Poemes en ondes hertzianes de Joan Salvat-Papasseit

The five novels written by Juan José Millás between 1988 and 1998 (El desorden de tu nombre; La soledad era esto, Volver a casa; Tonto, muerto, bastardo e invisible; and El orden alfabético) display an increasing preoccupation with a limited number of themes, principally identity and social criticism. They also demonstrate the constant reiteration of a specific group of motifs, an increasing use of metafictional devices, and the use of bizarre or mentally disturbed protagonists. Millás presents writing as the compulsive expression of obsessive thought. This book explains Millás's...

Since the recent republication of her novel The Squatter and the Don, Mar�a Amparo Ruiz de Burton (1832?95) has become a key figure in the recovery of nineteenth-century Mexican American literature. An aristocratic Californiana, she championed the rights of Mexican Americans in novels, plays, and letters. Her 1885 novel called attention to the illegal appropriation of Mexican land by the United States government, and she critiqued the political mores of America after the Civil War in light of the Mexican-American war. Her keen assessment of corporate capitalism at the end of the nineteenth...

La vuelta al mundo en ochenta días es una de las obras más divertidas y apasionantes de Julio Verne, el considerado “pionero de la ciencia ficción”, ya que en muchos de sus libros se anticipa imaginando progresos para la humanidad. La novela fue publicada por entregas en el periódico Le Temps, desde el 6 de noviembre hasta el 22 de diciembre de 1872, el mismo año en que se sitúa la acción. Después, sería publicada de manera íntegra en un libro, en el año 1873, y enseguida traducida y divulgada en innumerables ediciones. El libro cuenta las peripecias del británico Phileas Fogg ...

Time is running out. While thousands of teens languish in the camps, Ruby and a group that survived the latest round of attacks gather in the North to plan a rescue mission. They only have one weapon and it's a double-edge sword: proof that the government was behind the plague that killed so many kids. Tensions build when rumors of a possible cure start circulating. Ruby knows the future of her entire generation hangs by a thread and it will only take one false move to make the string break.