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Llevaba una tertulia literaria en su casa de Barcelona, que fue muy concurrida por numerosas damas de la época. Su obra esta considerada dentro del Romanticismo. Escribió literatura infantil y juvenil. Sus historias se desarrollan sobre todo durante la Edad Media y en la época de los Reyes Católicos. Dominan las temáticas amorosas centradas en los celos. En muchas de sus obras ocurren elementos sobrenaturales como los son las apariciones de la Virgen, las estatuas animadas, fantasmas, etc.

Al amable mundo de convenciones sociales estrictas en el que se mueve, aparentemente sin roces ni contrariedades, la alta sociedad de Nueva York de finales del siglo pasado, regresa de Europa la inquietante condesa Olenska. Independiente, osada, diferente, Ellen involucrará muy pronto en su misterio a su joven primo Newland Archer y perturbará sin poder evitarlo el encanto de una vida social que ignora de manera voluntaria su inminente fin.En el fondo de esta extraordinaria historia de una gran pasión subyace el conflicto entre dos mundos: el de las viejas familias patricias norteamericanas y el de los nuevos ricos, quienes, al terminar la novela, se han apoderado ya de las costumbres y de los espíritus

The Metamorphosis (German: Die Verwandlung) is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915. The story begins with a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, waking to find himself transformed into a "monstrous vermin".

The story is written in the first person as a series of journal entries. The narrator is a woman whose husband - a physician - has confined her to the upstairs bedroom of a house he has rented for the summer. She is forbidden from working and has to hide her journal entries from him so that she can recuperate from what he has diagnosed as a "temporary nervous depression - a slight hysterical tendency;" a diagnosis common to women in that period. The windows of the room are barred, and there is a gate across the top of the stairs, allowing her husband to control her access to the rest of the house.The story illustrates the effect of confinement on the narrator's mental health, and her descent into psychosis. With nothing to stimulate her, she becomes obsessed by the pattern and color of the room's wallpaper.

The book is a series of short stories linked by Dunsany's invented pantheon of deities who dwell in Pegana. It was followed by a further collection Time and the Gods and by some stories in The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories .

"The Call of Cthulhu" is one of H. P. Lovecraft's best-known short stories. Written in the summer of 1926, it was first published in Weird Tales, February 1928. It is the only story written by Lovecraft in which the extraterrestrial entity Cthulhu himself makes a major appearance.It is written in a documentary style, with three independent narratives linked together by the device of a narrator discovering notes left by a deceased relative. The narrator pieces together the whole truth and disturbing significance of the information he possesses, illustrating the story's first line: "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity; and it was not meant that we should voyage far."

Mucho ruido y pocas nueces, esta comedia en cinco actos, en verso y prosa, de William Shakespeare fue escrita en la forma en que la poseemos en 1598, pero probablemente tuvo una primera redacción en la juventud del autor. Fue impresa en 1600 y en 1623.El motivo dramático central, el del amante inducido a engaño por medio de una persona que adopta el parecido de su amada (antiguo motivo que ya se encuentra en las Aventuras de Quereas y Calirroé, de Caritón de Afrodisia), fue extraído por Shakespeare de las Novelas de Matteo Bandello (novela XXII), en la versión de François de Belleforest (Histoires Tragiques, III, 1569), y del Orlando Furioso de Ludovico Ariosto (historia de Ginevra y Ariodante). Las agudas discusiones de Benedicto y Beatriz parecen inspiradas en las de Gaspare Pallavicino y de Emilia Pia en El cortesano de Baldassare Castiglione, traducido por sir Thomas Hoby en 1561.

The Wind in the Willows is a classic of children's literature by Kenneth Grahame, first published in 1908. Alternately slow moving and fast paced, it focuses on four anthropomorphised animal characters in a pastoral version of England. The novel is notable for its mixture of mysticism, adventure, morality, and camaraderie.

El coloquio de los perros es una de las Novelas ejemplares de Cervantes y escenifica la conversación entre Cipión y Berganza, que guardan el Hospital de la Resurrección de Valladolid, en cuyo solar se encuentra hoy la Casa Mantilla. Al comprobar que han adquirido la facultad de hablar, Berganza decide contar a Cipión, durante una noche, sus experiencias con sus distintos amos, recorriendo lugares como Sevilla, Montilla y Granada hasta llegar a Valladolid, tomando el relato la forma de novela picaresca, pero con elementos modernizadores del género. La novela reflexiona sobre la necesidad de sobrevivir, la falta de cordura y el carácter perverso del poder, lo que la hace absolutamente actual.

