Unnerving, riveting, and written with a timeless quality, these stories confirm Johnson as one of America’s greatest writers and an indispensable guide to our new century. Leer más →
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‘Wuthering Heights’, by Emily Bronte
In the late winter months of 1801, a man named Lockwood rents a manor house called Thrushcross Grange in the isolated moor country of England. Here, he meets his dour landlord, Heathcliff, a wealthy man who lives in the ancient manor of Wuthering Heights Leer más →
‘We’, by Yevgeny Zamyatin
WE tells the story of the minutely organized United State, where all citizens are not individuals but only he-Numbers and she-Numbers existing in identical glass apartments with every action regulated by the «Table of Hours.» Leer más →
Gravity’s Rainbow, by Thomas Pynchon
Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity’s Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of the twentieth century as Joyce’s Ulysses was to the first. Its sprawling, encyclopedic narrative and penetrating analysis of the impact of technology on society make it an intellectual tour de force. Leer más →
‘Lobster dinner’, by Alexandra Kleeman
A fragmented story about lobsters and eating. Leer más →
‘Bartleby the scrivener’, by Herman Melville
In Bartleby, the Scrivener, A Story of Wall Street, Melville gives us a portrait of a copyist – a thin, efficient, anonymous figure named Bartleby, who is in a sense a human photocopy machine. Leer más →
‘Olive Kitteridge’ by Elizabeth Strout
A collection of 13 short stories set in small-town Maine that packs a cumulative emotional wallop, bound together by polished prose and by Olive, the title character, blunt, flawed and fascinating. Leer más →
‘The Prime of Miss Brodie’ by Muriel Spark
A masterful short novel filled with irony, wit, and ethical explorations. Leer más →
‘Beloved’ by Toni Morrison
The novel won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1988 and was a finalist for the 1987 National Book Award. Leer más →
‘A Visit from the Goon Squad’ by Jennifer Egan
Bennie is an aging former punk rocker and record executive. Sasha is the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Here Jennifer Egan brilliantly reveals their pasts, along with the inner lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs. With music pulsing on every page, A Visit from the Goon Squad is a startling, exhilarating novel of self-destruction and redemption. Leer más →