Together with the “Iliad“, the “Odyssey” constitutes one of the cornerstones of Western culture. Homer‘s story of Odysseus‘s adventures on his way back from Troy to his homeland, Ithaca, has always been an inexhaustible mine of motives and images for writers and artists. Episodes such as the encounter with the Cyclops and Polyphemus, with the sirens, with the Maga Circe or the Nymph Calipso, as well as the revenge that Odysseus carries out about the suitors of his wife, Penelope, are just some of the seeds that have terrified the imagination of men. The present prose version of the “Odyssey”, of extraordinary smoothness and elegance, does justice to an unforgettable story, whose protagonist, rich in resources, moves by interests and motivations close to those of men and women of all time. Version of Carlos García Gua
War and peace of Lev Tolstoi
The most ambitious novel of Tolstói in an irresistible edition with prologue by Eduardo Mendoza.
War and peace It is one of the great novels in history. Of the sumptuous parties of St. Petersburg and Moscow, in the Russian front of the battle of Austerlitz, Tolstoy presents us with a wide fresco of the Russian society of the moment and does so through the experiences of several Russian families. This epic novel addresses essential issues of the human condition, such as the devastating consequences of war, and the irremediable transformations that families and society as a whole suffer with it.
War and peace He has not lost an apex of current affairs and retains the ability to dazzle anyone who decides to address their reading today.
«We must recognize in War and peace, The superhuman, almost physical force of the story, the vivacity of some passages that impress the reader’s imagination with the almost painful acuity and precision of a sudden light, too powerful. “
Perhaps because he is inspired by not little extent to his own experiences, “David Copperfield” was, as Charles Dickens (1812-1870) confessed, the favorite novel among his, not negligible detail in the case of the greatest and most popular writer of Victorian England. And it is that in this lucky novel Dickens achieved how to mix the fair doses of melodrama and comic, of cruelty and tenderness, through a wide and unforgettable gallery of characters among which they stand out, apart from David himself, his kind and vehement Heep.
Ivanhoe de Walter Scott
A thrilling story of war, love and betrayals. An indisputable work of universal literature.
England, 12th century. Banished for wanting to marry the wishes of his father, the young and brave Wilfred de Ivanhoe is put in the service of Ricardo Heart de León and part of his troops to reconquer Holy Land. Upon his return, determined to recover his honor and to meet with his beloved but forbidden Lady Rowena, she will quickly be seen in a struggle for power between the noble King Ricardo and her brother, Juan Sin Earth, a negligible and unscrupulous traitor. Only Ivanhoe, with the help of Robin de Locksley -the legendary Robin Hood -has the key to defending his good name and that of the crown.
The sociolinguistic study of Dr. Graham Tulloch analyzes how Walter Scott showed that writing about the past can be a way of commenting on the present. A chronology on the author of the hand of David Hewitt, a professor of literature at the University of Edinburgh, completes the appendices to fully capture the importance of one of the most influential works of historical literature.
Before appearing in a single volume, the stories collected in this book were published individually in the magazine Strand Between 1891 and 1892. its author reached enormous popularity thanks to the publication of the stories, already the end of 1892 met in a book with the title of Sherlock Holmes adventures. Conan Doyle had already presented at Study in Scarlet y The sign of the four To the brilliant and extravagant detective of the number 221 B of Baker Street, and his faithful and valuable partner, Dr. Watson. However, it would not be until the publication of these adventures that the detective would become the most famous researcher in history. In the twelve stories that Sherlock Holmes follow, he displays all his genius and reasoning potential and, together with Watson, form one of the most famous couples who has engendered fiction.
With a language of great strength and simplicity, The old man and the sea It tells the story of an old Cuban fisherman whom luck seems to have abandoned, and the major challenge that faces: the ruthless battle and without a truce with a gigantic fish in the gulf waters. Written in 1952 on commission of the magazine Lifethis story confirmed it as one of the most significant writers of the twentieth century.
Herman Melville’s great classic in which the hunting of a sperm whales becomes a metaphor of the human condition.
