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A dark and epic feminist retelling that boldly reclaims the myth of the most formidable and feared witch in Ancient Greece. Shunned. Persecuted. Tormented. Medea longs for a different life. Since childhood, she has been separated from her sister, shunned by her mother, and persecuted and tormented by her brother and father. All because of a unique and dangerous talent: witchcraft. Fierce. Powerful. Sorceress. But when a dashing young hero, Jason, arrives to claim the famed Golden Fleece that her father protects, Medea sees her opportunity to escape. Her offer to help Jason overcome the trials set by her father sets in motion a journey that will test every ounce of her strength, magic and loyalty, a journey that will see her battle monsters, dethrone kings and fall in love. When faced with the ultimate betrayal, Medea is driven to an act of desperation so brutal it rips apart the lives of everyone involved...
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El maravilloso mago de Oz es la quintaesencia del cuento estadounidense. Poco sospechaban la pequeña Dorothy y Totó, cuando emprendieron el camino por el sendero de adoquines amarillos, que su aventura se convertiría en un fenómeno que cautivaría la imaginación de grandes y pequeños de todo el mundo durante el pasado siglo xx. Michael Patrick Hearn, el mayor experto del mundo en el universo de Oz, nos ofrece una nueva y fascinante edición anotada que no sólo vuelve a acercar al lector al leñador de hojalata, al espantapájaros y al león cobardica, sino que además ilustra el variopinto contexto de este tesoro de la literatura clásica estadounidense. La presente edición anotada de El mago de Oz proporcionará a cualquiera el puro placer de leer el cuento original reproducido con exactitud según la primera edición de 1900. Este gran trabajo de Hearn, basado en más de treinta años de entregada investigación, se zambulle en una gran abundancia de referencias contemporáneas a Oz, descubre fascinantes fuentes de los personajes y sigue la pista de innumerables interpretaciones críticas del texto. Junto con las ilustraciones recogidas de numerosas fuentes, entre las que se encuentran algunas que se publican aquí por primera vez, Hearn reproduce los dibujos originales de W. W. Denslow. Además, describe la azarosa vida y carrera de L. Frank Baum, con una bibliografía concluyente de la vasta producción publicada e inédita de Baum. Hearn nos ofrece además una apasionante historia de la fascinación cultural de los Estados Unidos por Oz: desde el entrañable libro infantil hasta la famosa película de la Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, de 1939, y el éxito aplastante del musical The Wiz en Broadway de 1975, inspirado en el clásico cuento. Saca a la luz nuevos detalles sorprendentes e insólitos para documentar la controversia que rodeó al libro y que concluyó con su prohibición en muchos colegios y bibliotecas públicas durante gran parte del siglo xx. Ningún otro libro infantil de Estados Unidos ha alcanzado tanto renombre y ha levantado tanta polémica al mismo tiempo como El mago de Oz, siendo uno de los libros más vendidos desde el momento de su publicación hasta nuestros días.
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The new novel from the author of One Moment, perfect for fans of One Day by David Nicholls and Impossible by Sarah Lotz.'Grips your emotions from the very first page ... a love story not to miss' Holly Miller.What if your soulmate could only ever be the love of your afterlife?The first time Emery's heart stops, she is only five years old...Emery is born with a heart condition that means her heart could quite literally stop at any moment. The people around her know what to do - if they act quickly enough there will be no lasting damage, and Emery's heart can be restarted. But when this happens, she is briefly technically dead.Each time Emery's heart stops, she meets Nick. His purpose is to help people adjust to the fact that they are dead, to help them say goodbye, before they move on entirely. He does not usually meet people more than once - but with Emery, he is able to make a connection, and he finds himself drawn to her.As Emery's life progresses, and she goes through ups and downs, she finds that a part of her is longing for those moments when her heart will stop - so that she can see Nick again.This is the story of two fated lovers who long for each other, but are destined never to share more than a few fleeting moments - because if they were to be together, it would mean the end of Emery's life.
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La novela Lo que hizo Dídimus es una aguda sátira, impregnada de humor, que gira alrededor de una figura de resonancias bíblicas, Tom Strawn, un jardinero joven e ignorante ''elegido'' por Ellos para terminar con las guerras, curar enfermos, socorrer a los menesterosos y establecer una nueva civilización alejada de cualquier clase de materialismo. Sin embargo la Humanidad, lejos de estarle agradecido, acaba envolviéndole en un huracán en el que el egoísmo, la mezquindad, la envidia y la diversidad de intereses, a menudo contrapuestos, agrietan los cimientos de su inesperado apostolado hasta destruirlo.
