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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1984
Hamlet: William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare • 2018
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
J.K. Rowling • 2015
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>
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Pulitzer Prize Finalist
Dave Eggers • 2001
El Corazon de Las Tinieblas
Joseph Conrad • 2017
Helter Skelter The True Story Of The Manson Murder
Vincent Bugliosi • 2001
Enrique IV I y II Parte
William Shakespeare • 2017
Enrique V
William Shakespeare • 2000
El Grupo
Mary McCarthy • 2022
Grandes Esperanzas
Charles Dickens • 2018
The Great Gatsby
Francis Scott Fitzgerald • 2022
Las uvas de la ira
John Steinbeck • 2012
El buen soldado
Ford Madox Ford • 2020
Lo Que El Viento Se Llevó
Margaret Mitchell • 2019
El Dios de las Pequeñas Cosas
Arundhati Roy • 1998
El Padrino
Mario Puzo • 2019
Los Evangelios Gnosticos
Elaine Pagels • 1996
Girl, Interrupted
Susanna Kaysen • 2000
Gidget
Frederick Kohner • 2001
George W. Bushisms The Slate Book of Accidental Wit and Wisdom of Our 43rd President
Jacob Weisberg • 2001
El género en disputa
Judith Butler • 2017
Galápagos
Kurt Vonnegut • 1990
Freaky Friday
Mary Rodgers • 2009
Franny y Zooey
J. D. Salinger • 2019
Frankenstein
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley • 2015
El manantial
Ayn Rand • 2023
The Fortress of Solitude
Jonathan Lethem • 2004
Flores para Algernon
Daniel Keyes • 2004
Fletch
Gregory Mcdonald • 2018
Finnegan's Wake
James Joyce • 1996
Las cinco personas que encontrarás en el cielo
MITCH ALBOM • 2004
The Fall of the Athenian Empire
Donald Kagan • 1987
"The fourth volume in Kagan's history of ancient Athens, which has been called one of the major achievements of modern historical scholarship, begins with the ill-fated Sicilian expedition of 413 B.C. and ends with the surrender of Athens to Sparta in 404 B.C. Richly documented, precise in detail, it is also extremely well-written, linking it to a tradition of historical narrative that has become rare in our time."<br/>― Virginia Quarterly Review<br/>In the fourth and final volume of his magisterial history of the Peloponnesian War, Donald Kagan examines the period from the destruction of Athens' Sicilian expedition in September of 413 B.C. to the Athenian surrender to Sparta in the spring of 404 B.C. Through his study of this last decade of the war, Kagan evaluates the performance of the Athenian democracy as it faced its most serious challenge. At the same time, Kagan assesses Thucydides' interpretation of the reasons for Athens’ defeat and the destruction of the Athenian Empire.
La comunidad del anillo
J. R. R. Tolkien • 1991
El retorno del rey [Hardcover] … 8439596243
Miedo y asco en Las Vegas
Hunter S. Thompson • 2006
El arte de la guerra
Sun Tzu • 2018
El Arte De La Novela
Henry James • 2016
The Archidamian War
Donald Kagan • 2013
<p>"<b>The Archidamian War</b> remains sober, judicious, and comprehensive. There is nothing else like it available in English―certainly nothing that takes all the modern scholarship into account.... But perhaps the most valuable achievement of the book is its carefully reasoned demolition of Thucydides's view―warmly embraced by too many scholars―that Pericles's war strategy was justifiable."<br />— Peter Green ― <i>Times Literary Supplement</i></p><p>This book, the second volume in Donald Kagan's tetralogy about the Peloponnesian War, is a provocative and tightly argued history of the first ten years of the war. Taking a chronological approach that allows him to present at each stage the choices that were open to both sides in the conflict, Kagan focuses on political, economic, diplomatic, and military developments. He evaluates the strategies used by both sides and reconsiders the roles played by several key individuals.</p>
El diario de Ana Frank / The Diary of Ana Frank
Anne Frank • 2014
Ana Karenina
Lev Tolstói • 1984
Las cenizas de Ángela
Frank McCourt • 1999
<b>In this Spanish edition version of <i>Angela's Ashes</i>, <i>Las Cenizas de Angela</i> recounts McCourt's existence with remarkable exuberance and remarkable forgiveness.</b><br><br>Born in depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants, Frank McCourt experienced a childhood fraught with poverty and occasional cruelty. When the family moves back to Limerick, Frank endures the most miserable of childhoods.
