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Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison · 1995
Cry, the Beloved Country
Alan Paton · 2003
<b>“The greatest novel to emerge out of the tragedy of South Africa, and one of the best novels of our time.” —<i>The New Republic</i></b><br> <br><b>“A beautiful novel…its writing is so fresh, its projection of character so immediate and full, its events so compelling, and its understanding so compassionate that to read the book is to share intimately, even to the point of catharsis, in the grave human experience.” —<i>The New York Times</i></b><br><br>An Oprah Book Club selection, <i>Cry, the Beloved Country</i>, was an immediate worldwide bestseller when it was published in 1948. Alan Paton’s impassioned novel about a black man’s country under white man’s law is a work of searing beauty.<br> <br><i>Cry, the Beloved Country</i>, is the deeply moving story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son, Absalom, set against the background of a land and a people riven by racial injustice. Remarkable for its lyricism, unforgettable for character and incident, <i>Cry, the Beloved Country</i> is a classic work of love and hope, courage and endurance, born of the dignity of man.
The Confessions
Saint Augustine · 2008
The Woman Destroyed
Simone De Beauvoir · 1987
The Prince
Niccol? Machiavelli · 20140701
A Room of One s Own by Virginia Woolf
Peta Hanrahan · 2019
The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood · 2006
A Breath of Life (New Directions Paperbook)
Clarice Lispector · 2012
Indigno de Ser Humano - Osamu Dazai
Osamu Dazai · 2025
Osamu Dazai fue un novelista japonés, ampliamente considerado como una de las figuras literarias más importantes del Japón del siglo XX. Nacido en Kanagi, prefectura de Aomori, Dazai es más conocido por sus obras que exploran temas como la alienación, la autodestrucción y la búsqueda de sentido en una sociedad en rápida modernización. Sus narraciones profundamente personales y, a menudo, semi-autobiográficas reflejan la agitación de su propia vida, marcada por repetidos intentos de suicidio y un profundo sentimiento de desesperación existencial. Hoy en día, sus novelas Indigno de ser humano (1948) y El ocaso (1947) son conside radas clásicos de la literatura japonesa moderna.Indigno de ser humano es una exploración profundamente introspectiva de la alienación, la identidad y la lucha por la autoaceptación en una sociedad en rápido cambio. Osamu Dazai presenta la vida fragmentada de Ōba Yōzō, un hombre incapaz de reconciliar su persona pública con su desesperación interior, navegando en un mundo donde la conexión humana parece imposible y la autenticidad inalcanzable. A través de una serie de cuadernos confesionales, la narración enfrenta la desintegración psicológica de su protagonista, revelando los efectos corrosivos del aislamiento, la culpa y las expectativas sociales. Desde su publicación, Indigno de ser humano ha sido reconocida como una de las obras más importantes de la literatura japonesa moderna, elogiada por su honestidad implacable y su profundidad emocional. Su exploración de temas universales como el miedo al rechazo, la búsqueda de sentido y las consecuencias destructivas de la autoalienación ha resonado en lectores de diversas culturas y generaciones. El retrato crudo de la angustia mental y la crisis existencial continúa hablando a quienes luchan con la tensión entre su yo interior y las máscaras que presentan al mundo. El poder perdurable de Indigno de ser humano reside en su capacidad para despojar las ilusiones y enfrentar las verdades incómodas sobre la condición humana. Al examinar las frágiles fronteras entre la autenticidad y la representación, la pertenencia y el extrañamiento, Dazai invita a los lectores a reflexionar sobre el costo de la desconexión — y sobre la profunda necesidad humana de comprensión, compasión y conexión genuina.
