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Literatura: Español
La sombra del viento
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
<p><b>Un amanecer de 1945, un muchacho es conducido por su padre a un misterioso lugar oculto en el corazón de la ciudad vieja: el Cementerio de los Libros Olvidados. Allí encuentra La Sombra del Viento, un libro maldito que cambiará el rumbo de su vida y le arrastrará a un laberinto de intrigas y secretos enterrados en el alma oscura de la ciudad.<br></b><br> Ambientada en la enigmática Barcelona de principios del siglo XX, este misterio literario mezcla técnicas de relato de intriga, de novela histórica y de comedia de costumbres, pero es, sobre todo, una tragedia histórica de amor cuyo eco se proyecta a través del tiempo. Con gran fuerza narrativa, el autor entrelaza tramas y enigmas a modo de muñecas rusas en un inolvidable relato sobre los secretos del corazón y el embrujo de los libros, manteniendo la intriga hasta la última página.<br><br><b>ENGLISH DESCRIPTION</b><br><br><b>"Gabriel García Márquez meets Umberto Eco meets Jorge Luis Borges for a sprawling magic show."—The New York Times Book Review. -A New York Times Bestseller</b><br><br> Barcelona, 1945: A city slowly heals in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, and Daniel, an antiquarian book dealer’s son who mourns the loss of his mother, finds solace in a mysterious book entitled The Shadow of the Wind, by one Julián Carax. But when he sets out to find the author’s other works, he makes a shocking discovery: someone has been systematically destroying every copy of every book Carax has written. In fact, Daniel may have the last of Carax’s books in existence. Soon Daniel’s seemingly innocent quest opens a door into one of Barcelona’s darkest secrets--an epic story of murder, madness, and doomed love.<br><br> “ Anyone who enjoys novels that are scary, erotic, touching, tragic and thrilling should rush right out to the nearest bookstore and pick up The Shadow of the Wind. Really, you should.”—Michael Dirda, The Washington Post<br><br> "Wonderous... masterful... The Shadow of the Wind is ultimately a love letter to literature, intended for readers as passionate about storytelling as its young hero." —Entertainment Weekly (Editor's Choice)<br><br> "One gorgeous read."—Stephen King<br><br></p>
Don Juan Tenorio
José Zorrilla
Don Juan Tenorio es un excelente mecanismo teatral cuyo protagonista habla, escribe y se enamora teatralmente. Es esa condición esencialmente dramática del personaje de Zorrilla lo que le permite conectar con el público desde la primera escena. Si a ello añadimos la sencilla y eficaz construcción del drama y la precisión musical del verso, podemos explicarnos por qué, siglo y medio después de su estreno, la obra sigue conservando su vigencia. Una imprescindible colección de las obras clásicas en español más leídas en las aulas. - Títulos fundamentales de la literatura hispana. - Ediciones a cargo de señalados especialistas. - Textos íntegros, rigurosamente anotados. - 24 páginas de actividades. Una selección de títulos variada y representativa de las distintas épocas y géneros (poesía, novela, cuento, teatro) de la literatura española, perfectamente concorde con los programas educativos vigentes de ESO y Bachillerato.
La celestina
Fernando de Rojas
Cien años de soledad / One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez
“Muchos años después, frente al pelotón de fusilamiento, el coronel Aureliano Buendía había de recordar aquella tarde remota en que su padre lo llevó a conocer el hielo”.<br/><br/>Con estas palabras empieza una novela ya legendaria en los anales de la literatura universal, una de las aventuras literarias más fascinantes del siglo xx. Millones de ejemplares de Cien años de soledad leídos en todas las lenguas y el Premio Nobel de Literatura coronando una obra que se había abierto paso a “boca a boca” —como gusta decir el escritor— son la más palpable demostración de que la aventura fabulosa de la familia Buendía-Iguarán, con sus milagros, fantasías, obsesiones, tragedias, incestos, adulterios, rebeldías, descubrimientos y condenas, representaba al mismo tiempo el mito y la historia, la tragedia y el amor del mundo entero.<br/><br/>ENGLISH DESCRIPTION<br/><br/>"One Hundred Years of Solitude is the first piece of literature since the Book of Genesis that should be required reading for the entire human race. . . . Mr. Garcia Marquez has done nothing less than to create in the reader a sense of all that is profound, meaningful, and meaningless in life." —William Kennedy, New York Times Book Review<br/><br/>One of the most influential literary works of our time, One Hundred Years of Solitude remains a dazzling and original achievement by the masterful Gabriel Garcia Marquez, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.<br/><br/>One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the story of the rise and fall, birth and death of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendiá family. Inventive, amusing, magnetic, sad and alive with unforgettable men and women—brimming with truth, compassion, and a lyrical magic that strikes the soul—this novel is a masterpiece in the art of fiction.
