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Hamlet
William Shakespeare · 2021
A new pocket edition of William Shakespeare's classic tragic play The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. Hamletis a story of family and political intrigue, revenge, and madness and remains one of Shakespeare's most enduringly popular and influential works, featuring many of his most memorable characters and verses.<br/><br/>This pocket edition is based on the original Cambridge editions, first published for the general public in the 1860s, and is designed for reading ease -- the size of a standard mass market paperback, it is convenient enough to fit in your pocket, briefcase, or purse, but it features font size sufficient for easy reading and paper durable enough for reading again and again.
Crimen y castigo
Fiódor Dostoyevski · 2021
El joven Rodión Raskólnikov, antiguo estudiante, arrastra una existencia precaria en San Petersburgo. Cuando recibe una carta anunciándole la visita de su madre y su hermana en relación con los súbitos planes de boda de esta última, las fantasías de acabar con sus problemas a través del asesinato de la vieja prestamista a la cual suele recurrir van tomando cuerpo en su voluntad...<br/>Crimen y castigo (1866) es posiblemente la obra más lograda del autor. En ella, sirviéndose de una trama y de unos personajes que reúnen los mejores ingredientes de la novela del siglo XIX, se plantea el problema de la justificación o no de los actos, de la conciencia y de la culpa.<br/>Fiódor Dostoyevski (1821-1881) es, junto con Lev Tolstói, el gran novelista ruso del siglo XIX. Su vida y su creación literaria sufrieron un cambio radical después de que en 1849 fuera detenido y condenado a muerte, pena que se le conmutó en el último instante, por sus actividades contra el zar. Alianza Editorial tiene publicada prácticamente toda su obra.<br/>CENTENARIO DOSTOYEVSKI (1821-2021)
Les Miserables
Victor Hugo · 2015
The Virgin Suicides
Jeffrey Eugenides · 2002
The shocking thing about the girls was how nearly normal they seemed when their mother let them out for the one and only date of their lives. Twenty years on, their enigmatic personalities are embalmed in the memories of the boys who worshipped them and who now recall their shared adolescence: the brassiere draped over a crucifix belonging to the promiscuous Lux; the sisters' breathtaking appearance on the night of the dance; and the sultry, sleepy street across which they watched a family disintegrate and fragile lives disappear.
A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara · 2016
<b><i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER • A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (<i>NPR</i>) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century.<br></b><br><b><b><b><b><b><b><b>NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST <b><b><b>•</b></b></b></b> MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST <b>• <b><b><b><b><b> WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE</b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b><br><br><i>A Little Life</i> follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves.
Romeo y Julieta
William Shakespeare · 2015
«El ser humano no verá nunca la realidad de forma más clara que lo hizo Shakespeare.» T.S. Eliot<br/>La historia de Romeo y Julieta tiene antecedentes en la mitología y literatura griegas y en algunas leyendas medievales. Durante los siglos XV y XVI fue objeto de múltiples versiones, pero fue Shakespeare quien le infundió una pasión y un dramatismo inéditos hasta entonces y que han contribuido a mantener la leyenda en la memoria colectiva. En Verona, dos jóvenes enamorados, de dos familias enemigas, son víctimas de una situación de odio y violencia que ni desean ni pueden remediar. En una de esas tardes de verano en que el calor «inflama la sangre», Romeo, recién casado en secreto con su amada Julieta, mata al primo de ésta. A partir de ahí Shakespeare desencadena la tragedia y precipita los acontecimientos, guiados por el azar y la fatalidad. Ángel-Luis Pujante destaca en esta edición la fuerza poética y retórica de ROMEO Y JULIETA: los juegos de palabras, la coexistencia de prosa y verso, de lo culto y lo coloquial, de lo lírico y lo dramático contribuyen a intensificar los contrastes de la acción. Clara Calvo ofrece en la Guía de lectura una rica documentación complementaria y unas sugerentes propuestas que ayudan a enriquecer la lectura de esta obra capital de la literatura universal.
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy · 2014
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 developing romance 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's precision 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.
¿Cómo ser mujer en este contexto?
Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
Clarissa Pinkola Estés · 1996
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • More than 2.7 million copies sold! • “A deeply spiritual book [that] honors what is tough, smart and untamed in women.”—The Washington Post Book World<br/><br/>Book club pick for Emma Watson’s Our Shared Shelf<br/><br/>Within every woman there lives a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing. She is the Wild Woman, who represents the instinctual nature of women. But she is an endangered species. For though the gifts of wildish nature belong to us at birth, society’s attempt to “civilize” us into rigid roles has muffled the deep, life-giving messages of our own souls.<br/><br/>In Women Who Run with the Wolves, Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés unfolds rich intercultural myths, fairy tales, folk tales, and stories, many from her own traditions, in order to help women reconnect with the fierce, healthy, visionary attributes of this instinctual nature. Through the stories and commentaries in this remarkable book, we retrieve, examine, love, and understand the Wild Woman, and hold her against our deep psyches as one who is both magic and medicine.<br/><br/>Dr. Estés has created a new lexicon for describing the female psyche. Fertile and life-giving, it is a psychology of women in the truest sense, a knowing of the soul.