The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin · 2023
El cuerpo mutilado (la angustia de muerte en el arte)
José Miguel G. Cortés · 1996
André Breton y los datos fundamentales del surrealismo
Michel Carrouges · 2008
The Paradise Problem
Christina Lauren · 2024
The River Is Waiting
Wally Lamb · 2025
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari · 2015
<p>#1 New York Times Bestseller • New York Times Readers’ Pick: Top 100 Books of the 21st Century • The Summer Reading Pick for President Barack Obama and Bill Gates</p><p>Official U.S. edition with full color illustrations throughout. </p><p>From renowned historian Yuval Noah Harari 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.”</p><p>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?</p><p>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.</p><p>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?</p><p>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.</p>
Atomic Habits
James Clear · 2018
Hamlet
William Shakespeare · 1980
Metamorphoses
Ovid
Great Expectations
Charles Dickens · 2003
<p><b>'His novels will endure as long as the language itself' Peter Ackroyd</b><br><br>Dickens's haunting late novel depicts the education and development of a young man, Pip, as his life is changed by a series of events - a terrifying encounter with an escaped convict in a graveyard on the wild Kent marshes; a summons to meet the bitter, decaying Miss Havisham and her beautiful, cold-hearted ward Estella; the sudden generosity of a mysterious benefactor - and he discovers the true nature of his 'great expectations'. This definitive edition includes appendices on Dickens's original ending, giving an illuminating glimpse into a great novelist at work.<br><br>With an Introduction by DAVID TROTTER <br>Edited and with notes by CHARLOTTE MITCHELL</p>
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee · 2014
<p>Look for The Land of Sweet Forever, a posthumous collection of newly discovered short stories and previously published essays and magazine pieces by Harper Lee, coming October 21, 2025.</p><p>Voted America's Best-Loved Novel in PBS's The Great American Read</p><p>Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South—and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred</p><p>One of the most cherished stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than forty million copies worldwide, served as the basis for an enormously popular motion picture, and was voted one of the best novels of the twentieth century by librarians across the country. A gripping, heart-wrenching, and wholly remarkable tale of coming-of-age in a South poisoned by virulent prejudice, it views a world of great beauty and savage inequities through the eyes of a young girl, as her father—a crusading local lawyer—risks everything to defend a black man unjustly accused of a terrible crime.</p>
Normal People
Sally Rooney · 2018
A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER<br/>WINNER OF THE SPECSAVERS NATIONAL BOOKS AWARD 2018 (International Author)<br/>SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BOOK AWARD 2018 (Novel)<br/>LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018<br/><br/>'The best novel published this year.' Times<br/>Connell and Marianne grow up in the same small town in rural Ireland. The similarities end there; they are from very different worlds. When they both earn places at Trinity College in Dublin, a connection that has grown between them lasts long into the following years.<br/>This is an exquisite love story about how a person can change another person's life - a simple yet profound realisation that unfolds beautifully over the course of the novel. It tells us how difficult it is to talk about how we feel and it tells us - blazingly - about cycles of domination, legitimacy and privilege. Alternating menace with overwhelming tenderness, Sally Rooney's second novel breathes fiction with new life.
Bluets
Maggie Nelson · 2009
Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color . . .<br/>A lyrical, philosophical, and often explicit exploration of personal suffering and the limitations of vision and love, as refracted through the color blue. With Bluets, Maggie Nelson has entered the pantheon of brilliant lyric essayists.<br/>Maggie Nelson is the author of numerous books of poetry and nonfiction, including Something Bright, Then Holes (Soft Skull Press, 2007) and Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions (University of Iowa Press, 2007). She lives in Los Angeles and teaches at the California Institute of the Arts.
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel Garcia Marquez · 2006
OCEANO MAR (CM)
ALESSANDRO BARICCO · 2014
Cien Sonetos De Amor
Pablo Neruda · 1995
"Sensual as a tropical night swirling in honeysuckle and jazz, with its lush textures and effervescent lyricism, this book is like a smokey champagne which two lovers, mesmerized by each other's presence, are sipping".--San Francisco Examiner.
