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Inmersa y dispersa a lo largo de más cincuenta años en columnas periodísticas, suplementos de cultura y revistas académicas, concebida en forma de prólogos, conferencias, homenajes, respuestas a debates y encuestas, una parte significativa de la producción crítica de Abelardo Oquendo (1930-2018), aquella vinculada exclusivamente a la literatura, aparece por primera vez reunida en Abelardo Oquendo: la crítica literaria como creación. Quien...
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¿Las arañas son insectos? ¿Qué diferencias hay entre los insectos y las arañas? ¿Las arañas pueden matar a un ser humano? ¿Cuál es la araña más grande? ¿Cuántas especies de arañas existen? ¿Todos los insectos viven en cualquier parte del planeta?
¡Las respuestas a estas y otras preguntas las encontrarás en las páginas de Mi gran libro de bichos y arañas!
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An authoritative, accessible overview of history's greatest literary figure
The great dramatist Ben Jonson wrote that William Shakespeare "was not of an age, but for all time." In the nearly four centuries since his death, Shakespeare's plays still have a tremendous impact on everything from the classroom to popular culture. Now you can have at your fingertips all the vital details on the most influential writer in the history of the English language-straight...
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La figura de Tolstói, compleja y polifacética, fascinó tanto a sus contemporáneos como fascina hoy a quien se acerca a sus obras. El escritor, el pensador moral, el asceta, el conde, el terrateniente, el labriego y, por encima de todo, el hombre capaz de inspirar una sincera admiración en quien lo trató, se ven reflejados en estos testimonios de personas que lo conocieron, lo trataron o simplemente lo observaron durante años. Cada uno de ellos...
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La figura de Tolstói, compleja y polifacética, fascinó tanto a sus contemporáneos como fascina hoy a quien se acerca a sus obras. El escritor, el pensador moral, el asceta, el conde, el terrateniente, el labriego y, por encima de todo, el hombre capaz de inspirar una sincera admiración en quien lo trató, se ven reflejados en estos testimonios de personas que lo conocieron, lo trataron o simplemente lo observaron durante años. Cada uno de ellos...
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La figura de Tolstói, compleja y polifacética, fascinó tanto a sus contemporáneos como fascina hoy a quien se acerca a sus obras. Los testimonios reunidos en este volumen nos descubren al escritor, asceta y pensador moral, pero también al melómano, cuya predilección por la más abstracta de las artes encierra algunas claves de su pensamiento sobre la creación y la vida. Cada uno de los textos reunidos refleja un aspecto de la personalidad...
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San Francisco Beat is an essential archive of the Beat Generation, a rich moment in a fortunate place. America, somnolent, conformist and paranoid in the 1950s, was changed forever by a handful of people, who refused an existence of drudgery and enterprise, opting instead for a life of personal, spiritual and artistic adventure. In these intimate, free-wheeling conversations, a baker's dozen of the poets of San Francisco talk about the scene then...
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Daphne du Maurier's correspondence with Oriel Malet began in the early 1950s, after they met at a cocktail party in London. At least twenty years separated them: Oriel was a gauche young writer while Daphne was the famous, much-fêted author of bestselling novels including Jamaica Inn, My Cousin Rachel, and Rebecca.
The friendship flourished for thirty years, fed by the letters that arrived faithfully from Menabilly, the du Maurier house in Cornwall....
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Andrew Blauner is a literary agent and the editor of seven previous anthologies, including Coach: 25 Writers Reflect on People Who Made a Difference, The Peanuts Papers: Writers and Cartoonists on Charlie Brown, Snoopy & the Gang, and the Meaning of Life, and In Their Lives: Great Writers on Great Beatles Songs. Facebook.com/ThoreauAnthology
From twenty-seven of today's leading writers, an anthology of original pieces on the author of Walden
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Surprising personal glimpses of the eminent and enigmatic Australian poet
'I wonder sometimes if the literary pests are writing memoirs: "The last time I saw her she was pale and sick, but smiling bravely."' So, mused the dying Gwen Harwood in a letter written a few months, before she succumbed to cancer. Nearly two decades have passed, since she wrote that, but no memoir or biography of the loved and estimable poet, has yet appeared. While her poems...