Un cuarto propio
Virginia Woolf • 2024
El ensayo sobre la condición de la mujer que se ha convertido en un icono de la literatura y del feminismo.<br/>«Virginia Woolf es dios, nadie ha escrito mejor.»<br/>Milena Busquets<br/>Considerado uno de los textos fundadores del feminismo moderno, Un cuarto propio puso en circulación ideas como la importancia de la independencia económica de la mujer y la necesidad de refutar su representación histórica en calidad de simple musa del artista. La célebre sentencia que le da título, «para escribir novelas, una mujer debe tener dinero y un cuarto propio», sigue resonando en nuestro tiempo y llamando a vincular lo personal y lo político.<br/>La presente edición cuenta con la insuperable traducción de Jorge Luis Borges, que ya en vida de la autora la llamó «una de las inteligencias e imaginaciones más delicadas» de la literatura inglesa y apuntó que, en este libro construido con gracia musical, «alternan el ensueño y la realidad y encuentran su equilibrio».<br/>La crítica ha dicho...<br/>«Un texto central del feminismo, que analiza con lucidez una realidad pareja a la de hoy, un siglo después de su escritura. Me parece fundamental conocer la palabra y las experiencias de quienes nos precedieron».<br/>Elena Medel<br/>«Yo creía haber leído Un cuarto propio. [...] Lo empecé a media tarde y claro que me sonaba. Al cabo de dos o tres páginas era una sorpresa incesante. Qué escritora más inmensa: más serena y rotunda en su enfado de mujer harta de limitaciones impuestas y de condescendencias masculinas, qué radical su defensa de la literatura, del ocio de escribir, de la alegría y la conmoción de leer.»<br/>Antonio Muñoz Molina<br/>«Inauguró un género literario.»<br/>Luna Miguel<br/>«En la obra de Virginia Woolf se dieron unas cualidades heredadas y una voluntad inéditas e irrepetibles en la historia de la cultura inglesa.»<br/>T. S. Eliot<br/>«Virginia Woolf sentó las bases de la novela del futuro.»<br/>Jeanette Winterson<br/>«Leyéndola, se percibe el funcionamiento de una gran integridad crítica.»<br/>Leonard Woolf<br/>«No puedo imaginarme un escritor cuya devoción por su arte, esfuerzo y severidad hacia sí [...] siga siendo un ejemplo que sea a la vez una inspiración y un juez.»<br/>W. H. Auden<br/>«Virginia Woolf es la principal figura del modernismo en Inglaterra y, con Joyce y Proust, llevó a cabo experimentos que rompieron por completo con la tradición».<br/>The New York Times<br/>«Una de las grandes innovadoras de la gran década del modernismo literario, los años veinte».<br/>The Guardian<br/>«Virginia Woolf sostuvo la luz de la lengua inglesa contra la oscuridad.»<br/>E. M. Forster<br/>«Una escritora que ha difuminado los límites entre lo público, lo político y lo privado; entre ficción, historia y biografía.»<br/>Irene Chikiar Bauer
Las mujeres que aman demasiado / Women Who Love Too Much (Spanish Edition)
Robin Norwood · 2018
En este libro la autora ofrece un camino para que todas aquellas mujeres que aman demasiado puedan amarse a sí mismas y establezcan una relación de pareja sana, feliz y duradera.<br/><br/>Cómo cambiar nuestra manera de amar y así dejar de sufrir.<br/><br/>«Cuando estar enamorada significa sufrir, es que estamos amando demasiado. Cuando la mayoría de nuestras conversaciones con amigas íntimas son acerca de él, de sus problemas, ideas, acciones y sentimientos, cuando casi todas nuestras frases comienzan con "él...", es que estamos amando demasiado. Cuando disculpamos su mal humor, su indiferencia y sus desaires e intentamos justificarlo o incluso convertirnos en su terapeuta, es que estamos amando demasiado.»<br/><br/>En este libro, del que ya se han vendido más de tres millones de ejemplares, Robin Norwood ayuda a las mujeres adictas a esta clase de amor a reconocer, comprender y cambiar su manera de amar.<br/><br/>A través de historias reveladoras y de un programa de recuperación, ofrece un camino para que puedan amarse a sí mismas y establecer una relación de pareja sana, feliz y duradera.<br/><br/>ENGLISH DESCRIPTION<br/><br/>The #1 New York Times bestseller that asks: are you a woman who loves too much?<br/><br/>Many women find themselves repeatedly drawn into unhappy and destructive relationships with men. They then struggle to make these doomed relationships work. This best-selling book takes a hard look at how powerfully addictive these unhealthy relationships are – but also gives a very specific programme for recovery from the disease of loving too much.
Teoria King Kong - Virginie Despentes
EL GENERO EN DISPUTA
JUDITH BUTLER · 2018
¿Y si habláramos de género? Si habláramos de género hablaríamos de Judith Butler, hablaríamos de su crítica a considerar que las identidades de género son inmutables y que estas encuentran su arraigo en la naturaleza, en el cuerpo o en una heterosexualidad normativa y obligatoria. Hablaríamos de poner en tela de juicio lo socialmente construido. Entenderíamos que hay que seguir luchando.
Cómo Ser Mujer - Caitlin Moran
EL SEGUNDO SEXO
Simone De Beauvoir · 2013
Un análisis profundo sobre la condición de la mujer y su lugar en la sociedad, escrito por Simone de Beauvoir.
Mujeres, raza y clase
Angela Y. Davis · 2005
Terror
Carrie
Stephen King · 2011
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • 50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY MARGARET ATWOOD • Stephen King's legendary debut, the bestselling smash hit that put him on the map as one of America's favorite writers • In a world where bullies rule, one girl holds a secret power. Unpopular and tormented, Carrie White's life takes a terrifying turn when her hidden abilities become a weapon of horror.<br/><br/>"Stephen King’s first novel changed the trajectory of horror fiction forever. Fifty years later, authors say it’s still challenging and guiding the genre." —Esquire<br/><br/>“A master storyteller.” —The Los Angeles Times • “Guaranteed to chill you.” —The New York Times • "Gory and horrifying. . . . You can't put it down." —Chicago Tribune<br/><br/>Unpopular at school and subjected to her mother's religious fanaticism at home, Carrie White does not have it easy. But while she may be picked on by her classmates, she has a gift she's kept secret since she was a little girl: she can move things with her mind. Doors lock. Candles fall. Her ability has been both a power and a problem. And when she finds herself the recipient of a sudden act of kindness, Carrie feels like she's finally been given a chance to be normal. She hopes that the nightmare of her classmates' vicious taunts is over . . . but an unexpected and cruel prank turns her gift into a weapon of horror so destructive that the town may never recover.
Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov · 1989
The most famous and controversial novel from one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century tells the story of Humbert Humbert’s obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze.<br/><br/>“The conjunction of a sense of humor with a sense of horror [results in] satire of a very special kind.”—The New Yorker<br/><br/>One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years<br/><br/>Awe and exhilaration—along with heartbreak and mordant wit—abound in Lolita, which tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsession for the nymphet Dolores Haze. Lolita is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America.<br/><br/>Most of all, it is a meditation on love—love as outrage and hallucination, madness and transformation.
