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Excellent Women (Virago Modern Classics #311)
By Barbara Pym. 1952
Mildred Lathbury is one of those 'excellent women' who is often taken for granted. She is a godsend, 'capable of…
dealing with most of the stock situations of life - birth, marriage, death, the successful jumble sales, the garden fete spoilt by bad weather'. As such, she often gets herself embroiled in other people's lives - especially those of her glamorous new neighbours, the Napiers, whose marriage seems to be on the rocks. One cannot take sides in these matters, though it is tricky, especially as Mildred, teetering on the edge of spinsterhood, has a soft spot for dashing young Rockingham Napier. This is Barbara Pym's world at its funniest and most touching.Amor de Perdição: Memorias D'uma Familia
By Camilo Castelo Branco. 2012
Uma das obras-primas da literatura romântica portuguesa, Amor de Perdição narra a história trágica de um amor condenado por uma…
moral social hipócrita e bafienta. «Se viveres, um dia serás livre; a pedra do sepulcro é que nunca se levanta.» Amor de Perdição narra o drama de um trágico triângulo amoroso entre Simão Botelho, Teresa de Albuquerque e Mariana da Cruz. Profundamente apaixonados mas descendentes de famílias rivais envolvidas numa quezília antiga, Simão e Teresa verão o seu amor proibido pelo orgulho dos pais e condenado por uma moral social bafienta, precipitando assim os destinos dos dois jovens amantes e de Mariana, que amava Simão em silêncio. Escrita na Cadeia da Relação do Porto em 1861 durante uma pena que cumpria o próprio autor pelo delito de amar uma mulher casada, esta novela é considerada umas das obras-primas da literatura romântica portuguesa. Observador astuto da condição humana e crítico mordaz da falsa moral e da hipocrisia, Camilo Castelo Branco teceu uma trama intensa onde o amor se prefigura como uma voz insubordinada em defesa da liberdade. Edição de Ivo Castro Introdução de Abel Barros BaptistaLo Real (Old is Gold Series #3)
By Henry James. 2022
En Lo Real, James aborda uno de sus temas recurrentes: la reflexión sobre los mecanismos creativos y la función del arte en nuestras…
vidas. Una pareja de aristócratas, los Monarch, entran en contacto con un artista de segundo nivel, un ilustrador de libros populares. La anécdota permite a James componer un cuento moral y una parábola estética. La acción simboliza una inversión en las jerarquías sociales y ejemplifica una profunda convicción de James: el arte imitativo, siendo de rango inferior, debe inclinarse ante su superior, la representación imaginativa.A Bad Business: Essential Stories (Essential Stories #11)
By Fyodor Dostoevsky. 2021
A stunning new edition featuring fresh translations of six of this classic Russian writer's most thrilling short stories in a…
beautiful Pushkin Collection edition.This vivid collection of new translations by Nicolas Pasternak Slater and Maya Slater illuminates Dostoevsky's dazzling versatility as a writer. His remarkable short fiction swings from wickedly sharp humour to gripping psychological intensity, from cynical social mockery to moments of unexpected tenderness. The stories in this collection range from impossible fantasy to scorching satire. • A civil servant finds a new passion for his work when he's swallowed alive by a crocodile. • A struggling writer stumbles on a cemetery where the dead still talk to each other. • An arrogant but well-intentioned gentleman provokes an uproar at an aide's wedding, and in the marital bed. • A young boy finds unexpected salvation on a cold and desolate Christmas Eve.The King of the Copper Mountains
By Paul Biegel. 2008
A timeless and enchanting children's fantasy classic with a loyal fan base.At the end of his thousand-year reign of the…
Copper Mountains, old King Mansolain is tired and his heart is slowing down. When his attendant, the Hare, consults The Wonder Doctor, he is told he must keep the King engaged in life by telling him a story every night until the Doctor can find a cure. The search is on for a nightly story more wonderful than the last, and one by one the kingdom's inhabitants arrive with theirs; the ferocious Wolf, the lovesick Donkey, the fire-breathing three-headed Dragon. Last to arrive is the Dwarf, with four ancient books and a prophecy that the King will live for another thousand years - but only if the Wonder Doctor returns in time.A Kiss Before Dying: Introduction by Chelsea Cain (Tom Thorne Novels #416)
By Ira Levin. 2017
Dorothy meets a handsome young man with an eye for her inheritance while she is in her sophomore year. They…
are to be married and her life will be blissful; but Dorothy is pregnant and her fiancé's plans are ruined, for Dorothy would be disinherited if her father discovered the truth.So the young man provides his bride to be with some pills that will solve the problem. Soon there will be no baby - and perhaps no Dorothy either... A Kiss before Dying, Levin's first novel, earned him the 1954 Edgar Award for Best First Novel and is regarded as a modern classic.Craven House
