Libros de Literatura en otros idiomas, página 465 de 7614

A Onze Nadals i un Cap d'Any, publicat el 1960, J. V. Foix aplega els poemes que envia als amics com a present de Nadal des de 1948 a 1958 i en el cap d'any de 1960. En les nadales originals cadascun dels dotze poemes anava acompanyat d'una il·lustracio feta per a l'ocasio per amics de Foix, artistes d'indubtable prestigi: Dali, Mompou, Ponç, Guinovart, Obiols, Cuixart, Tapies, Mercader, Sunyer, Gali, Fenosa i Miro. Els seus noms donen compte de l'alta volada i el rigor que el poeta volgue donar a a questes mostres d'amistat i mostren l'amplitud del seu ventall estetic, sempre atent a la contemporane%EFtat. En aquesta edicio es publiquen per primera vegada els poemes amb les il·lustracions que els acompanyaven en la nadala original. L'edicio ve ac ompanyada d'un CD amb les interpretacions musicals d'aquests dotze poemes; unes composicions que, com els textos, reinterpreten la tradicio amb llenguatge d'avui.

A tense, taut, standalone thriller by the Number One bestselling Jeffery Deaver THE BODIES LEFT BEHIND is both a cat-and-mouse chase that takes place over only 24 hours and a harrowing look at the consequences of heartless evil. A spring night in a small town in Wisconsin. A call to police from a distant lake house is cut short - a glitch or an aborted report of a crime? Off-duty deputy Anna McCafferty drives to find out. She stumbles onto the scene of a heinous murder. Before she can call for backup, though, she finds herself the next potential victim.

Ponce Morris is a beautiful, rich widow whos known as "the spare wife" because shes the perfect companion to the wealthy, powerful, New York couples in her elite social circle. She throws elegant dinner parties, goes to sports events with the husbands, and shops with the wives.Ponce Morris es una bella y acaudalada viuda conocida como "The Spare Wife" pues resulta la compañia perfecta para las parejas mas acomodadas y poderosas de Nueva York, que se hallan en su circulo social de elite. Ella suele celebrar elegantes veladas, acudir a los acontecimientos deportivos con los maridos, y salir de compras con las mujeres.

On 13 September 2007, Robert Peston broke the news that Northern Rock had become a victim of the global credit crunch and was seeking an emergency loan from the Bank of England. It was the latest in a long line of scoops by this award-winning journalist. Over the weeks that followed, the Government found itself exposed to the Rock to the tune of 57 billion, or almost GBP2000 for every taxpayer. As Robert Peston shows in his fascinating new book, the seeds for the collapse of Northern Rock and the upheavals in the financial markets were sown years before. WHO RUNS BRITAIN? is the first time anyone has drawn all the threads together to weave a story that's rich in extraordinary characters and outrageous feats of economic bravado. This book is about the widening gap between the super-rich and the rest of us. It explores and explodes the myth that the financial creativity of those who are amassing these vast fortunes is good for the wider economy and for all of us. Whether you're a financial expert or just have a bank account, WHO RUNS BRITAIN? is a book you must read.

Breathlessly paced and featuring one of the most intriguing heroes in recent fiction, The Accident Man surprises at every turn. For a certain sum of money, Samuel Carver will arrange a death. But when a job in a Paris tunnel goes wrong, Carver must execute his most daring feat yet.

John Donne (1572-1631) is perhaps the most important poet of the seventeenth century, and has often been referred to as the founder of the metaphysical genre. His poetry is highly distinctive and individual, adopting a multitude of tones, images, forms, and personae. This collection of Donne''s verse includes a wide selection from both his secular and divine poems, including such well-known poems as ''Air and Angels,'' ''The Flea,'' the ''Holy Sonnets'', and ''The Progress of the Soul.'' The poems are provided with full Notes and a useful Introduction to Donne''s life and poetry. John Donne''s love poetry is a magnetic mix of the soul singing, intellectual rigor, and the lascivious prod. Seductions abound, but go hand in hand with metaphors of science, discovery, and conquest: ''License my roving hands, and let them go, / Behind, before, above, between, below. / O my America! my new-found-land, / My kingdom, safeliest when with one man manned ...'' In ''The Flea,'' the speaker even uses a revolting parasite to persuade his young woman to bed. Since the flea has bitten both of them already, he urges, why should they not commingle on a larger scale? But in one of Donne''s trademark reversals, the argument fails when the woman squashes the offending insect. ''The Good Morrow'' is a good deal more romantic, opening: ''I wonder by my troth, what thou and I / Did, till we loved?'' Lines such as ''And now good morrow to our waking souls, / Which watch not one another out of fear; / For love all love of other sights controls, / And makes one little room an everywhere'' have even made the poem a wedding standard. (''The Sun Rising'' is another nuptial favorite.) As usual, however, the poet adds a tincture of imperfection to the vision: the persona''s excuse (charming but dubious), ''If ever any beauty I did see, / Which I desired, and got, ''twas but a dream of thee.'' Though readers might concentrate on the love songs and sonnets, John Carey''s edition of the Selected Poetry offers much more, including satires, epigrams, and Donne''s brilliant holy sonnets. As rugged, brilliantly contorted, and fraught with feeling as his more diurnal poetry, they are also equally concerned with inconstancy--Donne w

