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Author
Publisher
LUMEN
Pub. Date
2020
Language
Español
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Una de las historias más grandes jamás contadas. En esta nueva y magistral traducción de Miguel Temprano García, El viejo y el mar recobra todo el esplendor del clásico imperecedero que le valió el Premio Pulitzer de 1953 a Ernest Hemingway.
Con un lenguaje de gran fuerza y sencillez, El viejo y el mar narra la historia de un viejo pescador cubano a quien la suerte parece haber abandonado, y del desafío mayúsculo al que se enfrenta: la batalla...
Author
Series
Publisher
Ediciones SM España
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Español
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Description
Ellos se convirtieron en héroes por sus hazañas, por enfrentarse a monstruos y derrotar enemigos, por conquistar ciudades... y también mujeres. Las constelaciones llevaban sus nombres y sus victorias traspasaron tiempos y fronteras.Ellas, sin embargo, jamás fueron consideradas heroínas, a pesar de aguantar infidelidades, de ser abandonadas, de llevar solas sus hogares y familias, de desafiar las convenciones sociales y de superar la mayor...
Author
Publisher
SAGA Egmont
Pub. Date
2020
Language
Español
Description
Here you will understand why Federico García Lorca is unforgettable.
Written in 1931, Bodas de sangre is a play about two young people who are going to get married, but on their wedding day, the bride sees her old boyfriend, Leonardo, again, with whom she has always been in love. Then, after the ceremony, the two flee together, carried away by their love. However, the husband then goes out to look for them, full of pain and rage...
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Author
Publisher
Ingertelsa Group
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Español
Description
Durante el otoño de 1912, en Praga, escribió Franz Kafka (1883-1924) La metamorfosis, la peripecia subterránea y literal de Gregor Samsa, un viajante de comercio que al despertarse una mañana "de un sueño lleno de pesadillas se encontró en su cama convertido en un bicho enorme". En pocos libros de Kafka queda tan explícito y tan nítido su mundo como en La metamorfosis, en la que el protagonista, convertido en bestia, sumido en la más absoluta...
6) El Príncipe
Author
Series
Publisher
PENGUIN CLÁSICOS
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Español
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Description
Un tratado imprescindible sobre estrategias y ambiciones políticas escrito por el padre de la ciencia política moderna
Introducción de Manuel Arias Maldonado
Traducción y notas de Mauro Armiño
Mientras los seres humanos convivan, será necesaria la política. Maquiavelo, que lo sabía por su experiencia en el gobierno de la Florencia renacentista, escribió este tratado para analizar el modo en que los gobernantes consiguen el poder y lo conservan....
Author
Publisher
Orange Island Book Shop
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
First published in a 1846 edition of Godey's Lady's Book, The Cask of Amontillado is widely considered to be one of the most perfect short stories ever written. Told by the unreliable narrator Montresor-a man who sought vengeance against his acquaintance for an insult that the reader is not privy to-the story details how Montresor accomplished his revenge.
Author
Series
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Welcome to Blandings Castle, a place that is never itself without an imposter.
Wodehouse himself once noted that "Blandings has impostors like other houses have mice." On this particular occasion there are two, both intent on a dangerous enterprise. Lord Emsworth's secretary, the Efficient Baxter, is on the alert and determined to discover what is afoot—despite the distractions caused by the Honorable Freddie Threepwood's hapless affair
...9) El mármol
Author
Publisher
La Bestia Equilátera
Pub. Date
2020
Language
Español
Formats
Description
A falta de cambio, el cajero de un supermercado chino le ofrece al protagonista de esta novela que elija entre un montón de naderías. Resignado, el hombre manotea al azar unas pilas chinas, un ojo de goma con luz, una tabla de proteínas, una hebilla dorada, una cucharita lupa, un anillo de plástico y una cámara fotográfica del tamaño de un dado. Ignora que al salir lo espera una aventura, y que a esos objetos que cree inútiles podrá darles...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[1967, ©1952]
Language
English
Description
The lost classic masterpiece of magical realms, admired by Tolkien and the great prototype for The Lord of the Rings and modern fantasy fiction. On the far side of darkness lies a world where two mighty forces are making ready for a war of kingdom against kingdom, warrior against witch, and honour against treachery. It is a world that beckons Edward Lessingham and is totally at odds with his Edwardian background. Torn by greater passions than mere...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
When first published in 1899, charges of sordidness and immorality consigned The Awakening into initial obscurity and irreparably damaged its author's literary and social reputation. In her introduction, Sandra M. Gilbert considers the issues explored in the novel and the stories from their growth out of the feminist literary tradition of the nineteenth century to their place among other concerns of fin de siècle writers in America and England.
Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"London, 1945. The capital is shrouded in the darkness of the blackout, and mystery abounds in the parks after dusk. During a stroll through Regent's Park, Bruce Mallaig witnesses two men acting suspiciously around a footbridge. In a matter of moments, one of them has been murdered; Mallaig's view of the assailant but a brief glimpse of a ghastly face in the glow of a struck match. The murderer's noiseless approach and escape seems to defy all logic,...
Author
Series
Bobbsey twins volume 1
Publisher
Wilder Publications
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
The Bobbsey Twins are the principal characters of what was, for many years, the longest-running series of children's novels. The books related the adventures of the children of the middle-class Bobbsey family, which included two sets of fraternal twins: Bert and Nan, who were 12 years old, and Flossie and Freddie, who were six. Share the stories of your childhood with your children and grandchildren! Here are the original Bobbsey Twin adventures.
Author
Series
Bobbsey twins volume 2
Publisher
Book-of-the-Month Club
Pub. Date
©2003
Language
English
Description
The Bobbsey twins visit Meadow Brook, the country home of their cousin Harry. While there they meet a frisky calf, celebrate Independence Day, and attend the circus.
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