Author: Gale, Cengage LearningPublisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN: 141034973X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 29
Book Description
A Study Guide for Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "The Woman Who Came at Six O'Clock"
Author: Gale, Cengage LearningPublisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN: 141034973X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 29
Book Description
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Author: Gabriel García MárquezPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1101911107
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
NOBEL PRIZE WINNER • From the author of One Hundred Years of Solitude comes the gripping story of the murder of a young aristocrat that puts an entire society—not just a pair of murderers—on trial. A man returns to the town where a baffling murder took place 27 years earlier, determined to get to the bottom of the story. Just hours after marrying the beautiful Angela Vicario, everyone agrees, Bayardo San Roman returned his bride in disgrace to her parents. Her distraught family forced her to name her first lover; and her twin brothers announced their intention to murder Santiago Nasar for dishonoring their sister. Yet if everyone knew the murder was going to happen, why did no one intervene to stop it? The more that is learned, the less is understood, as the story races to its inexplicable conclusion.
Love in the Time of Cholera (Illustrated Edition)
Author: Gabriel García MárquezPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0593310853
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 473
Book Description
A beautifully packaged edition of one of García Márquez's most beloved novels, with never-before-seen color illustrations by the Chilean artist Luisa Rivera and an interior design created by the author's son, Gonzalo García Barcha. In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years in 622 affairs—yet he reserves his heart for Fermina. Her husband dies at last, and Florentino purposefully attends the funeral. Fifty years, nine months, and four days after he first declared his love for Fermina, he will do so again.
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
Author: Gabriel García MárquezPublisher:
ISBN: 9780241969588
Category : Short stories
Languages : en
Pages : 25
Book Description
Strange, wondrous things happen in these two short stories, which are both the perfect introduction to Gabriel García Márquez, and a wonderful read for anyone who loves the magic and marvels of his novels.After days of rain, a couple find an old man with huge wings in their courtyard in 'A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings' - but is he an angel? Accompanying 'A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings' is the short story 'The Sea of Lost Time', in which a seaside town is brought back to life by a curious smell of roses.
Seventeen Poisoned Englishmen
Author: Gabriel García MárquezPublisher:
ISBN: 9780141022994
Category : Short stories, Colombian
Languages : en
Pages : 55
Book Description
Every book tells a story . . . And the 70 titles in the Pocket Penguins series are emblematic of the renowned breadth and quality that formed part of the original Penguin vision in 1935 and that continue to define our publishing today. Together, they tell one version of the unique story of Penguin Books. Admired by millions across the world, Gabriel Garcia Marquez first came to prominence as an imaginative writer of genius with his fantastical novel One Hundred Years of Solitude , published by Penguin in 1972. Alternately enchanting and disconcerting, the four tales in this volume describe the frailty of humanity and the bewitching force of the imagination, in a world where the lines between reality and dream are hopelessly blurred.
The Art of Fiction
Author: David LodgePublisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448137799
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
In this entertaining and enlightening collection David Lodge considers the art of fiction under a wide range of headings, drawing on writers as diverse as Henry James, Martin Amis, Jane Austen and James Joyce. Looking at ideas such as the Intrusive Author, Suspense, the Epistolary Novel, Magic Realism and Symbolism, and illustrating each topic with a passage taken from a classic or modern novel, David Lodge makes the richness and variety of British and American fiction accessible to the general reader. He provides essential reading for students, aspiring writers and anyone who wants to understand how fiction works.
Das Urteil
Author: Franz KafkaPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781727030792
Category :
Languages : de
Pages : 30
Book Description
Das Urteilauthor: Franz KafkaGeorg stand knapp neben seinem Vater, der den Kopf mit dem struppigen weißen Haar auf die Brust hatte sinken lassen.»Georg«, sagte der Vater leise, ohne Bewegung.Georg kniete sofort neben dem Vater nieder, er sah die Pupillen in dem müden Gesicht des Vaters übergroß in den Winkeln der Augen auf sich gerichtet.»Du hast keinen Freund in Petersburg. Du bist immer ein Spaßmacher gewesen und hast dich auch mir gegenüber nicht zurückgehalten. Wie solltest du denn gerade dort einen Freund haben! Das kann ich gar nicht glauben.
The Passion According to G.H.
Author: Clarice LispectorPublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811220699
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Lispector’s most shocking novel. The Passion According to G.H., Clarice Lispector’s mystical novel of 1964, concerns a well-to-do Rio sculptress, G.H., who enters her maid’s room, sees a cockroach crawling out of the wardrobe, and, panicking, slams the door—crushing the cockroach—and then watches it die. At the end of the novel, at the height of a spiritual crisis, comes the most famous and most genuinely shocking scene in Brazilian literature… Lispector wrote that of all her works this novel was the one that “best corresponded to her demands as a writer.”
American Book Publishing Record
Author: Madame Bovary
Author: Gustave FlaubertPublisher: Bantam Classics
ISBN: 0553213415
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
This exquisite novel tells the story of one of the most compelling heroines in modern literature--Emma Bovary. "Madame Bovary has a perfection that not only stamps it, but that makes it stand almost alone; it holds itself with such a supreme unapproachable assurance as both excites and defies judgement." - Henry James Unhappily married to a devoted, clumsy provincial doctor, Emma revolts against the ordinariness of her life by pursuing voluptuous dreams of ecstasy and love. But her sensuous and sentimental desires lead her only to suffering corruption and downfall. A brilliant psychological portrait, Madame Bovary searingly depicts the human mind in search of transcendence. Who is Madame Bovary? Flaubert's answer to this question was superb: "Madame Bovary, c'est moi." Acclaimed as a masterpiece upon its publication in 1857, the work catapulted Flaubert to the ranks of the world's greatest novelists. This volume, with its fine translation by Lowell Bair, a perceptive introduction by Leo Bersani, and a complete supplement of essays and critical comments, is the indispensable Madame Bovary.