Enjambres

Una obsesión por los baños, una esperanza de infidelidad o un suicidio en el metro son los puntos de partida de estos relatos de humor negro, llenos de sorpresas y subversiones memorables.

Obras completas de Ángel Saavedra ÍNDICE: [Biografía Ángel de Saavedra] [TEATRO] Lanuza (1822) Arias Gonzalo El Duque de Aquitania Don Álvaro o La fuerza del sino (1835) Jornada Primera El parador de Bailén La morisca de Alajuar (1841) El desengaño en un sueño (1842) Malek-Adhel Tanto vales cuanto tienes (1840) Solaces de un prisionero o Tres noches de Madrid El crisol de la lealtad [ROMANCES HISTÓRICOS (1841) ] El candil El juez La cabeza Magnífico es el Alcázar Quinientos años más joven Cual de solitaria torre Grande rumor se alza y cunde El español y el francés El Castillo...

Propuestas para (re)construir una nación explores how Emilia Pardo Bazán (1851-1921) imagines and engenders the Spanish nation in her theatrical production staged and/or published between 1898 and 1909. In the aftermath of Spain's colonial losses, when Spain's male authors, in a growing mood of collective introspection, directed their attention to the homeland, Pardo Bazán generated a series of theatrical proposals to revitalize the nation. In her plays, she manifests her ideas about Spain's fin de siècle crisis, reflects on Spain's place in the international arena (emphasizing the...

The six stories that make up this book are all set in the islands of the South Pacific. Whether it be on the islands of Samoa, in Tahiti, or in Honolulu, all of these stories feature the development of tensions between the worldview and the lifestyle of the natives and those of the white men, representing an even more essential confrontation: the one between East and West. Maugham masterfully narrates political stories, stories of frustraded economic ambition, of incomplete or unrequited love, all of which share his talent for exposing the most elemental human passions, those which lead men...