Author: Fernando Do Rosario
Publisher: Mi Club de Cuentos
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 47
Book Description
¿Alguna vez has querido viajar en el tiempo y estar en otros lugares y épocas? Daria nunca había pensado en esa posibilidad, hasta que con la partida de su abuelo descubre un album de fotos muy curioso que le abre la puerta a pensar que esto es posible. Al ver a su abuelo en lugares y épocas que parecen muy diferentes a la que él vivió y fijándose en los detalles de las fotografías, Daria emprende una búsqueda para saber si lo que piensa es verdad.
Daria y el sombrero mágico
Author: Fernando Do Rosario
Publisher: Mi Club de Cuentos
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 47
Book Description
¿Alguna vez has querido viajar en el tiempo y estar en otros lugares y épocas? Daria nunca había pensado en esa posibilidad, hasta que con la partida de su abuelo descubre un album de fotos muy curioso que le abre la puerta a pensar que esto es posible. Al ver a su abuelo en lugares y épocas que parecen muy diferentes a la que él vivió y fijándose en los detalles de las fotografías, Daria emprende una búsqueda para saber si lo que piensa es verdad.
Publisher: Mi Club de Cuentos
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 47
Book Description
¿Alguna vez has querido viajar en el tiempo y estar en otros lugares y épocas? Daria nunca había pensado en esa posibilidad, hasta que con la partida de su abuelo descubre un album de fotos muy curioso que le abre la puerta a pensar que esto es posible. Al ver a su abuelo en lugares y épocas que parecen muy diferentes a la que él vivió y fijándose en los detalles de las fotografías, Daria emprende una búsqueda para saber si lo que piensa es verdad.
Divination on stage
Author: Folke Gernert
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110695758
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Magicians, necromancers and astrologers are assiduous characters in the European golden age theatre. This book deals with dramatic characters who act as physiognomists or palm readers in the fictional world and analyses the fictionalisation of physiognomic lore as a practice of divination in early modern Romance theatre from Pietro Aretino and Giordano Bruno to Lope de Vega, Calderón de la Barca and Thomas Corneille.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110695758
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Magicians, necromancers and astrologers are assiduous characters in the European golden age theatre. This book deals with dramatic characters who act as physiognomists or palm readers in the fictional world and analyses the fictionalisation of physiognomic lore as a practice of divination in early modern Romance theatre from Pietro Aretino and Giordano Bruno to Lope de Vega, Calderón de la Barca and Thomas Corneille.
Building a Library
Author: British Broadcasting Corporation
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Mariposas en mi boca
Author: Valentina Virginia Mtz. Stroud
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
Un accidente de carretera, del cual sobreviven los padres de dos ninas, cambia el rumbo de la vida de la mas pequena de tres anos, quien se va a vivir con los abuelos maternos. Anos despues, debe ser regresada con sus padres. Esa separacion le afecta emocionalmente, y nadie la ayuda. Ella busca sus propios medios de regresar con sus abuelos, pero muchos de sus intentos son malogrados. Entonces, se aferra a buscar como comprar una bicicleta, segura de que esa es la solucion para cumplir su objetivo. Esa obstinacion por obtener ese artefacto mecanico desencadena eventos inimaginables en su vida. Al fin, cuando lo logra... no te puedes perder con que se encuentra...
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
Un accidente de carretera, del cual sobreviven los padres de dos ninas, cambia el rumbo de la vida de la mas pequena de tres anos, quien se va a vivir con los abuelos maternos. Anos despues, debe ser regresada con sus padres. Esa separacion le afecta emocionalmente, y nadie la ayuda. Ella busca sus propios medios de regresar con sus abuelos, pero muchos de sus intentos son malogrados. Entonces, se aferra a buscar como comprar una bicicleta, segura de que esa es la solucion para cumplir su objetivo. Esa obstinacion por obtener ese artefacto mecanico desencadena eventos inimaginables en su vida. Al fin, cuando lo logra... no te puedes perder con que se encuentra...
