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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
J.K. Rowling • 2015
<p><i>Turning the envelope over, his hand trembling, Harry saw a purple wax seal bearing a coat of arms; a lion, an eagle, a badger and a snake surrounding a large letter 'H'.</i><br><br>Harry Potter has never even heard of Hogwarts when the letters start dropping on the doormat at number four, Privet Drive. Addressed in green ink on yellowish parchment with a purple seal, they are swiftly confiscated by his grisly aunt and uncle. Then, on Harry's eleventh birthday, a great beetle-eyed giant of a man called Rubeus Hagrid bursts in with some astonishing news: Harry Potter is a wizard, and he has a place at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. An incredible adventure is about to begin!<br><br><br><i>Having become classics of our time, the Harry Potter eBooks never fail to bring comfort and escapism. With their message of hope, belonging and the enduring power of truth and love, the story of the Boy Who Lived continues to delight generations of new readers.</i></p>
La tregua
Mario Benedetti • 1973
RAYUELA
JULIO CORTAZAR • 2014
The Poetry of Pablo Neruda
Pablo Neruda • 2005
The Poetry of Pablo Neruda offers the most comprehensive English-language collection ever by "the greatest poet of the twentieth century--in any language" (Gabriel García Márquez).<br/><br/>"In his work a continent awakens to consciousness." So wrote the Swedish Academy in awarding the Nobel Prize to Pablo Neruda, the author of more than thirty-five books of poetry and one of Latin America's most revered writers, lionized during his lifetime as "the people's poet."<br/><br/>This selection of Neruda's poetry, the most comprehensive single volume available in English, presents nearly six hundred poems, scores of them in new and sometimes multiple translations, and many accompanied by the Spanish original. In his introduction, Ilan Stavans situates Neruda in his native milieu as well as in a contemporary English-language one, and a group of new translations by leading poets testifies to Neruda's enduring, vibrant legacy among English-speaking writers and readers today.
Te haré el odio, por si el amor no basta: (poesía) (Spanish Edition)
Carlos Kaballero • 2024
Donde viven las musas / Land of Muses (Spanish Edition)
Marianela Dos Santos • 2024
¿Qué tienen en común las historias más románticas de la mitología griega con tu propio dolor convertido en poesía?<br/><br/>Nueva edición especial con poemas e ilustraciones inéditos<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>ENGLISH DESCRIPTION<br/><br/>How can stories from Greek mythology help you turn your pain into poetry?<br/><br/>A special new edition with never-before-published poems and illustrations.<br/><br/>This sincere and moving volume will take you on a voyage in verse from timeless myth to the depths of your own heart.<br/><br/>A literary experience that will help you find inspiration even in your darkest moments. Because on this journey, the Muses share their secrets with those who believe in magic… and magic can find us only when we believe.
Hamlet
William Shakespeare • 2021
Romeo and Juliet (Dover Thrift Editions: Plays)
William Shakespeare • 1993
One of Shakespeare's most popular and accessible plays, Romeo and Juliet tells the story of two star-crossed lovers and the unhappy fate that befell them as a result of a long and bitter feud between their families. The play contains some of Shakespeare's most beautiful and lyrical love poetry and is perhaps the finest celebration of the joys of young love ever written. This inexpensive edition includes the complete, unabridged text with explanatory footnotes. Ideal for classroom use, it is a wonderful addition to the home library of anyone wanting to savor one of literature's most sublime paeans to love.
El extraño caso del Doctor Jekyll y Mr. Hyde: Y otros relatos de terror (El gato negro) (Spanish Edition)
Robert Louis Stevenson • 2006
Crónica de una muerte anunciada
Gabriel García Márquez • 2003
Cuando Dios era mujer: El verdadero papel de lo femenino en el devenir de la Humanidad. Un libro en el que las mujeres recuperan el protagonismo del ... ellas escritas por hombres. (Spanish Edition)
Fernando Klein • 2009
Adentr‡ndose en el misterio que aœn encierra el papel protagonista de la mujer en el origen y desarrollo de la Humanidad, ÒLo Sagrado FemeninoÓ presenta al lector el coraz―n de lo femenino: historia y mitos involucrados con la mujer. El autor relata lo femenino a travŽs de las distintas sociedades y religiones: desde las diosas paleol’ticas, Isis en Egipto o las diosas del mundo cl‡sico, hasta Israel, donde lo femenino se oculta, para concluir con la vuelta de la diosa madre en la figura de Mar’a en el cristianismo. El libro explica c―mo el mito originario de la diosa se perdi― y c―mo la divinidad masculina fue desplazando su papel. Ahora, cuando hemos desacralizado la naturaleza, quiz‡ se haga necesario conocer a fondo cu‡l es la naturaleza de la antigua diosa madre, para comprender mejor las implicaciones psicol―gicas que ha supuesto su pŽrdida para el ser humano. Esta obra descubre las caracter’sticas principales de las sociedades matriarcales, y c―mo fueron Žstas reemplazadas por los dioses masculinos y la sociedad patriarcal. Fernando Klein expone de manera amena pero rigurosa y cient’fica los arquetipos vinculados con lo Divino Femenino en las culturas antiguas, en las religiones y las tradiciones abor’genes de todo el mundo. El an‡lisis de la arqueolog’a, la mitolog’a, las tradiciones populares, los s’mbolos e im‡genes sagradas, nos permiten acercarnos a un mundo regido por lo femenino, que luego perdi― su lugar frente al poder masculino, que quedar’a firmemente instaurado. Un libro en el que las mujeres recuperan el protagonismo del que hab’an sido privadas por las fuentes hist―ricas, casi todas ellas escritas por hombres.
