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Published in 1921, "Belarmino y Apolonio" probably is the best novel written by the Spanish Asturias-born writer Ramon Perez de Ayala, and certainly a most significant one among those published during the so-called Spanish culture Silver Age (1898-1936). According to the French hispanist critic Jean Cassou "Belarmino y Apolonio" should be considered one of the most important novels in Spanish literature, second only to "El Quijote." The novel appears at first sight to be a story that could be classified as "costumbrismo" or even romantic pulp fiction: the forbidden love between a young...

Presents lectures by the noted Mexican philosopher and educator originally delivered in English at the University of Chicago in 1926 that expand on his ideas on ethnic diversity in "La raza cósmica" for a North American audience.

Putas, brujas y locas es el apelativo con el que la historia oficial ha descrito a las mujeres que desafiaron las convenciones en la Edad Moderna, una época de prodigios y profunda crisis con tan pocas posibilidades de supervivencia que para salir adelante fue necesario explotar la creatividad al máximo y hacer de la picaresca el estilo de vida. La almiranta Isabel Barreto lideró la expedición a las Islas Salomón con mano de hierro y ayuda de la horca contra todos aquellos que se atrevieran a contrariarla; la esclava morisca Elena de Céspedes fue la primera mujer cirujano, amén de...