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This carefully crafted ebook: «Anna Karenina – The Unabridged Garnett Translation» is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Widely considered a pinnacle in realist fiction, Tolstoy considered Anna Karenina his first real novel and Dostoevsky declared it to be «flawless as a work of art». His opinion was shared by Vladimir Nabokov, who especially admired «the flawless magic of Tolstoy's style», and by William Faulkner, who described the novel as «the best ever written». The novel is currently enjoying enormous popularity, as demonstrated by a recent poll of 125 contemporary authors by J. Peder Zane, published in 2007 in The Top Ten, which declared that Anna Karenina is the «greatest novel ever written». A bachelor, Vronsky is willing to marry her if she would agree to leave her husband Karenin, a government official, but she is vulnerable to the pressures of Russian social norms, her own insecurities and Karenin's indecision. Although Vronsky eventually takes Anna to Europe where they can be together, they have trouble making friends. Back in Russia, she is shunned, becoming further isolated and anxious, while Vronsky pursues his social life. Despite Vronsky's reassurances she grows increasingly possessive and paranoid about his imagined infidelity. About the Garnett translation: Constance Garnett's translation of Anna Karenina is still among the best. Some scholars feel that her language is closer to the 19th-century sense of the original. Garnett translated seventy volumes of Russian prose for publication, including all of Dostoyevsky's novels. A friend of Garnett's, D. H. Lawrence, was in awe of her matter-of-fact endurance, recalling her «sitting out in the garden turning out reams of her marvelous translations from the Russian. She would finish a page, and throw it off on a pile on the floor without looking up, and start a new page. That pile would be this high–really, almost up to her knees, and all magical.»

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This carefully crafted ebook: "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas + Around the World in Eighty Days + The Mysterious Island " contains 3 books in one volume and is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is a classic science fiction novel by Jules Verne published in 1870. It tells the story of Captain Nemo and his submarine Nautilus, as seen from the perspective of Professor Pierre Aronnax. Around the World in Eighty Days is a classic adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, published in 1873. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a £20,000 wager set by his friends at the Reform Club. The Mysterious Island is a novel by Jules Verne, published in 1874. In the novel a group of men escape imprisonment during the American Civil War by stealing a balloon. Blown across the world, they are air-wrecked on a remote desert island. In a manner reminiscent of Robinson Crusoe, the men apply their scientific knowledge and technical skill to exploit the island s bountiful resources, eventually constructing a sophisticated society in miniature. The book is also an intriguing mystery story, for the island has a secret… Jules Verne (1828-1905) was a French novelist who pioneered the genre of science fiction. A true visionary with an extraordinary talent for writing adventure stories, his writings incorporated the latest scientific knowledge of his day and envisioned technological developments that were years ahead of their time. Verne wrote about undersea, air, and space travel long before any navigable or practical craft were invented. Verne wrote over 50 novels and numerous short stories. Some of his most successful novels appeared as a series collectively known as Extraordinary Voyages.

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En las últimas décadas se ha ido conformando una economía global, donde la demanda por innovación y desarrollo de servicios han impulsado la tecnología y cambios estructurales en el funcionamiento del Estado y las empresas. Al mismo tiempo, los cambios culturales aumentan la exigencia y el estrés en las relaciones con clientes, reguladores, proveedores e incluso al interior de cada equipo. En este contexto, la gestión del desempeño debe considerar algunos cambios esenciales. El primero es la integración de clientes y usuarios, de manera que puedan aprender y persistir hasta lograr los beneficios que requieren. Lo segundo es considerar que la adecuación de servicios e innovaciones aumenta la complejidad, de modo que se deben optimizar las capacidades y la flexibilidad de la estructura, dejando la estrategia de estandarización para aquellos procesos que son efectivamente automatizables. Finalmente, y dado lo anterior, es necesario gestionar el incremento del nivel de análisis de la gestión del desempeño individual, integrando también la gestión de equipos y los sistemas de información organizacional. Este libro revisa los modelos y herramientas asociados a la gestión del desempeño contemporánea, explicando también su evaluación y los elementos prácticos de su implementación.

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Crime and Punishment is a novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky (sometimes spelled Dostoevsky). It was first published in the literary journal The Russian Messenger in twelve monthly installments during 1866. It was later published in a single volume. This is the second of Dostoyevsky's full-length novels following his return from ten years of exile in Siberia. Crime and Punishment is the first great novel of his «mature» period of writing. Crime and Punishment focuses on the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Raskolnikov, an impoverished ex-student in St. Petersburg who formulates and executes a plan to kill an unscrupulous pawnbroker for her cash. Raskolnikov argues that with the pawnbroker's money he can perform good deeds to counterbalance the crime, while ridding the world of a worthless vermin. He also commits this murder to test his own hypothesis that some people are naturally capable of such things, and even have the right to do them. Several times throughout the novel, Raskolnikov justifies his actions by connecting himself mentally with Napoleon Bonaparte, believing that murder is permissible in pursuit of a higher purpose… Constance Clara Garnett (1861 – 1946) was an English translator of nineteenth-century Russian literature. Garnett was one of the first English translators of Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Anton Chekhov and introduced them on a wide basis to the English-speaking public. Constance Garnett translated 71 volumes of Russian literary works. Her translations received high acclaim from authors such as Joseph Conrad and D. H. Lawrence and are still being reprinted today.

