Oscar: 1500 books

Guido [Taking a letter from his pocket and reading it.] "The hour noon; the city, Padua; the place, the market; and the day, Saint Philip's Day." Ascanio And what of the man, how shall we know him? Guido [reading still] "I will wear a violet cloak with a silver falcon broidered on the...

El libro del doctor Óscar Benassini ofrece una guía completa para entender qué es la depresión y cómo tratarla. El autor plantea que la mejor estrategia para enfrentar este padecimiento es la información y ayuda al lector a entender que el menosprecio de los síntomas, el subestimar las emociones,...

MAKSIM ZIEMTSOV is in a privileged position at the Soviet Union in 1980s. Son of a high ranking Red Army officer, Hero of the Soviet Union he holds the position of Assistant Curator of Moscows prestigious Ostankino Museum. Yet, he is chaffing at the bit .Depended on the chain of command of the Communist...

Wilde’s meditation on capital punishment, the Ballad of Reading Gaol comes after he was convicted and imprisoned under charges of gross indecency. The charges stemmed from his affair with Lord Alfred Douglas, the son of the Marquis of Queensberry. It relates the story of an execution of a man who...

A nightingale finds a young romantic student in tears because he cannot find a red rose for his beautiful ball partner. There are no red roses in the garden. The nightingale visits all the rose-trees in the area, and one of the roses tells her there is a way to produce a red rose, but only if the nightingale...

The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious personæ to escape burdensome social obligations. Working within the social conventions of late Victorian London, the play's major themes are the triviality with...

Gwendolen thinks that she loves Ernest. Cecily thinks that she loves Ernest too. But who is Ernest really? What kind of man is he? Read this funny play and laugh. Or act it to your friends and they will laugh. This is a wonderful play by one of the greatest writers of his time.

'A Trivial Comedy for Serious People': its subtitle is the best summary of a play that is the theatrical equivalent of a butterfly. The verbal brilliance of its highly self-conscious characters hides deep anxieties about social and personal identity: Jack Worthing, found as a baby in a handbag at...

This Victorian comedy of manners sparkles with Wilde's trademark repartee, epigrams, and witty dialogue. Arch-moralist Lady Windermere, shattered by the suspicion of her husband’s infidelity, contemplates running off with a roué until her rival illustrates the difference between morality and its appearance. A comic masterpiece, studded with humorous quips and clever paradoxes.

Sites of Memory in Spain and Latin America isa collection of essays that explores historical memory at the intersection of political, cultural, social, and economic forces in the contexts of Spain and Latin America. The essays here focus on a variety of forms of memory—from the most concrete to...

Otherwise Fables gives new wit and depth to the beloved mode of the fable Written by respected Belgian scholar and professor emeritus of literature at prestigious Caltech Author has published widely in the fields of poetry, drama, fiction, art history, literary theory, and translations from French and German Book will be supported by a generous marketing and advertising budget

En 1910 Otto Diesel desapareció en su huida a Inglaterra con un preciado descubrimiento que podía llevar a la guerra al mundo. Un oficial británico, una espía, americanos y alemanes perseguirán el trofeo para hacerse con el mundo.. o parar la guerra. Una novela histórica de ficción, espías, pasión, acción y guerra, desde el atentado a Francisco Fernando al buque corsario Emdem.

Extrait : "Être entraîné à la dérive de toute passion jusqu'à ce que mon âme devienne un luth aux cordes tendues dont peuvent jouer tous les vents, c'est pour cela que j'ai renoncé à mon antique sagesse, à l'austère maîtrise de moi-même."À PROPOS DES ÉDITIONS LIGARANLes éditions LIGARAN...