Benjamin Briggent Book order (chronological)

Heart of Darkness is classified by the Modern Library website editors as one of the “100 best novels” and part of the Western canon. In this Reader you will find: Information about Joseph Conrad’s life | An introduction focusing on background and context | Focus pages on colonialism, critical readings and themes and symbols | Notes on the text | Activities to help with technical vocabulary | Post- and pre-reading activities Tags Classic Marlow, a man who has spent his life at sea, tells the story of a journey up the River Congo which changed his life. His journey upriver to find Kurtz, the charismatic head of a colonial trading station, takes him into the very heart of Africa and leads Marlow to question both Kurtz’s dubious methods and his own very nature. Conrad’s dark and powerfully evocative tale is a compelling study of inner conflict and a devastating critique of European imperialism.

Daisy Miller, a naive young American woman traveling in Europe with her family, finds it difficult to understand Europen society

Uno de los títulos más representativos de la vasta producción del denominado Maestro del terror cósmico, el estadounidense Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937). Nadie como él ha mezclado los relatos de terror y ciencia ficción. Su obra con base materialista se aparta de la temática tradicional, incorporando elementos de ciencia ficción. Con La llamada de Cthulhu, Lovecraft nos muestra las primeras visiones de ese terror cósmico que tantas veces exploraría a lo largo de su obra.

'The moment I first met you, I noticed your pride, your sense of superiority, and your selfish disdain for the feelings of others. You are the last man in the world whom I could ever be persuaded to marry,' said Elizabeth Bennet. And so Elizabeth rejects the proud Mr Darcy. Can nothing overcome her prejudice against him? And what of the other Bennet girls - their fortunes, and misfortunes, in the business of getting husbands? This famous novel by Jane Austen is full of wise and humorous observation of the people and manners of her times.

This dark psychological fantasy is more than a moral tale. It is also a product of its time, drawing on contemporary theories of class, evolution and criminality and the secret lives behind Victorian propriety, to create a unique form of urban Gothic.