Classic

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780141439662 'The more I know of the world, the more am I convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!' Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby she ignores her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behaviour leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Meanwhile Elinor, always sensitive to social convention, is struggling to conceal her own romantic disappointment, even from those closest to her. Through their parallel experience of love—and its threatened loss—the sisters learn that sense must mix with sensibility if they are to find personal happiness in a society where status and money govern the rules of love. This edition includes explanatory notes, textual variants between the first and second editions, and Tony Tanner's introduction to the original Penguin Classic edition.

Lorca's Blood Wedding is a classic of twentieth-century theatre. The story is based on a newspaper fragment which told of a family vendetta and a bride who ran away with the son of the enemy family. Lorca uses it to investigate the subjects which fascinated desire, repression, ritual, and the constraints and commitments of the rural Spanish community in which the play is rooted. Ted Hughes' version stays close in spirit and letter to the original Spanish. With marvellous directness, he fuses Lorca's vision to his own, and the result is a powerful poetic text which captures all the violence and pathos of the play for an English-speaking audience.

Una de las creaciones líricas más significativas del siglo XX reinterpretada a través de la inconfundible mirada de uno de nuestros ilustradores contemporáneos más importantes y originales. El viaje más oscuro del poeta, en el que se enfrenta a sus propios demonios personales al tiempo que es testigo de los grandes cambios sociales: las ventajas de la industrialización, la atracción del progreso y la crítica de la sociedad moderna por su pérdida de valores. Los inmortales poemas de García Lorca cobran nueva vida en unas páginas rebosantes de colores y símbolos en cada esquina. Un hermoso ejemplo de cómo dos artistas aparentemente lejanos pueden fundir sus mundos creativos para crear belleza.