S. G. BrowneFor fans of Max Brookss The Zombie Survival Guide and zombie aficionados everywhere, a hilarious debut novel about life (and love) after death. Meet Andy Warner, a recently deceased everyman and newly minted zombie. Resented by his parents, abandoned by his friends, and reviled by a society that no longer considers him human, Andy is having a bit of trouble adjusting to his new existence. But all that changes when he goes to an Undead Anonymous meeting and finds kindred souls in Rita, an impossibly sexy recent suicide with a taste for the formaldehyde in cosmetic products, and Jerry, a twenty-one-year-old car-crash victim with an exposed brain and a penchant for Renaissance pornography. When the group meets a rogue zombie who teaches them the joys of human flesh, things start to get messy, and Andy embarks on a journey of self-discovery that will take him from his casket to the SPCA to a media-driven class-action lawsuit on behalf of the rights of zombies everywhere. Darkly funny, surprisingly touching, and gory enough to satisfy even the most discerning reader, Breathers is a romantic zombie comedy (rom-zom-com, for short) that will leave you laughing, squirming, and clamoring for more.

Some time around his 50th birthday, Ambrose Zephyr fails his annual medical check-up. An illness of inexplicable origin with no known or foreseeable cure is diagnosed and it will kill him within a month. Give or take a day. In the time that remains, he decides to travel to all the places he has most loved or ever wanted to visit, in strict alphabetical order. And so, Ambrose and his wife Zipper embark upon a strange adventure that takes them further and further away from home and doesn't quite turn out as either of them had expected.

In the latest installment of this infinitely enjoyable and best-selling series, Precious Ramotswe is doing what she does best--helping people with their problems and enjoying the simple pleasures of life. Mma Ramotswe is busy investigating her latest case: a woman who is looking for her family. The problem is, the woman doesn''t know her real name of whether any members of her family are now living. Meanwhile, Phuti Radiphuti has bought Mma Makutsi a glorious new bed. Unfortunately, it will inadvertently cause her several sleepless nights. And life is no less complicated at Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors, where Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni--Mma Ramotswe''s estimable husband--has fallen under the sway of a doctor who has promised a miracle cure for his daughter''s medical condition, which Mma Ramotswe finds hard to believe. But Precious Ramotswe deals with these difficulties with her usual grace and good humor, and in the end discovers that the biggest miracles in life are often the small ones.

This is an entirely new selection of Keats''s finest poetry containing all his best known work as well as a sample of less familiar pieces. Keats published three volumes of poetry before his death at age twenty-five of tuberculosis and, while many of his contemporaries were prompt to recognize his greatness, snobbery and political hostility led the Tory press to vilify and patronize him as a ''Cockney poet.'' Financial anxieties and the loss of those he loved most had tried him persistently, yet he dismissed the concept of life as a vale of tears and substituted the concept of a ''vale of Soul-making.'' His poetry and his remarkable letters reveal a spirit of questing vitality and profound understanding and his final volume, which contains the great odes and the unfinished Hyperion, attests to an astonishing maturity of power. ''I like the price, and I''m sure students would, too. The glossary of classical names is a great idea.''--R. Parks Lanier, Jr., Radford University

Initially published under the pseudonym Currer Bell in 1847, Charlotte Bronte''s Jane Eyre erupted onto the English literary scene, immediately winning the devotion of many of the world''s most renowned writers, including William Makepeace Thackeray, who declared it a work "of great genius." Widely regarded as a revolutionary novel, Bronte''s masterpiece introduced the world to a radical new type of heroine, one whose defiant virtue and moral courage departed sharply from the more acquiescent and malleable female characters of the day. Passionate, dramatic, and surprisingly modern, Jane Eyre endures as one of the world''s most beloved novels. This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition includes newly written explanatory notes.

