra Señora de Paris
Victor Hugo • 1971
Moby Dick
Herman Melville • 2021
La montaña mágica
Thomas Mann • 2020
Por quién doblan las campanas
Ernest Hemingway • 2013
RAYUELA
JULIO CORTAZAR • 2014
La Conjura De Los Necios
John Kennedy Toole • 1980
La Regenta
Leopoldo Alas • 1985
Rebelión en la granja
GEORGE ORWELL • 2013
Un Mundo Feliz
A. Huxley • 1992
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley • 2003
El jugador
Fiódor Dostoyevski • 2010
Dostoyevski utilizó muchos elementos autobiográficos para la redacción de El jugador. La pasión amorosa frustrada por la voluble y seductora Pólina Súslova se proyecta en el personaje Alexéi Ivánovich con su dependencia total respecto de Pólina Alexándrovna y la esclavitud del juego ligada a la absoluta sujeción de sus relaciones amorosas.
El Conde de Montecristo (Spanish Edition)
Alejandro Dumas • 2017
Guerra y Paz
León Tolstói • 2023
La fontana de oro
Benito Pérez Galdós • 2016
Fausto
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe • 2005
Don Quijote de la Mancha
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra • 2018
Ulisses
James Joyce • 1980
El señor de las moscas
William Golding • 1972
Ensayo Sobre La Ceguera
SARAMAGO • 2013
Crónica de una muerte anunciada / Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Spanish Edition)
Gabriel García Márquez • 2003
Ensayo sobre la lucidez
JOSE SARAMAGO • 2013
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.
La Naranja Mecanica
Anthony Burgess • 1999
El proceso
Franz Kafka • 2017
Origenes
Asimov Isaac • 1989
Origenes de Asimov Isaac. B., Plaza Janes, 1989.
The Kybalion: Centenary Edition
Three Initiates • 2018
<b>The most popular occult work of the twentieth century--now in a hardbound edition that evokes the original volume, with a new introduction by scholar of mysticism Richard Smoley.</b><br><br> For generations, readers have debated the origins and studied the knowledge of this mysterious exploration of Hermetic wisdom, attributed to "Three Initiates." <br><br>Now in its second century, <i>The Kybalion</i> is restored to hardcover in a commemorative volume that evokes the appearance of the occult landmark's first edition.<br><br> The new introduction by Richard Smoley, a celebrated scholar of mystical traditions, makes this a historical keepsake.
