Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Widely regarded as the world's first modern novel, and one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written, Don Quixote chronicles the famous picaresque adventures of the noble knight-errant Don Quixote of La Mancha and his... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Miguel de Cervantes ; a new translation by Edith Grossman ; introduction by Harold Bloom.
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Don Quixote has become so entranced reading tales of chivalry that he decides to turn knight errant himself. In the company of his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, these exploits blossom in all sorts of wonderful ways. While... mostrar más
Editorial: Black Cat, an imprint of Grove Atlantic
Ciudad: New York, NY
Año de publicación: 2018
Colección: Serie universitaria
Nº de edición: 1ª
Nº de páginas: 442 págs.
ISBN: 9780802128157
Resumen/Reseñas: (From publisher description) From a writer whose work has been praised by Junot Díaz as "Latin American fiction at its pulpy phantasmagorical finest," Don't Send Flowers is a riveting novel centered on Carlos Treviño, a retired police... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A riveting novel centred on Carlos Trevino, a retired police detective in northern Mexico who has to go up against the corruption and widespread violence that caused him to leave the force, when he's hired by a wealthy... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Dona Barbara tells the tale of an epic struggle between two cousins for a cast estate and ranch in the Venezuelan llano, or prairie ... Published in 1929 and all but forgotten by Anglophone readers, Dona Barbara is one of the... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The marquis of Villafria, having squandered his fortune on a dissolute life in Madrid, has had to retire to rural Andalusia, to the town of Villafria, with his young daughter Dona Luz. There he comes under the sway of Don Acisclo... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Dona Perfecta is a novel written by Benito Perez Galdos, a well-known Spanish writer. The book is set in the fictional town of Orbajosa, which is located in the Castilian region of Spain. The story revolves around the... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Doña Luz must abandon her aristocratic life in nineteenth-century Madrid and begin anew in rural Andalusia. What she cannot leave behind is her history: an illegitimate birth that defines who she is and what her future holds.... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Double Room is intellectually thrilling and compulsively readable while straddling both fiction and nonfiction. The book is made up of four parts, each of which is in turn divided into two sections. While these four "double rooms... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) What Tochtli wants more than anything right now is a new pet for his private zoo: a pygmy hippopotamus from Liberia. But Tochtli is growing up in his drug baron father's luxury hideout, shared with hit men and dealers. Down the... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) What Tochtli wants more than anything right now is a new pet for his private zoo: a pygmy hippopotamus from Liberia. But Tochtli is growing up in his drug baron father's luxury hideout, shared with hit men and dealers. Down the... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) This meditative novel, grounded in the thinking of Spain's great modern philosopher Ortega y Gasset, unfolds as the journal of a bourgeois chemist who makes his way in Buenos Aires just before and during the Spanish... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Rosa Chacel ; translated by Carol Maier.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Argentine novel set during the Proceso de reorganización nacional; an experimental thriller that focuses on secrecy, betrayal, and violence and reflects the national struggle for power and control through the servants in a... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) Dreams and Realities offers a sampling of Gorriti's stories, showing the range of her commitment to political fiction drawn in the romantic style. Originally published in four volumes under the titles Sueños y realidades and... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Fiction. Translated for the Spanish by Rob Gunther. DRUMS FOR A LOST SONG, Jorge Velasco Mackenzie's tale of José Margarito,"the Singer," escaping from slavery in nineteenth-century Ecuador, combines elements of Ecuadorean... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Inspired by a dream, a retired publisher spontaneously embarks on a trip to the Dublin cemetery in which a character from Joyce's "Ulysses" was buried, where he meets a mysterious person who resembles Samuel Beckett.
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Played out against the background of today's instant communication via internet, this a story of a woman who comes face to face with emotional and cultural questions when a chance meeting with a lover from her past reopens... mostrar más