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Joseph Andrews and Shamela
€10,80di Henry Fielding
Henry Fielding wrote both Joseph Andrews (1742) and Shamela (1741) in response to Samuel Richardson’s book Pamela (1740), of which Shamela is a splendidly bawdy travesty. Joseph Andrews begins as a parody, too, but soon outgrows its origins, and its deepest roots lie in Cervantes and Marivaux. In both stories, Fielding demonstrates his concern for the corruption of contemporary society, politics, religion, morality, and taste.
This revised and expanded edition follows the text of Joseph Andrews established by Martin C. Battestin for the definitive Wesleyan Edition of Fielding’s works. The text of Shamela is based on the first edition, and two substantial appendices reprint the preliminary matter from the second edition of Richardson’s Pamela and Conyers Middleton’s Life of Cicero, which is also closely parodied in Shamela. This Oxford World’s Classics edition also features a new introduction by Thomas Keymer which situates Fielding’s works in their critical and historical contexts.
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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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Jack Maggs
€11,00by Peter Carey
London,1837. Jack Maggs, raised and deported as a criminal, has returned from Australia, in secret and at great risk. What does he want after all these years, and why is he so interested in the comings and goings at a plush townhouse in Great Queen Street? And why is Jack himself an object of such interest to Tobias Oates, celebrated author, amateur hypnotist and fellow burglar – in this case of people’s minds, of their histories and inner phantoms? A thrilling story of mesmerism and possession, of dangerous bargains and illicit love against the backdrop of Victorian London.
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Entre visillos
€11,00di Carmen Martin Gaite
Después de algunos años de ausencia, Pablo Klein vuelve a la ciudad de provincias donde ha pasado su infancia para ejercer como profesor de alemán en el instituto. Allí entabla relación con distintas personas de la ciudad, fundamentalmente jóvenes, y con las alumnas del instituto, sobre todo con Natalia. A través de las ocupaciones cotidianas de este grupo de jóvenes, de sus angustias, del aburrimiento y de la falta de imaginación, Carmen Martín Gaite traza el perfil de una juventud sin ilusión.
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Abel Sanchez
€11,00di Miguel de Unamuno
El tema del odio y de la envidia son el argumento de la obra tratados desde un punto de vista literario. Unamuno supo convertirlos en materia de obras literarias fuertemente originales e incitantes. No en vano, Unamuno es el gran agitador de espíritus que prefiere plantear interrogantes a proponer soluciones.
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Jane and Louisa Will Soon come Home
€11,00di Erna Brodber
Enter the world of the protagonist, who explores the multiple dimensions of family and origin for a woman in a rapidly-changing Jamaica. A challenging but highly engaging read. .. not since George Lamming’s In The Castle Of My Skin have we had a first time novel with this kind of effortless , bottomless detail of life and leaf and sorrow
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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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Uncle Tom’s Cabin
€11,65di Harriet Beecher Stowe
The novel that changed the course of American history
Published in 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel was a powerful indictment of slavery in America. Describing the many trials and eventual escape to freedom of the long-suffering, good-hearted slave Uncle Tom, it aimed to show how Christian love can overcome any human cruelty. Uncle Tom’s Cabin has remained controversial to this day, seen as either a vital milestone in the anti-slavery cause or as a patronising stereotype of African-Americans, yet it played a crucial role in the eventual abolition of slavery and remains one of the most important American novels ever written.
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.
