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La vegetariana
Han Kang · 2024
The Stranger
Albert Camus · 2012
1984
George Orwell • 1983
Written 75 years ago, 1984 was George Orwell’s chilling prophecy about the future. And while 1984 has come and gone, his dystopian vision of a government that will do anything to control the narrative is timelier than ever...<br/><br/>This 75th Anniversary Edition includes:<br/>• A New Introduction by Dolen Perkins-Valdez, author of Take My Hand, winner of the 2023 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work—Fiction<br/>• A New Afterword by Sandra Newman, author of Julia: A Retelling of George Orwell’s 1984<br/><br/>“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”<br/><br/>Winston Smith toes the Party line, rewriting history to satisfy the demands of the Ministry of Truth. With each lie he writes, Winston grows to hate the Party that seeks power for its own sake and persecutes those who dare to commit thoughtcrimes. But as he starts to think for himself, Winston can’t escape the fact that Big Brother is always watching...<br/><br/>A startling and haunting novel, 1984 creates an imaginary world that is completely convincing from start to finish. No one can deny the novel’s hold on the imaginations of whole generations, or the power of its admonitions—a power that seems to grow, not lessen, with the passage of time.<br/><br/>• Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read •
Sí, si es contigo
Calle • 2019
Sí, si es contigo es una historia de amor (im)posible.<br/>Sí, si es contigo es una novela de amor escrita por dos de las Youtubers más famosas, con más de seis millones de seguidores en su canal de YouTube.<br/>Una novela sobre el primer amor, y todo lo doloroso y maravilloso que este implica.
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott • 1989
One of the best loved books of all time. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read<br/><br/>Lovely Meg, talented Jo, frail Beth, spoiled Amy: these are hard lessons of poverty and of growing up in New England during the Civil War. Through their dreams, plays, pranks, letters, illnesses, and courtships, women of all ages have become a part of this remarkable family and have felt the deep sadness when Meg leaves the circle of sisters to be married at the end of Part I. Part II, chronicles Meg's joys and mishaps as a young wife and mother, Jo's struggle to become a writer, Beth's tragedy, and Amy's artistic pursuits and unexpected romance. Based on Louisa May Alcott's childhood, this lively portrait of nineteenth- century family life possesses a lasting vitality that has endeared it to generations of readers.<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.
El Llano en llamas
Juan Rulfo • 2015
A Room of One's Own
Virginia Woolf • 1989
“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”<br/><br/>In A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf imagines that Shakespeare had a sister—a sister equal to Shakespeare in talent, and equal in genius, but whose legacy is radically different. This imaginary woman never writes a word and dies by her own hand, her genius unexpressed. If only she had found the means to create, argues Woolf, she would have reached the same heights as her immortal sibling.<br/><br/>In this classic essay, Woolf takes on the establishment, using her gift of language to dissect the world around her and give voice to those who are without. Her message is a simple one: women must have a steady income and a room of their own in order to have the freedom to create.<br/><br/>With a Foreword by Mary Gordon
