Myths in Crisis

Fernan Gonzalez lived from about AD 910 to 970. The popular image of him is of a fearsome warrior who gave his people protection from their enemies (both Muslim and Christian), and a wise and respected lord who enabled them to live in security and harmony. He was generally accepted to have played a strategic role in achieving independence for Castile and freeing it from dominance by the kingdom of Leon. The Poema de Fernan Gonzalez was composed (by an unknown author) in the mid-thirteenth century as an enduring celebration of his triumphs and account of his life and deeds. Fact and legend...

Alamedas Oscuras es una colección de relatos escrita inicialmente durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, en los que todo gira en torno al amor. Último libro de su vida, Bunin no dudó en considerarlo su mejor obra. Proponemos al lector una selección representativa de relatos, incluyendo el que da nombre al libro.

A study of letter-writing in Renaissance Spain. The subject of this book is the art of letter-writing in the Renaissance period, which, particularly in the case of Spain, has been unjustly neglected. The first part examines two major sixteenth-century treatises on letter-writing, Erasmus's Opus de conscribendis epistolis (1522) and Juan Luis Vives's De conscribendis epistolis(1536), concluding that the two were composed independently, rather than one being derived from the other. The author goes on to look at two important collections of letters, Fray Antonio de Guevara's Epístolas...

¿Qué puede suceder cuando un grupo de amigos, relacionados todos ellos con el mundo editorial neoyorquino, se lanzan a la investigación de un presunto asesinato ? ¿Saldrán indemnes de una investigación en la que, a medida que avanza, se vuelve todo más peligroso ? ¿O querrán seguir con ella porque, de pronto, han descubierto como vivir la aventura, incluso la del amor, con el riesgo pisándoles los talones ? Carol (Diane Keaton) y Larry (Woody Allen) traban amistad con sus vecinos, Paul y Lillian, una adorable pareja de personas mayores que parece llevarse de maravilla, un día antes ...