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Los Poemas de José Jacinto Milanés muestran su espíritu melancólico y reflejan los altibajos de sus continuas depresiones.Milanés fue más que un poeta maldito un poeta maldecido por sus propias angustias y su extremo romanticismo visible en sus poemas.

Abdala es una obra de referencia en el independentismo de Cuba y uno de los textos clave del modernismo. La obra transcurre en un país islámico en el que, ante una amenaza extranjera, Abdala, el protagonista, decide ir a la guerra.

El ritmo desbordante, las metáforas deslumbrantes y el empleo sugestivo, seductor y colorista del lenguaje, se unen aquí en su forma más madura a los descubrimientos métricos y rítmicos de extrema musicalidad. El resultado son poemas que parecen excelsas sinfonías.Su esteticismo y sus temas...

Félix Varela y Morales (teólogo, sacerdote, investigador cubano). Hijo de un militar español. A los seis años vivió con su familia en La Florida. Allí cursó la primera enseñanza. En 1801 regresó a La Habana y entró en el Seminario de San Carlos y San Ambrosio. En 1806 obtuvo el título de...

Esta obra dramática relata un conflicto dinástico ambientado en Mauritania.

Couchsurfer, hitchhiker, and rogue wanderer Jamie Maslin embarks on a couchsurfing adventure to the homeland of “firebrand,” “populist,” “anti-American” president Hugo Chavez: the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. Alone in the crime capital of the world Maslin immediately finds himself in...

“I did not go to Nicaragua intending to write a book, or, indeed, to write at all: but my encounter with the place affected me so deeply that in the end I had no choice.” So notes Salman Rushdie in his first work of nonfiction, a book as imaginative and meaningful as his acclaimed novels. In The...

DESCRIPTION A dizzying, fast-paced tour of Latin America from one of the Spanish-speaking world’s most outstanding writers. Lamenting not having more time to get to know each of the nineteen countries he visits after winning the prestigious Premio Alfaguara, Andrés Neuman concludes that...

Before Fidel Castro seized power, Cuba was an ebullient and chaotic society in a permanent state of turmoil, combining a raucous tropical nature with the evils of arbitrary and corrupt government. Yet this fascinating period in Cuban history has been largely forgotten or misrepresented, even though it...

"The old pacific capital" (1882) is an account of a journey undertaken by Robert Louis Stevenson in Monterey, Mexico, in 1880. The work is written in the form of essay and in the first part describes in detail the flora and vegetation of the area, considered very impressive by the Scottish...

A classic portrait of an unforgettable country from one of Britain’s best loved writers Following a period of illness, Rudyard Kipling followed his doctor’s advice and took off, with his wife, on a long sea voyage from Southampton to Brazil. While in South America he wrote seven gripping travelogues,...

Drawing upon three decades of working, traveling, and living in Central America’s remote and dangerous landscapes, this memoir chronicles a journalist’s fascinating experiences with the people, politics, archaeology, and species of the rainforest, the cradle of Mayan civilization. The intense...

An American who cannot afford to live in his own house escapes to Panamá. Finds himself in Heaven - a beautiful land with wonderful people - but finds corrosive civilization coming ever nearer this fragile alien world. In this travel memoir, novelist James David Audlin tells of his adventures...

The Andes form the backbone of South America. Irradiating from Cuzco--the symbolic "navel" of the indigenous world--the mountain range was home to an extraordinary theocratic empire and civilization, the Incas, who built stone temples, roads, palaces, and forts. The clash between Atahualpa,...