By Patrick Hamilton. 1962
'All his novels are terrific' Sarah WatersPatrick Hamilton's novels were the inspiration for Matthew Bourne's new dance theatre production, The…
Midnight Bell.In Craven House, among the shifting, uncertain world of the English boarding house, with its sad population of the shabby genteel on the way down - and the eternal optimists who would never get up or on - the young Patrick Hamilton, with loving, horrified fascination, first mapped out the territory that he would make, uniquely, his own. Although many of Hamilton's lifelong interests are here, they are handled with a youthful brio and optimism conspicuously absent from his later work. The inmates of Craven House have their foibles, but most are indulgently treated by an author whose world view has yet to harden from scepticism into cynicism. The generational conflicts of Hamilton's own youth thread throughout the narrative, with hair bobbing and dancing as the battle lines. That perennial of the 1920s bourgeoisie, the 'servant problem', is never far from the surface, and tensions crescendo gradually to a resolution one climactic dinnertime.Hangover Square
By Patrick Hamilton. 1962
The seventy-fifth anniversary edition, with a new introduction by Anthony Quinn.'I recommend Hamilton at every opportunity, because he was such…
a wonderful writer and yet is rather under-read today. All his novels are terrific' Sarah Waters'If you were looking to fly from Dickens to Martin Amis with just one overnight stop, then Hamilton is your man' Nick HornbyPatrick Hamilton's novels were the inspiration for Matthew Bourne's new dance theatre production, The Midnight Bell.London, 1939, and in the grimy publands of Earls Court, George Harvey Bone is pursuing a helpless infatuation. Netta is cool, contemptuous and hopelessly desirable to George. George is adrift in a drunken hell, except in his 'dead' moments, when something goes click in his head and he realises, without a doubt, that he must kill her. In the darkly comic Hangover Square Patrick Hamilton brilliantly evokes a seedy, fog-bound world of saloon bars, lodging houses and boozing philosophers, immortalising the slang and conversational tone of a whole generation and capturing the premonitions of doom that pervaded London life in the months before the war.Animalia: Cuentos de Julio Cortázar / Selección de Aurora Bernárdez / Ilustraciones de Isol
By Julio Cortázar, Aurora Bernárdez. 1982
Animalia es una antología seleccionada por Aurora Bernárdez que reúne veintiún relatos de Julio Cortázar. Estas historias conforman una colección…
única de la fauna que habita en el universo del autor. A más de veinte años desde su primera edición Alfaguara publica esta reedición con ilustraciones de Isol Misenta. Aurora Bernárdez, albacea amorosa de Julio Cortázar, reunió en esta antología veintiún relatos del escritor para conformar una colección única de la fauna que habita el universo cortazariano. Allí, como es sabido, conviven animales que conocemos con otros que solamente existen a través de las hermosas, divertidas y delicadas palabras del gran cronopio. Alfaguara reedita esta antología zoológica con las ilustraciones fabulosas de Isol Misenta, que acompañan a la perfección estos relatos donde lo bestial emerge y lo irracional entra en juego.Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey (Awesomely Austen - Illustrated and Retold #6)
By Jane Austen, Steven Butler. 2020
A fresh, funny and accessible retelling of Jane Austen's classic story, with witty black and white illustrations throughout.Catherine Morland loves…
nothing more than reading a romantic novel, but as one of ten children she doesn't have much time for reading or for romance.When she is seventeen, her wealthy neighbours invite her to spend the winter season with them in Bath - to experience balls, the theatre and other social delights for the first time. Catherine makes friends with the passionate Isabella, and dances with a handsome man called Henry, and it seems that all her dreams are coming true. But real life doesn't always play out like a novel, and Catherine will have to overcome many obstacles before she can find her happy ending ... Steven Butler is an actor and writer from London. His books for children include The Wrong Pong series and Dennis the Menace. Steven's love of mischief made Northanger Abbey the perfect book to rewrite and he's excited to introduce Catherine Morland to a whole new raft of readers. Eglantine Ceulemans captures all of Austen's satire and wit, bringing her colourful casts to life with warm and funny black and white illustrations.Illustrated and retold editions are also available for: Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Persuasion, Sense and Sensibility, and Mansfield Park. The perfect way to discover Austen for the first time, this bright and bold collection features some of the most inspiring and famous heroines in English literature. For readers aged eight and up.La trilogía cósmica