El Amor, Las Mujeres y la Vida
Mario Benedetti · 2000
Nuestra parte de noche (Spanish Edition)
Mariana Enriquez · 2020
PREMIO HERRALDE DE NOVELA 2019<br/><br/>La herencia, el deseo de pervivir, la paternidad, el horror, lo íntimo y lo político. Una novela libre y osada, hechizante y genial.<br/><br/>Un padre y un hijo atraviesan Argentina por carretera, desde Buenos Aires hacia las cataratas de Iguazú, en la frontera norte con Brasil. Son los años de la junta militar, hay controles de soldados armados y tensión en el ambiente. El hijo se llama Gaspar y el padre trata de protegerlo del destino que le ha sido asignado. La madre murió en circunstancias poco claras, en un accidente que acaso no lo fue.<br/><br/>Como su padre, Gaspar está llamado a ser un médium en una sociedad secreta, la Orden, que contacta con la Oscuridad en busca de la vida eterna mediante atroces rituales. En ellos es vital disponer de un médium, pero el destino de estos seres dotados de poderes especiales es cruel, porque su desgaste físico y mental es rápido e implacable. Los orígenes de la Orden, regida por la poderosa familia de la madre de Gaspar, se remontan a siglos atrás, cuando el conocimiento de la Oscuridad llegó desde el corazón de Africa a Inglaterra y desde allí se extendió hasta Argentina.<br/><br/>English: A father and a son cross Argentina by road, from Buenos Aires to the Iguazu Falls. Its the military regime era, there are controls of armed soldiers and tension in the environment. The sons name is Gaspar and the father tries to protect him from his destiny after his mother died in unclear circumstances.
Socrates: A Man for Our Times
Paul Johnson · 2011
The Plague
Albert Camus · 1991
“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.
Present Moment, Wonderful Moment
Thich Nhat Hanh · 2007
On Truth and Untruth: Selected Writings (Harper Perennial Modern Thought)
Friedrich Nietzsche · 2010
Pedro Paramo
Juan Rulfo · 1981
Rayuela
Cortazar, Julio, Julio Cortazar · 2006
Por primera vez se edita -Rayuela- como un clasico de la novela contemporanea. Todo el conjunto de materiales que aporta esta edicion (introduccion, abundantes notas, plano, fotografias) serviran al lector para comprender mejor y disfrutar mas con esta gran novela. Al aclararse tantas alusiones y tecnicas narrativas, resplandece con mas claridad el sentido profundo del relato: la busqueda constante, el humor, el juego, la nostalgia de una verdadera vida, el paso sonado -de la tierra al cielo-â¦
El acontecimiento
Annie Ernaux · 2019
Una mujer ante una sociedad en la que el aborto es un tabú (y un delito).<br/>En octubre de 1963, cuando Annie Ernaux se halla en Ruán estudiando filología, descubre que está embarazada. Desde el primer momento no le cabe la menor duda de que no quiere tener esa criatura no deseada. En una sociedad en la que se penaliza el aborto con prisión y multa, se encuentra sola; hasta su pareja se desentiende del asunto. Además del desamparo y la discriminación por parte de una sociedad que le vuelve la espalda, queda la lucha frente al profundo horror y dolor de un aborto clandestino.<br/><br/>«Busco siempre que mi escritura sea incisiva, que vaya al corazón de las cosas.» Annie Ernaux (declaraciones al diario Clarín)
La Sombra del Viento
Carlos Ruiz Zafón · 2016
«Todavía recuerdo aquel amanecer en que mi padre me llevó por primera vez a visitar el Cementerio de los Libros Olvidados.»<br/>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, Daniel Sempere encuentra un libro maldito que cambia el rumbo de su vida y le arrastra a un laberinto de intrigas y secretos enterrados en el alma oscura de la ciudad. La Sombra del Viento es un misterio literario ambientado en la Barcelona de la primera mitad del siglo xx, desde los últimos esplendores del Modernismo hasta las tinieblas de la posguerra.<br/><br/>Aunando las técnicas del relato de intriga y suspense, la novela histórica y la comedia de costumbres, La Sombra del Viento es sobre todo una trágica historia 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 cuya intriga se mantiene hasta la última página.