Mehring is rich. He has all the privileges and possessions that South Africa has to offer, but his possessions refuse to remain objects. His wife, son and mistress leave him; his foreman and workers become increasingly indifferent to his stewardship; even the land rises up, as drought, then flood, destroy his farm. As the upheaval in Mehring''s world increasingly resembles that in the country as a whole, it becomes clear that only a seismic shift in ideas and concrete action can avert annihilation.

Bestselling author Iris Johansen delivers a novel about a woman who is unaware that she has psychic powers, but must uncover the mysteries of her own mind when strangers start trying to kill her. Orphaned at 15 and raised by her Uncle Phillip, the adult Megan Blair is an Atlanta pediatrician who hears terrified voices. Revelation comes when childhood friend Neal Grady, who is now a shadowy government agent, arrives to apprise Megan of her psychic powers. And to warn her: Molino-the relentless villain who killed Megan''s mother, believing her touch killed his son-is targeting Megan next. Molino thinks Megan was born to an ancient Sephardic family of psychics, and plans to force her to reveal the location of the Ledger, a book that contains the family''s secrets and finances. He then plans to kill her, if Megan, Neal and Neal''s sidekick, Jed Hartley, don''t find him first. Johansen increases the tension by alternating point of view, but two-dimensional characters, repetitious explanations and stilted dialogue make staying tuned difficult. (Oct.) Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc.

"THE SEAMSTRESS is a gripping portrait of the lives of two sisters caught in the political unbalance of a country at a crossroads. Bittersweet, beautifully written, this sweeping saga is as impossible to put down as it is to forget."''"The Seamstress" es un vibrante relato de la vida de dos hermanas atrapadas en el desequilibrio politico de un pais que se encuentra en una encrucijada. Agridulce, hermosamente escrita, esta conmovedora saga es tan imposible de abandonar como de olvidar.''

If the aim of fiction is to so completely engross readers that they're transported by words and grafted into the lives of fabricated people, then Per Petterson has perfected the art of spellbinding literature. You don't just read his novels of Nordic life, you experience them. His Out Stealing Horses, winner of the 2007 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, captivated readers with its story of a Norwegian widower unpeeling the memories of a tragic past. The novel had all the earmarks of great literature: spare, lucid prose; vibrant characters; wrenching emotional depth; a page-turning plot. Though he'd been publishing fiction in Norway for a decade, Out Stealing Horses catapulted Petterson onto the American literary scene. He has rightfully drawn comparisons to Ernest Hemingway, Cormac McCarthy, Willa Cather, and William Faulkner.

A Onze Nadals i un Cap d'Any, publicat el 1960, J. V. Foix aplega els poemes que envia als amics com a present de Nadal des de 1948 a 1958 i en el cap d'any de 1960. En les nadales originals cadascun dels dotze poemes anava acompanyat d'una il·lustracio feta per a l'ocasio per amics de Foix, artistes d'indubtable prestigi: Dali, Mompou, Ponç, Guinovart, Obiols, Cuixart, Tapies, Mercader, Sunyer, Gali, Fenosa i Miro. Els seus noms donen compte de l'alta volada i el rigor que el poeta volgue donar a a questes mostres d'amistat i mostren l'amplitud del seu ventall estetic, sempre atent a la contemporane%EFtat. En aquesta edicio es publiquen per primera vegada els poemes amb les il·lustracions que els acompanyaven en la nadala original. L'edicio ve ac ompanyada d'un CD amb les interpretacions musicals d'aquests dotze poemes; unes composicions que, com els textos, reinterpreten la tradicio amb llenguatge d'avui.

A tense, taut, standalone thriller by the Number One bestselling Jeffery Deaver THE BODIES LEFT BEHIND is both a cat-and-mouse chase that takes place over only 24 hours and a harrowing look at the consequences of heartless evil. A spring night in a small town in Wisconsin. A call to police from a distant lake house is cut short - a glitch or an aborted report of a crime? Off-duty deputy Anna McCafferty drives to find out. She stumbles onto the scene of a heinous murder. Before she can call for backup, though, she finds herself the next potential victim.

Ponce Morris is a beautiful, rich widow whos known as "the spare wife" because shes the perfect companion to the wealthy, powerful, New York couples in her elite social circle. She throws elegant dinner parties, goes to sports events with the husbands, and shops with the wives.Ponce Morris es una bella y acaudalada viuda conocida como "The Spare Wife" pues resulta la compañia perfecta para las parejas mas acomodadas y poderosas de Nueva York, que se hallan en su circulo social de elite. Ella suele celebrar elegantes veladas, acudir a los acontecimientos deportivos con los maridos, y salir de compras con las mujeres.

