Los Paseos de Agatha Christie

MI VIDA nos ofrece el testimonio en primera persona del transcurrir vital de la autora. Su experiencia puede ser de gran ayuda a los lectores, por lo que la obra supera el ámbito puramente biográfico y lo eleva a texto de autoayuda.

Diana Mosley (née Mitford) had brains, beauty and charm, wealth and social position: she risked everything to follow the dark new creed of fascism when, at twenty-two, she fell in love with Oswald Mosley, the British fascist leader, and committed her life to his ideas. In Germany she became a friend of Hitler and Goebbels; by 1940, she was in a damp cell in Holloway prison. Jan Dalley's fascinating and undeceived biography cuts through the mythology that has been built up around the Mitford sisters and around the Mosleys and reveals the truth about both an extraordinary life and the web of...

The books in this wonderfully diverse series cover topics such as archaeology, art, culture, history, literature, science, and religion in a dynamic and informative way. The texts are bolstered by rigorous historical information and accompanied by vibrant photographs and boxes that summarize key points. All of the volumes in this collection are a thorough introduction to the subject being discussed. A biography of Henri Cartier-Bresson, one of the 20th century’s most important and influential photographers, this informative book contains accompanying photographs that complement biographical ...

La via XX Settembre, en el corazón de Palermo, es donde, en 1958, se va a vivir la familia Agnello. El pequeño mundo formado por tíos, primos, per- sonal de servicio, amigos y parientes constituye un microcosmos que es ob- servado con la mirada atenta de la autora. Como telón de fondo, una ciudad donde a las heridas de la guerra se añaden otras más devastadoras si cabe: las de la especulación urbanística. Palermo, espléndida y miserable, seduce a Simonetta. La ciudad se le revela al mismo tiempo que ella se revela a sí misma, a través de un mundo compacto, solidario, de la...