Carta a la Tierra

Dorothy Day (1897-1980) fue ante todo una mujer orgullosa de serlo, que apreció la familia como comunidad, donde se establece la relación entre lo personal y lo comunitario. Una mujer que amó el mundo, amó a su hija, a su familia, especialmente a su hermano pequeño, John, de quien le separaban catorce años, a sus amigos, a los hombres y a Dios. Anheló el amor humano y deseó fervientemente despertar al lado de un hombre. «Yo no podía ver que el amor entre el hombre y la mujer fuera incompatible con el amor a Dios».

The Dramatic Imagination of Robert Browning offers an accessible and authoritative guide to the essentials of Robert Browning's life and poetry. Drawing from his personal letters and from the diaries and memoirs of his contemporaries, this literary biography provides a wealth of information about the main events of his life, including the social, political, religious, and aesthetic issues that concerned him; it offers critical commentary defining the central characteristics of his poetry; and it tracks the changes in his reputation through contemporary reviews and the growth of the Browning...

Here is the dime-novelesque biography of the most infamous bandit in the history of the West, for decades a source of fear and legend in the newly founded state of California. To both Mexicans and Indians, Murrieta became a symbol of resistance to the displacement and oppression visited on them in the wake of the Mexican-American War (1846-1848), particularly by the ñForty-Ninersî who flooded into the region during the California gold rush. In his introduction, literary critic Luis Leal has researched and written the first definitive history of the Murrieta legend in its various...

En estas extraordinarias conversaciones, el lector queda atrapado por la inteligencia, el ingenio y el descaro de Truman Capote, del que se ha dicho que convirtió la charla en un arte y el chismorreo en literatura. Aquí el autor se despacha sobre personaj