Estudios sobre lírica antigua

La Expedición a Argel es un diario de la invasión española a Argel de 1775. Su autor, Carlos Gutiérrez de los Ríos, fue el VII conde de Fernán-Núñez y ocupó puestos de relevancia en el servicio diplomático de España que le permitieron ser un cronista privilegiado de los grandes sucesos del siglo XVIII. La expedición fue una operación de desembarco española para intentar tomar la ciudad de Argel en julio de 1775. El rey Carlos III había encomendado su conquista a Alejandro O'Reilly, al frente de una fuerza combinada de tropas navales y terrestres de cerca de cincuenta barcos y...

El Alumno focuses on the relationship between a preceptor, his intelligent and quirky disciple his family. The author guides us with exquisite skill toward an ending as unexpected as masterful. The tone of the work, strongly emotional, reaches certain passages in the dignity of the old Greek tragedies.

La casa de Bernarda Alba (The House of Bernarda Alba) was one of the last plays to be written by Lorca, shortly before he was executed by the Franco regime at the age of 38, in 1936. It was not performed until 1945 several years after his death. Along with Blood Wedding and Yerma it forms Lorca's Rural Trilogy.

A Spanish director, playwright, and actor shares a new philosophy on life that was formed after he suffered from an illness--topics that appear in the majority of his films.