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Viernes o los limbos del Pacífico; El Rey de los Alisos; Los meteoros

Fri, 3 Aug 2012 6:43:12 PST

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" El mito de Robinson Crusoe en Viernes o los limbos del Pacífico, el amor y el nazismo en El Rey de los Alisos, la oscura relación entre dos hermanos gemelos y el viaje iniciático en Los meteoros son los grandes temas y motivos de esta ...

EL MISTERI DE L AMOR

Fri, 3 Aug 2012 6:42:29 PST

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Qualsevol persona que s’hagi meravellat amb les cançons de Taxi o Batiscafo Katiuscas no quedarà indiferent davant El misteri de l’amor, primera novel·la de Joan Miquel Oliver, compositor i lletrista d’Antònia Font.

Diccionario de las artes

Fri, 3 Aug 2012 6:41:42 PST

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The Complete Maus

Fri, 3 Aug 2012 6:41:07 PST

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"The Complete Maus" by Art Spiegelman - the Pulitzer prize-winning Holocaust survivor story. "The most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust". ("Wall Street Journal"). "The first masterpiece in comic book history". ("The New Yorker"). "The Pulitzer Prize-winning "Maus" tells the story of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and his son, a cartoonist ...

The Pledge

Fri, 3 Aug 2012 6:40:28 PST

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Set in a small town in Switzerland, "The Pledge "centers around the murder of a young girl and the detective who promises the victim's mother he will find the perpetrator. After deciding the wrong man has been arrested for the crime, the detective lays a trap for the real killer--with all the patience of a master fisherman. But cruel turns of plot conspire to make him pay dearly for his pledge. H ...

The Bonfire of the Vanities

Fri, 3 Aug 2012 6:39:26 PST

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Sherman McCoy is a WASP, bond trader and self-appointed 'Master of the Universe'. He has a fashionable wife, a Park Avenue apartment and a Southern mistress. His spectacular fall begins the moment he is involved in a hit-and-run accident in the Bronx. Prosecutors, newspaper hacks, politicians and clergy close in on him, determined to bring him down. "The Bonfire of the Vanities" is a caustic sati ...

The Black Dahlia

Fri, 3 Aug 2012 6:01:38 PST

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It is Los Angeles, 11th January 1947. A beautiful young woman walked into the night and met her horrific destiny. Five days later, her tortured body was found drained of blood and cut in shelf. The newspapers called her 'The Black Dahlia'. Two cops are caught up in the investigation and embark on a hellish journey that takes them to the core of the dead girl's twisted life.

Hegarty on Advertising

Fri, 3 Aug 2012 5:56:12 PST

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Here is a book that no creative professional should be without. Written by one of the worlds leading advertising men, it contains over four decades of wisdom and insight from the man who put Nick Kamen into a laundrette for Levi Strauss and gave Audi the immortal Vorsprung durch Technik, amongst many, many other highly successful campaigns for major brands. "Hegarty on Advertising" represents the ...

Last Exit to Brooklyn

Sun, 5 Feb 2012 4:40:55 PST

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Few novels have caused as much controversy as Hubert Selby Jr.'s notorious masterpiece. Described by various reviewers as hellish and obscene, it tells the stories of New Yorkers who at every turn confront the worst excesses in human nature. Yet there are moments of exquisite tenderness in these troubled lives. Georgette, the transvestite who falls in love with a callous hoodlum; Tralala, the con ...

Manhattan Transfer

Sun, 5 Feb 2012 4:40:22 PST

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A modernist masterwork that has more in common with films than traditional novels, John Dos Passos' "Manhattan Transfer" includes an introduction by Jay McInerney in "Penguin Modern Classics". A colourful, multi-faceted chronicle of New York in the early 1920s, "Manhattan Transfer" ranks with James Joyce's "Ulysses" as a powerful and often lyrical meditation on the modern city. Using experimental ...

De qué hablamos cuando hablamos de amor

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 5:30:54 PST

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Los deslumbrados lectores de Catedral, primer libro publicado en España de Carver, reencontrarán en De qué hablamos cuando hablamos de amor la atmósfera y los personajes de un autor que domina indiscutiblemente el panorama literario norteamericano de esta década. Parejas que se despedazan, compañeros que parten desesperadamente a la aventura, hijos que intentan comunicarse con sus padres, un univ ...

On the Road

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 5:29:46 PST

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From Publishers Weekly In introducing the fabled first draft of Kerouac's autobiographical novel-written on a single giant roll of paper, without breaks in the text, in an amphetamine-fueled marathon-editor Howard Cunnell refers to Allen Ginsberg's claim that "the published novel is not at all like the wild book Kerouac typed in '51." Characters are identified by their real names (rather than th ...

Gonzo

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 5:27:35 PST

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Moby Dick

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 5:25:47 PST

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A novel that explores the darkest depths and brightest hopes in the souls of men, Moby-Dick is an impassioned drama of the ultimate human struggle that the Atlantic Monthly called "the greatest of American novels."

Letters from a Stoic

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 5:09:02 PST

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A philosophy that saw self-possession as the key to an existence lived 'in accordance with nature', Stoicism called for the restraint of animal instincts and the severing of emotional ties. These beliefs were formulated by the Athenian followers of Zeno in the fourth century BC, but it was in Seneca (c. 4 BC - AD 65) that the Stoics found their most eloquent advocate. Stoicism, as expressed in th ...

Mr Vertigo

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 5:08:41 PST

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The story of Walt, an irrepressible orphan from the Mid-West. Under the tutelage of the mesmerising Master Yehudi, Walt is taken back to the mysterious house on the plains to prepare not only for the ability to fly, but also for the stardom that will accompany it.

Frank Sinatra Has a Cold

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 5:08:22 PST

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Gay Talese is the father of American New Journalism, who transformed traditional reportage with his vivid scene-setting, sharp observation and rich storytelling. His 1966 piece for "Esquire", one of the most celebrated magazine articles ever published, describes a morose Frank Sinatra silently nursing a glass of bourbon, struck down with a cold and unable to sing, like 'Picasso without paint, Fer ...

Drown

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 5:07:59 PST

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Moving from the barrios of the Dominican Republic to the struggling urban communities of New Jersey, these heartbreaking, completely original stories established Díaz as one of contemporary fiction's most exhilarating new voices.

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 5:06:39 PST

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Stylish reissue of a classic novel first published in the 1970s: Hunter S Thompson's ether-fuelled, savage journey to the heart of the American Dream. 'We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold...And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of what looked like huge bats, all swooping and screeching and diving around t ...

Robinson Crusoe

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 5:03:23 PST

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Tokio blues

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 4:58:33 PST

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Una historia de amor triangular que se convierte en el relato de una educación sentimental pero también de las pérdidas que implica toda maduración . Toru Watanabe, un ejecutivo de 37 años, escucha casualmente mientras aterriza en un aeropuerto europeo una vieja canción de los Beatles, y la música le hace retroceder a su juventud, al turbulento To ...

How to Lose Friends and Alienate People

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 4:57:39 PST

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In 1995, high-flying British journalist Toby Young left London for New York to become a contributing editor at "Vanity Fair". Other Brits had taken Manhattan - Alistair Cooke, Tina Brown, Anna Wintour - so why couldn't he? Surely it would only be a matter of time before the Big Apple was in the palm of his hand. But things did not go according to plan. Within the space of two years he was fired f ...

The Crying of Lot 49

Tue, 4 Oct 2011 21:58:44 PST

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The highly original satire about Oedipa Maas, a woman who finds herself enmeshed in a worldwide conspiracy, meets some extremely interesting characters, and attains a not inconsiderable amount of self knowledge.

