"Es war eine wundervolle Nacht, eine solche Nacht, wie sie vielleicht nur vorkommen kann, wenn wir jung sind, lieber Leser." Mit diesem Satz eröffnet Dostojewski seine Geschichte einer beginnenden Liebe, die aus der zufälligen Begegnung zwischen dem einsamen Erzähler und der jungen Nastenka entsteht. In vier Nächten offenbaren sich die beiden ihre Ängste und Sehnsüchte. Doch Nastenkas Herz gehört einem anderen. Ebenso ergreifend wie einfühlsam erzählt Dostojewskis "empfindsamer Roman" von der unerfüllten Liebe.
A masterpiece of the Gothic genre, The Monk tells the story of the Capuchin friar Ambrosio and his fall from grace through desire, greed and lust. Favourably reviewed at first, the novel was later so widely and raucously denounced for its perceived lice
"In Narziß und Goldmund bekommen die zwei Grundformen des schöpferischen Menschen Gestalt: der Denker und der Träumer, der Herbe und der Blühende, der Klare und der Kindliche. Beide verwandt, obwohl in allem ihr Gegenspiel, beide vereinsamt, beide von Hesse gleich gerecht in ihren Vorzügen und Schwächen erkannt, gleich exakt wiedergegeben." Max Herrmann-Neiße
Illustrated throughout in black and white, this collection of Howard's historical adventures features the legendary swordswoman Dark Agnes. All stories in this volume have been restored to the earliest, most definitive versions available today.
William Golding s unforgettable classic of boyhood adventure and the savagery of humanity comes to Penguin Classics in a stunning Graphic Deluxe Edition with a new foreword by Lois Lowry As provocative today as when it was first published in 1954, Lord of the Flies continues to ignite passionate debate with its startling, brutal portrait of human nature. William Golding s compelling story about a group of very ordinary boys marooned on a coral island has been labeled a parable, an allegory, a myth, a morality tale, a parody, a political treatise, and even a vision of the apocalypse. But above all, it has earned its place as one of the indisputable classics of the twentieth century for readers of any age. This Penguin Classics Graphic Deluxe Edition features an array of special features to supplement the novel, including a foreword by Lois Lowry, an introduction by Stephen King, an essay by E. M. Forster, an essay on teaching and reading the novel and suggestions for further exploration by scholar Jennifer Buehler, and an extended note by E. L. Epstein, the publisher of the first American paperback edition of Lord of the Flies. 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."
Guy de Maupassant was a master of the short story. This collection displays his lively diversity, with tales that vary in theme and tone, ranging from tragedy and satire to comedy and farce. In a lucidly direct style, he provides unflinching realism and sceptical irony. He depicts the deceptions, hypocrisies and vanities at different levels of society. Prostitution is frankly described, while the harshness of war is deftly exposed. His tales have been televised and have influenced films, operas and rock music. Unillusioned but humane, Maupassant remains our contemporary.
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS, John Bunyan's masterful religious allegory, narrates the journey of an everyman hero, Christian, as he attempts to navigate the trials and tribulations of this world, the City of Destruction, on the path towards paradise, the Celestial City. Though weighed down by the burden of original sin, Christian overcomes the distractions of the world, moving past the Slough of Despond, the Hill of Difficulty and the Valley of the Shadow of Death, while simultaneously resisting the temptations of the Worldy Wise, the Vain and the Ignorant. The product of a lifetime of religious work and thought, Bunyan's virtuosic narrative fundamentally altered Protestant belief, and remains one of the most important and influential works in the English language.
A stunning new translation of the classic book--and basis for the beloved Oscar-winning film--brings the clarity and beauty of Kazantzakis's language and story alive. First published in 1946, Zorba the Greek, is, on one hand, the story of a Gree
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka is a real classic.You should grab it and read it to experience it yourself.Here's a simple plot to The Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaGregor Samsa wakes up
Part of Alma Classics Evergreens series of popular classics, this edition is thoroughly edited and extensively annotated, features an insightful foreword by Jay Parini and includes pictures and a comprehensive section on Melville's life and works.
