El destino

A passionate and solitary inventor of agricultural machinery fights for love and recognition from his community. Through this partially autobiographical tale, author Sherwood Anderson aims his critique on the rise of technology and industries at the turn of the century. At the same time, he recreates a story where nature has no judgments and beauty is troubling. Pobre blanco was praised by writers such as H. L. Mencken and Hart Crane when it was originally published. It remains a curiously contemporary novel and a marvelous testimony to Anderson.

Two inseparable cousins around 12 years of age, Ceporro and Chino, live in the large flat that belongs to their grandmother after the Civil War. Don Rodolfo, who used to go sparring with Uzkudun, gives them boxing classes. Echoes of the Second World War, Field Marshal Rommel and the Nippon Empire provide the backdrop to the story, and then a young German girl, an orphan and a refugee, appears out of nowhere. As well as being a beautiful story about saying goodbye to childhood, its greatest achievement is the voice of its narrator, Ceporro the tireless charlatan.

La poesía de Rubén Darío reúne todas las características del Modernismo. En lo formal, el cromatismo, la sonoridad y el ritmo. En los temas, lo exótico, lo mitológico y también un mundo interior desgarrado. Su poesía que llama la atención por la versatilidad: es frívola e intrascendente, pero también sensual, patriótica, grave y angustiada.

Una nueva entrega de la serie protagonizada por el detective William Monk Corre el año 1864 y el inspector William Monk, ahora miembro de la Policía Fluvial de Támesis, se enfrenta a un enemigo muy peligroso. Tras un largo juego del gato y el ratón, Monk ha capturado a Jericho Phillips, acusado de dirigir una red de prostitución infantil. Monk espera que se haga justicia y vengar así el recuerdo de Durban, su antiguo comandante, quien estaba decidido a prender a Phillips costara lo que costase. Sin embargo, Oliver Rathbone, el amigo de Monk, es contratado para representar a Phillips, y...