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The Gods will have blood: (les Dieux ont soif) (Penguin classics)
Par Anatole France. 1979
Historical satire set during France's Reign of Terror. Evariste Gamelin, a young artist and active Jacobin, believes passionately in the…
cause of democracy. He becomes a member of the Grand Tribunal, trying political prisoners. His zeal clouds reason and costs the lives of a fellow artist, a priest, a prostitute, and an innocent young aristocrat, and ultimately brings about his own death, as the mood of the citizenry breeds anarchyEmily of New Moon
Par L. M Montgomery. 1951
When her father dies, eleven-year-old Emily believes that she is all alone. But her mother's family, who never forgave her…
mother for eloping with her father, are there to care for her. It is decided by the drawing of lots that Emily will go to New Moon, the century-old family farm, with two of her aunts. There cousin Jimmy encourages her in her writing. For grades 6-9 and older readersThe lion and the puppy and other stories for children
Par Leo Tolstoy. 1988
Leo Tolstoy was a great nineteenth-century Russian author who opened a school for peasant children and wrote stories especially for…
them. The twenty-seven stories in this book are taken from his "Azbuka" (Primer). Some are based on Aesop's fables, others on Russian folktales, nature studies, and the work of children themselves. For grades 5-8 and older readersThe optimist's daughter
Par Eudora Welty. 1978
Laurel Hand, a middle-aged widow since World War II, returns home to a small Mississippi town after the death of…
her beloved father, a judge. There she confronts her past to gain a better understanding of herself and her parents. Pulitzer Prize, 1973Emily's quest
Par L. M Montgomery. 1955
Emily Starr is determined to become a successful writer while living in her home, New Moon, the source of her…
inspiration. When Dean Priest condemns her first novel in order to claim her undivided attention, Emily burns her manuscript. But she cannot desert her writing forever, nor can she abandon the search for real love. For grades 6-9 and older readersBreakfast at Tiffany's: a short novel and three stories
Par Truman Capote. 1958
Twice twenty-two: a medicine for melancholy
Par Ray Bradbury. 1966
The building of Jalna
Par Mazo De la Roche. 1944
In the first book of the Jalna series, Adeline, an impulsive bride with an Irish temper, and her husband, Captain…
Whiteoak, select Lake Ontario as the site of their home. The building of the house, the swimming and skating parties, and the jealousies and humor of the family are describedHeidi
Par Johanna Spyri. 1984
Heidi loves her old grandfather and their simple life high in the Swiss Alps. When she is sent to the…
city to be a companion to the ailing Klara, Heidi almost dies from homesickness. For grades 4-7Captains Courageous
Par Rudyard Kipling. 1982
The spoiled son of an American millionaire falls off an ocean liner and is rescued by a Gloucester fishing schooner.…
Forced to work aboard ship, he begins to develop maturity and responsibilityThe portrait of a lady
Par Henry James. 1947
Anne of Windy Poplars
Par L. M Montgomery. 1936
Anne moves to Summerside, where she has a position as high school principal. There she encounters the Pringles, the "royal…
family" of Summerside. Anne's many letters to her sweetheart, Gilbert, reveal how the town seems to be "under the Pringle Thumb"--until Anne manages to get the Pringle clan under her thumb! Sequel to "Anne of the Island." For grades 5-8 and older readersThe travels and surprising adventures of Baron Munchausen (A Dedalus classic)
Par Rudolf Erich Raspe. 2012
A collection of tall tales first published in 1785. Raspe, a rogue and a rascal, embellished the memoirs of the…
real Baron Munchausen, a cavalry officer in the Russian army, and created a mythical character. In one adventure, when hunting in Ceylon, the Baron, attacked by a lion--with a lake on one side and a precipice on the other--is saved when the lion jumps over his head and into the mouth of a crocodileThe lily of the valley
Par Honoré De Balzac. 2011
Felix, a young man from the Loire valley, reluctantly sheds his reticence and attempts to explain his penchant for long…
silences to Natalie, his fiancee. In a long letter he writes freely of his education in matters of the heart. He is not prepared for the letter he receives in response. Balzac admitted to favoring this novel, in which he shares a somewhat autobiographical account of his youthWellingborough Redburn makes his first voyage to Liverpool, where there is widespread poverty and a lack of democracy. He enjoys…
a wild excursion in London and faces a harrowing voyage home. Based on the author's first voyage in 1837War and peace (Penguin classics)
Par Leo Tolstoy. 1978
First published in 1869, this epic novel deals with Russia and France at the time of Napoleon Bonaparte. It describes…
