Author: Kurt D. Singer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women
Languages : es
Pages : 254
Book Description
Las mujeres detrás de los hombres célebres
Author: Kurt D. Singer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women
Languages : es
Pages : 254
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women
Languages : es
Pages : 254
Book Description
National Union Catalog
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Author:
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1445233185
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1445233185
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
The Forbidden
Author: Benito Pérez Galdós
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 144380777X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 403
Book Description
Benito Pérez Galdós, considered Spain’s most important novelist after Cervantes, wrote 77 novels, several works of theater and a number of other tomes during his lifetime (1843–1920). His works have been translated into all major languages of the world, and many of his most highly regarded novels, those of the contemporary period, have been translated into English two, three and even four times over. Of the few “contemporary novels” of Galdós that until now have not come to light in English, The Forbidden is certainly among the most noteworthy. The story line concerns a wealthy philanderer, José María Bueno de Guzmán, who attempts to buy the favors of his three beautiful married cousins. He is successful with the first, Eloísa, a grasping materialist who falls deeply in love with him. Then he rejects her in order to attempt to seduce the youngest, Camila. Meanwhile, the third, the pseudo-intellectual María Juana, jealous, seduces José María. But it is Camila, healthy, impetuous and wild, who resists his temptations and holds our attention. The novelist and critic Leopoldo Alas, Galdós’s contemporary, calls her “the most feminine, graceful, lively female character that any modern novelist has painted.” As a naturalistic study, in the manner of Balzac in particular, principal characters of Galdós’s other novels (El doctor Centeno, La de Bringas, La familia de León Roch) become fleetingly visible in The Forbidden. In addition, the entire Bueno de Guzmán family gives evidence of the naturalistic emphasis on heredity: they all display certain physical or mental disorders. Eloísa has a morbid fear of feathers, María Juana often feels that she has a tiny piece of cloth caught in her teeth, José María suffers bouts of depression, an uncle is a kleptomaniac, one of the relatives writes letters to himself, etc. At the same time, this novel shows the foibles of Spanish society where status is determined by one’s associates, by the wearing of finery, and by living on borrowed money. In their history of Spanish literature, Chandler and Schwartz call Galdós “the greatest novelist of the nineteenth century and the only one who deserves to be mentioned in the same breath with great novelists like Balzac, Dickens and Dostoievsky.” The Forbidden, written at the height of the author’s creative powers, is a major work and its publication for an English-speaking audience is long overdue.
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 144380777X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 403
Book Description
Benito Pérez Galdós, considered Spain’s most important novelist after Cervantes, wrote 77 novels, several works of theater and a number of other tomes during his lifetime (1843–1920). His works have been translated into all major languages of the world, and many of his most highly regarded novels, those of the contemporary period, have been translated into English two, three and even four times over. Of the few “contemporary novels” of Galdós that until now have not come to light in English, The Forbidden is certainly among the most noteworthy. The story line concerns a wealthy philanderer, José María Bueno de Guzmán, who attempts to buy the favors of his three beautiful married cousins. He is successful with the first, Eloísa, a grasping materialist who falls deeply in love with him. Then he rejects her in order to attempt to seduce the youngest, Camila. Meanwhile, the third, the pseudo-intellectual María Juana, jealous, seduces José María. But it is Camila, healthy, impetuous and wild, who resists his temptations and holds our attention. The novelist and critic Leopoldo Alas, Galdós’s contemporary, calls her “the most feminine, graceful, lively female character that any modern novelist has painted.” As a naturalistic study, in the manner of Balzac in particular, principal characters of Galdós’s other novels (El doctor Centeno, La de Bringas, La familia de León Roch) become fleetingly visible in The Forbidden. In addition, the entire Bueno de Guzmán family gives evidence of the naturalistic emphasis on heredity: they all display certain physical or mental disorders. Eloísa has a morbid fear of feathers, María Juana often feels that she has a tiny piece of cloth caught in her teeth, José María suffers bouts of depression, an uncle is a kleptomaniac, one of the relatives writes letters to himself, etc. At the same time, this novel shows the foibles of Spanish society where status is determined by one’s associates, by the wearing of finery, and by living on borrowed money. In their history of Spanish literature, Chandler and Schwartz call Galdós “the greatest novelist of the nineteenth century and the only one who deserves to be mentioned in the same breath with great novelists like Balzac, Dickens and Dostoievsky.” The Forbidden, written at the height of the author’s creative powers, is a major work and its publication for an English-speaking audience is long overdue.