Un mundo feliz es un clásico de la literatura de este siglo. Con ironía mordiente, el genial autor inglés plasma una sombría metáfora sobre el futuro, muchas de cuyas previsiones se han materializado, acelerada e inquietantemente, en los últimos a
Charles Dickens's second novel is the tale of a young orphan who faces the gruelling conditions of a Victorian workhouse before finding himself sucked into the criminal underworld of London. Teeming with unforgettable characters such as the villainous Fagin, the virtuous Nancy and the brutal Bill Sikes, Oliver Twist combines dark humour, elements of melodrama and social polemic. At once a ferocious indictment of the author's era and a timeless story of coming of age, this classic has enthralled readers and inspired countless adaptations and imitations since it was first published in 1838.
From an orphan with a clubfoot, Philip Carey grows into an impressionable young man with a voracious appetite for adventure and knowledge. Then he falls obsessively in love, embarking on a disastrous relationship that will change his life forever.
Meet Elizabeth and discover there is no greater happiness to be found than when lost in a wilderness of a garden, with bird cherries, lilacs, hollyhocks and lilies crowding the vision. This is her sanctuary from a host of unreasonable demands, whether from the Man of Wrath (husband), babies, servants and (worst of all horrors) house guests.
Lively and mischievous, idle and brave, Tom Brown is both the typical boy of his time and the perennial hero celebrated by authors as diverse as Henry Fielding (in Tom Jones) and Alec Waugh (in The Loom of Youth). The book describes Tom's time at Rugby School from his first football match, through his troubled adolescence when he is savagely bullied by the unspeakable Flashman, to his departure for a wider world as a confident young man. This classic tale of a boy's schooldays under the benevolent eye of the renowned Dr Arnold still retains the appeal for which it was acclaimed on its first publication in 1857. In its less well-known sequel, Tom Brown at Oxford, we follow our hero to St Ambrose's College, and, in sharing his undergraduate experiences, gain a vivid impression of university life in the mid nineteenth century.
The Complete Caspak Series is a series of novels by the famous Edgar Rice Burroughs. The book contains all three novels; The Land That Time Forgot The People That Time Forgot Out of Time's Abyss Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bri
Language: English, Binding: Hardback, Number of pages: 160, Publishers: The Bodleian Library, Author: Bodleian Librar Bodleian Librar, ISBN-13: 9781851246441, Date of issue: 2024
Hace diez años la Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española pensó este Quijote para todos. Hoy se reedita-en edición limitada- para conmemorar los 400 años de la muerte de suautor. Los años 2015 y 2016 conforman un bienio de aniversarios cervantinos. A la celebración del IV Centenario de la publicación dela segunda parte de Don Quijote (2015), le sigue, en 2016, laconmemoración del IV Centenario de la muerte de su autor, Miguel deCervantes. Como ocurrió hace más de una década, las Academiasde la Lengua Española y la editorial Alfaguara se unen a estacelebración con la reedición de este clásico universal, que llevabasiete años fuera de las librerías. Esta edición reproduce eltexto crítico y las notas de Francisco Rico, a su vez coordinador delvolumen, y se completa con estudios de escritores y filólogos de latalla de Mario Vargas Llosa, Francisco Ayala, Martín de Riquer, JoséManuel Blecua, Guillermo Rojo, José Antonio Pascual, Margit Frenk yClaudio Guillén. Como novedad, la presente edición cuenta conun prólogo de Darío Villanueva, director de la Real Academia Española, escrito especialmente para la ocasión. La crítica hadicho...«Lo considero un libro para el siglo XXI.»Mario Vargas Llosa «Uno de los grandes acontecimientos literarios delaño.»ABC «El volumen tiene una sobria y elegantepresentación y una cuidadísima realización.»José Andrés Rojo, ElPaís
Dante's masterpiece of literature is well matched by the peerless art of Gustave Dore. Dante and his guides, Virgil and Beatrice, journey through the cantos in an allegory of the passage of the soul through the Afterlife, with the subtle engraving of Dore's illustrations perfectly complementing the movement from darkness through to light.
The must-have volume for Anne of Green Gables fans: This special edition invites readers inside the beloved story with gorgeous replicas of the characters' letters and mementos.Anne of Green Gables has been treasured by generations of dreamers and free spirits. For those who love to indulge in flights of fancy, Anne's world offers escape and inspiration. Now, your imagination can take tangible form with this deluxe edition of L. M. Montgomery's classic novel, the latest volume in the swoon-worthy Handwritten Classics series curated by Barbara Heller. Throughout these pages, you will find pockets containing replicas of thirteen items from the story recreated with charming handwriting and loving attention to historical detail. Discover the notes passed between Anne and her bosom friend Diana in the Avonlea schoolhouse; the official program of the Debating Club, where Gilbert Blythe memorably recited "Bingen on the Rhine"; and of course, Marilla's recipes for both raspberry cordial and currant wine. Each piece of ephemera transports you to idyllic Prince Edward Island. For anyone who loves Anne of Green Gables and for anyone who still cherishes the joy of paper mementos, this collector's edition will illuminate a classic story in a whole new way.
