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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.
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Rick Riordan
Percy Jackson: El ladrón del rayo
Rick Riordan
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El Retrato de Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde · 2022
El irlandés Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) fue uno de los grandes agitadores culturales de su época. Autor polifacético y versátil, cultivó con impagable maestría desde el teatro y la poesía hasta la narrativa oriental y el aforismo, el cuento corto o el ensayo. De entre toda su producción, El retrato de Dorian Gray (1890) destaca no sólo por ser su única novela, sino también su trabajo más perdurable. Las desventuras de Dorian Gray, ese dandi paradigmático y ocurrente obsesionado con lo efímero, y su pánico a envejecer nos deparan la más genial y absorbente de las vueltas de tuerca que jamás se le hayan dado a la novela fáustica.
