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Many have made the journey. None have ever returned... Wandering through a dark forest, Dante finds himself at the gates to the underworld. Despite his terror, he dares to enter the Circles of Hell, where the damned lie in torment. As he descends deeper, he encounters wild-eyed sinners,...

THE HEIMSKRINGLA (Old Norse, 'the Circle of the World') is the best known of the Old Norse kings' sagas, recounting the lives of famous Scandinavian kings.  First written about 1230 by Icelandic scholar and poet Snorri Sturluson (c. 1179-1241), the HEIMSKRINGLA contains the sagas of 16 Norse...

El collar de la paloma es la obra más conocida de Ibn Hazm, «el filósofo de Córdoba», teólogo, jurista, polemista, erudito, y una de las mentes más brillantes de España. El collar de la paloma está fechado en 1022 en la ciudad de Játiva, y es según Ortega y Gasset: «el libro más ilustre...

Describing Dante's descent into Hell midway through his life with Virgil as a guide, Inferno depicts a cruel underworld in which desperate figures are condemned to eternal damnation for committing one or more of seven deadly sins. As he descends through nine concentric circles of increasingly agonising...

Amor es más laberinto Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, religiosa y escritora novohispana, exponente del Siglo de Oro de la literatura en español (1651-1695) Este libro electrónico presenta «Amor es más laberinto», de Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz,...

This new translation presents the Italian text of the Inferno, and, on facing pages, Robert Durling's new prose translation, which brings a new power and accuracy to the rendering of Dantes extraordinary vision of Hell, with all its terror, pathos, and sardonic humor, and its penetrating analyses...

One of the founding texts of literary modernism. Set in a modern, urban Paris, the prose pieces in this volume constitute a further exploration of the terrain Baudelaire had covered in his verse masterpiece, The Flowers of Evil: the city and its squalor and inequalities, the pressures of time...

In his introduction, the translator says: "I suppose that a very great majority of English-speaking people, if they were asked to name the greatest epic poet of the Christian era in Western Europe, would answer Dante." THE DIVINE COMEDY continues to be widely read today, whether for its religious inspiration...

This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. This book features a table of contents linked to every chapter. The book was designed for optimal navigation on the iPad, Nook, PDA, Smartphone, and other electronic readers. It is formatted to display on all electronic devices including eReaders, Smartphones and other Mobile Devices with a small display.

Llego al tercer libro de poesías surcando los mares de la realidad en un pequeño velero. Libro con título extraño, Poesías, Amor y Moscas. En el libro encontrarás poesías de amor, del amor cercano al más lejano. También hay sitio para versos sobre esto tan cambiante que es el vivir, el mundo...

Enduring icon of creativity, authenticity, and rebellion, and the subject of numerous new biographies, Arthur Rimbaud is one of the most repeatedly scrutinized literary figures of the last half-century. Yet almost thirty years have elapsed without a major new translation of his writings. Remedying...

El “Cantar de Mio Cid” se ha convertido en una de las gestas más afamados de la Edad Media, y el único cantar épico de la literatura española conservado casi completo. Su base argumental es una parte de la vida del caballero castellano Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, quien trata de recuperar la honra perdida a través de diversas hazañas.

Mise à jour du 10/04/2012 : nouvelle version ePub pour iPad et liseuses. Pas forcément pour L'Albatros, la Chevelure ou le Chat rabâchés à l'école, mais pour les Tableaux parisiens, pour le vin et la mort, pour le Voyage et l'inconnu qu'on y trouve. Pour les Spleens et comme ils s'ancrent...