Austral conmemora el IV Centenario de la publicaci3/4n de El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha con una edici3/4n especial a cargo de Alberto Beclua y AndrÚs Pozo e ilustrada con cincuenta estampas escogidas de las mßs cÚlebres ediciones de diferentes Úpocas y paÝses.La publicaci3/4n de Don Quijote en 1605 tuvo un Úxito tan inmediato que a los tres meses se hizo una segunda edici3/4n y se tradujo enseguida a varias lenguas. Cada Úpoca a leÝdo Don Quijote de forma distinta: en su tiempo fue un libro esencialmente c3/4mico, pero el Romanticismo lo convirti3/4 en la noveala por excelencia, que plantea el enfrentamiento entre lo ideal y lo real: la libertad del ser humano frente a las trabas sociales, el mundo del espÝritu frente a la materia, la utopÝa frente al orden establecido. Sea cual sea su lectura es por su armonia y por la belleza de estilo, por las descripciones y la acertada pintura de caracteres por la amenidad y su juego narrativo, una obra maestra de la literatura universal.
The astonishing novel Brave New World, originally published in 1932, presents Aldous Huxley's vision of the future -- of a world utterly transformed. Through the most efficient scientific and psychological engineering, people are genetically designed to be passive and therefore consistently useful to the ruling class. This powerful work of speculative fiction sheds a blazing critical light on the present and is considered to be Huxley's most enduring masterpiece. Following Brave New World is the nonfiction work Brave New World Revisited, first published in 1958. It is a fascinating work in which Huxley uses his tremendous knowledge of human relations to compare the modern-day world with the prophetic fantasy envisioned in Brave New World, including threats to humanity, such as overpopulation, propaganda, and chemical persuasion.
Die Welt von Gestern das war aus Sicht Stefan Zweigs die bürgerliche Welt im habsburgischen Österreich, die in zwei Weltkriegen unterging. Zweig schildert das alte Wien, das Leben seiner Generation und seine eigene Biografie. Im südamerikanischen Exil, in dem er 1939-41 dieses sehr persönliche Buch niederschrieb, erreichten ihn die Schreckensmeldungen aus Hitlers Drittem Reich. Die "Welt von Gestern" war unwiederbringlich verloren doch in diesem bewegenden Buch wurde sie für die Nachwelt aufgehoben.
No home library is complete without the classics! The Complete Sherlock Holmes Collection brings together the essential works from Arthur Conan Doyle in an elegant, leather-bound edition-a keepsake to be read and treasured.
Finnegans Wake is the book of Here Comes Everybody and Anna Livia Plurabelle and their family - their book, but in a curious way the book of us all as well as all our books. Joyce's last great work, it is not comprised of many borrowed styles, like Ulysses, but, rather, formulated as one dense, tongue-twisting soundscape. This 'language' is based on English vocabulary and syntax but, at the same time, self-consciously designed to function as a pun machine with an astonishing capacity for resisting singularity of meaning. Announcing a 'revolution of the word', this astonishing book amounts to a powerfully resonant cultural critique - a unique kind of miscommunication which, far from stabilizing the world in meaning, constructs a universe radically unfixed by a wild diversity of possibilities and potentials.It also remains the most hilarious, 'obscene', book of innuendos ever to be imagined.
In this definitive collection of Ernest Hemingway's short stories, readers will delight in the author's most beloved classics such as "The Snows of Kilimanjaro,""Hills Like White Elephants," and "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place," and will discover seven new tales published for the first time in this collection. For Hemingway fans The Complete Short Stories is an invaluable treasury.
The most famous work of Japanese literature and the world's first novel written a thousand years ago and one of the enduring classics of world literature.
Crime and Punishment is one of the most important novels of the nineteenth century. It is the story of a murder committed on principle, of a killer who wishes to set himself outside and above society. It is marked by Dostoevsky's own harrowing experience in penal servitude, and yet contains moments of wild humour.
