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Celestino Antes Del Alba

Wed, 15 May 2013 9:08:52 PST

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La historia del amor

Wed, 15 May 2013 9:08:25 PST

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Leo Gursky, cerrajero polaco jubilado en Nueva York, cuya obsesión es «no morirme un día en que nadie me haya visto», recibe misteriosamente el manuscrito de un texto que creía perdido, acompañado de una enigmática carta. No muy lejos de allí, la quinceañera Alma Singer padece los dilemas y conflictos de su edad. Hace ya ocho años que su padre murió de cáncer y ella ha decidido que es hora de que ...

Antes que anochezca

Tue, 7 May 2013 23:05:21 PST

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The Birthmark

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 9:05:37 PST

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Noches Lugubres

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 3:14:20 PST

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My Fair Lady: Musical Play in Two Acts Based on "Pygmalion" by Bernard Shaw

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 3:14:01 PST

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Sparkling with wit, wisdom and wonderful songs including, "I Could Have Danced All Night", "Wouldn't It Be Loverly" and "Get Me To The Church On Time", the musical play based on Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion" has been delighting audiences since it was first performed in the 1950s. When overbearing Professor Higgins stumbles on flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, in Covent Garden he recognizes that her hide ...

Crónica de una muerte anunciada

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 8:58:44 PST

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The Cement Garden

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 19:13:49 PST

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Four children, living alone with their mother, decide not to inform the authorities when she dies. Instead they take her down into the cellar and bury her in cement and for the next days, weeks and months live far away from normal conventions.

Persepolis

Tue, 9 Apr 2013 7:42:33 PST

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El contrabajo

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Persecución

Mon, 8 Apr 2013 3:11:19 PST

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El Central

Mon, 8 Apr 2013 3:10:23 PST

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ABC of Reading

Mon, 8 Apr 2013 3:09:52 PST

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Faust: Pt. 1

Mon, 8 Apr 2013 3:07:21 PST

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The legend of Faust grew up in the sixteenth century, a time of transition between medieval and modern culture in Germany. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) adopted the story of the wandering conjuror who accepts Mephistopheles's offer of a pact, selling his soul for the devil's greater knowledge; over a period of 60 years he produced one of the greatest dramatic and poetic masterpieces of E ...

Under Milk Wood

Mon, 8 Apr 2013 3:06:53 PST

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Only your eyes are unclosed to see the black and folded town fast, and slow, asleepCompleted only a month before Dylan Thomas died, Under Milk Wood is an inspired and irreverent account of life and love in a small coastal village in Wales one spring day. Full of raucous energy and lyrical passion, it is the most complete expression of Thomas' unique perspective on the human condition.Called a ...

Dylan Thomas

Mon, 8 Apr 2013 3:06:15 PST

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Dylan Thomas (1914-53) was born in Swansea and won wide acclaim for his often declamatory and rhetorical work of the 1940s, which included "Deaths and Entrances" (1946). He died from alcoholism shortly before the airing of his most famous work, "Under Milk Wood" (1954). Derek Mahon was born in Belfast in 1941, studied at Trinity College Dublin, and the Sorbonne, and has held journalistic and acad ...

Octaedro

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 0:46:29 PST

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Monkey!

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 0:45:09 PST

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The tale of the roguish Monkey and his exploits on a fabulous journey to India is one of the most popular classics in Asian literature. Monkey has been imprisoned in a mountain because of the chaos he has wrought in heaven. To be redeemed, he must guide the Buddhist monk Triptaka from China, through the Himalayas, on a mystical quest in search of sacred scriptures. Based on the story of the Hsi-y ...

Borges on Writing

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 2:28:20 PST

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In 1971, Jorge Luis Borges was invited to preside over a series of seminars on his writing at Columbia University. This book is a record of those seminars, which took the form of informal discussions between Borges, Norman Thomas di Giovanni--his editor and translator, Frank MacShane--then head of the writing program at Columbia, and the students.

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 20:17:57 PST

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Robert Louis Stevenson originally wrote "Dr. Jekyll And Mr Hyde" as a "chilling shocker." He then burned the draft and, upon his wife's advice, rewrote it as the darkly complex tale it is today. Stark, skillfully woven, this fascinating novel explores the curious turnings of human character through the strange case of Dr. Jekyll, a kindly scientist who by night takes on his stunted evil self, Mr. ...

