Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The epic tale of an eccentric country gentleman and his companion who set out as a knight and squire of old to right wrongs and punish evil in sixteenth-century Spain.
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) An abridgement of the classic tale of chivalry, The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quioxte de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra.
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.
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) 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) 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: (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: (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
Editorial: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Ciudad: New York, NY
Año de publicación: 2020
Colección: Serie universitaria
Nº de edición: 1ª
Nº de páginas: 206 págs.
ISBN: 9780062987730
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Set in an unnamed slum in contemporary Argentina, Eartheater is the story of a young woman who finds herself drawn to eating the earth - a compulsion that gives her visions of broken and lost lives. With her first taste of dirt,... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) The eight novellas collected in this book display the humor, exuberant spirit, love of language, and insight of the Spanish writer Ramon Gomez de la Serna, a central figure in the European and Latin American avant-garde, and a... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (¿Sin fuente?) José Rizal was one of the leading champions of Filipino nationalism and independence. His masterpiece, Noli Me Tangere, is widely considered to be the foundational novel of the Philippines. In this riveting continuation,... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: José Rizal ; translated [from the Spanish] with an introduction and notes by Harold Augenbraum.