Categoría: Book Discussions in English

Fahrenheit 451 is a classic example of dystopian fiction, written by one of the most acclaimed authors of American science fiction and fantasy. Leer más →

The Canterville Ghost is a novella by Oscar Wilde. It was the first of Wilde’s stories to be published, appearing in two parts in The Court and Society Review, 23 February and 2 March 1887. Leer más →

The first science fiction written by a black woman, Kindred has become a cornerstone of black American literature. This combination of slave memoir, fantasy, and historical fiction is a novel of rich literary complexity. Leer más →

It is told by Sinhue, physician to the Pharaoh, and is the story of his life, his search of happiness and meaning. Leer más →

Set on an estate in Scotland, it is about a gamekeeper’s descent into madness and two cone gatherers in the forest. It is about class issues, unexplained goodness and badness. Leer más →

A portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man’s fierce reaction to injustice, and of one woman’s stoical strength, the novel captures the horrors of the Great Depression and probes the very nature of equality and justice in America. Leer más →

Like his father and grandfather before him, Kino is a poor diver, gathering pearls from the gulf beds that once brought great wealth to the Kings of Spain and now provide Kino, Juana, and their infant son with meager subsistence. Then, on a day like any other, Kino emerges from the sea with a pearl as large as a sea gull’s egg. Leer más →

National Book Award winner M. T. Anderson returns to future Earth in a sharply wrought satire of art and truth in the midst of colonization. Leer más →

‘The Diamond as Big as the Ritz’ is the story of John T. Unger, a young Southerner who goes to Montana for summer vacation with a wealthy college classmate. Leer más →

Astonishing, a masterpiece, Paul Auster’s greatest, most satisfying, most vivid and heartbreaking novel — a sweeping and surprising story of inheritance, family, love and life itself. Leer más →