Hard Times is unusual in several respects. It is by far the shortest of Dickens' novels, barely a quarter of the length of those written immediately before and after it.[1] Also, unlike all but one of his other novels, Hard Times has neither a preface nor illustrations. Moreover, it is his only novel not to have scenes set in London.[2] Instead the story is set in the fictitious Victorian industrial Coketown, a generic Northern English mill-town, in some ways similar to Manchester, though smaller. Coketown may be partially based on 19th-century Preston.

Sigmund Freud's controversial ideas have penetrated Western culture more deeply than those of any other psychologist. The 'Freudian slip', the 'Oedipus complex', 'childhood sexuality', 'libido', 'narcissism' 'penis envy', the 'castration complex', the 'id', the 'ego' and the 'superego', 'denial', 'repression', 'identification', 'projection', 'acting out', the 'pleasure principle', the 'reality principle', 'defense-mechanism' - are all taken for granted in our everyday vocabulary.Psychoanalysis was never just a method of treatment, rather a vision of the human condition which has continued to fascinate and provoke long after the death of its originator. Its central hypothesis, that we live in conflict with ourselves and seek to resolve matters by turning away from reality, did not emerge from experimental science but from self-examination and the unique opportunities for observation presented by the psychoanalytic technique - in particular, from the confessions produced by 'free-association' in Freud's consulting room. Written during the turmoil of the First World War, A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis was distilled from a series of lectures given at Vienna University, but had to wait for the war to end before being made available to the English speaking world.

Hodgson wrote a trilogy consisting of Date 1965 Modern Warfare, The House on the Borderland, and The Ghost Pirates. The setting for The House on the Borderland is an ancient house in a lonely part of Ireland, where an old man lives alone with his sister and his pets. His diary is found and it tells the story of a huge cavern below the house filled with white pig like monsters. The old man has had to flight these creatures. He then sees his house in an alternate space-time plain that is isolated from the rest of his world. This haunting tale conveys intense isolations and loneliness.

The format of 'The Art of War' was in socratic dialogue. The purpose, declared by Fabrizio (Machiavelli's persona) at the outset, "To honor and reward virtù, not to have contempt for poverty, to esteem the modes and orders of military discipline, to constrain citizens to love one another, to live without factions, to esteem less the private than the public good." To these ends, Machiavelli notes in his preface, the military is like the roof of a palazzo protecting the contents.Written between 1519 and 1520 and published the following year, it was the only historical or political work printed during Machiavelli's lifetime, though he was appointed official historian of Florence in 1520 and entrusted with minor civil duties.

The story is set in an unnamed penal colony. Internal clues and the setting on an island suggest Octave Mirbeau's The Torture Garden as an influence. As in some of Kafka's other writings, the narrator in this story seems detached from, or perhaps numbed by, events that one would normally expect to be registered with horror. In the Penal Colony describes the last use of an elaborate torture and execution device that carves the sentence of the condemned prisoner on his skin in a script before letting him die, all in the course of twelve hours. As the plot unfolds, the reader learns more and more about the machine, including its origin, and original justification.

El gran escritor Julio Verne toma la tradición de la novela gótica del siglo XIX para escribir un libro alejado, en principio, de lo que nos tiene acostumbrados. Pueblos atemorizados por la presencia de un castillo maldito habitado por el Diablo; rivalidades por amores pasados; psicofonías y apariciones; muertos resucitados. Todo ello en Transilvania, Rumania.Sin embargo, fiel a su tradición, usa todos esos elementos para adelantarse al desarrollo tecnológico de su época e imaginar máquinas que hoy estamos usando o que quizá en un futuro cercano podremos disfrutar.El castillo de los Cárpatos es uno de los textos menos conocidos de Verne, pero resulta de igual valía ante el lector.

