El joven Philip Pirrip, apodado Pip, se convertirá en aprendiz de su cuñado, un pobre herrero. Pero su destino cambia al conocer a tres personas inusuales: un convicto fugitivo, una mujer trágica y una joven cautivadora. La vida de Pip se ve alterada en un instante cuando un benefactor secreto le entrega una gran suma de dinero. Pip tiene "grandes expectativas" para su nueva vida tan exitosa y rica como un joven caballero. ¿Su vida realmente ha...

Follow Alice down the rabbit hole into a topsy-turvy world called Wonderland.

"Alexander Pushkin established what we know as Russian literature. This collection includes his strongly personal lyric verse, which springs spontaneously from his everyday life - his numerous loves, his exile, his hectic life in St. Petersburg - while the narrative poems here, from exotic Southern tales to comic parodies and fairy tales of enchanted tsars, display his endless ability to surprise."--From back cover.

"Layli and Majnun tells of star-crossed lovers whose union is tragically thwarted by their families and whose passion continues to ripple out across the centuries. The twelfth-century Persian poet Nezami blends erotic longing and spiritual self-denial in an allegory of Sufi aspiration, as the amenities of civilization give way to the elemental wilderness, desire is sublimated into a mystical renunciation of the physical world, and the soul confronts...

"Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer edits a collection of Alain Locke's influential essays on the importance of the Black artist and the Black imagination"--