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Las emociones de un padre ante la iniciación verbal de su hijo impulsan este libro repleto de hallazgos. Sus páginas exploran el enigma de los aprendizajes esenciales que jamás recordaremos: empezar a caminar, hablar, formar la identidad y organizar nuestra memoria. Construyendo un luminoso relato lírico, su voz rinde tributo a la primera infancia y a la lengua misma, fruto de un raro equilibrio entre enamoramiento y reflexión.

Tom, a foundling, is discovered one evening by the benevolent Squire Allworthy and his sister Bridget and brought up as a son in their household; when his sexual escapades and general misbehavior lead them to banish him, he sets out in search of both his fortune and his true identity. Amorous, high-spirited, and filled with what Fielding called “the glorious lust of doing good,” but with a tendency toward dissolution, Tom Jones is one of the first characters in English fiction whose human virtues and vices are realistically depicted. This edition is set from the text of the Wesleyan Edition of the Works of Henry Fielding.

“When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin.” With this startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first sentence, Franz Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis. It is the story of a young man who, transformed overnight into a giant beetlelike insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own home, a quintessentially alienated man. A harrowing—though absurdly comic—meditation on human feelings of inadequacy, guilt, and isolation, The Metamorphosis has taken its place as one of the most widely read and influential works of twentieth-century fiction.

Set against a changing Singapore, a sweeping novel about one boy’s unique gifts and the childhood love that will complicate the fate of his community and country Ah Boon is born into a fishing village amid the heat and beauty of twentieth-century coastal Singapore in the waning years of British rule. He is a gentle boy who is not much interested in fishing, preferring to spend his days playing with the neighbor girl, Siok Mei. But when he discovers he has the unique ability to locate bountiful, movable islands that no one else can find, he feels a new sense of obligation and possibility—something to offer the community and impress the spirited girl he has come to love. By the time they are teens, Ah Boon and Siok Mei are caught in the tragic sweep of history: the Japanese army invades, the resistance rises, grief intrudes, and the future of the fishing village is in jeopardy. As the nation hurtles toward rebirth, the two friends, newly empowered, must decide who they want to be, and what they are willing to give up.

Del sentimiento trágico de la vida es una de las obras cumbre de Miguel de Unamuno, quizá la de más calado filosófico de cuantas escribió. Publicada en 1913, desarrolla y analiza las opciones y respuestas existentes ante la tragedia mayor del ser humano: el miedo a la muerte. De aquí surge, en su intento por aunar razón y fe, el concepto de querer creer y la idea final de vivir y escribir conforme a ella… aunque sea a costa de lanzarse al ruedo de la opinión pública cual Don Quijote moderno. Más de cien años después de su publicación, y a pesar de los avances científicos y los sucesos históricos, el mensaje de Unamuno continúa alimentando nuestra alma y respondiendo a nuestros mayores dilemas.

Un mundo de fantasía en el que historia y magia se entrelazan de manera prodigiosa Por la autora de JONATHAN STRANGE Y EL SEÑOR NORRELL Tras las verdes colinas y los bosques silenciosos se ocultan confines misteriosos, más allá de los cuales la realidad se pliega en formas mágicas y llenas de peligros. Los protagonistas tienen que verselas con seres traviesos y maliciosos que se divierten alterando el sentido y el orden de las cosas. En estos ocho relatos, los magos y las hadas se entrometen en las vidas absolutamente anodinas de párrocos locales y princesas engreídas, así como en el destino de figuras históricas como María Estuardo, reina de Escocia, o el duque de Wellington.