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This book has long been celebrated as one of Shakespeare's popular comedies. It describes the central relationship, between Benedick and Beatrice, which is combative until love prevails.

For lovers of timeless classics, this series of beautifully packaged and affordably priced editions of world literature encompasses a variety of literary genres, including theater, novels, poems, and essays. Los lectores tomaran un gran placer en descubrir los clasicos con estas bellas y economicas ediciones de las grandes obras literarias. Esta seleccion editorial cuenta con titulos que abarcan todos los generos literarios, desde teatro, narrativa, poesia y el ensayo.

No Fear Shakespeare Graphic Novels is a series based on the translated texts of the plays found in No Fear Shakespeare. The original No Fear series made Shakespeare’s plays much easier to read, but these dynamic visual adaptations are impossible to put down. Each of the titles is illustrated in its own unique style, but all are distinctively offbeat, slightly funky, and appealing to teen readers. Each book will feature:

Introducción de George Gibian, profesor de la Universidad de Cornell. La historia de Anna Karénina, junto a la de Madame Bovary, es la del adulterio más célebre de la literatura. El enamoramiento de Anna, casada con el alto funcionario Karénin, por el atractivo militar Vronski, y el romance que vive con él son el eje de una novela que trasciende la tragedia de su caída. Es un retrato delicado de una época y un lugar, una vivisección de una sociedad donde la felicidad de algunos convive con la desdicha de otros. Este volumen inicia con la espléndida introducción de George Gibian, un estudioso de la literatura eslava. La novela, rica y compleja, se desarrolla en la alta sociedad rusa. Tolstoy narra el amor prohibido entre Anna, una mujer casada, y el conde Vronski, quien se enamora de ella en un baile. Aunque inicialmente resiste, Anna sucumbe a su pasión, desencadenando una serie de eventos que la llevan a su perdición. Considerada una de las heroínas más memorables de la literatura, su encanto domina una obra que explora la naturaleza de la sociedad, el destino, la muerte y las contradicciones de la existencia. La novela termina trágicamente, pero también celebra la alegría de los placeres efímeros y ofrece momentos de alivio cómico. Esta edición incluye la aclamada traducción de las hermanas Irene y Laura Andresco.

Two exiles--one white, one black--in a poor village in Botswana struggle with tradition, climate, and the local chief as they try to modernize the villagers' farming methods.

Four women answer and advertisement. They leave London and go on holiday to San Salavatore - an Italian castle by the sea. They find enchantment, happiness and love.

A gripping portrayal of London's dark criminal underbelly, the story follows Oliver Twist, an orphan who faces evil and adversity from birth, shocking readers upon its publication. After escaping the workhouse and the pompous Mr. Bumble, Oliver is drawn into a den of thieves filled with vivid characters like the Artful Dodger, the brutal burglar Bill Sikes, his dog Bull's Eye, and the prostitute Nancy, all under the watchful eye of master-thief Fagin. Blending Gothic Romance, Newgate Novel elements, and popular melodrama, Dickens crafted a new kind of fiction that critiques a cruel society, imbued with a sense of threat and mystery. The narrative explores themes of poverty, crime, and the struggle for identity, highlighting the harsh realities of life for the underprivileged in Victorian England. Through Oliver's journey, Dickens sheds light on social injustices, making "Oliver Twist" a timeless exploration of humanity and morality.

Philip Ashley, el narrador de esta novela, es un joven huérfano que ha sido criado por su primo Ambrose, un terrateniente de Cornualles veinte años mayor que él, en una gran casa aislada, de rutinas amables e incontestadas, sin conflictos y sin mujeres. Cuando el primo debe viajar a Italia por razones de salud, conoce a una mujer, Rachel, una pariente lejana educada en Florencia, viuda de un conde que murió en un duelo y la dejó cubierta de deudas. Se casa con ella y poco después muere súbitamente. «Juré que todo lo que Ambrose hubiera pagado en dolor y sufrimiento se lo devolvería a la mujer que los había causado», se dice Philip al conocer la noticia. Pero apenas han pasado unas semanas y Rachel se presenta en Cornualles… y esa animosidad irracional que el joven sentía por ella se va convirtiendo poco a poco en una fascinación incontrolable que no disminuye a medida que las circunstancias de la muerte de su primo se revelan cada vez más sospechosas. Mi prima Rachel (1951) es una gran novela psicológica, llena de suspense, en la que Daphne du Maurier exploró, como en Rebeca, la in-fluencia fantasmal en una casa de una figura ausente. Es también un sutil estudio de lo que un hombre cree que es una mujer y del accidentado viaje que dan los prejuicios cuando se enfrentan a una realidad inesperada.