By C. S. Lewis. 2022
La trilogía cósmicaEsta magnífica edición marca el 85º aniversario de la clásica recopilación de ciencia ficción de C. S. Lewis…
que presenta los viajes del Dr. Ransom en Marte, Venus y la Tierra. Con un prólogo exclusivo de cartas recopiladas de J.R.R. Tolkien, que inspiró a Lewis a escribir el primer volumen y en quien se basó en gran medida el personaje principal de Ransom, La trilogía cósmica es una notable obra de fantasía que demuestra la poderosa imaginación de C. S. Lewis.La trilogía cósmica incluye:Más allá del planeta silenciosoEl Dr. Ransom, un académico de Cambridge, es secuestrado y llevado en una nave espacial al planeta rojo de Malacandra, que él conoce como Marte. Sus captores planean saquear los tesoros del planeta y ofrecer a Ransom como sacrificio a las criaturas que viven allí.PerelandraTras escapar de Marte, el Dr. Ransom es llevado al paradisíaco planeta de Perelandra, o Venus. Cuando su antiguo enemigo también llega y es tomado por las fuerzas del mal, Ransom se encuentra en una lucha desesperada por salvar la inocencia de este mundo parecido al Edén.Esa horrible fortalezaInvestigando la verdad sobre sus sueños proféticos, Jane Studdock se encuentra con el legendario Dr. Ransom, que sufre mucho tras sus viajes. Una siniestra sociedad dirigida por sus antiguos adversarios pretende aprovechar los antiguos poderes de un Merlín resucitado en su ambición por subyugar a los habitantes de la Tierra.The Space TrilogyThis magnificent volume edition marks the 85th anniversary of C.S. Lewis's classic science fiction compilation featuring the journeys of Dr. Ransom on Mars, Venus, and Earth. With an exclusive foreword from compiled letters by J.R.R. Tolkien, who inspired Lewis to write the first volume and on whom the main character of Ransom was largely based, The Space Trilogy is a remarkable work of fantasy, demonstrating the powerful imagination of C. S. Lewis.The Space Trilogy, 85th Edition includes:Out of the Silent Planet Dr. Ransom, a Cambridge academic, is abducted and taken on a spaceship to the red planet of Malacandra, which he knows as Mars. His captors are plotting to plunder the planet's treasures and offer Ransom as a sacrifice to the creatures who live there.Perelandra Having escaped from Mars, Dr. Ransom is called to the paradise planet of Perelandra, or Venus. When his old enemy also arrives and is taken over by the forces of evil, Ransom finds himself in a desperate struggle to save the innocence of this Eden-like world.That Hideous Strength Investigating the truth about her prophetic dreams, Jane Studdock encounters the fabled Dr. Ransom, who is in great pain after his travels. A sinister society run by his old adversaries intends to harness the ancient powers of a resurrected Merlin in their ambition to subjugate the people of Earth.Yesterday
By Juan Emar. 1935
For the first time in English, a mind-bending, surreal masterpiece by “the forerunner of them all” (Pablo Neruda) In the…
city of San Agustín de Tango, the banal is hard to tell from the bizarre. In a single day, a man is guillotined for preaching the intellectual pleasures of sex; an ostrich in a zoo, reversing roles, devours a lion; and a man, while urinating, goes bungee jumping through time itself—and manages to escape. Or does he? Witness the weird machinery of Yesterday, where the Chilean master Juan Emar deploys irony, digression, and giddy repetitions to ratchet up narrative tension again and again and again, in this thrilling whirlwind of the ecstatically unexpected—all wed to the happiest marriage of any novel, ever. Born in Chile at the tail end of the nineteenth century, Juan Emar was largely overlooked during his lifetime, and lived in self-imposed exile from the literary circles of his day. A cult of Emarians, however, always persisted, and after several rediscoveries in the Spanish-speaking world, he is finally getting his international due with the English-language debut of Yesterday, deftly translated by Megan McDowell. Emar’s work offers unique and delirious pleasures, and will be an epiphany to anglophone readers.The Conjure-Man Dies (Library of Congress Crime Classics)
By Rudolph Fisher. 1932
An unmissable entry in the esteemed Library of Congress Crime Classics, an exciting new classic mystery series created in exclusive…
partnership with the Library of Congress to highlight the best of American crime fictionWhen the body of N'Gana Frimbo, the African conjure-man, is discovered in his consultation room, Perry Dart, one of Harlem's ten Black police detectives, is called in to investigate. Together with Dr Archer, a physician from across the street, Dart is determined to solve the baffling mystery, helped and hindered by Bubber Brown and Jinx Jenkins, local boys keen to clear themselves of suspicion of murder and undertake their own investigations.This groundbreaking mystery is the first ever to feature a Black detective and all Black characters, written by Black author Rudolph Fisher, who was a principal writer of the Harlem Renaissance.A Visit From the Goon Squad
