Libros de Literatura 23041 resultados

Dagerman, Stig

Sexto Piso

Dagerman se erigió como una nueva y rutilante estrella literaria con la publicación de esta historia protagonizada por siete náufragos, angustiados ante la perspectiva de su inminente muerte en una isla desierta. La desolación del paisaje es geográfica y metafísica, y los descarnados e insomnes pensamientos de los personajes fluyen como aguas negras hacia el sumidero final. Con...

Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan

Alianza Editorial

Relato que había de forjar el arquetipo del vampiro femenino en la literatura universal, "Carmilla", publicado por primera vez en la revista "The Dark Blue" en 1871, es sin duda la obra más famosa del irlandés Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873). Además del diseño que éste imprimió a su figura central, hacen del mismo una pieza maestra el nervio de la acción, el vigor de los pe...

Shakespeare, William

Penguin Clasicos

Los mejores libros jamás escritos.«¡Oh sangre, sangre, sangre!»Otelo, IIILas tragedias de Shakespeare representan una de las cumbres de la literatura universal. Su grandeza radica en una mirada visionaria de la condición humana, en la honestidad al mostrar las pasiones más oscuras, en su forma de tratar el amor, la muerte, el destino, los lazos familiares, la locura, la amis...

Vigneau, Alain

La Llave

´La terapia y el arte se unen en una celebracion de la tragicomicidad de la vida, de la mano de un celebre payaso empeñado en sanar heridas a traves del humor.- Claudio Naranjo.- Joan Garriga.´ ...

Shakespeare, William

Penguin Clasicos

Este libro contiene Troilo y Crésida, Bien está todo lo que bien acaba, Pericles, príncipe de Tiro, Cimbelino, Medida por medida, Cuento de invierno, La tempestad, Dos nobles de la misma sangre. Edición y traducción de Andreu Jaume, editor y crítico literario El presente volumen reúne la producción tardía de Shakespeare, que muestra sus creaciones más claroscuras, desde las ll...

Yanagihara, Hanya

Picador

When four graduates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition.There is kind, handsome Willem, an aspiring actor; JB, a quick-witted, sometimes cruel Brooklyn-born painter seeking entry to the art world; Malcolm, a frustrated architect at a prominent firm; and withdrawn, brillian...

Munro, Alice

Debolsillo

Un libro que reúne ocho relatos de la Premio Nobel de Literatura 2013 Alice Munro. Secretos a voces reúne ocho relatos en los que Alice Munro recupera las preocupaciones y las paradojas que tanto caracterizan a sus personajes. Cada uno de estos relatos contiene más de una historia, que deja entrever escenas de la vida cotidiana llenas de dramatismo. Todos ellos transcurren en l...

Murgia, Michela

Einaudi

Perché Maria sia finita a vivere in casa di Bonaria Urrai, è un mistero che a Soreni si fa fatica a comprendere. La vecchia e la bambina camminano per le strade del paese seguite da uno strascico di commenti malevoli, eppure è così semplice: Tzia Bonaria ha preso Maria con sé, la farà crescere e ne farà la sua erede, chiedendole in cambio la presenza e la cura per quando sarà l...

Jackson, Shirley

Minúscula

Una mujer pasa el día de su boda buscando frenéticamente a su futuro marido, otra hace un extraño viaje nocturno en autobús, un librero satisface la, en apariencia, inofensiva solicitud de un cliente. Y, en el cuento más celebrado de Shirley Jackson, los pobladores de una aldea se reúnen para oficiar un inquietante ritual. «La lotería», uno de los relatos más turbadores que se ...

Sánchez Bellocchio Tomás

Candaya

Un adolescente consigue alterar el probable final de su familia con ayuda de una cámara. Un matrimonio se sirve de los cartoneros de las calles de Buenos Aires para curar los terrores irracionales de su hijo. Un joven técnico se adentra en una tragedia familiar al recuperar el disco duro de un adolescente muerto. Un homenaje a los animales imaginarios de Borges y Kafka a través...

Martín Gaite, Carmen

Siruela

En 1949, Carmen Martín Gaite sufrió un episodio de fiebres muy altas que la introdujeron en un laberinto de delirios e imágenes oníricas. De aquella experiencia surgió El libro de la fiebre, un texto poético, surrealista, en el que trataba de rescatar las fugaces visiones que había tenido. Su entusiasmo por publicar lo escrito se tornó desilusión al comprobar que la gente de su...

Williams, John

Baile del Sol

Stoner es algo más que una gran novela, es una novela perfecta, bien contada y muy bien escrita, de manera conmovedora, que quita el aliento. Stoner es un descubrimiento maravilloso para los amantes de la literatura."Impresiona el modo de contar de John Williams, su fuerza inusitada para los dramas minúsculos y para el recuento cotidiano de nuestras resignaciones y decepciones,...

