Pride And Prejudice

Virgil

The Aeneid is Virgil's Masterpiece. His epic poem recounts the story of Rome's legendary origins from the ashes of Troy and proclaims her destiny of world dominion. This optimistic vision is accompanied by an undertow of sadness at the price that must be paid in human suffering to secure Rome's future greatness. The tension between the public voice of celebration and the tragic...

Homer (Homero)

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. The epic tale of Odysseus and his ten-year journey home after the Trojan War forms one of the earliest and greatest works of Western ...

Homer (Homero) / Fagles, Robert / Knox, Bernard

"The Odyssey" is one of the earliest works of European literature, second only to "The Iliad". These two great epic poems, the astonishing first fruits of Greek civilisation, have together determined much of the course of Western literary culture and imagination. "The Odyssey" tells of the long and painful return of Odysseus from the Trojan War to his homeland of Ithaka, his wi...

Virgil

Virgil's masterpiece, one of the greatest works in Western literature, was written in Latin, between 29 and 19 BCE, recalling events after the Fall of Troy over 1200 years before, as told in the famous Homeric epics of Greek literature the Iliad and the Odyssey. The great adventures of Aeneas' flight from Troy and the prophesy of his founding of a great city linked Roman dynast...

Homer (Homero)

The product of more than a decade's continuous work (1598-1611), Chapman's translation of Homer's great poem of war is a magnificent testimony to the power of The Iliad. In muscular, onward-rolling verse Chapman retells the story of Achilles, the great warrior, and his terrible wrath before the walls of besieged Troy, and the destruction it wreaks on both Greeks and Trojans.Cha...

Homer (Homero)

Chiltern creates the most beautiful editions of the World's finest literature. Your favorite classic titles in a way you have never seen them before: the tactile layers, fine details and beautiful colors of these remarkable covers make these books feel extra special and look striking on any shelf. This stunning edition of The Odyssey, Homer's great epic, one of the oldest survi...

Austen, Jane

En el año en que se conmemora el 250 aniversario del nacimiento de Jane Austen, autora de novelas como Orgullo y prejuicio, Persuasión, Emma o Sentido y sensibilidad, su obra poética ofrece una oportunidad singular para reconsiderar su legado literario desde una perspectiva menos transitada. La presente edición reúne por primera vez en español la totalidad de los poemas que se ...

Austen, Jane

Todo empezó por querer leer un buen libro... ¿Era mucho pedir? En 1935, de camino a Londres, Allen Lane se detuvo en un andén del ferrocarril para buscar algo interesante que leer durante el viaje. La oferta se limitaba a revistas populares y libros en tapa blanda de mala calidad. La desilusión y el posterior disgusto de Lane ante los títulos disponibles lo llevaron a inventar ...

Austen, Jane

Sumérgete en la lectura de este clásico de la literatura y disfruta al mismo tiempo de las exquisitas ilustraciones del pequeño teatro de papel. Los protagonistas de la obra maestra de Jane Austen, en una edición elegante y original, salen de las páginas del libro y cobran vida en los dibujos de un pequeño teatro que alberga las principales escenas de la historia ambientada en...

Austen, Jane

¿Quién escribió Sentido y sensibilidad? ¿Lo hizo Jane Austen, una dama, a secas, sin nombre ni apellido, una dama sumamente culta y aguda que sabe bien cómo vive la aristocracia terrateniente, que conoce los rituales de la burguesía londinense, a quien le consta hasta qué punto el mundo es inestable y cómo todo cambia a despecho del sentido y en el tumulto de la sensibilidad? ...

Austen, Jane

Jane Austen's first published novel, generally acclaimed as a masterpiece of nineteenth-century literature, now freshly repackaged for the Union Square & Co. Signature Clothbound Editions line. Marianne Dashwood can't understand her sister. How could the attractive, witty, and charming Elinor fall for the quiet, self-effacing, and rather dull Edward Ferrars? And, if the two ar...

Austen, Jane

Quizá la novela más irónica y divertida de Jane Austen, maestra inigualable de la comedia de costumbres. Traducción de Isabel Oyarzábal Introducción de Marilyn Butler, profesora en las universidades de Cambridge y Oxford Publicada por primera vez en 1818, La abadía de Northanger narra la historia de Catherine Morland, una joven muy aficionada a las novelas góticas. Por ello, c...