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Electra
After killing her husband, Agamenon, Clitestra gives his daughter Electra to a peasant to prevent her from having noble offspring entitled to claim the throne. Electra lives with the peasant, but does not maintain relations with him, who is an honest man and does not believe he has the right to defile a woman of noble crib.
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The coephoras
Although it can be read independently, the coephoras is the second work of the Orestea, the only trilogy of Esquilo that we know in its entirety, and that opens with Agamenon and culminates in the eumenides. In the Greek author's coephoras, he represents the story of a vengeance: the one that, despite his doubts, must carry out Orestes with the support of his sister Electra following the murder of his father Agamenon at the hands of Clitemnestra and his lover Eghisto. In this tragedy, blood calls the blood and the terrible crime that means the magncide of Agamenon can only be punished with divine acquiescence, despite the suffering that the consummation of revenge can and must carry for Orestes. The conflict in the coephoras with the dichotomy between the divine imperatives and the human will reaches a level of an honor to which only the few and rare poets like Esquilo have access.
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The pleas
The pleas are based on the mythical theme of the aversion of the fifty daughters of Danae to marry the fifty sons of Egypt. Esquilo makes of the fifty maidens women who, attached to their virginity, hate men and oppose marriage and the perpetuation of life, thus lacking the law imposed on them by nature. This attitude underlies the deep sense of tragedy, on which the lyrical values are imposed above the dramatic ones.
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The seven against Thebes
When he is expelled from Tebas, Edipo curses his two children, sentencing to death by power. To avoid it, Eteocles and Polyices agree to alternate on the throne each year. However, at the time, Eteocles refuses to abdicate. Polyices finds a powerful ally in King Adrato, who wants to expand his political inference through the marriage of his daughters.
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The Galias War
Julio Caesar describes the battles and intrigues that took place in the nine years he spent fighting local armies that opposed Roman domination in the Galia.
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Fábulas
The fables of Esopo have their origin in the archaic era. They were collected in the 4th century BC by Demetrio de Falero, but that collection was lost. The main collection of fables attributed to Esopo, on which many modern editions are based, is the so-called "Augustana," anonymous, which some authors date in the first or second century and others in the fifth century, and is complemented by two other anonymous collections: the Vindobonense, of the sixth century, and the Accursiana, probably of the ninth century.
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The convivial
Work in prose written by Dante Alighieri between 1304 and 1307, conceived as a moral and philosophical complement to his poetry. It consists of four treaties, each dedicated to a song of its "Comedy" and intended to celebrate human virtues.
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Book of Good Love
The Book of Good Love (1330 and 1343), also called the book of the Arcipraderus or the book of the Songs, since the existing manuscripts do not provide a title, is a work of the mester of clergy of the 14th century. It is an extensive composition, composed of more than 1700 strokes of a varied character, whose driving thread is the account of the author's fictitious autobiography.
The Celestina
Calisto recurre a la astuta Celestina para conseguir el amor de Melibea, poniendo en marcha una cadena de deseos, codicia y traiciones. Fernando de Rojas retrata una sociedad en transformación con extraordinaria viveza verbal.
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Lazarillo de Tormes
It is an anonymous Spanish picaresque novel, written in the first person and in epistolar style (as a single long letter), in which the life of a child, Lazaro de Tormes, is counted in an autobiographical way in the 16th century, from birth and childhood to marriage.
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The Galatea
The Galatea is usually classified as a book of pastors or a pastoral novel. The novel has a complex structure. On the one hand there is the arcadia, or the ameno place, where conversations, songs and debates about love take place; on the other, there are a number of novels inserted that intertwine with the pastoralist lines.
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Romeo and Juliet
As Romeo and Juliet come from opposing families, their love must be conceived until after their marriage.
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Julius Caesar
Following a successful campaign in Spain, Julius Caesar returns to Rome and is offered the background.
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Guzmán de Alfarache
Mateo Alemán accentuated the character of the protagonist and established with his character Guzmán the prototype of rogue.
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The two maids
The deceits of the Teodosia and Leocadia maidens make up an intrigue with pastoral and technical themes of the Byzantine novel. They are disguised as men (a resource widely used in the novels and theatre of the time), they go after their love until they get married to them.