Cabrerizo, Felipe

Polares

Un libro oral, un libro que quiere contarnos canciones, un libro que Cabrerizo ha relatado con sabiduría insultante y humor irónico. Léanlo y verán a Gainsbourg en todo su esplendor, grandeza y miseria, desde todos sus costados." Serge Gainsbourg vivió una de las vidas más brillantes de la Francia del siglo XX. Escribió decenas de canciones radiantes, compuso joyas de orfebrerí...

Knébel, Maria Ó.

Fundamentos

La difusión del revolucionario «sistema» con que Stanislavski enriqueció el teatro del siglo xx, ha sufrido una serie de oscurecimientos que han dificultado su recta apreciación. Solo pudo supervisar en vida la primera parte de su libro. El trabajo del actor sobre sí mismo. La visión de su trabajo es incompleta si no se la considera conjuntamente con El trabajo del actor sobre ...

Berry, Cicely

Fundamentos

Cicely Berry nos relata y trasmite las investigaciones que ha realizado en torno a la voz durante los últimos 50 años con actores, directores y dramaturgos. Una generosa labor que ofrece al lector la ocasión de sentirse partícipe de una experiencia única. Pocos libros trazan una reflexión tan compleja como asequible sobre las relaciones entre el lenguaje, el pensamiento y el mu...

Lem, Stanislaw

Alianza Editorial

Traducida a más de treinta lenguas, la obra de Stanislaw Lem contribuyó poderosamente a situar el género de la ciencia ficción en nuevas y originales coordenadas. Los relatos incluidos en "Ciberíada" -protagonizados por dos expertos «constructores» dotados de un profundo conocimiento del cosmos- actualizan el cuento filosófico cultivado por Jonathan Swift y por Voltaire mediant...

Sacks, Oliver

Anagrama

Los lectores conocen a Oliver Sacks por sus fascinantes libros sobre los misterios de la mente a partir de asombrosos casos psiquiátricos. Ahora aplica su perspicacia y su humanismo al escrutinio de su propia vida. El autor acomete un ejercicio de introspección que nos permite descubrir una peripecia vital intensa y compleja. Habla en estas páginas de su marcha de Inglaterra de...

Domin, Hilde

Casus Belli

Poetisa del regreso". Con estas palabras designó Hans-Georg Gadamer a la gran dama de la literatura del exilio alemán, Hilde Domin (1909-2006), evocando con ellas sus años de destierro entre 1932 y 1961, fecha de su regreso a Alemania. La riqueza de experiencias, paisajes y lecturas de todos estos años constituye la urdimbre de una amplia obra publicada en forma de novela fragm...

Verne, Jules

Maxtor

"Mr. Phileas Fogg lived, in 1872, at No. 7, Saville Row, Burlington Gardens, the house in which Sheridan died in 1814. He was one of the most noticeable members of the Reform Club, though he seemed always to avoid attracting attention..." Around the World in Eighty Days is a classic adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, published in 1873. In the story, Phileas Fogg...

Saint-Exupéry, Antoine De

Maxtor

"Once when I was six years old I saw a magnificent picture in a book, called True Stories from Nature, about the primeval forest. It was a picture of a boa constrictor in the act of swallowing an animal..." The Little Prince, first published in 1943, is a novella and the most famous work of the French aristocrat, writer, poet and pioneering aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (19...

Swift, Jonathan

Maxtor

"My father had a small estate in Nottinghamshire: I was the third of five sons. He sent me to Emanuel College in Cambridge at fourteen years old, where I resided three years, and applied myself close to my studies; but the charge of maintaining me..." Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Sev...

Twain, Mark

Maxtor

"The old lady pulled her spectacles down and looked over them about the room; then she put them up and looked out under them..." The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain is an 1876 novel about a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River. It is set in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, inspired by Hannibal, Missouri, where Twain lived. Mark Twain created two of the...

Doyle, Arthur Conan

Maxtor

"It can't hurt now," was Mr. Sherlock Holmes?s comment when, for the tenth time in as many years, I asked his leave to reveal the following narrative. So it was that at last I obtained permission to put on record what was, in some ways, the supreme moment of my friend's career..." The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes is the final set of twelve Sherlock Holmes short stories (56 in ...

Conrad, Joseph

Maxtor

"Mr Verloc, going out in the morning, left his shop nominally in charge of his brother-in-law. It could be done, because there was very little business at any time, and practically none at all before the evening. Mr Verloc cared but little about his ostensible business. And, moreover, his wife was in charge of his brother-in-law..." The Secret Agent is a novel by Joseph Conrad...

