La modificación

"La modificación" es una novela bajo un atuendo tradicional; puede leerse como una novela psicológica o incluso como una novela de costumbres. Sin embargo, es un conglomerado de realismo, formalismo y simbolismo que parte de un enigma inicial: contiene un "secreto".

Un amor de Swann

"Un amor de Swann" no es un simple fragmento del total de la obra "En busca del tiempo perdido". Ofrecido por el propio autor como una estructura social cerrada, los Verdurin, y como el relato de una historia de amor, lo que le da realmente ...

Novels, 1881-1886

Washington Square. The portrait of a lady. The bostonians

The library of America is dedicated to publishing America's best and most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as the "finest-looking, longest-lasting editions ever made" (The New Republic), Library of America volumes make a fine gift for any occasion. Now ...

Andrómaca; Fedra

Andrómaca. La viuda de Héctor, el héroe de Troya, antes princesa y hoy esclava, antes venerada por su pueblo y hoy despreciada por quienes odiaron a su marido, vive presa en su ánimo del amor a su difunto esposo y el afecto por lo único ...

La conciencia de Zeno

"Italo Svevo" (pseudónimo con el que Aron Hector Schmitz quiso recalcar su componente italo-alemana) nació en Trieste, en 1869, y murió en 1928. Estudió en Alemania, y trabajó en la banca, en su ciudad natal. La primera edición de «La conciencia de Zeno» (1923) tuvo ...

Adolphe

Adolphe, el protagonista, introdujo en la literatura europea el carácter lúcido y contradictorio de un Don Juan introspectivo. La novela psicológica o de análisis, admirablemente escrita, abría así un camino propio y fructífero.

Los novios

Esta novela histórica del siglo XVII, que fue saludada por Goethe y por Alan Poe, brota del hallazgo de un antiguo manuscrito y se expande en un entramado lingüístico cuidadosamente modelado en el que el lector de nuestros días aprecia el juego irónico y de ...

The Leatherstocking Tales II

The Pathfinder; The Deerslayer

When Cooper’s most memorable hero, Leatherstocking, started an American tradition by setting off into the sunset in The Pioneers, one early reader said of his departure, “I longed to go with him.” American readers couldn’t get enough of the Leatherstocking saga (collected in ...

The Leatherstocking Tales I

The Pioneers; The Last of the Mohicans; The Prairie

The five novels in The Leatherstocking Tales (collected in two Library of America volumes), Cooper’s great saga of the American wilderness, form a pageant of the American frontier. Cooper’s hero, Natty Bumppo, is forced ever farther into the heart of the continent by ...

El tío Goriot

Honoré de Balzac utilizó la escritura como una formidable palanca hacia un ascenso social que le era negado. Su obra, desmesurada e innovadora, recogió el impulso de la naciente ciencia de su siglo en un esfuerzo titánico por describir y reflejar la sociedad circundante. La ...

Poe: essays and reviews

This is the most complete one-volume edition of Poe’s essays and reviews ever published. Here are all his major writings on the theory of poetry, the art of fiction, and the duties of a critic: “The Rationale of Verse,” “The Philosophy of Composition,” “The ...

Emerson: essays and lectures

Nature; Addresses, and lectures. Essays: first and second series. Representative men. English traits. The conduct of life

This first Library of America volume of Emerson’s writing covers the most productive period of his life, 1832–1860. Our most eloquent champion of individualism, Emerson acknowledges at the same time the countervailing pressures of society in American life. Even as he extols what ...

Adams

Democracy. Esther. Mont Saint Michel and Chartres. The education of Henry Adams

This Library of America volume includes the best-known works of Henry Adams, one of the most powerful and original minds to illuminate the American scene from the Civil War to World War I. Now brought together for the first time in a single volume, these ...

Three novels

Uncle Tom's cabin; The Minister's wooing; Oldtown folks

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Novels 1875-1886

A foregone conclusion; A modern instance; Indian summer; The rise of Silas Lapham

The four novels collected in this Library of America volume are among the classic works from the immensely productive career of America’s most influential man of letters at the turn of the twentieth century. William Dean Howells was a champion of French and Russian ...

Novels and social writings

The people of the Abyss; The road; The iron heel; Martin Eden; John Barleycorn; Essays

By turns an impoverished laborer, a renegade adventurer, a war correspondent in Mexico, a declared socialist, and a writer of enormous popularity the world over, Jack London was the author of brilliant works that reflect his ideas about twentieth-century capitalist societies while dramatizing them through ...

Hawthorne: tales and sketches

This Library of America volume offers what no reader has ever been able to find—an authoritative edition of all the tales and sketches of Nathaniel Hawthorne in a single comprehensive volume. Everything is included from his three books of stories, Twice-told Tales (1837, revised ...

London: novels and stories

The call of the wild. White fang. The sea-wolf. Klondike and other stories

This Library of America volume of Jack London’s best-known work is filled with thrilling action, an intuitive feeling for animal life, and a sense of justice that often works itself out through violence. London enjoyed phenomenal popularity in his own time (which included the ...

Whitman: poetry and prose

This Library of America edition is the most comprehensive volume of the work of Walt Whitman ever published. It includes all of his poetry and what he considered his complete prose. It is also the only collection that includes, in exactly the form in which ...

Melville

Typee. Omoo. Mardi

The inaugural volume of The Library of America presents one of America’s greatest writers, Herman Melville (1819–1891). These three early novels are stirring romances of the South Seas; many of their fictional details resemble some of the events in Melville’s own life ...