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1) Candide
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Candide is about a man who believes in the philosophy that: "what happens, happens for the best in the end" that was taught to him by his personal philosopher Dr. Pangloss. Candide goes through many, many trials and everyone he meets has had something terrible happen to them. He searches the world over for his love Cunegonde. And in the end finds that the simplest things in life: love, friends, and health are all that matters.
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Launched simultaneously in Spain and the Americas, this work aims to divulge the great novel of Spanish Literature by means of a high quality, well-taken care of edition at a very reduced price. The book contains a prologue by Mario Vargas Llosa, an introductory text and complementary analysis by other academics, along with an extensive glossary of terms that will help readers get to know Cervantes' language. This beautiful hardbound edition is 5...
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A novel narrated by octogenarian ex-sportswriter Word Smith, who plans to write the "Great American Novel" and also to tell the tragic and hilarious story of the Ruppert Mundys - the only homeless baseball team ever to play in the big league, who have disappeared from all official histories.
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"These Spanish picaresque novels focus on the adventures of two unlikely heroes - delinquent picaros living by their wits among corrupt priests and prostitutes, beggars and idle gentlemen, thieves, tricksters and murderers. The tales are sharply critical of the Church and the conventions of nobility, and contain grotesquely exaggerated depictions of the criminal underworld. Lazarillo de Tormes (1554), published anonymously, provided a literary model...
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"Lazarillo de Tormes, a L̀zaro le llamaban Lazarillo de Tormes porque naci̤ en el r̕o Tormes. Criado en un mundo marginal de delincuencia; su padre roba y muere por sus delitos y su madre, viuda, se une a un hombre negro que tambǐn roba para mantener al hijo que tiene con ella, y que al igual que su padre, muere. A los ocho ąos, su madre le encomienda como criado a un ciego con el que sale de Salamanca, y es a partir de entonces cuando se ve...
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"Fue la primera novela picaresca: corriente que se caracteriza por ser costumbrista, realista y crítica, ya que denuncia la amarga situación que viven los marginados y humildes que sólo pueden recurrir al ingenio para subsistir, como es el caso de nuestro protagonista. Este tipo de relatos se vale de expresiones directas y sin tapujos, que aunque pudieran parecer exageradas o de mal gusto, son el medio para denunciar la hipocresía social. En esta...
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En los dos mil años de la literatura occidental no se había escrito otro libro como ese Lazarillo que al mediar el Quinientos llegaba a las manos de los españoles (y pronto de todos los europeos), porque posiblemente ninguno había tratado nunca antes a un personaje de la pobre categoría de Lázaro con una atención tan amplia y tan extremada, tan respetuosa con el punto de vista que un pregonero en sus condiciones podría haber tenido de sí...
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