Wordsworth Editions Limited Leviathan | ofertas similares hoy

Brand: Wordsworth Editions Limited
EAN: 9781840226379
MPN: 9781840226379
Categoría: Libros y revistas

Libro: Dead Souls (978-1-84022-637-9) de Gogol, Nikolai (Wordsworth Editions Limited ) Comprar Libros de Literatura .Literatura en Inglés .. With an Introduction by Anthony Briggs. Translated by Isabel F. Hapgood. Russia in the 1840s. There is a stranger in town, and he is behaving oddly. The unctuous Pavel Chichikov goes around the local estates buying up 'dead souls'. These are the papers relating to serfs who have died since the last census, but who remain on the record and still attract a tax demand. Chichikov is willing to relieve their owners of the tax burden by buying the titles for a song. What he does not say is that he then proposes to take out a huge mortgage against these fictitious citizens and buy himself a nice estate in Eastern Russia. Will he get away with it? Who will rumble him? Does this narrative contain a deeper message about Russia itself or the spiritual health of humanity? There is much interest and some suspense in considering these issues, but the real pleasure of this story lies elsewhere. It is an enjoyable comic romp through a retarded part of a backward country, a picaresque series of grotesque portraits, situations and conversations described with Gogolian humour based mainly on hyperbole. This is, quite simply, the funniest book in the Russian language before the twentieth century. 0
Compara precios desde:
Wordsworth Editions Limited in Libros y revistas

Brand: Wordsworth Editions, Limited
EAN: 9781840227000
MPN: 9781840227000
Categoría: Libros y revistas

Libro: The Lurking Fear: Other Stories (978-1-84022-700-0) de Howard Phillips Lovecraft (Wordsworth Editions, Limited ) Comprar Libros de Literatura .Literatura en Inglés .. 'The thing came abruptly and unannounced; a demon, rat-like, scurrying from pits remote and unimaginable, a hellish panting and stifled grunting, and then from that opening beneath the chimney a burst of multitudinous and leprous life - a loathsome night-spawned flood of organic corruption more devastatingly hideous than the blackest conjurations of mortal madness and morbidity.' Only the expansive imagination of H.P. Lovecraft could conceive the delicious and spine-tingling horrors you will find within the pages of this unique collection. In addition to such classics as The Picture in the House, The Music of Erich Zann and The Rats in the Walls, this volume contains some fascinating rarities: examples of Lovecraft's earliest weird fiction and material unpublished during his lifetime. H.P. Lovecraft's creation of the Cthulhu Mythos has influenced many modern authors, and still remains at the forefront of supernatural literature. 0
Compara precios desde:
Wordsworth Editions, Limited in Libros y revistas

Brand: Wordsworth Editions, Limited
EAN: 9781840227338
MPN: 9781840227338
Categoría: Libros y revistas

Libro: Leviathan (978-1-84022-733-8) de Hobbes, Thomas (Wordsworth Editions, Limited ) Comprar Libros de Literatura .Literatura en Inglés .. With an Introduction by Dr Richard Serjeantson, Trinity College, Cambridge Since its first publication in 1651, Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan has been recognised as one of the most compelling, and most controversial, works of political philosophy written in English. Forged in the crucible of the civil and religious warfare of the mid-seventeenth century, it proposes a political theory that combines an unequivocal commitment to natural human liberty with the conviction that the sovereign power of government must be exercised absolutely. Leviathan begins from some shockingly naturalistic starting-points: an analysis of human nature as being motivated by vain-glory and pride, and a vision of religion as simply the fear of invisible powers made up by the mind. Yet from these deliberately unpromising elements, Hobbes constructs with unparalleled forcefulness an elaborate, systematic, and comprehensive account of how political society ought to be: ordered, law-bound, peaceful. In Leviathan, Hobbes presents us with a portrait of politics which depicts how a state that is made up of the unified body of all its citizens will be powerful, fruitful, protective of each of its members, and -- above all -- free from internal violence. 0
Compara precios desde:
Wordsworth Editions, Limited in Libros y revistas

Brand: Wordsworth Editions, Limited
EAN: 9781840226614
MPN: 9781840226614
Categoría: Libros y revistas

Libro: Finnegans Wake (978-1-84022-661-4) de Joyce, James (Wordsworth Editions, Limited ) Comprar Libros de Literatura .Literatura en Otros Idiomas .Novela y Narrativa en Inglés .. Finnegans Wake is the book of Here Comes Everybody and Anna Livia Plurabelle and their family - their book, but in a curious way the book of us all as well as all our books. Joyce's last great work, it is not comprised of many borrowed styles, like Ulysses , but, rather, formulated as one dense, tongue-twisting soundscape. This 'language' is based on English vocabulary and syntax but, at the same time, self-consciously designed to function as a pun machine with an astonishing capacity for resisting singularity of meaning. Announcing a 'revolution of the word', this astonishing book amounts to a powerfully resonant cultural critique - a unique kind of miscommunication which, far from stabilizing the world in meaning, constructs a universe radically unfixed by a wild diversity of possibilities and potentials. It also remains the most hilarious, 'obscene', book of innuendos ever to be imagined. 0
Compara precios desde:
Wordsworth Editions, Limited in Libros y revistas