A Season in Hell and Other Works-Du

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 0:49:43 PST

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Las palabras de la tribu

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 0:46:29 PST

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The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 0:41:49 PST

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The Death of Ivan Ilyich is a masterly meditation on life and death, recounting the physical decline and spiritual awakening of a worldly, successful man who is faced with his own mortality. Only in his last agonizing moments does Ivan Ilyich finally confront his true nature, and gain the forgiveness of his wife and son for his cruelty towards them.

On Mysticism

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 0:38:24 PST

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A collection of works by the Jerusalem Prize-winning author of A Universal History of Infamy brings together the meditations on the mystical realm that permeate much of Borges's work. Original.

EL ALEPH

Tue, 5 Mar 2013 22:09:48 PST

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Bestiario

Sat, 2 Mar 2013 21:37:00 PST

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In these eight masterpieces there is no room for the smallest sign of stumbling or youthful undertones: they are perfect. These stories that speak about objects and daily happenings, pass over to another dimension, one of nightmare or revelation. In each text, surprise and uneasiness are ingredients added to the indescribable pleasure of its reading. These stories may upset readers due to a very ...

The place of anarchism in socialistic evolution

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 8:00:43 PST

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Poems

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 7:55:52 PST

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Boss Cupid

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 7:53:11 PST

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Warm and intelligent, ribald and cunning, "Boss Cupid" is the twelfth book of poems by the quintessential San Francisco poet.

The Man with Night Sweats

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 7:53:10 PST

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Ranging from classical forms to looser more colloquial measures, this collection of poems addresses a daunting range of themes, both intimate and social. The book ends with a sequence of poems about the deaths of the poet's friends from AIDS.

Entrada en materia

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 7:52:20 PST

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La deshumanización del arte y otros ensayos de estética

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 12:38:29 PST

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Simone Weil on colonialism

Sun, 10 Feb 2013 14:16:04 PST

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In 1931, Simone Weil read an article by Louis Roubaud in the Petit Parisien that exposed the Yen Bay massacre in Indochina. That article opened Weil's eyes, and from then until her death in exile in 1943, she cared most deeply about the French colonial situation. Weil refused to accept the contradiction between the image of France as champion of the rights of man and the reality of France's explo ...

Sylvia Plath's Selected Poems

Sun, 10 Feb 2013 14:15:49 PST

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The Savage God

Mon, 4 Feb 2013 2:12:33 PST

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"Suicide, " writes the noted English poet and critic A. Alvarez, "has permeated Western culture like a dye that cannot be washed out." Although the aims of this compelling, compassionate book are broadly cultural and literary, the narrative is rooted in personal experience: it begins with a long memoir of Sylvia Plath, and ends with an account of the author's own sucide attempt. Within this drama ...

The Redress of Poetry

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 20:26:00 PST

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Delivered while Heaney was Professor of Poetry at Oxford, these lectures cover subjects as diverse as Wilde's "Ballad of Reading Gaol" and Marlowe's "Hero and Leander", as well as work by Yeats, Larkin and Dylan Thomas.

Intimacy

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 20:25:44 PST

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"Nothing is as fascinating as love, unfortunately."Jay, the narrator of Hanif Kureishi's third novel, tells his story on the night that he is preparing to leave his lover, Susan, and their two boys. His departure will not be impulsive: "I have contemplated this rupture from all sides," he says. But it will happen. He and Susan live comfortably in London. Each loves the children. Yet Jay, "lost in ...

North

Fri, 18 Jan 2013 20:26:24 PST

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With this collection, first published in 1975, Heaney located a myth which allowed him to articulate a vision of Ireland--its people, history, and landscape--and which gave his poems direction, cohesion, and cumulative power. In North, the Irish experience is refracted through images drawn from different parts of the Northern European experience, and the idea of the north allows the poet to conte ...

The Adam of Two Edens

Fri, 18 Jan 2013 20:23:56 PST

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The Music of Human Flesh

Fri, 18 Jan 2013 20:23:42 PST

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The Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 20:10:29 PST

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Emily Dickinson lived as a recluse in Amherst, Massachusetts, dedicating herself to writing a "letter to the world"--the 1,775 poems left unpublished at her death in 1886. Today, Dickinson stands in the front rank of American poets. This enthralling collection includes more than four hundred poems that were published between Dickinson's death and 1900. They express her concepts of life and death, ...

