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New York Times bestselling author Steven V. Roberts follows the stories of thirteen immigrant families in From Every End of This Earth, a poignant and eye-opening look at immigration in America today. He captures the voices of those living the promise of a new land—and the difficulties of starting over among strangers whose suspicions increasingly outweigh their open-armed acceptance. As the political debate rages on, Roberts sheds...
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El Chichonal arrojó una nube de ceniza y gases que ascendió a la estratósfera y pudo percibirse en la India y Japón. Este es el suceso del que habla Jaime Sabines en sus Crónicas del volcán. Su testimonio abarca los acontecimientos suscitados por la erupción del volcán Chichón (a partir de entonces llamado "El Chichonal"), entre el 28 de marzo y el 4 de abril de 1982. Por primera vez (y tal vez única) el poeta Sabines recurrió al género...
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Novela histórica en Colombia, 1988-2008 pretende interpretar, de una manera profunda y seria, el nuevo fenómeno que ha irrumpido en la literatura colombiana: el enriquecimiento inusitado de la narrativa histórica. Para llevar a cabo su cometido, Pablo Montoya se detiene en veintiuna novelas publicadas a lo largo de los últimos veinte años. Se trata de novelas sobre la Conquista, sobre la Colonia y sobre el siglo xix; también incluye su análisis...
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Shakespeare died 405 years ago and this book intent to be a commemoration and celebration of his life and work. Ana Maribel Moreno Guillén, professor of English at Universidad Especializada de las Américas made a very special reminder of this important date creating Desdemona, Lady Macbeth and Cleopatra: Tragic Women in Shakespeare's Plays which is a literary analysis of these three characters in some of the most famous and interesting plays of...
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La autora reflexiona y discute la idea de que el testimonio carecería de legitimidad literaria o artística porque no tiene distancia con los hechos narrados, lo que dificultaría la reflexión, o bien que su objetivo no es lo estético, sino la denuncia.
Repasa también algunos momentos claves de la historia del siglo XX en el Cono Sur, evocando cómo la violencia exterminadora se instaló en cada país y de qué manera la cultura y el lenguaje...
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The book's premise spells out the dangers which our republic has encountered and how the 21st century presents new hurdles to surmount and reclaim our democracy. The author focuses on conditions which have eroded representative government and offers proposals to cement public control over government. Among the problems there has been a slow, insidious alteration in methods for the selection of representatives which are encapsulated in the words "gerrymandered...
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Symbole incontestable de la modernité québécoise, à la fois manifeste et recueil d'œuvres d'art, Refus global est entré dans la légende avec ses mythes, ses héros, ses martyrs. Comment a-t-il été reçu lors de sa parution en 1948? Et comment cette réception a-t-elle cheminé tout au long des décennies subséquentes, entre voies royales et routes secondaires, entre oubli et consécration, entre modes culturelles et tendances historiques?
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Featuring critical and biographical portraits of notable figures of the American Civil War, Patriotic Gore remains one of Edmund Wilson's greatest achievements. Figures discussed include Harriet Beecher Stowe, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, William Tecumseh Sherman, and Oliver Wendell Holmes, among many others.
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Ce livre synthétise les œuvres littéraires primées par le prestigieux prix Goncourt de France ces 10 dernières années. Il offre un aperçu de la richesse de la littérature française contemporaine en explorant les thèmes, les styles et les histoires des lauréats du prix. Les chapitres couvrent les livres primés entre 2013 et 2020, y compris "La vie des ombres" de Philippe Claudel, "Tous les hommes n'habitent pas le monde de la même façon"...
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A loyal translation of the medieval Icelandic saga of a strong ruler and his men versus a brotherhood of fierce Viking mercenaries.
In A.D. 986, Earl Hákon, ruler of most of Norway, won a triumphant victory over an invading fleet of Danes in the great naval battle of Hjórunga Bay. Sailing under his banner were no fewer than five Icelandic skalds, the poet-historians of the Old Norse world. Two centuries later their accounts of the battle became...
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Imagine an alternate reality--where Jane Austen, Henry David Thoreau, George Eliot, Leo Tolstoy, Emily Dickinson, Emma Lazarus, Oscar Wilde, Marcel Proust, Colette, Virginia Woolf, and Franz Kafka--all lived longer lives--wrote the poems, stories, and books we read in school--one of which changed history--and lived happily ever after with someone of the same gender. Get a cup of tea, turn off your phone, and let's travel to this other world!
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It is said that we can learn from our past. That each generation is wiser, makes smarter decisions, and improves the world. Maybe that's true, mankind has certainly evolved from its humble beginnings in caves, to lavish palaces in Egypt, fortified Asian Dynasties, to the mighty Roman Empire, sophisticated diplomacy, and to the far-advanced Silicon Valley.
Mankind has indeed always found a way to learn from its past and evolve in the preceding generations.
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Un ejemplo particular de los estudios en literatura novohispana es esta segunda entrega de la colección Memoria, literatura y discurso. Este estudio contribuye a revelar, mediante la interpretación de distintas voces de viajeros, la importancia que cobró el registro de lo visto y descubierto en su trayecto, y en un segundo momento, la transmisión de estos escritos a través de distintas ediciones que saciaban la curiosidad de los lectores acerca...
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WHOLENESS AND HOME IN WEST INDIAN LITERATURE is an invaluable resource for everyone who has an interest in West Indian literature or Culture, West Indian Society or History, Ethnic Tensions, and Psychic Heterogeneity. It is especially useful for university and secondary school students and teachers who teach or need to learn about writers from the West Indies. It offers unique critical insights into the works of globally renowned writers who hail...
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Get ready for an exciting journey in "Shadows of Deceit," a thrilling mystery story happening in Crestwood town. Follow Detective Evelyn Harper as she solves a mystery during a fancy party. At the start, there's a big party that turns into a mystery scene with a murder. Detective Harper, who is really good at solving mysteries, starts looking into secrets and unexpected things in the town. The story gets even more interesting with surprising friendships,...
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La novela de la Revolución mexicana es uno de los referentes, no sólo de la literatura mexicana del siglo XX, sino también de la cultura nacional. No hay recopilación que no incluya un texto de Mariano Azuela, u obra historiográfica o historia de la literatura que no mencione la importancia de Martín Luis Guzmán en la narrativa de este periodo. Contamos, incluso, con una antología que hasta la fecha es considerada como el canon literario de...
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Cet essai La guerre d'Algérie dans le roman français — s'appuie, dans son contenu et sa démarche, sur une centaine d'ouvrages de genres très variés: fiction, récit, carnets de voyage, témoignage romancé, polar. Il offre ainsi un large éventail de pistes de lectures et de réflexions sur la littérature algérienne des Français qui, depuis ses fondateurs à la nouvelle génération des écrivains nés après 1962, reste essentiellement...
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So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of All the Light We Cannot See tells you what you need to know-before or after you read Anthony Doerr's book. Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader. This short summary and analysis of All the Light We Cannot See includes: Historical contextChapter-by-chapter overviewsProfiles of the main charactersThemes...
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Cet essai La guerre d'Algérie dans le roman français — s'appuie, dans son contenu et sa démarche, sur une centaine d'ouvrages de genres très variés: fiction, récit, carnets de voyage, témoignage romancé, polar. Il offre ainsi un large éventail de pistes de lectures et de réflexions sur la littérature algérienne des Français qui, depuis ses fondateurs à la nouvelle génération des écrivains nés après 1962, reste essentiellement...
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