Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The novel presents a stunning series of flashes scenes, moods, dreams, and weather as the narrator wanders through Barranco (then an exclusive seaside resort outside Lima). In one beautiful, radical passage after another, he... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Struggling to fit into the cosmopolitan world of seventeenth-century Madrid, Captain Alatriste and his protégé, Íñigo, reluctantly remain in the employ of the crown for their unique services but find their prospects... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In the cosmopolitan world of seventeenth-century Madrid, with its posh theaters and gleaming palaces, Captain Alatriste and his protégé, Íñigo, become unwilling participants in a court conspiracy that could lead them both to the... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The Celestina is considered by scholars to be the first European novel. Written in fifteenth-century Spain, this masterpiece is remarkable for its originality, depth, handling of dialogue, and drawing of character. The novel's... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) This book is a collection of stories that will echo in the hearts of all who are familiar with this kind of life, but perhaps can – even more significantly-- create the illusion of an echo even in those people, who perhaps... mostrar más
Editorial: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Ciudad: New York, NY
Año de publicación: 2021
Colección: Serie universitaria
Nº de edición: 1ª
Nº de páginas: 162 págs.
ISBN: 9780063143159
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Presents a complete collection of the author's short stories, some of which were not previously published. The stories are mysterious, imbued with a sense of menace, and told with the warmth, wit, and humor of Zafón's inimitable... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original... mostrar más
Editorial: Open Letter, literary translations from the University of Rochester
Ciudad: Rochester, NY
Año de publicación: 2020
Colección: Serie universitaria
Nº de edición: 1ª
Nº de páginas: 138 págs.
ISBN: 9781948830256
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Perfectly normal men and women head to their desks every day in a city laid to waste by guerrilla incursions, menaced by hordes of starving people, murderous children and cloned dogs, patrolled by armed helicopters, and plagued... mostrar más
Editorial: Open Letter, literary translations from the University of Rochester
Ciudad: Rochester, NY
Año de publicación: 2016
Colección: Serie universitaria
Nº de edición: 1ª
Nº de páginas: 160 págs.
ISBN: 9781940953342
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Garay receives a computer disk containing a manuscript--which might be fictional, or could be a memoir--by Doctor Real, a nineteenth-century physician tasked with leading a group of five mental patients on a trip to a recently... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Lucas Corso, a rare book hunter, is called in to authenticate a fragment of the original manuscript of Alexandre Dumas's "The Three Musketeers," found in the possession of a murdered bibliophile, and soon finds himself involved... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Arenas's finest comic achievement is also the fulfillment of his life's work, the Pentagonia, a five-volume cycle of autobiographical novels he began writing in his early twenties. Although it is the penultimate installment in... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) The Color of Summer, Arenas's finest comic achievement, is also the fulfillment of his life's work, the Pentagonía, a five-volume cycle of novels he began writing in his early twenties. Although it is the penultimate... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Reinaldo Arenas ; translated from the Spanish by Andrew Hurley.
Resumen/Reseñas: (From publisher description) The Color of Summer, Arenas's finest comic achievement, is also the fulfillment of his life's work, the Pentagonía, a five-volume cycle of novels he began writing in his early twenties. Although it is the... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Reinaldo Arenas ; translated from the Spanish by Andrew Hurley.
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Facing death from cancer in a Mexican hospital, Carla Arnone escapes from the hospital to California with a ten-year-old boy, relating her life story to "the kid" and her obsession with colors before they reach their... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Facing death from cancer in a Mexican hospital, Carla Arnone escapes from the hospital to California with a ten-year-old boy, relating her life story to "the kid" and her obsession with colors before they reach their destination.
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) One day two women gather to tell stories. As the stories take life, the two women become their characters. A day and night of telling builds into a crescendo of unimaginable truth where the boundaries between story, fable, and... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) After his grandfather dies, avid scholar and budding forensic investigator Cí Song begrudgingly gives up his studies to help his family. But when another tragedy strikes, he's forced to run and also deemed a fugitive. Dishonored... mostrar más