The Haunting of Hill House
Shirley Jackson · 2006
<b>The greatest haunted house story ever written, the inspiration for a 10-part Netflix series directed by Mike Flanagan and starring Michiel Huisman, Carla Gugino, and Timothy Hutton</b><br><br> First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson's <i>The Haunting of Hill House</i> has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror. It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a "haunting"; Theodora, his lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the future heir of Hill House. At first, their stay seems destined to be merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable phenomena. But Hill House is gathering its powers—and soon it will choose one of them to make its own.<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.
Es bueno conocer las raíces (Botánica)
La vida secreta de los árboles
Peter Wohlleben, Fred Bernard, Benjamin Flao · 2024
plantas que curan y plantas que matan (Spanish Edition)
P. a. Carbajal · 2012
La inteligencia de las flores
Maurice Maeterlinck · 2022
«Que encontremos algunas plantas y flores torpes o desafortunadas no significa que estén completamente desprovistas de sabiduría e ingenio. Todas ellas, en efecto, se aplican en culminar su obra, y todas tienen la magnífica ambición de invadir y conquistar la superficie terrestre multiplicando hasta el infinito la forma de existencia que representan. Para conseguirlo, y a razón de la ley que las encadena al suelo, deberán vencer dificultades mucho mayores que las que desafía la multiplicación de los animales. Así, la mayoría de ellas deben recurrir a artimañas, combinaciones, mecanismos y trampas que, en el ámbito de la mecánica, la balística, la aviación o la observación de los insectos, a menudo sobrepasan las invenciones y los conocimientos del ser humano.» La inteligencia de las flores es uno de los textos más sorprendentes sobre el mundo natural y la relación entre el hombre y la naturaleza. Un libro en donde la observación científica va acompañada del asombro, y el misticismo está anclado en la experiencia. Un canto poético a la naturaleza que vuelve a colocar al hombre en el lugar que le corresponde en el mundo: a la par de todos sus habitantes.
Comprensión del mundo
Aeon | a world of ideas
El diseño del mundo
Franco pellegrini
The Cut – Fashion, Beauty, Politics, Sex and Celebrity
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Harari · 2018
Official U.S. edition with full color illustrations throughout.<br/>#1 New York Times Bestseller<br/>The Summer Reading Pick for President Barack Obama, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg, now available as a beautifully packaged paperback<br/>From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity’s creation and evolution—a #1 international bestseller—that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be “human.”<br/>One hundred thousand years ago, at least six different species of humans inhabited Earth. Yet today there is only one—homo sapiens. What happened to the others? And what may happen to us?<br/>Most books about the history of humanity pursue either a historical or a biological approach, but Dr. Yuval Noah Harari breaks the mold with this highly original book that begins about 70,000 years ago with the appearance of modern cognition. From examining the role evolving humans have played in the global ecosystem to charting the rise of empires, Sapiens integrates history and science to reconsider accepted narratives, connect past developments with contemporary concerns, and examine specific events within the context of larger ideas.<br/>Dr. Harari also compels us to look ahead, because over the last few decades humans have begun to bend laws of natural selection that have governed life for the past four billion years. We are acquiring the ability to design not only the world around us, but also ourselves. Where is this leading us, and what do we want to become?<br/>Featuring 27 photographs, 6 maps, and 25 illustrations/diagrams, this provocative and insightful work is sure to spark debate and is essential reading for aficionados of Jared Diamond, James Gleick, Matt Ridley, Robert Wright, and Sharon Moalem.
Jóvenes contemporáneos
Alguien Esta Mintiendo
Karen M. McManus • 2014
Poemarios
Donde viven las musas
Marianela dos Santos · 2024
¿Qué tienen en común las historias más románticas de la mitología griega con tu propio dolor convertido en poesía? Nueva edición especial con poemas e ilustraciones inéditos Acompaña a la autora en un poemario sincero y emocional que te llevará desde los mitos atemporales más conocidos, hasta su propio corazón desbordado de versos. Una experiencia literaria que te ayudará a salir en busca de la inspiración incluso en tus momentos más oscuros, porque en este viaje las musas susurran a aquellos que creen en la magia... y solo cuando creemos, la magia nos encuentra.
Horror cósmico
El Eternauta
Oesterheld - López • 1957
To Read
El gran Gatsby
Francis Scott Fitzgerald • 2015
Eloise
Kay Thompson • 2015
Eloise has been delighting readers for more than sixty years—though she’s still not a day over six. Celebrate with the original classic storybook that now comes with a CD narrated by the brilliant Bernadette Peters!<br/><br/>Eloise is a very special little girl who lives at The Plaza Hotel in New York City. She may not be pretty yet, but she’s definitely already a real person. She loves learning about people who aren’t boring. Take Eloise home with you and she’ll introduce you to life at The Plaza. You’ll be glad you did! Eloise’s fans—young and old—will love, love, love this new book & CD edition narrated by the talented Bernadette Peters!
I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman · 2019
‘For a very long time, the days went by, each just like the day before, then I began to think, and everything changed’<br/><br/>Deep underground, thirty-nine women live imprisoned in a cage. Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there, no notion of time, and only vague recollection of their lives before.<br/><br/>As the burn of electric light merges day into night and numberless years pass, a young girl - the fortieth prisoner - sits alone and outcast in the corner. Soon she will show herself to be the key to the others' escape and survival in the strange world that awaits them above ground.
