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"El presente volumen de la Serie Cuadernos de Humanidades celebra los cumpleaños de tres clásicos de la literatura colombiana: 150 años de María por Jorge Isaacs; 50 años de Cien años de Soledad por Gabriel García Márquez; 40 años de Qué viva la música por Andrés Caicedo. Estas tres obras pertenecientes al canon literario colombiano son también referencia literaria mundial. Este volumen comparte los textos presentados en los homenajes...
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Las cartas que aquí se presentan constituyen un valioso material de archivo que contribuirá, sin duda, a reconstruir la historia del Perú posbélico y a repensar las estrategias discursivas que Clorinda Matto de Turner utilizó para tejer redes a distancia con Ricardo Palma y otras figuras clave de la cultura latinoamericana de su tiempo.
Este epistolario editado y anotado ofrece la oportunidad de cartografiar el campo intelectual peruano en los...
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Letters--mostly of the nuts-and-bolts, practical variety--between Thomas Wolfe and his literary agent, Elizabeth Nowell. Nowell served as Wolfe's editor for many of his short stories, paring them down to make them acceptable to magazines. Oddly enough, his attitude toward her was grateful rather than adversarial, and their deep mutual respect is clearly evident in these letters.Originally published in 1983. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press...
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Pierre Vadeboncoeur et Pierre Elliott Trudeau ont été d'inséparables copains de l'école primaire jusqu'à l'université, pour ensuite devenir collaborateurs à la revue Cité libre et camarades de luttes contre le duplessisme. Cette bonne entente a duré jusqu'à ce qu'ils s'affrontent dans les années 1960 sur l'avenir de la nation québécoise. L'un étant souverainiste et socialiste, l'autre, le fédéraliste que l'on connaît. Pourtant, l'affection...
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La vinculación entre Gabriela Mistral y seis presidentes de la República es materia central de estas páginas. Ella mantuvo correspondencia frecuente con dos de ellos –Pedro Aguirre Cerda y Eduardo Frei Montalva–, cuya lectura permite ahora un interesante acercamiento al fuero interno de la Nobel de Literatura 1945.
En esas cartas se revela mucho de su carácter, sus sentires y expectativas vitales, sus modos de expresar afectos e incluso algunas...
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El autor es pediatra y Capitán de Yate. En este libro nos relata la larga travesía que en 2018 emprendió con su velero, el Corto Maltés, para dar la vuelta a Francia.
Saliendo de Santander ascendió la costa atlántica hasta Bretaña, a continuación el Canal de la Mancha hasta cerca de la frontera con Bélgica, y finalmente el descenso por los ríos y canales del interior de Francia hasta el Mediterráneo.
Sorprendentemente los mares gruesos...
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The hilarious annual collection of readers' letters that were just too left-field, outrageous or witty to make the pages of The Telegraph. Telegraph letters page remains a rare bastion of well-written, carefully edited wit on the topics of the day. In this fifth volume of wise, waggish and downright outrageous letters for which there wasn't enough space – or editorial stomach – in the paper, we offer another hilariously alternative review of the...
69) Living On Luck
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Living on Luck is a collection of letters from the 1960s mixed in with poems and drawings. The ever clever Charles Bukowski fills the pages with his rough exterior and juicy center.
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Existen un sinnúmero de investigaciones sobre la Guerra del Pacífico, pues ha sido uno de los eventos más dramáticos y decisivos de nuestra historia nacional. A pesar de ello, no todo esta dicho. Aún hay mucho por descubrir y material por estudiar.
El Estado en la sombra (Fondo editorial PUCP, 2016) es uno de los estudios historiográficos sobre la Guerra más relevantes en el que podemos conocer el testimonio directo de dos de sus protagonistas:...
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Notas de diarios, cartas, pensamientos, descripciones sirven al joven Justo Sierra para contarnos la vida de Antonio, un joven músico que abandona su lugar de origen en la costa para trasladarse a la Ciudad de México y terminar su formación musical para dedicarse a la composición.
En ese empeño, el protagonista avanza en su arte y se adentra al núcelo de la vida social y cultural del México de mediados del siglo XIX. Inteligencia, agudeza...
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A finales de 1883, el pintor Claude Monet se instala en la aldea francesa de Giverny. Allí vivió durante 43 años, creando a la vez que su obra pictórica esa obra de arte total que fue su jardín: flores, agua, puentes, caminos, árboles... tal como deseaba verlos y pintarlos. Monet fue un enamorado de la naturaleza, con una aguda sensibilidad hacia la luz, los efectos y las vistas que conseguía pintando "à plein air".
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"One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014" Robert N. Hudspeth is Research Professor of English at the Claremont Graduate University and professor emeritus of English at Redlands University. He is the editor of The Letters of Margaret Fuller and the author of Ellery Channing.
This is the inaugural volume in the first full-scale scholarly edition of Thoreau's correspondence in more than half a century. When completed, the edition's three...
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F. Scott Fitzgerald vivió 44 años. Una vida de excesos, de subida a los cielos y descenso a los infiernos. Con tan solo 23 años se vuelve rico y famoso de la noche a la mañana, y tan adepto al despilfarro como a la belleza, tan adicto al alcohol como a la literatura.
Este libro de cartas, muchas de ellas inéditas en castellano, abarcan el período desde el momento en que se convierte en un escritor reconocido hasta sus últimos días en Hollywood,...
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The ten letters collected here are arguably the most famous and beloved letters of our century. Written when Rainer Maria Rilke was himself still a young man with most of his greatest work before him, they are addressed to a student who had sent Rilke some of his work, asking for advice about becoming a writer. The two never met, but over a period of several years Rilke wrote him these ten letters, which have been enjoyed by hundreds of thousands...
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Alfred Wainwright, the legendary fell walker and author of the incomparable and unique Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells was also a fluent, eloquent and diligent correspondent. Writing to old friends and to the many new ones gained through his books, and to his love, and later second wife, Betty, his letters display a much warmer, more sensitive and emotional character than his gruff popular image would suggest. Hunter Davies, Wainwright's biographer,...
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Get the Summary of Christina Sharpe's Ordinary Notes in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Christina Sharpe's "Ordinary Notes" delves into the complexities of Black life, memory, and resistance. She draws parallels between historical and contemporary forms of racism, from the forced labor and rape in a Georgia prison labor camp in Toni Morrison's "Beloved" to the Nazi Documentation Center in Nuremberg, where memorials...
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Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur (1735-1813), a French-American writer, was responsible for the first American novel deemed successful throughout Europe. With "Letters From an American Farmer", Crèvecoeur depicted the newly settled America as a country, and not just a system of colonies. This epistolary novel gave America an identity, expounding on the concept of The American Dream, with its themes of equal opportunity and self-determination, while...
79) Letters from Nan
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Have you ever seen someone running pell-mell into disaster? You want to stop them, but you can't get there in time. Nan saw this begin to happen to her precious granddaughter, so she started writing her letters. She has made a multitude of mistakes-from ignorance or willfulness. Her heart's desire is for others to hear her stories and make choices according to God's plan for their lives.
The gist of this book is shared experiences from lessons Nan...
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In this collection we find two of Cicero's philosophical treatises, "On Friendship" and "On Old Age". In Cicero's treatise on friendship we learn of his belief that true friendship with someone is derived from complete honesty, truth and trust. Cicero placed a high value upon friendship and saw it as a relationship of mutual benefit in which friends do things for each other without expectation of repayment. In a related philosophical writing on the...
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