"A deeply soulful novel that comprehends love and cruelty, and separates the big people from the small of heart, without ever losing sympathy for those unfortunates who don't know how to live properly." -Zadie Smith§§One of the most important and enduring books of the twentieth century, Their Eyes Were Watching God brings to life a Southern love story with the wit and pathos found only in the writing of Zora Neale Hurston. Out of print for almost thirty years-due largely to initial audiences' rejection of its strong black female protagonist-Hurston's classic has since its 1978 reissue become perhaps the most widely read and highly acclaimed novel in the canon of African-American literature.§
Dostoyevskys masterpiece introduces a world filled with greed, passion, depravity, and complex moral issues, as three brothers become involved in the brutal murder of their own father. This edition features an Afterword by bestselling author Sara Peretsky. Revised reissue.
La primera novela de Camilo José Cela, hito en la literatura española de la posguerra. La familia de Pascual Duarte vio la luz en 1942 y tuvo un enorme impacto en el panorama literario español del momento. Primer libro de Camilo José Cela, supuso un valioso punto de partida para la narrativa española de posguerra. La vida trágica de su arquetípico protagonista, gobernada por la más salvaje violencia, era un comentario indirecto sobre la barbarie padecida por los españoles durante la recién concluida Guerra Civil, al tiempo que daba carta de naturaleza a una tendencia literaria renovadora, luego conocida como «tremendismo». La crítica ha dicho:«La tremenda historia de Pascual Duarte [...] es tan radicalmente humana que no pierde un solo instante el ritmo y la armonía de la verdad.»Gregorio Marañón «La familia de Pascual Duarte(1942) lo puso en órbita de repente. [...] Con palabras duras, metálicas, que venían a caballo de un poderoso ritmo interior, su literatura recuperaba la gran tradición del Siglo de Oro.»Manuel Vicent «Fue el primer aldabonazo serio para conectar con la novela anterior a la guerra civil.»Miguel Delibes
A powerful new translation of Nobel Prize winner Hermann Hesse s masterpiece of youthful rebellion with a foreword and cover art by James Franco A young man awakens to selfhood and to a world of possibilities beyond the conventions of his upbringing in Nobel Prize winner Hermann Hesse s beloved novel Demian. Emil Sinclair is a quiet boy drawn into a forbidden yet seductive realm of petty crime and defiance. His guide is his precocious, mysterious classmate Max Demian, who provokes in Emil a search for self-discovery and spiritual fulfillment. A brilliant psychological portrait, Demian is given new life in this translation, which together with James Franco s personal and inspiring foreword will bring a new generation to Hesse s widely influential coming-of-age novel. 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."
This new edition celebrates the art and craft of the quintessential story of the Lost Generation. Presented by the Hemingway family with supplementary material from the Hemingway Collection at the John F. Kennedy Library, this edition provides readers with
Can't keep all your gods and goddesses straight? Wondering about mythological references in classic literature? "Bulfinch's Mythology" offers approachable accounts of ancient legends in a compilation of the works of Thomas Bulfinch, banker and Latinist. This volume includes all three of Bulfinch's original titles: "The Age of Fable, The Age of Chivalry, " and "The Legends of Charlemagne." Bulfinch states his purpose for the book clearly: "Our work is not for the learned, nor for the theologian, nor for the philosopher, but for the reader of English literature . . . who wishes to comprehend the allusions so frequently made by public speakers, lecturers, essayists, and poets, and those which occur in polite conversation." This compilation was widely used as the authoritative text on mythology in schools for over a century.
Thronfolger Franz Ferdinand wird ermordet und der Erste Weltkrieg beginnt. Auch der Prager Hundehändler Josef Schwejk,obwohl von einem Militärarzt »endgültig für blöd« erklärt, gerät in die Mühlen des Militärbetriebs - ob nun im bürokratischen Irrsinn, beim Oberleutnant Lukasch oder an der Front. Mit kalkulierter und ach so sympathischer Naivität setzt sich Schwejk gegen den Unsinn des Krieges zu Wehr. Der Militärapparat wird in allen Einzelheiten par excellence vorgeführt. Jaroslav HaSek ist mit Schwejk eine einzigartige Figur in der Literatur und eine großartige Satire wider den Militarismus gelungen.
