Breve historia de los Premio Nobel de Literatura II

Philip Norman's family considered themselves genteel yet somehow became involved in the opportunistic world of seaside trade on the Isle of Wight. With masterly skill, Norman recreates his upbringing among this gallery of social misfits - his handsome but unstable father Clive, once a dashing RAF officer, now a reluctant showman at the end of Ryde Pier, his pub-owning Uncle Phil, who dresses as a woman every New Year's Eve, and his irresistible Grandma Norman who presides over her rock kiosk and rules the troubled family like a Mafia don. The year is 1953. While Britain celebrates the...

Autobiografía de Henry Ford, fundador de la Ford Motor Company y pionero de la producción en cadena.

The pages of Fidel Castro: "Birán to Cinco Palmas" cover the most notable moments in the first thirty years of life of the leader of the Cuban Revolution. From his childhood to the historical reencounter with his brother Raúl, shortly after their return to Cuba aboard the cabin cruiser Granma, the gradual development of the thinking and actions of this exceptional figure can be appreciated.

Juan Marsé es, sin lugar a dudas, uno de los mejores narradores en lengua española de la segunda mitad del siglo XX. Asociado a la rica y longeva tradición novelística del realismo desde una posición heterodoxa, personalísima y libre, y plenamente moderna, algunas de sus obras son ya clásicos de nuestro tiempo, como por ejemplo Últimas tardes con Teresa, Si te dicen que caí, Un día volveré, El embrujo de Shanghai o Rabos de lagartija. Asimismo, algunos de sus personajes forman parte de la imaginación literaria de miles de lectores; es el caso del Pijoaparte, Jan Julivert Mon o el...