Benjamin Briggent Boeken

Daisy Miller, a naive young American woman traveling in Europe with her family, finds it difficult to understand Europen society

This Norton Critical Edition of Stevenson's enduringly popular and chilling tale is based on the 1886 First British Edition, the only edition set directly from Stevenson's manuscript and for which he read proofs. The text has been rigorously annotated for student readers and is accompanied by a textual appendix.

Heart of Darkness is classified by the Modern Library website editors as one of the “100 best novels” and part of the Western canon. In this Reader you will find: Information about Joseph Conrad’s life | An introduction focusing on background and context | Focus pages on colonialism, critical readings and themes and symbols | Notes on the text | Activities to help with technical vocabulary | Post- and pre-reading activities Tags Classic Marlow, a man who has spent his life at sea, tells the story of a journey up the River Congo which changed his life. His journey upriver to find Kurtz, the charismatic head of a colonial trading station, takes him into the very heart of Africa and leads Marlow to question both Kurtz’s dubious methods and his own very nature. Conrad’s dark and powerfully evocative tale is a compelling study of inner conflict and a devastating critique of European imperialism.

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.