miserables literature biblioteca

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Gracias por el fuego (Ediciones de bolsillo ; 368 : Literatura : Narativa) (Spanish Edition)

7 reviews
Mario Benedetti

Laia, 1974

Brillante
Benedetti sin duda tiene esa capacidad increible de crear personajes con tanta vida propia, con tanto pensamiento, mente, sentimientos, sensaciones propios, que es practicamente imposible no sentirse absorbido por su lectura. Son personajes tan profundos, que sufren y sienten de una manera tan profunda y tan verosimil, tan humana, que uno se siente totalmente incluido en la historia y puede ...

Histories (Loeb classical library)

12 reviews
Cornelius Tacitus

Harvard University Press, 1980

corrupting effects of power
Reading Tacitus' Annals I oft remembered Thucydides' account of the Peleponnesian wars. An important theme of the latter work was the corrupting effects of prolonged war on the morals and intellect of the Athenian people, who were ultimately degraded so much that they voted the destruction of the people of a small island just because they had chosen to remain neutral. Tacitus, on the other hand, ...

Colors and Shapes / Los colores y las figuras (English and Spanish Foundations Series) (Book #3) (Bilingual) ...

6 reviews
Gladys Rosa Mendoza, Carolina Cifuentes

me+mi publishing, 2000

Color and Shapes?Los Colores Y Las Figuras
I want to continue learning the Spanish language and found that this children's book helped me and my family alot. I was intimidated by the language, and by starting at this basic level, it opened a new door for me to want to build upon and continue to learn more. By getting down the fundamentals, I am able to go on to more things. My kids are constantly speaking the words out loud and are ...

De Profundis (Clasicos de la literatura series) (Spanish Edition)

9 reviews
Oscar Wilde

Edimat Libros, 2008

Strangely moving
One of the most famous - and infamous - letters in all of literature, De Profundis is a strange little piece of work: either much more than it appears on the surface, or much less. It is something I think everyone should read, if only for its insight into the human character, particularly that of one under great personal suffering. Wilde wrote this extraordinarily long letter from prison to Lord ...

El Peregrino (Spanish Edition)

33 reviews
John Bunyan

Editorial Clie, 2005

A Treasure!!
Every christian household should have this volume to read and share with the famiy. It never fails to bring me to tears when pilgrim falls before the cross and looses the burden of sin. It is a must have for every christian library and the additional insights from Bunyan are a added blessing!! I cannot say enough good things .....

Niebla (Seccion literatura) (Spanish Edition)

10 reviews
Miguel De Unamuno

Alianza, 2001

NIEBLA... like nothing you have ever read before!!!
" Ni los recuerdos ni los suenos son tan efimeros como la NIEBLA" This book deals with human emotions, thoughts and fears in a deep, meaningful and funny way. It has a little bit of everything, private conversations with God, the search for the true meaning of life, the quest to find an everlasting love, the fear of facing death, and the hardships that every single human faces during a lifetime. ...

Frederica

23 reviews
Georgette Heyer

Pan Books, 1974

delightful read!
Never read or heard of G. Heyer until recently and Frederica was my introduction to this most talented author. This a sweet and fun story about finding unexpected love in the midst of family upheveal. The dialouge is hysterical. I laughed out loud on several occasions. Buy this book...you will not be disappointed!

Stone for Danny Fisher

20 reviews
Harold Robbins

New English Library, 1972

Heartbreaking and bittersweet.
Harold Robbins, as he became more successful, mastered the art of the pulp fiction stereotype and much of his later work was pure trash. But his initial novels demonstrated what talent the man had, and are as different from his later trash as cheese from chalk. A Stone For Danny Fisher is his best book ever in my opinion : had he never written another book, this alone would have made him an ...

The Grand Sophy

43 reviews
Georgette Heyer

W. Heinemann, 1950

Sophy is Grand
This is one of the best of Georgette Heyer's novels. For anyone unfamiliar with her works, she is Jane Austen with an even strong sense of the absurd and the wit to see through people's pretensions. Sophy is the "not-so-little any more" niece of Lady Ombersley, whose arrival promptly sets the family's well ordered world on its ear. Her cousin, Charles, is at first infuriated and then gradually ...

Marianela

12 reviews
Benito Perez Galdos

Alianza Editorial, 2003

Marianela
I am a young "Anglo-American" (white) girl living in a Texas/Mexican border town with a 98% hispanic community, and am on my way to learning the language fluently. I read this book in my Spanish class, and nearly died from the beauty of this book! It has helped me along with recognizing and comprehending Spanish along with leaving me a satisfied reader. Someday when I speak fluent Spanish, I ...