Moby Dick, The novel that William Faulkner would have wanted to write, is always accompanied by the recognition and praise that deserves any impeccable narrative construction. Captain Ahab’s struggle, his terrible obsession and the mythical persecution of the huge whale has crossed borders, thus achieving the undisputed category of masterpiece of universal literature.
Although, as in the rest of the novels that make up the cycle of “extraordinary trips” (such as “Journey to the center of the Earth”, “from Earth to the Moon”, “Twenty thousand leagues of underwater travel” or “The mysterious island”), the theme of the conquest and domain of nature by industrial society also plays a central role in the return to the world in eighty days (1872), this work is distinguished by a humorous treatment by a humorous treatment that links with Jules Verne’s youth experience (1822-1905) as an author of Boulevard Theater. The irresistible attraction of its protagonists – in special Phileas Fogg, a maniamatically obsessed man chronometer by punctuality and accuracy, and its servant passepartout, which, athletic and spontaneous, serves as a counterpoint – contributes to the eternal youth of the work.
Special edition of one of the most emblematic works of adventure literature. It tells the adventures of the young Robinson Crusoe, an English shipwrecked who spends 28 years on a remote tropical island, where despite the many difficulties, he manages to survive. Published in 1719, the adventures of Robinson Crusoe is an allegation in favor of the potential of the human being: his eagerness for overcoming and his need for twinning with his fellow men.
Monumental work where there are them, the Count of Montecristo is the narrative summit of Alexandre Dumas, as well as the best achieved example of the literary folletin thanks to a complex plot full of always surprising plot turns. Charismatic and chameleonic, Edmond Dantès symbolizes as nobody the changes that France lived during the first half of the nineteenth century. Their descent to hell and their subsequent resurgence hold us the definitive history about the thirst for revenge and justice. But this timeless classic goes much further. In its pages we see a powerful song to loyalty and perseverance, the portrait of an unrepeatable process of learning and personal improvement, while one of the most influential novels in contemporary popular culture.
Jim Hawkins, a 15 -year -old boy, works at the Almirante Benbow inn helping his parents. One day an old and mysterious sea wolf, Billy Bones, who hides of creditors comes to stay there. Bones dies days later and in their luggage they find the map of a treasure. The boy will join Dr. Livesey and Caballero Trelawney, who decide to chart a schooner, named Hispaniola, gather a crew and embark in search of the treasure. What he experiences during that journey will change his life forever. The young Illustrator Etienne Friesss makes animals humanized to the protagonists of one of the great formation novels of any young man, the pioneer of pirate stories. This well -known work by Robert L. Stevenson has been illustrated by Etienne Fiss under the artistic direction of Benjamin Lacombe. The young artist has become humanized animals to the protagonists of one of the great youth formation novels, pioneer of pirate stories.
In the numb and idyllic region, a young Hobbit receives an order: guarding the unique ring and starting the trip for its destruction in the destination crack. Accompanied by magicians, men, elves and dwarves, will cross the Middle -earth and will enter the shadows of Mordor, always chased by the hosts of Sauron, the dark lord, willing to recover his creation to establish the definitive domain of evil.
Maturity novel, “The Shadow Line” (1915) is a brief story in which Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) narrates unforgettably the transit of youth to adulthood. The avatars of an inexperienced captain who takes care of a ship for the first time, having to face the numerous difficulties and setbacks that arise during the journey through the southern seas, serve the author of “The heart of darkness” to draw this fable of struggle and hope in which the nostalgia that carries the overcoming of all the vital stage is inevitably intervened.
The best Booker prize in history.
An amazing novel that masterfully combines magic and humor, political commitment, fantasy and humanity.
This is the story of Sinai Sinai, born in Bombay at the edge of midnight of August 15, 1947, at the moment in which India, between fireworks and crowds, reaches its independence. Salem’s destiny is inexorably linked to that of his country, and his personal adventures will always reflect the political evolution of India or will be reflected by it. Midnight children is an amazing novel that masterfully combines magic and humor, political commitment, fantasy and humanity.