Canciones

Fri, 11 Jan 2013 16:50:44 PST

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Collected Poems in English and French

Thu, 3 Jan 2013 9:28:35 PST

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This collection gathers together the Nobel Prize-winning writer Samuel Beckett's English poems (including Whoroscope, his first published verse), English translations of poems by Eluard, Rimbaud, Apollinaire, and Chamfort, and poems in French, several of which are presented in translation.

Things Fall apart

Sun, 23 Dec 2012 8:24:56 PST

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This is Chinua Achebe's classic novel, with more than two million copies sold since its first U.S. publication in 1969. Combining a richly African story with the author's keen awareness of the qualities common to all humanity, Achebe here shows that he is "gloriously gifted, with the magic of an ebullient, generous, great talent." -- Nadine Gordimer

Dilemma of a Ghost and Anowa

Sun, 16 Dec 2012 13:41:29 PST

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These two witty and perceptive social dramas are sympathetic and honest explorations of the conflicts between the individualism of westernised culture and the social traditions of Africa. Both plays have been performed throughout the world.

Tratado de armonía

Wed, 12 Dec 2012 22:10:47 PST

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Cuando se avienen a ello, los autores son los mejores introductores de su propia obraCuando se avienen a ello, los autores son los mejores introductores de su propia obra. Dice Antonio Colinas en el «Preliminar» : «Comencé a trabajar en Tratado de armonía en los primeros días de 1986. (?) No creo que se pueda hablar de pensamientos al enjuiciar el género de este libro. ...

State of Siege

Wed, 12 Dec 2012 22:09:41 PST

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Orlando

Tue, 11 Dec 2012 2:57:44 PST

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In 1928, way before everyone else was talking about gender-bending and way, way before the terrific movie with Tilda Swinton, Virginia Woolf wrote her comic masterpiece, a fantastic, fanciful love letter disguised as a biography, to Vita Sackville-West. Orlando enters the book as an Elizabethan nobleman and leaves the book three centuries and one change of gender later as a liberated woman of the ...

Message

Tue, 11 Dec 2012 2:56:33 PST

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My Friend Hitler

Sun, 25 Nov 2012 13:52:59 PST

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Though best known for his novels, Yukio Mishima published more than sixty plays, almost all of which were produced during his lifetime. Among them are kabuki plays and others inspired by No dramas -- two types used in classical Japanese theater. Of play-writing Mishima once observed, "I started writing dramas just as water flows toward a lower place. In me, the topography of dramas seems to be si ...

Kalakuta Republic

Wed, 21 Nov 2012 20:55:35 PST

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Kalakuta Republic is a powerful collection of poems detailing the harrowing experiences endured by Abani and others at the hands of Nigeria’s military regime in the late 1980s. Abani’s poems are dedicated to those who experienced but did not live through the suffering. In the poems, he describes the characters that people this dark world, from the prison inmates to their torturers, the generals. ...

The Haunted House

Mon, 5 Nov 2012 21:24:55 PST

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On Christmas Eve, a party of friends descends on a purportedly haunted country retreat, charged with the task of discovering evidence of the supernatural. Sequestered in their rooms for the holiday, the friends reconvene on Twelfth Night at a great feast and share their stories of spectral encounter. “Conducted” by Charles Dickens and counting Elizabeth Gaskell and Wilkie Collins among its contri ...

The Destructors

Mon, 5 Nov 2012 21:24:26 PST

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The Destructors occurs in the mid-1950s, and is about a boys' gang named the "Wormsley Common Gang", after the place where they live. Trevor, or "T.", the protagonist, devises a plan to destroy a two hundred-year-old house that survived The Blitz. Under T., their new leader, the gang accepts the plan and executes it when the owner of the house, Mr. Thomas (whom the gang call "Old Misery"), is awa ...

