Richard Appignanesi Libros

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

«La grandeza de Shakespeare reside en su capacidad negativa, en su lejanía, en su neutralidad respecto a los personajes, los valores, las situaciones. Antonio Machado sugirió algo análogo: Shakespeare fue un "poeta de poetas", es decir, un creador de personajes que dicen cada cual los poemas de su propio sentir, sin revelar el sentir de su autor.»

This title is part of an inexpensive range of classics in the "Penguin Popular Classics" series.

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.

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.

Devised by Mexican cartoonist, Rius, this text provides an introduction to Marx, a philosopher that many consider to be as relevant today as he has ever been, as the world moves towards unregulated free-market economies.

Notes on the story, language, construction, and background accompany the text of the play about the conspiracy to assassinate Caesar.

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?