Luis: 2080 books

Una selección de cuentos que Julio Cortázar calificó como «inolvidables» en diversas épocas de su vida. Una lista de cuentos que se abre pero no se cierra e involucra al propio Cortázar como lector junto con grandes autores de la Literatura contemporánea. Los cuentos son "El...

Joan Lluís Vives (Valencia, 6 de marzo de 1492-Brujas, 6 de mayo de 1540). España.Nació en Valencia en una relevante familia de la comunidad judía que se convirtió al cristianismo para proteger su integridad y sus propiedades. Sin embargo, los Vives practicaban el judaísmo en una sinagoga que...

Joan Lluís Vives (Valencia, 6 de marzo de 1492-Brujas, 6 de mayo de 1540). España.Nació en Valencia en una relevante familia de la comunidad judía que se convirtió al cristianismo para proteger su integridad y sus propiedades. Sin embargo, los Vives practicaban el judaísmo en una sinagoga que...

An NYRB Classics Original Thus Were Their Faces offers a comprehensive selection of the short fiction of Silvina Ocampo, undoubtedly one of the twentieth century’s great masters of the story and the novella. Here are tales of doubles and impostors, angels and demons, a marble statue of a...

Buddhism, love, Henry James, and the tango are just a few of the topics Jorge Luis Borges, Argentina’s master writer, and extraordinary conversationalist, discusses in the first volume of the remarkable new series, Conversations. The eighty-four-year-old blind man’s wit is unending and results...

Recorded during Jorge Luis Borges’s final years, this second volume of his conversations with Osvaldo Ferrari provides a wide-ranging reflection on the life and work of Argentina’s master writer and favorite conversationalist. In Conversations: Volume 2, Borges and Ferrari engage in a dialogue...

If you love historical thrillers, this novel will cut your breath from the beginning. Anchored in remote medieval origins and using a genetic distinctive feature as a red thread, the story starts in a castle in Nazi Germany, a SS training and command center. The plot leads first to Antarctica...

Mirage is a short story that tells a love story in a violent environment. A French officer who obeys an uncertain chain of command in North Africa is ordered to report on the fate of a group of refugees fleeing ethnic cleansing carried out by the Tuaregs in Mali. The expected relief from the world...

Sometimes we have a tendency to go through the motions while living our lives. This prevents us from fulfilling our potential and living our dreams. Occasionally we come across a few choice words that strike a chord and points us in a direction that helps us live our best lives. The words in this book are some of those words.

Se conservan media docena de piezas teatrales de Luis Belmonte; la más celebrada es El diablo predicador, y mayor contrario amigo. Apareció como escrito anónimo por el desenfado y libertad de algunos caracteres, y solo tuvo problemas con la censura muchos años después. Sus contemporáneos vieron...

A mesmerizing collection of poems of urban pain and immigrant alienation, humming with a current of genuine beauty and the pulse of life The Concrete River’s poems are dispatches from city corners that CNN viewers never see, that few dare visit, and that fewer still manage to escape. Rodríguez...

A collection of poems and short stories exploring my understanding of life, love and loss. Inspired by my death in July of 2016 and the events surrounding that time.

Xbox videogamer cholo cyberpunks. Infants who read before they talk. Vatos locos, romancing abuelos, border crossers and border smugglers, drug kingpins, Latina motorbike riders, philosophically musing tweens, and so much more. The stories in this dynamic bilingual prose-art collection touch...

El diablo está en Cantillana se inspira en sucesos del siglo XV: Un capitán bajo las órdenes de Jofre Tenorio, almirante de Castilla durante las turbulencias de la minoría de Alfonso XI, recorre las cercanías de Sevilla sembrando el pánico. El capitán ejercía especialmente sus desafueros en...