Biblioteca de la EOI de Oviedo

Título: Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises

Autor: Ernest Hemingway

Obra adaptada: NO

Paris in the twenties: Pernod, parties and expatriate Americans, loose-living on money from home. Jake is wildly in love with Brett Ashley, aristocratic and irresistibly beautiful, but with an abandoned, sensuous nature that she cannot change. When the couple drifts to Spain to the dazzle of the fiesta and the heady atmosphere of the bullfight, their affair is strained by new passions, new jealousies, and Jake must finally learn that he will never possess the woman he loves.

Powerful, intense, visually magnificent, Fiesta is the novel which established Ernest Hemingway as a writer of genius.

www.amazon.co.uk

Título: Atonement

Autor: Ian McEwan

Obra adaptada: NO

“Atonement” is a 2001 novel by British author Ian McEwan about a woman’s effort to atone. The story is told of her life changing mistake as a young girl who dreams of being a writer in upper-middle-class interwar England, the effects on herself, family and friends, and her own effort to achieve atonement over the coming century, which leads to an exploration on the nature of writing itself.

It is widely regarded as one of McEwan’s best works and is one of the most celebrated and honoured books of recent years. It was shortlisted for the 2001 Booker Prize for fiction, an award he had already won for his previous novel, Amsterdam. McEwan utilises several stylistic techniques in the novel, including metafiction and psychological realism. The book was later adapted into a BAFTA and Academy-Award nominated film of the same name, starring James McAvoy and Keira Knightley, and directed by Joe Wright in 2007.

wikipedia.org

Título: The Gropes

Autor: Tom Sharpe

Obra adaptada: NO

The hilarious new novel from bestselling author Tom Sharpe.

A brilliantly funny novel about what happens when the women take charge. The Gropes are an old English family based in Northumberland, separated from the rest of society and as eccentric as they come. It is a line dominated by strong-willed and oversexed women, determined to produce more female heirs regardless of whether their desired partners are willing or not.

At the dawn of the new millennium, tired and gormless teenager Esmond is abducted and lured to Grope Hall by a descendant of the Gropes. Young Esmond is powerless to escape, and his kidnap sets in motion a stream of farcical events that will have readers laughing out loud.

Tom Sharpe’s trademark humour abounds in this new novel, marking him out once again as an outstanding storyteller.

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/s/tom-sharpe/gropes.htm

Título: A Confederacy of Dunces

Autor: John Kennedy Toole

Obra adaptada: NO

‘When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him’ (Jonathan Swift)

This is Ignatius J. Reilly of New Orleans, noble crusader against vice, modernity and ignorance. In magnificent revolt against the twentieth century, Ignatius propels his monstrous bulk among the flesh-pots of a fallen city, until his maroon-haired mother decrees that he must  go to work…

A masterwork, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1981

About the Author

John Kennedy Toole was born in New Orleans in 1937. He received a master’s degree in English from Columbia University and taught at Hunter and the University of Southwestern Louisiana. In 1969, frustrated at his failure to interest a publisher in A Confederacy of Dunces, he committed suicide. Toole’s book was eventually published, after his mother brought the work to the attention of Walker Percy and insisted that he read her son’s manuscript. Percy became one of the novel’s many admirers and The Confederacy of Dunces would eventually be awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1981. Following that posthumous success, The Neon Bible, which Toole had written when he was sixteen, was first published in 1989.

Título: Nation

Autor: Terry Pratchett

Obra adaptada: NO

Terry Pratchett’s familiar ability to create new worlds, to people them and provide them with a past, present, future and a coherent philosophy is wittily demonstrated in Nation. Mau’s world is literally turned upside down when a giant wave sweeps away everything he has known. His home has gone, the village has gone, the Nation, the sophisticated world in which he lived, has gone. And it all happened while Mau was returning from the Boys’ Island on his way to becoming an adult. Now a man, Mau has to construct a new nation from nothing, building on history and the advice of the Grandfathers, whose voices will not easily die down. But Mau isn’t quite alone; luckily Daphne, or Trouser Man, as Mau calls her, is also alive. How the two survivors must listen to the past even while they create a new future leads to boundless adventure.

