Parties and passions

R$ 92,90

Sinopse

Parties and Passions is a literary celebration. Love, betrayal, sadness, humour and more are explored in this collection of party stories by classic authors.Featuring tales from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Parties and Passions shows making merry doesn’t always go to plan. Joy and disappointment, murder and mix-ups: there’s a party for everyone here. Find stories of glamorous masked balls from Edgar Allan Poe and Alexandre Dumas, ghostly wedding celebrations dreamed up by Edith Nesbit and Washington Irving, and more occasions for dancing and music in James Joyce’s ‘The Dead’ and Kate Chopin’s ‘Wiser Than a God’. Nothing happens as expected in Nella Larsen’s ‘The Wrong Man’ and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s ‘The Bridal Party’, and calm gatherings descend into chaos in witty and ironic writing from Saki and Nathaniel Hawthorne.With an international range of much-loved writers from Akutagawa to Tolstoy, here is an eclectic collection of literary parties to suit every mood.The Great Gatsby, Mrs Dalloway and The Picture of Dorian Gray are also available in this Macmillan Collector’s Library series of gorgeous paperbacks featuring the greatest parties and the wildest passions in literature.

Participantes

Autor: Elena Richards | Edgar Allan Poe | Alexandre Dumas | Washington Irving | Edith Nesbit | James Joyce | Kate Chopin | Nella Larsen | F. Scott Fitzgerald | Nathaniel Hawthorne | Saki | Leo Tolstoy

Organizador: Elena Richards

Autor

LEO TOLSTOY

O escritor russo Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoi (1828-1910) — também conhecido como Leon, Leão ou Liev Tolstoi — destacou-se no panteão dos grandes mestres russos da literatura do século XIX, ao lado de nomes como Dostoiévski, Turguêniev e Tchekhov. Não bastasse a honra de ser um dos proeminentes de um círculo tão grandioso de escritores, Tolstói foi um ativista ferrenho do pacifismo, propagandeando durante toda a sua velhice os benefícios de uma vida simples e próxima da natureza. Atormentado por questões familiares, fugiu de casa aos 82 anos, falecendo de pneumonia, sozinho, em uma estação de trem. Suas obras de maior destaque são Guerra e paz e Anna Kariênina.