By Iris Murdoch
ISBN-10: 8426417965
ISBN-13: 9788426417961
Una novela divertida y profunda a un tiempo, y con un elemento de suspense que explora con maestría los temas que desde siempre han preocupado a l. a. autora: el amor, l. a. amistad y l. a. perversa frontera que separa el bien y el mal.
El eco de un tiro en los despachos de Whitehall, el complejo administrativo que el gobierno inglés posee en el centro de Londres, no anuncia tan solo l. a. extraña muerte de un alto funcionario, sino también el principio de una sutil intriga.
Kate y Octavian, jefe del departamento donde trabajaba el difunto, forman un matrimonio aparentemente feliz que alberga en su casa de Dorset a un extravagante grupo de personajes: un excéntrico tío que abandonó l. a. India bajo sospecha, un atormentado amigo superviviente de Dachau, el abogado responsable del caso y amante platónico de Kate, hijos de distintos matrimonios, conocidos, visitantes ocasionales...
Y todos ellos relacionados de un modo u otro con el muerto en una deliciosa comedia de errores, donde las sonrisas esconden a menudo pecados de mucha hondura.
Reseña:
«Un originalísimo mundo novelístico de una interminable seducción.»
El País
Read or Download Amigos y amantes PDF
Best british literature books
Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) PDF
Jude the vague, via Thomas Hardy, is a part of the Barnes & Noble Classics sequence, which bargains caliber variations at cheap costs to the coed and the final reader, together with new scholarship, considerate layout, and pages of rigorously crafted extras. listed here are a number of the notable positive aspects of Barnes & Noble Classics: All versions are superbly designed and are revealed to greater requisites; a few contain illustrations of historic curiosity.
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë PDF
Overview
Charlotte Brontë’s so much loved novel describes the passionate love among the brave orphan Jane Eyre and the intense, brooding, and domineering Rochester.
The loneliness and cruelty of Jane’s youth strengthens her common independence and spirit, which end up helpful whilst she takes a place as a governess at Thornfield corridor. yet after she falls in love along with her sardonic company, her discovery of his negative mystery forces her to make a heart-wrenching selection. Ever given that its book in 1847, Jane Eyre has enthralled all kinds of reader, from the main severe and cultivated to the youngest and such a lot unabashedly romantic. It lives as one of many nice triumphs of storytelling and as a relocating and unforgettable portrayal of a woman's quest for self-respect.
Download e-book for kindle: African Stories by Doris Lessing
Lengthy thought of Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing’s top choice of brief tales, African Stories—a critical ebook within the paintings of a really cherished writer—is now again in print. this gorgeous assortment is an homage to her twenty-five years spent in Africa and a super portrait of African lifestyles.
G. K. Chesterton's The Ballad of the White Horse: An Epic Poem PDF
A rousing ballad according to the genuine tale of mythical Saxon king Alfred the Great
at nighttime occasions ahead of a unified England, warring tribes roved and sparred for territory around the British Isles. The Ballad of the White Horse files the deeds and army accomplishments of Alfred the good as he defeats the invading Danes on the conflict of Ethandun.
Published in 1911, this poem follows the battle—from the collection of the chiefs to the final conflict cry—with a care to rhythm, sound, and language that makes it an impressive murals in addition to an essential piece of English history.
an important impression at the constitution of Tolkien’s The Lord of the earrings, The Ballad of the White Horse transforms the exciting exploits of a brave chief into an inspirational Christian allegory.
This book has been professionally proofread to make sure accuracy and clarity on all units.
- Hushabye (Kate Redman Mysteries, Book 1)
- The Defendant: Essays
- Henry V (HarperPerennial Classics)
- Timon of Athens (HarperPerennial Classics)
Additional resources for Amigos y amantes
Sample text
And at that time the pale, worn, patient face was seen looking up at the sky, with the broken right hand lying bare on the outside of the covering garments, as if waiting to be taken by another hand. They gave him drink, moistened his face with water, and administered some drops of cordials and wine. ’’ (Hard Times, p. 206) Benjamin similarly locates his isolated novel reader ‘‘under the open sky in a countryside in which nothing remained unchanged but the clouds’’ (Benjamin, ‘‘The Storyteller,’’ p.
Yet the definition of literacy was simultaneously restrictive enough that many or most working-class English people would never be able to count as fully literate: to speak with a regional accent, for example, or to use one’s education for radical ends, potentially labeled one as illiterate. The figure of the speaking worker marked, then, a point where two competing or contradictory concepts of literacy collided. An illiterate worker’s speech offered the promise of future education, the possibility of improvement, and even the liberal utopia of a fully educated, middle-class England.
In a manner that has since become familiar, Carlyle’s valorization of a hitherto occulted and suppressed speech permits a fantasy of a sovereign language that must be obeyed: ‘‘The world has to obey him who thinks and sees in the world . . It, the new Truth, new deeper revealing of the Secret of this Universe, is verily of the nature of a message from on high; and must and will have itself obeyed’’ (On Heroes, pp. 165–6). Such sovereign language heals the community, induces unanimity, and restores the damaged individual body to wholeness.
Amigos y amantes by Iris Murdoch
by Daniel
4.5