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Kenneth Burke and His Circles consists of original papers focusing on the intellectual circles in which Burke participated during his long career. Instead of concentrating on Burke himself, as most recent scholarship has done, this book considers Burke as one participant in a host of important overlapping intellectual movements that took place over the course of the twentieth century.
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Charles Pierre Baudelaire (1821-1867) was a French poet, art critic, and essayist who was among the first people to translate the work of Edgar Allen Poe. Baudelaire's wonderful poems are known for their masterful use of rhyme and rhythm, which together with their Romantic exoticism, inspired a whole generation of poets including Arthur Rimbaud, Paul Verlaine and Stéphane Mallarmé. This fantastic volume contains a carefully selected collection of...
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Salut l'acrobate! hommage à Jacques De Decker
Avec la participation de : Frank Andriat - Anatole Atlas - Frédéric Baal - Thilde Barboni - Jean-Baptiste Baronian - Alain Berenboom - Véronique Bergen - Chantal Boedts - Bernard Dan - Francis Dannemark - Jacques De Decker - Véronique De Keyser - Alain De Kuyssche - Luc Dellisse - Sara Dombret - Paul Emond - Vincent Engel - Rose-Marie François - Marc Guiot - Xavier Hanotte - Jack Keguenne - Marie...
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One month after her novel “Gone with the Wind” was published, Margaret Mitchell sold the movie rights for fifty thousand dollars. Fearful of what the studio might do to her story, "I wouldn't put it beyond Hollywood to have...Scarlett seduce General Sherman," she joked, the author washed her hands of involvement with the film. However, driven by a maternal interest in her literary firstborn and compelled by her Southern manners to answer every...
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Des milliers de personnes se sont relayées au quotidien pour apporter leur soutien auprès des réfugiés depuis 2015 en Belgique.En septembre 2015 s'est créée la Plateforme Citoyenne de Soutien aux Réfugiés en réaction aux politiques belges peu enclines à trouver des solutions durables et humaines à la crise migratoire que traverse le pays ces dernières années. Depuis sa création, des milliers de personnes se sont relayées au quotidien...
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“Dear Regina” offers a remarkable window into the early years of one of America's best-known literary figures. While at the University of Iowa Writer's Workshop from 1945 to 1948, Flannery O'Connor wrote to her mother Regina Cline O'Connor (who she addressed by her first name) nearly every day and sometimes more than once a day. The complete correspondence of more than six hundred letters is housed at the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and...
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This collection of letters and other documents offers the most complete portrait of the relationship between two of the American South's most acclaimed twentieth-century writers: Flannery O'Connor and Caroline Gordon. Gordon (1895-1981) had herself been a protégée of an important novelist, Ford Madox Ford, before publishing nine novels and three short story collections of her own, most notably, The Forest of the South and Old Red and Other Stories,...
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So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of The Real Jane Austen tells you what you need to know-before or after you read Paula Byrne's book. Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader. This short summary and analysis of The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things includes: * Historical context * Chapter-by-chapter overviews * Detailed timeline of...
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To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Howl and Other Poems, with nearly one million copies in print, City Lights presents the story of editing, publishing and defending Allen Ginsberg's landmark poem within a broader context of obscenity issues and censorship of literary works.
This collection begins with an introduction by publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who shares his memories of hearing Howl first read at the 6 Gallery, of his arrest and of the...
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Sir Richard Francis Burton KCMG FRGS (1821—1890) was a British writer, poet, linguist, explorer, translator, geographer, ethnologist, orientalist, Freemason, diplomat, and cartographer best remembered for extensively travelling in and exploring Africa, Asia, and the Americas. An extraordinary polyglot, he spoke 29 languages and gained extensive knowledge of many different cultures and their practices. His most famous works include English translations...
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