"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.
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
His innovative thriller, as shocking now as when it was first published, the "Penguin Classics" edition of Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales of Terror" is edited with an introduction by Robert Mighall. Published as a 'shilling shocker', Robert Louis Stevenson's dark psychological fantasy gave birth to the idea of the split personality. The story of respectable Dr Jekyll's strange association with the 'damnable young man' Edward Hyde; the hunt through fog-bound London for a killer; and the final revelation of Hyde's true identity is a chilling exploration of humanity's basest capacity for evil. The other stories in this volume also testify to Stevenson's inventiveness within the Gothic tradition: "Olalla", a tale of vampirism and tainted family blood, and "The Body Snatcher", a gruesome fictionalisation of the exploits of the notorious Burke and Hare. This edition contains a critical introduction by Robert Mighall, which discusses class, criminality and the significance of the story's London setting. It also includes an essay on the scientific contexts of the novel and the development of the idea of the Jekyll-and-Hyde personality.Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) was born in Edinburgh, the son of a prosperous civil engineer. Although he began his career as an essayist and travel writer, the success of "Treasure Island" (1883) and "Kidnapped" (1886) established his reputation as a writer of tales of action and adventure. Stevenson's Calvinist upbringing lent him a preoccupation with predestination and a fascination with the presence of evil, themes he explored in "The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" (1886), and "The Master of Ballantrae" (1893). If you enjoyed "The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde", you might like "The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, by James Hogg", also available in "Penguin Classics". "Every bit as claustrophobic, creepy and chilling as when it first saw the light of day over a century ago". (Ian Rankin).
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.
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
"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.§
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
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
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.
Featuring 211 classic tales from the Brothers Grimm, including favorites such as "Hansel and Gretel," "Cinderella," "The Frog Prince," "Rapunzel," "Snow White," and "Rumpelstiltskin," The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales is accompanied by 40 color pl
»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
This is a lively and astonishingly nuanced portrait of a refined society where every dalliance is an act of political consequence; a play of characters whose inner lives are as rich as those imagined by Proust.
Working from the earliest surviving draft of "Frankenstein," Robinson presents two versions of the classic novel--as Mary Shelley originally wrote it and a subsequent version clearly indicating Percy Shelley's amendments and contributions.
Fifteenth-century document provides instructions — for the period's professional magicians and sorcerers — for evoking good and evil spirits, divining rare metals and treasures, warding off evil magic, healing illnesses, and more.
Segundo volumen de una colección de cuentos imprescindible.En estevolumen, el lector encontrará todas las colecciones de cuentos deCortázar publicadas entre 1969 y 1982 y, como novedad, aquellosrelatos aparecidos póstumamente en Papeles inesperados (2009) que portítulo o fecha pudieron pertenecer a ellas: Último round, Octaedro,Alguien que anda por ahí, Un tal Lucas, Queremos tanto a Glenda yDeshoras conforman este segundo volumen de los cuentos completoscortazarianos.Rese?as:«La verdadera revolución de Cortázar está en sus cuentos.»Mario Vargas Llosa«De los grandes escritores que he conocido, ninguno, excepto Borges, parecía haber meditado tanto como él sobre elproblema de la forma y el estilo. A este aprendido magisterio que setransmite de escritor a escritor, hay que agregar su propiomagisterio, lo que le debemos y le deberán las generaciones que losiguen.»Abelardo Castillo«No puede desconocerse la influencia de sus textos en buena parte de la narrativa que después de él se escribió enespa?ol.»José Donoso
In the old Saxon town of Hamelin, a stranger appears with a magical fife. He promises to rid the town of its rats for the sum of 100 Rhine Ducats. When its desperate citizens agree to hire his services, he plays his fife and lures the rats to the river. But can Hamelin ever be truly void of all its vermin? Viktor Dyk's rendition of the Pied Piper legend masterfully blends lyrical prose with early twentieth century modernist perspective. For over a century, The Ratcatcher has held its own among the great works of Czech literature, but now this classic is introduced to us in English for the first time.
Novellen und Erzählungen begleiten das Schaffen Thomas Manns von den ersten Anfängen an. Ob er nun im 'Tod in Venedig' eine moderne Variation des ewigen Themas des platonischen Eros gibt; ob er den Leser mit den 'Vertauschten Köpfen' in die indische Märchenwelt oder mit dem 'Gesetz' in die Zeit des Propheten Moses führt; ob er in 'Schwere Stunde' ein knappes Portrait Schillers zeichnet, in 'Gladius Dei' die Atmosphäre Münchens um die Jahrhundertwende beschwört oder im 'Tristan' von dem wunderlichen Schriftsteller Detlev Spinell erzählt: "Immer ist er mittendrin ganz und gar, und seine leidenschaftliche Versenkung in den Vorgang, die Person, die Seelenlage, sie zieht uns hinein und läßt uns nicht los." (Erich Kahler)
"The Uncle Tom's Cabin of wage slavery." --Jack London. Sinclair's masterpiece is an honest, sometimes brutal, tour de force that opened America's eyes to the struggles and horrors many immigrants endured. Welcome to Chicago during the ea
The epic novel of man and nature that won its author the Nobel Prize in Literature-the first new English translation since the novel's original publication ninety years ago When it was first published in 1917, "Growth of the Soil" was immediately recognized as a masterpiece. Ninety years later it remains a transporting literary experience. In the story of Isak, who leaves his village to clear a homestead and raise a family amid the untilled tracts of the Norwegian back country, Knut Hamsun evokes the elemental bond between humans and the land. Newly translated by the acclaimed Hamsun scholar Sverre Lyngstad, Hamsun's novel is a work of preternatural calm, stern beauty, and biblical power-and the crowning achievement of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century.
Clyde Griffiths finds his social-climbing aspirations and love for a rich and beautiful debutante threatened when his lower-class pregnant girlfriend gives him an ultimatum.
In his prologue, John Fowles tells us that "A Maggot" began as a vision he had of five travellers riding with mysterious purpose through remote countryside. This image gives way to another - a hanging corpse with violets stuffed in its mouth - which leads us into a maze of beguiling paths and wrong turnings, disappearances and revelations, unaccountable motives and cryptic deeds, as this compelling mystery swerves towards a starling vision at its centre.
Literally meaning "heart," the Japanese word "kokoro" can be more distinctly translated as "the heart of things" or "feeling." Natsume Soseki's 1914 novel, which was originally published in serial format in a Japanese newspaper, "Kokoro" deals with the
One of the best sea novels ever written, "The Sea-Wolf" tells of mutiny, shipwreck, and a desperate confrontation. Also in this volume are the stories "The Law of Life," "The One Thousand Dozen," "All Gold Canyon," and "Moon-Face." Includes a new Introduction and an Afterword written by award-winning author Bova. Revised reissue.
Le premier tome du chef d'œuvre d'Alexandre Dumas. « Je suis fâché de vous avoir aidé dans vos recherches et de vous avoir dit ce que je vous ai dit, fit-il.– Pourquoi cela ? demanda Dantès.– Parce que je vous ai infiltré dans le cœur un sentiment qui n’y était point : la vengeance.»Edmond Dantès, jeune et brillant officier de marine, est sur le point d’épouser la belle Mercédès. Un bonheur qui fait des jaloux. Dénoncé à tort comme bonapartiste, Edmond est victime d’une lâche conspiration et enfermé au château d’If. Après plusieurs années de désespoir, sa rencontre avec un autre prisonnier, l’abbé Faria, va tout changer. Le vieillard lui parle d’évasion et d’un fabuleux trésor ; est-il fou, ou est-ce une chance inespérée de se venger de ceux qui ont précipité sa chute ?"La plus célèbre histoire d'évasion (...) Aujourd'hui encore, Le Comte de Monte-Cristo reste un récit d'aventures exaltant." RTLAlexandre Dumas (1802-1870) est l’auteur qui donne aux Français le goût de l’Histoire depuis bientôt deux siècles. De la cour des Valois à la Restauration, ses intrigues restent de grands succès populaires et ses personnages ont marqué durablement notre littérature. Ses ouvrages sont traduits dans le monde entier.