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This carefully crafted ebook: «The Subjection of Women (a feminist literature classic)» is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The Subjection of Women (1869) offers both detailed argumentation and passionate eloquence in opposition to the social and legal inequalities commonly imposed upon women by a patriarchal culture. Just as in On Liberty, Mill defends the emancipation of women on utilitarian grounds. John Stuart Mill, (20 May 1806 – 8 May 1873) was an English philosopher, political economist and civil servant. He was an influential contributor to social theory, political theory and political economy. He has been called «the most influential English-speaking philosopher of the nineteenth century».

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This carefully crafted ebook: «Tales of the Islanders» contains the complete 4 volumes of tales in one collection and is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The four volumes of tales collected here make delightful reading, while offering a unique insight into Brontë family life and Charlotte's development as a writer: these are the stories she and her siblings imagined for their magic island kingdom. The stories are charmingly written in a very fairytale-esque style. They are written by a child and therefore are sometimes hard to follow when the stories make big turns, which force the reader to read them slowly and devour each sentence. Charlotte Brontë (1816 – 1855), English writer noted for her novel Jane Eyre (1847) and sister of Anne Brontë and Emily Brontë. The three sisters are almost as famous for their short, tragic lives as for their novels. In their works they described love more truthfully that was common in Victorian age England. In the past 40 years Charlotte Brontë's reputation has risen rapidly, and feminist criticism has done much to show that she was speaking up for oppressed women of every age.

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Este ebook presenta «Más allá del bien y del mal» con un sumario dinámico y detallado. Publicado en 1886 a costa del mismo autor, el libro no recibió en un principio mucha atención. Nietzsche atacaba en él lo que consideraba vacuidad moral de los pensadores de su siglo, falta de sentido crítico alguno de los autodenominados moralistas y su pasiva aceptación de la moral heredada judeo-cristiana. Más allá del bien y del mal recorre todos los temas fundamentales de la madurez filosófica de Nietzsche y en parte puede ser leído como un desarrollo, en términos más directos, de las ideas que el autor ya había propuesto en un sentido más metafórico en Así habló Zaratustra (Also Sprach Zarathustra). Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844 – 1900) fue un filósofo, poeta, músico y filólogo alemán, considerado uno de los pensadores contemporáneos más influyentes del siglo XIX.

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This carefully crafted ebook: «The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (Illuminated Manuscript with the Original Illustrations of William Blake)» is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. This ebook is a series of texts, which were written in imitation of biblical books of prophecy, but expressing the poets own personal romantic and revolutionary beliefs. It is not exactly known when the work was written. One assumes it was composed in London between 1790 and 1793 , a period of political conflict arising immediately after the French Revolution. The book is about the first person narrators visit to Hell, a concept taken by Blake from Dantes Inferno and Miltons Paradise Lost. Apart from the opening Argument and the Song of Liberty, the entire book is written in prose. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell was influenced by the mysticism of Swedish theosophist Emanuel Swedenborg and is also in part a satire on Emanuel Swedenborgs writings, especially on Heaven and Hell from which Blake adapted the title. William Blake (1757 – 1827) was a British poet, painter, visionary mystic, and engraver, who illustrated and printed his own books. Blake proclaimed the supremacy of the imagination over the rationalism and materialism of the 18th-century. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age.

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This carefully crafted ebook: «The Parenticide Club (My Favorite Murder + Oil of Dog + An Imperfect Conflagration + The Hypnotist)» is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. This ebook is a collection of series of rather morbid and grotesques tales, depicting family murders and related by the murderers. The tales include: «My Favorite Murder»…a man on trial for his mother's murder also relates his uncle's «Oil Of Dog»…ghastly tale of death (not for those against the murder of animals) «An Imperfect Conflagration»…tale of a father/son burglar team's disagreement «The Hypnotist»…a young man experiments with his hypnotic powers Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (1842 – 1914?) was an American satirist, critic, poet, editor and journalist. Bierce became a prolific author of short stories often humorous and sometimes bitter or macabre. His dark, sardonic views and vehemence as a critic earned him the nickname, «Bitter Bierce».

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Este ebook presenta «La muerte de Iván Ilich» con un sumario dinámico y detallado. La muerte de Iván Ilich, publicada por primera vez en 1886, es una novela corta de León Tolstói. Tolstói narra la historia de un hombre justo que está agonizando, y que descubre, en el lecho de muerte, que ha llevado una vida bastante mediocre, y que sólo su criado, Guerásim, le trata con verdadera compasión. Sus páginas gritan que no quiere morir, como Unamuno. El protagonista se rebela contra la estupidez humana que nos obliga a llevar vidas cuadriculadas sin pasiones ni locuras. A la hora de la muerte, cuando uno se presenta desnudo ante Dios, podemos entender que nuestra única misión en el mundo es hacer de esta vida una obra de arte. Esta novela lo es. Liev Nikoláievich Tolstói ( 1828 – 1910) fue un novelista ruso ampliamente considerado como uno de los más grandes escritores de occidente y de la literatura mundial. Sus más famosas obras son Guerra y Paz y Anna Karénina, y son tenidas como la cúspide del realismo. Sus ideas sobre la «no violencia activa», expresadas en libros como El reino de Dios está en vosotros tuvieron un profundo impacto en grandes personajes como Gandhi y Martin Luther King.

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