Centaur Classics - Libros y biografía

Dark allegory describes the narrator’s journey up the Congo River and his meeting with, and fascination by, Mr. Kurtz, a mysterious personage who dominates the unruly inhabitants of the region. Masterly...

Dorian Gray is the subject of a full-length portrait in oil by Basil Hallward, an artist who is impressed and infatuated by Dorian's beauty; he believes that Dorian’s beauty is responsible for the new...

"Among the few English novels which we can call indisputably great." —Virginia Woolf "Crusoe himself is a representative of humanity in general; neither his intellectual nor his moral qualities set him...

"A great book because it gives an honest picture of the relationship between father and son, and it could do that because Butler was a truly independent observer, and above all because he was courageous....

This book contains the complete novels of Virginia Woolf in the chronological order of their original publication. [1915] The Voyage Out [1919] Night and Day [1920] Jacob's Room [1925] Mrs Dalloway [1927]...

"One of the half-dozen greatest novels of the world." —Upton Sinclair "The greatest of all novels." —Leo Tolstoy "Hugo is unquestionably the most powerful talent that has appeared in France in the nineteenth...

«Gulliver's Travels» is both a satire on human nature and a parody of the "travellers' tales" literary subgenre. It is Swift's best known full-length work, and a classic of English literature.

This book contains the complete Edgar Allan Poe’s tales in the chronological order of their original publication. Here you can also find the two unfinished tales "The Journal of Julius Rodman" and "The...

«Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero» is a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, first published in 1847–48, satirizing society in early 19th-century Britain. The book's title comes from John Bunyan's...

This book contains the (almost) complete short stories of Guy de Maupassant in the chronological order of their original publication. Here you will find the largest collection of Maupassant’s short stories...

"The greatest imaginative novelist of our generation." —E. M. Forster "[Lawrence] was a language, a setting, a world entirely of his own… He was, like all true poetry, against tepid living and tepid loves…...

"One of the comic gems of the English language." —Robert McCrum "[Jerome saw] that one of the funniest things a human being has is his conscience." —V. S. Pritchett Martyrs to hypochondria and general...

"There are few novels which grip so thrillingly as those first read in childhood, and for me none which has quite matched the excitement of Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Treasure Island'." —P. D. James "It...

"It is as impossible to miss the light of its extreme beauty and wisdom as it would be to miss the full moon on a clear night." —Rebecca West "A masterpiece." —Julian Barnes "I don’t know how many times...

"Nature has endowed [Goethe] more generously than anyone since Shakespeare." —Friedrich Schiller "[In] 'Werther', all the richness of [Goethe’s] gift was apparent… The extreme, nerve-shattering sensitivity...

"Only Shakespeare comes close to Cervantes’ genius." —Harold Bloom "The highest creation of genius has been achieved by Shakespeare and Cervantes, almost alone." —Samuel Taylor Coleridge "What a monument...