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The plans of Edgar, Master of Ravenswood to regain his ancient family estate from the corrupt Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland are frustrated by the complexities of the legal and political situations following the 1707 Act of Union, and by his passion for his enemy''s beautiful daughter Lucy. First published in 1819, this intricate and searching romantic tragedy offers challenging insights into emotional and sexual politics, and demonstrates the shrewd way in which Scott presented his work as historical document, entertainment, and work of art. Published in 1819 and 1824, respectively, these titles are typical of Scott''s historical soap operas involving revenge, kidnapping, love, political turmoil, and what have you. To help readers understand the Scottish dialect in Scott''s writing, these include glossaries as well as scholarly introductions. Both books are based on Scott''s original texts. Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc. The Edinburgh Edition respects Scott the artist by ''restoring'' versions of the novels that are not quite what his first readers saw. Indeed, it returns to manuscripts that the printers never handled, as Scott''s fiction before 1827 was transcribed before it reached the printshop. Each volume of the Edinburgh edition presents an uncluttered text of one work, followed by an Essay on the Text by the editor of the work, a list of the emendations that have been made to the first edition, explanatory notes and a glossary ! The editorial essays are histories of the respective texts. Some of them are almost 100 pages long; when they are put together they constitute a fascinating and lucid account of Scott''s methods of compostion and his financial manoeuvres. This edition is for anyone who takes Scott seriously. Times Literary Supplement The Edinburgh Edition respects Scott the artist by ''restoring'' versions of the novels that are not quite what his first readers saw. Indeed, it returns to manuscripts that the printers never handled, as Scott''s fiction before 1827 was transcribed before it reached the printshop. Each volume of the Edinburgh edition presents an uncluttered text of one work, followed by an Essay on the Text by the editor of the work, a list of the emendations that have been made to the first edition, explanatory notes and a glossary ! The edi

Médium, guérisseuse et enseignante, " voix du monde des esprits ", Rosemary Altea a redonné espoir à des milliers de personnes dans le monde, en leur transmettant les messages de leurs défunts. Une f

Lola has just found out that her boyfriend - charismatic politician Paddy de Courcy - is getting married. To someone else. Heartbroken, Lola flees the city for a cottage by the sea. But will Lola's retreat prove as idyllic as she hopes? Journalist Grace wants the inside story on Paddy de Courcy's engagement and thinks Lola holds the key to it.

This haunting, poignant and addictive story travels effortlessly across three generations and through time. Unravelling the years from the present to the 1950s, The Third Angel is a compelling novel, set mainly in London, about girls and women who make the wrong choices and have to live with the sometimes unbearable consequences. The Third Angel opens in London in the present day, when an envious sibling comes to her sisters wedding. Their mothers illness cast a shadow over their childhood, and both Madeline and Allie are still searching for something missing in their lives. Back in the Swinging Sixties, the bridegrooms conventional English mother, Frieda, behaves in a wholly unconventional way, and the ghosts of that era still haunt all their lives and a Knightsbridge hotel. Even before that, the seeds of tragedy are sown in the Fifties, when twelve-year-old Lucy first visits London and the same hotel. Precocious, impatient, wise beyond her years, Lucy becomes a go-between for two star-crossed lovers and then holds herself agonisingly responsible for what happens...

''Treasure Island will surely become--it must already have become, and will remain--in its way a classic.''--Henry James. An absorbing tale of buccaneers and a romantic quest for treasure, Treasure Island is also the portrait of the briliantly drawn character, Long John Silver. ''it renewed all the forgotten delight I found in it as a child'' Ian Hamilton, Scotland on Sunday ''Treasure Island will surely become--it must already have become, and will remain--in its way a classic.''--Henry James. An absorbing tale of buccaneers and a romantic quest for treasure, Treasure Island is also the portrait of the briliantly drawn character, Long John Silver.

Set at the end of the Great War, "The Given Day" offers an unflinching, utterly spectacular family epic that captures the political unrest of a nation caught between a well-patterned past and an unpr

A tall, yellow-haired young European traveler calling himself 'Mogor dell'Amore', the Mughal of Love, arrives at the court of the real Grand Mughal, the Emperor Akbar, with a tale to tell that begins to obsess the whole imperial capital. The stranger claims to be the child of a lost Mughal princess, the youngest sister of Akbar's grandfather Babar: Qara Koz, 'Lady Black Eyes', a great beauty believed to possess powers of enchantment and sorcery, who is taken captive first by an Uzbek warlord, then by the Shah of Persia, and finally becomes the lover of a certain Argalia, a Florentine soldier of fortune, commander of the armies of the Ottoman Sultan.When Argalia returns home with his Mughal mistress the city is mesmerized by her presence, and much trouble ensues. The "Enchantress of Florence" is the story of a woman attempting to command her own destiny in a man's world. It brings together two cities that barely know each other - the hedonistic Mughal capital, in which the brilliant emperor wrestles daily with questions of belief, desire and the treachery of sons, and the equally sensual Florentine world of powerful courtesans, humanist philosophy and inhuman torture, where Argalia's boyhood friend 'il Machia' - Niccolo Machiavelli - is learning, the hard way, about the true brutality of power. These two worlds, so far apart, turn out to be uncannily alike, and the enchantments of women hold sway over them both. But is Mogor's story true? And if so, then what happened to the lost princess? And if he's a liar, must he die?

