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Waldo Emerson,Ralph

This short essay by the American philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) is among the works that have most influenced former U.S. President Barack Obama, who has repeatedly recommended its reading to young people and entrepreneurs.Self-Reliance (1841) is also one of the most significant essays of its author, from a philosophical and humanistic point of view. It is an essay ...

Preston Publishing

Muchas situaciones de la vida cotidiana requieren la capacidad de comprender un idioma extranjero. Para ayudarte a comunicarte en tu día a día, hemos reunido el vocabulario más útil y te lo ofrecemos presentado en las situaciones adecuadas y relacionado con los contextos comunicativos más frecuentes. ...

Rooney, Sally

Connell and Marianne grow up in the same small town in rural Ireland. The similarities end there; they are from very different worlds. When they both earn places at Trinity College in Dublin, a connection that has grown between them lasts long into the following years. This is an exquisite love story about how a person can change another person's life - a simple yet profound re...

Miller, Madeline

The captivating Sunday Times and New York Times number one bestseller by the Orange Prize-winning author of The Song of Achilles. Mortal. Daughter. Monster. Saviour. Outcast. Lover. Destroyer. Creator. Mother. Witch. Scorned, rejected and at last exiled from her father's house for her dark gifts, Circe arrives on the remote island of Aiaia with nothing but her wits and magic to...

Orwell George / Orwell, George

'Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I understand it'. Thus wrote Orwell following his experiences as a militiaman in the Spanish Civil War, chronicled in Homage to Catalonia. Here he brings to bear all the force of his humanity, passion and clarity, describin...

Dueñas, María

Spain, 1936 and the brink of civil war.Aged twelve, Sira Quiroga was apprenticed to a Madrid dressmaker. As she masters the seamstress's art, her life seems to be clearly mapped out - until she falls passionately in love and flees with her seductive lover.But in Morocco she is betrayed and left penniless. As civil war engulfs Spain, Sira finds she cannot return and so turns to ...

Hardy, Thomas

"Jude el oscuro" (1895) fue la primera novela que se atrevió a hablar a su época, por extenso y sin tapujos, de sexo, matrimonio y religión, y que quiso que fueran sus personajes quienes expusieran las inquietudes e interrogantes cuyas consecuencias sufrían en un mundo que solo les ofrecía, como respuesta, confusión y oscuridad. ...

Hardy, Thomas

Thomas Hardy está considerado uno de los grandes novelistas de su tiempo, pero después de que críticos y lectores de su época le dieran la espalda a su ficción narrativa por considerarla demasiado incisiva, se refugió en su vieja pasión: la poesía. Hardy combina un gusto por los paisajes del xix (con sus brumas y fantasmas) y los ambientes rurales con un estilo seco y templado ...

Hardy, Thomas

Publicada en 1891, Tess, la de los d'Urberville retrata la vida rural del sur de Inglaterra a través de la figura de la protagonista, descendiente de una familia aristocrática empobrecida. Forzada por un aristócrata y condenada por una sociedad de moral estricta, Tess se rebela contra el destino que se le impone guiada por su innata independencia, su incapacidad de comprender e...

Hardy, Thomas

Hardy, Thomas

Hardy, Thomas