The Art of Racing in the Rain
Garth Stein · 2008
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM FOX 2000 STARRING MILO VENTIMIGLIA, AMANDA SEYFRIED, AND KEVIN COSTNER<br/>MEET THE DOG<br/>WHO WILL SHOW THE WORLD<br/>HOW TO BE HUMAN<br/>The New York Times bestselling novel from Garth Stein—a heart-wrenching but deeply funny and ultimately uplifting story of family, love, loyalty, and hope—a captivating look at the wonders and absurdities of human life . . . as only a dog could tell it.<br/>“Splendid.” —People<br/>“The perfect book for anyone who knows that compassion isn’t only for humans, and that the relationship between two souls who are meant for each other never really comes to an end. Every now and then I’m lucky enough to read a novel I can’t stop thinking about: this is one of them.” —Jodi Picoult<br/>“It’s impossible not to love Enzo.” —Minneapolis Star Tribune<br/>“This old soul of a dog has much to teach us about being human. I loved this book.” —Sara Gruen
The Midnight Library: A GMA Book Club Pick
Matt Haig · 2023
The #1 New York Times bestselling WORLDWIDE phenomenon<br/><br/>Winner of the Goodreads Choice Award for Fiction | A Good Morning America Book Club Pick | Independent (London) Ten Best Books of the Year<br/><br/>"A feel-good book guaranteed to lift your spirits."—The Washington Post<br/><br/>The dazzling reader-favorite about the choices that go into a life well lived, from the acclaimed author of How To Stop Time and The Comfort Book.<br/><br/>Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life. While we all wonder how our lives might have been, what if you had the chance to go to the library and see for yourself? Would any of these other lives truly be better?<br/><br/>In The Midnight Library, Matt Haig's enchanting blockbuster novel, Nora Seed finds herself faced with this decision. Faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist; she must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place.
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (A Toltec Wisdom Book)
Don Miguel Ruiz · 1997
In The Four Agreements, bestselling author don Miguel Ruiz reveals the source of self-limiting beliefs that rob us of joy and create needless suffering. Based on ancient Toltec wisdom, The Four Agreements offer a powerful code of conduct that can rapidly transform our lives to a new experience of freedom, true happiness, and love. • A New York Times bestseller for over a decade • Translated into 50 languages worldwide “This book by don Miguel Ruiz, simple yet so powerful, has made a tremendous difference in how I think and act in every encounter.” — Oprah Winfrey “Don Miguel Ruiz’s book is a roadmap to enlightenment and freedom.” — Deepak Chopra, Author, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success “An inspiring book with many great lessons.” — Wayne Dyer, Author, Real Magic “In the tradition of Castaneda, Ruiz distills essential Toltec wisdom, expressing with clarity and impeccability what it means for men and women to live as peaceful warriors in the modern world.” — Dan Millman, Author, Way of the Peaceful Warrior
If We Were Villains: A Novel
M. L. Rio · 2018
<p><b>“Much like Donna Tartt’s <i>The Secret History</i>, M. L. Rio’s sparkling debut is a richly layered story of love, friendship, and obsession...will keep you riveted through its final, electrifying moments.”<br>—Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>The Nest<br></i></b><br><b>"Nerdily (and winningly) in love with Shakespeare...Readable, smart.”</b><br><b>—<i>New York Times Book Review</i></b><br><br>On the day Oliver Marks is released from jail, the man who put him there is waiting at the door. Detective Colborne wants to know the truth, and after ten years, Oliver is finally ready to tell it.<br><br>A decade ago: Oliver is one of seven young Shakespearean actors at Dellecher Classical Conservatory, a place of keen ambition and fierce competition. In this secluded world of firelight and leather-bound books, Oliver and his friends play the same roles onstage and off: hero, villain, tyrant, temptress, ingénue, extras. <br><br>But in their fourth and final year, good-natured rivalries turn ugly, and on opening night real violence invades the students’ world of make-believe. In the morning, the fourth-years find themselves facing their very own tragedy, and their greatest acting challenge yet: convincing the police, each other, and themselves that they are innocent. <br><br><i>If We Were Villains</i> was named one of Bustle's Best Thriller Novels of the Year, and <i>Mystery Scene</i> says, "A well-written and gripping ode to the stage...A fascinating, unorthodox take on rivalry, friendship, and truth."</p>
Ensayo sobre la ceguera
José Saramago • 1995
Un hombre parado ante un semáforo en rojo se queda ciego súbitamente. Es el primer caso de una «ceguera blanca» que luego se propaga de manera fulminante. Internados en cuarentena o perdidos en la ciudad, los ciegos tendrán que enfrentarse a lo más primitivo de la naturaleza humana: la voluntad de sobrevivir a toda costa.<br/><br/>Con esas premisas, José Saramago traza una imagen aterradora y conmovedora de los tiempos de crisis. También, en el cruce de la literatura y la sabiduría, nos exhorta a los lectores a cerrar los ojos y ver más allá de las evidencias. Recuperar la lucidez y rescatar el afecto son dos propuestas fundamentales de una novela que es, además, una reflexión sobre la ética del amor y la solidaridad.
