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Recopilación de relatos de Juan León Mera. Estas narraciones muestran una amplia visión de costumbres, un cuadro del Ecuador del siglo XIX, y nos introducen en el pensamiento del autor. Estos cuentos son "Entre dos tías y un tío", "Porque soy cristiano", "Un matrimonio inconveniente", "Historieta", "Un recuerdo y unos versos" y "Una mañana en los Andes".

Obsesionado con el pasado acuático de la Ciudad de México, Peñalosa propone un recorrido imaginario por un territorio de ríos entubados; una ciudad en la que el concreto aleja el agua de la gente y de los animales.

Roberto Arlt se embarca en el buque Cabo Santo Tomé con destino a España. Durante más de un año recorrerá la península de sur a norte, pero también las ciudades de Tánger, Tetuán y Ceuta, en el norte de África. Allí descubre un mundo fascinante que mantiene costumbres medievales, donde se mueve una muchedumbre espesa y pintoresca, materialista, poética, cruel y con rasgos de extraña generosidad. Fruto de aquel viaje es esta colección de cuentos.

Este es un audiolibro sobre la escritura de García Márquez y cómo esta evolucionó y cambió con el tiempo.

Sevastopol contains three distinct narratives, each burrowing into a crucial turning point in a person’s life: A young woman gives a melancholy account of her obsession with climbing Mount Everest; a Peruvian-Brazilian vanishes into the forest after staying in a musty, semiabandoned inn in the haunted depths of the Brazilian countryside; a young playwright embarks on the production of a play about the city of Sevastopol and a Russian painter portraying Crimean War soldiers.

Why do we read literature and how do we judge it? C. S. Lewis' classic An Experiment in Criticism springs from the conviction that literature exists for the joy of the reader and that books should be judged by the kind of reading they invite. He argues that "good reading", like moral action or religious experience, involves surrender to the work in hand and a process of entering fully into the opinions of others: "in reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself."

Vorresti che il Tuo Cane Fosse Più Educato e in Grado di Capire i Tuoi Comandi Con una Sola Parola o un Semplice Gesto? Spesso si ritiene che addestrare un cane sia un'attività complicata e noiosa ma non è cosi, anzi l'addestramento può giovare al cane cosi come al padrone perché favorisce la costruzione di un rapporto di amicizia più solido e di reciproca fiducia. Ecco cosa imparerai grazie a questo audiolibro: I principi dell'addestramento, La differenza tra educare e addestrare,I comandi di base (seduto, terra, fermo, ecc.), La passeggiata al guinzaglio, Gli ordini a distanza.

In search of the American dream, young Severine and her French Haitian family move from France to the United States. They quickly discover success comes at a high cost, and when tensions around immigration rise, Severine is forced to leave the life she knew behind. A once successful student and pageant queen is now left to battle on the cold streets of Paris while dealing with unbearable cruelty and overwhelming loss. A touching memoir of a world citizen surviving life and all of the hardships it can throw at you.

Aquí las sensaciones, percepciones, fantasías, imágenes y recuerdos de este porteño sexogenario que deja este testimonio de sus vivencias cristalizadas en forzadas cuartetas.

La conversación perdida entre dos Premios Nobel, dos de los máximos exponentes de la literatura universal.

Throughout his life, Gabriel García Márquez spoke publicly with the same passion and energy that marked his writing. Now the wisdom and compassion of these performances are available in English for the first time. I’m Not Here to Give a Speech records key events throughout the author’s life, from a farewell to his classmates delivered when he was only 17 to his Nobel Prize acceptance speech. 

Hace diez años, la reconocida revista literaria inglesa Granta hizo una selección de los 22 mejores novelistas jóvenes en español y publicó sus obras en una colección especial, destacando a toda una generación emergente de escritores y sirviendo como una importante herramienta para promover el talento. La edición española de Granta lanzó su primera lista de los mejores escritores jóvenes en lengua española en 2010 con una repercusión internacional muy amplia.

“Quiara Hudes is in her own league. Her sentences will take your breath away. How lucky we are to have her telling our stories.” – Lin-Manuel Miranda From the Pulitzer-prize winning playwright behind IN THE HEIGHTS comes a spellbinding coming-of-age story, and a vibrant and life-affirming...

Twenty Poems of Love and a Song of Despair is a collection of romantic poems by 1971 Noble laureate of literature, Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, first published in 1924 by Editorial Nascimiento. Neruda was 19 at the time the book was published, and this was Neruda's second published work after Crepusculario, but Twenty Poems of Love and a Song of Despair is regarded as the work who made him a name as a poet.

Whether galloping wild in the Jamaican countryside; clinging to the dependable love of a mother and grandparents; celebrating the history, people, and language of Jamaica; or imparting a lifetime of wisdom, A Simple Smile’s narrative imagery draws listeners into Dorothy Mahfood’s inspiring life of tender confidence.

En El Tercer Reich Roberto Bolaño da voz a diversos personajes, disponiéndolos en una suerte de tablero en el que se libra la guerra más antigua de todas: la del nazismo, la de la decadente cultura occidental, la del ser humano contra sí mismo.

 Crossfire collects Staceyann Chin's empowering, feminist-LGBTQ-Caribbean, activist-driven poetry for the first time in a single work. 

As the winds of revolution blow through Cuba, Laura Ocampo, a restless university student, defies her upbringing and becomes a supporter of Fidel Castro's rebels. When the hated Batista flees the country, she joins the thousands pouring into the streets to cheer as the bearded rebels, in the backs of trucks, roll into Havana in victory.

"The happiness I feel in offering these to you is vast as a savanna," Pablo Neruda wrote his adored wife, Matilde Urrutia de Neruda, in his dedication of 100 Love Sonnets. Set against the backdrop of his beloved Isla Negra, these joyfully sensual poems draw on the wind and tides, the white sand with its scattering of delicate wildflowers, and the hot sun and salty scent of the sea to celebrate their love.

Brought to you by Penguin. The only novel from the world-renowned writer C.L.R. James - this extraordinary, big-hearted exploration of class was the first novel by a black West Indian to be published in the UK 'As he walked home he looked up at the myriads of stars, shining in the moonlight. Did...