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The Led Vidriera
Two knights of students find on the banks of the river Tormes, a child of about eleven, called Tomás, who intended to find in Salamanca a master who in exchange for his work gave him studies; a proposal that students willingly accept.
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The gypsy
First of the "exemplary novels," the one that opens the volume of 1613, to begin by reflecting this concern of "to show with property a slime." Social disatino, in this case, because in the Spain of then the love relationship between a courtier gentleman and a gypsy girl was unthinkable. Although it was just as unthinkable to find a virtuous gypsy with exemplary behavior.
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The colloquium of dogs
The conversation between two dogs, called Cipion and Berganza, who keep the aforementioned Hospital of the Resurrection of Valladolid, on whose site today is the Mantilla House. When they have acquired the power to speak during the nights, Berganza decides to tell Cipion his experiences with different masters, going through places like Seville, Montilla (Córdoba) and Granada, until they reach Valladolid.
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The illustrious mop
In the illustrious mop, two young men are torn to court the very beautiful young woman of an inn. One achieves its purpose, the other does not and is humiliated by a series of children who yell at him on the street and follow him everywhere.
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The English Spanish
An English gentleman takes from Cadiz to his country, as a destitute of war, a maiden (Isabela), who is educated as a daughter, by him and by his wife. It was of such exceptional beauty and discretion that the son of the two English lords (Ricaredo) fell in love with her and asked her parents for a wife.
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Speech of the method - metaphysical meditations
Descartes proposes a methodical doubt to achieve an undoubted certainty: the "I think, then I exist." From there he reconstructs knowledge, argues the existence of God and develops the distinction between mind and body.
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The Vicar of Wakefield
El doctor Primrose y su familia atraviesan pérdidas, engaños y pruebas morales sin renunciar a la benevolencia. Goldsmith mezcla sentimentalismo, ironía y crítica social en una novela clásica del siglo XVIII.
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Bug-Jargal
Environmented in the slave insurrection of Santo Domingo at the end of the 18th century, the novel recounts the unexpected friendship between a young French officer and Bug-Jargal, a slave of noble bearing and heroic spirit.
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HAN of Iceland
The first novel of the "sublime child": Hugo was only over twenty years old when he finished it, and Han of Iceland defends the thesis of the alliance of the king, the youth and the people in the face of the absolutism of evil, which is mainly due to people dying of hunger at the gates of the palaces. The action takes place in the 17th century.
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The last day of a death row
On the last day of a convicted man, a prisoner reflects on his life during the hours before his execution... It is up to the reader to accompany him in his memories and fears, to share with him all the stages that lead to the guillotine with Claude Gueux, we follow the path of prison to the pathicle of a good man victim of social injustice. Two touching novels about a practice still in force in the world and against which Hugo fought his whole life: the death penalty.
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Eugene Onegin
El desencantado Oneguin rechaza el amor de Tatiana y se ve arrastrado a una decisión trágica. Años después, las posiciones se invierten en esta novela en verso sobre deseo, tiempo y sociedad rusa.
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The Pickwick Papers
Bursting with the good humour, vitality and charge of a young author embarking on this career, The Pickwick Papers is an immortal work of comic fiction.
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Nicholas Nickleby
Nicholas is a young man of impetuous temper and little or no experience who saves his family from dire misfortune at the hands of his villain uncle, Ralph.
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Wuthering Heights
Historia de pasión, orgullo y venganza en los páramos de Yorkshire. La relación entre Catherine Earnshaw y Heathcliff arrastra a dos familias durante generaciones en una novela oscura, intensa y radicalmente moderna.
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White nights
In Russia, a natural phenomenon occurs during the summer solstice in areas of high latitude (as in the case of St. Petersburg), in which sunsets are late and early sunrise. As a result of this, the darkness is never complete. This natural phenomenon is popularly known as White Nights, to which Dostoyevski refers in El Idiot, when Ippolit visits him on his dacha. Both stories (the narrator's and Nástenka's) occur hard
Vanity Fair
Gran novela satírica de la sociedad británica durante y después de las guerras napoleónicas. A través de Becky Sharp y Amelia Sedley, Thackeray retrata ambición, clase, matrimonio y moral pública con ironía implacable.
