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A Midsummer Night's Dream por WilliamShakespeare
A Midsummer Night's Dream
WilliamShakespeare
  • LECTURAS 155,743
  • Votos 3,385
  • Partes 10
"A Midsummer Night's Dream" portrays the events surrounding the marriage of the Duke of Athens, Theseus, and Hippolyta. These include the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of six amateur actors, who are controlled and manipulated by the fairies who inhabit the forest in which most of the play is set.
Macbeth por WilliamShakespeare
Macbeth
WilliamShakespeare
  • LECTURAS 208,274
  • Votos 4,164
  • Partes 29
"Macbeth" tells the story of a brave Scottish general named Macbeth who receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders King Duncan and takes the throne for himself. He is then wracked with guilt and paranoia, and he soon becomes a tyrannical ruler as he is forced to commit more and more murders to protect himself from enmity and suspicion. The bloodbath and consequent civil war swiftly take Macbeth and Lady Macbeth into the realms of arrogance, madness, and death. Cover by @newsies-
Anna Karenina por LeoTolstoy
Anna Karenina
LeoTolstoy
  • LECTURAS 1,423,738
  • Votos 29,557
  • Partes 239
"Anna Karenina" is the tragedy of married aristocrat and socialite Anna Karenina and her affair with the affluent Count Vronsky. The story starts when she arrives in the midst of a family broken up by her brother's unbridled womanizing—something that prefigures her own later situation, though with less tolerance for her by others.
Pride and Prejudice (1813) por JaneAusten
Pride and Prejudice (1813)
JaneAusten
  • LECTURAS 10,272,128
  • Votos 219,333
  • Partes 61
The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education, and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of early 19th-century England. Elizabeth is the second of five daughters of a country gentleman living near the fictional town of Meryton in Hertfordshire, near London.
Little Women (1880) por LouisaMayAlcott
Little Women (1880)
LouisaMayAlcott
  • LECTURAS 678,437
  • Votos 15,891
  • Partes 47
"Little Women" follows the lives of four sisters – Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March – and is loosely based on the author's childhood experiences with her three sisters.
a room of one's own (1929) - virginia woolf por grunge_trash
a room of one's own (1929) - virginia woolf
grunge_trash
  • LECTURAS 2,924
  • Votos 48
  • Partes 6
A Room of One's Own is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf, first published in September 1929. The work is based on two lectures Woolf delivered in October 1928 at Newnham College and Girton College, women's constituent colleges at the University of Cambridge.
A House of Pomegranates (1891) por OscarWilde
A House of Pomegranates (1891)
OscarWilde
  • LECTURAS 22,959
  • Votos 548
  • Partes 4
"A House of Pomegranates" is a collection of fairy tales. "The Young King" tells the story of the illegitimate shepherd son of the recently dead king's daughter of an unnamed country. Being his only heir, he is brought to the palace to await his accession. "The Birthday of the Infanta" is about a hunchbacked dwarf, found in the woods by courtiers of the King of Spain. The hunchback's father sells him to the palace for the amusement of the king's daughter, the Infanta, on her twelfth birthday. In "The Fisherman and his Soul," a young Fisherman finds a Mermaid and wants nothing more than to marry her, but he cannot, for one cannot live underwater if one has a soul. "The Star-Child" is the story of an infant boy found abandoned in the woods by a poor woodcutter, who pities him and takes him in. He grows up to be exceedingly beautiful, but vain, cruel, and arrogant, believing himself to be the divine child of the stars. Cover done by @zonaamind
THE SCARLET LETTER (Completed) por NathanielHawthorne
THE SCARLET LETTER (Completed)
NathanielHawthorne
  • LECTURAS 22,071
  • Votos 587
  • Partes 26
The Scarlet Letter: A Romance is an 1850 novel in a historical setting, written by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne. The book is considered to be his "masterwork". Set in 17th-century Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony, during the years 1642 to 1649, it tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter through an affair and struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity. Throughout the book, Hawthorne explores themes of legalism, sin, and guilt.
Edgar Allan Poe's Most Famous Works por EnlightenmentLibrary
Edgar Allan Poe's Most Famous Works
EnlightenmentLibrary
  • LECTURAS 10,701
  • Votos 327
  • Partes 7
From The Raven to The Tell Tale Heart, Poe's grim and gruesome greatest hits. ---- Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 to October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, critic and editor best known for evocative short stories and poems that captured the imagination and interest of readers around the world. His imaginative storytelling and tales of mystery and horror gave birth to the modern detective story.
Annabel Lee (1849) por EdgarAllanPoe
Annabel Lee (1849)
EdgarAllanPoe
  • LECTURAS 18,921
  • Votos 1,689
  • Partes 1
"Annabel Lee" is the last complete poem composed by American author Edgar Allan Poe. Like many of Poe's poems, it explores the theme of the death of a beautiful woman. Cover by: @KatrinHollister