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Antología de relatos románticos apasionados (Clásicos ilustrados)
La literatura romántica es un género rico y vigoroso que apela a lo más profundo del alma. Nuestras ilusiones y miedos más íntimos encuentran su reflejo en los amores secretos, celos incontrolables y pasiones desbordadas que albergan los 22 relatos de esta recopilación. Los grandes autores del siglo XIX, desde Mary Shelley hasta Antón Chéjov, concurren en estas páginas y recrean una atmósfera histórica que convive con el realismo. Los finales felices se alternan con los amargos, pero todas las historias versan, en última instancia, sobre ese sentimiento universal que es el amor.
Romantic literature is a wonderful genre that appeals to the deepest parts of the human soul. Our deepest desires and fears can be reflected in secret love, uncontrollable jealousy, and unbridled passion. Here, you’ll find 22 stories of these intriguing stories. Nineteenth century writers like Mary Shelley and Antón Chéjov also included love into the pages of their classic tales. Though storybook endings can be happy or sad, all stories revolve around the universal sentiment of love.
Romantic literature is a wonderful genre that appeals to the deepest parts of the human soul. Our deepest desires and fears can be reflected in secret love, uncontrollable jealousy, and unbridled passion. Here, you’ll find 22 stories of these intriguing stories. Nineteenth century writers like Mary Shelley and Antón Chéjov also included love into the pages of their classic tales. Though storybook endings can be happy or sad, all stories revolve around the universal sentiment of love.
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Dramas, such as The Seagull (1896, revised 1898), and including "A Dreary Story" (1889) of Russian writer Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, also Chekov, concern the inability of humans to communicate.
Born ( Антон Павлович Чехов ) in the small southern seaport of Taganrog, the son of a grocer. His grandfather, a serf, bought his own freedom and that of his three sons in 1841. He also taught to read. A cloth merchant fathered Yevgenia Morozova, his mother.
"When I think back on my childhood," Chekhov recalled, "it all seems quite gloomy to me." Tyranny of his father, religious fanaticism, and long nights in the store, open from five in the morning till midnight, shadowed his early years. He attended a school for Greek boys in Taganrog from 1867 to 1868 and then Taganrog grammar school. Bankruptcy of his father compelled the family to move to Moscow. At the age of 16 years in 1876, independent Chekhov for some time alone in his native town supported through private tutoring.
In 1879, Chekhov left grammar school and entered the university medical school at Moscow. In the school, he began to publish hundreds of short comics to support his mother, sisters and brothers. Nicholas Leikin published him at this period and owned Oskolki (splinters), the journal of Saint Petersburg. His subjected silly social situations, marital problems, and farcical encounters among husbands, wives, mistresses, and lust; even after his marriage, Chekhov, the shy author, knew not much of whims of young women.
Nenunzhaya pobeda , first novel of Chekhov, set in 1882 in Hungary, parodied the novels of the popular Mór Jókai. People also mocked ideological optimism of Jókai as a politician.
Chekhov graduated in 1884 and practiced medicine. He worked from 1885 in Peterburskaia gazeta.
In 1886, Chekhov met H.S. Suvorin, who invited him, a regular contributor, to work for Novoe vremya, the daily paper of Saint Petersburg. He gained a wide fame before 1886. He authored The Shooting Party , his second full-length novel, later translated into English. Agatha Christie used its characters and atmosphere in later her mystery novel The Murder of Roger Ackroyd . First book of Chekhov in 1886 succeeded, and he gradually committed full time. The refusal of the author to join the ranks of social critics arose the wrath of liberal and radical intelligentsia, who criticized him for dealing with serious social and moral questions but avoiding giving answers. Such leaders as Leo Tolstoy and Nikolai Leskov, however, defended him. "I'm not a liberal, or a conservative, or a gradualist, or a monk, or an indifferentist. I should like to be a free artist and that's all..." Chekhov said in 1888.
The failure of The Wood Demon , play in 1889, and problems with novel made Chekhov to withdraw from literature for a period. In 1890, he traveled across Siberia to Sakhalin, remote prison island. He conducted a detailed census of ten thousand convicts and settlers, condemned to live on that harsh island. Chekhov expected to use the results of his research for his doctoral dissertation. Hard conditions on the island probably also weakened his own physical condition. From this journey came his famous travel book.
