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Extensa colección de cuentos cortos de Leopoldo Alas, Clarín. Los relatos que recoge este volumen abarcan desde lo satírico a lo onírico, pasando por lo costumbrista o lo más lírico. Leopoldo Alas, también conocido como «Clarín», es un escritor español nacido en Zamora en 1852 y fallecido en Oviedo en 1901. Articulista, novelista, crítico literario y profesor en las universidades de Zaragoza y de Oviedo, se le considera una de las plumas más afiladas de las letras españolas, entre otras obras por su monumental novela La Regenta.

Natalia Toledo'sThe Black Flower and Other Zapotec Poems, with an award-winning translation by Clare Sullivan, describes contemporary Isthmus Zapotec life in lush, sensual detail. In Toledo's poems of love and loss the world's population turns into fish, death is a cricket, and naked women are made of wet magma.The Black Flower won the Nezhualcóyotl Prize, Mexico's highest honor for indigenous-language literature, in 2004. FINALIST FOR THE 2016 NATIONAL TRANSLATION AWARD! LONGLISTED FOR THE 2016 BEST TRANSLATED BOOK AWARD!

A new translation of Dante's Purgatorio that celebrates the human elements of the second part of The Divine Comedy. This is a bilingual edition with an illuminating introduction from the translator. Purgatorio, the middle section of Dante’s great poem about losing, and subsequently finding, one’s way in the middle of one’s life is, unsurprisingly, the beating heart of The Divine Comedy, as this powerful and lucid new translation by the poet D. M. Black makes wonderfully clear. After days spent plumbing the depths of hell, the pilgrim staggers back to the clear light of day in a state of ...

The inspirational words in this sensitive anthology present an empowering message and a reminder that anything is possible . . . "With God by Your Side." These words help shine a light on life's most difficult times.