An American Tragedy
Theodore Dreiser • 1964
Las asombrosas aventuras de Kavalier y Clay
Michael Chabon • 2012
Alice in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll • 2021
Fat Land
Greg Critser • 2004
The Official Fahrenheit 9-11 Reader
Michael Moore • 2004
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury • 2012
Extravagance: A Novel
Gary Krist • 2002
Todo está iluminado
Jonathan Safran Foer • 2016
Eva Luna
Isabel Allende • 2018
Europe Through the Back Door
Rick Steves • 1992
Ethan Frome
Edith Wharton • 2019
Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective
Donald J. Sobol • 2007
Empire Falls
Richard Russo • 2002
<b>NATIONAL BESTSELLER <b>• </b>PULITZER PRIZE WINNER <b>• The bestselling author of <i>Nobody's Fool </i>and <i>Straight Man</i> delves deep into the blue-collar heart of America in a work that overflows with hilarity, heartache, and grace. </b></b><br><br><b>“Rich, humorous ... Mr. Russo’s most seductive book thus far.” —<i>The New York Times</i></b><br><br>Welcome to Empire Falls, a blue-collar town full of abandoned mills whose citizens surround themselves with the comforts and feuds provided by lifelong friends and neighbors and who find humor and hope in the most unlikely places, in this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Richard Russo.<br><br> Miles Roby has been slinging burgers at the Empire Grill for 20 years, a job that cost him his college education and much of his self-respect. What keeps him there? It could be his bright, sensitive daughter Tick, who needs all his help surviving the local high school. Or maybe it’s Janine, Miles’ soon-to-be ex-wife, who’s taken up with a noxiously vain health-club proprietor. Or perhaps it’s the imperious Francine Whiting, who owns everything in town–and seems to believe that “everything” includes Miles himself.<br><br><b>Look for Richard Russo's new book, <i>Somebody's Fool</i>, coming soon.</b>
Emma
Jane Austen • 2010
Kay Thompson's Eloise
Kay Thompson • 1999
Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters
Mark Dunn • 2002
A hilarious and moving story of one girl’s fight for freedom of expression, as well as a linguistic tour de force sure to delight word lovers everywhere<br/><br/>Ella Minnow Pea is a girl living happily on the fictional island of Nollop off the coast of South Carolina. Nollop was named after Nevin Nollop, author of the immortal phrase containing all the letters of the alphabet, “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.”<br/><br/>Now Ella finds herself acting to save her friends, family, and fellow citizens from the encroaching totalitarianism of the island’s Council, which has banned the use of certain letters of the alphabet as they fall from a memorial statue of Nevin Nollop. As the letters progressively drop from the statue they also disappear from the novel. The result is "a love letter to alphabetarians and logomaniacs everywhere" (Myla Goldberg, bestselling author of Bee Season).
Ponche de ácido lisérgico
Tom Wolfe • 2000
Eleanor Roosevelt
Blanche Wiesen Cook • 1992
Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales and Poems
Edgar Allan Poe • 2009
El Extraño Caso Del Doctor Jekyll Y El Señor Hyde
Stevenson Rob • 2014
Driving Miss Daisy
Alfred Uhry • 1993
Racial tensions are delicately explored when a warm friendship evolves between an elderly Jewish woman and her black chauffeur. Winner of a 1988 Pulitzer Prize, and Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay.
El Quijote
Miguel de Cervantes • 2015
El Quijote consta de dos partes: una en la que se relatan las dos primeras salidas de los protagonistas, y otra dedicada a la tercera salida y la vuelta definitiva a su aldea. Se ha prescindido de algunos episodios, sin romper la línea argumental, así como de algunos diálogos. Se han actualizado los giros más oscuros.