Don Quijote de la Mancha
Miguel de Cervantes
Crónica de una muerte anunciada
Gabriel García Márquez
La casa de Bernarda Alba
Federico García Lorca
Lazarillo de Tormes
La Regenta
Leopoldo Alas
Married to the retired magistrate of Vetusta, Ana Ozores cares deeply for her much older husband but feels stifled by the monotony of her life in the shabby and conservative provincial town. And when she embarks on a quest for fulfillment through religion and even adultery, a bitter struggle begins between a powerful priest and a would-be Don Juan for the passionate young woman's body and soul. Scandalizing contemporary Spain when it was first published in 1885, with its searing critique of the Church and its frank treatment of sex, La Regenta is a compelling and witty depiction of the complacent and frivolous world of upper-class society.<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.
Bodas de Sangre
Federico Garcia Lorca
Por quien doblan las campanas
Ernest Hemingway
Niebla
Miguel de Unamuno
The Aleph and Other Stories
Jorge Luis Borges
Pedro Páramo
Juan Rulfo
Literatura Americana
Moby-Dick: or, The Whale
Herman Melville
Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West
Cormac McCarthy
Infinite Jest
David Foster Wallace
A Streetcar Named Desire
Tennessee Williams
The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck
East of Eden
John Steinbeck
As I Lay Dying: The Corrected Text
William Faulkner
Slaughter-House Five
Kurt Vonnegut
Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison
Beloved
Toni Morrison
The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne
“No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.”<br/>― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter<br/><br/>The Scarlet Letter: A Romance is a work of historical fiction by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne, published in 1850. Set in Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony during the years 1642 to 1649, the novel tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter through an affair and then struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity. Containing a number of religious and historic allusions, the book explores themes of legalism, sin, and guilt.<br/>Its great burden is the weight of unacknowledged sin as seen in the remorse and cowardice and suffering of the Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale. Contrasted with his concealed agony is the constant confession, conveyed by the letter, which is forced upon Hester, and has a double effect, — a healthful one, working beneficently, and making her helpful and benevolent, tolerant and thoughtful ; and an unhealthful one, which by the great emphasis placed on her transgression, the keeping her forever under its ban and isolating her from her fellows, prepares her to break away from the long repression and lapse again into sin when she plans her flight. Roger Chillingworth is an embodiment of subtle and refined revenge.<br/>The book though corresponding in its tone and burden to some of the shorter stories, had a more startling and dramatic character, and a strangeness, which at once took hold of a larger public than any of those had attracted. Though imperfectly comprehended, and even misunderstood in some quarters, it was seen to have a new and unique quality; and Hawthorne's reputation became national.<br/>A Best Seller Classic that Belongs to Everyone's Library!
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
The Catcher in the Rye
J. D. Salinger
The Great Gatsby
F Scott Fitzgerald
Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck
Literatura Británica
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
“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!
Animal Farm
George Orwell
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
Mary Shelley
<b>Mary Shelley’s classic novel, presented in its original 1818 text, with an introduction from National Book Critics Circle award-winner Charlotte Gordon</b><br> <br> <b>Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s <i>The Great American Read</i></b><br> <br>The original 1818 text of <i>Frankenstein</i> preserves the hard-hitting and politically-charged aspects of Shelley’s original writing, as well as her unflinching wit and strong female voice. This edition also emphasizes Shelley’s relationship with her mother—trailblazing feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, who penned <i>A Vindication of the Rights of Woman</i>—and demonstrates her commitment to carrying forward her mother’s ideals, placing her in the context of a feminist legacy rather than the sole female in the company of male poets, including Percy Shelley and Lord Byron.<br> <br> This edition includes a new introduction and suggestions for further reading by National Book Critics Circle award-winner and Shelley expert Charlotte Gordon, literary excerpts and reviews selected by Gordon, and a chronology and essay by preeminent Shelley scholar Charles E. Robinson. <br> <br>Penguin Classics is the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world, representing 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.
