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  • The Decameron

    de Giovanni Boccaccio, G. H. McWilliam ...
    Traducido por G. H. McWilliam ...
    In the summer of 1348, as the Black Death ravages their city, ten young Florentines take refuge in the countryside...Taken from the Greek, meaning 'ten-day event', Boccaccio's Decameron sees his characters amuse themselves by each telling a story a day, for the ten days of their confinement - a hundred stories of love and adventure, life and death, and surprising twists of fate. Less preoccupied ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibros

    Disponible también en: Audiolibros

  • Cavalleria Rusticana and Other Stories

    de Giovanni Verga ...
    Traducido por G. H. McWilliam ...
    The stories of Giovanni Verga (1840-1922) are wonderful evocations of ordinary Italian life, focusing in particular on his native Sicily. In an original and dynamic prose style, he portrays such eternal human themes as love, honour and adultery with rich and colourful language. The inspiration for Mascagni's opera, 'Cavalleria Rusticana' depicts a young man's triumphal return home from the army, ... Leer más

    $14.29 USD

  • The Eaten Heart

    Unlikely Tales of Love

    de Giovanni Boccaccio ...
    Traducido por G. H. McWilliam ...
    Series series Penguin Great Loves
    Ten young Florentines take refuge in the countryside from the Black Death and tell stories to pass the time. From the unfaithful wife who unwittingly eats her lover’s heart to the sly peasant plotting to seduce a whole nunnery, these are tales of lust, adventure and unexpected twists of fate.United by the theme of love, the writings in the Great Loves series span over two thousand years and vastly ... Leer más

    $6.09 USD

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  • The Canterbury Tales

    de Geoffrey Chaucer ...
    At the Tabard Inn in Southwark, a jovial group of pilgrims assembles, including an unscrupulous Pardoner, a noble-minded Knight, a ribald Miller, the lusty Wife of Bath, and Chaucer himself. As they set out on their journey towards the shrine of Thomas a Becket in Canterbury, each character agrees to tell a tale. The twenty-four tales that follow are by turns learned, fantastic, pious, melancholy ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibros

    Disponible también en: Audiolibros

  • Gargantua and Pantagruel

    de Francois Rabelais, M. A. Screech ...
    Traducido por M. A. Screech ...
    The dazzling and exuberant moral stories of Rabelais (c. 1471-1553) expose human follies with their mischievous and often obscene humour, while intertwining the realistic with carnivalesque fantasy to make us look afresh at the world. Gargantua depicts a young giant, reduced to laughable insanity by an education at the hands of paternal ignorance, old crones and syphilitic professors, who is ... Leer más

    $18.79 USD

  • Metamorphoses

    de Ovid ...
    Traducido por David Raeburn ...
    'Still remarkably vivid. It is easier to read this for pure pleasure than just about any other ancient text' Nicholas Lezard, GuardianOvid's sensuous and witty poem begins with the creation of the world and brings together a dazzling array of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by the idea of transformation - often as a result of love or lust - where men and women find themselves magically ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

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    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Gravity's Rainbow

    de Thomas Pynchon ...
    **Winner of the National Book Award"The most profound and accomplished American novel since the end of World War II." —The New Republic**“A screaming comes across the sky. . .” A few months after the Germans’ secret V-2 rocket bombs begin falling on London, British Intelligence discovers that a map of the city pinpointing the sexual conquests of one Lieutenant Tyrone Slothrop, U.S. Army, ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

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    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • The Divine Comedy

    Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso

    Traducido por Robin Kirkpatrick ...
    de Dante Alighieri ...
    Robin Kirkpatrick's masterful verse translation of The Divine Comedy, published in a single volume, is the ideal edition for students as well as the general reader coming to this great masterpiece of Italian literature for the first timeThe Divine Comedy describes Dante's descent into Hell with Virgil as a guide; his ascent of Mount Purgatory and encounter with his dead love, Beatrice; and finally ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • The Aeneid

    de Virgil ...
    Traducido por Robert Fitzgerald ...
    Series series Vintage Classics
    "Fitzgerald's [translation] is so decisively the best modern Aeneid that it is unthinkable that anyone will want to use any other version for a long time to come." —New York Review of BooksVirgil's great epic transforms the Homeric tradition into a triumphal statement of the Roman civilizing mission—translated by Robert Fitzgerald. ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibros

    Disponible también en: Audiolibros

  • The Aeneid

    de Virgil ...
    Traducido por David West ...
    'The most truthful translation ever, conveying as many nuances and whispers as are possible from the original' The TimesAfter a century of civil strife in Rome and Italy, Virgil wrote the Aeneid to honour the emperor Augustus by praising his legendary ancestor Aeneas. As a patriotic epic imitating Homer, the Aeneid also set out to provide Rome with a literature equal to that of Greece. It tells of ... Leer más

    $12.59 USD

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    Disponible también en: Audiolibros

  • The Story of the Stone (Volume I)

    de Cao Xueqin ...
    Traducido por John Minford ...
    Series Libro 1 - The Story of the Stone
    The Story of the Stone (c.1760) is one of the greatest novels of Chinese literature. The first part of the story, The Golden Days, begins the tale of Bao-yu, a gentle young boy who prefers girls to Confucian studies, and his two cousins: Bao-chai, his parents' choice of a wife for him, and the ethereal beauty Dai-yu. Through the changing fortunes of the Jia family, this rich, magical work sets ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • The Consolation of Philosophy

    de Anicius Boethius ...
    Boethius was an eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, and an exceptional Greek scholar. When he became involved in a conspiracy and was imprisoned in Pavia, it was to the Greek philosophers that he turned. THE CONSOLATION was written in the period leading up to his brutal execution. It is a dialogue of alternating prose and verse between the ailing prisoner and his 'nurse' ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD