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1st edition dustwrapper Chance is a novel by Joseph Conrad , published in 1913 following serial publication the previous year. Although the novel was not one upon which Conrad's later critical reputation was to depend, it was his greatest commercial success upon initial publication. [ citation needed ] Chance is narrated by Conrad's regular narrator , Charles Marlow , but is characterised by a complex, nested narrative in which different narrators take up the story at different points. The novel is also unusual among its author's works for its focus on a female character: the heroine, Flora de Barral. The narrators describe and attempt to interpret various episodes in the life of Miss de Barral, the daughter of a convicted swindler named Smith de Barral (though this character is famous in the world of the novel as a criminal, he may, at least at first, have been merely an incompetent banker).
Chance (novel)
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El hombre que confundió a su mujer con un sombrero, de Oliver Sacks Lo único que se necesita para leer este libro es curiosidad. Es una obra que podría estar escrita para médicos o profesionales de la salud y sin ningún atractivo para quienes estuviesen fuera de ese mundo. Sin embargo, sucede todo lo contrario. El hombre que confundió a su mujer con un sombrero es un libro atrapante y apto para todo público. Alrededor de veinte casos clínicos son abordados desde la visión del médico inglés Oliver Sacks.
El hombre que confundió a su mujer con un sombrero
Aura is a novel by Carlos Fuentes , first published in 1962 in Mexico. The first English translation by Lysander Kemp, was published in 1965 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux . [ 1 ] Felipe Montero is a young historian looking at the newspaper one day when he sees a job posting that catches his eye.
Aura (Fuentes)
Dead Poets Society is a 1989 American drama film directed by Peter Weir and starring Robin Williams . Set at the conservative and aristocratic Welton Academy in Vermont in 1959, [ 2 ] it tells the story of an English teacher who inspires his students through his teaching of poetry. The film was critically acclaimed and was nominated for many awards. The script was written by Tom Schulman , based on his life at the Montgomery Bell Academy in Nashville, Tennessee . Filming took place at St. Andrew's School in Middletown, Delaware .
Dead Poets Society
Ensayo sobre la ceguera
Ensayo sobre la ceguera (original en portugués , Ensaio sobre a cegueira ) es una novela publicada en 1995 del escritor portugués José Saramago , Premio Nobel de Literatura en 1998 . Es uno de sus libros más conocidos, junto con Todos los nombres y El Evangelio según Jesucristo . Saramago la definía como "la novela que plasmaba, criticaba y desenmascaraba a una sociedad podrida y desencajada".
Brave New World is a novel written in 1931 by Aldous Huxley and published in 1932. Set in London of AD 2540 (632 A.F. – "After Ford" – in the book), the novel anticipates developments in reproductive technology , sleep-learning , psychological manipulation and operant conditioning that combine to profoundly change society. Huxley answered this book with a reassessment in an essay, Brave New World Revisited (1958) and with his final work, a novel titled Island (1962).
Brave New World
War and Peace
War and Peace ( Pre-reform Russian : «Война и миръ», Voyna i mir ) is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy , first published in 1869. The work is epic in scale and is regarded as one of the most important works of world literature. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is considered Tolstoy's finest literary achievement, along with his other major prose work Anna Karenina (1873–1877). War and Peace delineates in graphic detail events surrounding the French invasion of Russia , and the impact of the Napoleonic era on Tsarist society, as seen through the eyes of five Russian aristocratic families. Portions of an earlier version of the novel, then known as The Year 1805 , [ 4 ] were serialized in the magazine The Russian Messenger between 1865 and 1867. The novel was first published in its entirety in 1869. [ 5 ] Newsweek in 2009 ranked it first in its list of the Top 100 Books .