El sabueso de los Baskerville
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE · 2022
Temporada de huracanes (Spanish Edition)
Fernanda Melchor · 2017
Con Un Ritmo Y Un Lenguaje Magistrales, Fernanda Melchor, Autora De Falsa Liebre Explora En Esta Obra Las Sinrazones Que Subyacen A Los Actos Más Desesperados De Barbarie Pasional. Una Novela Cruda Y Desgarradora En La Que El Lector Quedará Envuelto, Atrapado Por Las Palabras Y La Atmósfera De Terrible, Aunque Gozosa, Fatalidad. Un Grupo De Niños Encuentra Un Cadáver Flotando En Las Aguas Turbias De Un Canal De Riego Cercano A La Ranchería De La Matosa. El Cuerpo Resulta Ser De La Bruja, Una Mujer Que Heredó Dicho Oficio De Su Madre Fallecida, Y A Quienes Los Pobladores De Esa Zona Rural Respetaban Y Temían. Tras El Macabro Hallazgo, Las Sospechas Y Habladurías Recaerán Sobre Un Grupo De Muchachos Del Pueblo, A Quienes Días Antes Una Vecina Vio Mientras Huían De Casa De La Hechicera, Cargando Lo Que Parecía Ser Un Cuerpo Inerte. A Partir De Ahí, Los Personajes Involucrados En El Crimen Nos Contarán Su Historia Mientras Los Lectores Nos Sumergimos En La Vida De Este Lugar Acosado Por La Miseria Y El Abandono, Y Donde Convergen La Violencia Del Erotismo Más Oscuro Y Las Sórdidas Relaciones De Poder. La Crítica Ha Dicho... Por Fin Una Novela Donde Las Coartadas De La Estética, El Lenguaje Y La Estructura No Convierten El Texto En Una Sarta De Ocurrencias. Por Fin, Una Donde La Mirada A La Insoportable Tragedia Nacional No Deriva En Frases Hechas Y Personajes Manidos. Por Fin Gran Narrativa, Ambiciosa, Rotunda, Con Todos Los Matices Y Todas Las Letras. Antonio Ortuño, Letras Libres Hay Que Celebrar La Recepción De Temporada De Huracanes, Que Está Siendo Elogiada Por Muchos Creadores Y Periodistas Como La Gran Novela Mexicana Del Año. Jorge Carrión, The New York Times Temporada De Huracanes Seduce Por La Fuerza Con La Cual Lleva Los Ritmos Y Las Voces De Cierta Oralidad Al Terreno Siempre Exigente De La Escritura. Fernanda Melchor Tiene Un Oído Muy Bien Entrenado Y Tiene Asimismo Un Raro Talento Para Recrear El Lenguaje De La Lucha Por La Supervivencia. Roberto Pliego, En Lo Mejor Y Lo Peor De La Narrativa Mexicana En 2017, Nexos Sin Lugar A Dudas, Temporada De Huracanes Es El Libro Mexicano Más Importante Y Sobresaliente Del 2017. Plumas Atómicas Otros Autores Han Opinado... Un Viaje Nocturno A Las Profundidades Del Alma Humana Con El Estilo Más Radical De Su Generación. Martín Solares Fernanda Melchor No Sólo Escribe Con La Potencia Rabiosa Que Le Reclaman Los Temas Que Ha Decidido Investigar, Sino Que En Cada Página Muestra Un Oído Y Una Agudeza Pocas Veces Vista En Nuestra Literatura. Yuri Herrera
My Year of Rest and Relaxation: A Novel
Ottessa Moshfegh · 2019
<b>The <i>New York Times </i>Bestseller • <b><i>New York Times </i>Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century</b> • Named a Best Book of the Year by <i>The Washington Post, Time, </i>NPR, <i>Vice, Bustle</i>, <i>The New York Times</i>, <i>The Guardian</i>, <i>Kirkus Reviews</i>,<i> Entertainment Weekly</i>, and The AV Club<br><br>“One of the most compelling protagonists modern fiction has offered in years: a loopy, quietly furious pillhead whose Ambien ramblings and Xanaxed b*tcheries somehow wend their way through sad and funny and strange toward something genuinely profound.” — <i>Entertainment Weekly</i> <br><br>“Darkly hilarious . . . [Moshfegh’s] the kind of provocateur who makes you laugh out loud while drawing blood.” <b>—<i>Vogue<br><br></i>“Ottessa Moshfegh is easily the most interesting contemporary American writer on the subject of being alive when being alive feels terrible.” —Jia Tolentino, <i>The New Yorker</i></b><br><br></b>From one of our boldest, most celebrated new literary voices, a novel about a young woman's efforts to duck the ills of the world by embarking on an extended hibernation with the help of one of the worst psychiatrists in the annals of literature and the battery of medicines she prescribes.<br><br>Our narrator should be happy, shouldn't she? She's young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, works an easy job at a hip art gallery, lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like the rest of her needs, by her inheritance. But there is a dark and vacuous hole in her heart, and it isn't just the loss of her parents, or the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats her, or her sadomasochistic relationship with her best friend, Reva. It's the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong?<br><br><i>My Year of Rest and Relaxation</i> is a powerful answer to that question. Through the story of a year spent under the influence of a truly mad combination of drugs designed to heal our heroine from her alienation from this world, Moshfegh shows us how reasonable, even necessary, alienation can be. Both tender and blackly funny, merciless and compassionate, it is a showcase for the gifts of one of our major writers working at the height of her powers.
Dawn of the Dead
Susanna Sparrow George Romero · 2015
Dead Poets Society
N.H. Kleinbaum · 2012
Todd Anderson and his friends at Welton Academy can hardly believe how different life is since their new English professor, the flamboyant John Keating, has challenged them to "make your lives extraordinary! Inspired by Keating, the boys resurrect the Dead Poets Society--a secret club where, free from the constraints and expectations of school and parents, they let their passions run wild. As Keating turns the boys on to the great words of Byron, Shelley, and Keats, they discover not only the beauty of language, but the importance of making each moment count. Can the club and the individuality it inspires survive the pressure from authorities determined to destroy their dreams? But the Dead Poets pledges soon realize that their newfound freedom can have tragic consequences. Can the club and the individuality it inspires survive the pressure from authorities determined to destroy their dreams?
Alicia en el País de las Maravillas
Lewis Carroll • 2016
Will I Ever be Good Enough?
Karyl McBride · 2008
The first book specifically for daughters suffering from the emotional abuse of selfish, self-involved mothers,Will I Ever Be Good Enough?provides the expert assistance you need in order to overcome this debilitating history and reclaim your life for yourself. Drawing on over two decades of experience as a therapist specializing in women's psychology and health, psychotherapist Dr. Karyl McBride helpsyou recognize the widespread effects of this maternal emotional abuse and guides you as you create an individualized program for self-protection, resolution, and complete recovery.An estimated 1.5 million American women have narcissistic personality disorder, which makes them so insecure and overbearing, insensitive and domineering that they can psychologically damage their daughters for life. Daughters of narcissistic mothers learn that maternal love is not unconditional, and that it is given only when they behave in accordance with their mothers' often unreasonable expectations and whims. As adults, these daughters consequently have difficulty overcoming their insecurities and feelings of inadequacy, disappointment, sadness, and emotional emptiness. They may also have a terrible fear of abandonment that leads them to form unhealthy love relationships, as well as a tendency to perfectionism and unrelenting self-criticism, or to self-sabotage and frustration.Herself the recovering daughter of a narcissistic mother, Dr. McBride includes her personal struggle, which adds a profound level of authority to her work, along with the perspectives of the hundreds of suffering daughters she's interviewed over the years. Their stories of how maternal abuse has manifested in their lives -- as well as how they have successfully overcome its effects -- show you that you're not alone and that you can take back your life and have the controlyouwant.Dr. McBride's step-by-step program will enable you to:(1) Recognize your own experience with maternal narcissism and its effects on all aspects of your life (2) Discover how you have internalized verbal and nonverbal messages from your mother and how these have translated into a strong desire to overachieve or a tendency to self-sabotage (3) Construct a step-by-step program to reclaim your life and enhance your sense of self, a process that includes creating a psychological separation from your mother and breaking the legacy of abuse. You will also learn how not to repeat your mother's mistakes with your own daughter.Warm and sympathetic, filled with the examples of women who have established healthy boundaries with their hurtful mothers,Will I Ever Be Good Enough?encourages and inspires you as it aids your recovery.
