Gisáele Freund

Figura insolita en el panorama artistico de su epoca (1593-1653) y una de las pocas mujeres que alcanzo la fama en el ambito de la pintura. Sus cuadros se encuentran hoy en las principales pinacotecas del mundo.

The New York Times–bestselling author of The Keep tells the real and fictional origins of the mysterious man who battles criminals and the supernatural. In 1984, Repairman Jack debuted in F. Paul Wilson’s horror thriller The Tomb. Jack would go on to star in twenty-three novels, ten short stories, and a graphic novel. But how did the antithesis of James Bond and Jason Bourne get his start in the battle between good and evil? In this essay, Wilson lets his readers in on how his beloved hero came to be. Wilson begins his personal story after he scored a hit with The Keep, when he found his...

A major literary event—the long-awaited publication of George Orwell's diaries, chronicling the events that inspired his greatest works. This groundbreaking volume, never before published in the United States, at last introduces the interior life of George Orwell, the writer who defined twentieth-century political thought. Written as individual books throughout his career, the eleven surviving diaries collected here record Orwell’s youthful travels among miners and itinerant laborers, the fearsome rise of totalitarianism, the horrific drama of World War II, and the feverish composition of ...

Many thought of her as Queen Nancy. Others as the Dragon Lady. But for millions of Americans, Nancy Reagan was the always-smiling and deeply admiring presidential spouse who stood by her man; that image lingers still in the touching picture of a bereaved widow at her husband's casket. Nancy Reagan has stirred passionate defenders and acerbic critics in many books and the media. James Benze, however, is the first biographer to discuss the effect of her acting background on her tenure as first lady. Unlike earlier biographers, he focuses on the way she applied her acting skills to meet the...

El libro contiene: 1. Un breve estudio introductorio a la obra de Poe. 2. Una edición de ocho de sus relatos más famosos: La caída de la casa de Usher, Ligeia, El gato negro, El pozo y el péndulo, William Wilson, La máscara de la muerte roja, La carta robada y El escarabajo de oro. 3. Una guía de lectura con propuestas de trabajo de esos y otros textos de Poe.