La novela está escrita a modo de narración realizada por uno de los habitantes del pueblo, el Dr. Sheppard. El final de la novela está considerado uno de los más sorprendentes e inesperados de toda la colección

El flemático y solitario caballero inglés Phileas Fogg abandonará su vida de escrupulosa disciplina para cumplir con una apuesta con sus colegas del Reform Club, en la que arriesgará la mitad de su fortuna comprometiéndose a dar la vuelta al mundo en sólo ochenta días usando los medios disponibles en la segunda mitad del siglo XIX y siguiendo el proyecto publicado en el "Morning Chronicle", su diario de lectura cotidiana. Lo acompañará su recién contratado mayordomo francés, y tendrá que lidiar no sólo con los retrasos en los medios de transporte, sino con la pertinaz persecución del detective Fix, que, ignorando la verdadera identidad del caballero, se enrola en toda la aventura a la espera de una orden de arresto de la corona inglesa, en la creencia de que, antes de partir, Fogg robó el Banco de Inglaterra.

Hamlet, la obra más conocida de Shakespeare, es en realidad una pieza llena de lagunas e indefiniciones. Una obra enigmática y misteriosa, en la que cada personaje es un artista de la simulación. El propio Hamlet es un ser en continua transformación. En él caben la ceremoniosidad, la cortesía y la reflexión, junto a la pasión, la burla, el enigma o la posibilidad de la locura. En el castillo de Elsenor, en un ambiente que emana corrupción y desconfianza, claustrofóbico y hostil, se alternan escenas solemnes y reveses irónicos, al tiempo que se agita una corte de personajes cuyo sentido último será llevar a Hamlet a vencer su tensión interna y cumplir la venganza por la muerte de su padre.

Charlotte Anna Perkins, fue una intelectual norteamericana multidisciplinar, muy activa en defensa de los derechos civiles de las mujeres entre finales de 1890 y mediados de 1920. Su obra más conocida es El Tapiz Amarillo publicada en 1892, un relato breve con tintes autobiográficos escrito tras una profunda depresión postparto. Su utopía Herland (1915), es considerada la precursora de la ciencia-ficción feminista moderna. Su figura servirá de modelo para futuras generaciones de mujeres debido a sus ideas y su estilo de vida poco ortodoxo para la época.

My narrative is at an end. I have no comments to make upon the subject of Slavery. Those who read this book may form their own opinions of the "peculiar institution." What it may be in other States, I do not profess to know; what it is in the region of Red River, is truly and faithfully delineated in these pages. This is no fiction, no exaggeration. If I have failed in anything, it has been in presenting to the reader too prominently the bright side of the picture. I doubt not hundreds have been as unfortunate as myself; that hundreds of free citizens have been kidnapped and sold into slavery, and are at this moment wearing out their lives on plantations in Texas and Louisiana. But I forbear. Chastened and subdued in spirit by the sufferings I have borne, and thankful to that good Being through whose mercy I have been restored to happiness and liberty, I hope henceforward to lead an upright though lowly life, and rest at last in the church yard where my father sleeps.

En su libro La Ciencia de Hacerse Rico, WALLACE WATTLES propone un camino de desarrollo personal en la búsqueda de la riqueza: si uno persigue la riqueza a través del método creativo, nos convertimos en excelentes personas y además desarrollamos al máximo nuestras capacidades en el proceso de adquisición de riquezas.Según Wattles, Para lograr una máxima expresión de nuestra vida, es necesario que nos hagamos ricos a través del método científico. Wattles, señala principios universales con una efectividad demostrada a lo largo de los años.

Civilization and Its Discontents is a book by Sigmund Freud. It was written in 1929 and first published in German in 1930 as Das Unbehagen in der Kultur ("The Uneasiness in Civilization"). Exploring what Freud sees as the important clash between the desire for individuality and the expectations of society, the book is considered one of Freud's most important and widely read works, and one of the most influential and studied books in the field of modern psychology.

Phineas Taylor Barnum (July 5, 1810 - April 7, 1891) was an American showman, businessman, scam artist and entertainer, remembered for promoting celebrated hoaxes and for founding the circus that became the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.

The title is an ironic reference to the central character of the novel, Prince (Knyaz) Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin, a young man whose goodness, open-hearted simplicity and guilelessness lead many of the more worldly characters he encounters to mistakenly assume that he lacks intelligence and insight. In the character of Prince Myshkin, Dostoevsky set himself the task of depicting "the positively good and beautiful man." The novel examines the consequences of placing such a unique individual at the centre of the conflicts, desires, passions and egoism of worldly society, both for the man himself and for those with whom he becomes involved.