Literatura y Ficción
Número de paginas: : 476 páginas Editor: Scribner; Edición: Reprint (1 de noviembre de 2005)ISBN-10: 9780743277709 ISBN13: 978-0743277709 Peso: 13.1 oz.
Opiniones editoriales:Opinión:“Extraordinary . . . one of the most important [novels] to come out of the English-speaking world in this generation.”–The New York Review of Books“The literary map of India is about to be redrawn. . . . Midnight’s Children sounds like a continent finding its voice.”–The New York Times“In Salman Rushdie, India has produced a glittering novelist– one with startling imaginative and intellectual resources, a master of perpetual storytelling.”–The New Yorker“A marvelous epic . . . Rushdie’s prose snaps into playback and flash-forward . . . stopping on images, vistas, and characters of unforgettable presence. Their range is as rich as India herself.”–Newsweek“Burgeons with life, with exuberance and fantasy . . . Rushdie is a writer of courage, impressive strength, and sheer stylistic brilliance.”–The Washington Post Book World“Pure story–an ebullient, wildly clowning, satirical, descriptively witty charge of energy.”–Chicago Sun-TimesSobre el autor:SALMAN RUSHDIE is the author of thirteen previous novels--Grimus, Midnight's Children (winner of the Booker Prize and the Best of the Booker), Shame, The Satanic Verses, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, The Moor's Last Sigh, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Fury, Shalimar the Clown, The Enchantress of Florence, Luka and the Fire of Life, Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights and The Golden House--and one collection of short stories: East, West. He has also published four works of nonfiction--Joseph Anton, The Jaguar Smile, Imaginary Homelands, and Step Across This Line. Recognized with numerous awards, he is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University. A former president of PEN American Center, Rushdie was knighted in 2007 for his services to literature.
Número de paginas: : 720 páginas Editor: Penguin Classics; Edición: Reissue (29 de abril de 2003)ISBN-10: 0141439610 ISBN13: 978-0141439617 Peso: 1.1 lb.
Opiniones editoriales:Opinión:"A page turner and a heartbreaker, a tour de force of knotted tension and buried anguish.” — Time “A Gothic tour de force. . . . A tight, deftly controlled story . . . . Just as accomplished [as The Remains of the Day] and, in a very different way, just as melancholy and alarming.” — The New York Times "Elegaic, deceptively lovely. . . . As always, Ishiguro pulls you under." — Newsweek “Superbly unsettling, impeccably controlled . . . . The book’s irresistible power comes from Ishiguro’s matchless ability to expose its dark heart in careful increments.” — Entertainment WeeklyFrom the Inside FlapFrom the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans, comes an unforgettable edge-of-your-seat mystery that is at once heartbreakingly tender and morally courageous about what it means to be human. Hailsham seems like a pleasant English boarding school, far from the influences of the city. Its students are well tended and supported, trained in art and literature, and become just the sort of people the world wants them to be. But, curiously, they are taught nothing of the outside world and are allowed little contact with it. Within the grounds of Hailsham, Kathy grows from schoolgirl to young woman, but it's only when she and her friends Ruth and Tommy leave the safe grounds of the school (as they always knew they would) that they realize the full truth of what Hailsham is. Never Let Me Go breaks through the boundaries of the literary novel. It is a gripping mystery, a beautiful love story, and also a scathing critique of human arrogance and a moral examination of how we treat the vulnerable and different in our society. In exploring the themes of memory and the impact of the past, Ishiguro takes on the idea of a possible future to create his most moving and powerful book to date. "From the Hardcover edition.Sobre el autor:Kazuo Ishiguro is the 2017 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. His work has been translated into more than 40 languages. Both The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go have sold more than 1 million copies, and both were adapted into highly acclaimed films. Ishiguro's other work includes The Buried Giant, Nocturnes, A Pale View of the Hills, and An Artist of the Floating World.
Editor: Modern Library; Edición: 50th Anniversary ed. (1 de febrero de 1994)ISBN-10: 0385312083 ISBN13: 978-0385312080 Peso: 12.6 oz.
Opiniones editoriales:From Library JournalFirst published in the U.K. in 1937, this is the volume that introduced the world to hobbits, Middle-earth, Bilbo Baggins, Gandalf the wizard, and the Ring of power. A new edition, formatted for younger readers, was released in August and features cover art by Peter S!s (ISBN 0-618-16221-6. $18; pap. ISBN 0-618-15082-X. $10). Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.Sobre el autor:J.R.R. Tolkien was born on January 3, 1892. After serving in the First World War, he embarked upon a distinguished career as a professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford University. He is the renowned creator of Middle-earth and author of the great modern classic, The Hobbit, the prelude to his epic masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings. Other works by J.R.R. Tolkien include The Silmarillion. J.R.R. Tolkien died in 1973 at the age of 81.
Número de paginas: : 592 páginas ISBN-10: 110197138X ISBN13: 978-1101971383 Peso: 15.4 oz.
Atrévete a no gustar te mostrará cómo desatar todo tu poder interior para tener el valor ser tú mismo, enseñándote una forma de pensar profundamente liberadora que te permitirá desarrollar el coraje para cambiar e ignorar las limitaciones que nosotros y las personas que nos rodean nos han impuesto. Escrito en forma de diálogo entre un filósofo y un joven, al estilo socrático, este libro es un acercamiento al mundo del autoconocimiento y las enseñanzas de Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung y Alfred Adler al alcance de todos. Atrévete a ser la persona que realmente quieres ser.