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: A Novel (The Ya-Ya Series)
Rebecca Wells • 2004
LA DIVINA COMEDIA
2022
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
Erik Larson • 2003
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The true tale of the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago and the cunning serial killer who used the magic and majesty of the fair to lure his victims to their death.<br/><br/>Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America’s rush toward the twentieth century. The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham, the fair’s brilliant director of works and the builder of many of the country’s most important structures, including the Flatiron Building in New York and Union Station in Washington, D.C. The murderer was Henry H. Holmes, a young doctor who, in a malign parody of the White City, built his “World’s Fair Hotel” just west of the fairgrounds—a torture palace complete with dissection table, gas chamber, and 3,000-degree crematorium.<br/><br/>Burnham overcame tremendous obstacles and tragedies as he organized the talents of Frederick Law Olmsted, Charles McKim, Louis Sullivan, and others to transform swampy Jackson Park into the White City, while Holmes used the attraction of the great fair and his own satanic charms to lure scores of young women to their deaths. What makes the story all the more chilling is that Holmes really lived, walking the grounds of that dream city by the lake.<br/><br/>The Devil in the White City draws the reader into a time of magic and majesty, made all the more appealing by a supporting cast of real-life characters, including Buffalo Bill, Theodore Dreiser, Susan B. Anthony, Thomas Edison, Archduke Francis Ferdinand, and others. Erik Larson’s gifts as a storyteller are magnificently displayed in this rich narrative of the master builder, the killer, and the great fair that obsessed them both.
Deenie
Judy Blume • 2014
La muerte de un viajante
Arthur Miller • 2010
Los demonios
Fiódor M. Dostoievski • 2016
El 21 de noviembre de 1869 un estudiante radical de la Escuela de Agricultura de Moscú, Iván I. Ivánov, era asesinado por cinco de sus compañeros, miembros del grupo revolucionario Represalia del Pueblo, que tramaba una revuelta para el 17 de febrero de 1870 (noveno aniversario de la liberación de la servidumbre). Dostoievski se inspiró en este hecho para Los demonios (1872), tal vez la primera novela sobre una «célula terrorista». Aunque la intencionalidad política es evidente, el caos y la destrucción que recrea surgen de una sátira de costumbres tan hilarante como hiriente que poco a poco se va transformando en una tragedia clásica. En el centro destacan dos personajes de distintas generaciones: el maduro y «muy respetable» Stepán Trofímovich Verjovenski, que, después de una dudosa carrera en el ámbito académico, vive desde hace tiempo de la generosidad −y del amor− de una rica viuda a la que le gusta verse como protectora de las humanidades; y el hijo de ésta y antiguo pupilo de Verjovenski, el joven Nikolái Vsévolodovich Stavroguin, de quien todo el mundo se enamora y cuya vida incoherente y abismal no parece procurarle, sin embargo, ningún placer. Verjovenski dice de sí mismo: «Je suis un vulgar gorrón, et rien de plus»; Stavroguin cree que, si está poseído por algún demonio, será por «un diablejo pequeño, repugnante, escrofuloso, resfriado, de los fracasados». Estos personajes van revelando, entre la brutalidad y la fascinación, las complejas compensaciones que ofrece el «derecho al deshonor» −una de las obsesiones dostoievskianas− en medio de una trama coral deslumbrante. La nueva traducción de Fernando Otero recupera en su integridad el gran estilo y la fuerza de atracción de esta obra maestra.
Almas Muertas
Gogol, Nicolai • 1987
El código Da Vinci
Dan Brown • 2017
Robert Langdon recibe una llamada en mitad de la noche: el conservador del museo del Louvre ha sido asesinado en extrañas circunstancias y junto a su cadáver ha aparecido un desconcertante mensaje cifrado. Al profundizar en la investigación, Langdon, experto en simbología, descubre que las pistas conducen a las obras de Leonardo Da Vinci… y que están a la vista de todos, ocultas por el ingenio del pintor.<br/><br/>Langdon une esfuerzos con la criptóloga francesa Sophie Neveu y descubre que el conservador del museo pertenecía al priorato de Sión, una sociedad que a lo largo de los siglos ha contado con miembros tan destacados como sir Isaac Newton, Botticelli, Victor Hugo o el propio Da Vinci, y que ha velado por mantener en secreto una sorprendente verdad histórica.<br/><br/>Una mezcla trepidante de aventuras, intrigas vaticanas, simbología y enigmas cifrados que provocó una extraordinaria polémica al poner en duda algunos de los dogmas sobre los que se asienta la Iglesia católica. Una de las novelas más leídas de todos los tiempos.