El otro

Fri, 2 Nov 2012 3:34:17 PST

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Las amistades peligrosas

Fri, 2 Nov 2012 3:33:19 PST

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London Lines

Mon, 29 Oct 2012 20:42:40 PST

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Anthology of music and poetry created by Kenneth Baker in which illustrations of landscape, life and tour around every place in London may be found. This is the first anthology of London.

The Brontes

Mon, 29 Oct 2012 9:39:06 PST

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The Haunted House and Other Stories

Sat, 20 Oct 2012 22:03:37 PST

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Acclaimed on its first publication, rich in fictional delights, this complete collection of Virginia Woolf's shorter fiction ranges from 1906 until the month before she died in 1941. The volume offers us an invaluable insight into Virginia Woolf's development as a writer, vividly demonstrating her evolving characterisations, narrative methods and themes, often elaborated in her novels, to which t ...

The House of Mirth

Fri, 19 Oct 2012 22:38:21 PST

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Central to the theme of the novel is how the Victorian era offered women relatively few other alternatives to achieve upward social and economic mobility than ...

In Memoriam

Fri, 19 Oct 2012 20:15:03 PST

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This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process.

The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ;

Mon, 15 Oct 2012 14:07:27 PST

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OBRA POETICA II

Sun, 14 Oct 2012 13:28:46 PST

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José Ángel Valente ha ido profundizando a lo largo de su carrera poética en las relaciones entre poesía y realidad. Mediante una progresiva sustitución del yo histórico, habitual en sus primeras obras, por el yo poético, y con la consumación del tránsito de la experiencia hecha poema al poema hecho experiencia iniciado en La memoria y los signos, Valente ha explorado, con una primacía de la emoci ...

Drácula

Wed, 26 Sep 2012 8:00:36 PST

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Cómo han sido ordenados estos papeles, es algo que quedará aclarado al leerlos. Se ha eliminado todo lo superfino, a fin de presentar esta historia — casi ...

Anthem

Thu, 30 Aug 2012 22:21:12 PST

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El tapiz amarillo

Tue, 10 Jul 2012 20:32:19 PST

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Narrado con soberbia precisión psicológica y dramática, El tapiz amarillo se destaca por la autenticidad imaginativa con la que pinta el descenso a la locura de una mujer y por la fuerza de su testimonio de la importancia que la libertad ...

No digas que fue un sueño

Tue, 26 Jun 2012 23:53:24 PST

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Novela de amor, sobre fondo histórico, No digas que fue un sueño arranca de una situación de intenso dramatismo. Una mujer egregia llora su luto de amor en una barca que remonta el Nilo. Es la reina Cleopatra, que ha sido abandonada por su amante, el romano Marco Antonio. En el corazón de ambos, se debaten todos los conflictos del amor y la pasión, que culminarán con nuevos encuentros, encaminado ...

Todos los fuegos el fuego

Tue, 26 Jun 2012 23:53:14 PST

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Noches blancas

Tue, 5 Jun 2012 18:26:26 PST

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Biografía del hambre

Tue, 15 May 2012 21:45:03 PST

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En el camino

Thu, 3 May 2012 6:14:27 PST

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Con el paso del tiempo, "En el camino", un libro que fue la biblia y el manifiesto de la generación beat, se ha convertido en una «novela de culto» y en un clásico de la literatura norteamericana. Con un inconfundible estilo bop, que consiguió para Kerouac el título de «heredero de Charlie Parker», en esta novela se narran los viajes enloquecidos, a bordo de Cadillacs prestados y Dodges desvencij ...

Relato de un náufrago

Mon, 5 Mar 2012 8:13:42 PST

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Relato de un náufrago que estuvo diez días a la deriva en una balsa sin comer ni beber, que fue proclamado héroe de la patria, besado por las reinas de belleza y hecho rico por la publicidad, y luego aborrecido por el gobierno y olvidado para siempre. La historia de esta aventura fue publicada por entregas en El Espectador de Bogotá. El 28 de febrero de 1955 se conoció la noticia de que ocho mie ...

MUERTE EN VENECIA

Fri, 2 Mar 2012 19:32:13 PST

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Esperando a Godot

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 22:58:45 PST

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Cuando en 1953 se estrenó en París Esperando a Godot, pocos sabían quién era Samuel Beckett, salvo, quizá, los que ya lo conocían como ex secretario de otro irlandés no menos genial: James Joyce. Por aquellas fechas, Beckett tenía escrita ya gran parte de su obra literaria; sin embargo, para muchos pasó a ser "el autor de Esperando a Godot". Se dice que, desde aquella primera puesta en escena -qu ...

