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La adversa fortuna de don Álvaro de Luna relata una conspiración en la que participó el marqués de Santillana contra don Álvaro de Luna, el hijo ilegítimo del copero mayor de Enrique III. Álvaro de Luna entró en la corte castellana como doncel de Juan II de Trastámara con el apoyo del Papa...

What is the relationship between our isolated and our social selves, between aloneness and interconnection? Constance M. Furey probes this question through a suggestive literary tradition: early Protestant poems in which a single speaker describes a solitary search for God. As Furey demonstrates,...

H.G. Wells was a legendary British author who wrote in many genres.  Wells’ most famous works were science fiction novels such as The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, and The Invisible Man.  This edition of Wells’ The Salvaging of Civilization includes a table of contents.

Maria Marotti applies a unique mixture of strains of contemporary literary theory to the body of posthumously published works so far published in the Mark Twain Papers series, examining these late, frequently incomplete or abandoned, and usually experimental, works in theoretical light. Marotti's...

As a playwright, a dissident, and a politician, Václav Havel was one of the most important intellectual figures of the late twentieth century. Working in an extraordinary range of genres – poetry, plays, public letters, philosophical essays, and political speeches – he left behind a range of...

“It took courage to do what Spalding did—courage to make theatre so naked and unadorned, to expose himself in this way and fight the demons in public. In doing so, he entered our hearts—my heart—because he made his struggle my struggle. His life became my life.”—Eric Bogosian“Virtuosic....

A surprisingly large number of English poets have either belonged to a secret society, or been strongly influenced by its tenets. One of the best known examples is Christopher Smart’s membership of the Freemasons, and the resulting influence of Masonic doctrines on A Song to David. However, many...

Amar después de la muerte es una historia de amor inspirada en un tema morisco y ambientado en las Alpujarras y Granada. El mundo islámico es presentado aquí con respeto y, en cierto modo, nostalgia.

En la mitología griega, Narciso es un hermoso joven, hijo del dios del río Cefiso y de la ninfa Liríope. Al nacer, sus padres consultaron al adivino Tiresias que dio el siguiente veredicto: «Vivirá hasta viejo si no se contempla a sí mismo». Todos se enamoraban de Narciso, pero él los rechazaba....

Esta es una versión del Quijote escrita por Juan de Matos Fragoso, Juan Bautista Diamante y Juan Vélez de Guevara.

The poems of Charles Baudelaire are filled with explicit and unsettling imagery, depicting with intensity every day subjects ignored by French literary conventions of his time. 'Tableaux parisiens' portrays the brutal life of Paris's thieves, drunkards and prostitutes amid the debris of factories...

WINNER OF THE 2018 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY TRANSLATION In this first US publication of celebrated Italian poet Bianca Tarozzi, narrative poems (presented bilingually in both English and the original Italian) carry us through the poet's childhood memories of World War II under...

Tragedia histórica, relata el asesinato de Busto Tabera por Sancho Ortiz, prometido de Estrella Tabera, la hermana del primero. El asesinato fue cometido por orden de Sancho IV.

El alcalde de Zalamea pertenece al ciclo de comedias históricas y legendarias de Calderón de la Barca, La niña de Gómez Arias, El sitio de Breda y La hija del aire. Las tropas españolas en guerra con Portugal se detienen en Zalamea. El noble capitán don Álvaro de Ataide es alojado en la casa...