http://blog.unijimpe.net/rss https://www.bubok.es/ Puedes comprar en nuestra librería todos los libros publicados en Bubok. es info@bubok.com (Bubok Publishing) info@bubok.com (Bubok Publishing) https://www.bubok.es/libros/256656/the-odyssey Ten years have passed since the fall of Troy, and the Greek hero Odysseus still has not returned to his kingdom in Ithaca. A large and rowdy mob of suitors who have overrun Odysseus?s palace and pillaged his land continue to court his wife, Penelope. She has remained faithful to Odysseus. Prince Telemachus, Odys- seus?s son, wants desperately to throw them out but does not have the confidence or experience to fight them. One of the suitors, Antinous, plans to assassinate the young prince, eliminating the only opposition to their dominion over the palace. Unknown to the suitors, Odysseus is still alive. The beautiful nymph Calypso, possessed by love for him, has imprisoned him on her island, Ogygia. He longs to return to his wife and son, but he has no ship or crew to help him escape. While the gods and goddesses of Mount Olympus debate Odysseus?s future, Athena, Odysseus?s strongest supporter among the gods, resolves to help Telemachus. Disguised as a friend of the prince?s grandfather, Laertes, she convinces the prince to call a meeting of the assembly at which he reproaches the suitors. Athena also prepares him for a great journey to Pylos and Sparta, where the kings Nestor and Menelaus, Odysseus?s companions during the war, inform him that Odysseus is alive and trapped on Calypso?s island. Telemachus makes plans to return home, while, back in Ithaca, Antinous and the other suitors prepare an ambush to kill him when he reaches port. On Mount Olympus, Zeus sends Hermes to rescue Odysseus from Calypso. Hermes persuades Calypso to let Odysseus build a ship and leave. The homesick hero sets sail, but when Poseidon, god of the sea, finds him sailing home, he sends a storm to wreck Odysseus?s ship. Poseidon has harbored a bitter grudge against Odys- seus since the hero blinded his son, the Cyclops Polyphemus, earlier in his travels. Athena intervenes to save Odysseus from Poseidon?s wrath, and the beleaguered king lands at Scheria, home of the Phaeacians. Nausi- caa, the Phaeacian princess, shows him to the royal palace, and Odysseus receives a warm welcome from the king and queen. When he identifies himself as Odysseus, his hosts, who have heard of his exploits at Troy, are stunned. They promise to give him safe passage to Ithaca, but first they beg to hear the story of his adventures.Odysseus spends the night describing the fantastic chain of events leading up to his arrival on Calypso?s island. He recounts his trip to the Land of the Lotus Eaters, his battle with Polyphemus the Cyclops, his love affair with the witch-goddess Circe, his temptation by the deadly Sirens, his journey into Hades to consult the prophet Tiresias, and his fight with the sea monster Scylla. When he finishes his story, the Phaeacians return Odysseus to Ithaca, where he seeks out the hut of his faithful swineherd, Eumaeus. Though Athena has dis- guised Odysseus as a beggar, Eumaeus warmly receives and nourishes him in the hut. He soon encounters Telemachus, who has returned from Pylos and Sparta despite the suitors? ambush, and reveals to him his true identity. Odysseus and Telemachus devise a plan to massacre the suitors and regain control of Ithaca.When Odysseus arrives at the palace the next day, still disguised as a beggar, he endures abuse and insults from the suitors. The only person who recognizes him is his old nurse, Eurycleia, but she swears not to dis- close his secret. Penelope takes an interest in this strange beggar, suspecting that he might be her long-lost husband. Quite crafty herself, Penelope organizes an archery contest the following day and promises to marry any man who can string Odysseus?s great bow and fire an arrow through a row of twelve axes?a feat that only Odysseus has ever been able to accomplish. At the contest, each suitor tries to string the bow and fails. Odysseus steps up to the bow and, with little effort, fires an arrow through all twelve axes. He then turns the bow on the suitors. He and Telemachus, assisted by a few faithful servants, kill every last suitor.Odysseus reveals himself to the entire palace and reunites with his loving Penelope. He travels to the out- skirts of Ithaca to see his aging father, Laertes. They come under attack from the vengeful family members of the dead suitors, but Laertes, reinvigorated by his son?s return, successfully kills Antinous?s father and puts a stop to the attack. Zeus dispatches Athena to restore peace. With his power secure and his family reunited, Odysseus?s long ordeal comes to an end. https://www.bubok.es/libros/256655/little-womenLittle Women is a classic novel by American author Louisa May Alcott. It which was originally published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869. Alcott wrote the books over several months at the request of her publisher.Following the lives of the four March sisters?Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy?the novel details their passage from childhood to womanhood and is loosely based on the author and her three sisters.https://www.bubok.es/libros/256654/the-wonderful-wizard-of-ozA modern fairy tale, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz tells the story of Dorothy, a young girl who lives on a Kansas farm with Uncle Henry, Aunt Em and Toto the dog. When a cyclone strikes before she can make it to the storm cellar, she and Toto are swept up with the house and dropped in the land of the Munchkins, accidentally killing their despotic ruler?the Wicked Witch of the East?as they land. Despite the magical land she has landed in, all Dorothy wants to do is to get back to Kansas, so the Good Witch of the North gives her the other witch?s silver shoes and sends her along the yellow-brick road with a protective kiss, to find the Wizard of Oz. On her way, she encounters many dangers, as well as a scarecrow who wants a brain that is not filled with straw, a cowardly lion who wants courage, and a tin man who wants a heart. The terrifying wizard in the emerald city assigns them a further challenge, which will enable them all to achieve their desires. After all their hardships, encounters with goodies, baddies, evil witches and funny animals, will Dorothy get back to Kansashttps://www.bubok.es/libros/256653/gullivers-travelsDivided into four sections, the novel relates four adventures of Lemuel Gulliver, a surgeon and sea captain who visits remote regions of the world. In the beginning Gulliver is shipwrecked on the island of Lilliput, where people are six inches tall. Their smallness mirrors their small-mindedness as they spend their time indulging in ridiculous customs and petty debates. His second voyage takes him to Brobdingnag, where lives a race of giants of great practicality who do not understand abstractions; they are horrified when Gulliver recounts the splendid achievements of civilization. Gulliver?s third voyage takes him to the flying island of Laputa, which attacks lands below pelting rocks at them, like modern bombing raids. There he finds pedants obsessed with their own specialized areas of speculation and utterly ignorant of the rest of life. At Glubdubdrib, the Island of Sorcerers, he speaks with great men of the past and learns from them the lies of history. He also meets the Struldbrugs, who are immortal and, as a result, utterly miserable. In the fourth section, Gulliver visits the land of the Houyhnhnms, a race of intelligent horses who are cleaner and more rational, communal, and benevolent than the brutish, filthy, greedy, and degenerate humanoid race called Yahoos whom they have tamed?an eironic twist on the human-beast relationship. Whether read as a novel, simple travel fantasy, or biting satire, Gulliver?s Travels is one of the most thought-provoking reads in any genre or language. For all its mocking of human foibles, it holds out hope that moral, social, and political progress is perhaps possible if a mirror is held up to humankind?s baser instincts.https://www.bubok.es/libros/256652/frankenstein Frankenstein follows Victor Frankenstein's triumph as he reanimates a dead body, and then his guilt for creating such a thing. When the monster realizes how he came to be and is rejected by mankind, he seeks revenge on his creator's family to avenge his own sorrow. Mary Shelley first wrote Frankenstein as a short story after the poet Lord Byron suggested his friends each write a ghost story. The story so frightened Byron that he ran shrieking from the room. This version contains the complete novel, including the three letters before the first chapter. In these letters, Lord Byron's challenge that inspired the writing of the novel is explained. Frankenstein is a beautifully tragic story of love, vulnerability, and acceptance.