Richard Appignanesi Libros

In The Merchant of Venice, the penniless but attractive Bassanio seeks, and finally wins, the hand of the fabulously wealthy Portia. But even as the play provokes laughter, it also provokes something disturbing, as Bassanio's courtship is actually financed by the magnificent villain Shylock the moneylender -- the focus of anti-Semitic sentiment, and one of the most controversial yet strangely sympathetic of Shakespeare's characters, whose actions and whose treatment in the play are still debated to this day.This simplified retelling of the Shakespearean comedy also includes activities related to the text.

The untold story of J.M.W. Turner's friend and greatest rival, pioneering watercolour artist Thomas Girtin

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

This manga version of King Lear is set during the era of the Last of the Mohicans - circa 1759, during a crucial time of invasion and displacement along the American frontier. Lear is a venerated Mohican chieftain entering his final days. His elder daughters, Regan and Goneril - the evil pairing - are the more Westernised; Cordelia, with the looks of an Indian princess, is the traditionalist. In this unique interpretation of Shakespeare's tragic tale, a mountaintop snowstorm makes for a dramatic backdrop where savage torture and plentiful scalpings make for bloody action.

Final play in Shakespeare's dramatization of the strife between the Houses of York and Lancaster. Richard is stunning archvillain who seduces, betrays and murders his way to the throne. Explanatory footnotes.

A cartoon book about Marx? Are you sure it's Karl, not Groucho? How can you summarize the work of Karl Marx in cartoons? It took Rius to do it. He's put it all in: the origins of Marxist philosophy, history, economics; of capital, labor, the class struggle, socialism. And there's a biography of "Charlie" Marx besides. Like the companion volumes in the series, Marx for Beginners is accurate, understandable, and very, very funny.

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El mundo cómico de Shakespeare empieza a incorporarse a nuestra serie con sus dos piezas, quizá, más caracterizadas, en sentidos muy diversos: Un sueño de la noche de San Juan, deslumbrante fantasía en que se alternan planos de magia y planos de realidad, y Las alegres casadas de Windsor, donde Falstaff, el caballero juerguista y bebedor, corruptor de un príncipe, en Enrique IV, llena con su gran humanidad esta farsa donde queda en ridículo como víctima de unas malignas señoras.

Text and cartoon illustrations introduce the life and teachings of Buddha and examine enlightenment and meditation.

Freud revolutionized the way we think of ourselves. His psychoanalytic terms such as Id, Ego, libido, neurosis and Oedipus Complex have become a familiar part of our everyday vocabulary. But do we know what they really mean?