La plaga de los Borbones

La novela que ha inspirado la película. La historia de Mariane y Danniel Pearl podría haber sido inventada por una mente retorcida y capaz de escribir la tragedia más inconcebible. Sin embargo, este drama es real. Sucedió en Karachi, Pakistán, en enero de

Este es un libro autobiográfico ucrónico pues a partir de cierto punto de la historia, se cambia una decisión clave (punto jonbar) y se crea una línea de tiempo alterna ficticia. Me he inventado un personaje que me representa y con este libro he explorado lo que habría sido de mi vida si hubiese tomado el otro camino. Desafío a las personas que no me conocen personalmente a descubrir este punto jonbar a partir del cual empieza la ucronía. A continuación la introducción del libro: Mi nombre es Álvaro-Andrés Gutiérrez-Osorio. Desde los dos años de edad vivo en Cali-Colombia. Hoy es ...

Heinrich Heine has been one of the liveliest topics in German literary studies for the past fifteen years. His life was marked by an exceptionally high pitch of constant public controversy and an extraordinary quantity of legend and speculation surround his reputation. This biography, the first in English in over twenty years and the first fully documented one in over a century, makes full use of the newest material in contemporary studies as well as of older scholarship. Originally published in 1980. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make...

Diana Mosley (née Mitford) had brains, beauty and charm, wealth and social position: she risked everything to follow the dark new creed of fascism when, at twenty-two, she fell in love with Oswald Mosley, the British fascist leader, and committed her life to his ideas. In Germany she became a friend of Hitler and Goebbels; by 1940, she was in a damp cell in Holloway prison. Jan Dalley's fascinating and undeceived biography cuts through the mythology that has been built up around the Mitford sisters and around the Mosleys and reveals the truth about both an extraordinary life and the web of...