Las intermitencias de la muerte
Jose Saramago · 2005
2022: AÑO SARAMAGO<br/>¿Y si la gente dejara de morirse?<br/>Una brillante sátira del Nobel de Literatura que juega con el miedo más profundo del ser humano.<br/>«Sabremos cada vez menos qué es un ser humano».<br/>Libro de las Previsiones<br/>En un país cuyo nombre no será mencionado se produce algo nunca visto desde el principio del mundo: la muerte decide suspender su trabajo letal, la gente deja de morir. La euforia colectiva se desata, pero muy pronto dará paso a la desesperación y al caos. Sobran los motivos. Si es cierto que las personas ya no mueren, eso no significa que el tiempo haya parado. El destino de los humanos será una vejez eterna.<br/>Se buscarán maneras de forzar a la muerte a matar, se corromperán las conciencias en los «acuerdos de caballeros» entre el poder político, las mafias y las familias, los ancianos serán detestados por haberse convertido en estorbos inamovibles. Hasta el día en que la muerte, vestida de mujer, vuelve para descifrar un enigma, se encuentra con un músico, oye un concierto, establece una relación, escucha de nuevo a Bach... Entonces la novela sigue como sigue la vida, con todas sus contradicciones.<br/>Arrancando de una proposición contraria a la evidencia de los hechos corrientes, José Saramago desarrolla una narrativa de gran fecundidad literaria, social y filosófica que sitúa en el centro la perplejidad del ser humano ante la impostergable finitud de la existencia. Parábola de la corta distancia que separa lo efímero y lo eterno, la historia bien podría terminar tal como empieza: «Al día siguiente no murió nadie».<br/>La crítica ha dicho:<br/>«Saramago vuelve comprensible una realidad huidiza, con parábolas sostenidas por la imaginación, la compasión y la ironía».<br/>Comité Nobel<br/>«Un hombre con una sensibilidad y una capacidad de ver y de entender que están muy por encima de lo que en general vemos y entendemos los comunes mortales».<br/>Héctor Abad Faciolince<br/>«Saramago es un ejemplo, un estilo dignísimo de vida y literatura, que demuestra la posibilidad de navegar a contracorriente [...]. Su palabra tiene el valor de un anticongelante, de un remedio personal contra los vendavales de cinismo que nos envuelven».<br/>Luis García Montero<br/>«Yo no sé, ni quiero saberlo, de dónde ha sacado Saramago ese diabólico tono narrativo, duro y piadoso a un tiempo, [...] que le permite contar tan cerca del corazón y a la vez tan cerca de la historia».<br/>Luis Landero<br/>«Saramago escribe novelas sobre los mitos para desmitificarlos, [...] siempre para abordar la realidad que le rodea, para tratar de los problemas actuales que son de todos, y para que todo quede claro desde el principio».<br/>Rafael Conte, Babelia<br/>«Como Günter Grass o Cees Nooteboom, Saramago aspira a enlazar con un público que desborde límites nacionales».<br/>El País
Algo habremos hecho
Irene Montero Gil • 2024
Quemar Las Naves
Sexto Piso · 1900
"Quemar las naves reúne todos los libros de relatos de Angela Carter –Fuegos artificiales, La cámara sangrienta, Venus negra y Fantasmas americanos y maravillas del Viejo Mundo, además de los relatos tempranos e inéditos– y supone una ocasión inmejorable para descubrir y celebrar a una escritora de su magnitud, una prosista virtuosa, inteligente, barroca, imaginativa, irreverente, siempre fascinante. Ensoñaciones orientales, marionetas que cobran vida, sótanos atestados con los instrumentos de la aniquilación, verdugos enamorados de sus hijas, hombres lobo, vampiras aquejadas de ennui, Poe, Lizzie Borden, reivindicativas semblanzas de Jeanne Duval, westerns con el diablo de por medio, Shakespeare, los mundos invertidos tras el espejo, tinieblas psicosexuales, protagonistas empoderadas que deciden cambiar el final del cuento... Un torrente inagotable de historias en las que queda patente el interés de Carter por lo gótico, lo teratológico, el psicoanálisis, y su amor por la pantomima, la farsa, el teatro, el cine, y todo lo que problematice las fronteras entre identidad y representación; acercamientos que Carter realiza siempre a través de una mirada feminista y deconstructiva, y haciendo gala de la magia de su estilo, de su humor, de su sugerente juego con los símbolos, de su erudición, de su alma exquisita y sacrílega"--
Salva al Gato - Blane Snyder
Distopía
Animal Farm
George Orwell · 2025
Animal Farm is an allegorical novella by George Orwell that satirizes the events of the Russian Revolution and the emergence of Stalinism. It is a story that unfolds on a farm where animals, led by pigs, revolt against the tyrannical owner and assume control of a farm that symbolizes an egalitarian society. However, when the pigs do gain power, they turn out to be as tyrannical as their former masters, the oppressive humans. Or perhaps Orwell is attacking political corruption and inequality but also corrupting power -its abuse or how an idealistic movement can be destroyed by greed and manipulative people. In its deceptively simple yet profund narrative, George Orwell paints a powerful commentary of the dangers of totalitarianism in Animal Farm.