Como agua para chocolate
Laura Esquivel • unde
La historia está ambientada en Piedras Negras, Coahuila, México. Situada en la época de la Revolución mexicana (Pueblo oprimido, representación ambiental de los personajes: Tita y Pedro: Oprimidos; Mamá Elena y Rosaura: opresores; Gertrudis: Revolución (cambio - libertad)). Tita es la menor de tres hermanas. En su familia existe la costumbre de que la hija menor no debe casarse; sino que debe hacerse cargo de sus padres en la vejez. La conjugación comienza a complicarse cuando Tita se enamora de Pedro Muzquiz, lo cual es inaceptable para las costumbres de la familia de Tita, integrada por su madre "Mamá Elena" y sus dos hermanas: Rosaura y Gertrudis. De esta forma se le prohíbe a Tita relacionarse con cualquier hombre, incluyendo Pedro, su novio de la niñez. Pedro, no obstante , pide en matrimonio a Tita, acción que importuna a Mamá Elena; finalmente ésta encuentra una "solución": ofrece en matrimonio a Rosaura, hermana mayor de Tita, para casarse con él y hacerle olvidar, según Mamá Elena, su obsesión por Tita. Pedro acepta escondiendo un ardid: casarse con Rosaura para mantenerse cerca de Tita. Todo el relato utiliza la gastronomía mexicana como nexo y metáfora de los sentimientos de los personajes; así las cebollas serán el motivo de lágrimas, las codornices negras de fe, los pétalos de rosa despertarán pasiones incontrolables. Cada capítulo inicia con una receta, la primera presentada por la sobrina-nieta de Tita, quién es la que relata la historia. Esta obra se destaca entre una de las obras principales pertenecientes al movimiento literario "realismo mágico", realizando una fusión de lo mágico y mundano/ realidad. A lo largo de la obra, se puede apreciar también la gran variedad de temáticas que la componen y, además, la relación que éstas tienen con la obra en sí: intentan demostrar el contexto histórico de un momento determinado, incluyendo sus costumbres, tradiciones, etc.
Chilling Tales of HP Lovecraft
H.P. Lovecraft • 2011
The Phantom of the Opera (Classics - The Phantom of the Opera)
Gaston Leroux • 2016
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston LerouxOpera singer Christine triumphs at the gala on the night of the old managers' retirement. Her old childhood friend, Raoul, hears her sing and recalls his love for Christine. At this time, there are rumors of a phantom living at the Opera and he makes himself known to the managers through letters and malevolent acts. Some time after the gala, the Paris Opera performs Faust, with the prima donna Carlotta playing the lead, against the Phantom's wishes. During the performance, Carlotta loses her voice and the grand chandelier plummets into the audience.Christine is kidnapped by the phantom and is taken to his home in the cellars of the Opera where he identifies himself as Erik. He plans to keep her there for a few days, hoping she will come to love him. But she causes Erik to change his plans when she unmasks him and, to the horror of both, beholds his noseless, lipless, sunken-eyed face which resembles a skull dried up by the centuries, covered in yellowed dead flesh. Fearing that she will leave him, he decides to keep her with him forever, but when Christine requests release after two weeks, he agrees on condition that she wear his ring and be faithful to him.
Frankestein
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley • 2011
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia Book 2)
C.S. Lewis • 2008
<p>The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is the second book in C. S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia, a series that has become part of the canon of classic literature, drawing readers of all ages into a magical land with unforgettable characters for over seventy-five years.<br></p><p>Four adventurers step through a wardrobe door and into the land of Narnia, a land enslaved by the power of the White Witch. But when almost all hope is lost, the return of the Great Lion, Aslan, signals a great change... and a great sacrifice.<br></p><p>This is a stand-alone read, but if you would like to explore more of the Narnian realm, pick up The Horse and His Boy, the third book in The Chronicles of Narnia.<br></p>
Dracula: The Original 1897 Edition (A Bram Stoker Classic Novel)
Bram Stoker • 2023
The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath • 1966
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
J.K. Rowling • 2015
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
J.K. Rowling • 2015
Love Letters to Poe: A Toast to Edgar Allan Poe
Sara Crocoll Smith • 2021
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde • 2021
Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, Vol. 1
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle • 1986
Since his first appearance in Beeton’s Christmas Annual in 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes has been one of the most beloved fictional characters ever created. Now, in two paperback volumes, Bantam presents all fifty-six short stories and four novels featuring Conan Doyle’s classic hero--a truly complete collection of Sherlock Holmes’s adventures in crime!<br/><br/>Volume I includes the early novel A Study in Scarlet, which introduced the eccentric genius of Sherlock Holmes to the world. This baffling murder mystery, with the cryptic word Rache written in blood, first brought Holmes together with Dr. John Watson. Next, The Sign of Four presents Holmes’s famous “seven percent solution” and the strange puzzle of Mary Morstan in the quintessential locked-room mystery.<br/><br/>Also included are Holmes’s feats of extraordinary detection in such famous cases as the chilling “ The Adventure of the Speckled Band,” the baffling riddle of “The Musgrave Ritual,” and the ingeniously plotted “The Five Orange Pips,” tales that bring to life a Victorian England of horse-drawn cabs, fogs, and the famous lodgings at 221B Baker Street, where Sherlock Holmes earned his undisputed reputation as the greatest fictional detective of all time.
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.
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel Garcia Marquez • 1995
From the Nobel Prize winning novelist, this epic tale of seven generations of the Buendia family spans a hundred years of Latin American history. The brilliant, bestselling, landmark novel chronicles the irreconcilable conflict between the desire for solitude and the need for love—in rich, imaginative prose that has come to define an entire genre known as "magical realism." One of the most significant works in the Spanish literary canon, Pablo Neruda called it "The greatest revelation in the Spanish language since Don Quixote."
La letra escarlata
Nathaniel Hawthorne • 1990