the invasion of Russia by Napoleon and his army and presents the author's theories of historyWar and peace (Penguin classics)
Par Leo Tolstoy. 1992
En nuestro tiempo
Par Ernest Hemingway. 1958
El rescate de un Hemingway inédito: la gran tarea de Ricardo Piglia antes de morir. «Los cimientos de la teoría…
del iceberg de Hemingway reunidos por primera vez con un prólogo magistral de Ricardo Piglia. [...] Un libro fundamental, de indisoluble unidad temática, de estilo e incluso interpretativa.»Matías Néspolo, El MundoHemingway publicó En nuestro tiempo, su primer libro de cuentos, en 1925. Tenía veintiséis años y ya escribía como un veterano. Esta primera edición en español, deuda incomprensible que debía ser saldada, respeta el orden original de un libro de cuentos que por su organicidad y consistencia interna puede también leerse como una novela fragmentada. La guerra y el alcohol, la pesca y los toros, la soledad atormentada de Nick Adams ya están aquí, orbitando alrededor de ese núcleo emocional que Hemingway nunca nombra pero hacia el que sus relatos siempre gravitan. Ricardo Piglia tenía dieciocho años cuando encontró un ejemplar usado de In Our Time en una librería de Mar del Plata. Lo leyó entero esa misma tarde. Su prólogo a esta edición (que escribió poco antes de su muerte) invita a los fieles lectores de Hemingway a participar de un diálogo iluminador y es, al mismo tiempo, una inmejorable presentación para aquellos afortunados a punto de cruzar esta puerta por primera vez. Reseñas:«Volver a leer estos cuentos me llena de placer. Uno con la relectura rescata esa felicidad que el tiempo no desmorona. Me siguen emocionando Campamento indio, Gato bajo la lluvia, El río de los dos corazones y Fuera de temporada. Todos con esa magia estilística que apuntaló a otros escritores.»José María Gatti, Evaristocultural.com «El prólogo de Ricardo Piglia es una clase magistral sobre literatura,sobre Hemingway, sobre el arte de escribir cuentos. Una invitación irresistible a leer el libro de una sentada.»Daniela Portas, Infobae «Piglia arroja una lectura iluminadora de los mecanismos esenciales de Hemingway, desde la teoría del iceberg como primera síntesis de la capacidadnarrativa de Hemingway hasta el modo deliberado de ocultación y desarrollo de sus personajes e historias.»Karina Sainz Borgo, Voz Pópuli «Quince relatos, entre ellos el magistral Gato bajo la lluvia, en los que aparentemente no sucede nada pero que ocultan bajo su superficie una corriente torrencial y desbocada que arrastra también al lector.»Santos Domínguez, Encuentros con las letras«La pasión [de Hemingway] por narrar lo lleva a la selección de la realidad, a las omisiones, al lenguaje minimalista, a esa voluntad de relatar lo real que se convierte en su poética personal y su lirismo.»Ricardo Lladosa, Zenda Libros «Su lenguaje es coloquial y fresco, duro y limpio; su prosa parece tener un ser orgánico propio. Cada sílaba cuenta para una experiencia de magia estimulante y fascinante. Mira el mundo sin prejuicios ni preconceptos y graba con precisión y economía, y con una inmediatez casi aterradora, exactamente lo que ve.»Javier García Recio, La OpiniónKangaroo: Large Print (Twentieth Century Classics Ser.)
Par D. H. Lawrence. 1950
This novel of 1920s Australia by the author of Lady Chatterley&’s Lover is &“one of the sharpest fictional visions of…
the country and its people&” (Gideon Haigh). A few years after the close of World War I, English author Richard Lovat Somers and his German wife, Harriet, have fled the grim remains of Europe and ventured to Australia. But they soon discover the new world is an escape from neither the demands of politics nor the nightmarish memories of Richard&’s service on the front lines. In Sydney, Richard meets Benjamin Cooley, a charismatic lawyer known to all as Kangaroo. But Kangaroo is also the leader of an underground fascist organization. While Richard finds himself drawn to the man&’s strength and certainty of purpose, he is simultaneously repelled by his embrace of dehumanizing violence. In this semi-autobiographical novel, author D. H. Lawrence plumbs the depths of his own experience in the Great War while exploring in vivid detail the breathtaking landscape and social volatility of Australia.A Round of Stories by the Christmas Fire (Hesperus Classics)
Par Charles Dickens. 2003
Published in its entirety for the first time since 1852, this shining collection of Christmas tales was originally selected by…
Charles Dickens for his periodical Household Words. Each story varies in theme and tone, with scenes of romance, theft, justice, and heart-warming family reunions set alongside haunting tales and chilling ghost stories, while topics addressed range from the meaning of Christmas to disability and race. Contributing authors include Elizabeth Gaskell, Edmund Saul Dixon, Edmund Oliver, and of course Dickens himself, making this a brilliant example of Victorian storytelling and an insightful reflection on the holiday season during the 19th century.