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The scarlet letter
The Scarlet Letter is the tragic story of a woman's love and the cruel treatment she suffers at the hands of the Puritan society in which she lives.
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A tale of two cities
Lond and Paris, at the time of the French Revolution. At the centre of the novel are the figures of Sydney Carton and Charles Darnay, both men in love with Dr. Manette's beautiful daughter Lucie.
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The mountain of souls
Alonso tells his cousin Beatriz of the terrible legend that weighs on the mountain of Anamas. However, Beatriz insists that his cousin return to the evil place to recover the blue band he lost in a hunt that morning. Will Alonso overcome for love the fear of the ghosts who walk the mountain?
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Humiliated and offended
In this story, the drive towards self-denial in love, which appears so sharply in both Vanya and Natasha, is not enough to lead their lives; instead, it is combined with their social world and the worldly ambitions of Prince Valkovsky to defeat their hope for happiness. Of all the characters of the novel, only Natasha's lover, Prince Alyosha's son, the least motivated person to shape life on his own terms, emerges intact. Here are, to a greater extent than in the more familiar works of Dostoievski, people of flesh and blood as we see them every day. They are composed of both good and evil, will and acceptance. They unfathomably arouse interest and enlighten understanding.
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Fathers and Sons
Novela sobre el choque generacional en la Rusia del siglo XIX, marcada por la figura de Bazárov y su nihilismo. Turguénev explora ideas, afectos familiares y tensiones sociales con una mirada sobria y profundamente humana.
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Letters from my mill
Daudet brings out some anecdotes he has witnessed or told him, he tries to deform reality as little as possible. He makes us relive his native Provenza, the Provencal people with his soul, his overflowing imagination, his mirage, his malice, his joys and his sorrows.
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Crime and punishment
Raskolnikov, an unfit student, commits a murder and suffers the torment of guilt and redemption
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Sea workers
Mess Lethierry owns La Durande, a steam stranded on a rock by the criminal machination of his captain, Mr. Clubin. Mad of anger at the idea that the revolutionary engine of his steam would definitely be lost, Lethierry promises to hand over his niece Deruchette to whoever recovers the shipwreck machine caught between the two rocks of the Douvres reef off the coast. from Guernsey. Gilliatt, a fisherman as sturdy as a dreamer, but especially in love with Deruchette, accepted the challenge. After many adventures, in particular his fight against the elements and octopus, Gilliatt is successful in his mission.
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Little women
It tells the vicissitudes of the four March sisters after the secession war in the United States.
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An Old-Fashioned Girl
Polly Milton, a 14-year-old country girl, visits her friend Fanny Shaw and her rich family for the first time. Polly feels displaced by the splendor of the urban and luxurious lifestyle of the Shaw family.
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The man who laughs
The man who laughs is the story of a child, Gwynplaine, mutilated in his early childhood to turn his face into the mask of laughter; that of his abandonment on the coast of Portland; that of his rescue and adoption by Ursus, philosopher and itinerant healer.
Middlemarch
En una ciudad provincial inglesa, las aspiraciones de Dorothea Brooke, Tertius Lydgate y quienes los rodean chocan con matrimonios, dinero, reputación y reformas. George Eliot compone un vasto retrato de vidas conectadas y decisiones con consecuencias inesperadas.
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Pepita Jiménez
The young seminarian Don Luis de Vargas returns to his hometown for a short holiday there before he pronounced his vows. He finds that his father, Don Pedro, is preparing to marry with the young 20-year-old Pepita Jiménez and widow of an octogenary. The contacts between the future priest and the young widow are new to the young man as he has spent his adolescence in the seminary, and little by little he feels his vocation thwarted.
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Ninety-three
Reflection on the time of the Terror - one of the most horrible periods of the French Revolution - through the confrontation between its protagonists.
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The adolescent
Dostoiévski's novels are based on a dramatically lived experience that the author is masterfully transformed into a fiction that is always a transpose of reality. This realism is the one that characterizes The Teen, a novel that has as its main protagonist a young Russian who admires or hates his father according to the contradictory influences he receives. The life of the teenager and an altarpiece of characters, wonderfully characterized by Dostoiévski, which shines around him, is creating a crescendo in the novel, which is what moves the reader not to leave the reading until the last page.
