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Los mejores libros jamás escritos «Quería hablar a menudo, pero, la verdad, no sabía qué decir. ¿Sabe usted?, en ciertos casos lo mejor es no decir nada.» Tras retratar magistralmente la figura del culpable en Crimen y castigo, Dostoievski ahonda en El idiota en el alma torturada de un hombre inocente. Después de pasar varios años en un sanatorio suizo, el joven y piadoso príncipe Mishkin regresa a su Rusia natal para recibir una herencia y «mezclarse con la gente». Sin embargo, en San Petesburgo solo le aguarda una sociedad obsesionada con el dinero, el poder y la manipulación que pondrá a prueba su moral y sus puros sentimientos. Antes de llegar a su destino conoce al inquietante Rogozhin, hijo de un acaudalado mercader, cuya fijación por la hermosa Nastasia Filíppovna acabará por arrastrar a los tres protagonistas a un fatal desenlace. La presente edición cuenta con la traducción magistral de José Laín Entralgo y Augusto Vidal. El estudio introductorio es de William Mills Todd III, catedrático de literatura y lenguas eslavas en la Universidad de Hardvard.

Una de las obras más complejas y profundas de Dostoievski se adentra en los entresijos de la mente del revolucionario, terrorista y nihilista.«Aquel que vencerá al sufrimiento y al terror, y él mismo será Dios. Entonces ya no existirá el otro Dios.»Los demonios se inspira en el asesinato de un estudiante en manos de sus compañeros revolucionarios en 1869, y se concibió como una profunda crítica a los movimientos que estaban emergiendo en aquel momento. El resultado es una de las novelas más controvertidas, complejas y oscuras de Dostoievski desde que escribió Los hermanos Karamázov. Pyotr Verkhovensky y Nikolái Stavrogin son los líderes de una célula revolucionaria cuyo objetivo es derrocar el zar, destruir la sociedad y hacerse con el poder, pero cuando el grupo es descubierto e interviene la justicia, se pone a prueba nuestra propia fe en la humanidad. Esta edición incluye una magnífica introducción de Marta Rebón, traductora, crítica literaria y reconocida experta en literatura rusa. Asimismo, presenta la traducción de Carlos Arce, quien fue un prestigioso periodista, novelista, ensayista, traductor y editor español.

Set against a changing Singapore, a sweeping novel about one boy’s unique gifts and the childhood love that will complicate the fate of his community and country Ah Boon is born into a fishing village amid the heat and beauty of twentieth-century coastal Singapore in the waning years of British rule. He is a gentle boy who is not much interested in fishing, preferring to spend his days playing with the neighbor girl, Siok Mei. But when he discovers he has the unique ability to locate bountiful, movable islands that no one else can find, he feels a new sense of obligation and possibility—something to offer the community and impress the spirited girl he has come to love. By the time they are teens, Ah Boon and Siok Mei are caught in the tragic sweep of history: the Japanese army invades, the resistance rises, grief intrudes, and the future of the fishing village is in jeopardy. As the nation hurtles toward rebirth, the two friends, newly empowered, must decide who they want to be, and what they are willing to give up.

“When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin.” With this startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first sentence, Franz Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis. It is the story of a young man who, transformed overnight into a giant beetlelike insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own home, a quintessentially alienated man. A harrowing—though absurdly comic—meditation on human feelings of inadequacy, guilt, and isolation, The Metamorphosis has taken its place as one of the most widely read and influential works of twentieth-century fiction.

Tom, a foundling, is discovered one evening by the benevolent Squire Allworthy and his sister Bridget and brought up as a son in their household; when his sexual escapades and general misbehavior lead them to banish him, he sets out in search of both his fortune and his true identity. Amorous, high-spirited, and filled with what Fielding called “the glorious lust of doing good,” but with a tendency toward dissolution, Tom Jones is one of the first characters in English fiction whose human virtues and vices are realistically depicted. This edition is set from the text of the Wesleyan Edition of the Works of Henry Fielding.