Cecilia Valdés or El Angel Hill
Author: Cirilo Villaverde
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199725233
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 545
Book Description
Cecilia Valdés is arguably the most important novel of 19th century Cuba. Originally published in New York City in 1882, Cirilo Villaverde's novel has fascinated readers inside and outside Cuba since the late 19th century. In this new English translation, a vast landscape emerges of the moral, political, and sexual depravity caused by slavery and colonialism. Set in the Havana of the 1830s, the novel introduces us to Cecilia, a beautiful light-skinned mulatta, who is being pursued by the son of a Spanish slave trader, named Leonardo. Unbeknownst to the two, they are the children of the same father. Eventually Cecilia gives in to Leonardo's advances; she becomes pregnant and gives birth to a baby girl. When Leonardo, who gets bored with Cecilia after a while, agrees to marry a white upper class woman, Cecilia vows revenge. A mulatto friend and suitor of hers kills Leonardo, and Cecilia is thrown into prison as an accessory to the crime. For the contemporary reader Helen Lane's masterful translation of Cecilia Valdés opens a new window into the intricate problems of race relations in Cuba and the Caribbean. There are the elite social circles of European and New World Whites, the rich culture of the free people of color, the class to which Cecilia herself belonged, and then the slaves, divided among themselves between those who were born in Africa and those who were born in the New World, and those who worked on the sugar plantation and those who worked in the households of the rich people in Havana. Cecilia Valdés thus presents a vast portrait of sexual, social, and racial oppression, and the lived experience of Spanish colonialism in Cuba.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199725233
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 545
Book Description
Cecilia Valdés is arguably the most important novel of 19th century Cuba. Originally published in New York City in 1882, Cirilo Villaverde's novel has fascinated readers inside and outside Cuba since the late 19th century. In this new English translation, a vast landscape emerges of the moral, political, and sexual depravity caused by slavery and colonialism. Set in the Havana of the 1830s, the novel introduces us to Cecilia, a beautiful light-skinned mulatta, who is being pursued by the son of a Spanish slave trader, named Leonardo. Unbeknownst to the two, they are the children of the same father. Eventually Cecilia gives in to Leonardo's advances; she becomes pregnant and gives birth to a baby girl. When Leonardo, who gets bored with Cecilia after a while, agrees to marry a white upper class woman, Cecilia vows revenge. A mulatto friend and suitor of hers kills Leonardo, and Cecilia is thrown into prison as an accessory to the crime. For the contemporary reader Helen Lane's masterful translation of Cecilia Valdés opens a new window into the intricate problems of race relations in Cuba and the Caribbean. There are the elite social circles of European and New World Whites, the rich culture of the free people of color, the class to which Cecilia herself belonged, and then the slaves, divided among themselves between those who were born in Africa and those who were born in the New World, and those who worked on the sugar plantation and those who worked in the households of the rich people in Havana. Cecilia Valdés thus presents a vast portrait of sexual, social, and racial oppression, and the lived experience of Spanish colonialism in Cuba.
The Complete Posthumous Poetry
Author: César Vallejo
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520040996
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : es
Pages : 378
Book Description
The Translation judges for the National Book Awards--Richard Miller, Alastair Reid, Eliot Weinberger--cited Clayton Eshleman and Jose Rubia Barcia's translation of Cesar Vallejo's The Complete Posthumous Poetry as follows: "This, the first National Book Award to be given to a translation of modern poetry, is a recognition of Clayton Eshleman's seventeen-year apprenticeship to perhaps the most difficult poetry in the Spanish language. Eshleman and his present collaborator, Jose Rubia Barcia, have not only rendered these complex poems into brilliant and living English, but have also established a definitive Spanish test based on Vallejo's densely rewritten manuscripts. In recreating this modern master in English, they have also made a considerable addition to poetry in our language."
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520040996
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : es
Pages : 378
Book Description
The Translation judges for the National Book Awards--Richard Miller, Alastair Reid, Eliot Weinberger--cited Clayton Eshleman and Jose Rubia Barcia's translation of Cesar Vallejo's The Complete Posthumous Poetry as follows: "This, the first National Book Award to be given to a translation of modern poetry, is a recognition of Clayton Eshleman's seventeen-year apprenticeship to perhaps the most difficult poetry in the Spanish language. Eshleman and his present collaborator, Jose Rubia Barcia, have not only rendered these complex poems into brilliant and living English, but have also established a definitive Spanish test based on Vallejo's densely rewritten manuscripts. In recreating this modern master in English, they have also made a considerable addition to poetry in our language."