Respiración artificial

Tue, 4 Oct 2011 21:30:30 PST

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El escritor Emilio Renzi, que ha escrito una narración conjetural de una historia que circulaba en su familia, conoce por fin al protagonista, su tío Marcelo, que vive en provincias e investiga los papeles del secretario privado de un personaje que pudo ser un héroe pero del que se sospecha que en realidad fue un traidor. Entre estos personajes y algunos otros, como un polaco tras el que se adivi ...

Rayuela

Tue, 4 Oct 2011 21:30:16 PST

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Por primera vez se edita «Rayuela» como un clásico de la novela contemporánea. Todo el conjunto de materiales que aporta esta edición (introducción, abundantes notas, plano, fotografías) servirán al lector para comprender mejor y disfrutar más con esta gran novela. Al aclararse tantas alusiones y técnicas narrativas, resplandece con más claridad el sentido profundo del relato: la búsqueda constan ...

El mal de Montano

Tue, 4 Oct 2011 21:28:14 PST

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Entre el diario íntimo y la novela, el viaje sentimental, la autoficción y el ensayo, este libro nos propone el triunfo de la literatura. Un narrador, que firma sus libros como Rosario Girondo, escribe un diario personal y lleva tan lejos su mal de Montano, está tan enfermo de literatura, que la ficción inicial (la creación de un personaje obsesionado por el porvenir de la literatura y dedicado a ...

Walden; Or, Life in the Woods

Tue, 11 Jan 2011 2:17:55 PST

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Meditations on human existence, society, government and other topics.

A tale of two cities

Tue, 11 Jan 2011 2:15:20 PST

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The French Revolution brings terror and death to many people. But even in these troubled times people can still love and be kind.

Vineland

Tue, 11 Jan 2011 2:10:41 PST

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Gravity's Rainbow

Tue, 11 Jan 2011 2:10:00 PST

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Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity's Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of the twentieth century as Joyce's Ulysses was to the first. Its sprawling, encyclopedic narrative and penetrating analysis of the impact of technology on society make it an intellectual tour de force.

Lost Illusions

Tue, 11 Jan 2011 2:08:40 PST

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Handsome would-be poet Lucien Chardon is poor and naive, but highly ambitious. Failing to make his name in his dull provincial hometown, he is taken up by a patroness, the captivating married woman Madame de Bargeton, and prepares to forge his way in the glamorous beau monde of Paris. But Lucien has entered a world far more dangerous than he realized, as Madame de Bargeton's reputation becomes co ...

Madame Bovary

Tue, 11 Jan 2011 2:07:59 PST

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Prosateur de premier plan de la deuxime moiti du XIXe sicle, Gustave Flaubert a marqu lalittrature franaise par la profondeur de ses analyses psychologiques, ...

Nana

Tue, 11 Jan 2011 2:04:32 PST

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Nana opens in 1867, the year of the World Fair, when Paris, thronged by a cosmopolitan elite, was a perfect target for Zola's scathing denunciation of hypocrisy and fin-de-siecle moral corruption. In this new translation, the fate of Nana--the Helen of Troy of the second Empire, and daughter of the laundress in L'Assommoir--is now rendered in racy, stylish English.

The Awakening

Tue, 11 Jan 2011 2:01:15 PST

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'She wanted to swim far out, where no woman had swum before.' Kate Chopin was one of the most individual and adventurous of nineteenth-century american writers, whose fiction explored new and often startling territory. When her most famous story, The Awakening, was first published in 1899, it stunned readers with its frank portrayal of the inner word of Edna Pontellier, and its daring criticisms ...

Complete Poetry and Selected Prose

Tue, 2 Nov 2010 6:57:32 PST

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An anthology of Walt Whitman's poetry and some of his prose works, includes introductions and prefaces to some of the poems.

The American

Tue, 2 Nov 2010 6:56:16 PST

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The text reprinted in this volume is based on an examination of the five printedversions of The American (first published in 1877) which appeared in James's ...

