La vida de Raymond Chandler

The "Lazarillo." offers a sound and credible vision of the colonial life between 1771 and 1773, as well as practical details of the trip from Montevideo up to Lima, through Buenos Aires, Cordoba, Salta, Potosi, Chuquisaca and Cuzco. According to Jose Luis Busaniche, the argentine born historian, "through its pages flows a new feeling about nature, far apart from the previous letters and documents of the colonial era" Its first edition circulated in a clandestine way in America. The text is the transcription of don Alonso Carrio de la Vandera's writings during his royal commission of fixing...

Fischer, a Vatican correspondent for over twenty years and an intimate colleague of Joseph Ratzinger, writes the definitive book on the remarkable career, personality, and future of the new Pope.

Sobre el hombre que monopolizó la vida política española durante casi cuatro décadas se han escrito decenas de libros. Pero ninguno como éste. Porque, en estas páginas, Pilar Eyre, con su inimitable estilo, no ahorra detalles de los aspectos más ocultos de la vida de Franco. De su infancia tormentosa, llena de complejos, a la sombra de un padre alcoholizado que atemorizaba a la familia. De sus secretos de alcoba con Carmen Polo, una mujer puritana y de fuerte carácter, que crió a la hija de ambos en un ambiente de reclusión. De las tensas relaciones entre Franco y don Juan. Y, desde ...

In this biography, Manuel Serrano delves into the figure of Emilio Castelar, the most important Spanish republican of the 19th century. He was a convinced Europeanist who with his word and his writings contributed to forging European consciousness and the need to face the 20th century with a democratic policy common to the entire old continent.