Lluis-Anton BaulenasBarcelone, 1908. Chaque soir, dans un cabaret, Nonnita se produit avec une otarie devant un public friand de belles femmes. Après son numéro, elle rentre chez elle, dans un quarti

Véronique Petit Ephémère, impalpable, la danse est le plus physique, le plus intime et le plus personnel des arts puisqu'elle exige le concours de tout le corps. Vieux comme le monde, l'art de la dan

" Et si j'écrivais l'histoire de jeunes garçons sur une île ? Je les laisserais se comporter exactement comme ils voudraient. " William Golding a relevé ce défi, et voici nos collégiens anglais " sans grandes personnes " sur une île déserte du Pacifique. C'est l'aventure, c'est la liberté - serait-ce le paradis ?.

When the notorious investigative journalist Rhoda Gradwyn booked into Mr Chandler-Powell''s private clinic in Dorset for the removal of a disfiguring and long-standing facial scar, she had every prospect of a successful operation by a distinguished surgeon, a week''s peaceful convalescence in one of Dorset''s most beautiful manor houses and the beginning of a new life. She was never to leave Cheverell Manor alive. Dalgliesh and his team are called in to investigate the murder, and later a second death, which are to raise even more complicated problems than the question of innocence or guilt.A new detective novel by P. D. James is always keenly awaited and "The Private Patient" will undoubtedly equal the success of her worldwide bestseller "The Lighthouse". It displays the qualities which P. D. James'' readers have come to expect: a masterly psychological and emotional richness of characterisation, a vivid evocation of place and a credible and exciting mystery. "The Private Patient" is a powerful work of contemporary fiction.

Esta "Nova antologia de la Literatura Catalana" sigue los temas tratados en los tres volúmenes de las asignaturas de Literatura Catalana, por lo que sirve de apoyo; a la vez que los interesados por esta muestra antologica podran ampliar alli contenidos y bibliografia. Los autores son un equipo de profesores colaboradores con la UNED. (La antologia anterior -de 1992, recien incorporada esta materia en esta Universidad- era en casetes y con un libro de apoyo).

Sotelo Blanco Edicións publica CÓDIGO POÉTICO de María N. Soutelo Vázquez, obra gañadora do XX Premio de Poesía Eusebio Lorenzo Baleirón, convocado polo Concello de Dodro e coordinado por Helena Villar Janeiro. O xurado deste XX Premio estivo formado por Arturo Diaz Diaz (presidente), Anxo Franco (secretario) e os vogais Marica Campo, Antia Otero, Xesus Rabade Paredes e Rafa Villar.

At the heart of Joseph Heller's bestselling novel, first published in 1961, is a satirical indictment of military madness and stupidity, and the desire of the ordinary man to survive it. It is a tale of the dangerously sane Captain Yossarian, who spends his time in Italy plotting to survive. Yossarian is a bombardier in the 256th Squadron of the Army Air Forces during World War II, stationed on Pianosa, a fictionalised island in the Mediterranean between mainland Italy and Corsica. The squadrons assignment is to bomb enemy positions in Italy and eastern France. Yossarian's mission is simply to stay alive.

When pamphleteer Selah Morse witnesses a taxi run down a young woman, he takes her to the hospital and, in telling the staff that he is her boyfriend and that her name is Mora Klein, is given custody of her. She is amnesiac, and his orders are to reconstruct her memories through story.Cuando el editor de panfletos Selah Morse presencia como un taxi atropella a una mujer, la lleva al hospital, y, cuando le cuenta al personal del hospital que es su novio y que su nombre es Mora Klein, se le concede su custodia. Tiene amnesia, y su cometido es el de reconstuir su memoria recordandole todo lo que pueda sobre su vida

Based on the historical incident of an unspeakable massacre at the site of Sant''Anna Di Stazzema, a small village in Tuscany, and on the experiences of the famed Buffalo soldiers from the 92nd Division in Italy during World War II, MIRACLE AT ST. ANNA is a singular evocation of war, cruelty, passion, and heroism. It is the story of four American Negro soldiers, a band of partisans, and an Italian boy who encounter a miracle - though perhaps the true miracle lies in themselves.Traversing class, race, and geography, MIRACLE AT ST. ANNA is above all a hymn to the brotherhood of man and the power to do good that lives in each of us.