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Botchan is a modern young man from the Tokyo metropolis, sent to the ultra-traditional Matsuyama district as a Maths teacher after his the death of his parents. Cynical, rebellious and immature, Botchan finds himself facing several tests, from the pupils - prone to playing tricks on their new, naïve teacher, the staff - vain, immoral, and in danger of becoming a bad influence on Botchan, and from his own as-yet-unformed nature, as he finds his place in the world. One of the most popular novels in Japan where it is considered a classic of adolescence, as seminal as The Catcher in the Rye, Botchan is as funny, poignant and memorable as it was when first published, over 100 years ago.
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Initially composed by Poe as a public lecture towards the end of his career and considered by him the culmination of all his life’s work, Eureka is an extended treatise about the creation, existence and the ultimate end of the world. An idiosyncratic blend of creative writing and scientific discourse, with unexpected forays into comedy and wordplay, this self-styled “prose poem” is a genre-defying masterpiece.Although it baffled the reading public of its time, Eureka found many prominent admirers, from Charles Baudelaire to W.H. Auden, and has since assembled an audience receptive to its unique appeal as a compendium of European thought that anticipated many current theories and discoveries while also pioneering many elements of science-fiction aesthetics.
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En la gran tradición de la novela europea, El caso Tuláyev es la comedia humana de un estado policial, con la sensación de urgencia y amenaza que se cierne sobre la capital moscovita sitiada por el invierno, donde el inocente confiesa su culpa y el castigo cae sobre él, y en la que la explicación de los hechos se da no como una fórmula histórica, sino con toda la crudeza de su verdad. Una fría noche de invierno, el camarada Tuláyev, alto cargo del gobierno, muere tiroteado en la calle. Comienza entonces la búsqueda del asesino. Desde la perspectiva panorámica del Gran Terror Soviético, la investigación abarca el mundo entero y tiende sus redes sobre una serie de sospechosos cuya única conexión es su inocencia, al menos en el crimen que se les imputa. El caso Tuláyev, sin duda la mejor obra de ficción jamás escrita sobre las purgas estalinistas, no solo es la historia de un Estado totalitario. Marcada por la profunda humanidad y el espíritu generoso de su autor, el exiliado y legendario anarquista Victor Serge, es también un clásico relato del siglo XX lleno de peligros, aventuras y nobleza inesperada.
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Beautifully produced with gilt edges, a ribbon marker, illustrated cover and real cloth binding, every Macmillan Collector’s Library hardcover adheres to the same high production values.
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When The Unbearable Lightness of Being was first published in English, it was hailed as ''a work of the boldest mastery, originality, and richness'' by critic Elizabeth Hardwick and named one of the best books of 1984 by the New York Times Book Review. It went on to win the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction and quickly became an international bestseller. Twenty years later, the novel has established itself as a modern classic.A young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing, one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover—these are the two couples whose story is told in this masterful novel.Controlled by day, Tereza's jealousy awakens by night, transformed into ineffably sad death-dreams, while Tomas, a successful surgeon, alternates loving devotion to the dependent Tereza with the ardent pursuit of other women. Sabina, an independent, free-spirited artist, lives her life as a series of betrayals -- of parents, husband, country, love itself -- whereas her lover, the intellectual Franz, loses all because of his earnest goodness and fidelity.
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One of Twain's most celebrated novellas, The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg is a satirical retelling of the Garden of Eden story in the Bible, in which the author, mocking the supposed honesty and incorruptibility of the inhabitants of an imaginary American town, shows how man is fundamentally bad and cannot resist the temptations of gold. This collection also includes another acclaimed novella, ''A Double-Barrelled Detective Story'', a spoof of the mystery genre featuring Sherlock Holmes in the American West, as well as lesser-known narratives such as ''The Belated Russian Passport'' and ''The Death Disk''. Together, these tales are a testament to Twain's inexhaustible gift for invention and his skills as a storyteller...
