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Collected Poems and Other Verse (Oxford World's Classics)

Collected Poems and Other Verse - $295

26 April, 2013 by rgonzalezr

Stéphane Mallarmé was the most radically innovative of nineteenth-century poets, and a key figure in Modernism. His writings, with their richly sensuous texture and air of slyly intangible mystery, perplexed or outraged many early readers; yet no writer has more profoundly influenced the course of modern poetry – in English as well as in French. This is the fullest collection of Mallarmé’s poetry ever published in English, and the only edition in any language that presents his Poésies in the last arrangement […]

Categories: Clásicos, Poesía • Tags: 2009, classics, Francés, French, Literature, Mallarme, modernism, Oxford, Poesía, Poetry

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Clarissa- or, The History of a Young Lady (Broadview Editions)

Clarissa: or, The History of a Young Lady – $525

23 March, 2013 by rgonzalezr

This classic novel tells the story, in letters, of the beautiful and virtuous Clarissa Harlowe’s pursuit by the brilliant, unscrupulous rake Robert Lovelace. The epistolary structure allows Richardson to create layered and fully realized characters, as well as an intriguing uncertainty about the reliability of the various “narrators.” Clarissa emerges as a heroine at once rational and passionate, self-sacrificing and defiant, and her story has gripped readers since the novel’s first publication in 1747-1748. This new abridgment is designed to […]

Categories: Clásicos • Tags: 2010, British, Broadview, classics, English, Samuel Richardson, UK

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The Book of Five Rings - $275

11 March, 2013 by rgonzalezr

This graphic novel version of The Book of Five Rings, the iconic book of confrontation and victory by the famed seventeenth-century duelist and undefeated samurai Miyamoto Musashi, illuminates this brilliant manifesto, which has long inspired martial artists and anyone interested in cultivating a strategic mind. With evocative drawings and a distilled but faithful text adapted by acclaimed manga writer Sean Michael Wilson, The Book of Five Rings comes alive both as a guide to swordsmanship and strategy, and as a view into Musashi’s […]

Categories: Artes Marciales, Clásicos, Filosofía, Novela Gráfica • Tags: 2012, artes marciales, Book of five rings, classics, Comic, eastern, Filosofia, Graphic novel, Japan, Japón, katana, Manga, martial arts, Musashi, novela grafica, Samurai, sean wilson, shambhala, Sword

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The Sagas of Icelanders – $350

21 January, 2013 by rgonzalezr

A unique body of medieval literature, the Sagas rank with the world’s greatest literary treasures–as epic as Homer, as deep in tragedy as Sophocles, as engagingly human as Shakespeare. Set around the turn of the last millennium, these stories depict with an astonishingly modern realism the lives and deeds of the Norse men and women who first settled Iceland and of their descendants, who ventured further west–to Greenland and, ultimately, the coast of North America itself.The 10 Sagas and seven […]

Categories: Clásicos, Mitología • Tags: 2001, classics, Deluxe Edition, History, Iceland, Norse, penguin, sagas, vikings, World literature

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Myths from Mesopotamia- Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others (Oxford World's Classics)

Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others – $255

21 January, 2013 by rgonzalezr

The ancient civilization of Mesopotamia thrived between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates over 4,000 years ago. The myths collected here, originally written in cuneiform on clay tablets, include parallels with the biblical stories of the Creation and the Flood, and the famous Epic of Gilgamesh, the tale of a man of great strength, whose heroic quest for immortality is dashed through one moment of weakness. Recent developments in Akkadian grammar and lexicography mean that this new translation–complete with notes, a […]

Categories: Clásicos, Mitología • Tags: 2009, Babylonia, classics, Mesopotamia, Myth, Oxford

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The Odyssey of Homer – $250

21 January, 2013 by rgonzalezr

The most eloquent translation of Homer’s epic chronicle of the Greek hero Odysseus and his arduous journey home after the Trojan War.

Categories: Clásicos • Tags: 2007, classics, greek, Harper Perennial, Homer, Lattimore, Odyssey

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Frankenstein: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) – $265

8 November, 2012 by rgonzalezr

A deluxe edition of Mary Shelley‘s haunting adventure about ambition and modernity run amok. Now a Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition with an introduction by Elizabeth Kostova and cover art by Ghost World creator Daniel Clowes, Mary Shelley’s timeless gothic novel presents the epic battle between man and monster at its greatest literary pitch. In trying to create life, the young student Victor Frankenstein unleashes forces beyond his control, setting into motion a long and tragic chain of events that brings Victor to […]

Categories: Clásicos, Novela Ficción • Tags: Deluxe Edition, Frankenstein, gothic novel, man and monster, Mary Shelley, Penguin classics

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Dracula- (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) [Deluxe Edition]

Dracula: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) – $275

8 November, 2012 by rgonzalezr

The vampire novel that started it all, Bram Stoker’s Dracula probes deeply into human identity, sanity, and the dark corners of Victorian sexuality and desire. When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula purchase a London house, he makes horrifying discoveries about his client. Soon afterward, disturbing incidents unfold in England—an unmanned ship is wrecked at Whitby, strange puncture marks appear on a young woman’s neck, and a lunatic asylum inmate raves about the imminent arrival of his “Master”—culminating in a […]

Categories: Clásicos, Novela Ficción • Tags: Bram Stalker, Deluxe, Deluxe Edition, Dracula, Penguin classics, Vampire

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The Master and Margarita – $240

7 November, 2012 by rgonzalezr

Mikhail Bulgakov‘s The Master and Margarita is Burgin/Tiernan O’Connor has given the most complete and accurate translation of this work. There is a commentary section at the end of the text, which is very helpful in understanding what influenced Bulgakov, and is especially helpful if the reader is not familiar with certain aspects of Soviet culture while the book was written (1930‘s). A timeless – an original, brilliant and beautiful novel.