La Guerra de los Mundos
H.G. Wells • 1898
“La Guerra de los Mundos” (1897) es una de las obras más famosas del autor inglés H. G. Wells (1866-1946). Una pequeña ciudad inglesa se ve de pronto invadida por Marcianos dispuestos a acabar con cualquier humano que se encuentre en su camino. Esta es la historia de cómo un hombre vive la invasión, cómo su mundo se ve afectado por ella y la reacción de aquellos que le rodean ante la maldad de los invasores. La novela es una de las primeras en explorar la temática de la humanidad contra una raza extraterrestre y se ha convertido en un clásico indiscutible de la ciencia ficción por ello. La presente edición contiene ilustraciones de Alvim Corrêa y está presentada en formato de 13,5 x 19 cms, con encuadernación tapa dura y marca páginas de hilo.
The Road
Cormac McCarthy • 2006
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A searing, post-apocalyptic novel about a father and son's fight to survive, this "tale of survival and the miracle of goodness only adds to McCarthy's stature as a living master. It's gripping, frightening and, ultimately, beautiful" (San Francisco Chronicle). • From the bestselling author of The Passenger<br/><br/>A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food—and each other.<br/><br/>The Roadis the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, "each the other's world entire," are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation.<br/><br/>Look for Cormac McCarthy's latest bestselling novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris.
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury • 1953
La historia de un sombrío y aterrador futuro<br/><br/>Guy Montag pertenece a una extraña brigada de bomberos. Su misión, paradójicamente, no es la de sofocar incendios sino la de provocarlos para quemar libros. Ha sido bombero durante más de 10 años, y siempre le gustó su trabajó. Nunca cuestionó nada —ni la emoción de las salidas a medianoche ni el placer de ver las hojas arder— hasta que conoció a una niña de diecisiete años que le mostró un pasado en el que la gente no tenía miedo y a un profesor que le habló de un futuro en el que la gente podría ser libre. Y al fin Montag comprendió lo que tenía que hacer.<br/><br/>Fahrenheit 451, la novela más célebre del maestro de la ciencia ficción, nos presenta un futuro perturbador: un mundo en el que los libros y la lectura están prohibidos. Porque leer obliga a pensar, y en ese mundo está prohibido pensar. Porque leer impide ser ingenuamente feliz, y en ese mundo hay que ser feliz a la fuerza.<br/><br/>ENGLISH DESCRIPTION<br/><br/>Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of twentieth-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future.<br/><br/>Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden.<br/><br/>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 then 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.<br/><br/>When Mildred attempts suicide and Clarisse suddenly disappears, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known. He starts hiding books in his home, and when his pilfering is discovered, the fireman has to run for his life.
No lo sé
Muerte en el Nilo
Agatha Christie · 2008
El entenado (Spanish Edition)
Juan José Saer • 2016
V for Vendetta
Alan Moore y David Lloyd • 1980
A powerful story about loss of freedom and individuality, V FOR VENDETTA takes place in atotalitarian England following a devastating war that changed the face of the planet. In a world without political freedom, personal freedom and precious little faith in anything, comes a mysterious man in a white porcelain mask who fightspolitical oppressors through terrorism and seemingly absurd acts in this gripping tale of the blurred lines between ideological good and evil.
The Bell Jar (Modern Classics)
Sylvia Plath · 2005
<p><i>The Bell Jar</i> chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under -- maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that Esther's insanity becomes completely real and even rational, as probable and accessible an experience as going to the movies. Such deep penetration into the dark and harrowing corners of the psyche is an extraordinary accomplishment and has made <i>The Bell Jar</i> a haunting American classic.</p> <p>This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.</p>
Watchmen
Alan Moore y Dave Gibbons • 1986
A hit HBO original series, Watchmen, the groundbreaking series from award-winning author Alan Moore, presents a world where the mere presence of American superheroes changed history--the U.S. won the Vietnam War, Nixon is still president, and the Cold War is in full effect. Considered the greatest graphic novel in the history of the medium, the Hugo Award-winning story chronicles the fall from grace of a group of superheroes plagued by all-too-human failings. Along the way, the concept of the superhero is dissected as an unknown assassin stalks the erstwhile heroes. This edition of Watchmen, the groundbreaking series from Alan Moore, the award-winning author of V For Vendetta and Batman: The Killing Joke, features art from industry legend Dave Gibbons, with high-quality, recolored pages found in Watchmen: Absolute Edition.
The Stranger by Albert Camus
Albert Camus · 2023
With the intrigue of a psychological thriller, The Stranger—Camus's masterpiece—gives us the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach. With an Introduction by Peter Dunwoodie; translated by Matthew Ward.<br/><br/>Behind the subterfuge, Camus explores what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd" and describes the condition of reckless alienation and spiritual exhaustion that characterized so much of twentieth-century life.<br/><br/>“The Stranger is a strikingly modern text and Matthew Ward’s translation will enable readers to appreciate why Camus’s stoical anti-hero and devious narrator remains one of the key expressions of a postwar Western malaise, and one of the cleverest exponents of a literature of ambiguity.” –from the Introduction by Peter Dunwoodie<br/><br/>First published in 1946; now in translation by Matthew Ward.
Carta al Padre
Franz Kafka • 1952
The Idiot
Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 1998
The Idiot (1868), written under the appalling personal circumstances Dostoevsky endured while travelling in Europe, not only reveals the author's acute artistic sense and penetrating psychological insight, but also affords his most powerful indictment of a Russia struggling to emulate contemporary Europe while sinking under the weight of Western materialism. It is the portrait of nineteenth-century Russian society in which a "positively good man" clashes with the emptiness of a society that cannot accommodate his moral idealism. Meticulously faithful to the original, this new translation includes explanatory notes and a critical introduction by W.J. Leatherbarrow.
El antiguo mundo
Cándido
Voltaire • 2001
La Divina Comedia (Spanish Edition)
Dante Alighieri · 2015
La Divina Comedia es un poema donde se mezcla la vida real con la sobrenatural, muestra la lucha entre la nada y la inmortalidad, una lucha donde se superponen tres reinos, tres mundos, logrando una suma de múltiples visuales que nunca se contradicen o se anulan. Los tres mundos infierno, purgatorio y paraíso reflejan tres modos de ser de la humanidad, en ellos se reflejan el vicio, el pasaje del vicio a la virtud y la condición de los hombres perfectos. Es entonces a través de los viciosos, penitentes y buenos que se revela la vida en todas sus formas, sus miserias y hazañas, pero también se muestra la vida que no es, la muerte, que tiene su propia vida, todo como una mezcla agraciada planteada por Dante, que se vuelve arquitecto de lo universal y de lo sublime.