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë
Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine's father. After Mr Earnshaw's death, Heathcliff is bullied and humiliated by Catherine's brother Hindley and wrongly believing that his love for Catherine is not reciprocated, leaves Wuthering Heights, only to return years later as a wealthy and polished man. He proceeds to exact a terrible revenge for his former miseries. The action of the story is chaotic and unremittingly violent, but the accomplished handling of a complex structure, the evocative descriptions of the lonely moorland setting and the poetic grandeur of vision combine to make this unique novel a masterpiece of English literature.
The Waste Land and Other Poems
T. S. Eliot
1984
George Orwell
Mrs Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy
Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented is a novel by Thomas Hardy. It initially appeared in a censored and serialised version, published by the British illustrated newspaper The Graphic in 1891, then in book form in three volumes in 1891, and as a single volume in 1892. Though now considered a major 19th-century English novel, even Hardy's fictional masterpiece, Tess of the d'Urbervilles received mixed reviews when it first appeared, in part because it challenged the sexual morals of late Victorian England.<br/>A True Victorian Classic that Belongs on Every Bookshelf!
Ulysses
James Joyce
Middlemarch
George Eliot
Hamlet
William Shakespeare
Literatura Italiana
Inferno
Dante
Zeno's Conscience
Italo Svevo
If This Is A Man/The Truce
Primo Levi
Das Dekameron
Giovanni di Boccaccio
The Leopard
Giuseppe Di Lampedusa
Marcovaldo
Italo Calvino • 1995
The Prince
Niccolo Machiavelli
The Betrothed
Alessandro Manzoni
Orlando Furioso
Ludovico Ariosto
The Name of the Rose
Umberto Eco
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
Giorgio Bassani
One, None and a Hundred Thousand
Luigi Pirandello
The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso
Dante
Arcadia
Jacopo Sannazaro
Orlando Innamorato: or Orlando in Love
Matteo Maria Boiardo
Literatura Francesa
The Stranger
Albert Camus
The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
<p>This beloved, world-famous allegorical classic about a young prince on a quest for knowledge is an essential read for every home library.</p> <p>Combining Richard Howard's translation with restored original full-color art, this definitive English-language edition of The Little Prince will capture the hearts of readers of all ages.</p> <p>Few stories are as widely read and as universally cherished by children and adults alike as The Little Prince. When a pilot crashes in the Sahara Desert, he meets a little boy who asks him to draw a sheep. Gradually the Little Prince reveals more about himself: He comes from a small asteroid, where he lived alone until a rose grew there.</p> <p>But the rose grew demanding, and he was confused by his feelings about her. The story unfolds further from one planet to the next in a thoughtful philosophical exploration of love and the ephemeral.</p>
Candide
Voltaire
The Red and the Black
Stendhal
Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert
Sentimental Education
Gustave Flaubert
Nausea
Jean-Paul Sartre
The Plague
Albert Camus
“Its relevance lashes you across the face.” —Stephen Metcalf, The Los Angeles Times • “A redemptive book, one that wills the reader to believe, even in a time of despair.” —Roger Lowenstein, The Washington Post<br/><br/>A haunting tale of human resilience and hope in the face of unrelieved horror, Albert Camus' iconic novel about an epidemic ravaging the people of a North African coastal town is a classic of twentieth-century literature.<br/><br/>The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly plague, which condemns its victims to a swift and horrifying death. Fear, isolation and claustrophobia follow as they are forced into quarantine. Each person responds in their own way to the lethal disease: some resign themselves to fate, some seek blame, and a few, like Dr. Rieux, resist the terror.<br/><br/>An immediate triumph when it was published in 1947, The Plague is in part an allegory of France's suffering under the Nazi occupation, and a timeless story of bravery and determination against the precariousness of human existence.