Four Plays of Gil Vicente
Author: Gil Vicente
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
L'étoile du nord
Author: Giacomo Meyerbeer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Librettos
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Librettos
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Juan de la Rosa
Author: Nataniel Aguirre
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199938873
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Long considered a classic in Bolivia, Juan de la Rosa tells the story of a young boy's coming of age during the violent and tumultuous years of Bolivia's struggle for independence. Indeed, in this remarkable novel, Juan's search for his personal identity functions as an allegory of Bolivia's search for its identity as a nation. Set in the early 1800s, the novel is narrated by one of the last surviving Bolivian rebels, octogenarian Juan de la Rosa. Juan recreates his childhood in the rebellious town of Cochabamba, and with it a large cast of full bodied, Dickensian characters both heroic and malevolent. The larger cultural dislocations brought about by Bolivia's political upheaval are echoed in those experienced by Juan, whose mother's untimely death sets off a chain of unpredictable events that propel him into the fiery crucible of the South American Independence Movement. Outraged by Juan's outspokenness against Spanish rule and his awakening political consciousness, his loyalist guardians banish him to the countryside, where he witnesses firsthand the Spaniards' violent repression and rebels' valiant resistance that crystallize both his personal destiny and that of his country. In Sergio Gabriel Waisman's fluid translation, English readers have access to Juan de la Rosa for the very first time.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199938873
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Long considered a classic in Bolivia, Juan de la Rosa tells the story of a young boy's coming of age during the violent and tumultuous years of Bolivia's struggle for independence. Indeed, in this remarkable novel, Juan's search for his personal identity functions as an allegory of Bolivia's search for its identity as a nation. Set in the early 1800s, the novel is narrated by one of the last surviving Bolivian rebels, octogenarian Juan de la Rosa. Juan recreates his childhood in the rebellious town of Cochabamba, and with it a large cast of full bodied, Dickensian characters both heroic and malevolent. The larger cultural dislocations brought about by Bolivia's political upheaval are echoed in those experienced by Juan, whose mother's untimely death sets off a chain of unpredictable events that propel him into the fiery crucible of the South American Independence Movement. Outraged by Juan's outspokenness against Spanish rule and his awakening political consciousness, his loyalist guardians banish him to the countryside, where he witnesses firsthand the Spaniards' violent repression and rebels' valiant resistance that crystallize both his personal destiny and that of his country. In Sergio Gabriel Waisman's fluid translation, English readers have access to Juan de la Rosa for the very first time.
The Peru Reader
Author: Orin Starn
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822387506
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
Sixteenth-century Spanish soldiers described Peru as a land filled with gold and silver, a place of untold wealth. Nineteenth-century travelers wrote of soaring Andean peaks plunging into luxuriant Amazonian canyons of orchids, pythons, and jaguars. The early-twentieth-century American adventurer Hiram Bingham told of the raging rivers and the wild jungles he traversed on his way to rediscovering the “Lost City of the Incas,” Machu Picchu. Seventy years later, news crews from ABC and CBS traveled to Peru to report on merciless terrorists, starving peasants, and Colombian drug runners in the “white gold” rush of the coca trade. As often as not, Peru has been portrayed in broad extremes: as the land of the richest treasures, the bloodiest conquest, the most poignant ballads, and the most violent revolutionaries. This revised and updated second edition of the bestselling Peru Reader offers a deeper understanding of the complex country that lies behind these claims. Unparalleled in scope, the volume covers Peru’s history from its extraordinary pre-Columbian civilizations to its citizens’ twenty-first-century struggles to achieve dignity and justice in a multicultural nation where Andean, African, Amazonian, Asian, and European traditions meet. The collection presents a vast array of essays, folklore, historical documents, poetry, songs, short stories, autobiographical accounts, and photographs. Works by contemporary Peruvian intellectuals and politicians appear alongside accounts of those whose voices are less often heard—peasants, street vendors, maids, Amazonian Indians, and African-Peruvians. Including some of the most insightful pieces of Western journalism and scholarship about Peru, the selections provide the traveler and specialist alike with a thorough introduction to the country’s astonishing past and challenging present.
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822387506
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
Sixteenth-century Spanish soldiers described Peru as a land filled with gold and silver, a place of untold wealth. Nineteenth-century travelers wrote of soaring Andean peaks plunging into luxuriant Amazonian canyons of orchids, pythons, and jaguars. The early-twentieth-century American adventurer Hiram Bingham told of the raging rivers and the wild jungles he traversed on his way to rediscovering the “Lost City of the Incas,” Machu Picchu. Seventy years later, news crews from ABC and CBS traveled to Peru to report on merciless terrorists, starving peasants, and Colombian drug runners in the “white gold” rush of the coca trade. As often as not, Peru has been portrayed in broad extremes: as the land of the richest treasures, the bloodiest conquest, the most poignant ballads, and the most violent revolutionaries. This revised and updated second edition of the bestselling Peru Reader offers a deeper understanding of the complex country that lies behind these claims. Unparalleled in scope, the volume covers Peru’s history from its extraordinary pre-Columbian civilizations to its citizens’ twenty-first-century struggles to achieve dignity and justice in a multicultural nation where Andean, African, Amazonian, Asian, and European traditions meet. The collection presents a vast array of essays, folklore, historical documents, poetry, songs, short stories, autobiographical accounts, and photographs. Works by contemporary Peruvian intellectuals and politicians appear alongside accounts of those whose voices are less often heard—peasants, street vendors, maids, Amazonian Indians, and African-Peruvians. Including some of the most insightful pieces of Western journalism and scholarship about Peru, the selections provide the traveler and specialist alike with a thorough introduction to the country’s astonishing past and challenging present.