David Copperfield (Charles Dickens)
Charles Dickens • 2014
Lisa and David
Theodore Isaac Rubin • 1970
Hija de la Fortuna
Isabel Allende • 1998
El curioso incidente del perro a medianoche
Mark Haddon • 2010
Cujo: A Novel
Stephen King • 2018
<b><b>The #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestseller, <i>Cujo </i>“hits the jugular” (<i>The New York Times</i>) with the story of a friendly Saint Bernard that is bitten by a bat. Get ready to meet the most hideous menace ever to terrorize the town of Castle Rock, Maine.</b></b><br><br>Cujo used to be a big friendly dog, lovable and loyal to his trinity (THE MAN, THE WOMAN, and THE BOY) and everyone around him, and always did his best to not be a BAD DOG. But that all ends on the day this nearly two-hundred-pound Saint Bernard makes the mistake of chasing a rabbit into a hidden underground cave, setting off a tragic chain of events. Now Cujo is no longer himself as he is slowly overcome by a growing sickness, one that consumes his mind even as his once affable thoughts turn uncontrollably and inexorably to hatred and murder. Cujo is about to become the center of a horrifying vortex that will inescapably draw in everyone around him—a relentless reign of terror, fury, and madness from which no one in Castle Rock will truly be safe…
EL CRISOL
ARTHUR MILLER • 1997
Pétalo carmesí, flor blanca
Michel Faber • 2004
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoyevsky • 2001
Supreme masterpiece recounts in feverish, compelling tones the story of Raskolnikov, an impoverished student tormented by his own thoughts after he brutally murders an old woman. Overwhelmed afterwards by guilt and terror, Raskolnikov confesses and goes to prison. There he realizes that happiness and redemption can only be achieved through suffering. A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
La prima Bette
Honoré de Balzac • 2010
Product Description<br/><br/>La prima Bette (1846), una de las últimas grandes novelas de Balzac, encierra en el marco de un documentado y estremecedor estudio de las costumbres parisinas la crónica vertiginosa de una crisis familiar. En primer término, el barón Hulot, extraviado en sus amoríos con la pérfida madame Marneffe, por cuya causa ha dejado de ser un hombre y se ha convertido en un mero temperamento, atrayendo hacia sí y los suyos el deshonor y la ruina; al fondo, en la sombra, la prima Bette, la pariente pobre, una de esas existencias anónimas, entomológicas que pasa por ser el ángel tutelar de la familia cuando en realidad, consumida de resentimiento, trama su destrucción. Y por encima de ellos, por encima de todo, París: un París babilónico, devoto del becerro de oro, por cuyos laberintos financieros y pasionales andan codo con codo el boato y la miseria, la esposa y la amante, la alta política y el submundo del hampa. "Balzac nunca ha escrito -dijo André Maurois- nada más atroz ni más bello."<br/><br/>About the Author<br/><br/>Honoré de Balzac nació en 1799 en Tours. En 1830 publica seis relatos bajo el título común de Escenas de la vida privada, y en 1831 aparecen otros trece bajo el de Novelas y cuentos filosóficos; en estos volúmenes se encuentra el germen de La comedia humana, ochenta y cinco novelas sobre la Francia de la primera mitad del siglo XIX, cuyo nacimiento oficial no se produciría hasta 1841. De este célebre ciclo son magníficos ejemplos Grandeza y decadencia de César Birotteu, perfumista (1837), La Casa Nucingen (1837) y La prima Bette (1846). Murió en París en 1850.
El Conde de Montecristo (Spanish Edition)
Alejandro Dumas • 2017
El conde de Montecristo (Le comte de Monte-Cristo) es una novela de aventuras clásica de Alexandre Dumas (padre) y Auguste Maquet. Este último no figuró en los títulos de la obra ya que Alexandre Dumas pagó una elevada suma de dinero para que así fuera. Maquet era un colaborador muy activo en las novelas de Dumas, llegó a escribir obras enteras que Dumas reescribió más tarde. Esta obra se suele considerar como el mejor trabajo de Dumas, y a menudo se incluye en las listas de las mejores novelas de todos los tiempos. El libro se terminó de escribir en 1844, y fue publicado en una serie de 18 partes durante los dos años siguientes. La historia tiene lugar en Francia, Italia y varias islas del Mediterráneo durante los hechos históricos de 1814-1838 (Los Cien Días del gobierno de Napoleón I, el reinado de Luis XVIII de Francia, de Carlos X de Francia y el reinado de Luis Felipe I de Francia). Trata sobre todo los temas de la justicia, la venganza, la piedad y el perdón y está contada en el estilo de una historia de aventuras. Dumas obtuvo la idea principal de una historia real que encontró en las memorias de un hombre llamado Jacques Peuchet. Peuchet contaba la historia de un zapatero llamado François Picaud que vivía en París en 1807. Picaud se comprometió con una mujer rica, pero cuatro amigos celosos le acusaron falsamente de ser un espía de Inglaterra. Fue encarcelado durante siete años. Durante su encarcelamiento, un compañero de prisión moribundo le legó un tesoro escondido en Milán. Cuando Picaud fue liberado en 1814, tomó posesión del tesoro, volvió bajo otro nombre a París y dedicó diez años a trazar su exitosa venganza contra sus antiguos amigos.