Brand: Wordsworth Editions Limited
EAN: 9781840226423
MPN: 9781840226423
Categoría: Libros y revistas

Libro: The Horror in the Museum Other Stories, Volume 2 (978-1-84022-642-3) de Howard Phillips Lovecraft (Wordsworth Editions Limited ) Comprar Libros de Literatura .Literatura en Inglés .. With an Introduction by M.J. Elliott. 'My eyes, perversely shaken open, gazed for an instant upon a sight which no human creature could even imagine without panic, fear and physical exhaustion...' A wax museum in London boasts a new exhibit, which no man has seen and remained sane... A businessman is trapped in a train carriage with a madman who claims to have created a new and efficient method of capital punishment... A doctor plans a horrible revenge, using as his murder weapon an insect believed capable of consuming the human soul... Within these pages, some of H P Lovecraft's more obscure works of horror and science fiction can be found, including several fantastic tales from his celebrated Cthulhu Mythos. No true Lovecraft aficionado dare be without this volume. 0
Compara precios desde:
Wordsworth Editions Limited in Libros y revistas

Brand: Wordsworth Editions Limited
EAN: 9781840228106
MPN: 9781840228106
Categoría: Libros y revistas

Libro: Dubliners (Collector's Edition) (978-1-84022-810-6) de Joyce, James (Wordsworth Editions Limited ) Comprar Libros de Literatura .Literatura en Inglés .. Living overseas but writing, always, about his native city, Joyce made Dublin unforgettable. The stories in Dubliners show us truants, seducers, gossips, rally-drivers, generous hostesses, corrupt politicians, failing priests, amateur theologians, struggling musicians, moony adolescents, victims of domestic brutishness, sentimental aunts and poets, patriots earnest or cynical, and people striving to get by. In every sense an international figure, Joyce was faithful to his own country by seeing it unflinchingly and challenging every precedent and piety in Irish literature. 0
Compara precios desde:
Wordsworth Editions Limited in Libros y revistas

Brand: Wordsworth Editions Limited
EAN: 9781840228830
MPN: 9781840228830
Categoría: Libros y revistas

Libro: ANNE OF GREEN GABLES (HERITAGE COLLECTION) (978-1-84022-883-0) de Lucy Montgomery (Wordsworth Editions Limited ) Comprar Libros de Literatura .Literatura en Inglés .. Anne Shirley is an eleven-year-old orphan who has hung on determinedly to an optimistic spirit and a wildly creative imagination through her early deprivations. She erupts into the lives of aging brother and sister Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, a girl instead of the boy they had sent for. Thus begins a story of transformation for all three; indeed the whole rural community of Avonlea comes under Anne's influence in some way. We see her grow from a girl to a young woman of sixteen, making her mistakes, and not always learning from them. Intelligent, hot-headed as her own red hair, unwilling to take a moral truth as read until she works it out for herself, she must also face grief and loss and learn the true meaning of love. Part Tom Sawyer, part Jane Eyre, by the end of Anne of Green Gables, Anne has become the heroine of her own story. 0
Compara precios desde:
Wordsworth Editions Limited in Libros y revistas

Brand: Wordsworth Editions Limited
EAN: 9781840228458
MPN: 9781840228458
Categoría: Libros y revistas

Libro: Hamlet (Collector's Editions) (978-1-84022-845-8) de Shakespeare, William (Wordsworth Editions Limited ) Comprar Libros de Literatura .Literatura en Inglés .. Hamlet is not only one of Shakespeare's greatest plays, but also the most fascinatingly problematical tragedy in world literature. First performed around 1600, this a gripping and exuberant drama of revenge, rich in contrasts and conflicts. Its violence alternates with introspection, its melancholy with humour, and its subtlety with spectacle. The Prince, Hamlet himself, is depicted as a complex, divided, introspective character. His reflections on death, morality and the very status of human beings make him 'the first modern man'. Countless stage productions and numerous adaptations for the cinema and television have demonstrated the continuing cultural relevance of this vivid, enigmatic, profound and engrossing drama. 0
Compara precios desde:
Wordsworth Editions Limited in Libros y revistas

Brand: Wordsworth Editions Limited
EAN: 9781840226294
MPN: 9781840226294
Categoría: Libros y revistas

Libro: The House of the Dead/The Gambler (978-1-84022-629-4) de Dostoevski, Fiodor Mijalovich, Fyodor Dostoevsky (Wordsworth Editions Limited ) Comprar Libros de Literatura .Literatura en Inglés .. Translated by Constance Garnett with an introduction by Anthony Briggs. Dostoevsky's fascination for mental breakdown and violence (20 murders in his four main novels) was based on his own life, and these two unmistakably autobiographical works bear this out. The House of the Dead is fiction, but based on his four years in a Siberian prison. An educated upper-class man is condemned to live among criminals and brutal guards, with arbitrary punishments, lousy food, disgusting living conditions, hard toil and many floggings. Somehow he avoids bitterness and recrimination; faith in humanity survives. With its breadth of characterisation, acute sense of detail and strong narrative interest, this work can still shock, entertain and inspire. In The Gambler we see the Russian community in a German spa town. Drawn to the casino, Alexey becomes obsessed with roulette. In a gripping story, full of psychological interest, his growing mania eclipses even his interest in Polina, a heroine of demonic and vibrant sexuality. Dostoevsky himself was rescued from a similar gambling obsession by the young stenographer who took down this work at his dictation and married him soon afterwards. 0
Compara precios desde:
Wordsworth Editions Limited in Libros y revistas

