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Dickens is considered by many the greatest of English novelists. In all his works in the creative force looks amazing proportions and the best feelings flowing streams. During the last years of his life, Charles Dickens gave a large number of public readings of his works.

En esta monografía se editan, traducen y comentan filológicamente los cuarenta y un epigramas de Dioscórides, el último de los grandes epigramatistas helenísticos. Se trata de la primera edición independiente de su obra. La edición se basa en la lectura directa de los principales manuscritos. En el comentario se analizan cuestiones lingüísticas y de realia, prestándose especial atención a las relaciones de la poesía de Dioscórides con la tradición literaria, así como a los tópicos y temas universales.

Among the adventures of Odysseus, his encounter with the mysterious goddess Circe, who transforms the hero's companions into swine, has long been a favorite of readers. The combination of magic, metamorphosis, intrigue, seduction, and danger in this episode of the Odyssey make it particularly attractive and thought-provoking, so that many later authors mention or recreate it: Apollonius of Rhodes, Plutarch, Virgil, Ovid, Dante, Lope, Calderon, etc. This book analyzes the tradition of the Homeric myth in western literature, from ancient Greece to the present day, with particular attention to...

The second volume of Oxford's new Divine Comedy presents the Italian text of the Purgatorio and, on facing pages, a new prose translation. Continuing the story of the poet's journey through the medieval Other World under the guidance of the Roman poet Virgil, the Purgatorio culminates in the regaining of the Garden of Eden and the reunion there with the poet's long-lost love Beatrice. This new edition of the Italian text takes recent critical editions into account, and Durling's prose translation, like that of the Inferno, is unprecedented in its accuracy, eloquence, and closeness to Dante's...