Classic fiction: literary and general
Castalia Ediciones Leyendas
Book Synopsis
£10.40
Castalia Ediciones La metamorfosis
Book Synopsis
£9.55
Editorial Castalia, S.A. La vida es sueño
Book SynopsisKing Basilio, fearful by what the stars announce to him about his son Sigismund, locks him up in a tower apart from the rest of the men. For years, Clotaldo, his guardian, will be his only company. When a long time later the king makes him return to the palace, Sigismund's anger causes chaos and a new condemnation of the king ..., but the people will intervene, acclaiming the freedom of Sigismund against Basilio's will. Life is a dream can be presented without hesitation as one of the most representative works of Spanish literature and, without a doubt, as the masterpiece of CalderÓn de la Barca, clergyman and humanist, who knew how to answer the dilemma between predestination and free will, one of the essential themes of baroque thought.
£9.81
Editorial Castalia, S.A. Libro de buen amor
Book Synopsis
£14.51
Castalia Ediciones Leyendas
Book Synopsis
£10.06
Castalia Ediciones La dama duende
Book Synopsis
£14.64
Linkgua Pasarse de Listo
Book Synopsis
£13.71
Linkgua Pedro de Urdemalas
Book Synopsis
£13.71
Linkgua Relatos
Book Synopsis
£15.14
Linkgua Sofía
Book Synopsis
£16.00
Linkgua Sueño del Infierno
Book Synopsis
£8.07
Ediciones Siruela S.A. Dos cuentos maravillosos
Book Synopsis
£14.95
Linkgua La Regenta II
Book Synopsis
£22.80
Linkgua Doña Clarines
Book Synopsis
£15.92
Linkgua Filibusterismo
Book Synopsis
£20.90
Linkgua intruso
Book Synopsis
£23.50
Linkgua DOS Relatos. El Jorobadito. Las Fieras
Book Synopsis
£18.00
Linkgua El Préstamo de la Difunta
Book Synopsis
£16.00
Linkgua tierra de todos
Book Synopsis
£20.00
Linkgua muertos mandan
Book Synopsis
£999.99
Linkgua Misericordia
Book Synopsis
£20.00
Linkgua Tirant Lo Blanc I
Book Synopsis
£22.80
Linkgua Corbacho
Book Synopsis
£14.00
Debolsillo Que no muera la aspidistra
Book Synopsis
£13.25
Debolsillo Miscelanea
Book Synopsis
£20.76
Debolsillo La senda del drago
Book Synopsis
£26.17
Debolsillo La senora Dalloway
Book Synopsis
£11.31
Prakash Books Uncle Tom's Cabin
Book Synopsis
£10.99
The New York Review of Books, Inc Mirage
Book Synopsis
£16.19
Ediciones Rm El Llano en Llamas
Book Synopsis
£14.20
Grupo Tomo Motivos de Son
Book Synopsis
£999.99
Ediciones Lea Las mejores historias de Sherlock Holmes
Book SynopsisSherlock Holmes is perhaps the most famous literary character in the world, a model of justice and cleverness as well as enigma and eccentricity. His fans find him odd and uncanny at times but absolutely irresistible. In a tribute to this beloved character and his creator, writer and Sherlockian, Luis BenÍtez has compiled the most exemplary Sherlock Holmes stories in this collection. It includes the novel that gave him recognition, A Study in Scarlet, the novel that best represents his personality, Silver Blaze, the novel in which he died, The Final Problem, and the novel that saw his “resurrection”, The Adventure of the Empty House.
£12.30
Ediciones Lea El extraño caso del Dr. Jekyll y Mr. Hyde: Y
Book SynopsisFor decades, Robert Louis Stevenson has been given a place of preeminence in the universal writers' hall of fame. This is not surprising. While Stevenson rests in peace, his most notorious characters live on. His novel, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, tells the story of a lawyer investigating bizarre events involving a good friend, Dr. Jekyll, who appears to have an evil second personality called Mr. Hyde. The phrase “Jekyll and Hyde” is still used to describe people with a devious moral character. This collection of classical stories written by Stevenson will take readers on a journey of suspense, terror, and adventure that will captivate their hearts and satisfy their need for thrilling experiences.