Brand: Wordsworth Editions Limited
EAN: 9781840226997
MPN: 9781840226997
Categoría: Libros y revistas

Libro: Capital: Volumes One and Two (978-1-84022-699-7) de Marx, Karl (Wordsworth Editions Limited ) Comprar Libros de Literatura .Literatura en Inglés .. Few writers have had a more demonstrable impact on the development of the modern world than has Karl Marx (1818-1883). Born in Trier into a middle-class Jewish family in 1818, by the time of his death in London in 1883, Marx claimed a growing international reputation. Of central importance then and later was his book Das Kapital, or, as it is known to English readers, simply Capital. Volume One of Capital was published in Paris in 1867. This was the only volume published during Marx's lifetime and the only to have come directly from his pen. Volume Two, published in 1884, was based on notes Marx left, but written by his friend and collaborator, Friedrich Engels (1820-1895). Readers from the nineteenth century to the present have been captivated by the unmistakable power and urgency of this classic of world literature. Marx's critique of the capitalist system is rife with big themes: his theory of 'surplus value', his discussion of the exploitation of the working class, and his forecast of class conflict on a grand scale. Marx wrote with purpose. As he famously put it, 'Philosophers have previously tried to explain the world, our task is to change it.' 0
Compara precios desde:
Wordsworth Editions Limited in Libros y revistas

Brand: Wordsworth Editions, Limited
EAN: 9781840226249
MPN: 9781840226249
Categoría: Libros y revistas

Libro: The Mysterious Island (978-1-84022-624-9) de Verne, Jules, Jm Stendhal (Wordsworth Editions, Limited ) Comprar Libros de Literatura .Literatura en Otros Idiomas .Novela y Narrativa en Inglés .. With an Introduction by Alex Dolby. Translation by W.H.G. Kingston. Jules Verne (1828-1905) is internationally famous as the author of a distinctive series of adventure stories describing new travel technologies which opened up the world and provided means to escape from it. The collective enthusiasm of generations of readers of his 'extraordinary voyages' was a key factor in the rise of modern science fiction. In The Mysterious Island a group of men escape imprisonment during the American Civil War by stealing a balloon. Blown across the world, they are air-wrecked on a remote desert island. In a manner reminiscent of Robinson Crusoe, the men apply their scientific knowledge and technical skill to exploit the island's bountiful resources, eventually constructing a sophisticated society in miniature. The book is also an intriguing mystery story, for the island has a secret. 0
Compara precios desde:
Wordsworth Editions, Limited in Libros y revistas

Brand: Wordsworth Editions, Limited
EAN: 9781840228021
MPN: 9781840228021
Categoría: Libros y revistas

Libro: NINETEEN EIGHTY FOUR (978-1-84022-802-1) de George Orwell (Wordsworth Editions, Limited ) Comprar Libros de Literatura .Literatura en Inglés .. The Thought Police, Doublethink, Newspeak, Big Brother - '1984' itself: these terms have moved from the world of fiction into our everyday lives. They are central to our thinking about freedom and its suppression; yet they were created by George Orwell in 1949 as he conjured his dystopian vision of a world where totalitarian power is absolute. 0
Compara precios desde:
Wordsworth Editions, Limited in Libros y revistas

Brand: Wordsworth Editions Limited
EAN: 9781840227215
MPN: 9781840227215
Categoría: Libros y revistas

Libro: Henry IV, Part One (978-1-84022-721-5) de Shakespeare, William (Wordsworth Editions Limited ) Comprar Libros de Libros de Texto .Otros Libros de Texto .Idiomas .. Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. In Henry IV, Part 1, the King is in a doubly ironic position. His rebellion against Richard II was successful, but now he himself is beset by rebels, led by the charismatic Harry Hotspur. The King's son, Prince Hal, seems to be more concerned with the pleasures of the tavern world and the company of the fat rogue, Falstaff, than with concerns of state. Eventually, however, Hal proves a courageous foe of the rebels. This history play is lively in its interplay of political intrigue and boisterous comedy, subtle in the connections between high statecraft and low craftiness, exuberant in its range of vivid characters, and memorable in its thematic concern with honour, loyalty and the quest for power. In Henry IV, Part 2, the King is ailing, Falstaff is ageing, and the kingdom itself, where rebellion is still rife, seems diseased or debilitated. The comedy has a melancholy undertone, and the politics verge on the Machiavellian. Eventually, the resourceful Hal, inheriting the crown as Henry V, must prove that he can uphold justice in the realm. Here Shakespeare demonstrates a mastery of thematic complexity and subtlety, and shows the price in human terms that may be exacted by political success. 0
Compara precios desde:
Wordsworth Editions Limited in Libros y revistas