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Vocabulary of 600 words. This reader has an accompanying cassette.

From its spectacular opening–the astonishing scene in which drunken Michael Henchard sells his wife and daughter to a passing sailor at a county fair–to the breathtaking series of discoveries at its conclusion, The Mayor of Casterbridge claims a unique place among Thomas Hardy’s finest and most powerful novels. Rooted in an actual case of wife-selling in early nineteenth-century England, the story build into an awesome Sophoclean drama of guilt and revenge, in which the strong, willful Henchard rises to a position of wealth and power–only to suffer a most bitter downfall. Proud, obsessed, ultimately committed to his own destruction, Henchard is, as Albert Guerard has said, “Hardy’s Lord Jim…his only tragic hero and one of the greatest tragic heroes in all fiction.

Barcelona. 21 cm. 446 p. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Colección 'Narrativa actual', numero coleccion(8). Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich 1890-1960. Doktor Zhivago. Revisión a partir del original ruso, Yolanda Martínez. Traducción de: Doktor Zivago. Gutiérrez, Fernando. 1911-1984. Narrativa actual (RBA Editores. 1994). 8 .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario. ISBN: 84-473-0681-X

A 22,000 ton whaling ship steams into a broken plain of white, glimmering ice during the howling fury of an Antarctic gale. What madness drives the ship forwards, deeper and deeper into the ice until its jagged edges hold her fast? Marooned amidst the pitiless, frozen wastes, the crew of the Southern Cross make a desperate attempt to survive against the odds.