La conjura de los necios
John Kennedy Toole • 2009
La Conjura De Los Necios es una disparatada, ácida e inteligentísima novela. Pero no sólo eso, también es tremendamente divertida y amarga a la vez. La carcajada escapa por sí sola ante las situaciones desproporcionadas de esta gran tragicomedia. Ignatius J. Really es, probablemente, uno de los mejores personajes jamás creados y al que muchos no dudan en comparar con el Quijote. Más aún, es el antiprotagonista perfecto para una novela repleta de excelentes personajes, situados en la portuaria ciudad de Nueva Orleans, magistral Ignatius. Él es un incomprendido, una persona de treinta y pocos años que vive en la casa de su madre y que lucha por lograr un mundo mejor desde el interior de su habitación. Pero cruelmente se verá arrastrado a vagar por las calles de Nueva Orleans en busca de trabajo, obligado a adentrarse en la sociedad, con la que mantiene una relación de repulsión mutua, para poder sufragar los gastos causados por su madre en un accidente de coche mientras conducía ebria.<br/><br/>El autor, John K. Toole, consigue una crítica clase media. Logra mantener el interés del lector (incluso mayor en una segunda lectura que en la primera) con un abanico de personajes a cuál más desagradable. No deja títere con cabeza y, a través de la tortuosa y enrevesada personalidad de Ignatius, da un repaso a la época que le tocó vivir en un tono de burla que contrasta con la triste visión de las vidas de los personajes retratados. No encontramos únicamente una loca y angustiosa historia de crítica social, sino que el argumento engancha desde el comienzo. Momento en el que, como dice su protagonista, Fortuna hace girar su rueda hacia abajo y nunca sabemos cual es la desagradable sorpresa que nos depara el destino. A partir de aquí, unas situaciones enganchan con otras, al igual que lo van haciendo los personajes, y se va formando una enorme bola de nieve que terminará estallando al final de la novela.<br/><br/>Tras terminar La Conjura De Los Necios, a sus 32 años, el autor intentó infructuosamente que la publicasen. Ello derivó en una profunda depresión que le condujo al suicidio. Gracias a la tenacidad e insistencia de su madre hoy podemos disfrutar de esta deliciosa obra galardonada con el Premio Pulitzer. También podemos encontrar publicada La Biblia De Neón, novela escrita cuando el autor tenía 16 años.
Complete Stories
Dorothy Parker • 1995
The Complete Poems
Anne Sexton • 2016
The Collected Stories Of Eudora Welty: A National Book Award Winner
Eudora Welty • 2019
El codigo de los wooster
P.J. Wodehouse
La Naranja Mecanica
Anthony Burgess • 1999
Rare Book
Canción de Navidad
Charles Dickens • 1900
Christine
Stephen King • 2016
Stephen King’s ultimate evil vehicle of terror, Christine: the frightening story of a nerdy teenager who falls in love with his vintage Plymouth Fury. It’s love at first sight, but this car is no lady.<br/><br/>Evil is alive in Libertyville. It inhabits a custom-painted red and white 1958 Plymouth Fury named Christine and young Arnold Cunningham, who buys it.<br/><br/>Along with Arnold’s girlfriend, Leigh Cabot, Dennis Guilder attempts to find out the real truth behind Christine and finds more than he bargained for: from murder to suicide, there’s a peculiar feeling that surrounds Christine—she gets revenge on anyone standing in her path.<br/><br/>Can Dennis save Arnold from the wrath of Christine? This #1 national bestseller is “Vintage Stephen King…breathtaking…awesome. Carries such momentum the reader must force himself to slow down” (The New York Times Book Review).