On 13 September 2007, Robert Peston broke the news that Northern Rock had become a victim of the global credit crunch and was seeking an emergency loan from the Bank of England. It was the latest in a long line of scoops by this award-winning journalist. Over the weeks that followed, the Government found itself exposed to the Rock to the tune of 57 billion, or almost GBP2000 for every taxpayer. As Robert Peston shows in his fascinating new book, the seeds for the collapse of Northern Rock and the upheavals in the financial markets were sown years before. WHO RUNS BRITAIN? is the first time anyone has drawn all the threads together to weave a story that's rich in extraordinary characters and outrageous feats of economic bravado. This book is about the widening gap between the super-rich and the rest of us. It explores and explodes the myth that the financial creativity of those who are amassing these vast fortunes is good for the wider economy and for all of us. Whether you're a financial expert or just have a bank account, WHO RUNS BRITAIN? is a book you must read.

Breathlessly paced and featuring one of the most intriguing heroes in recent fiction, The Accident Man surprises at every turn. For a certain sum of money, Samuel Carver will arrange a death. But when a job in a Paris tunnel goes wrong, Carver must execute his most daring feat yet.

John Donne (1572-1631) is perhaps the most important poet of the seventeenth century, and has often been referred to as the founder of the metaphysical genre. His poetry is highly distinctive and individual, adopting a multitude of tones, images, forms, and personae. This collection of Donne''s verse includes a wide selection from both his secular and divine poems, including such well-known poems as ''Air and Angels,'' ''The Flea,'' the ''Holy Sonnets'', and ''The Progress of the Soul.'' The poems are provided with full Notes and a useful Introduction to Donne''s life and poetry. John Donne''s love poetry is a magnetic mix of the soul singing, intellectual rigor, and the lascivious prod. Seductions abound, but go hand in hand with metaphors of science, discovery, and conquest: ''License my roving hands, and let them go, / Behind, before, above, between, below. / O my America! my new-found-land, / My kingdom, safeliest when with one man manned ...'' In ''The Flea,'' the speaker even uses a revolting parasite to persuade his young woman to bed. Since the flea has bitten both of them already, he urges, why should they not commingle on a larger scale? But in one of Donne''s trademark reversals, the argument fails when the woman squashes the offending insect. ''The Good Morrow'' is a good deal more romantic, opening: ''I wonder by my troth, what thou and I / Did, till we loved?'' Lines such as ''And now good morrow to our waking souls, / Which watch not one another out of fear; / For love all love of other sights controls, / And makes one little room an everywhere'' have even made the poem a wedding standard. (''The Sun Rising'' is another nuptial favorite.) As usual, however, the poet adds a tincture of imperfection to the vision: the persona''s excuse (charming but dubious), ''If ever any beauty I did see, / Which I desired, and got, ''twas but a dream of thee.'' Though readers might concentrate on the love songs and sonnets, John Carey''s edition of the Selected Poetry offers much more, including satires, epigrams, and Donne''s brilliant holy sonnets. As rugged, brilliantly contorted, and fraught with feeling as his more diurnal poetry, they are also equally concerned with inconstancy--Donne w

S. G. BrowneFor fans of Max Brookss The Zombie Survival Guide and zombie aficionados everywhere, a hilarious debut novel about life (and love) after death. Meet Andy Warner, a recently deceased everyman and newly minted zombie. Resented by his parents, abandoned by his friends, and reviled by a society that no longer considers him human, Andy is having a bit of trouble adjusting to his new existence. But all that changes when he goes to an Undead Anonymous meeting and finds kindred souls in Rita, an impossibly sexy recent suicide with a taste for the formaldehyde in cosmetic products, and Jerry, a twenty-one-year-old car-crash victim with an exposed brain and a penchant for Renaissance pornography. When the group meets a rogue zombie who teaches them the joys of human flesh, things start to get messy, and Andy embarks on a journey of self-discovery that will take him from his casket to the SPCA to a media-driven class-action lawsuit on behalf of the rights of zombies everywhere. Darkly funny, surprisingly touching, and gory enough to satisfy even the most discerning reader, Breathers is a romantic zombie comedy (rom-zom-com, for short) that will leave you laughing, squirming, and clamoring for more.

Some time around his 50th birthday, Ambrose Zephyr fails his annual medical check-up. An illness of inexplicable origin with no known or foreseeable cure is diagnosed and it will kill him within a month. Give or take a day. In the time that remains, he decides to travel to all the places he has most loved or ever wanted to visit, in strict alphabetical order. And so, Ambrose and his wife Zipper embark upon a strange adventure that takes them further and further away from home and doesn't quite turn out as either of them had expected.