The Cut-glass Bowl and Other Stories is an adapted Upper level reader written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Five interesting short stories set in America in the 1920s and 1940s. The stories include 'Cut-Glass Bowl', 'Bernice Bobs Her Hair', 'Gretchen's Forty Winks', 'Magnetism' and 'Three Hours Between Planes'.

"When a handsome young man begins to court Catherine Sloper, she feels she is very lucky. She is quiet, gentle girl, but neither beautiful nor clever ; no one had ever admired her before, or come to the front parlour of her home in Washington Square to whisper soft words of love to her. But in New York in the 1840s young ladies are not free to marry where they please. Catherine must have her father's permission, and Dr Sloper is a rich man. One day Catherine will have a fortune of 30,000 dollars a year ..."--Publisher

During their school holidays, the teenagers, Frankie, Regan, Tom and Jack, join an archaeological dig in southeast England. Their teacher and the archaeologist in charge give them some facts about the historical background to the site and the Glanville family who had once lived there. When Frankie and Jack accidentally fall into the Glanville family's vault in the local graveyard, Frankie finds an old silver coin clipped in half. Shortly after her return to the graveyard, she meets an angry young man dressed in dark clothes. As Regan, Tom and Jack start to piece together the sad tale of Eleanor, the ward of the ruthless nineteenth century owner of the manor house and the local village, the friends begin to get seriously worried about Frankie's increasingly disturbed behaviour

Set amid the exotic world of deep-sea diving in the tropics, The Eye of the Tiger is a tale of adventure and romance told with rare humour and excitement. `I was looking down, watching the shark come. It seemed to swell up in size as it rushed towards me. Every detail was burned into my mind in those frantic seconds. I saw the hog`s snout with the two slotted nostrils, the golden eyes with the black pupils like arrowheads, the broad blue back from which stood the tall executioner`s blade of the dorsal fin.` Harry Fletcher, a man with a chequered past, has reformed and is making an honest living as a charter skipper fishing for big game in the seductive waters of the Indian Ocean. Suddenly men from the world of violence Harry has put behind him overturn his good intentions, involving him in a hectic race to recover a fabulous treasure from an ancient wreck.

Historia de una inteligente y laboriosa joven empeąda en hacer de Celestina de todas sus amistades. Cuando su institutriz, amiga y confidente decide contraer matrimonio, Emma Woodhouse se queda sola con sus propios sentimientos y se enfrenta al vaco̕ de su vida y a la penosa tarea de intentar que los dems̀ lleven una vida tan perfecta como la suya

zjednodušená anglická četba, vhodná při přípravě na zkoušku FCE jako doplňkový materiál ( úroveň B2 - Upper-Intermediate, slovní zásoba 2 200 slov)věk 16+

Lychford Green is an old RAF airbase. It hasn't been used in years, but somehow it still bears the traces of the horrors which took place there 50 years previous. When Regan, Tom, Jack and Frankie investigate the empty airfield for a school project, they find that it echoes with its untold story.

In this classically simple tale of the disastrous impact of outside life on a secluded community in Dorset, now in a new edition, Hardy narrates the rivalry for the hand of Grace Melbury between a simple and loyal woodlander and an exotic and sophisticated outsider. Betrayal, adultery, disillusion, and moral compromise are all worked out in a setting evoked as both beautiful and treacherous. The Woodlanders, with its thematic portrayal of the role of social class, gender, and evolutionary survival, as well as its insights into the capacities and limitations of language, exhibits Hardy's acute awareness of his era's most troubling dilemmas.

This is an Upper Level title in a series of ELT readers comprising a wide range of stories - some original and some simplified - from modern and classic novels, and designed to appeal to all age-groups, tastes and cultures. The books are divided into five levels: Starter Level, with about 300 basic words; Beginner Level (600 basic words); Elementary Level (1100); Intermediate Level (1600); and Upper Level (2200). Some of the titles are also available on cassette.

This is a simple and powerful tale of the effects of the Mau Mau war on individuals and families in Kenya. Two brothers must decide where their loyalties lie; Njoroge, the dreamer and accomplished student, finds it hard to give up schooling and is drawn relentlessly into turmoil. Good and evil are portrayed somewhat more starkly than in Ngugi's later works.