The New York Trilogy: City of Glass / Ghosts / the Locked Room

Tue, 2 Nov 2010 6:52:43 PST

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Paul Auster's signature work, The New York Trilogy, consists of three interlocking novels: City of Glass, Ghosts, and The Locked Roomhaunting and mysterious tales that move at the breathless pace of a thriller.

A People's History of the United States

Tue, 2 Nov 2010 6:51:13 PST

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Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People's History of the United States is the only volume to tell America's story from the point of view of -- and in the words of -- America's women, factory workers, African-Americans, Native Americans, working poor, and immigrant laborers. This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including auth ...

Heart of Darkness

Tue, 2 Nov 2010 6:50:06 PST

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The Nellie a cruising yawl swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails and was at rest.

A sangre fría

Tue, 21 Sep 2010 12:49:21 PST

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El 15 de noviembre de 1959, en un pueblecito de Kansas, los cuatro miembros de la familia Clutter fueron salvajemente asesinados en su casa. Los crímenes eran, aparentemente, inmotivados, y no se encontraron claves que permitieran identificar a los asesinos. Cinco años después, Dick Hickcock y Perry Smith fueron ahorcados como culpables de las muertes. A partir de estos hechos, y tras realizar la ...

Watching the English

Fri, 17 Sep 2010 10:08:10 PST

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In WATCHING THE ENGLISH anthropologist Kate Fox takes a revealing look at the quirks, habits and foibles of the English people. She puts the English national character under her anthropological microscope, and finds a strange and fascinating culture, governed by complex sets of unspoken rules and byzantine codes of behaviour. Her minute observation of the way we talk, dress, eat, drink, work, pla ...

Invisible Man

Fri, 17 Sep 2010 10:07:23 PST

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Invisible Man is a milestone in American literature, a book that has continued to engage readers since its appearance in 1952. A first novel by an unknown writer, it remained on the bestseller list for sixteen weeks, won the National Book Award for fiction, and established Ralph Ellison as one of the key writers of the century. The nameless narrator of the novel describes growing up in a black ...

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Wed, 26 May 2010 7:49:26 PST

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High in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital bridge. Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer, has been sent to handle the dynamiting. There, in the mountains, he finds the dangers and the intense comradeship of war. And there he discovers Maria, a young woman who has escaped from Franco's rebels...

Boquitas pintadas

Sun, 23 May 2010 18:31:37 PST

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The Importance of Being Earnest

Sun, 23 May 2010 18:29:52 PST

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Oscar Wilde's brilliant play makes fun of the English upper classes with light-hearted satire and dazzling humour. It is 1890's England and two young gentlemen are being somewhat limited with the truth. To inject some excitement into their lives, Mr Worthing invents a brother, Earnest, as an excuse to leave his dull country life behind him to pursue the object of his desire, the ravishing Gwendol ...

1984

Sun, 23 May 2010 2:59:35 PST

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Los detectives salvajes

Sun, 23 May 2010 2:43:07 PST

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The Big Sleep

Sun, 23 May 2010 2:42:37 PST

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When a dying millionaire hires Philip Marlowe to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troublesome daughters, Marlowe finds himself involved with more than extortion. Kidnapping, pornography, seduction, and murder are just a few of the complications he gets caught up in. "Chandler [writes] like a slumming angel and invest[s] the sun-blinded streets of Los Angeles with a romantic presence." — ...

Why I Am Not a Christian

Sun, 23 May 2010 2:42:01 PST

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Dedicated as few men have been to the life of reason, Bertrand Russell has always been concerned with the basic questions to which religion also addresses itself -- questions about man's place in the universe and the nature of the good life, questions that involve life after death, morality, freedom, education, and sexual ethics. He brings to his treatment of these questions the same courage, scr ...

From Hell

Sun, 23 May 2010 2:41:32 PST

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Legendary comics writer Alan Moore and artist Eddie Campbell have created a gripping, hallucinatory piece of crime fiction about Jack the Ripper. Detailing the events that led up to the Whitechapel murders and the cover-up that followed, From Hell has become a modern masterpiece of crime noir and historical fiction.

