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Waldo Emerson,Ralph

This short essay by the American philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) is among the works that have most influenced former U.S. President Barack Obama, who has repeatedly recommended its reading to young people and entrepreneurs.Self-Reliance (1841) is also one of the most significant essays of its author, from a philosophical and humanistic point of view. It is an essay ...

Preston Publishing

Muchas situaciones de la vida cotidiana requieren la capacidad de comprender un idioma extranjero. Para ayudarte a comunicarte en tu día a día, hemos reunido el vocabulario más útil y te lo ofrecemos presentado en las situaciones adecuadas y relacionado con los contextos comunicativos más frecuentes. ...

Rooney, Sally

Connell and Marianne grow up in the same small town in rural Ireland. The similarities end there; they are from very different worlds. When they both earn places at Trinity College in Dublin, a connection that has grown between them lasts long into the following years. This is an exquisite love story about how a person can change another person's life - a simple yet profound re...

Miller, Madeline

The captivating Sunday Times and New York Times number one bestseller by the Orange Prize-winning author of The Song of Achilles. Mortal. Daughter. Monster. Saviour. Outcast. Lover. Destroyer. Creator. Mother. Witch. Scorned, rejected and at last exiled from her father's house for her dark gifts, Circe arrives on the remote island of Aiaia with nothing but her wits and magic to...

Orwell George / Orwell, George

'Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I understand it'. Thus wrote Orwell following his experiences as a militiaman in the Spanish Civil War, chronicled in Homage to Catalonia. Here he brings to bear all the force of his humanity, passion and clarity, describin...

Dueñas, María

Spain, 1936 and the brink of civil war.Aged twelve, Sira Quiroga was apprenticed to a Madrid dressmaker. As she masters the seamstress's art, her life seems to be clearly mapped out - until she falls passionately in love and flees with her seductive lover.But in Morocco she is betrayed and left penniless. As civil war engulfs Spain, Sira finds she cannot return and so turns to ...

Auster, Paul

Paul Auster recurre a la novela de aventuras a lo Julio Verne y hasta a la novela victoriana para construir uno de los libros más sutiles, más llenos de resonancias de la literatura americana contemporánea. Esta obra puede ser leída como un elegantísimo folletín contemporáneo sobre la paternidad y la impostura, pero también como una espléndida novela de aventuras sobre la avent...

Auster, Paul

En 1967, Adam Walker, un aspirante a poeta y estudiante de la Universidad de Columbia, asiste a una fiesta donde conoce a una enigmática pareja formada por el sofisticado Rudolf Born y la silenciosa y seductora Margot. En poco tiempo, Walker se encuentra atrapado en un triángulo perverso que tras un repentino acto de violencia alterará el curso de su vida para siempre. Tres nar...

Auster, Paul

On March 3rd, 1947, Archibald Isaac Ferguson, the only child of Rose and Stanley Ferguson, is born. From that single beginning, Ferguson's life will take four simultaneous paths. Four Fergusons will go on to lead four parallel and entirely different lives. Family fortunes diverge. Loves and friendships and passions contrast. Each version of Ferguson's story rushes across the fr...

Auster, Paul

1. Fogg, Marco Stanley (Personaje ficticio)2. Huérfanos en la literatura3. Relación tío-sobrino en la literatura4. Venta de libros5. Viajes en la literatura6. Identidad en la literatura7. Manhattan en la literatura8. Oeste americano en la literatura9. Narración de historias cruzadas10. Arte narrativo en la literatura ...

Auster, Paul

El azar que conduce las vidas de los protagonistas ...

Auster, Paul

Éste es un volumen único, una compilación de historias verdaderas y personales, reflexiones sobre acontecimientos históricos, observaciones sobre obras pictóricas y literarias. Una lectura imprescindible de «uno de los más grandes escritores de nuestro tiempo», San Francisco Chronicle.En Ensayos completos se reúnen por primera vez todos los textos ensayísticos de Paul Auster, g...