Kean

Wed, 1 Feb 2012 4:34:25 PST

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Titulo original: Kean.

Viaje de invierno

Sat, 7 Jan 2012 2:29:21 PST

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Desde las primeras líneas de Viaje de invierno, el singular microcosmos de Amélie Nothomb nos seduce y nos atrapa. La declaración del protagonista no admite refutación alguna: «Voy a hacer estallar el avión a las 13.30». ¿Un terrorista internacional? Ni mucho menos. ¿Un mártir religioso? Tal vez. Pero la religión por la que Zoilo se inmola no es la musulmana, tampoco la cristiana, es el amor. Un ...

EL MAESTRO INVITA A UN CONCIERTO CONCIERTOS PARA JOVENES|

Sat, 31 Dec 2011 0:46:55 PST

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Las 15 «lecciones» magistrales que contiene este libro revolucionaron, ya en los años sesenta, los fundamentos de la pedagogía de la música. Por entonces, el prestigioso compositor y director de orquesta Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) presentaba en televisión sus famosos «Conciertos para jóvenes», y explicaba de una forma amena y didáctica esos conceptos y puntos considerados aburridos o difíciles ...

El Principito

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 3:51:06 PST

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Mediante la figura de un principito que vive en su propio asteroide, el autor tratasobre los valores humanos y enseanzas para la vida.

Don Juan Tenorio

Tue, 6 Dec 2011 8:50:33 PST

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El burlador de Sevilla

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 6:25:55 PST

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El burlador de Sevilla y convidado de piedra supone en la literatura española la creación de una gran figura literaria. Mediante la unión del tema del burlador de mujeres y del irrespetuoso para con los muertos y el camposanto, Tirso crea el mito esencial del Don Juan, eterno vividor del presente fugaz, empecinado ignorante de la realidad espiritual que le espera. Hasta tal punto encarna un aspec ...

Mapa de los sonidos de Tokio

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 8:49:22 PST

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La narración que Isabel Coixet ha escrito a partir del guión de la película. Un relato irrefrenable de una historia de amor con Tokio como telón de fondo. El suicidio de la joven Midori deja trastornado a su padre, el señor Nagara, un rico empresario japonés que no puede resistir la pérdida de su hija y busca ciegamente una venganza. También a David, su novio, un catalán que regenta en Tokio u ...

Retrato Del Artista Adolescente

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 8:48:26 PST

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La publicación de Dublineses coincidió con la terminación del Retrato del Artista Adolescente, que innovó el género de la novela al desplazar su centro de gravedad hacia la perspectiva en que el protagonista sitúa los acontecimientos que vive o padece. Stephen Dedalus figura en la que resultan fácilmente adivinables los perfiles de Joyce, recorre el itinerario que separa su infancia de los estudi ...

Ácido sulfúrico

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 8:47:55 PST

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El último grito en programas televisivos de entretenimiento se llama «Concentración». Por las calles de París se recluta a los participantes de este reality show, que serán trasladados al plató en vagones precintados como los que trasportaban a los judíos durante el exterminio nazi y, después, internados en un campo. Ante las cámaras de televisión, los prisioneros son golpeados y humillados. El c ...

30 poemas

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 19:23:03 PST

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De Profundis and Other Writings

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 19:22:28 PST

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'I have nothing to declare,' Wilde once told an American customs official, 'except my genius.' A good part of that genius is evident in the essays and poems included in this volume. There is the intellectual genius of "The Soul of Man under Socialism", in which he clearly foresaw the dangers of economic bureaucracy and state-worship: for Wilde, socialism meant liberation and individuality, not en ...

Poesia Con Los Jovenes - Con CD -

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 19:22:12 PST

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Brillante como una cacerola

Wed, 14 Sep 2011 0:49:39 PST

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Única obra para jóvenes de esta reconocida autora de prestigio internacional. Totalmente provocadora. Excepcional edición, acompañada de los espléndidos grabados de Kikie Crêvecoeur que más que ilustrar, interpretan el texto. -Leyenda quizá un poco china Un cuento oriental que nos hace reflexionar sobre la idea de belleza a través de lo absurdo. -El holandés ferroviario Un relato contemporáneo ...

