Far From The Madding Crowd

Woolf, Virginia

A stunning new edition of Virginia Woolf's engulfing portrait of one day in a woman's life, featuring a new foreword by Jenny Offill, the New York Times bestselling author of Weather and Dept. of SpeculationA Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition"Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself." It's one of the most famous opening lines in literature, that of Virginia Woolf's be...

Varios Autores

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Thomas De Quincey

A legal and readily available painkiller in the nineteenth century, laudanum was a source of both pleasure and pain for author Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859). After achieving overnight success with u003ciu003eConfessions of an English Opium Eater,u003c/iu003e an impassioned account of his struggles with addiction, the author wrote the hypnotic prose poems of u003ciu003eSuspiria ...

Arnim, Elizabeth Von

Four women, with very different backgrounds and characters - the artless Lottie Wilkins, the pious Rose Arbuthnot, the cantankerous Mrs Fisher and the haughty Lady Caroline Dester - respond to an advertisement in The Times offering a medieval castle to rent in Italy that April. As their joint holiday begins, tensions flare up between them, but they soon bond over their past mis...

More, Thomas

In Thomas More's hugely influential Utopia, a traveller recounts his discovery of an island nation in which the inhabitants enjoy unprecedented social cohesion and justice. The book imagines a community in which laws, personal relations and professional ambition are based on reason, in contrast with the tradition-bound superstitions of Europe, which were, in More's eyes, impedi...

Buchan, John

When Richard Hannay finds the corpse of freelance spy Franklin P. Scudder in his London flat, he goes on the run, fearing that his life is in danger. Scudder had previously revealed that he was investigating a ring of German spies, who were conspiring to sabotage Britain's war capability. Hannay becomes both hunter and hunted as he struggles to unravel the tangled threads of th...

Hardy, Thomas

After an accident, Tess Durbeyfield, the daughter of impoverished peasants, decides to call on the aristocratic d'Urbervilles, as she believes that she is also descended from their ancient Norman lineage and that they can rescue her family from indigence. Unfortunately she is taken under the wing of the immoral libertine scion Alec d'Urbervile, who seduces and scorns her. While...

Hardy, Thomas

Thomas Hardy está considerado uno de los grandes novelistas de su tiempo, pero después de que críticos y lectores de su época le dieran la espalda a su ficción narrativa por considerarla demasiado incisiva, se refugió en su vieja pasión: la poesía. Hardy combina un gusto por los paisajes del xix (con sus brumas y fantasmas) y los ambientes rurales con un estilo seco y templado ...

Hardy, Thomas

Publicada en 1891, Tess, la de los d'Urberville retrata la vida rural del sur de Inglaterra a través de la figura de la protagonista, descendiente de una familia aristocrática empobrecida. Forzada por un aristócrata y condenada por una sociedad de moral estricta, Tess se rebela contra el destino que se le impone guiada por su innata independencia, su incapacidad de comprender e...

Hardy, Thomas

Jude Fawley es un joven de origen campesino cuya principal aspiración es acceder a tener unos estudios, para lo cual no escatima esfuerzos aun cuando se emplee en el oficio de cantero. La consecución de sus ilusiones, sin embargo, se verá afectada por sus relaciones, primero, con la desenvuelta Arabella Donn y, después, con su viva e inteligente prima Sue. Los impulsos y las de...

Hardy, Thomas

Jude Fawley, an intelligent and sensitive young Wessex schoolboy, dreams of studying at the famous university in Christminster, Hardy's fictional representation of Oxford. He embarks on years of private study, but his plans are thrown into disarray when he is deceived into marriage and then deserted by the duplicitous Arabella Donn. Jude, still hoping to earn a place at the uni...

Hardy, Thomas

Considerada como una de las mejores novelas románticas de la literatura inglesa. La obra relata la historia de Bathsheba Everdene, una mujer libre e independiente que se dedica a la administración de la finca que ha heredado de su tío. Aunque fuerte y decidida, la muchacha no es ajena a los dilemas del amor, que la hacen dudar entre el sargento Troy, un hombre egoísta y mujerie...