Por fin en casa

La verdadera historia de un cuadro y un pintor. Cuando, a principios de 2014, Donna Tartt publicó El jilguero, eran pocos los que sabían de la existencia de este magnífico cuadro que Carel Fabritius pintó en 1654. Al hilo del éxito clamoroso de la novela, Deborah Davis ha ido siguiendo la historia de la obra y de la vida atormentada de su autor, que vivió en la misma época que Rembrandt y Vermeer pero no tuvo el éxito de sus maestros, y murió en circunstancias trágicas en la ciudad de Delft el día en que un almacén de explosivos saltó por los aires. Ahora, casi cuatrocientos...

English magicians were once the wonder of the known world, with fairy servants at their beck and call; they could command winds, mountains, and woods. But by the early 1800s they have long since lost the ability to perform magic. They can only write long, dull papers about it, while fairy servants are nothing but a fading memory. But at Hurtfew Abbey in Yorkshire, the rich, reclusive Mr Norrell has assembled a wonderful library of lost and forgotten books from England's magical past and regained some of the powers of England's magicians. He goes to London and raises a beautiful young woman...

Illustrated in black & white, this is an excellent presentation of the literary classic. Clear & concise text accompanied by footnotes & explanations at the bottom of each page, help the student to better understand what the author had in mind. You will also find a brief summary & review questions at the end of each chapter or act. Each paragraph is numbered for easy consultation.

Through the years, said Gunter von Gropius, more than once have I felt certain feeling of anxiety, of a silent melancholy. Even though the motive may look foolish, tackiness very own of young women, it has always been the same: take at fault the complexity of a friend. That shortage is the way of Glands, a novel by Eduardo Rojas Rebolledo where memory takes a lead role. Starting from the narrators own memories, full of humor and melancholy, they outline what forms a friendship filled with sexual adventures, jilted lovers and jealousy, intrigues, painful affairs and death.