In the latest installment of this infinitely enjoyable and best-selling series, Precious Ramotswe is doing what she does best--helping people with their problems and enjoying the simple pleasures of life. Mma Ramotswe is busy investigating her latest case: a woman who is looking for her family. The problem is, the woman doesn''t know her real name of whether any members of her family are now living. Meanwhile, Phuti Radiphuti has bought Mma Makutsi a glorious new bed. Unfortunately, it will inadvertently cause her several sleepless nights. And life is no less complicated at Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors, where Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni--Mma Ramotswe''s estimable husband--has fallen under the sway of a doctor who has promised a miracle cure for his daughter''s medical condition, which Mma Ramotswe finds hard to believe. But Precious Ramotswe deals with these difficulties with her usual grace and good humor, and in the end discovers that the biggest miracles in life are often the small ones.

This is an entirely new selection of Keats''s finest poetry containing all his best known work as well as a sample of less familiar pieces. Keats published three volumes of poetry before his death at age twenty-five of tuberculosis and, while many of his contemporaries were prompt to recognize his greatness, snobbery and political hostility led the Tory press to vilify and patronize him as a ''Cockney poet.'' Financial anxieties and the loss of those he loved most had tried him persistently, yet he dismissed the concept of life as a vale of tears and substituted the concept of a ''vale of Soul-making.'' His poetry and his remarkable letters reveal a spirit of questing vitality and profound understanding and his final volume, which contains the great odes and the unfinished Hyperion, attests to an astonishing maturity of power. ''I like the price, and I''m sure students would, too. The glossary of classical names is a great idea.''--R. Parks Lanier, Jr., Radford University

Initially published under the pseudonym Currer Bell in 1847, Charlotte Bronte''s Jane Eyre erupted onto the English literary scene, immediately winning the devotion of many of the world''s most renowned writers, including William Makepeace Thackeray, who declared it a work "of great genius." Widely regarded as a revolutionary novel, Bronte''s masterpiece introduced the world to a radical new type of heroine, one whose defiant virtue and moral courage departed sharply from the more acquiescent and malleable female characters of the day. Passionate, dramatic, and surprisingly modern, Jane Eyre endures as one of the world''s most beloved novels. This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition includes newly written explanatory notes.

Mehring is rich. He has all the privileges and possessions that South Africa has to offer, but his possessions refuse to remain objects. His wife, son and mistress leave him; his foreman and workers become increasingly indifferent to his stewardship; even the land rises up, as drought, then flood, destroy his farm. As the upheaval in Mehring''s world increasingly resembles that in the country as a whole, it becomes clear that only a seismic shift in ideas and concrete action can avert annihilation.

Bestselling author Iris Johansen delivers a novel about a woman who is unaware that she has psychic powers, but must uncover the mysteries of her own mind when strangers start trying to kill her. Orphaned at 15 and raised by her Uncle Phillip, the adult Megan Blair is an Atlanta pediatrician who hears terrified voices. Revelation comes when childhood friend Neal Grady, who is now a shadowy government agent, arrives to apprise Megan of her psychic powers. And to warn her: Molino-the relentless villain who killed Megan''s mother, believing her touch killed his son-is targeting Megan next. Molino thinks Megan was born to an ancient Sephardic family of psychics, and plans to force her to reveal the location of the Ledger, a book that contains the family''s secrets and finances. He then plans to kill her, if Megan, Neal and Neal''s sidekick, Jed Hartley, don''t find him first. Johansen increases the tension by alternating point of view, but two-dimensional characters, repetitious explanations and stilted dialogue make staying tuned difficult. (Oct.) Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc.

"THE SEAMSTRESS is a gripping portrait of the lives of two sisters caught in the political unbalance of a country at a crossroads. Bittersweet, beautifully written, this sweeping saga is as impossible to put down as it is to forget."''"The Seamstress" es un vibrante relato de la vida de dos hermanas atrapadas en el desequilibrio politico de un pais que se encuentra en una encrucijada. Agridulce, hermosamente escrita, esta conmovedora saga es tan imposible de abandonar como de olvidar.''

If the aim of fiction is to so completely engross readers that they're transported by words and grafted into the lives of fabricated people, then Per Petterson has perfected the art of spellbinding literature. You don't just read his novels of Nordic life, you experience them. His Out Stealing Horses, winner of the 2007 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, captivated readers with its story of a Norwegian widower unpeeling the memories of a tragic past. The novel had all the earmarks of great literature: spare, lucid prose; vibrant characters; wrenching emotional depth; a page-turning plot. Though he'd been publishing fiction in Norway for a decade, Out Stealing Horses catapulted Petterson onto the American literary scene. He has rightfully drawn comparisons to Ernest Hemingway, Cormac McCarthy, Willa Cather, and William Faulkner.