Categories: Novela Ficción, Clásicos • Tags: Vintage, Bulgákov, 1930s, classics, Russian, Master and Margarita, Soviet

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The Tale of the Heike – $595

29 October, 2012 by rgonzalezr

A masterpiece of world literature; the samurai saga of pride, romance, and warfare of medieval Japan With a reflection on the fleeting nature of power and glory begins The Tale of the Heike, an epic from twelfth-century Japan. Comparable in stature to The Tale of Genji, The Tale of the Heike narrates with wit, energy, and compassion the stories of such unforgettable characters as the ruthless warlord Kiyomori, who dies still burning with such rage that water poured on him boils; Hotoke, the […]

Categories: Clásicos, Novela Ficción • Tags: 12th century, 2012, classics, Japan, Medieval, Royall Tyler, Samurai, viking

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The Graphic Canon, Vol. 2 – $445

16 October, 2012 by rgonzalezr

The Graphic Canon, Volume 2 gives us a visual cornucopia based on the wealth of literature from the 1800s. Several artists—including Maxon Crumb and Gris Grimly—present their versions of Edgar Allan Poe’s visions. The great American novel Huckleberry Finn is adapted uncensored for the first time, as Twain wrote it. The bad boys of Romanticism—Shelley, Keats, and Byron—are visualized here, and so are the Brontë sisters. We see both of Coleridge’s most famous poems: “Kubla Khan” and “The Rime of the Ancient […]

Categories: Antología, Clásicos, Novela Gráfica • Tags: Classic literature, classics, Comics, Graphic novel, Seven Stories Press

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The Graphic Canon, Vol. 1- From the Epic of Gilgamesh to Shakespeare to Dangerous Liaisons

The Graphic Canon, Vol. 1 – $445

16 October, 2012 by rgonzalezr

THE GRAPHIC CANON is a gorgeous, one-of-a-kind trilogy that brings classic literatures of the world together with legendary graphic artists and illustrators. There are more than 130 illustrators represented and 190 literary works over three volumes—many newly commissioned, some hard to find—reinterpreted here for readers and collectors of all ages. Volume 1 takes us on a visual tour from the earliest literature through the end of the 1700s. Along the way, we’re treated to eye-popping renditions of the human race’s greatest […]

Categories: Clásicos, Novela Gráfica • Tags: Classic literature, classics, Comics, Graphic canon, illustrators, Seven Stories Press, Shakespeare

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The Qur’an – $250

15 October, 2012 by rgonzalezr

One of the most influential books in the history of literature, recognized as the greatest literary masterpiece in Arabic, the Qur’an is the supreme authority and living source of all Islamic teaching, the sacred text that sets out the creed, rituals, ethics, and laws of Islam. Yet despite the growing interest in Islamic teachings and culture, there has never been a truly satisfactory English translation of the Qur’an, until now. This superb new translation of the Qur’an is written […]

Categories: Clásicos, Espiritualidad, Religión • Tags: Islam, Oxford classics, Oxford University Press, Qur'an

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The Dhammapada- The Sayings of the Buddha (Oxford World's Classics)

The Dhammapada: The Sayings of the Buddha – $200

14 October, 2012 by rgonzalezr

The Dhammapada, the Pali version of one of the most popular texts of the Buddhist canon, ranks among the classics of the world’s great religious literature. Like all religious texts in Pali, the Dhammapada belongs to the Therevâda school of the Buddhist tradition, adherents of which are now found primarily in Kampuchea, Laos, Sri Lanka, and Thailand. Dhammapada, or “sayings of the dhamma,” is taken to be a collection of the utterances of the Buddha himself. Taken together, the verses form […]

Categories: Budismo, Clásicos • Tags: Buddha, Buddhism, classics, Dhamma, Dhammapada, Oxford University Press

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The I Ching or Book of Changes – $450

24 September, 2012 by rgonzalezr

The I Ching, or Book of Changes, a common source for both Confucianist and Taoist philosophy, is one of the first efforts of the human mind to place itself within the universe. It has exerted a living influence in China for 3,000 years, and interest in it has been rapidly spreading in the West.

Categories: Clásicos, Cultura, Filosofía, Taoismo • Tags: Bollingen Series, Book of changes, I Ching, Jung, Oracle, Princeton University Press, taoism

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Category Archives: Clásicos

Collected Poems and Other Verse - $295

Clarissa: or, The History of a Young Lady – $525

The Book of Five Rings - $275

The Sagas of Icelanders – $350

Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others – $255

The Odyssey of Homer – $250

Frankenstein: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) – $265

Dracula: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) – $275

The Master and Margarita – $240

The Tale of the Heike – $595

The Graphic Canon, Vol. 2 – $445

The Graphic Canon, Vol. 1 – $445

The Qur’an – $250

The Dhammapada: The Sayings of the Buddha – $200

The I Ching or Book of Changes – $450

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