Brave New World

Bret Easton Ellis

Bret Easton Ellis's masterful new novel is a story about the end of innocence, and the perilous passage from adolescence into adulthood, set in a vibrantly fictionalized Los Angeles in 1981 as a serial killer begins targeting teenagers throughout the city. Seventeen-year-old Bret is a senior at the exclusive Buckley prep school when a new student arrives with a mysterious past....

Rupi Kaur

u003ciu003eHealing Through Wordsu003c/iu003e is a guided tour on the journey back to the self, a cathartic and mindful exploration through writing.u003cbru003e u003cbru003e u003cbru003e u003cbru003e This carefully curated collection of exercises asks only that you be vulnerable and honest, both with yourself and the page.u003cbru003e u003cbru003e u003cbru003e u003cbru003e You d...

O'farrell, Maggie

A stunning new departure for Maggie O'Farrell's fiction, HAMNET is the heart-stopping story behind Shakespeare's most famous play.On a summer's day in 1596, a young girl in Stratford-upon-Avon takes to her bed with a fever. Her twin brother, Hamnet, searches everywhere for help. Why is nobody at home?Their mother, Agnes, is over a mile away, in the garden where she grows medici...

Coates, Ta-Nehisi

Hiram Walker is born into bondage on a Virginia plantation. But he is also born gifted with a mysterious power that he won't discover until he is almost a man, when he risks everything for a chance to escape. One fateful decision will carry him away from his makeshift plantation family - his adoptive mother, Thena, a woman of few words and many secrets, and his beloved, angry S...

This box set of the 50 books in the new Penguin Modern series celebrates the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics list and its iconic authors. Including avant-garde essays, radical polemics, newly translated poetry and great fiction, here are brilliant and diverse voices from across the globe. Ground-breaking and original in their day, their words still have the pow...

Louisa May Alcott

'I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.'Meg, Jo, Amy and Beth - four "little women" enduring hardships and enjoying adventures in Civil War New England The charming story of the March sisters, Little Women has been adored by generations. Readers have rooted for Laurie in his pursuit of Jo's hand, cried over little Beth's death, and dreamed of travelling...

Huxley, Aldous

"Un mundo feliz" (1932) presenta una visión satírica de un futuro utópico en el que, a partir del desarrollo de la ingeniería genética y de las nuevas técnicas de lavado de cerebro, se ha conseguido crear una sociedad perfecta cuyos habitantes viven sometidos a un estado de felicidad y armonía perpetuo. Publicado en el periodo de entreguerras, cuando el crecimiento del nazismo ...

Huxley, Aldous

Huxley, Aldous

Un mundo feliz es un clásico de la literatura del siglo XX, una sombría metáfora de un futuro posible. Los peores vaticinios del capitalismo se han cumplido: triunfan los dioses del consumo y la comodidad, y el orbe se divide en diez zonas en apariencia seguras y estables. Los humanos ya no procrean, el sexo se ha convertido solo en una diversión y las letras del alfabeto grieg...

Huxley, Aldous

Huxley, Aldous

"Un mundo feliz" es posiblemente la novela más leída de Huxley, y su influencia es evidente tanto en buena parte de la novela de ciencia ficción de calidad como en las novelas filosóficas. Presenta un mundo en el que el Estado controla hasta el más mínimo detalle de la vida de los individuos, a los que mantiene en una ignorancia, producto de un depurado "lavado de cerebro". "Nu...

Huxley, Aldous

Contrapunto es posiblemente la novela más ambiciosa y lograda de Huxley y la que dio mayor fama internacional, pues en ella da forma literaria al contrapunto musical, alternando acciones simultáneas que avanzan en paralelo y demostrando que eso es posible y funciona en una novela. Se convierte así en la historia personal de muchos personajes que se entrecruzan. En cierto modo, ...