Watchmen

Sun, 23 May 2010 2:40:39 PST

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Has any comic been as acclaimed as Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' Watchmen? Possibly only Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns, but Watchmen remains the critics' favorite. Why? Because Moore is a better writer, and Watchmen a more complex and dark and literate creation than Miller's fantastic, subversive take on the Batman myth. Moore, renowned for many other of the genre's finest creations (Saga ...

V for Vendetta

Sun, 23 May 2010 2:40:05 PST

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EL LABERINTO DE LA SOLEDAD

Sun, 23 May 2010 2:39:39 PST

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«El laberinto de la soledad» es una de las piezas claves de la literatura moderna, ensayo él mismo moderno y reflexión crítica sobre la modernidad. En la historia de la literatura hispanoamericana se trata de la prosa ensayística más importante de este siglo, la que ha influido más en el pensamiento y en la literatura de lengua española y la que más ha resonado en los de otras lenguas. En el cont ...

A Hitchcock Reader

Sun, 23 May 2010 2:37:31 PST

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This new edition of A Hitchcock Reader aims to preserve what has been so satisfying and successful in the first edition: a comprehensive anthology that may be ...

The Dark Side of Genius

Sun, 23 May 2010 2:36:38 PST

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This is the definitive life story of Alfred Hitchcock, the enigmatic and intensely private director of Psycho, Vertigo, Rear Window, The Birds, and more than forty other films. While setting forth every stage of Hitchcocks long life and brilliant career, Donald Spoto also explores the roots of the directors obsessions with blondes, food, murder, and idealized loveand he traces the incomparable, ...

Hitchcock's Films Revisited

Sun, 23 May 2010 2:35:29 PST

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When "Hitchcock's Films" was first published, it quickly became known as a new kind of book on film - one that came to be considered a necessary text in the Hitchcock bibliography. When Robin Wood returned to his writings on Hitchcock's films and published "Hitchcock's Films Revisited" in 1989, the multi-dimensional essays took on a new shape - one that was tempered by Wood's own development as a ...

Beloved

Wed, 12 May 2010 15:38:23 PST

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Shifting in time between the years preceding the Civil War and the years immediately following it. "Beloved" is the story of how an escaped slave tries to overcome the tragic death of her daughter. Morrison's lyrical narrative weaves together the supernatural and the tangible, and the result is a dazzling achievement and a spellbinding reading experience.

Hell's Angels

Fri, 7 May 2010 8:41:33 PST

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Gonzo journalist and literary roustabout Hunter S. Thompson flies with the angels--Hell's Angels, that is. He's lived with them, he knows them and their machines, he speaks their langauge,and he reports it back to the world with all the fearsome force of a souped-up cyclone burning rubber.

Amuleto

Fri, 7 May 2010 8:40:13 PST

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El extranjero

Fri, 7 May 2010 8:38:36 PST

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El país de la Canela

Fri, 7 May 2010 8:34:54 PST

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que al norte, más allá de los montes nevados de Quito, girando hacia el este por las montañas y descendiendo detrás de los riscos de hielo, había bosques ...

A Farewell to Arms

Fri, 7 May 2010 8:33:46 PST

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Published when Hemingway was just thirty, A FAREWELL TO ARMS confirmed his stature as the greatest single influence on the American short story and novel. The best American novel to emerge out of World War I, A FAREWELL TO ARMS is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his love for a beautiful English nurse. Hemingway's frank portrayal of the love betwe ...

Fiesta

Fri, 7 May 2010 8:32:29 PST

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Paris in the twenties: Pernod, parties and expatriate Americans, loose-living on money from home. Jake is wildly in love with Brett Ashley, aristocratic and irresistibly beautiful, with an abandoned, sensuous nature that she cannot change. When the couple drift to Spain to the dazzle of the fiesta and the heady atmosphere of the Bullfight, their affair is strained by new passions, new jealousies, ...