Chekhov practiced medicine until 1892. During these years, Chechov developed his concept of the dispassionate, non-judgmental author. He outlined his program in a letter to his brother Aleksandr: "1. Absence of lengthy verbiage of political-social-economic nature; 2. total objectivity; 3. truthful descriptions of persons and objects; 4. extreme brevity; 5. audacity and originality; flee the stereotype; 6. compassion." Because he objected that the paper conducted against [a:Alfred Dreyfu
Dramas, such as The Seagull (1896, revised 1898), and including "A Dreary Story" (1889) of Russian writer Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, also Chekov, concern the inability of humans to communicate.
Born ( Антон Павлович Чехов ) in the small southern seaport of Taganrog, the son of a grocer. His grandfather, a serf, bought his own freedom and that of his three sons in 1841. He also taught to read. A cloth merchant fathered Yevgenia Morozova, his mother.
"When I think back on my childhood," Chekhov recalled, "it all seems quite gloomy to me." Tyranny of his father, religious fanaticism, and long nights in the store, open from five in the morning till midnight, shadowed his early years. He attended a school for Greek boys in Taganrog from 1867 to 1868 and then Taganrog grammar school. Bankruptcy of his father compelled the family to move to Moscow. At the age of 16 years in 1876, independent Chekhov for some time alone in his native town supported through private tutoring.
In 1879, Chekhov left grammar school and entered the university medical school at Moscow. In the school, he began to publish hundreds of short comics to support his mother, sisters and brothers. Nicholas Leikin published him at this period and owned Oskolki (splinters), the journal of Saint Petersburg. His subjected silly social situations, marital problems, and farcical encounters among husbands, wives, mistresses, and lust; even after his marriage, Chekhov, the shy author, knew not much of whims of young women.
Nenunzhaya pobeda , first novel of Chekhov, set in 1882 in Hungary, parodied the novels of the popular Mór Jókai. People also mocked ideological optimism of Jókai as a politician.
Chekhov graduated in 1884 and practiced medicine. He worked from 1885 in Peterburskaia gazeta.
In 1886, Chekhov met H.S. Suvorin, who invited him, a regular contributor, to work for Novoe vremya, the daily paper of Saint Petersburg. He gained a wide fame before 1886. He authored The Shooting Party , his second full-length novel, later translated into English. Agatha Christie used its characters and atmosphere in later her mystery novel The Murder of Roger Ackroyd . First book of Chekhov in 1886 succeeded, and he gradually committed full time. The refusal of the author to join the ranks of social critics arose the wrath of liberal and radical intelligentsia, who criticized him for dealing with serious social and moral questions but avoiding giving answers. Such leaders as Leo Tolstoy and Nikolai Leskov, however, defended him. "I'm not a liberal, or a conservative, or a gradualist, or a monk, or an indifferentist. I should like to be a free artist and that's all..." Chekhov said in 1888.
The failure of The Wood Demon , play in 1889, and problems with novel made Chekhov to withdraw from literature for a period. In 1890, he traveled across Siberia to Sakhalin, remote prison island. He conducted a detailed census of ten thousand convicts and settlers, condemned to live on that harsh island. Chekhov expected to use the results of his research for his doctoral dissertation. Hard conditions on the island probably also weakened his own physical condition. From this journey came his famous travel book.
Chekhov practiced medicine until 1892. During these years, Chechov developed his concept of the dispassionate, non-judgmental author. He outlined his program in a letter to his brother Aleksandr: "1. Absence of lengthy verbiage of political-social-economic nature; 2. total objectivity; 3. truthful descriptions of persons and objects; 4. extreme brevity; 5. audacity and originality; flee the stereotype; 6. compassion." Because he objected that the paper conducted against [a:Alfred Dreyfu
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September 21, 2025
«—Dime, Zaida, ¿no te parece que el amor es como el sol, que hace crecer a la hermosura y luego la marchita, que da el brillo de los diamantes a las lágrimas y luego las seca, que sonrosa las mejillas y luego las descolora?»
Más floja que su edición hermana de Relatos románticos tormentosos. La selección no es mala, pero muy pocos relatos se lucen. La gran mayoría se mueven dentro de los tópicos del movimiento literario y poco más. Ofrece lo que uno espera, sin grandes sorpresas.