Antologia Poetica
Mario Benedetti · 1995
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop: A Novel
Satoshi Yagisawa · 2023
The wise and charming international bestseller and hit Japanese movie—about a young woman who loses everything but finds herself—a tale of new beginnings, romantic and family relationships, and the comfort that can be found in books.<br/>Twenty-five-year-old Takako has enjoyed a relatively easy existence—until the day her boyfriend Hideaki, the man she expected to wed, casually announces he’s been cheating on her and is marrying the other woman. Suddenly, Takako’s life is in freefall. She loses her job, her friends, and her acquaintances, and spirals into a deep depression. In the depths of her despair, she receives a call from her distant uncle Satoru.<br/>An unusual man who has always pursued something of an unconventional life, especially after his wife Momoko left him out of the blue five years earlier, Satoru runs a second-hand bookshop in Jimbocho, Tokyo’s famous book district. Takako once looked down upon Satoru’s life. Now, she reluctantly accepts his offer of the tiny room above the bookshop rent-free in exchange for helping out at the store. The move is temporary, until she can get back on her feet. But in the months that follow, Takako surprises herself when she develops a passion for Japanese literature, becomes a regular at a local coffee shop where she makes new friends, and eventually meets a young editor from a nearby publishing house who’s going through his own messy breakup.<br/>But just as she begins to find joy again, Hideaki reappears, forcing Takako to rely once again on her uncle, whose own life has begun to unravel. Together, these seeming opposites work to understand each other and themselves as they continue to share the wisdom they’ve gained in the bookshop.<br/>Translated By Eric Ozawa
The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity
Carlo M. Cipolla · 2021
The Laws of Human Nature
Robert Greene · 2018
A Room of One's Own
Virginia Woolf · 2024
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Ottessa Moshfegh · 2019
Siddharta
Herman Hesse · 2018
Siddhartha is a novel by Hermann Hesse that deals with the spiritual journey of self-discovery of a man named Siddhartha during the time of the Gautama Buddha.
Surrounded by Idiots (The Surrounded by Idiots Series)
Thomas Erikson · 2020
Do you ever think you’re the only one making any sense? Or tried to reason with your partner with disastrous results? Do long, rambling answers drive you crazy? Or does your colleague’s abrasive manner rub you the wrong way?<br/><br/>You are not alone. After a disastrous meeting with a highly successful entrepreneur, who was genuinely convinced he was ‘surrounded by idiots’, communication expert and bestselling author, Thomas Erikson dedicated himself to understanding how people function and why we often struggle to connect with certain types of people.<br/><br/>Surrounded by Idiots is an international phenomenon, selling over 1.5 million copies worldwide. It offers a simple, yet ground-breaking method for assessing the personalities of people we communicate with – in and out of the office – based on four personality types (Red, Blue, Green and Yellow), and provides insights into how we can adjust the way we speak and share information.<br/><br/>Erikson will help you understand yourself better, hone communication and social skills, handle conflict with confidence, improve dynamics with your boss and team, and get the best out of the people you deal with and manage. He also shares simple tricks on body language, improving written communication, advice on when to back away or when to push on, and when to speak up or shut up. Packed with ‘aha!’ and ‘oh no!’ moments, Surrounded by Idiots will help you understand and communicate with those around you, even people you currently think are beyond all comprehension.<br/><br/>And with a bit of luck you can also be confident that the idiot out there isn’t you!