"Famosa, escrita en un desafío por el famoso amigo del autor, el poeta Lord Byron, esta novela de terror gótica es una de las historias más inquietantes de todos los tiempos. Recuenta los trágicos eventos en la vida del joven doctor Frankenstein y las terribles consecuencias de su intento de crear vida artificial. Más de 100 años después de su publicación, sigue siendo una brillante y esencial reflexión sobre la ética cientí́fica, así como una obra maestra literaria." --

This is an Upper Level story in a series of ELT readers comprising a wide range of titles - some original and some simplified - from modern and classic novels, and designed to appeal to all age-groups, tastes and cultures. The books are divided into five levels: Starter Level, with about 300 basic words; Beginner Level (600 basic words); Elementary Level (1100); Intermediate Level (1600); and Upper Level (2200). Some of the titles are also available on cassette.

Arthur Kipps, un joven abogado, viaja a un pueblo remoto para asistir al funeral de una anciana. Sin imaginar lo que le espera, ve en esta misión una oportunidad de ascenso profesional que podría acercarlo a su sueño de casarse.

Una joven heroína de "Rebecca" de Daphne du Maurier ve cómo su vida cambia de la noche a la mañana al conocer a Maxim de Winter, un atractivo y adinerado viudo que le propone matrimonio de manera inesperada. Rescatada de un empleador autoritario, de Winter la lleva a Manderley, su aislada finca en la costa de Cornualles, pero allí las cosas toman un giro escalofriante. Max parece estar atormentado por la memoria de su glamorosa primera esposa, Rebecca, cuyo legado es cuidadosamente mantenido por la siniestra ama de llaves, la Sra. Danvers. A medida que la segunda Sra. de Winter se siente cada vez más agobiada por la sombra de su misteriosa predecesora, se determina a descubrir los oscuros secretos que amenazan su felicidad, sin importar el costo. La novela explora temas de identidad, celos y la lucha por la autonomía en un entorno opresivo.

La miserable cosecha recogida a consecuencia de la sequía y el acoso de los bancos provoca que la familia Joad abandone sus campos de Oklahoma y se una al éxodo que tantos otros campesinos empobrecidos se han visto obligados a realizar a raíz de la catastrófica situación que en los años 30 atraviesa Estados Unidos. Juntos toman la carretera 66 y ponen rumbo a California, dónde esperan encontrar trabajo y así ganarse el sustento necesario por tal de conquistar un mínimo de dignidad. John Steinbeck también sufrió los efectos de la Gran Depresión, fue testigo del éxodo rural masivo que emigra del norte hacia el sur y tomó en los años 30 partido por los explotados, los jornaleros emigrantes. Las uvas de la ira es la crónica de una familia depauperada en su viaje hacia una tierra de promisión, buscando trabajo y mejores condiciones de vida. Steinbeck sabe trascender lo puramente propagandistico o moralizante cuando unos personajes de ficción llenos de profundidad y humanidad, auténticos luchadores, no dudan en denunciar los abusos del poder y la despiadada crueldad y desamparo que sufren los mas débiles.

La ironía y el descuido, la emoción y distancia, la historia del protagonista y su trágico final parecen significar toda la experiencia histórica americana

Anthony Patch and Gloria Gibson are the golden children of the Jazz Age. They marry and embark on a life of glittering parties, lavish expenditure and scandalous revelry. When the money dries up their marriage founders. In this wistful novel Fitzgerald portrays the decline of youthful promise with devastating clarity.

On a trip to Transylvania, Jonathan Harker stays at an eerie castle owned by Count Dracula. When strange things start to happen, and the count escapes to London, Harker realizes that he and his friends are in grave danger.

Tempestuous Eustacia Vye passes her days dreaming of passionate love and the escape it may bring from the small community of Egdon Heath. Hearing that Clym Yeobright is to return from Paris, she sets her heart on marrying him, believing that through him she can leave rural life and find fulfilment elsewhere. But she is to be disappointed, for Clym has dreams of his own, and they have little in common with Eustacia’s. Their unhappy marriage causes havoc in the lives of those close to them, in particular Damon Wildeve, Eustacia’s former lover, Clym’s mother and his cousin Thomasin. The Return of the Native illustrates the tragic potential of romantic illusion and how its protagonists fail to recognize their opportunities to control their own destinies.

The three novels which make up The Forsyte Saga chronicle the ebbing social power of the commercial upper-middle class Forsyte family between 1886 and 1920. Galsworthy's masterly narrative examines not only their fortunes but also the wider developments within society, particularly the changing position of women. This is the only critical edition of the work available, with Notes that explain contemporary artistic and literary allusions and define the slang of the time.