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In the somnolent Flemish town of Quiquendone disagreements are unheard of, courtships might last a decade and not a ripple of activity can be seen at all. But when the mysterious Dr Ox is tasked with providing lighting for the town, strange things begin to happen: animals become aggressive, fruits grow huge in size, plants climb more vigorously and tempers flare up, leading the once phlegmatic townsfolk to bitter confrontations and pushing them to the brink of all-out violence.Verne, the acclaimed author of immortal tales of adventure and early science fiction, can be seen here in a different light, regaling readers of all ages with a light-hearted satire that, in its warnings about the dangers of scientific experimentation, has a clear and troubling resonance with our times.
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First published in 1922, and modelled on Homer's ''Odyssey'', this is Joyce's account of one day in 1904 in the life of Dublin. It is an earthy story which focuses on the humble Lionel Bloom and his sensuous wife, Molly.
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Second-hand Time is the latest work from Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature. In this book she creates a singular, polyphonic literary form by bringing together the voices of dozens of witnesses to the collapse of the USSR in a brilliant, poignant and unique portrait of post-Soviet society.
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A stunningly ambitious and entertaining novel that gives us a counter-factual history of the modern world, from the author of the international bestseller HHhH.
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Joseph Conrad despliega en Un puesto avanzado del progreso toda la potencia de la ironía para llevar al lector de la sonrisa al horror. Sus protagonistas, Kayerts y Carlier, son una de las parejas más cómicas, patéticas y mejor logradas de la literatura, una genial condensación de la estupidez, la prepotencia y la indefensión de las que nuestra especie sigue dando tan conspicuas muestras en pleno siglo XXI. Abandonados en plena selva como agentes de una gran compañía comercial, tardarán algún tiempo en descubrir —pues son estúpidos— quién manda realmente y quiénes son las verdaderas víctimas del progreso y de la civilización. Un puesto avanzado del progreso es una vigorosa denuncia del colonialismo y de su hipocresía filantrópica, una lúcida indagación acerca de la imperfección del lenguaje humano y un doloroso reconocimiento de la esterilidad de nuestros afanes.
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George Orwell's famous Nineteen Eighty-Four was first published in 1949. This terrifying dystopia, which he created in a time of great social and political unrest, remains acutely relevant and influential to this day.
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BOOKER PRIZE NOMINEE GMA BUZZ PICK A dazzling story of modern Nigeria and two families caught in the riptides of wealth, power, romantic obsession, and political corruption from the celebrated author of Stay with Me, ''in the lineage of great works by Chinua Achebe and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie'' (The New York Times).
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Jonathan is twenty years old, gay, and full of life. He's set out to escape the insignificance of his suburban home, to give himself instead and forever to the real city, Milan, where he hopes also to find love. But when Jonathan finds love in all its messy, complicated, sexy reality, it is not enough. He has escaped the place and people of his childhood, but can he escape the man raised by those people and in that place, the man he has grown up to be?
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America is seen through the eyes and ambitions of three characters with ties to Africa in this gripping novelWhen siblings Jacob and Belinda Nti were growing up in Ghana, their goal was to move to America. For them, the United States was both an opportunity and a struggle, a goal and an obstacle.Jacob, an awkward computer programmer who still lives with his father, wants a visa so he can move to Virginia to live with his wife—a request that the U.S. government has repeatedly denied. He envies his sister, Belinda, who achieved, as their father put it, “what Napoleon could not do”: she went to college and law school in the United States and even managed to marry Wilder, a wealthy Black businessman from Texas. Wilder’s view of America differs markedly from his wife’s, as he’s spent his life railing against the racism and marginalization that are part of life for every African American living here.For these three, their desires and ambitions highlight the promise and the disappointment that life in a new country offers. How each character comes to understand this and how each learns from both their dashed hopes and their fulfilled dreams lie at the heart of what makes What Napoleon Could Not Do such a compelling, insightful read.
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Are the parents always to blame?Rachel Jensen has it all: a husband she adores, fulfilling work in art restoration, a terrific teenage daughter and finally a new baby on the way. So when she worries about mysterious changes in her daughter Kate's behaviour, friends reassure her it's just normal teen angst.But then a terrifying accident involving Kate and her infant brother sets off a series of events that threaten to destroy everything Rachel has worked so hard to build.From the beloved author of SIGNAL FIRES and BLACK & WHITE, FAMILY HISTORY is a visceral, ferociously paced novel about one mothers nightmarish realisation that she cannot protect her own child.
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