£11.35
Ediciones Lea El gran Gatsby. El extraño caso de Benjamin
Book SynopsisWritten with extraordinary insight and delicate prose, El gran Gatsby gives us a glimpse into the complexity characterizing North American society at the beginning of the 20th Century. Sophisticated taste, extravagant lifestyles, destructive obsessions, and loneliness are all clearly portrayed through Gatsby and his obsessive quest for a woman out of his reach. This novel and Fitzgerald’s short story of a man who starts life in his seventies and gets younger with time are included in this book.DueÑo de una prosa delicada, con pasajes poÉticos de extrema belleza estÉtica, Scott Fitzgerald supo narrar como pocos las miserias de las clases acomodadas de la sociedad norteamericana de principios de siglo XX, en tiempos del jazz pero tambiÉn de la Primera Guerra Mundial. MezclÓ, en iguales dosis, la parafernalia afectada de los ricos con el buen gusto y las emociones mÁs profundas, sobre todo el amor, la pasiÓn y la melancolÍa. El gran Gatsby y El extraÑo caso de Benjamin Button, sus textos mÁs reconocidos, condensan lo mejor de este autor, un verdadero clÁsico de la literatura norteamericana, cuya obra exquisita pero contundente persiste a lo largo del tiempo.
£13.25
Ediciones Lea El Fantasma de Canterville
Book SynopsisOscar Wilde—a playwright, poet, author, and the source of a few scandals—was one of the most celebrated authors of his time and continues to inspire fervor in readers to this day.Oscar Wilde fue uno de los autores mÁs celebrados de su tiempo y todavÍa hoy, a mÁs de cien aÑos de su temprana muerte, sigue cosechando el fervor de los lectores. Dramaturgo, poeta, narrador, intelectual agudo pero tambiÉn escandaloso para su Época.
£11.35
Ediciones Lea El sabueso de los Baskerville
Book SynopsisAs a student of naval medicine, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle began to write short stories. After the publication of Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, he saw a small fraction of the recognition and influence that his immortal character would have on the world of literature.Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle naciÓ el 22 de mayo de 1881, en Edimburgo, Escocia; y falleciÓ el 7 de julio de 1930 en Inglaterra. Graduado como mÉdico naval en 1881, mientras estudiaba comenzÓ a escribir historias breves, la primera de ellas publicada antes de que cumpliera los 20 aÑos. ReciÉn en noviembre de 1886, cuando la editorial britÁnica Ward Lock & Company publicÓ la primera de las aventuras de Sherlock Holmes, Un estudio en escarlata, su autor conociÓ un anticipo de la repercusiÓn y el reconocimiento que posteriormente le brindarÍa su inmortal personaje.
£16.16
Ediciones Lea Frankenstein
Book SynopsisTwo hundred years have passed since Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein, and yet it’s still considered a literary classic, one of the most recognizable stories in popular culture, and a horror icon around the world.Pasaron doscientos aÑos desde que Mary Shelley escribiÓ Frankenstein y todavÍa hoy es considerado no sÓlo un clÁsico de la literatura, sino una de las historias mÁs reconocidas de la cultura popular y un Ícono del terror a lo largo del mundo.
£999.99
Ediciones Lea Sensatez y sentimientos
Book SynopsisMarianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby she ignores her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behaviour leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Meanwhile Elinor, always sensitive to social convention, is struggling to conceal her own romantic disappointment, even from those closest to her. Through their parallel experience of love, and its threatened loss, the sisters learn that, if they are to find personal happiness in a society where status and money govern the rules of love, they must mix sense with sensibility.
