The Collins Complete Works of Oscar Wilde is the only truly complete and authoritative single-volume edition of Oscar Wilde’s works. Continuously in print since 1948, the Collins Complete Works of Oscar Wilde has long been recognised as the most comprehensive and authoritative single-volume collection of Wilde’s texts available, containing his only novel, The Portrait of Dorian Gray, as well as his plays, stories, poems, essays and letters, all in their most authoritative texts. Also included is a comprehensive bibliography of works by and about Oscar Wilde, and a chronological table of his life and work. Views: 25
Confined to a private edition for decades, a forthcoming Cummings volume sheds further light on his prodigious vision and imagination.Formally fractured and yet gleefully alive and whole, E. E. Cummings's groundbreaking modernist poetry expanded the boundaries of language. In A Miscellany, originally released in a limited run in 1958, Cummings lent his delightfully original voice to "a cluster of epigrams," forty-nine essays, a poem, and three speeches from an unfinished play. Seven years later, George J. Firmage— editor of much of Cummings's work, including Complete Poems— broadened the scope of this idiosyncratic collection of Cummings's work, adding seven more poems and essays, and many of Cummings's unpublished line drawings.Together, these pieces paint a distinctive portrait of Cummings's eccentric, yet precise, genius. His essays explore everything from Cubism to the circus, equally quick to analyze his poetic contemporaries and satirize New... Views: 25
A nineteenth-century appeal to maintain a decent standard of food for sailors, to care for the sick, and to prevent the frequency of flogging in the United States Navy. Views: 25
Es un libro bello, largo y complejo. Consta de cinco partes que tienen ritmos y temas diferentes, pero que armonizan y convergen para conformar un todo inmenso, un relato multifacético que presenta la realidad social y la realidad individual en el siglo XX y el enigmático comienzo del XXI. Podría decirse que el protagonista es un escritor alemán que tiene un proceso de desarrollo singularísimo, dramático y cómico a la vez, que, careciendo de educación y capacidades comunicativas, escribe por puro talento y debe ocultar su identidad para protegerse del caos del nazismo, mientras que sus críticos lo buscan sin éxito por todo el mundo, todo lo cual conforma un relato que mantiene al lector en suspenso, de sorpresa en sorpresa. Pero eso no sería exacto. También podría decirse, y tal vez sería más cierto, que el protagonista de la novela es la maldad misma y la sinrazón del ser humano en el siglo XX, desde el noroeste de México hasta Europa Oriental, desde la vida liviana de unos críticos de literatura hasta las masacres de una aristocracia mafiosa en los pueblos del tercer mundo, pasando por la Segunda Guerra Mundial, el mundo del periodismo, el deporte (boxeo), la descomposición familiar y los establecimientos siquiátricos. El singular escritor alemán encarna, tal vez, la bondad y la autenticidad que resplandecen en medio de tanta maldad. Cada una de las cinco partes es una pequeña novela. Una serie de estupendos personajes secundarios dan vida a cinco cuentos que se entrelazan de forma insospechada. No obstante, es el conjunto el que presenta el cuadro fabuloso que el autor quiere comunicar. El estilo es sobrio, preciso, estricto, bello. El suspenso mantiene el interés del lector. Un verdadero ejemplo de literatura. Views: 25
Product DescriptionIn the Oresteia -- the only trilogy in Greek drama that survives from antiquity -- Aeschylus took as his subject the bloody chain of murder and revenge within the royal family of Argos. As they move from darkness to light, from rage to self-governance, from primitive ritual to civilized institution, their spirit of struggle and regeneration becomes an everlasting song of celebration. Views: 25
Celebrated as a novelist of breathtaking historical range and depth, Adam Thorpe is also an accomplished and celebrated writer of short fiction, and the stories collected here show his deftness with character, his enormous versatility of voice.In the title story, an expectant first-time novelist meets the publisher who has asked him to lunch, only to find himself drawn, unwittingly and inexorably, into a terrible personal tragedy. In 'The Concert Interval' Rob, an orchestral tympanist, sees his life crumble over the half-time coffee and sandwiches. In 'Heavy Shopping' a business executive is called in the middle of an important conference in Scotland with the news that his wife has given birth prematurely; his inability to cope with the resulting divided loyalties, and the way he deals with his own passive indecisiveness, reveals the terrifying emotional vacuum in his life.Exquisitely written, these stories breathe life into their characters,... Views: 25
