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Cárcel de amor Diego de San Pedro · 1492 · 88p · ≈ 2h · Demanding Compuesta entre 1483 y 1485, e impresa en 1492, constituyó un auténtico éxito editorial en la época y fue pronto traducida a otras lenguas europeas. Siguió reeditándose y traduciéndose todavía en el siglo XVI y XVII. Cuenta una desgraciada historia de amor entre Leriano y Laureola. Una gran parte de la novela es epistolar. El erotismo sigue las convenciones del amor cortés y se representa de… Shares: Spanish Novel And Short Story, Latin American literature, Medieval and modern Latin literature, Classics

El llano en llamas Juan Rulfo · 1953 · ★ 4.2 · 170p · ≈ 5h · Moderate El "Llano en llamas" es hoy un clásico de la literatura mexicana e hispanoamericana, y probablemente uno de los volúmenes de cuentos más traducido a otros idiomas en el mundo entero. Obra aparentemente sencilla resulta, sin embargo, profundamente desconcertante. En su unidad formal descansa una gran diversidad de lenguajes, registros y tonos con los que Rulfo aborda la problemática de una… Shares: Latin American literature, Spanish language books, Romance literature, Social life and customs

Né pour naître Pablo Neruda · 1978 · ★ 3.9 · 451p · ≈ 15h · Moderate Pablo Neruda, Prix Nobel 1971, est sans doute le poète latino-américain le plus célèbre. Ce volume regroupe des textes en prose écrits à diverses époques de sa vie sur toutes sortes de sujets: l'amitié, la poésie, la politique, les voyages... Poèmes en prose, préfaces, articles de journaux, discours, on peut considérer ces textes comme un complément aux Mémoires du poète publiés sous le titre… Shares: Spanish language books, Romance literature, Poetry

Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada Pablo Neruda · 1924 · ★ 4.2 · 46p · ≈ 1h · Challenging Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada es una de las obras más célebres del poeta chileno Pablo Neruda. Publicado en junio de 1924, el poemario lanzó a su autor a la fama con apenas 19 años de edad, y es una de las obras literarias de mayor renombre del siglo XX en el idioma español. Audazmente metafórica y sensual, esta colección yuxtapone la pasión juvenil con la desolación del dolor.… Shares: Spanish language books, Romance literature, Poetry

Ars poetica Horace · 1536 · ★ 3.6 · 82p · ≈ 2h · Demanding Horace was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus, now celebrated for being one of the greatest poets the world has ever known. The Ancient Classics series provides eReaders with the wisdom of the Classical world, with both English translations and the original Latin and Greek texts. This comprehensive eBook presents the complete works of Horace in English and Latin, with… Shares: Latin American literature, Medieval and modern Latin literature, Poetry

Historia Alexandri Magni Quintus Curtius Rufus · 1481 · ★ 4.2 · 312p · ≈ 10h · Demanding The Roman historian's account of the conquests of Alexander the Great is one of the primary sources of our knowledge of the Macedonian conquest and its leader. Shares: Latin American literature, Medieval and modern Latin literature, Biography & Memoir

De bello judaico Flavius Josephus · 1481 · ★ 3.0 · 518p · ≈ 17h · Demanding The Jewish War is a work of Jewish history written by Josephus, a first-century Roman-Jewish historian. It has been described by the biblical historian Steve Mason as "perhaps the most influential non-biblical text of Western history". (Source: Wikipedia) Shares: Latin American literature, Medieval and modern Latin literature, Biography & Memoir

In Catilinam Cicero · 1475 · ★ 3.9 · 174p · ≈ 5h · Demanding Emile and Juliette Hazel have just purchased what will be their final home, set in a little clearing an hour's drive from the nearest town. Here, they think, is the place for an idyllic retirement, isolated from the rest of the world save for one neighbor, a doctor, on the far side of the clearing. One day, after they have spent a week in the house, the Hazels' new neighbor comes knocking at… Shares: Latin American literature, Medieval and modern Latin literature