The plans of Edgar, Master of Ravenswood to regain his ancient family estate from the corrupt Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland are frustrated by the complexities of the legal and political situations following the 1707 Act of Union, and by his passion for his enemy''s beautiful daughter Lucy. First published in 1819, this intricate and searching romantic tragedy offers challenging insights into emotional and sexual politics, and demonstrates the shrewd way in which Scott presented his work as historical document, entertainment, and work of art. Published in 1819 and 1824, respectively, these titles are typical of Scott''s historical soap operas involving revenge, kidnapping, love, political turmoil, and what have you. To help readers understand the Scottish dialect in Scott''s writing, these include glossaries as well as scholarly introductions. Both books are based on Scott''s original texts. Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc. The Edinburgh Edition respects Scott the artist by ''restoring'' versions of the novels that are not quite what his first readers saw. Indeed, it returns to manuscripts that the printers never handled, as Scott''s fiction before 1827 was transcribed before it reached the printshop. Each volume of the Edinburgh edition presents an uncluttered text of one work, followed by an Essay on the Text by the editor of the work, a list of the emendations that have been made to the first edition, explanatory notes and a glossary ! The editorial essays are histories of the respective texts. Some of them are almost 100 pages long; when they are put together they constitute a fascinating and lucid account of Scott''s methods of compostion and his financial manoeuvres. This edition is for anyone who takes Scott seriously. Times Literary Supplement The Edinburgh Edition respects Scott the artist by ''restoring'' versions of the novels that are not quite what his first readers saw. Indeed, it returns to manuscripts that the printers never handled, as Scott''s fiction before 1827 was transcribed before it reached the printshop. Each volume of the Edinburgh edition presents an uncluttered text of one work, followed by an Essay on the Text by the editor of the work, a list of the emendations that have been made to the first edition, explanatory notes and a glossary ! The edi

Médium, guérisseuse et enseignante, " voix du monde des esprits ", Rosemary Altea a redonné espoir à des milliers de personnes dans le monde, en leur transmettant les messages de leurs défunts. Une f

Lola has just found out that her boyfriend - charismatic politician Paddy de Courcy - is getting married. To someone else. Heartbroken, Lola flees the city for a cottage by the sea. But will Lola's retreat prove as idyllic as she hopes? Journalist Grace wants the inside story on Paddy de Courcy's engagement and thinks Lola holds the key to it.

This haunting, poignant and addictive story travels effortlessly across three generations and through time. Unravelling the years from the present to the 1950s, The Third Angel is a compelling novel, set mainly in London, about girls and women who make the wrong choices and have to live with the sometimes unbearable consequences. The Third Angel opens in London in the present day, when an envious sibling comes to her sisters wedding. Their mothers illness cast a shadow over their childhood, and both Madeline and Allie are still searching for something missing in their lives. Back in the Swinging Sixties, the bridegrooms conventional English mother, Frieda, behaves in a wholly unconventional way, and the ghosts of that era still haunt all their lives and a Knightsbridge hotel. Even before that, the seeds of tragedy are sown in the Fifties, when twelve-year-old Lucy first visits London and the same hotel. Precocious, impatient, wise beyond her years, Lucy becomes a go-between for two star-crossed lovers and then holds herself agonisingly responsible for what happens...

''Treasure Island will surely become--it must already have become, and will remain--in its way a classic.''--Henry James. An absorbing tale of buccaneers and a romantic quest for treasure, Treasure Island is also the portrait of the briliantly drawn character, Long John Silver. ''it renewed all the forgotten delight I found in it as a child'' Ian Hamilton, Scotland on Sunday ''Treasure Island will surely become--it must already have become, and will remain--in its way a classic.''--Henry James. An absorbing tale of buccaneers and a romantic quest for treasure, Treasure Island is also the portrait of the briliantly drawn character, Long John Silver.

Set at the end of the Great War, "The Given Day" offers an unflinching, utterly spectacular family epic that captures the political unrest of a nation caught between a well-patterned past and an unpr

A tall, yellow-haired young European traveler calling himself 'Mogor dell'Amore', the Mughal of Love, arrives at the court of the real Grand Mughal, the Emperor Akbar, with a tale to tell that begins to obsess the whole imperial capital. The stranger claims to be the child of a lost Mughal princess, the youngest sister of Akbar's grandfather Babar: Qara Koz, 'Lady Black Eyes', a great beauty believed to possess powers of enchantment and sorcery, who is taken captive first by an Uzbek warlord, then by the Shah of Persia, and finally becomes the lover of a certain Argalia, a Florentine soldier of fortune, commander of the armies of the Ottoman Sultan.When Argalia returns home with his Mughal mistress the city is mesmerized by her presence, and much trouble ensues. The "Enchantress of Florence" is the story of a woman attempting to command her own destiny in a man's world. It brings together two cities that barely know each other - the hedonistic Mughal capital, in which the brilliant emperor wrestles daily with questions of belief, desire and the treachery of sons, and the equally sensual Florentine world of powerful courtesans, humanist philosophy and inhuman torture, where Argalia's boyhood friend 'il Machia' - Niccolo Machiavelli - is learning, the hard way, about the true brutality of power. These two worlds, so far apart, turn out to be uncannily alike, and the enchantments of women hold sway over them both. But is Mogor's story true? And if so, then what happened to the lost princess? And if he's a liar, must he die?

