Luis: 2080 books

**NAMED NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR by Washington Post, BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Kirkus Reviews, NPR, Men's Journal A new short story collection from Luis Alberto Urrea, bestselling author of The Hummingbird's Daughter and The Devil's Highway.** From one of America's preeminent literary...

Description Dissident Cuban writer, photographer, and pioneering blogger Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo presents a collection of surreal, irony-laden photos and texts from his native city. His “diary of dystopia”—an unexpected fusion of images and words—brings us closer to Havana’s scaffolded...

Angel Luis Colón invites you on a short tour of the world as a literary mix tape to that strange Goth girl with the lazy eye who still wants nothing to do with you; no matter how good that fedora looks on your head. So what’s in store for your brain? Follow three major moments in...

Un retrato de época donde Luis Antonio de Villena viaja al Madrid maldito. Luis Antonio de Villena rinde aquí, en Malditos, su última novela, un homenaje a una época y a unos personajes en verdad memorables: el legendario Madrid de la «movida» de los años setenta y un grupo de jóvenes...

No fue hasta fines del XIX, que se hizo una buena edición de los Poemas de Fray Luis de León. Considerado por algunos un poeta místico, dejó poemas de notable sabor íntimo-religioso. Fray Luis es una de las voces más altas de toda la poesía en castellano. El propio Fray Luis dividió sus poemas...

Obra maestra de Fray Luis de León, y una de las cimas de la literatura española del Renacimiento. Aprovechando la pauta genérica del diálogo y conjugando elementos bíblicos, patrísticos y de la tradición grecolatina se alza aquí, sobe las columnas de los Nombres una armoniosa construcción...

Biblioteca Clásica de la Real Academia Española. Joyas universales de nuestras letras Admirada a lo largo de los siglos, aunque no siempre comprendida en toda su dimensión, la obra poética de Fray Luis nos llega en esta edición definitiva. Su lectura nos permite apreciar tanto la belleza...

Blacky Jaguar, ex-IRA hard man, devoted greaser, and overall hooligan, is furious. Someone’s made off with Polly, his 1959 Plymouth Fury, and there’s not much that can stop him from getting her back. It doesn’t take him to long to get a name, Osito, the Little Bear. This career bastard has Polly...

Esta valiosa publicación es una propuesta que surge justo cuando nuestro país tiene en sus manos una oportunidad única e histórica para impulsar su industria petrolera, en medio de un mercado petrolero internacional que le es muy favorable, y cuenta con una base de recursos...

In the nineteenth century, the Cuban economy rested on the twin pillars of sugar and slaves. Slavery was abolished in 1886, but, one hundred years later, Cuban authors were still writing antislavery narratives. William Luis explores this seeming paradox in his groundbreaking study Literary Bondage, asking...

Translated extracts from the memoirs of Luis Andrés Edo, an anarchist activist whose life was dedicated to the ‘Idea’ and the struggle for liberty. Throughout his life Luis Andrés Edo remained always both an untiring activist and an intellectual dynamo of the international libertarian...

Portugal's greatest poet, Luís de Camões is famous for his epic poem ‘The Lusiads’ and his mastery of lyrical verse. His influence is so profound that Portuguese is sometimes simply referred to as the ‘language of Camões’. The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of literature's finest...

Times of Victory by Pedro Luis Adames Valdez A Place Under God's Wing The Meditations of Pedro Luis Adames Valdez The topic of religion is one that's becoming increasingly contested with the advent of globalization as it became increasingly apparent that there are more many more faiths out there than...

Primera página son las memorias de Juan Luis Cebrián, primer director de El País, pero también el apasionante relato de los convulsos años que llevaron a España de una sangrienta y rancia dictadura a la democracia, contado por un testigo imprescindible. Nacido en Madrid en 1944, en una...