Literatursprache und Publikum in der lateinischen Spätantike und im Mittelalter Erich Auerbach · 1958 · 405p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Shares: Medieval and modern Latin literature, Literature - Classics

Martin Bircks ungdom Hjalmar Söderberg · 1904 · 164p · ≈ 5h · Challenging "Hjalmar Soderberg's partly autobiographical second novel was originally published in 1901, and traces the development of the title character from a seemingly idyllic Stockholm childhood to maturity as a thirty-year-old man, an introspective outsider, critical of society, constantly searching for the truth but going through a gradual process of disillusionment. He dreams of being a poet, but is… Shares: Literature - Classics, Classics

Butcher's Crossing John Williams · 1960 · ★ 4.2 · 265p · ≈ 8h · Moderate In the 1870s, Will Andrews, fired up by Emerson to seek "an original relation to nature," drops out of Harvard and heads west. He washes up in Butcher's Crossing, a small Kansas town full of restless men looking for ways to make money and ways to waste it. One of these men regales Will with tales of the immense buffalo herds hidden away in the Colorado Rockies and convinces him to join an… Shares: Literature - Classics, Classics

Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas Machado de Assis · 1881 · ★ 4.3 · 207p · ≈ 6h · Challenging Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas é um romance escrito por Machado de Assis, desenvolvido em princípio como folhetim, de março a dezembro de 1880, na Revista Brasileira, para, no ano seguinte, ser publicado como livro, pela então Tipografia Nacional como Memorias Posthumas de Braz Cubas. O livro tem como marcas um tom cáustico e novo estilo na obra de Machado de Assis, bem como audácia e inovação… Shares: Romance literature, Classics, Social life and customs, Biography & Memoir

The Pool in the Desert Sara Jeannette Duncan · 1903 · 204p · ≈ 6h · Challenging A collection of stories by Sara Jeannette Duncan. In The Pool in the Desert, first published in 1903, Sara Jeannette Duncan explores the impact of isolation on the small British communities of Victorian India. Shares: Literature - Classics, Classics, Social life and customs

Moralia Plutarch · 1500 · ★ 4.0 · 15p · ≈ 30m · Demanding The Moralia of the 1st-century Greek scholar Plutarch of Chaeronea is an eclectic collection of 78 essays and transcribed speeches. They provide insights into Roman and Greek life, but often are also timeless observations in their own right. Shares: Latin American literature, Poetry, Biography & Memoir

East of Eden John Steinbeck, David Wyatt & Susan Shillinglaw Set in the rich farmland of the Salinas Valley, California, this powerful, often brutal novel, follows the interwined destinies of two families - the Trasks and the Hamiltons - whose generations hopelessly re-enact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. Here Steinbeck created some of his most memorable characters and explored his most enduring themes: the mystery of… Shares: Classics

Lord of the Flies William Golding, Lois Lowry & Jennifer Buehler Lord of the Flies is the 1954 debut novel of British author William Golding. The plot concerns a group of prepubescent British boys who are stranded on an uninhabited island and their disastrous attempts to govern themselves that lead to a descent into savagery. The novels themes include morality, leadership, and the tension between civility and chaos. Shares: Classics

The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas · 1964 · ★ 4.5 · 242p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantès is confined to the grim fortress of If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte Cristo and he becomes determined not only to escape, but also to use the treasure to plot the destruction of the three men responsible for his incarceration. Shares: Classics

The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov · 141p · ≈ 4h · Moderate The Master and Margarita () is a novel by Mikhail Bulgakov, written in the Soviet Union between 1928 and 1940. A censored version, with several chapters cut by editors, was published posthumously in Moscow magazine in 1966–1967 by his widow Elena Bulgakova. The manuscript was first published as a book in 1967, in Paris, France. A samizdat version circulated that included parts cut out by official… Shares: Classics

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