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Las cartas que aquí se presentan constituyen un valioso material de archivo que contribuirá, sin duda, a reconstruir la historia del Perú posbélico y a repensar las estrategias discursivas que Clorinda Matto de Turner utilizó para tejer redes a distancia con Ricardo Palma y otras figuras clave de la cultura latinoamericana de su tiempo.
Este epistolario editado y anotado ofrece la oportunidad de cartografiar el campo intelectual peruano en los...
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El pediatra y navegante cántabro Álvaro González de Aledo cuenta en este libro la navegación que realizó a la Isla de Elba y el Archipiélago Toscano en el Corto Maltés, su pequeño velero de serie de seis metros de eslora, volviendo a España por el río Ródano y los canales del Sur de Francia. Fue un viaje lleno de incidentes, desde el primer día durante el transporte por carretera al Mediterráneo, durante la navegación, con abundantes...
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This exceptional collection provides new insight into the life of North Carolina writer and activist Paul Green (1894-1981), the first southern playwright to attract international acclaim for his socially conscious dramas. Green, who taught philosophy and drama at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1927 for In Abraham's Bosom, an authentic drama of black life. Among his other Broadway productions were Native...
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The contents of this edition include: "Prayer, to Ask of God the Proper Use of Sickness," "Comparison Between Christianity of Early Times and Those of To-day," "Discourses on the Condition of the Great," "On the Conversion of the Sinner," "Conversation of Pascal with M. de Saci on Epictetus and Montaigne," "The Art of Persuasion," "Discourse on the Passion of Love," "Of the Geometrical Spirit, Preface to the Treatise on Vacuum," "New Fragment of the...
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El 24 de julio de 1912, Friderike von Winternitz visitó Viena y pasó la velada en la fonda Riedhof, un local frecuentado por funcionarios, oficiales, médicos y escritores, en el que vio a Stefan Zweig. Al día siguiente, Friderike le escribió una carta anónima con la que comenzaba no sólo su relación amorosa, sino una correspondencia que se prolongó durante veinte años, hasta el suicidio del escritor en plena Segunda Guerra Mundial. Estas...
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From the 1920s through the 1950s Maxwell Anderson was one of the most important playwrights in America. His thirty-three produced plays make him a leader among these playwrights of America's most creative era in the theater, and a number of his plays have shown a lasting vitality and importance. What Price Glory (1924) dramatized the disillusionment and horror of World War I. With Elizabeth the Queen (1929), Winterset (1935), and High Tor (1936),...
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En De mujer a mujer. Cartas desde el exilio a Gabriela Mistral (1942-1956) se han reunido treinta misivas escritas por Teresa Díez-Canedo, María Enciso, Maruja Mallo, Ana Maria Sagi, Francesca Prat i Barri, Margarita Nelken, Victoria Kent, Zenobia Camprubí, María Zambrano y María de Unamuno, protagonistas de la cultura española contemporánea que, al término de la Guerra Civil, se vieron obligadas a vivir en el destierro.
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The never-before published letters of the legendary Mitford sisters, alive with wit, affection, tragedy and gossip: a charismatic history of the century's signal events played out in the lives of a controversial and uniquely gifted family.
Nancy, the scalding wit who parlayed her family life into bestselling novels. Diana, the fascist jailed with her husband, Oswald Mosley, during WWII. Unity, a suicide, torn by her worship of Hitler and her loyalty...
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Jus publica por fin en castellano una versión íntegra y sin censuras que incluye varias cartas inéditas descubiertas en años recientes de la correspondencia que mantuvieron por veinticinco años Virginia Woolf y Lytton Strachey. Aquí juzgan con agudeza sus propias obras y las ajenas, se elogian y se trituran, intercambian chismes maliciosos, hablan del (mal) tiempo, cuentan anécdotas mordaces, se burlan de las extravagancias ajenas y examinan...
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Witness to Freedom is the fifth and final volume in the extraordinary correspondence of "one of the most original and challenging minds of the mid-twentieth century" (John Tracy Ellis, The New York Times Book Review). Dramatic and revealing, these letters deal with periods of serious crisis in Thomas Merton's life and vocation, giving readers, in his own words, the details and behind-the-scene facts of his personal struggles as well as his lifelong...
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Epistolario decimal reúne las cartas que se intercambiaron Pedro Prado y Manuel Magallanes Moure entre 1911 y 1923, precisamente los años en que ambos escritores protagonizaron el campo literario chileno. Amigos y miembros del Grupo de Los Diez, que reunió a destacados músicos, pintores, arquitectos y escritores chilenos, Prado y Magallanes comparten a través de sus cartas sus paseos por playas y montañas, sus inquietudes filosóficas y sus...
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In this book, Michael Laitman's fascinating commentary uncovers the wisdom in the Pentateuch (also known as the "Torah") in a manner no other book has done before. Here you discover that each protagonist in the stories of the Torah is really a force within, determining your path in life. Delve into the text to enrich and empower yourself as you become the happy, confident person that you dream of being.
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Our fantasies and dreams create our reality. Most parents wish the best for their children and especially strong is the mother and daughter bond. In "Faery Letters" Pamela Erickson, a uniquely talented writer, demonstrates her love and caring for her own daughter through a series of "Faery Letters." This is a book that will be shared between mothers and daughters alike and passed down among generations of woman who will find themselves reflected in...
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A poignant memoir and tribute to the Oxford poet Nairnby the author who went on to create The Worm Ouroborosand the groundbreaking Zimiamvia fantasy trilogy. Eric Rucker Eddison's first book, originally published privately in hardback during the First World War, is a poignant memoir and tribute to the Oxford poet Philip Sidney Fletcher Nairn, whose work was so inspired by his Scottish ancestry, life in the Lake District, and his subsequent travels...
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Unmasks the tough, street-smart persona of Charles Bukowski-America's "Ultimate Outsider" Amazing letters filled with passionate, literary, and personal observation Insights into the author of Tales of Ordinary Madness, Notes of a Dirty Old Man, and Run with the Hunted Insights into Sheri Martinelli: the protégé of Anais Nin, an accomplished painter, and the mistress of Ezra Pound Charels Bukowski's persona as the Dirty Old Man of American Literature...
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The letters in this volume illustrate the charming blend of narration and wit that comprise Chekhov's signature style. Ranging from love letters, discussions of literature with publishers and directors, and descriptions of the landscapes, people and preoccupations of his daily life, this collection lets readers see inside the mind of one of the world's greatest writers.
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El libro reúne textos esenciales para comprender la obra poética de León Felipe procedentes del Archivo Histórico Provincial de Zamora y la Residencia de Estudiantes.
Se divide en dos partes: «Aposentos», en la que se incluyen versos y textos en prosa, y «Moradas», una recopilación de correspondencia inédita con figuras literarias de la talla de Camilo José Cela, Juan Larrea o Diez-Canedo.
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Además de inventar motores y turbinas, soñar con un mundo de naves teledirigidas y torres inalámbricas, levantar grandes laboratorios mágicos de los que salían relámpagos y tormentas artificiales y hasta diseñar aparatos domésticos, Nikola Tesla escribió mucho. Cartas a la familia, narrando sus éxitos y planes; cartas a sus jefes y patronos, contando sus proyectos y sueños; cartas a los amigos, cartas a los periódicos, cartas con quejas,...
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