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The Madman, His Parables and Poems is a book written by Kahlil Gibran, which was published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf in 1918, with illustrations reproduced from original drawings by the author. It was Gibran's first book in English to be published, also marking the beginning of the second phase of Gibran's career. May Ziadeh, with whom Gibran had been corresponding since 1912, reviewed it in Al-Hilal, a magazine in Egypt. (Source: Wikipedia)...
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"Original and illuminating."-The New York Times Book Review
In her most ambitious work since In the Time of Butterflies, Julia Alvarez tells the story of a woman whose poetry inspired one Caribbean revolution and of her daughter whose dedication to teaching strengthened another.
Camila Henriquez Urena is about to retire from her longtime job teaching Spanish at Vassar College. Only now as she sorts through family papers does she begin to know...
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"Lecciones del ayer para el presente" es una antología de escritos que responden a diferentes momentos de la vida política española de la que Benito Pérez Galdós fue o bien actor o bien testigo de excepción. Algunos de ellos inéditos hasta ahora, estos textos dan cuenta de una época que abarca desde la juventud del autor hasta prácticamente sus últimos días, a pesar de su intermitencia, Galdós siempre estuvo muy atento al latir político...
4) Canciones
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Federico GarcÍa Lorca is one of Spain's foremost cultural and literary figures. In 1927, he published his masterpiece Canciones, a volume of lyrical poetry. Tobias Tak transformed twenty of these poems into a series of richly detailed and inventive comics. This collection will appeal to lovers of visual art, graphic novels, and poetry, and aims to bring the colorful and atmospheric landscape of Lorca's work to a new audience.
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"I hate marathons. Hate running. An hour before the start, I received a text. Instead of 'Good luck,' it was 'We're finished.' So, I went to a bar next to the subway on 96th. Had a few bourbons with some other mope. Then I got on a bike and took off down the old Lincoln Highway." Forget Route 66. This is the original cross-country highway that takes you through REAL America, the first to cross all of the US from the Big Apple to the City on the Bay....
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June 1631 - Baltimore, Ireland
"Malcolm woke up just before dawn broke over the cove. He heard a loud crash and climbed out of bed. He sniffed the air and smelled smoke. He was barely six years old, but he knew something bad was happening. He heard a knock at the door and went to open it. Standing on the threshold was a fierce-looking Turkish janissary wearing a long red tunic and a traditional bork with a jewelled ornament affixed to the forehead,...
8) Fictionauts
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Fantasy is a serious business for this team, as they scour fictional worlds to right dangerous anomalies and preserve the balance between reality and imagination. But recently, a rash of unexplained disturbances across the fictional universe has started to tear it apart, and they face the ultimate challenge when the mysterious Agent X threatens to bring down the barriers between our world and the world of stories. Dive headlong into the madcap, mind-bending...
9) Jane Eyre
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"Una de las grandes novelas de todos los tiempos. La obra maestra de la literatura victoriana. Jane Eyre es una novela clásica de amor, precursora
del feminismo y la psicología moderna, sobre una huérfana que enfrenta su destino mani - festo gracias a su inteligencia e integridad inquebrantables. Controvertida y revolucionaria en el momento de su publicación, Jane Eyre es, al mismo tiempo, una crítica punzante a una sociedad rancia y un himno...
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Evocación de un pasado remoto, entrelazamiento de voces y de recuerdos, fantasmas que frecuentan los pasillos de las viejas casas porteñas, amores frustrados, secretos inconfesables de familia, todo como si de una gran partitura se tratara. Ritmo y melodía de un lenguaje en deuda con la vocación musical del autor. Esta novela es el punto final de una obra lúdica y alucinada que desde siempre fue un misterio para el público y un reto para la...