Man and superman (Penguin books)

6 reviews
Bernard Shaw

Penguin Books, 1952

Pure Bergsonism
George Bernard Shaw was called, with good reason, the "English Nietzsche". Though Nietzsche was an aristocrat and Shaw a socialist, both cherished the dream of the superman and looked forward to the day when he would be realised. Both, however, were characterised by their mordant wit and intellectual cynicism, in which "Man and Superman" abounds. Shaw manages to compress a number of disparate ...

Cicero (Loeb classical library)

4 reviews
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Harvard University Press, 1989

Trial Techniques for the Ancient Attorney
When I was in law school at the University of Florida back in the 70's, our student bar association raised money by selling "looms" on the law courses. Looms were the typed up notes of the students who made the highest grades in each of the classes. Looms were clear, concise statements of the essentials of a course without all the extraneous verbiage that creeps into didactic presentation. ...

Los Miserables / Les Miserables (Spanish Edition)

5 reviews
Victor Hugo

Arte Y Literatura, 2002

A masterpiece. Revolution and romanticism together.
It is a masterpiece of the universal literature. How Victor Hugo tellus about the french revolution and all the new ideas and concepts which brought it to all of us. The life of the characters with all their problems and neccessities, the amazing way to describe the character circumtances and their internal thoughts (in and out at the same time). After reading this book you will not be the same ...

Don Quijote de la Mancha (Literatura espanola) (Spanish Edition)

6 reviews
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Alianza Editorial, 1998

THE NOVEL
Cervantes wrote El Quijote as a critic to novels about knights and damsels in distress which were very popular in his time. His hero, Alonso Quijano, is one of those who are so hooked on them that spend his days and nights reading .Till he becomes mad. A beautiful way to be mad, or maybe he is not so mad. El Quijote decides to beguin a journey with the faithful company of his steward Sancho ...

Azul (Coleccion de oro de la literatura universal)

4 reviews
Ruben Dario

RBA Proyectos Editoriales, 1987

La Obra Maestra De Rubén Darío
"Azul" es una obra con la que facilmente podemos definir que tipo de escritor fue el célebre Rubén Darío. En este libro encontramos una puerta que nos hace ver mucho mas allá de lo que generalmente el ojo capta. Nos hace reconocer las realidades de nuestra sociedad y abrir la jaula en nuestra cabeza para que nuestros pensamientos vuelen...

La Celestina (Biblioteca de literatura universal) (Spanish Edition)

6 reviews
Fernando de Rojas

Editorial Argos Vergara, 1979

Una joya de la literatura europea.
Ante todo resulta incómodo ver valoradas con estrellitas (de 1 a 5) las obras maestras de la literatura universal. La Celestina forma parte de esa veintena de obras maestras que forman lo más destacado de la literatura en cualquier idioma y de cualquier época. Sin lugar a dudas, la más fascinante, moderna, entretenida y asequible de su época. Una auténtica novela (dialogada) moderna. Entre sus ...

Don Juan Tenorio/ Mr. Juan Tenorio (Literatura Espanola / Spanish Literature) (Spanish Edition)

4 reviews
Jose Zorrilla

Alianza, 2007

The Ultimate Player
Don Juan Tenorio is the ultimate player. He is to players what William Shakespear is to poets. This is a fascinating story which talk about Don Juan, a young man that is out to seduce as many women as he can. Not only that, but he is probably the most succesful player ever known to man! find out what happens to him in this classic story full to the brim of adventure and excitement.

Tirant lo Blanc (Les Millors obres de la literatura catalana) (Catalan Edition)

5 reviews
Joanot Martorell

Edicions 62, 1983

Tirant lo Blanc
This book is a must read for the historical enthusiast! It was written by a knight about knighthood. The viewpoints and situations are very far removed from our preconceived ideas of the middle ages. It is written very well and reads almost in a 'modern' way. This book was difficult to read in some places, but for the most part was so interesting that I couldn't put it down.

La sonrisa etrusca (Literatura Alfaguara) (Spanish Edition)

5 reviews
Jose Luis Sampedro

Ediciones Alfaguara, 1985

Sweet, loving, tender, with a touch of sadness.
I read this book in its original language. I can see why this book was displayed in every bookstore in my visits to Spain. I just had to read it. Bruno, the grandfather and a veteral of WWII, finds himself in Milan, a city which from the very beginning he hates. But this same city brings him the last two loves of his live: Hortensia, a southern Italian woman who he marries during his last ...

La vida es sueno / Life is a dream (Literatura) (Spanish Edition)

4 reviews
Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Domingo Yndurain

Alianza Editorial Sa, 2002

Fascinating tale of humanity and cruelty, dreams and reality
This play by Pedro Calderon is one of the treasures of Spanish literature. From the golden age of hispanic civilisation comes this tale of a country in turmoil, the mistreated prince at the heart of it all, and a mysterious woman who brings order out of chaos.

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