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Khalil Gibran (January 6, 1883 – April 10, 1931) was a Lebanese artist, poet, and writer. Born in the town of Bsharri in the north of modern-day Lebanon (then part of Ottoman Mount Lebanon), as a young man he immigrated with his family to the United States, where he studied art and began...

El Norte Grande de Chile, ha contribuido a otorgarle a este país una nueva y rica sonoridad: la andina. La Nueva Canción Chilena usó estos recursos. El sonido de la quena, zampoña y charango ayudó a saber algo más de este desconocido territorio para el resto de los chilenos. La obra de Osvaldo...

Anna Katharine Green (November 11, 1846 – April 11, 1935) was an American poet and novelist. She was one of the first writers of detective fiction in America and distinguished herself by writing well plotted, legally accurate stories. Green has been called "the mother of the detective novel."...

Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (29 January 1867 – 28 January 1928) was a journalist, politician and best-selling Spanish novelist in various genres whose most widespread and lasting fame in the English-speaking world is from Hollywood films adapted from his works. A further two Hollywood...

Ellen, la mère, est décédée la première, et Joseph-Alphonse a passé le restant de sa vie à s’ennuyer d’elle. L’un après l’autre, Rose, Keenan, Blanche, Peg, Lou, Bonhomme, Pit et Bijou sont venus les rejoindre au cimetière d’en haut de la côte. Il reste Thérèse, qui va souvent...

L'Île aux Grues, qui compte quelque 250 habitants, accueillit un jour un voyageur un peu pressé qui ne s'y rendait que pour y faire un saut, histoire de saluer ses parents avant de partir pour un long voyage en Europe. Que faisaient ses parents dans une île aussi peu fréquentée, eux qui avaient...

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 – 1832) was a German writer and politician. His body of work includes epic and lyric poetry written in a variety of metres and styles; prose and verse dramas; memoirs; an autobiography; literary and aesthetic criticism; treatises on botany, anatomy, and colour; and...

Joseph Smith Fletcher (7 February 1863 – 30 January 1935) was a British journalist and author. He wrote more than 230 books on a wide variety of subjects, both fiction and non-fiction. He was one of the leading writers of detective fiction in the "Golden Age". In this ebook: The...

Eleven Possible Cases (Crime Stories Collection) Author: Frank R. Stockton         Franklin Fyles         Joaquin Miller         Maurice Thompson        ...

Elyria, 28 anni, ha un lavoro stabile e un marito a New York: ma un giorno, senza dare spiegazioni, molla tutto e parte con un volo di sola andata per la Nuova Zelanda. Passerà mesi a vagare in autostop fra le campagne di quel paese sconosciuto, incrociando le vite di altre persone e tentando di...

James Maurice Thompson (September 9, 1844 – February 15, 1901) was an American novelist. His most successful and well-known novel was Alice of Old Vincennes. The novel vividly depicted Indiana during the Revolutionary War. In this ebook: A Fortnight of Folly Hoosier Mosaics Alice of Old Vincennes The mystic krewe.  

«Un certo Lucas» prosegue il percorso iniziato da Cortázar con il suo capolavoro «Storie di cronopios e di famas», con cui ha trasformato la letteratura in un mondo ludico e dissacrante. Non è una raccolta di racconti, non è un romanzo, né un’opera di saggistica. Pubblicato per la prima...

Chi scrive i nostri libri è il secondo volume dell’epistolario di Julio Cortázar: dopo le lettere ad amici scrittori raccolte in Carta carbone, è la volta della sua corrispondenza editoriale.Lettere argute e appassionate a editori, giornalisti, traduttori, critici letterari, registi che hanno...

«Così violentemente dolce» raccoglie una selezione delle più appassionate lettere politiche di Julio Cortázar. Siamo di fronte a uno scrittore che, dopo la Baia dei Porci e il ’68, scopre un impegno politico fino a quel momento sopito.Una presa di coscienza per le problematiche argentine e...