La Eneida
VIRGILIO · 2013
La Odisea
Homero · 2021
SPANISH LANGUAGE hardcover (no DJ as issued) in very good condition; does NOT look like the stock photo, please see photos for actual book offered; Folio:2007; all 334 numbered pages clean, no marks, highlights, bends or tears (this item ships USPS)
La Iliada
Homero · 1967
La Iliada de Homero. Bruguera , 1967.
Fantasía, creo
Cuento de Navidad
Charles Dickens • 1999
"Cuento de Navidad" o "El cántico de Navidad", es una novela corta escrita por el británico Charles Dickens y publicada originalmente por Chapman & Hall el 19 de diciembre de 1843. Su trama cuenta la historia de un hombre avaro y egoísta llamado Ebenezer Scrooge y su conversión tras ser visitado por una serie de fantasmas en Nochebuena. está ambientado en Londres durante un día frío, desapacible, cortante y con niebla de Nochebuena. Está estructurado en cinco capítulos denominados estrofas, de los cuales tres hacen referencia a los encuentros de los fantasmas de la Navidad -pasado, presente y futuro- con Ebenezer Scrooge, un anciano avaro y egoísta que desprecia todo lo relacionado con la Navidad. La primera estrofa, El espectro de Marley, comienza siete años después de la muerte de Jacob Marley, el socio de Scrooge. Se describe a Scrooge como un trabajólico solamente interesado en ganar dinero, duro y agudo como un pedernal que ningún eslabón logró jamás sacar una chispa de generosidad; [...] secreto, reprimido y solitario como una ostra, cuya personalidad le impide, por ejemplo, aceptar la invitación de su sobrino para cenar con él y su familia el 25 de diciembre, o realizar donativos para los pobres. Esa noche, la visita del espíritu de Marley le hace ver al anciano las consecuencias de la avaricia y el egoísmo, representados en una larga y pesada cadena hecha con arquillas para dinero, llaves, candados, libros de contabilidad, escrituras de compraventas y pesadas talegas de acero que arrastra consigo indefinidamente. Su antiguo colaborador también le advierte del arribo de otros tres fantasmas esa misma noche con el fin de evitar un destino como el mencionado anteriormente. Las apariciones de los tres fantasmas de las Navidades son el hilo conductor de la trama en las siguientes tres estrofas. Scrooge debe acompañar a cada uno de los espectros a evocar momentos de la infancia y juventud del primero -entre los cuales se incluyen el encuentro con su hermana Fan, que murió joven tras dar a luz; y una fiesta navideña organizada por su antiguo jefe, el señor Fezziwig-, etapas caracterizadas por su amabilidad e inocencia. Otro de los encuentros le permite conocer la situación de pobreza en la que vive la familia de su empleado Bob Cratchit, cuyo hijo más pequeño, Tim, está gravemente enfermo; y la forma en la que su sobrino celebra las fiestas decembrinas. No obstante, la visión de su muerte tras una vida solitaria, malvada y tacaña le lleva a reflexionar y cambiar de actitud, de forma que haré honor a la Navidad en mi corazón y procuraré mantener su espíritu a lo largo de todo el año...
La telaraña de Carlota
E. B. White • 2017
Wilbur es un cariñoso y tímido cerdito que se hace amigo de una hermosa araña gris llamada Carlota. Un día Wilbur se entera del destino de los cerdos de la granja y el mundo se le viene encima. Pero su amiga está decidida a salvarlo cómo sea. ¿Lo conseguirá?
¿Amor?
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë · 1991
Breakfast at Tiffany''s
Truman Capote · 1993
Holly Golightly knows that nothing bad can ever happen to you at Tiffany's. In this seductive, wistful masterpiece, Capote created a woman whose name has entered the American idiom and whose style is a part of the literary landscape—her poignancy, wit, and naïveté continue to charm. This volume also includes three of Capote's best-known stories, “House of Flowers,” “A Diamond Guitar,” and “A Christmas Memory,” which the Saturday Review called “one of the most moving stories in our language.” It is a tale of two innocents—a small boy and the old woman who is his best friend—whose sweetness contains a hard, sharp kernel of truth.
The Lover
Marguerite Duras · 1998
<p>An international best-seller with more than one million copies in print and a winner of France’s Prix Goncourt, <i>The Lover</i> has been acclaimed by critics all over the world since its first publication in 1984.<br><br>Set in the prewar Indochina of Marguerite Duras’s childhood, this is the haunting tale of a tumultuous affair between an adolescent French girl and her Chinese lover. In spare yet luminous prose, Duras evokes life on the margins of Saigon in the waning days of France’s colonial empire, and its representation in the passionate relationship between two unforgettable outcasts.<br><br>Long unavailable in hardcover, this edition of <i>The Lover</i> includes a new introduction by Maxine Hong Kingston that looks back at Duras's world from an intriguing new perspective—that of a visitor to Vietnam today.<br><br><i>(With an introduction by Maxine Hong Kingston; translated from the French by Barbara Bray.)</i></p>
The Notebook
Nicholas Sparks · 2000
The unforgettable, heartbreaking love story from a New York Times bestselling author about a young socialite and the boy who once stole her heart—now an iconic motion picture starring Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams. At thirty-one, Noah Calhoun, back in coastal North Carolina after World War II, is haunted by images of the girl he lost more than a decade earlier. At twenty-nine, socialite Allie Nelson is about to marry a wealthy lawyer, but she cannot stop thinking about Noah. Thus begins the story of a love so enduring and deep it can turn tragedy into triumph, and may even have the power to create a miracle... Every so often a love story so captures our hearts that it becomes more than a story—it becomes an experience to remember forever. The Notebook is such a book. It is a celebration of how passion can be ageless and timeless, a tale that moves us to laughter and tears and makes us believe in true love all over again...