El Arte de la Guerra
Su Tzu • 2014
El arte de la guerra
The Happiness Hypothesis
Jonathan Haidt · 2006
Jonathan Haidt skillfully combines two genres-philosophical wisdom and scientific research-delighting the reader with surprising insights. He explains, for example, why we have such difficulty controlling ourselves and sticking to our plans; why no achievement brings lasting happiness, yet a few changes in your life can have profound effects, and why even confirmed atheists experience spiritual elevation. In a stunning final chapter, Haidt addresses the grand question "How can I live a meaningful life?," offering an original answer that draws on the rich inspiration of both philosophy and science. <p>Ê</p> "<i>The Happiness Hypothesis</i>is a wonderful and nuanced book that provides deep insight into the some of the most important questions in life--Why are we here?Ê What kind of life should we lead?Ê What paths lead to happiness?Ê From the ancient philosophers to cutting edge scientists, Haidt weaves a tapestry of the best and the brightest.Ê His highly original work on elevation and awe--two long-neglected emotions--adds a new weave to that tapestry.Ê A truly inspiring book."Ê -<b>David M. Buss</b>, author of<i>The Evolution of Desire:Ê Strategies of Human Mating</i> Ê ÒIn this beautifully written book, Jonathan Haidt shows us the deep connection that exists between cutting-edge psychological research and the wisdom of the ancients.Ê It is inspiring to see how much modern psychology informs life's most central and persistent questions <b>-Barry Schwartz, author of<i>The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less</i></b> Ê ÊÒIn our quest for happiness, we must find a balance between modern science and ancient wisdom, between East and West, and between Ôleft brainÕ and Ôright brain.Õ Jon Haidt has struck that balance perfectly, and in doing so has given us the most brilliant and lucid analysis ofÊvirtue and well-being in the entire literature of positive psychology.Ê For the reader who seeks to understand happiness, my advice is: Begin with Haidt.Ó -<b>Martin E.P. Seligman, Director, Positive Psychology Center at the University of Pennsylvania and author of<i>Authentic Happiness</i></b> <b>Ê</b> ÒHaidt is a fine guide on this journey between past and present, discussing the current complexities of psychological theory with clarity and humor. . . HaidtÕs is an open-minded, robust look at philosophy, psychological fact and spiritual mystery, of scientific rationalism and the unknowable ephemeral Ð an honest inquiry that concludes that the best life is, perhaps, one lived in the balance of opposites.Ó -<b>Bookpage</b>
1984
George Orwell · 2013
<p>75th ANNIVERSARY EDITION</p><p>“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</p><p>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.</p><p>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 novel remains an urgent call for the individual willing to speak truth to power.</p>
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald · 2003
The Odyssey
Homer
The Virgin Suicides
Jeffrey Eugenides · 1993
George Orwell: 1984
George Orwell · 2021
Im April des Jahres 1984 führt Winston Smith ein ödes und tristes Leben in London, einer düsteren Stadt im totalitären Staate Ozeanien, in der alle permanent vom Großen Bruder beobachtet und jeder Schritt und jedes Wort von der Gedankenpolizei überwacht werden. Winston, ein Mitglied der äußeren Partei, verbringt seine Tage damit, im Ministerium für Wahrheit die Geschichte so umzuschreiben, wie es die Regierung verfügt. Äußerlich angepasst, brodelt in ihm ein tiefer Hass gegen die Partei und das Regime, weil die Kluft zwischen der Propaganda, die er tagtäglich verfassen muss, und Realität, die er erlebt, zu groß ist. Ist er der einzige Mensch in diesem Staat, dessen Gedächtnis noch funktioniert und der bemerkt, dass die Partei alles zu ihren Gunsten manipuliert?<br/><br/>Als er in Julia nicht nur seine große Liebe, sondern auch eine Gleichgesinnte findet, fasst er den Mut, mit ihr gemeinsam der geheimen Organisation der Bruderschaft beizutreten, die sich der Zerstörung der Partei verschrieben hat. Aber das stets wachsame System duldet keine Opposition, und auch an vermeintlich sicheren Orten lauert die totale Überwachung.<br/><br/>Wird ihm die Gehirnwäsche oder gar die Vaporisierung drohen, die der Große Bruder für Andersdenkende und Regimegegner bereithält?
Crime and Punishment (Vintage Classics)
Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1993
<b>Hailed by <i>Washington Post Book World</i> as “the best [translation] currently available" when it was first published, this second edition of <i>Crime and Punishment </i>has been updated in honor of the 200th anniversary of Dostoevsky’s birth. • <b>ONE OF <i>TIME MAGAZINE</i>'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME</b></b><br><br>With the same suppleness, energy, and range of voices that won their translation of <i>The Brothers Karamazov</i> the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Prize, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky offer a brilliant translation of <i>Crime and Punishment, </i>Dostoevsky's astounding pyschological thriller, newly revised for his bicentenniel. <br><br>In <i>Crime and Punishment</i>, when Raskolnikov, an impoverished student living in the St. Petersburg of the tsars, commits an act of murder and theft, he sets into motion a story that is almost unequalled in world literature for its excruciating suspense, its atmospheric vividness, and its depth of characterization and vision. Dostoevsky’s drama of sin, guilt, and redemption transforms the sordid story of an old woman’s murder into the nineteenth century’s profoundest and most compelling philosophical novel.
