1967: Ye Wenjie witnesses Red Guards beat her father to death during China's Cultural Revolution. This singular event will shape not only the rest of her life but also the future o...9781784971571Cixin Liu
Editors Varis
jueves, 19 de octubre de 2023
Joyce's classic depiction of Stephen Dedalus's boyhood and coming of age in Ireland at the turn of the century, his childhood, sexual awakening, intellectual development and revolt...9780007449392James Joyce
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
viernes, 6 de octubre de 2023
Recently the basis for a major motion picture starring Hollywood golden boy Brad Pitt, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" was written in 1922 by the golden boy of early twentiet...9780007925506Francis Scott Fitzgerald
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
viernes, 6 de octubre de 2023
Why Americans Can't Think Straight about RaceIn this lively book, a well-known social critic draws on evidence from movies, TV, literature, and advertising to argue that many Americans have been lulled by the media into belie...9780300073942Benjamin DeMott
Yale University Press
miércoles, 30 de agosto de 2023
or, What You WillTwelfth Night is one of Shakespeare ??s funniest plays and also one of his most romantic. A young noblewoman, Viola, shipwrecked in a foreign land and separated from her twin broth...9780300115635Shakespeare, William
Yale University Press
viernes, 4 de agosto de 2023
Treacherous, power-hungry, untempered by moral restraint, and embittered by physical deformity, Richard, the younger brother of King Edward IV, is ablaze with ambition to take Engl...9780300122022Shakespeare, William
Yale University Press
viernes, 4 de agosto de 2023
In one of Shakespeare's bawdier comedies, contemporary audiences still take great pleasure in the rapid-fire verbal battles between the shrewish Katharina and the canny Petruchio, ...9780300109825Shakespeare, William
Yale University Press
viernes, 4 de agosto de 2023
Author, abolitionist, political activist, and philosopher, Frederick Douglass was a pivotal figure in the decades of struggle leading up to the Civil War and the Reconstruction era...9780486498829Frederick Douglass James ...
Dover Publications
viernes, 28 de julio de 2023
Both a psychological self-portrait and a profound meditation upon the artistic process, Proust's seven-part masterpiece In Search of Lost Time changed the course of 20th-century li...9780486421230Marcel Proust C. K. Scott...
Dover Publications
viernes, 28 de julio de 2023
Three Stories. Three Lives. Three Generations.Three Worlds is a historical fiction that takes the reader through human nature, across three generations. The journey follows an orphan heiress who loses everything in the Second ...9781922956927Jozef Borja-Erece Maynah ...
Editors Varis
miércoles, 19 de julio de 2023
Permafrost's no-bullshit lesbian narrator is an uninhibited lover and a wickedly funny observer of modern life. Desperate to get out of Barcelona, she goes to Brussels, 'because a ...9781911508755Eva Baltasar
And Other Stories
viernes, 7 de julio de 2023
King Lear, one of Shakespeare's darkest and most savage plays, tells the story of the foolish and Job-like Lear, who divides his kingdom, as he does his affections, according to va...9780300122008William Shakespeare
Yale University Press
lunes, 3 de julio de 2023
"Each volume of The Annotated Shakespeare proves to be a splendid addition to the series."???Tita French Baumlin, Southwest Missouri State UniversityFrom the hilarious mi...9780300106534William Shakespeare
Yale University Press
lunes, 3 de julio de 2023
New Poems the gas line is leaking, the bird is gone from the cage, the skyline is dotted with vultures; Benny finally got off the stuff and Betty now has a job as a waitress; and the chimn...9780060577087Bukowski, Charles
HarperCollins
jueves, 29 de junio de 2023
New Visions"The word "love" is most often defined as a noun, yet...we would all love to better if we used it as a verb," writes bell hooks as she comes out fighting and on fire in All About L...9780060959470Hooks, Bell
HarperCollins
jueves, 29 de junio de 2023
Twelve early pieces never before collected that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of Joan Didion. Mostly drawn from the earliest part of her astonishing five...9780008451783Joan Didion
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
jueves, 29 de junio de 2023
"Universally acclaimed from the time it was first published in 1968, Slouching Towards Bethlehem has been admired for decades as a stylistic masterpiece. Academy Award-winning actr...9780008284640Joan Didion
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
jueves, 29 de junio de 2023
Annotation. This comprehensive edition brings together three seminal collections by legendary essayist and journalist Joan Didion: Slouching toward Bethlehem, White Album and Senti...9780008284688Joan Didion
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
jueves, 29 de junio de 2023
One of England's most popular novelists, Jane Austen wrote about life amid the gentry of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In her fiction, Austen analyzed and sat...9780486833026Jane Austen
Dover Publications
lunes, 26 de junio de 2023
Master ArchitectIn this enlightening, portable volume, a concise, knowledgeable text by the director of the Catedra Gaudí at the University of Barcelona is brilliantly illustrated with 200 images ...9780789206909Juan Bassengoda Nonell
Abbeville Press
lunes, 19 de junio de 2023
Working as a cook on a merchant ship, a woman comes to know and love Samsa, a woman who gives her the nickname "Boulder." When Samsa gets a job in Reykjavik and the couple decides ...9781913505387Baltasar, Eva
And Other Stories
jueves, 8 de junio de 2023
A ferociously imaginative, polyphonic debut: amid the rugged beauty of the Pyrenees, the mountains' inhabitants - both human and non-human - bear witness to the tragedies that befa...9781783788255Irene Sola
Granta
jueves, 25 de mayo de 2023
'Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it' At the height of his theatrical career, the actor Leo Proudhammer is nearly felled by a heart attack. As...9780241342039James Baldwin
Penguin
jueves, 6 de abril de 2023
How do we love? With romance. With work. Through heartbreak. Throughout a lifetime. As a means, but not an end. Love in all its forms has been an abiding theme of Jeanette Winterso...9781784872724Jeanette Winterson
Vintage
jueves, 16 de marzo de 2023
When the young salesman Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning transformed into a monstrous insect, his shock and incomprehension are coupled with the panic of being late for work and h...9781847493521Franz Kafka
Alma Books
miércoles, 1 de febrero de 2023
With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Claire Seymour, University of Kent at Canterbury. The Turn of the Screw is the classic ghost story for which James is most remembered. Set in a...9781853260698Henry James
Wordsworth Editions, Ltd
viernes, 9 de diciembre de 2022
From the foremost historian of 20th century Spain, A People Betrayed is the story of the devastating betrayal of Spain by its political class, its military and its Church. This co...9780007558391Paul Preston
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
miércoles, 7 de diciembre de 2022
A New History of Humanity'Pacey and potentially revolutionary' Sunday Times 'Iconoclastic and irreverent ... an exhilarating read' The Guardian 'This is not a book. This is an intellectual feast' Nassim Ni...9780141991061David Graeber David Wengr...
Penguin Books Ltd
viernes, 22 de julio de 2022
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