Product Description: La conciencia de Zenón pertenece a la tradición cómica de Don Quijote y Tristram Shandy, aunque no de manera realista, sino en un sentido psicológico. Después de leer unas pocas páginas, el lector constatará que enfrenta una paradójica yuxtaposición entre las cosas de la mente y las en sí...read more

Product Description: La trama relata los infortunios de un amor desgraciado entre Lucía Ashton y el enemigo de su familia, el Baron de Ravenswood. El Baron de Ravenswood y Lucía Ashton se enamoran pero ella es hija del Lord Protector, enemigo de Ravenswood y asesino indirecto de su padre a quien juró vengar su muerte...read more

Product Description: Passionate about the Music of Richard Wagner, the philosophy of Schopenhauer, and Greek tragedy, he conflated all three topics to get to the roots of music through ancient Greek tragedy. The main theme is the opposition of the gods Apollo and Dionysus, as representatives of order and chaos, respectively...read more

Product Description: Sófocles (495 a.c. — 406 a.c.), poeta trágico griego, fue autor de las tragedias clásicas Griegas que Aristóteles consideró como perfectas. Sófocles escribió más de un centenar de tragedias; desafortunadamente, tan sólo siete tragedias completas se conservan: Antígona, Edipo Rey, Áyax, Las Traquinias, Filoctetes, Edipo en Colona y Electra...read more

Product Description: The Memoirs is a semi-autobiographical book about an early unrequited love experienced by Flaubert. The fair Maria is older than him, married, and has no clue about her admirer’s passion, let alone its intensity. Smitten beyond reason, the narrator examines his life, what is has been, and what it is—all under the lenses of passionate, carnal desire...read more

Product Description: The novel is about gambling, though it may be viewed as an allegory of hazard that is life itself; a hazard that includes the struggle for survival, the precariousness of wealth, and the whims of love—existence itself. Although Alexey demonstrates that he is a winner, in the end he is shown to be a loser; that is, a man victim —not of his heart— but of his intellect, which harbors the eccentric theory that extreme humiliation may not only heal a broken heart, but also repair the soul...read more

Product Description: En Atala Chateaubriand contrasta la naturaleza y la religión, concentrándose en las descripciones del paisaje americano primitivo. Escrito con una voz lírica y romántica —a menudo harto desenfrenada— la historia pertenece a la tradición de amor no correspondido entre Chactas y Atala; lo que trae a la memoria inmortales personajes: Tristán e Isolda, Romeo y Julieta, Paris y Helena de Troya, Odiseo y Penélope, y Orfeo y Eurídice, entre otros...read more

Product Description: Manon Lescaut (1893), inspired Italian composer Giacomo Puccini to compose the opera by the same name. Set in France and Louisiana in the early 18th century, more than a story about Manon, the story is about the blind devotion the hero, the Chevalier des Grieux, developed for his lover—the gorgeous young woman, Manon Lescaut...read more

Product Description: Boethius makes the point that in the course of our lives, when Good Fortune smiles on us, we should be wary, for complacency, deception, and delusion will lead us to overdraw our blessings from the good jar. For those with a philosophical bent, The Consolation of Philosophy offers insightful discussions on happiness, the problem of good and evil, and free will...read more

Product Description: Because some of English extant translations of In Praise of Folly are from the 18th, 19, and 20th centuries, I’ve endeavored to present a version with the American reader in mind. Although Erasmus’ cunning, wit, and sharp criticism are timeless, he wrote in Latin...read more

Product Description: Kant felt that his Critique of Pure Reason by its depth and span of treatment was inaccessible to many of his readers, and therefore misunderstood. Therefore, he wrote his Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics, a kind of introductory primer...read more