Recollections of My Life
Author: Santiago Ramón y Cajal
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nervous system
Languages : en
Pages : 702
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nervous system
Languages : en
Pages : 702
Book Description
Queen Calafia
Author: Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Tradition and Innovation in Early Modern Spanish Studies
Author: Sherry Marie Velasco
Publisher: Juan de La Cuesta-Hispanic Monographs
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : es
Pages : 364
Book Description
Publisher: Juan de La Cuesta-Hispanic Monographs
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : es
Pages : 364
Book Description
The Garden Next Door
Author: José Donoso
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780802133687
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
A Chilean writer named Julio and his wife, Gloria, are at a low point in their lives. Constantly bickering, the pair are beset by worries about money, their writing, and their son (who may or may not be plying the oldest profession in Marrakesh). When Julio's boyhood best friend, now a famous artist, lends the couple his luxurious Madrid apartment for the summer, it is an escape for both - but in particular for Julio, who fantasizes about the garden next door and the erotic life of the lovely young aristocratic woman who inhabits it. But Julio's life - and career - unravel In Madrid: he is rebuffed by a famous literary agent, Nuria Monclus, who detests him and his novel; his son's friend from Marrakesh moves in and causes havoc; and Gloria begins to drink. In the face of pitiless adversity, Julio's talent inexorably begins to fade. The garden next door, however, is also Gloria, who has been doing some creating of her own. It is this twist that transforms Donoso's brilliant satire of the writer's life into something even greater: a carefully crafted and bitteily comic meditation on gardens, deceit, and the nature of a writer's muse.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780802133687
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
A Chilean writer named Julio and his wife, Gloria, are at a low point in their lives. Constantly bickering, the pair are beset by worries about money, their writing, and their son (who may or may not be plying the oldest profession in Marrakesh). When Julio's boyhood best friend, now a famous artist, lends the couple his luxurious Madrid apartment for the summer, it is an escape for both - but in particular for Julio, who fantasizes about the garden next door and the erotic life of the lovely young aristocratic woman who inhabits it. But Julio's life - and career - unravel In Madrid: he is rebuffed by a famous literary agent, Nuria Monclus, who detests him and his novel; his son's friend from Marrakesh moves in and causes havoc; and Gloria begins to drink. In the face of pitiless adversity, Julio's talent inexorably begins to fade. The garden next door, however, is also Gloria, who has been doing some creating of her own. It is this twist that transforms Donoso's brilliant satire of the writer's life into something even greater: a carefully crafted and bitteily comic meditation on gardens, deceit, and the nature of a writer's muse.
Dios no es católico
Author: jose rodriguez
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1445267837
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 188
Book Description
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1445267837
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 188
Book Description
"El Yakusa De Mi Corazón"
Author: Marnie Forestieri
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1462043267
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 121
Book Description
Tokio, 1995. Una joven colombiana se convierte en vctima de una organizacin de trata de blancas. Un miembro de la mafia Japonesa pone a prueba su cdigo de honor. Y un sentimiento inesperado nace para revelar la esencia de cada uno. Una novela emocionante que devela los enigmas y rituales de una de las organizaciones de crimen organizado ms poderosas del mundo, La Yakusa y recorre las calles oscuras de Tokio para descubrir la vida de las mujeres dedicadas a la profesin ms antigua del mundo. Basada en una historia real, El Yakusa de mi Corazn nos recuerda que el bien se puede encontrar en las circunstancias ms hostiles.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1462043267
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 121
Book Description
Tokio, 1995. Una joven colombiana se convierte en vctima de una organizacin de trata de blancas. Un miembro de la mafia Japonesa pone a prueba su cdigo de honor. Y un sentimiento inesperado nace para revelar la esencia de cada uno. Una novela emocionante que devela los enigmas y rituales de una de las organizaciones de crimen organizado ms poderosas del mundo, La Yakusa y recorre las calles oscuras de Tokio para descubrir la vida de las mujeres dedicadas a la profesin ms antigua del mundo. Basada en una historia real, El Yakusa de mi Corazn nos recuerda que el bien se puede encontrar en las circunstancias ms hostiles.