La luna sobre el agua

In this rhyming picture book with very little text, a dog steals a boy's teddy bear and the child chases after him. Along the way, he sees many bears, but he is looking for one special one in particular.

A collection of poems, including "The Massacre," "No Harm Shall Come," "Touched," "Evensong," and "Amberose Triste"

This volume contains an examination of what are described as the most poetic examples of Chilean prose written in the 20th century. By adopting Ralph Freedman's conceptual definition of lyrical narrative and using it as her point of departure, Professor Kostopolos-Cooperman argues that the protean and magical nature of Bombal's lyrical prose transcends the causal, temporal and spatial movement that characterizes conventional fiction. In her view, Bombal's work is rather a narrative that arises in the poetic imagination of a narrator who creates a tapestry of expanding musical and pictorial...

Daniel Defoe (1660-1731), agente comercial, espía, periodista y escritor, publicó su primera novela, La vida y las extrañas y sorprendentes aventuras de Robinson Crusoe, marinero de York, a los cincuenta y nueve años, de forma anónima y haciéndolas pasar por auténticas memorias de un náufrago. El libro fue un éxito inmediato -ese mismo año se vendieron seis ediciones en Gran Bretaña, así como incontables ediciones pirata- y se tradujo enseguida a otras lenguas, llegando a convertirse con el paso del tiempo en una obra maestra de la literatura de aventuras y un clásico de la...