Guy Mannering or The Astrologer is a novel by Sir Walter Scott, published anonymously in 1815. According to an introduction that Scott wrote in 1829, he had originally intended to write a story of the supernatural, but changed his mind soon after...
Vladimir Nabokov no podía escribir una autobiografía corriente, y Habla, memoria lo demuestra. A través de una serie de relatos largos, Nabokov, con el pretexto de contar su vida, construye un libro tan ameno, original, divertido y estilizado...
The dehumanizing effects of heavy industrialization are given form and bitter indictment in this Dickens novel. Raised by a hard, pragmatic father concerned only with sterile principles, Tom and Louisa Gradgrind grow up with little imagination,...