Gesta romanorum

Making a pact with the devil is not as easy as it looks. On one hand, you get fame and fortune for over 800 years, but, on the other hand, you have to become a vengeful being willing to condemn yourself to a lifetime of servitude. Prosper will try to avoid this by returning the devil Alastor to his world before he destroys her family. In order to accomplish this, she will have to avoid numerous traps, tricks, and Alastor's wicked sense of humor with only the help of her Uncle Barnabas, a witch's apprentice, and a cat with bat wings.

"The first major study on the works of the Mexican novelist, âAngeles Mastretta, demonstrating the rich complexity and range of the author's fiction and essays"--Provided by publisher.

Richly informed by contemporary sociological theory, Manuel de Jesus Hernandez El colonialismo interno en la narrativa chicana distinguishes between the assimilationist and the internal colonialism models of Mexican American society and culture. The author applies the internal colonialism model for the first time to the representation of Chicanos found in their narrative literature. Among the categories of narrative discussed are the espacio pochista, the migrante, and the indigenista. The book is a signal advance in the sociology of Chicano narrative and its application to significant...

Muerte en un país extraño, segunda novela de Donna Leon protagonizada por el comisario Brunetti después de Muerte en La Fenice, arranca con la aparición de un cuerpo en un canal veneciano. El cadáver es el de un ciudadano americano, y Brunetti, resistiendo a presiones superiores debidas a razones políticas, llega a relacionar esta muerte con una trama controlada por el gobierno italiano, el ejército americano y la mafia. Muerte en un país extraño ha sido muy favorablemente acogida en el extranjero por el público y la crítica, dando forma a esta serie traducida a veintitrés idiomas ...