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Eight cousins
At the death of his father, Rosa is left alone and must go live with his guardian, Uncle Alec, and with his many aunts. He's weak, sick and sad in character. But among his happy uncle Alec, a single doctor who has been around the world, his new friend Phoebe and his many cousins, Rosa changes and develops a lovely personality.
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Rose in bloom
This novel is the continuation of Eight cousins, and describes how Rose Campbell finds her place in the world.
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Nana
When the voluptuous blonde Nana is on the stage of the Paris variety theater, everyone can feel it: it has no spark of talent. But that doesn't matter, because it has something else... Nana, the girl of the gutter, daughter of a lavender, with great sensual charms, rises to become the most quoted courtesan in Parisian society. She becomes the idol at whose feet men throw themselves. The bankers sacrifice all their fortune, the aristocrats their dignity, the young are killed for it. Nana, in her greed and unrestrained extravagance, walks unfathomable upon her, as beautiful as a swamp flower, symbol of an age that dies.
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Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Londres, siglo XIX: por las calles deambula un ser violento y oscuro, Mr. Hyde, quien comete crímenes atroces.
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The House of Ulloa
El joven sacerdote Julián llega a un pazo gallego dominado por la decadencia, la violencia y los intereses caciquiles. Emilia Pardo Bazán observa el choque entre civilización y mundo rural mediante un naturalismo de enorme fuerza.
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The black arrow
England is in a state of turmoil as the houses of York and Lancaster battle for control of the throne.
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Dorian Gray conserva su juventud mientras un retrato envejece y carga con las huellas de su corrupción moral. Wilde construye una novela sobre belleza, deseo, culpa y decadencia estética.
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Tess of the d'Urbervilles
It tells the story of a young woman who gets pregnant and suffers the consequences of the strict society to which she belongs.
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Phenicides
Phoenicias is a tragedy of Euripides dated around 410 a. C. The plot of the work is based on a part of the Tebano Cycle, and has a clear precedent in the tragedy of Esquilo The Seven against Tebas.
In Search of Lost Time
Ciclo novelístico sobre memoria, deseo, arte y tiempo, iniciado con el recuerdo provocado por una magdalena. Proust reconstruye una vida y una sociedad a partir de asociaciones íntimas, celos, salones, pérdidas y revelaciones estéticas.
Platero and I
Juan Ramón Jiménez comparte paseos, estaciones y escenas de Moguer con Platero, un pequeño burro plateado. La sencillez aparente de sus estampas reúne ternura, naturaleza y una profunda atención a la vida.
The Metamorphosis
Gregor Samsa despierta convertido en un insecto y su familia debe convivir con una transformación incomprensible. Kafka condensa alienación, culpa y deshumanización en una de las narraciones decisivas de la literatura moderna.
My Ántonia
Evocación de la vida de los inmigrantes en las praderas de Nebraska a través del recuerdo de Jim Burden y la figura luminosa de Ántonia Shimerda. Willa Cather construye una novela de memoria, arraigo y paisaje.
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The age of innocence
The return of the beautiful Countess Olenska into the rigdly conventional society of New York faces reverberations throughout the upper reaches of society.
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Farewell to arms
It tells a love story between the young and idealistic soldier named Frederick Henry with Nurse Catherine Barkley in First World War Italy. The novel is mostly autobiographical. Ernest Hemingway really was a volunteer ambulance driver in the Italian army, was injured in the legs and met a nurse with whom she lived a similar love story. This allowed him to use his memories to create a crude and realistic military account.
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Of mice and men
Two field workers in California during the Great Depression - George Milton, an intelligent but untrained man, and Lennie Small, a man of great stature and strength, but limited mental skills - are on their way to another part of California in Soledad. They expect one day to fulfill their shared dream of having their own lands and their own animals. The part of Lennie's dream is just to take care (and touch) soft rabbits on the farm. This dream is one of the stories
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Brideshead Revisited
Charles Ryder recuerda su fascinación por Sebastian Flyte y la aristocrática familia Marchmain, cuya mansión marcó su juventud. Evelyn Waugh retrata amistad, fe, clase social y pérdida en una Inglaterra que está desapareciendo.
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