Monsieur Goriot is one of a disparate group of lodgers at Mademe Vauquer's dingy Parisian boarding house. At first his wealth inspires respect, but as his circumstances are mysteriously reduced he becomes shunned by those around him, and soon his only remaining visitors are his two beautifully dressed daughters. Goriot's fate is intertwined with two other fellow boarders: the young social climber Eugene Rastignac, who sees a way to gain the acceptance and wealth he craves, and the enigmatic figure of Vautrin, who is hiding darker secrets than anyone. Weaving a compelling and panoramic story of love, money, self-sacrifice, corruption, greed and ambition, "Old Man Goriot" is Balzac's acknowledged masterpiece. A key novel in his "Comedie Humaine" series, it is a vividly realized portrait of bourgeois Parisian society in the years following the French Revolution.
Follow the journey of 11-year-old orphan Anne Shirley as she grows up over the course of these six titles: Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne's House of Dreams, Rainbow Valley and Rilla of Ingleside. This beautiful, colo
Poverty-stricken and cut off from society, former law student Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov leads a desolate life in a dreary little room in St Petersburg. Having abandoned all hopes of sustaining himself through work, he now obsesses over the idea of changing his fortunes through an extreme act of violence: the killing of an elderly pawnbroker. His mind baulks at the horror of his plan, but when he hears that his sister Dunya is about to agree to a loveless marriage in order to escape the advances of her employer, his disgust for the world becomes unbounded, and his feelings of rebellion and revenge push him closer and closer to the edge of the precipice. A masterpiece of psychological insight, Dostoevsky's 1866 novel features some of its author's most memorable characters - from the temperamental protagonist Raskolnikov to the amoral sensualist Svidrigailov and the immoral lawyer Luzhin. Presented here in a sparkling new translation by Roger Cockerell, Crime and Punishment is a towering work in Russian nineteenth-century fiction and a landmark of world literature.
»Selbst dort, wo er zurückblickt, ist es die Gegenwart, die er anspricht.« Wilhelm von Sternburg über Erich Maria Remarque.»Arc de Triomphe« war Remarques zweiter Welterfolg nach »Im Westen nichts Neues«: Mit großer Leidenschaft erzählt Remarque die Geschichte des Arztes Ravic, der nach Paris emigriert und hier den Vorabend des Zweiten Weltkrieges erlebt. Aus Liebe zu zwei Frauen und dem Hass auf einen Gestapo-Agenten entwickelt sich das Drama eines Exilschicksals, in dessen Realität sich der Aufstand gegen den Terror einer ganzen Epoche spiegelt.»Eine Chronik und Liebesrhapsodie, wie die moderne Literatur nur wenige kennt« FAZ
The best single work of science fiction yet written' Ursula K. Le Guin The dystopian masterwork that inspired George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, We depicts a futuristic totalitarian society, 'OneState', where humans have become numbers. Suppresse
War looms in Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace, and when Napoleon invades Russia in 1812 it forever changes those whose lives it engulfs. Although told on a panoramic scale Tolstoy's epic novel focuses the chaos of battle, the horror of death and bloodshed, and the expression of the noble virtues of love and valor through their impact on the lives of three principal characters: the courageous Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, the idealistic Pierre Bezukhov, and the nobly born beauty Natasha Rostov.
Replete with unforgettable characters and situations that have seared themselves into our literary consciousness, Emily Brontes intense masterpiece is one of the most haunting love stories in the canon of English literature.
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it. After a harrowing tour in Afghanistan, Dr Watson returns to London to convalesce at 221B Baker Street, home to the enigmatic Sherlock Holmes. Their lives are irrevocably thrown together by news that a man has been found dead in a grimy 'ill-omened' house, with the word 'rache' - German for revenge - written in blood on the wall. This grisly discovery is complicated further by the look of utter horror on the victim's face, and the complete absence of any wounds on the body or sign of a struggle. First published in 1887, 'A Study in Scarlet' is the remarkable first-outing of one of literature's most famous partnerships.
"A truly great translation . . . This English version . . . really is better." --A. N. Wilson, The Spectator Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American ReadThis acclaime
On a boat in the Thames estuary, Marlow tells his travelling companions of his reconnaissance expedition for a Belgian trading company to its most remote outpost in central Africa, which brought him on the trail of the elusive Kurtz, a brilliant idealist gone rogue. His account relates not only the perils he encounters on his quest, but also the deterioration of his state of mind as he is confronted with a world that is hostile and alien to him.