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"--
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.
El Viaje Del Elefante
JOSE SARAMAGO · 2016
Brand New. Ship worldwide
My Year of Rest and Relaxation: A Novel
Ottessa Moshfegh · 2019
Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, Time, NPR, Vice, Bustle, The New York Times, The Guardian, Kirkus Reviews, Entertainment Weekly, The AV Club, & Audible A New York Times Bestseller • New York Times Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century “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.” — Entertainment Weekly “Darkly hilarious . . . [Moshfegh’s] the kind of provocateur who makes you laugh out loud while drawing blood.” —Vogue 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. 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? My Year of Rest and Relaxation 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.
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?
Thirst for Salt
Madelaine Lucas · 2023
A Bustle, LitHub, Debutiful, and NYLON Most Anticipated Book of 2023<br/>A Goodreads Buzziest Book of the New Year<br/><br/>“A love affair so richly and attentively imagined it carries the grace and gravity of memory itself.” ―Leslie Jamison<br/>It’s hard to remember now that I was once that girl, lying in the sand in my red swimsuit and swimming late into the day. Sharkbait, he called me.<br/><br/>It’s in the water where she first sees him: a local man almost twenty years her senior. Adrift in the summer after finishing college, a young woman is on holiday with her mother in an isolated Australian coastal town. Finding herself pulled to Jude, the man in the water, she begins losing herself in the simple, seductive rhythms of his everyday life.<br/>As their relationship deepens, life at Sailors Beach offers her the stability she has been craving as the daughter of two drifters―a loving but impulsive mother and an itinerant father. But the arrival of Maeve, a friend from Jude’s past, threatens to rock their fragile, newfound intimacy. And when she witnesses something she doesn’t fully understand, she finds herself questioning everything―about Jude, about herself, about the life she has and the one she wants.<br/>A magnetic and unforgettable story of desire and its complexities, and a powerful reckoning with memory, loss, and longing, Madelaine Lucas’s debut novel, Thirst for Salt, reveals with stunning, sensual immediacy the way the past can hold us in its thrall, shaping who we are and what we love.
The Idiot: A Novel
Elif Batuman · 2017
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction • A New York Times Book Review Notable Book • Nominated for the Women's Prize for Fiction “Easily the funniest book I’ve read this year.” —GQ “Masterly funny debut novel . . . Erudite but never pretentious, The Idiot will make you crave more books by Batuman.” —Sloane Crosley, Vanity Fair A portrait of the artist as a young woman. A novel about not just discovering but inventing oneself. The year is 1995, and email is new. Selin, the daughter of Turkish immigrants, arrives for her freshman year at Harvard. She signs up for classes in subjects she has never heard of, befriends her charismatic and worldly Serbian classmate, Svetlana, and, almost by accident, begins corresponding with Ivan, an older mathematics student from Hungary. Selin may have barely spoken to Ivan, but with each email they exchange, the act of writing seems to take on new and increasingly mysterious meanings. At the end of the school year, Ivan goes to Budapest for the summer, and Selin heads to the Hungarian countryside, to teach English in a program run by one of Ivan's friends. On the way, she spends two weeks visiting Paris with Svetlana. Selin's summer in Europe does not resonate with anything she has previously heard about the typical experiences of American college students, or indeed of any other kinds of people. For Selin, this is a journey further inside herself: a coming to grips with the ineffable and exhilarating confusion of first love, and with the growing consciousness that she is doomed to become a writer. With superlative emotional and intellectual sensitivity, mordant wit, and pitch-perfect style, Batuman dramatizes the uncertainty of life on the cusp of adulthood. Her prose is a rare and inimitable combination of tenderness and wisdom; its logic as natural and inscrutable as that of memory itself. The Idiot is a heroic yet self-effacing reckoning with the terror and joy of becoming a person in a world that is as intoxicating as it is disquieting. Batuman's fiction is unguarded against both life's affronts and its beauty--and has at its command the complete range of thinking and feeling which they entail. Named one the best books of the year by Refinery29 • Mashable One • Elle Magazine • The New York Times • Bookpage • Vogue • NPR • Buzzfeed •The Millions