£17.95
Ediciones Lea Cuentos fundamentales - Guy de Maupassant
Book SynopsisThe first part of this anthology is a selection of Maupassant’s stories about his experiences as a traveler. The second is a collection of writings depicting his innermost feelings. Fear, confusion, apprehension, and internal turmoil seem to be the constant emotions in his universe. His reflections expose a reality of inner dysfunction in which nothing is clear, all spiritual reasoning appears confounding, and a breakdown resulting from mental illness seems imminent. Cuentos Fundamentales reÚne una selecciÓn de relatos que transitan por las zonas mÁs profundas del universo Maupassant: el miedo, la confusiÓn espiritual de la razÓn, la sombrÍa existencia de lo opaco y lo misterioso, la inquietud y el presagio de la desintegraciÓn interior producto de la enfermedad mental. Admirado por Chejov, Flaubert, CortÁzar, Horacio Quiroga, Tolstoi y Gabriele D’Annunzio, la presente antologÍa estÁ dividida en dos ejes principales. La primera parte recopila una serie de escritos relacionados con el perfil de viajero que tenÍa el escritor francÉs (“Viaje de novios”, “Viaje de salud”, “Diario de un viajero”), junto con la selecciÓn de algunas de sus piezas literarias mÁs publicadas en ediciones antolÓgicas de cuentistas de la literatura universal, como los cuentos “Pierrot” y “Una aventura parisiense”. La segunda parte profundiza en las zonas mÁs intimas y personales del literato: los intentos de suicidios, la locura, la etapa narrativa vinculada con la dimensiÓn de lo sobrenatural y el gÉnero de horror, y el relato que actualmente es considerado uno de los cuentos clÁsicos de la literatura moderna, “Bola de sebo”.
£16.16
Ediciones Lea Otra Vuelta de Tuerca
Book Synopsis
£14.36
Ediciones Lea El castillo
Book SynopsisPublished originally in 1926 and left ambiguous even to the day of Kafka's death, El castillo represents the high point of his writing career. Throughout the book, Mr. K is subjected to the intricate labyrinths of power and conflict, where to be human is to be a slave to a system that will use and then ultimately reject him. La frustraciÓn, la burocracia y la alienaciÓn del individuo en su afÁn de formar parte de un sistema que invariablemente lo rechaza son temas recurrentes en la obra de Franz Kafka y, particularmente, en El Castillo. Publicado originalmente en 1926, este libro que el autor dejÓ inconcluso al dÍa de su muerte representa una de las mÁximas cumbres de su producciÓn y ocupa un sitial de privilegio en las letras universales. El seÑor K, un individuo como cualquier otro, se ve sometido a los intrincados laberintos del poder, conflicto que anticipa los tiempos que vivimos, donde el ser humano parece esclavo de sistemas que lo utilizan para luego descartarlo.
£11.35
Blackstone Publishing Rosemary's Baby
Book Synopsis
£999.99
Editions Larousse Le barbier de Seville
Book Synopsis
£6.59
HarperCollins India Flying Without Wings
Book Synopsis
£7.59
Little, Brown Book Group Tell Me A Riddle And Yonnondio
Book SynopsisONE OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY'S MOST GIFTED AMERICAN WRITERS 'Tillie Olsen's is a unique voice. Few writers have gained such . . . reverence' MARGARET ATWOOD'Almost unbearable in its harsh poetry and bitter fidelity to lives that are now forgotten' ALICE WALKER'There's no diminishing its fierce bloody-and-literal-mindedness' KIRKUS REVIEWS Tillie Olsen carved a permanent place in American literature on the strength of a single book, Tell Me a Riddle in 1962. This collection was widely hailed as a work of genius, in which the voices of ordinary Americans, black and white, male and female, were given their own rhythms and forms of expression.Yonnondio, Olsen's only novel, was begun during the depression and completed in 1974. It tells the story of the Hollbrooks, an itinerant working-class family in America during the thirties. Brutalised by poverty, they struggle to find a space to breathe, to dream and to create a bettter life for their children. Told in compelling, haunting prose, it is a profound and timeless story of the human will to survive.Trade ReviewFeminist author famous for helping aspiring women writers to find a voice * Guardian *Almost unbearable in its harsh poetry and bitter fidelity to lives that are now forgotten, or never known -- Alice WalkerTillie Olsen's is a unique voice. Few writers have gained such . . . reverence -- Margaret AtwoodCharged with emotional detail and delivered with an attention to the rhythms of consciousness more rigorous and powerful than most of what is called realism * New York Times *There's no diminishing its fierce bloody-and-literal-mindedness * Kirkus Reviews *Almost unbearable in its harsh poetry and bitter fidelity to lives that are now forgotten, or never known * ALICE WALKER *Tillie Olsen's is a unique voice. Few writers have gained such ... reverence * MARGARET ATWOOD *
