Margaret Tarner Orden de los libros (cronológico)

An international team of scholars offers: • modernised, easily accessible texts • ample but unobtrusive academic guidance • attention to the theatrical qualities of each play and its stage history • informative illustrations, including reconstructions of early performances Much Ado has always been popular on the stage. This edition pays special attention to the history and range of theatrical interpretation. The most famous actors, from the time of Garrick to the present, have appeared as the sparring lovers Beatrice and Benedick. In recent times the play's matched plots of two pairs of lovers have been of interest to feminist critics. A full commentary includes annotation of the many sexual jokes in the play that have been obscured by the complexity of Elizabethan language.

Shakespeare's Scottish story of witchcraft and murder is probably one of his darkest works. Macbeth's bloody rise to power is encouraged by his wife, Lady Macbeth. Like her husband, Lady Macbeth's ambition leads her into a dark world of guilt and madness which slowly destroys their marriage, and ends in tragedy.

Entre lo más representativo de la impresionante obra de Faulkner se encuentran las novelas que se conocen bajo el nombre de ciclo de Yoknapatawpha, desarrolladas a modo de fábula sobre la vida en el sur de los Estados Unidos y sobre el destino humano en cualquier parte del mundo. "El villorrio" -primera parte de la Trilogía de los Snopes, a la que también pertenecen "La ciudad" y "La mansión"- comienza con la llegada de diversos miembros de una familia a una aldea de Jefferson, precedidos por un ambiguo rumor de extrañas venganzas en más de una granja. Poco a poco, de manera tan insidiosa como arrolladora, los Snopes van apoderándose del pueblo ante el asombro y la impotencia de sus habitantes, y lo conducen con la mayor sangre fría hacia el fracaso, la humillación e incluso la muerte

Anna Karenina es, junto con la monumental Guerra y paz, una de las obras clave Lev Tolstoi, en la que vemos todas las señas de identidad del gran realismo ruso: fina crítica social y multitud de personajes con una profundidad psicológica asombrosa. Las desventuras de Anna Karenina y su afán por integrarse en una sociedad hipócrita que la margina por adúltera, pero perdona los desmanes de su amante, nos hacen reflexionar sobre la invisibilización de la mujer a la par que nos ofrecen un fresco monumental de la Rusia decimonónica y todas sus contradicciones. Together with the monumental War and Peace, Anna Karenina is one of Leo Tolstoy's most important works and a classic of Russian realism. It contains all the hallmarks of that genre, from pointed social critique to psychologically complex characters. Anna Karenina's misadventures and eagerness to integrate into a hypocritical society that condemns her for adultery, but pardons her lover's excesses, offer a portrait of nineteenth-century Russia in all its contradictions. It also encourages us to reflect on the way women are invisibilized in society.

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 los nueve años el huérfano Oliver Twist ya sabe lo que es pasar hambre, sufrir malos tratos y trabajar de sol a sol en una fábrica. Un buen día decide fugarse a Londres con la esperanza de iniciar una vida más fácil. La gran ciudad, sin embargo, es una trampa llena de peligros.

A novel set in Cornwall and Florence, it tells the story of a beautiful and captivating woman, who may however, be a murderess.

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'.

Catherine Sloper is forbidden by her wealthy father to marry the fortune-hunting Morris Townsend. She secretly promises to marry Townsend when he is ready, but then realizes that Townsend is only waiting for her father to change his mind about her inheritance.