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Classic fiction, Humour, Lifestyle
Perhaps while reading Shakespeare you've asked yourself, What exactly is Hamlet trying to tell me? Why must he mince words… and muse in lyricism and, in short, whack about the shrub? But if the Prince of Denmark had a Twitter account and an iPhone, he could tell his story in real time--and concisely! Hence the genius of Twitterature. Hatched in a dorm room at the brain trust that is the University of Chicago, Twitterature is a hilarious and irreverent re-imagining of the classics as a series of 140-character tweets from the protagonist. Providing a crash course in more than eighty of the world's best-known books, from Homer to Harry Potter, Virgil to Voltaire, Tolstoy to Twilight and Dante to The Da Vinci Code. It's the ultimate Cliffs Notes. Because as great as the classics are, who has time to read those big, long books anymore? Sample tweets: From Hamlet: WTF IS POLONIUS DOING BEHIND THE CURTAIN??? From the Harry Potter series: Oh man big tournament at my school this year!! PSYCHED! I hope nobody dies this year, and every year as if by clockwork. From The Great Gatsby: Gatsby is so emo. Who cries about his girlfriend while eating breakfast...IN THE POOL?
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Classic fiction, Biography
La primera novela de Amado Nervo, El bachiller, representa el inicio de una fértil carrera literaria, mientras que en El… donador de almas el lector se sorprenderá con un radical giro en su narrativa. "Debía dormir también allá en el fondo misterioso del biselado cristal, con un sueño levísimo de fantasma..." Amado Nervo, reconocido poeta, fue también diplomático, cronista y un extraordinario narrador. Aclamado por ser uno de los poetas modernistas mexicanos más importantes, su obra en prosa irradia la misma fuerza que sus poemas. Presentamos por primera vez en un solo volumen tres novelas fundamentales y poco difundidas para comprender la evolución narrativa del autor, así como las distintas facetas que abarcó su producción -desde la influencia romántica de El bachiller hasta los rasgos fantásticos de El donador de almas-, seguidas de una selección de susmejores cuentos. La edición de las obras aquí reunidas se realizó a partir de las últimas versiones publicadas o reescritas por Amado Nervo. Selección, prólogo, notas y cronología a cargo de Gustavo Jiménez Aguirre, doctor en Letras por la UNAM y especialista en la obra de Nervo.
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Classic fiction, Biography
Born into a life of bondage Frederick Douglass secretly taught himself to read and write It was a… crime punishable by death but it resulted in one of the most eloquent indictments of slavery ever recorded His gripping narrative takes us into the fields cabins and manors of pre-Civil War plantations in the South and reveals the daily terrors he suffered as a slave Written more than a century and a half ago by an African-American who went on to become a famous orator U S minister to Haiti and leader of his people this timeless classic still speaks directly to our age It is a record of savagery and inhumanity that goes far to explain why America still suffers from the great injustices of the past With an Introduction by Peter J Gomes and an Afterword by Gregory Stephens
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Classic fiction, Biography
Aquel hombre era el Zarco el famoso bandido cuyo renombre hab a llenado de terror toda la comarca… Aqu se re nen dos de las novelas m s famosas del maestro Altamirano referente de las letras mexicanas del siglo XIX La Navidad en las monta as nos conduce al ut pico encuentro la v spera de Navidad entre un militar liberal en la Guerra de Reforma y un cura de aldea quien resulta un genuino gu a espiritual Esa noche ambos presencian el desenlace de una historia de amor entre el hu rfano del pueblo y la sobrina del alcalde El Zarco novela de bandidos narra las peripecias entre un apuesto jefe criminal de los Plateados banda que asol Yautepec antes de la Intervenci n Francesa y Manuela la muchacha m s bella del pueblo quien corresponde a sus amores sin imaginar los peligros a los que se expone mientras la poblaci n organiza grupos de autodefensa Esta nueva edici n estuvo a cargo de Luz Am rica Viveros doctora en Letras por El Colegio de M xico acad mica de la UNAM y miembro del Sistema Nacional de Investigadores Edici n de LUZ AM RICA VIVEROS
