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
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
'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
David is a young American expatriate who has just proposed marriage to his girlfriend, Hella. While she is away on a trip, David meets a bartender named Giovanni to whom he is draw...9780141186351James Baldwin
Penguin Books Ltd
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
WINNER OF THE 2020 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION - THE NO. 1 BESTSELLER'Richly sensuous... something special' The Sunday Times'A thing of shimmering wonder' David MitchellTWO EXTRAORDI...9781472223821Maggie O'Farrell
Headline
lunes, 2 de mayo de 2022
Introduction and Notes by Stefania CiociaWith an Introduction by Dr Stefania Ciocia, Reader in Modern and Contemporary Literature, Canterbury Christ Church University. Unfolding in the sensuous environment of Southern Lou...9781840225846Chopin, Kate
Wordsworth Editions, Ltd
miércoles, 13 de abril de 2022
Eighteen-year-old orphan, Andrea, moves to battle-scarred Barcelona to take up a scholarship at the university. But, staying with relatives in their crumbling apartment, her dreams...9781784876210 Laforet, Carmen
Vintage
jueves, 31 de marzo de 2022
Elizabeth Gaskell's first novel depicts nothing less than the great clashes between capital and labour, which arose from rapid industrialisation and problems of trade in the mid-ni...9781840226898Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskel...
Wordsworth Editions, Ltd
miércoles, 30 de marzo de 2022
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