Twain, Mark

Maxtor

"You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter. That book was made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly..." Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (or, in more recent editions, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn) is a novel by Mark Twain, first published in the United Kingdom in December 1884 and ...

Austen, Jane

Maxtor

"Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch Hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but the Baronetage; there he found occupation for an idle hour, and consolation in a distressed one..." Persuasion is Jane Austen's last completed novel, published posthumously. She began it soon after she had finished Emma and completed it in August 1816. As ...

Conan Doyle, Arthur

Maxtor

"Sherlock Holmes took his bottle from the corner of the mantelpiece, and his hypodermic syringe from its neat morocco case. With his long, white, nervous fingers he adjusted the delicate needle and rolled back his left shirtcuff..." The Sign of the Four (1890), also called The Sign of Four, is the second novel featuring Sherlock Holmes written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle ...

Jacobs, Joseph

Maxtor

?Connla of the Fiery Hair was son of Conn of the Hundred Fights. One day as he stood by the side of his father on the height of Usna, he saw a maiden clad in strange attire coming towards him...? Joseph Jacobs (1854-1916) was an Australian folklorist, literary critic, historian and writer of English literature who became a notable collector and publisher of English Folklore. ...

Carroll, Lewis

Maxtor

Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, ?and what is the use of a book,' thought Alice ?without pictures or conversation?' Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly shortened to Alice in Wonderland) ...

Wilde, Oscar

Maxtor

"The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden, there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn..." The Picture of Dorian Gray is a philosophical novel by the writer Oscar Wilde, first published complete in the July 1890 issue of L...

Doyle, Arthur Conan

Maxtor

"To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex..." The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. It was first published on 1892. The stories are not in chrono...

Andersen, Hans Christian

Maxtor

?Far out in the ocean, where the water is as blue as the prettiest cornflower, and as clear as crystal, it is very, very deep; so deep, indeed, that no cable could fathom it: many church steeples, piled one upon another, would not reach from the ground beneath to the surface of the water above...? Hans Christian Andersen, often referred to in Scandinavia as H. C. Andersen was ...

Henry, O.

Maxtor

"Baldy Woods reached for the bottle, and got it. Whenever Baldy went for anything he usually--but this is not Baldy's story. He poured out a third drink that was larger by a finger than the first and second. Baldy was in consultation; and the consultee is worthy of his hire..." O. Henry's stories frequently have surprise endings. In his day, he was called the American answer t...

Doyle, Arthur Conan

Maxtor

"I am afraid, Watson that I shall have to go," said Holmes as we sat down together to our breakfast one morning. "Go! Where to?" "To Dartmoor; to King's Pyland..." The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1894, by Arthur Conan Doyle. The eleven stories of the Memoirs are: "Silver Blaze" Clients: none; "The Adventure o...

Doyle, Arthur Conan

Maxtor

"In the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go through the course prescribed for surgeons in the Army..." A Study in Scarlet is a detective mystery novel written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, introducing his new characters, "consulting detective" Sherlock Holmes and his friend and chronicler, Dr. John Watson, wh...

Conan Doyle, Arthur

Maxtor

"Of the origin of the Hound of the Baskervilles there have been many statements, yet as I come in a direct line from Hugo Baskerville, and as I had the story from my father, who also had it from his, I have set it down with all belief that it occurred even as is here set forth..." The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the crime novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ...

Mansfield, Katherine

Maxtor

"There was not an inch of room for Lottie and Kezia in the buggy. When Pat swung them on top of the luggage they wobbled; the grandmother's lap was full and Linda Burnell could not possibly have held a lump of a child on hers for any distance..." Bliss is a modernist short story by Katherine Mansfield first published in 1918. It was published in the English Review in August 19...

Brothers Grimm

Maxtor

"In old times when wishing still helped one, there lived a king whose daughters were all beautiful, but the youngest was so beautiful that the sun itself, which has seen so much, was astonished whenever it shone in her face..." Household Tales is a collection of German fairy tales first published in 1812 by the Grimm brothers, Jacob and Wilhelm. The work of the Brothers Grimm...

Verne, Jules

Maxtor

"On the 24th of May, 1863, my uncle, Professor Liedenbrock, rushed into his little house, No. 19 Königstrasse, one of the oldest streets in the oldest portion of the city of Hamburg..." Journey to the Interior of the Earth is a classic 1864 science fiction novel by Jules Verne. The story involves German professor Otto Lidenbrock who believes there are volcanic tubes going towa...

Kipling, Rudyard

Maxtor

"The Brothers of the Trinity order that none unconnected with their service shall be found in or on one of their Lights during the hours of darkness; but their servants can be made to think otherwise. If you are fair-spoken and take an interest in their duties, they will allow you to sit with them through the long night and help to scare the ships into mid-channel..." Kipling,...