El reino de este mundo / The Kingdom of this World

Fri, 7 May 2010 8:31:54 PST

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The Complete Stories

Fri, 7 May 2010 8:30:01 PST

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Winner of the National Book Award The publication of this extraordinary volume firmly established Flannery O'Connor's monumental contribution to American fiction. There are thirty-one stories here in all, including twelve that do not appear in the only two story collections O'Connor put together in her short lifetime--Everything That Rises Must Converge and A Good Man Is Hard to Find. O'Conn ...

The Lottery and Other Stories

Fri, 7 May 2010 8:28:52 PST

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The Lottery, one of the most terrifying stories written in this century, created a sensation when it was first published in The New Yorker. "Power and haunting," and "nights of unrest" were typical reader responses. This collection, the only one to appear during Shirley Jackson's lifetime, unites "The Lottery:" with twenty-four equally unusual stories. Together they demonstrate Jack son's remarka ...

Las partículas elementales

Fri, 7 May 2010 8:26:48 PST

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En Las partículas elementales Houellebecq lleva a sus últimas consecuencias su frase: Toda sociedad tiene sus puntos débiles, sus llagas. Meted el dedo en la llaga y apretad bien fuerte. La novela narra el improbable nudo que unirá los destinos de dos hermanastros: Michel, prestigioso investigador en biología, especie de monje científico que a los cuarenta años ha renunciado a su sexualidad y sól ...

A Prayer for the Dying

Fri, 7 May 2010 8:24:52 PST

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Set in Friendship, Wisconsin, just after the Civil War, A Prayer for the Dying tells of a horrible epidemic that has gripped the town in a vise of fear and death.Jacob Hansen, Friendship's sheriff, undertaker, and pastor, is soon overwhelmed, though he continues to do what he can.But Jacob cannot control the plague's rapid spread, the panic that takes over Friendship, or his own feelings of despa ...

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Fri, 7 May 2010 8:21:29 PST

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This is the long-awaited first novel from one of the most original and memorable writers working today. Things have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight, lovesick Dominican ghetto nerd. From his home in New Jersey, where he lives with his old-world mother and rebellious sister, Oscar dreams of becoming the Dominican J. R. R. Tolkien and, most of all, of finding love. But ...

The Sound and the Fury

Fri, 7 May 2010 8:19:23 PST

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"Backgrounds" begins with the appendix Faulkner wrote in 1945 and sometimes referred to as another telling of The Sound and the Fury and includes a selection of Faulkner s letters, excerpts from two Faulkner interviews, a memoir by Faulkner s friend Ben Wasson, and both versions of Faulkner's 1933 introduction to the novel. "Cultural and Historical Contexts" presents four different perspectives o ...

Cuentos Completos 1

Fri, 7 May 2010 8:18:21 PST

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The first of three exceptional volumes of short stories written by this immortal master. His stories are a brilliant painting of improbable, magical and tender beings. They are the best mixture of his Literature, and are also the opportunity to embark on an endless trip. This volume includes: La otra orilla, Bestiario, Las armas secretas, and Final del juego.

Pedro Páramo

Fri, 7 May 2010 8:16:49 PST

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Property

Thu, 6 May 2010 14:49:45 PST

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Valerie Martin’s Property delivers an eerily mesmerizing inquiry into slavery’s venomous effects on the owner and the owned. The year is 1828, the setting a Louisiana sugar plantation where Manon Gaudet, pretty, bitterly intelligent, and monstrously self-absorbed, seethes under the dominion of her boorish husband. In particular his relationship with her slave Sarah, who is both his victim and his ...

Blood Meridian

Thu, 6 May 2010 14:46:32 PST

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"The fulfilled renown of Moby-Dick and of As I Lay Dying is augmented by Blood Meridian, since Cormac McCarthy is the worthy disciple both of Melville and Faulkner," writes esteemed literary scholar Harold Bloom in his Introduction to the Modern Library edition. "I venture that no other living American novelist, not even Pynchon, has given us a book as strong and memorable." Cormac McCarthy's m ...