Buenos días, tristeza

Tue, 23 Aug 2011 22:59:01 PST

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Diccionario de nombres propios

Tue, 23 Aug 2011 22:58:43 PST

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Morrissey & the Smiths

Mon, 8 Aug 2011 18:35:09 PST

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IL RAGAZZO CON LA SPINA NEL FIANCO un saggio di Alberto Campo UNA CRONOLOGIA dagli inizi a Manchester a VIVA HATE DISCOGRAFIA UFFICIALE 80 IMMAGINI a colori e in bianco e nero

Hiroshima Mon Amour

Fri, 5 Aug 2011 21:57:50 PST

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Cartas a un joven poeta

Tue, 2 Aug 2011 0:12:06 PST

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La Despedida

Thu, 28 Jul 2011 23:36:00 PST

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This dark farce of a novel, set in an old-fashioned Central Euroepean spa town, eightcharacters swept up in an accelerating dance: a pretty nurse and her ...

Confesiones de Una Mascara

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 19:55:47 PST

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Escrita en 1949, Confesiones de una máscara es la más representativa de las novelas de Yukio Mishima (Tokio, 1925-1970), y en ella se narran las peripecias de una adolescente que descubre sus inclinaciones homosexuales y que por ello se ve obligado a representar una complicada comedia para subsistir, a colocarse una máscara con la que aparentar "normalidad" cuando en lo más profundo de su ser se ...

Ni de Eva ni de Adán

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 19:53:27 PST

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Amélie Nothomb se sube en Tokio a la montaña rusa de una hilarante educación sentimental en brazos del muy delgado y muy oriental Rinri, un ávido lector que sueña con entrar en la orden del Temple. Amélie, decidida a aprender japonés enseñando francés a los autóctonos, conoce a Rinri en un bar. Pero, pocos días después, la relación entre maestra y alumno dará paso a una hermosa historia de amor. ...

Tsugumi

Sat, 2 Jul 2011 16:31:26 PST

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Maria Shirakawa, la narradora de esta delicada historia, tiene que marcharse a Tokio a estudiar en la universidad. Deja atrás la pensión Yamamoto, un lugar idílico junto al mar en la península de Izu, donde ha crecido al lado de su madre. Y también a su amiga de la infancia, Tsugumi, la hija bellísima del matrimonio que regenta la pensión. Aunque los caracteres de Maria y Tsugumi son muy distinto ...

Casa de muñecas - Juan Gabriel Borkman

Sat, 2 Jul 2011 16:29:05 PST

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Ordeno y mando

Sat, 2 Jul 2011 16:28:41 PST

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«Si un invitado muere repentinamente en su casa, sobre todo no avise a la policía», pontifica alguien en una cena, y Baptiste Bordave sigue más tarde el peculiar consejo cuando un misterioso personaje –Olaf Sildur, un multimillonario sueco– aparece en su casa y muere de forma fulminante en su salón. Y a partir de que Baptiste decide hacer pasar el cadáver del sueco por el suyo propio, se sumerge ...

Metafísica de los tubos

Wed, 15 Jun 2011 8:19:55 PST

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Metafísica de los tubos cuenta los primeros tres años de vida de un ser obsesionado por el agua que, disconforme con su entorno, adopta la inerte forma de tubo como condición existencial. Con la crueldad, el realismo y el peculiar humor al que nos tiene acostumbrados, Amélie Nothomb rememora, a través de una narración que combina filosofía y fontanería, episodios de su infancia japonesa, transcur ...

Bodas de sangre

Wed, 15 Jun 2011 8:19:25 PST

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Azul casi transparente

Wed, 15 Jun 2011 8:19:10 PST

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Esta primera novela de un estudiante japonés de veinticuatro años fue galardonada con el prestigioso premio Akutagawa. En seis meses se vendieron un millón y medio de ejemplares y el libro desencadenó pasiones. La crítica japonesa habló de "sensibilidad revolucionaria", de "mirada como el zoom de una cámara", de "filtro de lucidez, a través del cual la violencia y el erotismo más crudo adquieren ...