Biblioteca Americana

Offers detailed analyses and reconstructions of Picon's eight novels. Of special significance to modern readers are his conceptions of Spanish history and character, patriotism, and women and sex -- conceptions that for their day may be considered advanced.

Excerpt from Obras Completas del Doctor D. Manuel Mila y Fontanals, Catedratico Que Fue de Literatura en la Universidad de Barcelona, Vol. 4: Opusculos Literarios Viaje por la Rusia meridional y la Crimea, etc., por el principe Demidoff, traducido por D. J uan Cortada. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing...

This book collects for the first time a compendium of poems written in English by brigadists, sanitary personnel and journalists that participated or were involved in the Spanish Civil War, as well as by intellectuals, writers and journalists that supported the republican cause from the outside. The anthology starts from a previous historical framework in which this poetic legacy has been contextualized, to know where, when, how and why these poems were written, and who wrote them or who were their protagonists. All these analyses have served to understand the causes of why this poetic legacy ...

Una miscelánea de datos e informaciones curiosas del tipo más variado. Los diez animales más peligrosos, la historia del cartel de «Hollywood» (que originalmente decía Hollywoodland), las primeras mujeres astronautas, la extinción del pingüino auténtico, los diez mayores fracasos del cine, teoría y práctica del beso (el más largo de la historia duró 58 horas, 35 minutos y 58 segundos, curiosidades de la zoofarmacognosia... Todo esto y más, un libro entero de cosas que nunca supiste que te iban a interesar, es lo que encierra este maravilloso y único compendio. Reseña: «La...