Benjamin Briggent Boeken

Broadview's edition of this classic realist novella includes a very broad range of historical appendices.

Jane Austen's famous novel about Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy finding love against all the odds of misunderstanding, scandal and family interference is brought to life in a brand new adaptation coming to cinemas this Autumn.

Classic / British English Why is the frightening Mr Hyde a friend of the nice Dr Jekyll? Who is the evil little man? And why does he seem to have power over the doctor? After a terrible murder, everyone is looking for Mr Hyde. But he has disappeared. Or has he?

Heart of Darkness has been considered for most of this century as a literary classic, and also as a powerful indictment of the evils of imperialism. It reflects the savage repressions carried out in the Congo by the Belgians in one of the largest acts of genocide committed up to that time. Conrad's narrator encounters at the end of the story a man named Kurtz, dying, insane, and guilty of unspeakable atrocities.

Uno de los títulos más representativos de la vasta producción del denominado Maestro del terror cósmico, el estadounidense Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937). Nadie como él ha mezclado los relatos de terror y ciencia ficción. Su obra con base materialista se aparta de la temática tradicional, incorporando elementos de ciencia ficción. Con La llamada de Cthulhu, Lovecraft nos muestra las primeras visiones de ese terror cósmico que tantas veces exploraría a lo largo de su obra.