£22.52
Birlinn General Beside the Ocean of Time
Book SynopsisThorfinn Ragnarson is the daydreaming son of a tenant farmer, avoiding both work and school despite the best efforts of family, friends and neighbours. Instead, the boy dreams up elaborate historical fantasies of himself as a Viking traveller, a freedom-fighter for Bonnie Prince Charlie and the colleague of a Falstaffian knight who participates in the Battle of Bannockburn. He is then hurled into the future as Thor, who returns to the Orkneys as an adult and recalls his internment in a German POW camp, where he discovered his writing skills. Thor also reflects on the history of Orkney, the links between dreaming and writing and the whims of fate. In this beautiful and haunting novel, Brown’s lyrical descriptions and gift for local colour capture, as ever, the myth-drenched magic of his native islands.
£9.49
Legend Press Ltd Hard Times (Legend Classics)
Book Synopsis?It is said that every life has its roses and thorns; there seemed, however, to have been a misadventure or mistake in Stephen?s case, whereby somebody else had become possessed of his roses, and he had become possessed of somebody else?s thorns in addition to his own.?Published originally in weekly installments, Hard Times is focusing on Mr Gradgrind?s flawed model of upbringing and its lifelong impact on the wellbeing and destinies of his children. The novel, in fact, follows two opposing ways an individual can be formed. On the one hand, there is Tom and Louisa whose numerous misfortunes are predetermined by their father?s insistence on knowing bare facts without reaching for the substance. They are ill-equipped for the real world and, as a result, Louisa suffers emotionally having had a marriage of convenience, while Tom intentionally devises to incriminate another for his own misdeed. On the other hand, there is Mr Gradgrind?s student Sissy, whose guardian he becomes upon her father?s disappearance. Despite Mr Grandgrind?s scorn, she approaches things with a genuine sensibility that helps her to lead a happier and more fulfilled life. The readers are prompted to ponder throughout the novel whether Mr Gradgrind will eventually acknowledge his failure as a parent.Hard Times is an unusually short novel for Dickens and the only one not to feature London scenes. Instead, it is set in the North and beside addressing the issues of education, it also exposes the harsh daily living conditions of regular working-class people and the negative side of industrialisation. The author captures the zeitgeist of a new era where the old and new ways have to coexist and where many are continuously being left behind either by being deprived financially or spiritually. While maxims and cold facts are effective for scientific progress and the operations of complex machinery, they are not a prerequisite for human happiness. The volume?s solid subject matter is intertwined with the gripping elements of suspense that will undoubtedly appeal to a diverse audience.The Legend Classics series:Around the World in Eighty Days The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The Importance of Being Earnest Alice''s Adventures in Wonderland The Metamorphosis The Railway Children The Hound of the Baskervilles Frankenstein Wuthering Heights Three Men in a Boat The Time Machine Little Women Anne of Green Gables The Jungle Book The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories Dracula A Study in Scarlet Leaves of Grass The Secret Garden The War of the Worlds A Christmas Carol Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Heart of Darkness The Scarlet Letter This Side of Paradise Oliver Twist The Picture of Dorian Gray Treasure Island The Turn of the Screw The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Emma The Trial A Selection of Short Stories by Edgar Allan Poe Grimm Fairy Tales The Awakening Mrs Dalloway Gulliver?s Travels The Castle of Otranto Silas Marner Hard Times
£9.49
Norilana Books The Secret Garden
Book Synopsis
£16.46