By Jennifer Egan. 2010
An accompanying pdf for Chapter 12 of A Visit From The Goon Squad comes with the audiobook download.Jennifer Egan's spellbinding…
novel circles the lives of Bennie Salazar, an ageing former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Although Bennie and Sasha never discover each other's pasts, the reader does, in intimate detail, along with the secret lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs, over many years, in locales as varied as New York, San Francisco, Naples, and Africa.We first meet Sasha in her mid-thirties, on her therapist's couch in New York City, confronting her long-standing compulsion to steal. Later, we learn the genesis of her turmoil when we see her as the child of a violent marriage, then a runaway living in Naples, then as a college student trying to avert the suicidal impulses of her best friend. We meet Bennie Salazar at the melancholy nadir of his adult life-divorced, struggling to connect with his nine-year-old son, listening to a washed up band in the basement of a suburban house-and then revisit him in 1979, at the height of his youth, shy and tender, revelling in San Francisco's punk scene as he discovers his ardour for rock and roll and his gift for spotting talent. We learn what became of his high school gang-who thrived and who faltered-and we encounter Lou Kline, Bennie's catastrophically careless mentor, along with the lovers and children left behind in the wake of Lou's far flung sexual conquests and meteoric rise and fall.A Visit from the Goon Squad is a book about the interplay of time and music, about survival, about the stirrings and transformations set inexorably in motion by even the most passing conjunction of our fates. In a breathtaking array of styles and tones ranging from tragedy to satire to Powerpoint, Egan captures the undertow of self-destruction that we all must either master or succumb to; the basic human hunger for redemption; and the universal tendency to reach for both-and escape the merciless progress of time-in the transporting realms of art and music. Sly, startling, exhilarating work from one of our boldest writers.Who was Lost and is Found: A Novel (Classics To Go)
By Oliphant. 2018
Excerpt: "It would have been hard, however, to have looked upon the face of Mrs James Ogilvy as she went…
about her little household duties in the morning, or took her walks about the garden, or knitted her stocking in the placid afternoon, and to have thought of her as discontented or struggling with fate. She was about sixty, a little woman but trim in figure, with a pleasant colour, and eyes still bright with animation and interest. Perhaps you will think it ridiculous to be asked to interest yourself in the character and proceedings of an old woman of sixty when there are so many younger and prettier things in the world: which I allow is quite true in the general: yet there may be advantages in it, once in a way."The White Man's Foot: With 17 Illustrations... (Classics To Go)
By Grant Allan. 2017
The old priest of Mauna Loa, the great Hawaiian volcano, is to all outward appearance a good, civilised Christian man,…
who has discarded his old beliefs and has heartily accepted the more excellent way offered him. All the while he keeps the old priest's mask in his closet and the old faith in his heart. His contact with the scientific explorers who come to pry into the secrets of his great goddess works out into a decidedly interesting tale, a little too full, perhaps, of hairbreadth escapes in situations from which escape seems impossible, and is found only at the very last possible moment, when all hope has been given up…F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby, All the Sad Young Men & Other Writings 1920–26 (LOA #353)
By F. Scott Fitzgerald. 2022
Library of America&’s authoritative Fitzgerald edition continues with his greatest masterpiece and best story collection of stories in newly edited…
textsThis long-awaited second volume of Library of America&’s authoritative edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald features the author&’s acknowledged masterpiece and most popular book, The Great Gatsby. It was Gatsby that solidified his reputation as the chronicler of the Jazz Age and established him as one of the leading American novelists of his generation. Perhaps no other novel of the twentieth century makes a greater claim to being our Great American Novel—for its poetic prose, its exploration of the broad, intertwined themes of money, class, and American optimism (Daisy Buchanan&’s voice is &“full of money&”), its dominance of high school and college curricula, and its claims upon the public imagination. The novel is presented in a newly edited text, correcting numerous errors and restoring Fitzgerald&’s preferred American spellings. Also included in this volume are Fitzgerald&’s third collection of stories, All the Sad Young Men, which includes some of the author&’s best short fiction—"Winter Dreams,&” &“The Rich Boy,&” and &“Absolution&”—as well as a generous selection of stories and nonfiction from the period 1920–1926, all in newly corrected texts.Blind Owl
