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Continuing the series The Best Native American Myths, Legends, and Folklore, Volume 3 offers an enjoyable look into the history of the Native American Indian. Before the time of books, computers, tablets and recording devices, the history of many cultures was passed down, from person to person, by word of mouth. The rich histories of so many people were told in songs, chants, poems and stories. This was and still is the way of Native American tribes. Each in its own way enriching their stories with their own experiences. By reliving these stories and songs, we have the opportunity to bring...

Francisco Delicado's El Retrato de la Lozana Andaluza is a satire that ridicules and denounces blood purity and the codes of conduct of the elite in early modern Spain and Italy. The novel published in Venice in 1528 was written in the form of a dialogue. Its author, the Spanish clergyman and publisher Francisco Delicado escaped from Rome a year earlier due to the anti-Spanish ideas. Published anonymously, the novel depicts the life of the underworld of Rome during the first third of the sixteenth century, especially among the community of Spanish Jews who progressively moved to Rome after...

Intentando descifrar los enigmas del padre que no conoció, la voz de Milagros nos conduce por una vida asombrosa. Todo empieza en Aveyron, sur de Francia, a finales del siglo XIX. Malemort, un joven campesino enamoradizo, cae flechado por Juliette con la que se casa al poco tiempo. Pero las ansias de ésta por tener una vida mejor hacen que el matrimonio sea fugaz. Voces malintencionadas hacen correr el rumor de que la razón del fracaso matrimonial ha sido la impotencia de Malemort. Desesperado y abandonado por todos, aparece un salvoconducto a su drama sentimental: un barco a Argentina...

Dos obras teatrales (un monólogo y una comedia) de gran importancia en la dramaturgia costarricense. Merecedoras ambas obras de premios españoles y nacionales, estas obras tratan el tema de la mujer y su ruptura con el papel social proveniente del patriarcado, tanto en sus preceptivos sexuales como culturales.