Charlotte's Web (Trophy Newbery)
E. B. White • 2015
Don’t miss one of America’s top 100 most-loved novels, selected by PBS’s The Great American Read. This beloved book by E. B. White, author of Stuart Little and The Trumpet of the Swan, is a classic of children's literature that is "just about perfect." Illustrations in this ebook appear in vibrant full color on a full-color device and in rich black-and-white on all other devices. Some Pig. Humble. Radiant. These are the words in Charlotte's Web, high up in Zuckerman's barn. Charlotte's spiderweb tells of her feelings for a little pig named Wilbur, who simply wants a friend. They also express the love of a girl named Fern, who saved Wilbur's life when he was born the runt of his litter. E. B. White's Newbery Honor Book is a tender novel of friendship, love, life, and death that will continue to be enjoyed by generations to come. It contains illustrations by Garth Williams, the acclaimed illustrator of E. B. White's Stuart Little and Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House series, among many other books. Whether enjoyed in the classroom or for homeschooling or independent reading, Charlotte's Web is a proven favorite.
El Guardian entre el Centeno
SALINGER • 2015
Candido O El Optimismo
Voltaire • 2016
Brick Lane
Monica Ali • 2003
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley • 2011
This classic novel of a perfectly engineered society is “one of the most prophetic dystopian works of the twentieth century” (The Wall Street Journal). Half a millennium from now, in the World State, the watchword is that every one belongs to every one else. No matter what class of human you are bred to be—from the intellectual Alphas to the Epsilons who provide the manual labor—you are a part of the efficient, well-oiled whole. You are nourished, secure, and blissfully serene thanks to the freely distributed drug called soma. And while sex is strongly encouraged, the old way of procreation is forbidden, eliminating even the pains of childbirth. But when a man and woman journey beyond these confines to where the “savages” reside, and bring back two outsiders, the cracks begin to show. Named as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the twentieth century by the Modern Library, Brave New World is one of the first truly dystopian novels. Influenced by the historic events of Huxley’s era yet as relevant today as ever, it is a remarkable depiction of the conflict between progress and the human spirit. “Chilling. . . . That he gave us the dark side of genetic engineering in 1932 is amazing.” —Providence Journal-Bulletin “It is a frightening experience, indeed, to discover how much of his satirical prediction of a distant future became reality in so short a time.” —The New York Times Book Review
A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays
Mary McCarthy • 2002
Mary McCarthy was one of the leading literary figures of her time. In addition to the novels and memoirs for which she is best remembered, she was also a tireless literary and social critic. Starting out as a theater reviewer for Partisan Review in 1937, she quickly distinguished herself for her witty and fearless commentary on topics ranging from McCarthyism to the French New Novel to women’s fashion magazines. McCarthy was an eager controversialist, unsparing in her dissection of anything she found phony or hypocritical. Her reviews are sharp, sometimes malicious, and often very funny, but her criticism is also informed by deep erudition and enlivened by an inexhaustible capacity for enthusiasm. Her political writings, critical in equal measure of the Cold War consensus and of its critics, are less concerned with finding correct positions than with exploring the often absurd circumstances in which agonizing moral decisions are made.<br/><br/>While the soundness of McCarthy’s judgments can sometimes be doubted, her curiosity and intelligence cannot. The intellectual brio and acute judgment that characterizes her best fiction is vividly displayed in this selection of essays, which span McCarthy’s career from the late 1930s to the late 1970s. It includes her writings on topics such as fashion magazines, Eugene O’Neill, A Streetcar Named Desire, Look Back in Anger, Pale Fire, J.D. Salinger, Madame Bovary, Italo Calvino, and Watergate. The volume constitutes not only a valuable record of the ideological and cultural controversies that dominated American intellectual life from the Moscow trials to the Watergate hearings, but will also introduce a new generation of readers to a uniquely forthright and vibrant critical voice.
Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women
Elizabeth Wurtzel • 1999
The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1,200 Jews
Peter Duffy • 2004
In 1941, three brothers witnessed their parents and two other siblingsbeing led away to their eventual murders. It was a grim scene that would,of course, be repeated endlessly throughout the war. Instead of running orgiving in to despair, these brothers -- Tuvia, Zus, and Asael Bielski -- foughtback, waging a guerrilla war of wits against the Nazis.<br/>By using their intimate knowledge of the dense forests surrounding theBelarusan towns of Novogrudek and Lida, the Bielskis evaded the Nazis andestablished a hidden base camp, then set about convincing other Jews to jointheir ranks. As more and more Jews arrived each day, a robust communitybegan to emerge, a "Jerusalem in the woods."<br/>After two and a half years in the woods, in July 1944, the Bielskis learnedthat the Germans, overrun by the Red Army, were retreating back towardBerlin. More than one thousand Bielski Jews emerged -- alive -- on that final,triumphant exit from the woods.
The Bhagavad Gita
Eknath Easwaran • 2010
Beowulf
Seamus Heaney • 2001
New York Times bestseller and winner of the Costa Book Award.<br/>Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother. He then returns to his own country and dies in old age in a vivid fight against a dragon. The poem is about encountering the monstrous, defeating it, and then having to live on in the exhausted aftermath. In the contours of this story, at once remote and uncannily familiar at the beginning of the twenty-first century, Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney finds a resonance that summons power to the poetry from deep beneath its surface. Drawn to what he has called the "four-squareness of the utterance" in Beowulf and its immense emotional credibility, Heaney gives these epic qualities new and convincing reality for the contemporary reader.
Beloved
Toni Morrison • 2004
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A spellbinding novel that transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. With a new afterword by the author.<br/><br/>This "brutally powerful, mesmerizing story” (People) is an unflinchingly look into the abyss of slavery, from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner.<br/><br/>Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. Sethe has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe’s new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved.<br/><br/>“A masterwork.... Wonderful.... I can’t imagine American literature without it.” —John Leonard, Los Angeles Times
The Bell Jar
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>
Bel Canto: A Novel
Ann Patchett • 2001
Balzac y la joven costurera china
Dai Sijie • 2010
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women
Susan Faludi • 2006
<b>A new edition of the feminist classic, with an all-new introduction exploring the role of backlash in the 2016 election and laying out a path forward for 2020 and beyond<br></b><br><b>Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award • “Enraging, enlightening, and invigorating, <i>Backlash</i> is, most of all, true.”—<i>Newsday</i></b><br><br>First published in 1991, <i>Backlash</i> made headlines and became a bestselling classic for its thoroughgoing debunking of a decadelong antifeminist backlash against women’s advances. A Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, Susan Faludi brilliantly deconstructed the reigning myths about the “costs” of women’s independence—from the supposed “man shortage” to the “infertility epidemic” to “career burnout” to “toxic day care”—and traced their circulation from Reagan-era politics through the echo chambers of mass media, advertising, and popular culture. <br> <br>As Faludi writes in a new preface for this edition, much has changed in the intervening years: The Internet has given voice to a new generation of feminists. Corporations list “gender equality” among their core values. In 2019, a record number of women entered Congress. Yet the glass ceiling is still unshattered, women are still punished for wanting to succeed, and reproductive rights are hanging by a thread. This startling and essential book helps explain why women’s freedoms are still so demonized and threatened—and urges us to choose a different future.
Babe, el cerdito valiente
Dick King-Smith • 1995
EL DESPERTAR
KATE CHOPIN • 2001
Autobiography Of A Face
Lucy Grealy • 2016
A New York Times Notable Book<br/>"Grealy has turned her misfortune into a book that is engaging and engrossing, a story of grace as well as cruelty, and a demonstration of her own wit and style and class."—Washington Post Book World<br/>“It is impossible to read Autobiography of a Face without having your consciousness raised forever.” – Mirabella<br/>In this celebrated memoir and exploration of identity, cancer transforms the author’s face, childhood, and the rest of her life.<br/>At age nine, Lucy Grealy was diagnosed with a potentially terminal cancer. When she returned to school with a third of her jaw removed, she faced the cruel taunts of classmates. It took her twenty years of living with a distorted self-image and more than thirty years of reconstructive procedures before she could come to terms with her appearance. In this lyrical and strikingly candid memoir, Grealy tells her story of great suffering and remarkable strength without sentimentality and with considerable wit. She captures what it is like as a child and a young adult to be torn between two warring impulses: to feel that more than anything else we want to be loved for who we are, while wishing desperately and secretly to be perfect.
Expiación (Spanish Edition)
Ian McEwan • 2011
Mientras Agonizo
William Faulkner •