Molloy, the first of the three masterpieces which constitute Samuel Beckett's famous trilogy, appeared in French in 1951, followed seven months later by Malone Dies (Malone meurt) and two years later by The Unnamable (L'Innommable). Few works of contemporary literature have been so universally acclaimed as central to their time and to our understanding of the human experience.
Under the Yoke is a novel by Ivan Vazov written in 1888. It depicts the Ottoman rule of Bulgaria and is the most famous piece of classic Bulgarian literature. The tranquillity in a Bulgarian village under Ottoman rule is only superficial: the people are qu
Language: English, Binding: Hardback, Number of pages: 432, Publishers: Royal Classics, Author: Charlotte Brontë, ISBN-13: 9781774760741, Date of issue: 2020
First published in the pages of a pulp-fiction magazine, Tarzan of the Apes has gone on to become one of America's most enduring cultural icons. The story of an orphaned child growing up among the apes is here set within its historical and literary contexts, and appendices include readers' letters and selections from related narratives.
SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT, PEARL, AND SIR ORFEOTHREE MEDIEVAL ENGLISH POEMS, WITH TRANSLATION AND COMMENTARY BY J.R.R. TOLKIENIt's Christmas at Camelot and King Arthur won't begin to feast until he has witnessed a marvel of chivalry. A mysterious knight, green from head to toe, rides in and brings the court's wait to an end with an implausible challenge to the Round Table: he will allow any of the knights to strike him once, with a battle-axe no less, on the condition that he is allowed to return the blow a year hence.Arthur's brave favorite for the challenge is Sir GawainAccompanying Sir Gawain and the Green Knight in this book are Sir Orfeo, a medieval version of the story of Orpheus and Euridice, a love so strong that it overcame death, and Pearl, the moving tale of a man in a graveyard mourning his baby daughter, lost like a pearl that slipped through his fingers. Worn out by grief, he falls asleep and dreams of meeting her in a bejewelled fantasy world.Interpreted in a form designed to appeal to the general reader, J.R.R. Tolkien's vivid translations of these classic poems represent the complete rhyme and alliterative schemes of the originals.This beautifully decorated text includes as a bonus the complete text of Tolkien's acclaimed lecture on Sir Gawain.
Los mejores libros jamás escritos «Quería hablar a menudo, pero, laverdad, no sabía qué decir. ¿Sabe usted?, en ciertos casos lo mejor es no decir nada.» Tras retratar magistralmente la figura del culpableen Crimen y castigo, Dostoievski ahonda en El idiota en el almatorturada de un hombre inocente. Después de pasar varios años en unsanatorio suizo, el joven y piadoso príncipe Mishkin regresa a suRusia natal para recibir una herencia y «mezclarse con la gente». Sinembargo, en San Petesburgo solo le aguarda una sociedad obsesionadacon el dinero, el poder y la manipulación que pondrá a prueba su moral y sus puros sentimientos. Antes de llegar a su destino conoce alinquietante Rogozhin, hijo de un acaudalado mercader, cuya fijaciónpor la hermosa Nastasia Filíppovna acabará por arrastrar a los tresprotagonistas a un fatal desenlace. La presente edición cuenta con latraducción magistral de José Laín Entralgo y Augusto Vidal. El estudio introductorio es de William Mills Todd III, catedrático de literatura y lenguas eslavas en la Universidad de Hardvard.
Language: English, Binding: Paperback, Number of pages: 128, Publishers: Dover Publications Inc., Author: Ernest Hemingway, ISBN-13: 9780486848969, Date of issue: 2021
Language: English, Binding: Hardback, Number of pages: 824, Publishers: Royal Classics, Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky, ISBN-13: 9781774761243, Date of issue: 2021