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Classic fiction, Biography
Los mejores libros jam s escritos La presente edici n es la nica en el… mercado basada en la versi n original publicada por Payno como novela de follet n en 1861 Y qu sabemos si con el tiempo no podr usted subir m s alto en este pa s de est pidos Aunque Manuel Payno sea reconocido por novelas como Los bandidos de R o Fr o o El fistol del diablo -obras fundacionales de la literatura mexicana- El hombre de la situaci n revela a un Payno m s concentrado m s puro y s mucho m s breve En apenas diecinueve cap tulos el autor narra con buen humor y mucha cr tica las peripecias de tres generaciones de Fulgencios Garc a Julio en el M xico del siglo XIX personajes ignorantes y ego stas traicioneros y oportunistas m s p caros que inteligentes que se encontraron con un contexto tristemente favorable al absurdo en el cual gozaron de fortuna riqueza y poder pol tico Edici n a cargo de la doctora Yliana Rodr guez Gonz lez acad mica de El Colegio de San Luis y miembro del Sistema Nacional de Investigadores
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Classic fiction, Biography
Born into a life of bondage, Frederick Douglass secretly taught himself to read and write. It was a crime punishable… by death, but it resulted in one of the most eloquent indictments of slavery ever recorded. His gripping narrative takes us into the fields, cabins, and manors of pre-Civil War plantations in the South and reveals the daily terrors he suffered as a slave. Written more than a century and a half ago by an African-American who went on to become a famous orator, U.S. minister to Haiti, and leader of his people, this timeless classic still speaks directly to our age. It is a record of savagery and inhumanity that goes far to explain why America still suffers from the great injustices of the past. With an Introduction by Peter J. Gomes and an Afterword by Gregory Stephens
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Classic fiction, Lifestyle, General non-fiction
Annice, Pat, and Barby are best friends from Iowa, freshly arrived in booming 1950s Chicago to explore different paths toward… independence, self--expression, and sexual freedom. From the hip-hang of a bohemian lifestyle to the sophisticated lure of romance with a handsome, wealthy, married boss to the happier security of a lesbian relationship, these three experience firsthand the dangers and limitations of women's economic -reliance on men. Well-known lesbian pulp author Valerie Taylor skillfully paints a sociological portrait of the emotional and economic pitfalls of heterosexuality in 1950s America-and then offers a defiantly subversive alternative. A classic pulp tale showcasing predatory beatnik men, drug hallucinations, and secret lesbian trysts, The Girls in 3-B approaches the theme of sex from the stiffened vantage point of 1950s psychology.Femmes Fatales restores to print the best of women's writing in the classic pulp genres of the mid-20th century. From mystery to hard-boiled noir to taboo lesbian romance, these rediscovered queens of pulp offer subversive perspectives on a turbulent era. Enjoy the series: Bedelia; The Blackbirder; Bunny Lake Is Missing; By Cecile; The G-String Murders; The Girls in 3-B; In a Lonely Place; Laura; Mother Finds a Body; Now, Voyager; Skyscraper; Stranger on Lesbos; Women's Barracks.
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Classic fiction, General fiction, Biography
<P>Richard Wright grew up in the woods of Mississippi, with poverty, hunger, fear, and hatred. He lied, stole, and raged… at those around him; at six he was a "drunkard," hanging about taverns. <P>Surly, brutal, cold, suspicious, and self-pitying, he was surrounded on one side by whites who were either indifferent to him, pitying, or cruel, and on the other by blacks who resented anyone trying to rise above the common lot. <P>Black Boy is Richard Wright's powerful account of his journey from innocence to experience in the Jim Crow South. <P>It is at once an unashamed confession and a profound indictment-a poignant and disturbing record of social injustice and human suffering. <P>[This text is listed as an example that meets Common Core Standards in English language arts in grades 11-12 at http://www.corestandards.org.]