Giunti Editore: Giunti classics

In versione integrale, i più grandi classici della letteratura angloamericana in lingua originale. Le opere sono accuratamente commentate e riportano la biografia dei singoli autori.

In versione integrale, i più grandi classici della letteratura angloamericana in lingua originale. Le opere sono accuratamente commentate e riportano la biografia dei singoli autori.

In versione integrale, i più grandi classici della letteratura angloamericana in lingua originale. Le opere sono commentate e riportano la biografia dei singoli autori.

In versione integrale, i più grandi classici della letteratura angloamericana in lingua originale. Le opere sono accuratamente commentate e riportano la biografia dei singoli autori.

Emily Brontë's novel is about Heathcliff's love for Catherine, and their passion that will prove destructive. Indeed, the central theme of the book is the destructive effect that jealousy and the spirit of revenge can have on individuals. The story uses the structure of a long narrative.

When young Jonathan Harker reaches Count Dracula's castle in Transylvania, he cannot imagine finding himself facing a creature of the night. It is the beginning of the story that made the figure of the vampire famous throughout the world, and in particular the mysterious, seductive and lethal Dracula. The fight to stop the Count's thirst for blood will see a small group of extraordinary characters gather around Harker and his beloved Mina in a crescendo of rhythm that will take the reader to the unforgettable ending.

Emma Woodhouse is beautiful, intelligent and kind-hearted; unfortunately, she is also completely short-sighted to her own flaws. She does not realize, in fact, that her great passion of arranging marriages brings chaos among the families of the neighborhood and brings together people who have nothing in common. Between unrequited suitors and nosy neighbors, the effervescent Emma will find herself at the center of an extraordinary ballet of unforgettable characters.

After a difficult childhood, the young girl Jane Eyre finds a chance for redemption. She is enterprising and determined. So she becomes a governess at the home of a rich and mysterious gentleman, Mr. Rochester. It will be an overwhelming encounter. The two clash, confront each other, and above all they seem to really understand each other, but when love seems to win against the rigid rules of good society, it will be discovered that he hides a terrible secret...

The story is set in Verona and tells of the forbidden love between two young people belonging to rival families who have been feuding for generations: the Montagues and the Capulets. One day, during a party organised by the Capulets, Romeo Montecchi meets Juliet Capuleti and the two fall in love at first sight. With the complicity of Friar Lawrence, a friend of Romeo's, the two marry in secret the next day and, with the complicity of Juliet's nurse, they even manage to spend a night of love together. Juliet's cousin, the irascible Tybalt, provokes Romeo and the two challenge each other to a duel. The former dies and the latter is judged exiled from Verona by the prince himself. Destined for a life far from her love, Juliet follows Friar Lawrence's desperate stratagem, which is to drink a potion that will make her appear dead, just long enough to fool the others, only to awaken with her love close by, who in turn will be warned of this stratagem. The plan fails, however, because Romeo is never informed in time, and when the news reaches him that Juliet is dead, he goes to the scene, ignoring the ban. There he meets Paride, Juliet's betrothed, and the two of them challenge each other to a duel: Romeo prevails. However, Romeo commits suicide next to his beloved by drinking poison. Shortly afterwards, Juliet wakes up, and seeing the body of her Romeo lifeless, she grabs her beloved's dagger and takes her own life in.

Un giovane scienziato, moderno Prometeo, acquisisce dopo anni di esperimenti il terribile potere di infondere la vita nella materia inerte. Creatore e Creatura ingaggiano da quel momento un duello drammatico e feroce che può concludersi solo con la reciproca distruzione negli abissi della solitudine e della colpa. Il capolavoro di Mary Shelley universalmente riconosciuto come il precursore del genere fantascientifico.