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Popular American essayist, novelist, and journalist CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER (1829-1900) was renowned for the warmth and intimacy of his writing, which encompassed travelogue, biography and autobiography, fiction, and more, and influenced entire generations of his fellow writers. Here, the prolific writer turned editor for his final grand work, a splendid survey of global literature, classic and modern, and it's not too much to suggest that if his friend and colleague Mark Twain-who stole Warner's quip about how "everybody complains about the weather, but nobody does anything about it"-had...

Ricardo Palma comenzó a publicar sus Tradiciones en 1860. Sin embargo, las Tradiciones en salsa verde y otros textos, al parecer manuscritas desde 1901 y transcritas en 1904, no fueron escritas para ser publicadas. En razón de esto último, el autor solicitaba a su amigo Carlos Basadre la mayor discreción pues temía que su libro cayese en las manos de "gente mojigata, que se escandaliza no con las acciones malas sino con las palabras crudas".

Esta obra ofrece una historia de las sociabilidades mediadas por el consumo de embriagantes en la ciudad de México del Porfiriato tardío a la Posrevolución. Este libro combina enfoques de la historia social, cultural, urbana y de género para comprender el mundo de las pulquerías, cantinas y, en general, los despachos de bebidas embriagantes en un periodo caracterizado por la crisis económica, la inestabilidad política y el malestar social.

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