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Cuánto quiero a las pobres palabras, que tan míseras están en lo diario: a ellas, las invisibles palabras. De mis fiestas les regalo colores: sonríen, y se ponen alegres lentamente.

"Huckleberry Finn" is set in Missouri in the 1830's and it is true to its time. The narrator is a 13 year old, semi-literate boy who refers to blacks by the N-word because he has never heard them called anything else. He's been brought up to see blacks as slaves, as property, as something less than human. He gets to know Jim on their flight to freedom (Jim escaping slavery and Huck escaping his drunken, abusive father), and is transformed. Huck realizes that Jim is just as human as he is, a loving father who misses his children, a warm, sensitive, generous, compassionate individual. Huck's epiphany arrives when he has to make a decision whether or not to rescue Jim when he is captured and held for return to slavery. In the culture he was born into, stealing a slave is the lowest of crimes and the perpetrator is condemned to eternal damnation. By his decision to risk hell to save Jim, he saves his own soul. Huck has risen above his upbringing to see Jim as a friend, a man, and a fellow human being.

Edgar Allan Poe remains the unsurpassed master of works of mystery and madness in this outstanding collection of Poe's prose and poetry are sixteen of his finest tales, including "The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Pit and the Pendulum," "William Wilson," "The Black Cat," "The Cask of Amontillado," and "Eleonora". Here too is a major selection of what Poe characterized as the passion of his life, his poems - "The Raven," "Annabel Lee," Ulalume," "Lenore," "The Bells," and more, plus his glorious prose poem "Silence - A Fable" and only full-length novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym.

La buena terrorista sigue los pasos de Alice Mellings, una mujer que transforma su casa en el cuartel general de un grupo de radicales de izquierdas que desearían colaborar con el IRA. Mientras Alice lucha por conciliar su ideología con su educación burguesa, sus compañeros encuentran retos inesperados en su activismo por el cambio social y contra el capitalismo. La visión ricamente matizada que aporta Doris Lessing al conflicto entre lo personal y lo político hace de La buena terrorista un retrato fascinante de la vida doméstica y la rebeldía. «Una novela magnífica, de un realismo dinámico y escrupuloso, absolutamente contemporánea." Tite Washington Post Book World

El libro de la Selva es uno de los relatos más conocidos y admirados, en gran parte, por las películas de Disney, que hemos visto una y mil veces. La historia de Mowgli, un bebé perdido en la selva que crece bajo el cuidado de una manada de lobos, ha conmocionado, divertido e inculcado valores a millones de personas desde su publicación. De hecho, esta obra se encuentra entre los libros más vendidos y recomendados de literatura clásica juvenil desde su publicación en 1894.