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Con la presente edición de su Teatro completo, que permite, por primera vez, la consulta de la edición facsimilar y dactilográfica, realizamos un extenso recorrido que se inicia con Los Topos y termina con La piedra cansada. En total son doce obras póstumas en las que las influencias de autores como Piscator, Eisenstein, Kirshon o Tairov van a ser decisivas a la hora de dar respuesta a una nueva concepción de los espacios escénicos, al igual que ya estaba operando desde su poesía ese «asalto al lenguaje», «el habla plural» que le convertiría en uno de los herederos de la universalidad.

El enfrentamiento entre el refinado y seductor Viejo Mundo, aunque cínico, corrupto y desgastado, y el vitalismo ingenuo pero basto de la riqueza del Nuevo Mundo fue uno de los temas recurrentes de Henry James. El contraste entre ambas culturas, la norteamericana y la europea, le proporcionó el material para novelas como Roderick Hudson (1875), El americano (1877), Los europeos (1878) y esta Daisy Miller (1878). La historia comienza con el encuentro de dos norteamericanos en un hotel de la rígida y puritana Ginebra: un diletante que parece no decidirse por nada, expatriado en Europa, y una espontánea, coqueta y rústica heredera en viaje "cultural" con su familia. Ambos se sienten atraídos pero el joven Winterbourne reprime su interés ante el prejuicio de sus parientes y amistades por pertenecer Daisy a "la clase de norteamericanos que tenemos el deber de no aceptar". Se da la voz de alarma entre el arribista círculo social de norteamericanos establecidos en Europa y, por su indecisión, Winterbourne es también arrastrado a la implacable respuesta de esta moral colectiva que rechaza a Daisy Miller.

How It Feels to Find Yourself pairs vibrant color palettes with thoughtful observations and guidance for navigating the most important relationship in our lives: the one we have with ourselves. Through illustrated charts, honest essays, and insightful questions for deeper reflection, Meera Lee Patel encourages us to sharpen our internal compasses—so we can discover our purpose, let go of what we’ve outgrown, and navigate challenging relationships with confidence. How It Feels to Find Yourself provides comfort for the difficult moments in life while serving as a source for deeper learning. It is a valuable gift for anyone who is facing uncertainty or entering a new chapter in life. Each page creates nostalgia for the places and experiences we’ve already encountered, while shining a hopeful light toward where we are headed next.

Together in one volume, here are a pair of literary touchstones from Truman Capote’s extraordinary early career: the transcendently popular novella Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Other Voices, Other Rooms, the debut novel he published as a twenty-three-year-old prodigy. Of all his characters, Capote once said, Holly Golightly was his favorite. The hillbilly-turned-Manhattanite at the center of Breakfast at Tiffany’s shares not only the author’s philosophy of freedom but also his fears and anxieties. For Holly, the cure is to jump into a taxi and head for Tiffany’s; nothing bad could happen, she believes, amid “that lovely smell of silver and alligator wallets.” Other Voices, Other Rooms begins as thirteen-year-old Joel Knox, after losing his mother, is sent from New Orleans to rural Alabama to live with his estranged father—who is nowhere to be found. Instead, Joel meets his eccentric family and finds a kindred spirit in a defiant little girl. Despite its themes of waylaid hopes and lost innocence, this semiautobiographical coming-of-age novel revels in small pleasures and the colorful language of its time and place.

The Portable Poe compiles Poe's greatest writings: tales of fantasy, terror, death, revenge, murder, and mystery, including "The Pit and the Pendulum," "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Cask of Amontillado," and "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," the world's first detective story. In addition, this volume offers letters, articles, criticism, visionary poetry, and a selection of random "opinions" on fancy and the imagination, music and poetry, intuition and sundry other topics.