La poesía japonesa es quizás la de mayor conexión entre el hombre, la naturaleza y su espiritualidad. Dotada de reglas propias ajenas a la poesía occidental, este estilo poético supone un viaje al interior del poeta, más espiritual que estético, sin despreciar lo segundo. Haykus, Senryus, Tankas, Chökas, Sedokas y Ka...
101 of the best sayings and quotes from William Shakespeare! Rank #1 William Shakespeare - May 16, 2018 Rank #115 in Poetry - May 16, 2018 Rank #65 in Poetry - May 17, 2018 Rank #19 in Poetry - May 18, 2018 Rank #330 in Random - October 17, 2017 Rank #63 in Quotes - May 21, 2018 Rank #59 in Quotes - May 30, 2018
La historia comienza una soleada mañana de 1923 y termina es a misma noche, cuando empiezan a retirarse los invitados de una fiesta que se celebra en la mansión de los Dalloway. Aunque en el curso del día suceda un hecho trágico -el suicidio de un joven que volvió de la guerra con la mente perturbada-, lo verdaderamen...
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.
Virginia Woolf explora en Al faro su propio pasado familiar y vuelca aquellos interrogantes que siempre la inquietaron: la razón de la vida, el beneficio o la inutilidad de alcanzar una meta y la inevitable muerte.
Historia de dos ciudades transcurre entre Londres y París, durante la época de la Revolución Francesa. Londres simboliza, hasta cierto punto, la paz y la tranquilidad de una sociedad ordenada en donde la vida es relativamente sencilla incluso para las clases más bajas. París, en cambio, nos acongoja con su agitación...
Historias góticas llenas de misterio, de terror con una prosa magnífica que solo puede llevar el sello de Edgar Allan Poe. El gato muerto, Berenice o el corazón delator son solo alguno de los maravillosos relatos que podrás encontrar en la obra de un autor que ha sido inspiración de muchos y admirado por una gran mult...
Publicada en 1938, "La naúsea" de Jean-Paul Sartre es, junto con "El extranjero" de Albert Camus, la novela que encarna de forma más emblemática la corriente de pensamiento existencialista fruto de la atroz experiencia de la Primera Guerra Mundial y sus funestas consecuencias.
"Si las puertas de la percepción quedaran depuradas, todo se habría de mostrar al hombre tal cual es: infinito." William Blake
Esta novela es un clásico de la literatura inglesa del siglo XIX. Trata paralelamente las realidades de Inglaterra y de una Francia revolucionaria. Tomando como punto de referencia la revolución francesa, Dickens muestra los problemas sociales y políticos de Inglaterra, temiendo que la historia se repitiera en su país...
El Arte de la Guerra es el mejor libro de estrategia de todos los tiempos. Inspiró a Napoleón, Maquiavelo, Mao Tse Tung y muchas más figuras históricas. Este libro de dos quinientos mil años de antigüedad, es uno de los más importantes textos clásicos chinos, en el que, a pesar del tiempo transcurrido, ninguna de sus...
The Odyssey (Greek: Ὀδύσσεια Odýsseia] in Classical Attic) is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is, in part, a sequel to the Iliad, the other work ascribed to Homer. The Odyssey is fundamental to the modern Western canon, and is the second-oldest extant work of Western literature; th...
"Ulysses" chronicles the passage of Leopold Bloom through Dublin during an ordinary day, 16 June 1904. Ulysses is the Latinised name of Odysseus, the hero of Homer's poem Odyssey, and the novel establishes a series of parallels between its characters and events and those of the poem. Cover by the wonderful @Azurina77.
Madame Bovary. Madame Bovary is the debut novel of French writer Gustave Flaubert, published in 1856. The story focuses on a doctor's wife, Emma Bovary, who has adulterous affairs and lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and emptiness of provincial life. Cover done by @Emnabm2
Famous for introducing the character of the vampire Count Dracula, "Dracula" tells the story of Dracula's attempt to move from Transylvania to England, and the battle between Dracula and a small group of men and women led by Professor Abraham Van Helsing.
The novel depicts the plight of the French peasantry demoralized by the French aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution, the corresponding brutality demonstrated by the revolutionaries toward the former aristocrats in the early years of the revolution, and many unflattering social parallels with life in L...
Sense and Sensibility is set in southwest England between 1792 and 1797, and portrays the life and loves of the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne. The novel follows the young ladies to their new home, a meagre cottage on a distant relative's property, where they experience love, romance and heartbreak.
On Christmas Eve, around 1812, Pip, an orphan who is about six years old, encounters an escaped convict in the village churchyard while visiting the graves of his mother, father, and siblings. The convict scares Pip into stealing food and a file to grind away his shackles, from the home he shares with his abusive olde...
"Jane Eyre" follows the emotions and experiences of its eponymous character, including her growth to adulthood, and her love for Mr. Rochester, the byronic master of fictitious Thornfield Hall.
"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 h...
More than eight years before the novel opens, Anne Elliot, then a lovely, thoughtful, warm-hearted 19 year old, accepted a proposal of marriage from the handsome young naval officer Frederick Wentworth. He was clever, confident, and ambitious, but poor and with no particular family connections to recommend him. Sir Wa...
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 Hertf...
