Centaur Classics - Libros y biografía

«A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man» represents the transitional stage between the realism of Joyce's «Dubliners» and the symbolism of «Ulysses» and is essential to the understanding of the later...

"Trollope did not write for posterity. He wrote for the day, the moment; but these are just the writers whom posterity is apt to put into its pocket." —Henry James "A wise man told me I would learn more...

"Like the greatest characters in literature, Tess lives beyond the final pages of the book as a permanent citizen of the imagination." —Irving Howe "What a commonplace genius he has; or a genius for the...

"The tragedy of tragedies." —Wang Guowei "['The Dream of the Red Chamber'] is to the Chinese very much what 'The Brothers Karamazov' is to Russian and 'In Search of Lost Time' is to French literature…...

"One of the few English novels written for grown-up people." —Virginia Woolf "What do I think of ‘Middlemarch’? What do I think of glory — except that in a few instances this 'mortal has already put on...

"['Fathers and Sons'] stirs the mind… because everything is permeated with the most complete and most touching sincerity." —Dmitry Pisarev "[Turgenev] was of the stuff of which glories are made." —Henry...

"The finest piece of imaginative writing yet put forth in the country." —Henry James "[Nathaniel Hawthorne] recaptured, for his New England, the essence of Greek tragedy." —Malcolm Cowley "There could...

"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...

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...

"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...