Un enemigo del pueblo (1882) describe la lucha de un individuo decidido a revelar la verdad aun cuando ésta amenaza la supervivencia de toda una ciudad y a pesar de que su porvenir y el de su familia están en juego.

Book + CD-Audio Carmen Prosper Mérimée De la nouvelle au livret Retold by Margarita Barberá Adventure A story of love and death which retells the tragic relationship between a gypsy, Carmen, and a soldier, Brigadier Don José, which turns Carmen into a smuggler, outlaw and murderer. This story was the inspiration for the famous opera by Georges Bizet and a ballet by Roland Petit.

Mór Jókai de Ásva 18 de febrero de 1825 – Budapest, 5 de mayo de 1904) fue un novelista noble húngaro, el «gran cuentista húngaro», miembro de la Academia de Ciencias de Hungría.

Product Description: Arthur Machen was a Welsh author and mystic of the 1890s and early 20th century. He is best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy, and horror fiction. His novella The Great God Pan (1890; 1894) has garnered a reputation as a classic of horror (Stephen King has called it "Maybe the best [horror story] in the English language")...read more

Product Description: Johann David Wyss German pronunciation (May 28, 1743 in Berne - January 11, 1818 in Berne) was a Swiss author, best remembered for his book The Swiss Family Robinson (Der schweizerische Robinson) (1812). It is said that he was inspired by Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, but wanted to write a story from which his own children would learn, as the father in the story taught important lessons to his children...read more

Product Description: Installed behind his desk with notebook, ashtray, whiskey, and "several typewriters of various calibers," Werner Kofler embarks on a tour not through space but through literature, and through his abortive attempts at producing a work he can call his own...read more

Product Description: journal Volume III - Les émotions saisies sur le vif deviennent méconnaissables dès que le présent entre dans le passé. La perception de notre vécu n’est fiable que dans l’instant, la mémoire la métamorphose en souvenirs, que des décennies plus tard, on reconnaît à peine tant la vie vous a changé et tant nos relations aux autres ont évolué...read more

Product Description: Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, más conocido como Joseph Conrad fue un novelista polaco que adoptó el inglés como lengua literaria. Conrad, cuya obra explora la vulnerabilidad y la inestabilidad moral del ser humano, está considerado como uno de los más grandes novelistas de la Literatura Universal...read more

Product Description: Stefan Zweig (Viena, Austria, 28 de noviembre de 1881-Petrópolis, Brasil, 22 de febrero de 1942) fue un escritor, biógrafo y activista social austríaco de la primera mitad del siglo XX.

Product Description: Platero y yo es una narración de Juan Ramón Jiménez que recrea poéticamente la vida y muerte del burro Platero. Es muy célebre el primer párrafo: Platero es pequeño, peludo, suave; tan blando por fuera, que se diría todo de algodón, que no lleva huesos...read more

Product Description: In Schnitzler s novella Die Toten schweigen a wife experiences her lover s accidental death. This trauma along with her fear of discovery lead to a major psychological crisis. Based on collected manuscript textual sources, all reproduced as facsimiles with transcriptions plus the full text of the first edition (1897), this edition makes it possible to study Schnitzler s experimentation with issues of depth psychology and narratology...read more

Product Description: Jan Opolský has primarily been viewed as an undistinguished hanger-on in the era of Czech literary decadence. Through close reading and detailed analysis of Opolský’s prose, however, Peter Butler argues that, far from his reputation as a literary lackey, Opolský is a master of sustained narrative irony and an accomplished writer in his own right...read more

Honore de Balzac fue un novelista francés representante de la llamada novela realista del siglo XIX. Trabajador infatigable, elaboró una obra monumental, La comedia humana, ciclo coherente de varias decenas de novelas cuyo objetivo era describir de modo casi exhaustivo a la sociedad francesa de su tiempo para, según su famosa frase, hacerle "la competencia al registro civil".

The French writer Colette (1873-1954) is best known in the United States for such classic novels as Gigi and Cheri, which were made into popular movies, but she was a prolific author. This meticulously translated collection offers some of her best fiction, personal essays, articles, and talks, all appearing in English for the first time. The pieces showcase Colette's gifts as a writer: her deep wisdom about every age of human life, her skill as a storyteller, her wry humor, her persuasive powers, and her foresight as a social critic of issues such as gender roles. The translators combed through journals and past editions of Colette's work to cull these gems, which cover an enormous array of topics--from French wines and perfumes to her friendships with Marcel Proust and Maurice Chevalier to uncanny insight into the curious habits of cats and dogs. Selections from an advice column that Colette wrote for the French women's magazine Marie Claire are also included, and her savvy suggestions for the lovelorn stand the test of time. Moving articles written during the two world wars, along with her memories of being an actor and playwright, reveal facets of her writing that are less often celebrated. The first new work by Colette to appear in English in half a century, it will delight devoted fans and new readers alike.