Germinal
Émile Zola
Les Miserables
Victor Hugo
Swanns Way
Marcel Proust
Nana
Émile Zola
The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas
In Search of Lost Time
Marcel Proust
The Three Musketeers
Alexandre Dumas
Literatura Rusa
Fathers and Sons
Ivan Turgenev
Heart of a Dog
Mikhail Bulgakov
I first read Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita on a balcony of the Hotel Metropole in Saigon on three summer evenings in 1971. The tropical air was heavy and full of the smells of cordite and motorcycle exhaust and rotting fish and wood-fire stoves, and the horizon flared ambiguously, perhaps from heat lightning, perhaps from bombs. Later each night, as was my custom, I would wander out into the steamy back alleys of the city, where no one ever seemed to sleep, and crouch in doorways with the people and listen to the stories of their culture and their ancestors and their ongoing lives. Bulgakov taught me to hear something in those stories that I had not yet clearly heard. One could call it, in terms that would soon thereafter gain wide currency, "magical realism". The deadpan mix of the fantastic and the realistic was at the heart of the Vietnamese mythos. It is at the heart of the present zeitgeist. And it was not invented by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, as wonderful as his One Hundred Years of Solitude is. Garcia Marquez's landmark work of magical realism was predated by nearly three decades by Bulgakov's brilliant masterpiece of a novel. That summer in Saigon a vodka-swilling, talking black cat, a coven of beautiful naked witches, Pontius Pilate, and a whole cast of benighted writers of Stalinist Moscow and Satan himself all took up permanent residence in my creative unconscious. Their presence, perhaps more than anything else from the realm of literature, has helped shape the work I am most proud of. I'm often asked for a list of favorite authors. Here is my advice. Read Bulgakov. Look around you at the new century. He will show you things you need to see.
A Hero of Our Time
Mikhail Lermontov
The Overcoat and Selected Stories
Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
We
Yevgeny Zamyatin
The Master and Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov
Notes from Underground
Fyodor Dostoevsky
<b>Award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky give us a brilliantly faithful rendition of this classic novel, in all its tragedy and tormented comedy. In this second edition, they have updated their translation in honor of the 200th anniversary of Dostoevsky’s birth.</b> <br><br>One of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator of Dostoevsky's most revolutionary novel is a former official who has defiantly withdrawn into an underground existence. In full retreat from society, he scrawls a passionate, obsessive, self-contradictory narrative that serves as a devastating attack on social utopianism and an assertion of man’s essentially irrational nature.
The Nose and Other Stories
Nikolai Gogol
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy
Doctor Zhivago
Boris Pasternak
The Idiot
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
<p><b>'The most magnificent novel ever written' Sigmund Freud</b><br><br>The murder of brutal landowner Fyodor Karamazov changes the lives of his sons irrevocably: Mitya, the sensualist, whose bitter rivalry with his father immediately places him under suspicion for parricide; Ivan, the intellectual, driven to breakdown; the spiritual Alyosha, who tries to heal the family's rifts; and the shadowy figure of their bastard half-brother, Smerdyakov. Dostoyevsky's dark masterwork evokes a world where the lines between innocence and corruption, good and evil, blur, and everyone's faith in humanity is tested.<br><br>Translated with an Introduction and notes by DAVID McDUFF</p>
War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy
<b>Antony's Brigg's acclaimed translation of Tolstoy's great Russian epic. <b>Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s <i>The Great American Read</i></b></b><br><br> Set against the sweeping panoply of Napoleon's invasion of Russia, <i>War and Peace</i>—presented here in the first new English translation in forty years—is often considered the greatest novel ever written. At its center are Pierre Bezukhov, searching for meaning in his life; cynical Prince Andrei, ennobled by wartime suffering; and Natasha Rostov, whose impulsiveness threatens to destroy her happiness. As Tolstoy follows the changing fortunes of his characters, he crafts a view of humanity that is both epic and intimate and that continues to define fiction at its most resplendent.<br><br> This edition includes an introduction, note on the translation, cast of characters, maps, notes on the major battles depicted, and chapter summaries.<br><br> <b>Praise for Antony Brigg's translation of <i>War and Peace</i>:<br> </b><br> "The best translation so far of Tolstoy's masterpiece into English."<br> -Robert A. Maguire, professor emeritus of Russian studies, Columbia University<br><br> "In Tolstoy's work part of the translator's difficulty lies in conveying not only the simplicity but the subtlety of the book's scale and effect. . . . Briggs has rendered both with a particular exactness and a vigorous precision not to be found, I think, in any previous translation."<br> -John Bayley, author of <i>Elegy for Iris</i><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.