By Sadeq Hedayat. 2022
A new English translation of one of the most important, controversial Iranian novels of the twentieth centuryA Penguin ClassicWritten by…
one of the greatest Iranian writers of the twentieth century, Blind Owl tells a two-part story of an isolated narrator with a fragile relationship with time and reality. In first person, the narrator offers a string of hazy, dreamlike recollections fueled by opium and alcohol. He spends time painting the exact same scene on the covers of pen cases: an old man wearing a cape and turban sitting under a cypress tree, separated by a small stream from a beautiful woman in black who offers him a water lily. In a one-page transition, the reader finds the narrator covered in blood and waiting for the police to arrest him. In part two, readers glimpse the grim realities that unlock the mysteries of the first part. In a new translation that reflects Hedayat&’s conversational, confessional tone, Blind Owl joins the ranks of classics by Edgar Allan Poe, Franz Kafka, and Fyodor Dostoyevsky that explore the dark recesses of the human psyche.People from Bloomington
By Budi Darma. 2016
An eerie, alienating, yet comic and profoundly sympathetic short story collection about Americans in America by one of Indonesia&’s most…
prominent writers, now in an English translation for its fortieth anniversary, with a foreword by Intan ParamadithaA Penguin Classic In these seven stories of The People from Bloomington, our peculiar narrators find themselves in the most peculiar of circumstances and encounter the most peculiar of people. Set in Bloomington, Indiana, where the author lived as a graduate student in the 1970s, this is far from the idyllic portrait of small-town America. Rather, sectioned into apartment units and rented rooms, and gridded by long empty streets and distances traversable only by car, it&’s a place where the solitary can all too easily remain solitary; where people can at once be obsessively curious about others, yet fail to form genuine connections with anyone. The characters feel their loneliness acutely and yet deliberately estrange others. Budi Darma paints a realist world portrayed through an absurdist frame, morbid and funny at the same time. For decades, Budi Darma has influenced and inspired many writers, artists, filmmakers, and readers in Indonesia, yet his stories transcend time and place. With The People from Bloomington, Budi Darma draws us to a universality recognized by readers around the world—the cruelty of life and the difficulties that people face in relating to one another while negotiating their own identities. The stories are not about &“strangeness&” in the sense of culture, race, and nationality. Instead, they are a statement about how everyone, regardless of nationality or race, is strange, and subject to the same tortures, suspicions, yearnings, and peculiarities of the mind.The Sun Also Rises: Deluxe Illustrated Edition
By Ernest Hemingway. 2022
New illustrations by Tim Foley and a new foreword by author Robert Wheeler catapult this timeless classic by Ernest Hemingway…
into the twenty-first century with vigor.For nearly a century, The Sun Also Rises has endured as one of Hemingway&’s masterworks, and is widely regarded as a prime example of the great American writer&’s pioneering style and form. His first major novel explores powerful themes like masculinity and male insecurity, sex and love, and the effects of a brutal war on an aimless generation. This roman à clef is based on the real experiences and relationships Hemingway had in the early 1920s. Set predominantly in France and Spain, the novel follows a group of disillusioned aimless expats tooling around post-war Europe, living hard, drinking heavily, and having complicated sordid love affairs. The novel is told from the perspective of Jake Barnes, a World War I vet turned journalist living in Paris, who is still in love with his former flame, the eccentric and charismatic Lady Brett Ashley. Meanwhile, Jake's friend, author Robert Cohn, becomes tired of his oppressive marriage and sets off to seek out adventure, becoming enamored with Brett himself. They all eventually drift from the glitz and glamour of 1920s Paris to Pamplona, Spain, where they revel in the rawness of bullfights and alcohol-fueled parties, eventually devolving into jealousy and violent drama. This leads to Jake coming to a stark realization—that he can never be with the woman he truly loves.