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Pardo Bazán, Emilia – Cuentos de amor –
Language: Spanish, Short Stories – Format: ePub

Emilia Pardo Bazán fue una de las escritoras españolas más reconocidas del siglo XIX. Escribió más de 500 obras, de distintos géneros literarios, aunque son más conocidas sus novelas. Impulso el naturalismo en España. Fue además, (More) una de las primeras feministas de su época. Publicó varios artículos en los cuales denuncia el sexismo en España y propone cambios a favor de la mujer, empezando por una educación igualitaria para hombres y mujeres.
Es la sexta y última colección de cuentos de Emilia Pardo Bazán que narra historias de amores enormes, mediocres, irrisorios, molestos, pequeños, sorprendentes, entrañables, dramáticos o felices. Sus personajes proceden de todo el abanico de la sociedad en la España de su tiempo.

Turgenev, Ivan – Fathers and Sons –
Language: English, Novel – Format: ePub, iSilo

Turgenev wrote Fathers and Sons as a response to the growing cultural schism that he saw between liberals of the 1830s/1840s and the growing nihilist movement. Both the nihilists (the “sons”) and the 1830s liberals sought (More) Western-based social change in Russia. Additionally, these two modes of thought were contrasted with the conservative Slavophiles, who believed that Russia’s path lay in its traditional spirituality.
Fathers and Sons might be regarded as the first wholly modern novel in Russian Literature (Gogol’s Dead Souls, another main contender, is sometimes referred to as a poem or epic in prose as in the style of Dante’s Divine Comedy). The novel introduces a dual character study, as seen with the gradual breakdown of Bazarov’s and Arkady’s nihilistic opposition to emotional display, especially in the case of Bazarov’s love for Madame Odintsova and Fenichka. This prominent theme of character duality and deep psychological insight would exert an influence on most of the great Russian novels to come, most obviously echoed in the novels of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky.
The novel is also the first Russian work to gain prominence in the Western world, eventually gaining the approval of well established novelists Gustave Flaubert, Guy de Maupassant, and Henry James, proving that Russian literature owes much to Ivan Turgenev.

Hope, Anthony – Rupert of Hentzau –
Language: English, Novel – Format: ePub

This is the sequel to ‘The Prisoner of Zenda’. Five years have passed. The King has become jealous of Rudolf Rassendyll and suspicious of the queen (Flavia)’s feelings towards him. Flavia decides that this must be the last year in (More) which she sends to Rudolf the single red rose that betokens her love, and therefore she also sends via Fritz von Tarlenheim, her letter of good-bye.
Count Rupert of Hentzau, banished from Ruritania after the incidents of the earlier book, is plotting his return. In furtherance of his scheme he obtains both letter and rose, and plots to place them before the King. Rudolf, Fritz and Sapt must prevent this at all costs…

Goldoni, Carlo – La locandiera –
Language: Italian, Theater Play – Format: ePub

Il capolavoro degli anni fra il 1750 ed il 1753, e forse la sua opera più famosa, è La locandiera. Mirandolina, locandiera fiorentina, esuberante, complessa, affascinante, sempre lucida e capace di autocontrollo, domina la (More) commedia superando ogni ostacolo per fare a proprio modo, badare ai propri affari di locandiera, assicurandosi tranquillità, agi, e mirando ad un costante equilibrio tra reputazione, interesse e libertà, senza andare in sposa ai tanti uomini rimasti da lei affascinati. Gli altri personaggi, più semplici, ma ben individuati, fanno risaltare la figura della protagonista. La locandiera chiude una fase dell’arte goldoniana.

Homerus – Odissea –
Language: Italian, Poetry – Format: ePub, iSilo

L’Odissea (in greco antico Ὀδύσσεια, traslitterato in Odýsseia) è uno dei due grandi poemi epici greci attribuiti all’opera del poeta Omero. Narra delle vicende riguardanti l’eroe Odisseo (o Ulisse, con il nome latino), dopo la (More) fine della Guerra di Troia, narrata nell’Iliade.
L’opera, insieme all’Iliade, viene composta nella Ionia d’Asia intorno al IX secolo a.C., anche se alcuni autori pensano che sia nata intorno al 720 a.C.

Homerus – The Iliad & The Odyssey –
Language: English, Poetry – Format: ePub

While Homer’s existence as a historical person is still a topic of debate, the writings attributed to the name have made their mark not only on Greek history and literature, but upon western civilization itself. Homer’s epic (More) poems, The Iliad and The Odyssey, laid the foundation upon which Ancient Greece developed not only its culture, but its societal values, religious beliefs, and practice of warfare as well.
This publication features the Samuel Butler translation, and while it strays from the poetic style reproduced by more well known translators like Robert Fagles and Robert Fitzgerald, the vision of the epics as if they were prose found in modern novels take their best form under Butler’s most capable hand.

Pérez Galdós, Benito – Episodios Nacionales –
Language: Spanish, Novel – Format: ePub

Los Episodios nacionales son una colección de cuarenta y seis novelas históricas escritas por Benito Pérez Galdós que fueron redactadas entre 1872 y 1912. Están divididas en cinco series y tratan la historia de España desde 1805 (More) hasta 1880, aproximadamente. Son novelas que insertan vivencias de personajes ficticios en los acontecimientos históricos de la España del XIX como, por ejemplo, la guerra de independencia española, con la que el autor se sentía muy próximo, puesto que en ella había combatido su padre. Hoy en día, además de por su calidad literaria, se valora esta obra como una importante referencia histórica.

Kafka, Franz – The Metamorphosis –
Language: English, Short Stories – Format: ePub, iSilo

The Metamorphosis (in German, Die Verwandlung, “The Transformation”) is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915, and arguably the most famous of his works along with the longer works The Trial and The Castle. The story (More) begins with a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, waking to find himself transformed into a giant “monstrous vermin”.

Austen, Jane – Pride and Prejudice –
Language: English, Novel – Format: ePub, iSilo

Pride and Prejudice is the most famous of Jane Austen’s novels, and its opening is one of the most famous lines in English literature – “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, (More) must be in want of a wife.” Its manuscript was first written between 1796 and 1797, and was initially called First Impressions, but was never published under that title. Following revisions it was published on 28 January 1813 by the same Mr. Egerton of the Military Library, Whitehall, who had brought out Sense and Sensibility. Like both its predecessor and Northanger Abbey, it was written at Steventon Rectory.

Austen, Jane – Persuasion –
Language: English, Novel – Format: ePub

More than eight years before the novel opens, Anne Elliot, then a lovely, thoughtful, warm-hearted 19 year old, accepted a proposal of marriage from the handsome young naval officer Frederick Wentworth. He was clever, confident, (More) and ambitious, but poor and with no particular family connections to recommend him. Sir Walter, Anne’s fatuous, snobbish father and her equally self-involved older sister Elizabeth were dissatisfied with her choice, maintaining that he was no match for an Elliot of Kellynch Hall, the family estate. Her older friend and mentor, Lady Russell, acting in place of Anne’s late mother, persuaded her to break the engagement. Now 27 and still unmarried, Anne re-encounters her former love when his sister and brother-in-law, the Crofts, take out a lease on Kellynch. Wentworth is now a captain and wealthy from maritime victories in the Napoleonic wars. However, he has not forgiven Anne for rejecting him. While publicly declaring that he is ready to marry any suitable young woman who catches his fancy, he privately resolves that he is ready to become attached to any appealing young woman except for Anne Elliot.