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La mítica última obra del premio Nobel de Literatura Ernest Hemingway, "el novelista norteamericano más importante del siglo XX" (William Faulkner). "Tal vez en ningún otro escritor moderno la proeza física, el coraje, la fuerza bruta y el espíritu de destrucción alcanzan una dignidad parecida." Mario Vargas Llosa "Si tienes la suerte de haber vivido de joven en París, la recordarás el resto de tu vida, vayas a donde vayas, porque París es una fiesta." Ernest Hemingway Publicado póstumamente en 1964, París era una fiesta es el libro más personal y revelador de Hemingway, quien, ya en el crepúsculo de su vida, narra aquí los dorados, salvajes y fructíferos años de su juventud en el París de los años veinte, en compañía de escritores como Scott Fitzgerald o Ezra Pound, la llamada "generación perdida". Crónica de la formación de un joven escritor, retrato de una ciudad perdida, oda a la amistad y verdadero testamento literario, esta es una de las obras capitales para entender el siglo XX, así como el universo y la personalidad de uno de sus más grandes creadores. Un clásico atemporal que Lumen recupera ahora con una nueva traducción de Miguel Temprano.

The Picture of Dorian Gray is Oscar Wilde's enduringly popular story of a beautiful and corrupt man and the portrait that reveals all his secrets. Entranced by the perfection of his recently painted portrait, the youthful Dorian Gray expresses a wish that the figure on the canvas could age and change in his place. When his wish comes true, the portrait becomes his hideous secret as he follows a downward trajectory of decadence and cruelty that leaves its traces only in the portrait's degraded image. Wilde's unforgettable portrayal of a Faustian bargain and its consequences is narrated with his characteristic incisive wit and diamond-sharp prose. The result is a novel that is as flamboyant and controversial as its incomparable author.

No novel in English has given more pleasure than Pride and Prejudice. Because it is one of the great works in our literature, critics in every generation reexamine and reinterpret it. But the rest of us simply fall in love with it--and with its wonderfully charming and intelligent heroine, Elizabeth Bennet. We are captivated not only by the novel's romantic suspense but also by the fascinations of the world we visit in its pages. The life of the English country gentry at the turn of the nineteenth century is made as real to us as our own, not only by Jane Austen's wit and feeling but by her subtle observation of the way people behave in society and how we are true or treacherous to each other and ourselves.