Poetry, Tales and Selected Essays
10 best books like Poetry, Tales and Selected Essays (Edgar Allan Poe): Madame Bovary, Brave New World / Brave New World Revisited, El túnel, Sobre héroes y tumbas, The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell, Island, The Poetry of Robert Frost, The Poetry of Pablo Neruda, The Postman, Los renglones torcidos de Dios
| Author | Gustave Flaubert |
| ISBN | 0192840398 |
'Oh, why, dear God, did I marry him?'
Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent devourer of sentimental novels, she longs for passion and seeks escape in fantasies of high romance, in voracious spending...
Brave New World / Brave New World Revisited
| Author | Aldous Huxley |
| ISBN | 0060776099 |
The astonishing novel Brave New World, originally published in 1932, presents Aldous Huxley's vision of the future--of a world utterly transformed. Through the most efficient scientific and psychological engineering, people are genetically designed to be passive and therefore consistently...
| Author | Ernesto Sabato |
| ISBN | 9871144261 |
Breve e intensa novela publicada en 1948, este logrado fruto de la denominada "literatura existencial" le dio a su autor un reconocimiento que traspasó las fronteras nacionales. Para quien todavía no la leyó, El túnel es la mejor introducción al universo prodigioso de Ernesto Sábato; para...
| Author | Ernesto Sabato |
| ISBN | 9500716054 |
"I can feel the passage
of time, as thought it were
coursing through my
veins, along with my blood"
It's not often I turn to google maps whilst reading a book. In the case of Ernesto Sabato's 1961 novel I found it helpful but not essential. The first third of the novel there didn't...
The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
| Author | Aldous Huxley |
| ISBN | 0060595183 |
As only he can, Aldous Huxley explores the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human consciousness. These two astounding essays are among the most profound studies of the effects of mind-expanding drugs written in this century. Contains the complete texts of
The Doors of Perception
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| Author | Aldous Huxley |
| ISBN | 0060085495 |
In Island, his last novel, Huxley transports us to a Pacific island where, for 120 years, an ideal society has flourished. Inevitably, this island of bliss attracts the envy and enmity of the surrounding world. A conspiracy is underway to take over Pala, and events begin to move when an agent of the conspirators,...
The Poetry of Robert Frost
| Author | Robert Frost |
| ISBN | 0805005013 |
The only comprehensive gathering of Frost's published poetry, this affordable volume offers the entire contents of his eleven books of verse, from A Boy's Will (1913) to In the Clearing (1962). Frost scholar Lathem, who was also a close friend of the four-time Pulitzer Prize-winner, scrupulously...
The Poetry of Pablo Neruda
| Author | Pablo Neruda |
| ISBN | 0374529604 |
The most comprehensive English-language collection of work ever by "the greatest poet of the twentieth century - in any language" - Gabriel García Márquez
"In his work a continent awakens to consciousness." So wrote the Swedish Academy in awarding the Nobel Prize to Pablo Neruda, the author...
| Author | Antonio Skármeta |
| ISBN | 0786881275 |
The Postman (Il Postino) is a bittersweet tale of first love ignited by the power and passion of Pablo Neruda's timeless poetry.
Unlike the other men of his village, Mario balks at the prospect of life as a fisherman, choosing instead to become the postman for a beautiful island, just off the mainland....
Los renglones torcidos de Dios
| Author | Torcuato Luca de Tena |
| ISBN | 9681311884 |
Torcuato Luca de Tena, periodista y escritor de gran prestigio, se ha convertido en uno de los autores más importantes de nuestro país, con cientos de miles de ejemplares vendidos de todas sus obras.
Los renglones torcidos de Dios
Alice Gould es ingresada en un sanatorio mental. En su...
| Author | John Katzenbach |
| ISBN | 0552150215 |
'Happy fifty-third birthday, Doctor. Welcome to the first day of your death. You ruined my life. And now I fully intend to ruin yours.
'You have exactly one fortnight, starting tomorrow morning at 6 a.m., to discover who I am. When you succeed you must purchase one of those tiny ads at the bottom...
| Author | Lucila Gamero de Medina |
Blanca Olmedo hace vivir al lector la nobleza de un corazón puro, víctimas de los prejuicios sociales, de la injusticia y de la calumnia, pero que en la vida vibró con los más nobles sentimientos.
Trabajadora infatigable, amiga fiel, amante tierna y apasionada, de serena belleza, se ve sumergida...
| Author | Roberto Castillo |
| ISBN | 9789992657 |
Este libro me ha encantado, me ha divertido y me ha hecho reflexionar. Lo considero una joya de la literatura hondureña.
El Corneta es la historia que nos presenta a Tivo, un morenito bonachón que tiene una trágica vida, dadas las circunstancias y el entorno en el que se desarrolla. Tivo es...
El fantasma de Canterville y otros cuentos
Una edición hermosa de varios cuentos de Oscar Wilde, teniendo como principal a "El Fantasma de Canterville"; que ya había tenido la oportunidad de leer en la escuela y su relectura fue un viaje al pasado maravilloso.
Para el resto de los cuentos, el estilo irónico y en ocasiones fatídico,...
"El Vampiro" es un reencuentro. Mis 15 años no supieron apreciarlo (confieso haberlo leído muy superficialmente y no haberlo terminado). Después de una recomendación, pensé que con el doble de edad (y de lecturas), no sería mala idea volverme a sentar con él bajo este cielo estival.
Este...
| Author | Charles Baudelaire |
| ISBN | 8446044587 |
Charles Pierre Baudelaire was a 19th century French poet, translator, and literary and art critic whose reputation rests primarily on Les Fleurs du Mal; (1857; The Flowers of Evil) which was perhaps the most important and influential poetry collection published in Europe in the 19th century. Similarly,...
