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Nellie Campobello, a prominent Mexican writer and "novelist of the Revolution," played an important role in Mexico's cultural renaissance in the 1920s and early 1930s, along with such writers as Rafael Muñoz and Gregorio López y Fuentes and artists Diego Rivera, Orozco, and others. Her two novellas, Cartucho (first published in 1931) and My Mother's Hands (first published as Las manos de Mamá in 1938), are autobiographical evocations of a childhood spent amidst the violence and turmoil of the Revolution in Mexico. Campobello's memories of the Revolution in the north of Mexico, where Pancho ...

Back by popular demand, the world's most famous detective returns from a seemingly fatal encounter with his nemesis, Professor Moriarty. Thirteen stories include "The Empty House," "The Dancing Men," and "The Six Napoleons."

"Mágicamente observador y mimético del mundo real, los detalles emergen en su escritura con sorprendente frescura, claridad y economía. Williams ve las formas de la tierra y ve el espíritu que se agita detrás de las letras. Cada uno de sus trazos veloces y transparentes tiene la energía nerviosa y concentrada del vuelo de un pájaro, asciende brusca e intensamente como un pájaro". —Randall Jarrell William Carlos Williams, que ejerció durante toda su vida como médico de cabecera y pediatra —practicaba la medicina de día y escribía de noche, hasta caer rendido—, dedicó una...

In this modern novel by Marina Perezagua, Don Quixote is disguised as C3P0 and Sancho Panza has chosen an Ewok suit to cross over to New York. In one of many chance encounters on their trip, a woman gives her Bible to Don Quixote who avidly reads it for a week. This reading inspires the adventures of the pair as they explore recognizable parts of the city today. In these short stories, New York appears as a big state where anything can happen.