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Newly married Juan Ranz digs into his family's troubled past beginning with the suicide of his father's first wife, Juan's aunt, and finds parallels in his relationships marked by miscommunication and the need for human contact.
In a novel that chronicles family secrets, Juan knows little about his father Ranz, but each seems to have always been comfortable with their friendly but distant orbit. When Juan marries, his new wife bonds with Ranz, and...
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"The unforgettable first novel that established Isabel Allende as one of the world's most gifted and imaginative storytellers. The House of the Spirits brings to life the triumphs and tragedies of three generations of the Trueba family. The patriarch Esteban is a volatile, proud man whose voracious pursuit of political power is tempered only by his love for his delicate wife, Clara, a woman with a mystical connection to the spirit world. When their...
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Biblioteca de autor. Isabel Allende volume 4
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Eva Luna era una cascada de cuentos contados a través de otros cuentos. Pero el caudal estaba lejos de haberse agotado. En la cama con su amante, Eva Luna es requerida por éste para que le cuente un cuento "que jamás haya contado antes." Y la improvisada Shéhérezade no cuenta una sino vientitrés vidas en las que el amor, el odio, la venganza, lo grotesco y lo sublime se superpoen y empujan unos a otros en su afán por completar todo el registro...
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En Español: Un gato estrafalario pero bien intencionado trae una forma alegre, exótico y exuberante del caos a un hogar de dos niños pequeños un día de lluvia, mientras que su madre está fuera.
In English: A zany but well-meaning cat brings a cheerful, exotic, and exuberant form of chaos to a household of two young children one rainy day while their mother is out.
5) Berta Isla
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"Berta Isla thought she knew what to expect from life. When she was a young girl she decided she had found her match in Tomás Nevinson--the dashing half-Spanish, half-English boy in her class with an extraordinary gift for languages--so she was even able to endure their time apart while Tomás studied at Oxford. But after his graduation, he returns to Madrid a changed man. Distracted, sullen, and anxious, Berta's new husband has become a stranger...
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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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Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer confesaba al escribir la «Introducción» de Rimas y leyendas, tan solo dos años antes de morir, que no quería llevarse consigo,
«el tesoro de oropeles y guiñapos que ha ido acumulando la fantasía en los desvanes del cerebro».
De modo que Rimas y leyendas reúne poesías y prosas simplemente porque todas ellas son criaturas de la misma imaginación que anhela liberarse para «dormir en paz».
La influencia en el imaginario...
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This collection of 5 dozen pieces of literary criticism was published in the Washington Post between March 2003 and January 2010. It is a collection of Yardley's opinions of books that he believes are worthy of a second look. They scan the realms of fiction, biography and autobiography, memoirs, and history.
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Esta es la primera obra donde aparece el legendario burlador de la fe y de las mujeres, Don Juan, que conjuntamente con el Quijote son los héroes de la literatura clásica española más universales y populares. El don Juan de Tirso que seduce a doña Isabela haciéndose pasar por su marido, inspiró posteriormente a otros autores como Moliere, Verdi o Zorrilla. Sin embargo, este don Juan original, padre de todos los demás, es curiosamente el menos...
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New Directions paperbook volume 186
New Directions paperbook volume 1066
New Directions paperbook volume NDP186
New Directions paperbook volume 1066
New Directions paperbook volume NDP186
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Forty short stories and essays have been selected as representative of the Argentine writer's metaphysical narratives.
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Noonday volume N267
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A Spanish soldier's account of his observations and experiences during Cortes' Mexican campaigns.
15) Berta Isla
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"Un día cualquiera, «un día estúpido», condicionará el resto de su existencia. La envolvente y apasionante historia de una espera. «Durante un tiempo no estuvo segura de si su marido era su marido. A veces creía que sí, a veces creía que no, y a veces decidía no creer nada y seguir viviendo su vida con él, o con aquel hombre semejante a él, mayor que él. Pero también ella se había hecho mayor por su cuenta, en su ausencia, era muy...
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Transatlantic studies have begun to explore the lasting influence of Spain on its former colonies and the surviving ties between the American nations and Spain. In Monsters by Trade, Lisa Surwillo takes a different approach, explaining how modern Spain was literally made by its Cuban colony. Long after the transatlantic slave trade had been abolished, Spain continued to smuggle thousands of Africans annually to Cuba to work the sugar plantations....
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