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Biblioteca clásica y contemporánea volume 252
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El amor es el sentimiento más intenso que puede experimentar una persona; se hermana con la locura en que representan una suspensión de la cordura: enamorados o locos, no actuamos de la misma manera, menos aún ante una muerte inminente. Amor, locura y muerte se entremezclan en estos cuentos donde se puede sentir desde el amor más sublime hasta la experiencia más horrorosa que nos depare la selva o la propia naturaleza humana.
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Follows Amalfitano, exiled Chilean university professor and widower with a teenage daughter, as his political disillusionment and love of poetry lead to the scandal that will force him to flee from Barcelona and take him to Santa Teresa, Mexico. It is here, in this border town, that Amalfitano meets Arcimboldi, a magician and writer whose work highlights the provisional and fragile nature of literature and life.
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Carlos Fuentes, Mexico's leading novelist, author of The Old Gringo, Terra Nostra and The Death of Artemio Cruz, has produced what is probably the first Third World spy thriller, an action-filled, quick-paced novel of intrigue as contemporary as a headline. The Hydra Head has a constant political reality as backdrop: the permanent tension in the Middle East and the vast new oil resources of Mexico, the setting for a brilliant attempt to portray the...
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Cemetery of forgotten books volume 2
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In an abandoned mansion at the heart of Barcelona, a young man, David Martin, makes his living by writing sensationalist novels under a pseudonym. Close to despair, he receives a letter from a reclusive French editor, Andreas Corelli, who makes him the offer of a lifetime -- write a book unlike anything that has ever existed -- a book with the power to change hearts and minds. In return, he will receive a fortune, and perhaps more. But as David begins...
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Eduardo Lalo is one of the most vital and unique voices of Latin American literature, but his work is relatively little known in the English-speaking world. That changes now: this masterful translation of his most celebrated novel, Simone-which won the 2013 Rómulo Gallegos International Novel Prize-will introduce an English-language audience to this extraordinary literary talent.
A tale of alienation, love, suspense, imagination, and literature...
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Barcelona, 1957. Daniel Sempere y su amigo Fermín, los héroes de La Sombra del Viento, regresan de nuevo a la aventura para afrontar el mayor desafío de sus vidas. Justo cuando todo empezaba a sonreírles, un inquietante personaje visita la librería de Sempere y amenaza con desvelar un terrible secreto que lleva enterrado más de dos décadas en la oscura memoria de la ciudad. Al conocer la verdad, Daniel comprenderá que su destino le arrastra...
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Describes how Miguel de Cervantes found refuge from his childhood troubles by daydreaming of a brave knight who would right the wrongs of the world, the inspiration for his famous character Don Quixote.
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"La mayoría de héroes que conocemos son seres extraordinarios con poderes mágicos y una capa ondeando en sus hombros. Pero también existen héroes de carne y hueso, tan humanos como tú y como yo, que algunas veces se equivocan y otras aciertan a lo grande. Federico García Lorca fue uno de ellos. Sus poderes fueron una buena dosis de imaginación y una estilográfica siempre a punto para escribir todos sus sueños. Con ellos conquistó el alma...
9) La Alpujarra
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Pedro Antonio Alarcón escribió varios libros de viajes y entre ellos La Alpujarra (1873), en que describe las costumbres, historia y tradiciones de esa región de España, y hace énfasis en los conflictos de los moriscos de la Alpujarra durante la rebelión que provocó la expulsión de éstos.
Este libro no es solo un recorrido por la geografía de la Alpujarra, es también una arqueología en la historia y las leyendas moriscas de la región.
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This is the story of my death and life, in which fiction and that lesser truth, history, from time to time form a seamless whole. Speaking is the hero of Stephen Marlowe's brilliant new novel. He is Don Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra: son of a barber-surgeon (always on the run from the bill collector), grandson of a converso(a Jew who chose Christianity over the flames of the Spanish Inquisition), adorer of his own sister (who may not have been his...
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The Living Infinite is based on the true story of the Spanish princess Eulalia, an outspoken firebrand at the Bourbon court during the troubled and decadent final years of her family's reign.
After her cloistered childhood at the Spanish court, her youth spent in exile, and a loveless marriage, Eulalia gladly departs Europe for the New World. In the company of Thomas Aragon, the son of her one-time wet nurse and a small-town bookseller with a thirst...
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Clásicos castellanos volume 4, 6, 8, 10, 13, 16, 19, 22
Novelas y cuentos volume 100-101
Colección Joya
Biblioteca perla volume serie 2, no. 3
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Novelas y cuentos volume 100-101
Colección Joya
Biblioteca perla volume serie 2, no. 3
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Retells the adventures of an eccentric Spanish country gentleman and his companion who set out as a knight and squire of old to right wrongs and punish evil.