Lluis-Anton BaulenasBarcelone, 1908. Chaque soir, dans un cabaret, Nonnita se produit avec une otarie devant un public friand de belles femmes. Après son numéro, elle rentre chez elle, dans un quarti

Véronique Petit Ephémère, impalpable, la danse est le plus physique, le plus intime et le plus personnel des arts puisqu'elle exige le concours de tout le corps. Vieux comme le monde, l'art de la dan

" Et si j'écrivais l'histoire de jeunes garçons sur une île ? Je les laisserais se comporter exactement comme ils voudraient. " William Golding a relevé ce défi, et voici nos collégiens anglais " sans grandes personnes " sur une île déserte du Pacifique. C'est l'aventure, c'est la liberté - serait-ce le paradis ?.

When the notorious investigative journalist Rhoda Gradwyn booked into Mr Chandler-Powell''s private clinic in Dorset for the removal of a disfiguring and long-standing facial scar, she had every prospect of a successful operation by a distinguished surgeon, a week''s peaceful convalescence in one of Dorset''s most beautiful manor houses and the beginning of a new life. She was never to leave Cheverell Manor alive. Dalgliesh and his team are called in to investigate the murder, and later a second death, which are to raise even more complicated problems than the question of innocence or guilt.A new detective novel by P. D. James is always keenly awaited and "The Private Patient" will undoubtedly equal the success of her worldwide bestseller "The Lighthouse". It displays the qualities which P. D. James'' readers have come to expect: a masterly psychological and emotional richness of characterisation, a vivid evocation of place and a credible and exciting mystery. "The Private Patient" is a powerful work of contemporary fiction.

Esta "Nova antologia de la Literatura Catalana" sigue los temas tratados en los tres volúmenes de las asignaturas de Literatura Catalana, por lo que sirve de apoyo; a la vez que los interesados por esta muestra antologica podran ampliar alli contenidos y bibliografia. Los autores son un equipo de profesores colaboradores con la UNED. (La antologia anterior -de 1992, recien incorporada esta materia en esta Universidad- era en casetes y con un libro de apoyo).

Sotelo Blanco Edicións publica CÓDIGO POÉTICO de María N. Soutelo Vázquez, obra gañadora do XX Premio de Poesía Eusebio Lorenzo Baleirón, convocado polo Concello de Dodro e coordinado por Helena Villar Janeiro. O xurado deste XX Premio estivo formado por Arturo Diaz Diaz (presidente), Anxo Franco (secretario) e os vogais Marica Campo, Antia Otero, Xesus Rabade Paredes e Rafa Villar.

At the heart of Joseph Heller's bestselling novel, first published in 1961, is a satirical indictment of military madness and stupidity, and the desire of the ordinary man to survive it. It is a tale of the dangerously sane Captain Yossarian, who spends his time in Italy plotting to survive. Yossarian is a bombardier in the 256th Squadron of the Army Air Forces during World War II, stationed on Pianosa, a fictionalised island in the Mediterranean between mainland Italy and Corsica. The squadrons assignment is to bomb enemy positions in Italy and eastern France. Yossarian's mission is simply to stay alive.

When pamphleteer Selah Morse witnesses a taxi run down a young woman, he takes her to the hospital and, in telling the staff that he is her boyfriend and that her name is Mora Klein, is given custody of her. She is amnesiac, and his orders are to reconstruct her memories through story.Cuando el editor de panfletos Selah Morse presencia como un taxi atropella a una mujer, la lleva al hospital, y, cuando le cuenta al personal del hospital que es su novio y que su nombre es Mora Klein, se le concede su custodia. Tiene amnesia, y su cometido es el de reconstuir su memoria recordandole todo lo que pueda sobre su vida

Based on the historical incident of an unspeakable massacre at the site of Sant''Anna Di Stazzema, a small village in Tuscany, and on the experiences of the famed Buffalo soldiers from the 92nd Division in Italy during World War II, MIRACLE AT ST. ANNA is a singular evocation of war, cruelty, passion, and heroism. It is the story of four American Negro soldiers, a band of partisans, and an Italian boy who encounter a miracle - though perhaps the true miracle lies in themselves.Traversing class, race, and geography, MIRACLE AT ST. ANNA is above all a hymn to the brotherhood of man and the power to do good that lives in each of us.