Life and Fate
Vasily Grossman
Literatura Alemana
The Magic Mountain
Thomas Mann
The Man Without Qualities
Robert Musil
Faust, Part II
Goethe
Faust, Part I
Johann Goethe
Doctor Faustus
Thomas Mann
The Tin Drum
Günter Grass
All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Maria Remarque
Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and No One
Friedrich Nietzsche
The Castle
Franz Kafka
The Steppenwolf
Hermann Hesse
This revolutionary translation is the only way to experience the novel as Hesse envisioned it nearly one hundred years ago.<br/>The quest for self-discovery never ends, especially for Harry Haller―better known as the Steppenwolf. After a life spent in self-imposed isolation, Harry meets the mysterious Hermine and becomes captivated by her intoxicating power. Through their nighttime adventures, the Steppenwolf experiences the decadent underbelly of the bourgeois society he always despised. Harry becomes a man divided―lost in a surreal underground world of pleasure and set on a collision course with his innermost desires.<br/>There has never been a translation that fully captures the essence of Hermann Hesse’s own spiritual questioning until now. Kurt Beals restores the original meaning of this hallucinatory German tale in a recognizably modern voice. Beals’s expert introduction traces the impact of The Steppenwolf for readers seeking meaning during the upheaval of world conflicts, the onslaught of new technologies, and life’s uncertainties.
The Sorrows of Young Werther
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Berlin Alexanderplatz
Alfred Döblin
The great novel of 1920s Berlin life, in a superb new translation by Michael Hofmann<br/><br/>Franz Biberkopf is back on the streets of Berlin. Determined to go straight after a stint in prison, he finds himself thwarted by an unpredictable external agency that looks an awful lot like fate. Cheated, humiliated, thrown from a moving car; embroiled in an underworld of pimps, thugs, drunks and prostitutes, Franz picks himself up over and over again - until one day he is struck a monstrous blow which might just prove his final downfall.<br/><br/>A dazzling collage of newspaper reports, Biblical stories, drinking songs and urban slang, Berlin Alexanderplatz is the great novel of Berlin life: inventing, styling and recreating the city as reality and dream; mimicking its movements and rhythms; immortalizing its pubs, abattoirs, apartments and chaotic streets. From the gutter to the stars, this is the whole picture of the city.<br/><br/>Berlin Alexanderplatz brought fame in 1929 to its author Alfred Döblin, until then an impecunious writer and doctor in a working-class neighbourhood in the east of Berlin. Success at home was short-lived, however; Doblin, a Jew, left Germany the day after the Reichstag Fire in 1933, and did not return until 1945. This landmark translation by Michael Hofmann is the first to do justice to Berlin Alexanderplatz in English, brilliantly capturing the energy, prodigality and inventiveness of Döblin's masterpiece.
Death in Venice
Thomas Mann
A famous author in his early fifties travels to Venice alone and succumbs to a deep obsession with an exquisitely beautiful adolescent boy in Thomas Mann's iconic novella.<br> <br>Featuring an exclusive introduction from Colm Tóibín and an excerpt from his most recent novel <i>The Magician.</i>
Siddhartha
Herman Hesse
The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka
The Metamorphosis<br/>FRANZ KAFKA<br/><br/>The Metamorphosis tells the unsettling story of Gregor Samsa’s transformation into something entirely unexpected: “a monstrous insect.”<br/>This is not just a novel about physical transformation but also a deep reflection on alienation and loneliness.<br/>This special edition of The Metamorphosis includes illustrations that capture the oppressive atmosphere of the story and a modern adaptation of the text. All of this will allow the reader not only to enjoy Kafka’s incomparable style but also to confront the vital questions that only a masterpiece can provoke.