Guardian.co.uk

Título: Man in the Dark

Autor: Paul Auster

Obra adaptada: NO

A car accident and the death of his wife have left the retired book critic August Brill a physical and spiritual invalid. Virtually confined to his house with his recently divorced daughter and a twenty-three-year-old grandchild stricken with grief after the murder of her ex-boyfriend, Brill, an insomniac, attempts to stave off thoughts of death by telling himself bedtime stories. His tired mind weaves a tale that combines details of his life with more fantastic flights such as the story of a man who, waking up in an alternate universe where 9/11 never happened and the 2000 election led to civil war, is sent on a mission to destroy the very person who has imagined him into existence. The narrative juxtapositions and the riddling starkness of Auster´s prose create an absorbing if mildly scattershot effect, breathing life into a meditation on the difference between the stories we want to tell and the stories we end up telling.

From The New Yorker

Título: On Chesil Beach

Autor: Ian McEwan

Obra adaptada: NO

In July, 1962, Edward Mayhew and Florence Ponting, young people deeply in love and of drastically different backgrounds (he’s the son of a schoolmaster and a brain-damaged woman, whereas she is the musically gifted daughter of a wealthy industrialist and an Oxford philosophy lecturer), have just been married and are spending their honeymoon in a small hotel on the Dorset seashore. During the course of an evening, both reflect upon their upbringing and the prospect of their futures. Edward is sexually motivated and though intelligent has a taste for rash behaviour and Florence, bound by the social code of another era, is terrified of sexual intimacy: eventually this leads to an experience that will change their relationship irrevocably.

The novel focuses upon the couple’s different personalities and attitudes and the development of their love in the dawning of a sexual awakening in 1960s Britain.

wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Chesil_Beach

Título: Thank You, Jeeves

Autor: P.G. Wodehouse

Obra adaptada: NO

Thank You, Jeeves is the first novel to feature the incomparable valet Jeeves and his hapless charge Bertie Wooster – and you’ve hardly started to turn the pages when he resigns over Bertie’s dedicated but somewhat untuneful playing of the banjo. In high dudgeon, Bertie disappears to the country as a guest of his chum Chuffy – only to find his peace shattered by the arrival of his ex-fiancée Pauline Stoker, her formidable father and the eminent loony-doctor Sir Roderick Glossop. When Chuffy falls in love with Pauline and Bertie seems to be caught in flagrante, a situation boils up which only Jeeves (whether employed or not) can simmer down…

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Título: The Hound of the Baskervilles

Autor: Arthur Conan Doyle

Obra adaptada: NO

The terrible spectacle of the beast, the fog of the moor, the discovery of a body, this classic horror story pits detective against dog. When Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead on the wild Devon moorland with the footprints of a giant hound nearby, the blame is placed on a family curse. It is left to Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson to solve the mystery of the legend of the phantom hound before Sir Charles’ heir comes to an equally gruesome end. The Hound Of The Baskervilles gripped readers when it was first serialised and has continued to hold its place in the popular imagination.

About the Author
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was born in Edinburgh where he qualified as a doctor, but it was his writing which brought him fame, with the creation of Sherlock Holmes, the first scientific detective. He was also a convert to spiritualism and a social reformer who used his investigative skills to prove the innocence of individuals.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hound-Baskervilles-Penguin-Popular-Classics/dp/0140621970

Título: Macbeth

Autor: Shakespeare

Adapted by: Brigit Viney

Level: Intermediate to Upper-Intermediate + Audio CD

The Classic Graphic Novel Collection is a revolutionary new series of graphic novels which re-tell classic literature for learners of English. Graded at intermediate to upper-intermediate (B1-B2) levels, the fresh blend of contemporary storytelling and captivating artwork ensures that students will want to return to these stories time and again.
Features:
* The combination of graded texts and stunning artwork encourage learners to read the classics, motivating even the most reluctant reader.
* Each reader includes Audio CDs with the full text, recorded using professional actors.

Título: Murder on the Orient Express

Autor: Agatha Christie

Obra adaptada: NO

Murder on the Orient Express is one of Agatha Christie’s best-known works. The story is loosely based on the Lindbergh kidnap case in America in 1932. On 21 March 1932, the infant son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh was kidnapped from their home in Hopewell, New Jersey. The kidnappers asked for a ransom of 50,000 U.S dollars, but after it was paid, the child was found dead. Bruno Richard Hauptmann was arrested and executed for the murder. Besides this real-life story, the book is also influenced by Christie’s personal fascination with trains – witness the number of murder cases set on trains in her repertoire – and especially with the exotic Orient Express which travels across the continents.