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Examines the background, transformations, and present and future implications of genetic engineering and the biological revolution and argues that we are on the verge of a shift more profound than the Industrial Revolution.
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Joyce Carol Oates has a special perspective on the “gothic” in American short fiction, at least partially because her own horror yarns rank on the spine-tingling chart with the masters. She is able to see the unbroken link of the macabre that ti[...]
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Roald DAHL, Autor ; Quentin BLAKE, Ilustrador | Nueva York [Estados Unidos] : Penguin Random House | 2016Rolad Dahl in his book Boy recounts his days as a boy growing up in England. From his years as a boarding school prankster to his enviable position as a chocolate tester for Cadbury, Roald Dahl's childhood was as full of excitement and the unexp[...]
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In the short story 'The Doll's House' by Katherine Mansfield, a main idea that was dealt with was the class distinction the existed in the 1900s, the period of when the story was based on. Through the story, the author illustrates the horrid and[...]
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Suspected of killing Vera Donovan, her wealthy employer, Dolores Claiborne tells police the story of her life, harkening back to her disintegrating marriage and the suspicious death of her violent husband, Joe St. George, thirty years earlier. D[...]
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James CARROLL, Autor | 1990Firebird, the author's seventh novel, is about the most fateful act of espionage of the twentieth century. Set in the era of Hiss, Fuchs, McCarthy and the Rosenbergs, all of who feature in this story. It is a breathtaking political thriller. But[...]
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Roald DAHL, Autor ; Quentin BLAKE, Ilustrador | Nueva York [Estados Unidos] : Penguin Random House | 2013The magic finger is the story of an eight-year-old girl with a very special power: every time she gets angry, her finger casts punishments seen ... transform people into animals. Although the Greggs are her friends, she does not like that they a[...]
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Matilda Wormwood is an exquisite and intelligent little girl. Unfortunately, Matilda is misunderstood by her family because she is very different from their ways of life. As time passes, Matilda finally starts school that has a kindly teacher, l[...]
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Phyllis Dorothy (James,P.D.) JAMES, Autor | Nueva York [Estados Unidos] : Penguin Random House | 1994The literary world is shaken when a murder takes place at the Peverell Press, an old-established publishing house located in a dramatic mock-Venetian palace on the Thames. The victim is Gerard Etienne, the brilliant new managing director whose [...]
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Herbert George WELLS, Autor ; Less MARTIN, Adaptador ; John EDENS, Autor | Nueva York [Estados Unidos] : Penguin Random House | 1990The book's protagonist is a Victorian English scientist and gentleman inventor living in Richmond, Surrey, identified by a narrator simply as the Time Traveller. Similarly, with but one exception (a man named Filby) none of the dinner guests pre[...]
