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A necessary book for the soul which won the author the Nobel Prize for Literature. In it, joy and sorrow are very easily recognizable, very much like the two hairy ears of the much loved donkey. The pages of this extraordinary book transport us to the landscapes of Old Andalusia, through the tame soul and the sweet spirit of this Moorish breed of donkey.

Constance Fenimore Woolson nos sumerge en el tranquilo Far Edgerley, un pequeño pueblo en las montañas de Carolina del Norte, en el que vive el respetado y admirado comandante Carroll, alrededor del cual gira la existencia de su familia –Marion, su segunda esposa y Scar, el hijo de la pareja–. Sin embargo, con el regreso de Sara, hija del primer matrimonio del comandante, la vida en la casa Carroll y en el pueblo tomará un nuevo rumbo. Woolson nos develará, poco a poco, los secretos que ocultan Marion y Sara con el propósito de mantener feliz y tranquilo al comandante. Dos mujeres...

Martin Fierro, largo poema narrativo en octosilabos, culminacion de la literatura gauchesca, es un clasico que pervive en la tradicion oral, no solo en Argentina, sino en todo el ambito cultural hispanico. Constituye la exaltacion con tintes epicos de la figura del gaucho, rebelde y pendenciero, payador y proscrito, verdadero centro de este tipo de literatura popular que reclamaba su independencia de modelos a traves de ahondar en el folclore autoctono de la Pampa.

"When childhood friend Victoria rejects his love, Jeremy takes his life on his twentieth birthday. On his twenty-first birthday, he wakes to find Victoria holding his hand, blissfully in love with him. Jeremy can't remember the previous year, but he savors the miracle of waking up alongside the woman he loves. The next time he wakes, two years have passed and Jeremy is now a spectator of his own life. Victoria has given him a child, but the man alongside her is a cruel, egotistical, seemingly unknowable Jeremy. Is it amnesia? Insanity? Or has Jeremy been cursed for his selfish, destructive...