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Oroonoko
€10,85di Aphra Behn
A new single-volume edition of an early anti-slavery novel
When Prince Oroonoko’s passion for the virtuous Imoinda arouses the jealousy of his grandfather, the lovers are cast into slavery and transported from Africa to the colony of Surinam. Oroonoko’s noble bearing soon wins the respect of his English captors, but his struggle for freedom brings about his destruction. Inspired by Aphra Behn’s visit to Surinam, Oroonoko reflects the author’s romantic views of native peoples as being in “the first state of innocence, before man knew how to sin.” The novel also reveals Behn’s ambiguous attitude toward slavery: while she favored it as a means to strengthen England’s power, her powerful and moving work conveys its injustice and brutality.
This new single-volume edition of Oroonoko includes a carefully modernized text accompanied by an introduction, chronology, explanatory notes and suggestions for further reading.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
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Paraíso inhabitado
€14,00di Ana María Matute
«Nací cuando mis padres ya no se querían», recuerda Adriana, mucho después de que todo haya sucedido. Por ello, la niña se crea un paraíso propio, poblado por amigos imaginarios y una familia de su elección.
«Uno de mis recuerdos más lejanos se remonta a la noche en que vi correr al Unicornio que vivía enmarcado en la reproducción de un famoso tapiz. Con asombrosa nitidez, le vi echar a correr y desaparecer por un ángulo del marco, para reaparecer enseguida y retomar su lugar; hermoso, blanquísimo y enigmático.»
Esta felicidad a medida se ve perturbada cuando Adriana debe iniciar el periplo escolar y entrar definitivamente en el mundo de los adultos, un entorno que le resulta ajeno cuando no hostil. Sin embargo, siempre queda un refugio bajo las relucientes estrellas escondidas en los cristales de la lámpara del salón.
Auténtica obra maestra en la impecable trayectoria de Ana María Matute, Paraíso inhabitado nos coloca en el territorio del misterio primigenio, y cerramos el libro invadidos por el presentimiento de que hubo un tiempo en que también fuimos parte de esa realidad oscura, invisible, maravillosa.
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Pelléas et Mélisande
€8,00di Maurice Maeterlinck
“A superior variation on the admirable old melodrama”, said Mallarmé about Pelléas. The plot does seem Prince Golaud meets Melisande, a timid, shy and enchanting girl that is lost in a forest. He takes her to his castle and decides to marry her. But Melisande falls in love with his brother, Pelleas …
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Peregrinaciones de una paria
€19,00di Flora Tristan
Flora Tristón (1803-1844) —«una curiosa mujer», según su nieto, el pintor Paul Gauguin— destaca en la Europa del siglo XIX como una precursora de los movimientos de liberación del siglo XX. Peregrinaciones de una paria es el relato de su viaje al Perú, en 1833, desde Burdeos, pasando por el estrecho de Magallanes y Valparaíso. Las descripciones de los lugares visitados alternan con el diario íntimo y con un agudo retrato de la sociedad postcolonial, configurando un relato lleno de vida, debido a la pluma de una de las personalidades femeninas más singulares de su tiempo.
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Poesía lírica del Siglo de Oro
€10,70a cura di Elias L. Rives
Este volumen abarca una gran época de la poesía española renacentista y barroca y en él se ofrece una amplia muestra, seleccionada por Elías Rivers, de la obra de sus principales representantes desde Garcilaso de la Vega y Herrera, pasando por Fray Luis de León y San Juan de la Cruz hasta los más importantes barrocos como Lope de Vega, Góngora, Quevedo y muchos otros. La presente antología puede servir como un primer acercamiento a obras y autores cuyas ediciones críticas y comentadas han aparecido o aparecerán en esta misma colección Letras Hispánicas.
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Pronuncia spagnola per italiani
€11,00di Luciano Canepari e Renzo Miotti
L’approccio fonodidattico contrastivo adottato, introduce in modo agile, non troppo specialistico, ma senza sacrificar il rigore scientifico, tutto ciò che serve sapere sulla pronuncia internazionale dello spagnolo d’oggi, per ottener buoni risultati nel capir i nativi e farsi capire da loro. Si danno anche approfondimenti sulla pronuncia iberica e americana, per saperne di più sull’uso effettivo dei parlanti nativi.
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Reflections on the Revolution in France
€14,75by Edmund Buke
The most important works of Edmund Burke, the greatest political thinker of the past three centuries, are gathered here in one comprehensive volume. Accompanying his influential masterpiece, Reflections on the Revolution in France, is a selection of pamphlets, speeches, public letters, private correspondence and, for the first time, two important and previously uncollected early essays.
Philosopher, statesman, and founder of conservatism, Burke was a dazzling orator and a visionary theorist who spent his long political career fighting abuses of power. He wrote at a time of great change, against the backdrop of the revolt of the American colonies, the expansion of the British Empire, the collapse of Ireland, and the French Revolution. Burke argued passionately in support of the American revolutionaries and in equally impassioned opposition to the horrors of the unfolding French Revolution. Making a case for upholding established rights and customs, and advocating incremental reform rather than radical revolutionary change, Burke’s writings have profoundly influenced modern democracies up to the present day.
