Editora: Edicions Perelló
Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about the romance between two Italian youths from feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular plays during his lifetime and, along with Hamlet, is one of his most frequently performed plays. Today, the title characters are regarded as archetypal young lovers.
A modern classic of psychological horror and political paranoia, The Trial is one of Kafka’s best-known works.Josef K. is an ordinary banker whose life changes overnight when he is arrested for a crime no one will identify to him. He is forced to navigate a bewildering court system filled with endless hearings and controlled by a distant authoritarian power. As K. struggles to defend himself against accusations he cannot understand, his work, relationships, and grip on reality begin to deteriorate. Though left unfinished at the time of Kafka’s death, The Trial remains one of literature’s most powerful portraits of life under authoritarian power.Ver livro
The Ukrainian writer Vera Jelihovsky was born on the 29th April 1835. At that time Ukraine, or Little Russia as it was also called, was part of the Russian Empire. Vera was also the sister of Helena Blavatsky, herself a noted writer and a co-founder of the Theosophical Society. As a writer Vera’s works rests mainly on her children’s stories and little of any of her work is known in the West. ‘The General’s Will’ is a fascinating story of a dying man who tries, with the writing of a new Will, to right the wrongs his second marriage has caused to the children of his first. His scheming second wife attempts to change that. But will her selfish plan succeed? Vera Jelihovsky died on the 17th May 1896. She was 61.Ver livro
The Heathen is a short story by Jack London. John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney, January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916) was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone. He is best remembered as the author of The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set in the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories "To Build a Fire", "An Odyssey of the North", and "Love of Life". He also wrote of the South Pacific in such stories as "The Pearls of Parlay" and "The Heathen", and of the San Francisco Bay area in The Sea Wolf. London was a passionate advocate of unionization, socialism, and the rights of workers and wrote several powerful works dealing with these topics such as his dystopian novel The Iron Heel, his non-fiction exposé The People of the Abyss, and The War of the Classes. On July 12, 1897, London (age 21) and his sister's husband Captain Shepard sailed to join the Klondike Gold Rush. This was the setting for some of his first successful stories. London's time in the Klondike, however, was detrimental to his health.Ver livro
The Russian novel has a reputation that is immense, both in narrative and in length. Unquestionably though the ideas, themes and characters make many novels rightly revered as world class, as icons of literature. Perhaps an easier way to enjoy a wider selection of the Russian heritage, with its varied and glorious literary talents, is with the short story. These gems sparkle and beguile the mind with their characters and narrative, exploring facets of society and the human condition that more Western authors somehow find more difficult to navigate, or to explore, explain and relate to. The Russian short story is, in many respects, in a genre of its own. It is at its captivating best whether it’s an exploration of real-life experiences, through fantasy and fables and on to total absurdity. In a land so vast it is unsurprising that it is a world almost unto itself. Cultures and landscapes of differing hues are packed together bound only by the wilful bonds and force of Empire. The stories in this collection traverse the decades where one might be a serf under an absolute monarch, and the reality of that was pretty near to slavery, into an emancipation of sorts in the fields, or towns under the despotic will of landowners and the rich into the upheavals of Empire and then the overthrow of the ruling class and its replacement by the communists, who promised equality for all and delivered a society where the down-trodden remained the lowest yet vital cog of the state machine and its will. Whilst Tolstoy, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Pushkin and Chekhov are a given in any Russian collection we also explore and include Andreyev, Korolenko, Turgenev, Blavatsky and many others to create a world rich and dense across a sprawling landscape of diverse people, riddled with the class and unfairness in perhaps some of the most turbulent times that Russia has ever experienced. 01 - The Russian Short Story - Volume 2 - An Introduction 02 - Diary of a Madman by Nikolai Gogol 03 - Taman by Mikhail Yurievich Lermontov 04 - The Jew by Ivan Turgenev 05 - The Rendezvous by Ivan Turgenev 06 - A Strange Story by Ivan Turgenev 07 - Mumu by Ivan Turgenev 08 - The District Doctor by Ivan Turgenev 09 - The Dream of a Ridiculous Man by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 10 - The Beggar Boy at Christ's Christmas Tree by Fyodor DostoyevskyVer livro
The Golden Slipper, and Other Problems for Violet Strange introduces one of Anna Katharine Green’s most distinctive detective heroines: Violet Strange, a young society woman whose charm, wit, and social position conceal an unexpected gift for solving delicate mysteries. Across nine intriguing cases, Violet moves through drawing rooms, country houses, fashionable gatherings, and private scandals, uncovering thefts, hidden motives, suspicious deaths, missing evidence, and secrets too sensitive for ordinary police work. From “The Golden Slipper” to “Violet’s Own,” each problem reveals a different side of her intelligence, courage, and emotional complexity. First published in the early twentieth century, this collection is an important classic of female detective fiction from Anna Katharine Green, one of the pioneering voices of American mystery writing.Ver livro
Immerse yourself in the ethereal romance of "The Dream" by Emile Zola, where dreams and reality intertwine in a tapestry of longing and devotion. Young Angélique, an orphaned embroiderer, lives a secluded life surrounded by the beauty of her craft and the legends of saints. Her heart yearns for an impossible love, awakening when she encounters Félicien, an aristocrat who embodies her dreams. As love battles fate, Zola's enchanting tale explores the power of hope and the spiritual yearning for transcendence.Ver livro
