Yungo is a child who has lost something very important: his voice. To recover it, he will embark on a magical journey in which he will cross with a grasshopper that will lead him to the Beautiful Country. A new edition of Ana María Matute's children's stories, with texts revised by the author and new illustrations by Albert Asensio.
Dr. Edwin Spindrift, a professor of linguistics at the University of Moulmein, suffers a fall that will have a negative impact on his sexuality. After the loss of desire for his wife Sheila, Edwin contemplates the progressive disintegration of his marriage,
This book contains five short stories. The first of them, who gives title to the work, presents Poirot trying to unravel the mysterious disappearance of a young woman and her ruby. Other stories allow the most famous detectives of Agatha Christie to rivalate in sagacity: miss Marple starring "The Madness of Greenshaw" and Poirot, "The Mystery of the Spanish Case.".
Purchased by the demons of drink and madness, Branwell Brontë created a private world that was infernal. As a bold and talented child, he promised to be free from the government that his three sisters exercised over him, even though they adored him. But as an adult, the flame of the early genius twisted and turned off. Unable to sell his paintings or publish his books, and without the strength and resources to fight rejection, Branwell became a ghost in pathetic contrast to the amazing achievements of Charlotte, Emily and Anne.
Environmented in the court of Philip IV, he focuses on the figure of the painter Velázquez and his relationship with the surrounding environment, from an timeless perspective with attitudes and circumstances that could well be transplanted from the 17th century, in which the piece develops, to 1959, when it was written
Scout Finch is a six-year-old girl, an orphan of a mother, who lives with her brother, Jem, and her father, Atticus - a respectable lawyer - in the imaginary southern village of Maycomb. The children also have a friend, named Dill. The narrative takes place during a summer in the middle of the Great Depression and revolves around two episodes: on the one hand, to the fascination and terror that the children feel for the figure of Boo Radley, a mysterious and fermented neighbor; and on the other, the trial in which Atticus decides to act as a defender, in which a black man is accused of raping a white woman.
As the cruel battle of Stalingrad bleeds the Soviet and German armies, the protagonists struggle fiercely to survive the terror of the Stalinist regime and the horror of the extermination of the Jews.
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