11) Erasure
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Percival Everett's blistering satire about race and publishing, now adapted for the screen as the Academy Award-winning AMERICAN FICTION, directed by Cord Jefferson and starring Jeffrey Wright
Thelonious "Monk" Ellison's writing career has bottomed out: his latest manuscript has been rejected by seventeen publishers, which stings all the more because his previous novels have been "critically acclaimed." He seethes on the sidelines
12) Deceit: A Novel
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“This is . . . real literature, pure and honest.”
—Vladimir Nabokov
"The scintillating English-language debut from Felsen . . . [is] a fittingly volatile record of ruinous desire.
—Publishers Weekly
Once considered the 'Russian Proust', Yuri Felsen tells the story of an obsessive love affair set in interwar Europe in Deceit, an experimental novel in the form of a diary...
—Vladimir Nabokov
"The scintillating English-language debut from Felsen . . . [is] a fittingly volatile record of ruinous desire.
—Publishers Weekly
Once considered the 'Russian Proust', Yuri Felsen tells the story of an obsessive love affair set in interwar Europe in Deceit, an experimental novel in the form of a diary...
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“Oates’ American saga captivates because it exists within an actual drama playing out across the country...Martyrs is a graceful and excruciating story of two families who do not live very far apart, but exist in different realities. ” --USA Today, 4-star review
“Successful because [Oates] refuses to satirize or dehumanize anyone, even murderous foes of abortion...With its wrath and
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Une édition de référence de La maison Tellier de Guy de Maupassant, spécialement conçue pour la lecture sur les supports numériques.
« On allait là, chaque soir, vers onze heures, comme au café, simplement.
Ils s'y retrouvaient à six ou huit, toujours les mêmes, non pas des noceurs, mais des hommes honorables, des commerçants, des jeunes gens de la ville ; et l'on prenait sa chartreuse en lutinant quelque peu les filles, ou bien on causait...
15) Alcools
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"Alcools" est un recueil de poèmes écrit par Guillaume Apollinaire et publié en 1913. Ce livre marque le début de la poésie moderne et a influencé de nombreux écrivains et artistes par la suite. Les poèmes d'Apollinaire sont riches en images et en émotions, ils explorent des thèmes tels que l'amour, la nostalgie, la guerre, l'art, la ville et la nature. Les poèmes sont écrits dans différents styles, allant du vers libre à la poésie...
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England, 1255. What could drive a girl on the cusp of womanhood to lock herself away from the world forever?
Sarah is just seventeen when she chooses to become an anchoress, a holy woman shut away in a cell that measures only seven by nine paces, at the side of the village church. Fleeing the grief of losing a much-loved sister in childbirth as well as pressure to marry the local lord's son, she decides to renounce the world--with all its dangers,...
17) Yo!: A Novel
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"Charming and funny . . . Mesmerizing . . . Wonderful.” --USA Today
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History tells us that the short and violent life of William Bonney, better known as Billy the Kid, ended at the hand of Pat Garrett on the moonless night of July 14, 1881. But I Am Billy the Kid tells a different story, straight from Billy himself. This revisionist history seen through the lens of a twenty-first century sensibility features the picaresque hero we thought we knew and the unexpected one that we don't: a fearless and determined young...
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Ruven Preuk se asoma a la vida entre las primeras llamas del siglo XX alemán. Es un muchacho taciturno y soñador que posee un talento inesperado en el hijo del carretero: sus ojos oyen y sus oídos ven. Percibe los colores del sonido. El encuentro con el violín de músico errante marcará para siempre el rumbo que le dicta su destino. Empuñará el arco contra viento y marea, contra el estrépito de las banderas, contra las aullidos feroces, contra...
20) La vergüenza
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La vergüenza se presenta como la crónica en primera persona de un descenso al abismo de la adicción, el relato de un treintañero alcohólico que ve cómo todo se desmorona a su alrededor mientras vive dividido entre la búsqueda de la redención y la perdición definitiva.
Un peculiar viaje existencial por una Bucarest oscura y fantasmal a través del dolor, la toma de conciencia del fracaso vital, la profunda soledad de una vida sin proyecto,...
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