★
• La condesa de Tende - Madame de la Fayette
• La promesa - Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
• La esfinge sin secreto - Oscar Wilde
• El alegre mes de mayo - O.Henry
• Epitálamo - Ramón del Valle-Inclán
• Té - Saki
★★
• Ourika - Claire de Duras
• La prueba del amor - Mary Shelley
• Roldán después de Roncesvalles - Alexandre Dumas, padre
• La casa del viento - Alexandre Dumas, hijo
• Vera - Auguste Villiers de L'Isle-Adam
• Un día único - Henry James
• Felicidad - Katherine Mansfield
★★★
• La marquesa - George Sand
• Los hermanos Van Buck - Alfred de Musset
• La peña de los enamorados - Mariano Roca de Togores
• El fondo del alma - Emilia Pardo Bazán
• Georgie Porgie - Rudyard Kipling
• Los ojos sombríos - Horacio Quiroga
★★★★
• La señorita campesina - Aleksandr Pushkin
• Una viuda - Guy de Maupassant
• Una mujer sin prejuicios - Antonio Chéjov
Más floja que su edición hermana de Relatos románticos tormentosos. La selección no es mala, pero muy pocos relatos se lucen. La gran mayoría se mueven dentro de los tópicos del movimiento literario y poco más. Ofrece lo que uno espera, sin grandes sorpresas.
★
• La condesa de Tende - Madame de la Fayette
• La promesa - Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
• La esfinge sin secreto - Oscar Wilde
• El alegre mes de mayo - O.Henry
• Epitálamo - Ramón del Valle-Inclán
• Té - Saki
★★
• Ourika - Claire de Duras
• La prueba del amor - Mary Shelley
• Roldán después de Roncesvalles - Alexandre Dumas, padre
• La casa del viento - Alexandre Dumas, hijo
• Vera - Auguste Villiers de L'Isle-Adam
• Un día único - Henry James
• Felicidad - Katherine Mansfield
★★★
• La marquesa - George Sand
• Los hermanos Van Buck - Alfred de Musset
• La peña de los enamorados - Mariano Roca de Togores
• El fondo del alma - Emilia Pardo Bazán
• Georgie Porgie - Rudyard Kipling
• Los ojos sombríos - Horacio Quiroga
★★★★
• La señorita campesina - Aleksandr Pushkin
• Una viuda - Guy de Maupassant
• Una mujer sin prejuicios - Antonio Chéjov
September 4, 2022
Este libro reúne 22 cuentos de célebres escritores de la época del Romanticismo. Son cuentos sobre relaciones amorosas, muchas de las cuales terminan mal.
La edición del libro es hermosa como todos los libros de la editorial pero la selección de cuentos es aburrida. De los mismos escritores hay historias más interesantes.
La edición del libro es hermosa como todos los libros de la editorial pero la selección de cuentos es aburrida. De los mismos escritores hay historias más interesantes.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
February 18, 2023
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22 relatos de célebres escritores de la época del Romanticismo.
No me ha gustado nada. Leí la antología de relatos tormentosos y tenía una selección de cuentos mejor. En esta antología no han elegido los mejores relatos de los autores.
Casi todos los relatos no terminan bien y me exasperaba que lo único que podías hacer si no tienes a tu gran amado sea el suicidio o el convento.
November 16, 2023
Diversos cuentos de muchísimos autores reconocidos. Por supuesto, todos con el hilo conductor del amor.
Entre ellos, "La prueba de amor" en Mary Shelley, me encantó. La forma de narrar la historia, la belleza de la protagonista.
"La promesa" de Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, es simplemente maravillosa, logra incluso un velo de misterio que, sinceramente, esperaba en el relato de Mary Shelley.
Y todo entretejido con bellísimas ilustraciones, las ediciones de Alma son simplemente hermosas.
Entre ellos, "La prueba de amor" en Mary Shelley, me encantó. La forma de narrar la historia, la belleza de la protagonista.
"La promesa" de Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, es simplemente maravillosa, logra incluso un velo de misterio que, sinceramente, esperaba en el relato de Mary Shelley.
Y todo entretejido con bellísimas ilustraciones, las ediciones de Alma son simplemente hermosas.
May 21, 2023
did not really love (ha!) most of the selection, but the good stories were really good, so i am giving an extra star for that
June 20, 2023
Salvo un par de relatos, el resto se vuelve repetitivo en exceso.
July 30, 2023
Increíblemente me gustó está antología. He leído varias de Alma y no me han gustado tanto.
October 7, 2023
3.5☆
Los autores están bien pero hay cientos de cuentos mejores que los seleccionados, la verdad esperaba otra cosa.
Los autores están bien pero hay cientos de cuentos mejores que los seleccionados, la verdad esperaba otra cosa.
November 7, 2024
Mis relatos favoritos:
Vera
La promesa
La viuda
Los ojos sombríos
La marquesa
La peña de los enamorados
Vera
La promesa
La viuda
Los ojos sombríos
La marquesa
La peña de los enamorados
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