Summary/Reviews: (¿Sin fuente?) Widely regarded as the world's first modern novel, Don Quixote chronicles the famous picaresque adventures of the noble knight-errant Don Quixote de la Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, as they wend their way… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Miguel de Cervantes ; translated by Tobias Smollett ; introduction by Carlos Fuentes ; notes by Stephanie Kirk.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Widely regarded as the world's first modern novel, Don Quixote chronicles the famous picaresque adventures of the noble knight-errant Don Quixote de la Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, as they wend their way across… read more
Summary/Reviews: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) The Laguna women suffer from an odd affliction: each generation is condemned to tragic love affairs and to give birth only to girls who are unable to escape the cruel fate of their mothers. One fateful hunting season… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Cristina López Barrio ; translated from the Spanish by Lisa Carter.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Months after his predecessor and lover is hit and killed by a car while reading a volume of Dickinson poetry, a Cambridge professor receives a copy of a Conrad novel with a mysterious dedication and travels to Buenos Aires and… read more
Summary/Reviews: (Provided by publisher) 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… read more
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) A best seller and critical success all over the world, The House of the Spirits is the magnificent epic of the Trueba family -- their loves, their ambitions, their spiritual quests, their relations with one another, and their… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A magnificent saga of proud and passionate men and women and the turbulent times through which they suffer and triumph. They are the Truebas. And theirs is a world you will not want to leave, and one you will not forget.With an… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A magnificent saga of proud and passionate men and women and the turbulent times through which they suffer and triumph. They are the Truebas. And theirs is a world you will not want to leave, and one you will not forget.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Presents a novel set in an unnamed Latin American country and describes the struggles, passions, and secrets of the Trueba family that spans three generations.
Summary/Reviews: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) Julián Ríos's latest comic extravaganza is at once a serious literary excavation and a lecture as delivered by Groucho Marx on the subject of that great (and often imposing) cornerstone of world literature: James… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: by Julián Ríos ; translated by Nick Caistor.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) With acute psychological insight, Dávila follows her characters to the limits of desire, paranoia, insomnia, and fear. She is a writer obsessed with obsession, who makes nightmares come to life through the everyday: loneliness… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A cycle of poems in free verse that develops a cosmic vision of hunting and the hunter. The hunter becomes the hunted, the animal, the poet, finally God, the Great Hunter of souls. Preface by translator, Bilingual text, Notes… read more
Publisher: The Feminist Press at the City University of New York
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2017
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 136 pp.
ISBN: 9781558614352
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) On a dark and stormy night, two mysterious women invade an unnamed narrator's house, where they proceed to ruthlessly question their host's gender and identity. The increasingly frantic protagonist fails to defend his supposed… read more
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) A puzzling phone call shatters a writer's routine. An enigmatic female voice extends a dinner invitation, and it soon becomes clear that this is an invitation to take part in the documenta, the legendary… read more
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) A puzzling phone call shatters a writer's routine. An enigmatic female voice extends a dinner invitation, and it soon becomes clear that this is an invitation to take part in the documenta, the legendary… read more
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Don Faustino Lopez de Mendoza, scion of an illustrious but impoverished family of the highest nobility, believes himself destined for great accomplishments in the literary world, sees himself as a poet of the first rank, and… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Novel about Enric Marco, a Spanish man who claimed to have been a prisoner in Nazi German concentration camps, until historian Benito Bermejo found out that his story was not true.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Breakfasting daily at a Madrid café where she observes fellow patrons, María Dolz offers condolences to a widow whose husband has been shockingly murdered, an act that leads to a new relationship and disturbing insights into the… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Javier Marías ; translation by Margaret Jull Costa.