BARTLEBY, EL ESCRIBIENTE Y OTROS RELATOS

BARTLEBY, EL ESCRIBIENTE Y OTROS RELATOS

HERMAN MELVILLE

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Editorial:
LECTORUM
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NOVELAS
ISBN:
978-968-9706-65-6
Idioma:
Castellano

En Veinticuatro horas en la vida de una mujer, Zweig, uno de los escritores más sensibles y agudos del siglo XX, nos sumerge en la confesión íntima de una mujer madura que, en un solo día, se deja arrastrar por una pasión tan intensa como inesperada. Ambientada en la Riviera Francesa y publicada en 1927, esta breve novela explora con una maestría única el deseo femenino, el juicio social, la soledad y el poder el azar. La protagonista, una viuda inglesa de moral intachable, se encuentra, de pronto, enfrentando sus propias emociones más profundas cuando trata de ayudar a un joven desesperado. Zweig combina el suspenso emocional con un análisis psicológico brillante en una historia que se lee en breve, pero que se queda para siempre. Un clásico imprescindible, elegante y humano, que ha cautivado a generaciones de lectores en todo el mundo. Una joya literaria perfecta para quienes buscan intensidad, belleza y profundidad en cada página.

Otros libros del autor

  • I AND MY CHIMNEY
    HERMAN MELVILLE
    The truth is, my wife, like all the rest of the world, cares not a fig for my philosophical jabber. Thus wrote Melville in 1856, in the house where he had penned 'Moby-Dick" some six years earlier (Arrowhead in Pittsfield, Massachusetts). An allegorical tale that reveals a very unsettling home life and professional life for this American genius, who by the time this story was p...

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  • THE CONFIDENCE-MAN HIS MASQUERADE
    HERMAN MELVILLE
    The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade, first published in New York on April Fool's Day 1857, is the ninth book and final novel by American writer Herman Melville. Centered on the title character, The Confidence-Man portrays a group of steamboat passengers. Their interlocking stories are told as they travel the Mississippi River toward New Orleans. The novel's title refers to its c...

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  • MARDI AND A VOYAGE THITHER VOLUME 1 & 2
    HERMAN MELVILLE
    American novelist Herman Melville’s cryptic third work about uncontrollable waves of human desire and their ability to set a person adrift in a sea of spiritual, philosophical, and artistic chaos. An unnamed narrator, U.S. sailor (and thinly-veiled Melville), and his Norwegian side-kick Jarl jump ship from their whaling vessel in the South Pacific in search of freedom but quick...

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  • THE PIAZZA TALES
    HERMAN MELVILLE
    The Piazza Tales is a collection of six short stories by American writer Herman Melville. This works contains some of Melville’s best known shorter works, consisting of six short stories: “The Piazza,” “Bartleby,” “Benito Cereno,” “The Lightning-Rod Man,” “The Encantadas” and “The Bell-Tower,” and a brief biographical sketch that contributes to one’s reading of the texts. While...

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  • ISRAEL POTTER HIS FIFTY YEARS OF EXILE
    HERMAN MELVILLE
    Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile is the eighth book by American writer Herman Melville. When Israel Potter leaves his plow to fight in the American Revolution, he's immediately thrown into the Battle of Bunker Hill, where he receives multiple wounds. However, this does not deter him, and after hearing a rousing speech by General George Washington, he volunteers for furth...

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  • THE APPLE-TREE TABLE, AND OTHER SKETCHES
    HERMAN MELVILLE
    The various prose sketches here reprinted were first published by Melville, some in Harper's and some in Putnam's magazines, during the years from 1850 to 1856. "Hawthorne and His Mosses," the only piece of criticism in this collection, is particularly interesting viewed in the light of Melville's friendship with Hawthorne while they were neighbors at Pittsfield, Massachusetts....

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