Almond: A Novel
Won-pyung Sohn · 2020
A BTS fan favorite! A WALL STREET JOURNAL STORIES THAT CAN TAKE YOU ANYWHERE PICK * ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY'S STAY HOME AND READ PICK * SALON'S BEST AND BOLDEST * BUSTLE'S MOST ANTICIPATED<br/>The Emissary meets The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime in this poignant and triumphant story about how love, friendship, and persistence can change a life forever.<br/>This story is, in short, about a monster meeting another monster.<br/>One of the monsters is me.<br/>Yunjae was born with a brain condition called Alexithymia that makes it hard for him to feel emotions like fear or anger. He does not have friends—the two almond-shaped neurons located deep in his brain have seen to that—but his devoted mother and grandmother provide him with a safe and content life. Their little home above his mother’s used bookstore is decorated with colorful Post-it notes that remind him when to smile, when to say "thank you," and when to laugh.<br/>Then on Christmas Eve—Yunjae’s sixteenth birthday—everything changes. A shocking act of random violence shatters his world, leaving him alone and on his own. Struggling to cope with his loss, Yunjae retreats into silent isolation, until troubled teenager Gon arrives at his school, and they develop a surprising bond.<br/>As Yunjae begins to open his life to new people—including a girl at school—something slowly changes inside him. And when Gon suddenly finds his life at risk, Yunjae will have the chance to step outside of every comfort zone he has created to perhaps become the hero he never thought he would be.<br/>Readers of Wonder by R.J. Palaccio and Ginny Moon by Benjamin Ludwig will appreciate this "resonant" story that "gives Yunjae the courage to claim an entirely different story." (Booklist, starred review)<br/>Translated from the Korean by Sandy Joosun Lee.
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El despertar de la mariposa AI 1E MA
MARY E. PEARSON · 2013
In the not-too-distant future, when biotechnological advances have made synthetic bodies and brains possible but illegal, a seventeen-year-old girl, recovering from a serious accident and suffering from memory lapses, learns a startling secret about her existence.
Los cuatro acuerdos
Miguel Ángel Ruiz Macías
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
La ciudad de las bestias
Isabel Allende
The Book Thief
Markus Zusak · 2007
<b>#1 <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER • ONE OF <i>TIME</i> MAGAZINE’S 100 BEST YA BOOKS OF ALL TIME <b>• A <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> READER TOP 100 PICK FOR BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY • A <i>KIRKUS REVIEWS</i> BEST YOUNG ADULT BOOK OF THE CENTURY</b><br><br>The extraordinary, beloved novel about the ability of books to feed the soul even in the darkest of times.</b><br><br><i>When Death has a story to tell, you listen.</i><br><br>It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still.<br><br>Liesel Meminger is a foster girl living outside of Munich, who scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can’t resist–books. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement. <br><br>In superbly crafted writing that burns with intensity, award-winning author Markus Zusak, author of <i>I Am the Messenger,</i> has given us one of the most enduring stories of our time.<br><br>“The kind of book that can be life-changing.” —<i>The New York Times</i><br><br>“Deserves a place on the same shelf with <i>The Diary of a Young Girl </i>by Anne Frank.” —<i>USA Today</i><br><br><b>DON’T MISS <i>BRIDGE OF CLAY</i>, MARKUS ZUSAK’S FIRST NOVEL SINCE <i>THE BOOK THIEF.</i></b>
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Nuestra parte de noche (Spanish Edition)
Mariana Enriquez · 2020