After the success of The name of the rose y Foucault’s pendulumUmberto Eco returns with a philosophical novel and at the same time of adventures to inquire with the power of the imagination the failures and sins of our reality.
In the summer of 1963 a shipwrecked, Roberto de la Grive, arrives at an abandoned ship in the southern seas where only unknown animals and foreign machines find. In front of the ship there is a dream island, as close as unattainable. Confined in this meager space and lost in the vast sea, Roberto puts us up on his past through the letters he writes to an enigmatic “Madam.” But Roberto has traveled there with a very concrete mission: to resolve the mystery by which the new powers of the time, the secret of the fixed point.
The importance and sense of “passage to India”, considered almost unanimously the author work of its author, are not reduced in any way to the simple complaint of the ravages caused by British imperialism in the Indian subcontinent, but that Em Forster carries out in it the poetic transposition of the confrontation of two opposite worlds, the East and West; of two mental attitudes, intuitive and logic; of two principles reduced to behavior norm, aesthetics and pragmatism. A set of oppositions agglutinated by poetry and humor and on which he plans, throughout the novel, the impossibility of communication of two beings united by friendship or love.
The relations with the press of Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) served as an experience for the argument of “Bel Ami”, published in 1885 and provocative of an intense public controversy. Although the story focuses on the rapid social ascent of the journalist George Duroy, of humble origin and mediocre instruction, after having spent a few years as an non -commissioned officer in North Africa, the novel is not limited, however, to historiating the triumph of an antihero, intriguing and unprepreplayive, which supports its ambitions in its seduction skills. Hypocrisy and corruption during the third republic, the French colonial policy, the formation of a ruling class based on financial speculation and the murky press of the press with pressure groups are some of the threads that interwoven the plot of the novel.
The Nobel Prize for Literature, VS Naipaul, tells us in chronic tone the small and great history of its native island: Trinidad.
VS Naipaul masterfully tells us the little great history of his native island, Trinidad, which since the time of the conquest was a starting point for Spanish expeditions in search of the mythical gold city and combat territory for the colonial ambitions of England, which would not stop until the power in the area taking advantage of the wars of independence of the Spanish colonies.
The children’s empress is mortally ill and her kingdom is in serious danger. Salvation depends on Dieryu, a brave warrior of the tribe of the green skins, and Bastián, a shy child who reads a magical book with passion. A thousand adventures will lead them to meet a fabulous gallery of characters, and together to shape one of the great creations of the literature of all time.
First work of the cycle that Jules Verne himself (1828-1905) titled “Extraordinary Trips”-to which they also belong “the return to the world in eighty days”, “twenty thousand leagues of underwater travel”, “Journey to the center of the earth”, “The mysterious island” and “The five hundred millions of the Begun”, all of them published in this collection-, “five weeks in globe” It already brings together most of the elements that have made its author an indisputable classic. However, above the plot that catches the reader from the first pages and the poetic and symbolic vigor that at times connects it with the main literary currents of his century, in the present novel is aspirated, indelible, the aroma of the adventure, of the discovery of the exotic and the unknown, of the unexplored spaces where the surprise is still possible.
On a Thursday at eating, the earth is unexpectedly demolished to build a new hyperspacial highway. Arthur Dent, a type of the most common that that morning has seen how they cast their own home down, considers that it exceeds what a person can bear. But, unfortunately, the weekend has only started, and galaxy is a strange and surprising place. Arthur will flee from the Earth together with a friend of his, Ford Prefect, who will turn out escape. Thanks to this inescapable adventure, Dent will discover many things about existence, but, as advised by the Galactapist Auto -Setopist Guide, Do not panic.
Douglas Adams was the creator of a whole series of diverse and contradictory manifestations of the Galactapist Auto -Setopist Guide, that came to light for the first time in the form of radionovela. After his resounding success, the author made it a book, and later participated in his adaptations to television and theatrical series, computer games, comics and bath towels. After his death, the autoestopist rose to the high peaks of film production. Adams shares the movie’s credits, a blockbuster of Touchstone Pictures, with Karey Kirkpatrick. This edition of Guide of the Galactapist autoestopist has interviews and materials from the filming of it.
