DescriptionAlgunos lo interpretan como el contraste entre dos epocas, otros dicen que se refiere a la suerte de la ruleta o al contraste entre la vida militar y la religiosa. Lo cierto es que su protagonista lucha contra una sociedad que no lo comprende y que acaba destruyendolo. Some consider this novel as a contrast between two ages, others say that it refers to luck in roulette or even to the difference between military and religious life. The certain thing is that its protagonist fights against a society that does not understand him.
DescriptionAnthony Trollope was a prolific and popular English novelist who simultaneously maintained a successful career as a civil servant in the post office. His Barsetshire novels are regarded by many as his masterpiece and feature a gallery of recurring and memorable characters. This little gem of a novella manages to include a number of the same themes found in the longer novels in a much more compact form. Young Bessie falls in love with a man "above her station" and, although the love is returned, the social implications lead to many trials and tribulations before true love conquers all.
DescriptionThe Palm Beach elite go to great lengths to protect their own - and their own no longer includes Elena Estes. Once upon a time a child of wealth and privilege, Elena turned her back on that life and chose the life of an undercover cop, with the hunt for j…
DescriptionUn precursor de la ficcion cientifica. La ficcion cientifica esta basada en adaptar los adelantos de la ciencia e imaginar que se puede lograr con ellos. Uno de los precursores de este genero fue el ilustre escritos ingles Herbert George Wells, quien imagino algunas consecuencias sociales de la evolucion cientifica de sus tiempos, en especial los viajes por el tiempo, la invasion de otros planetas y esta, su obra mas conocida, donde un investigador descubre el secreto de la invisibilidad, pero todo el premio que logra por su gran avance es que la sociedad le tenga miedo, lo persiga y acabe destruyendolo. La moraleja que pretende Wells es tan obvia, que la obra la omite, pero ademas, es la novela mas conocida de este autor, asi como la mas popular por que a su fondo pesimista, agrega una trama interesante y amena, con un suspenso impresionante.
DescriptionDuring an eventful season at Bath, young, naive Catherine Morland experiences the joys of fashionable society for the first time. She is delighted with her new acquaintances: flirtatious Isabella, who shares Catherine's love of Gothic romance and horror, and sophisticated Henry and Eleanor Tilney, who invite her to their father's mysterious house, Northanger Abbey. There, her imagination influenced by novels of sensation and intrigue, Catherine imagines terrible crimes committed by General Tilney. With its broad comedy and irrepressible heroine, this is the most youthful and and optimistic of Jane Austen's works.
DescriptionSet in Baden-Baden, Smoke is Ivan Turgenev's most cosmopolitan novel. First published in 1867, it is an exquisite study of politics and society and an enduringly poignant love story. Smoke, with its European setting, barbed wit, and visionary call for Russia to look west, became the center of a famous philosophical breach between Turgenev and Dostoevsky. A balanced and objective commentator, sensitive, intelligent, Turgenev is dedicated to the highest claims of art. His work lives for its universal qualities of understanding and devotion to aesthetic standards.
DescriptionMarianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby she ignores her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behaviour leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Meanwhile Elinor, always sensitive to social convention, is struggling to conceal her own romantic disappointment, even from those closest to her. Through their parallel experience of love, and its threatened loss, the sisters learn that sense must mix with sensibility if they are to find personal happiness in a society where status and money govern the rules of love.
DescriptionIn The Europeans, Eugenia, Baroness Munster, is about to be repudiated by her husband, a German prince. With her artist brother, she travels to Boston to visit relatives that she has never met in the hope of finding a wealthy new husband. Their uncle, Mr. Wentworth, sets them up in a nearby house, and his children, Gertrude, Charlotte, and Clifford, soon become friends with their newly found cousins. Felix, who is old-world charming, amuses himself by painting flattering portraits of the Bostonians and numerous amorous intrigues develop between the European visitors and their new American friends.
