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La araña y el alacrán eran amigos, jugaban juntos y prometieron nunca hacerse daño el uno al otro. Hasta que un día, el alacrán rompe su acuerdo...

The titles included in this exceptional series gather the masterworks of some of world literature's most celebrated names. Painstaking translations from the original English, German, Greek, and Russian preserve the essence of these classics for a Spanish-speaking audience, and the books themselves are elegantly and impeccably bound, as befits the contents. Whether drama, fiction, or philosophy, these magnum opera provide windows into social and historical contexts considerably different to the present day. From the classic novels Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass...

A través del examen de las Actas del Cabildo y de las crónicas de Indias, el autor destaca los elementos de teatralidad presentes en las fiestas y los espectáculos propios de la Ciudad de México en el siglo XVI.

A pithy and brilliant introduction to Susan Sontag’s writing on women, gathering early essays on aging, equality, beauty, sexuality, and fascism Susan Sontag was one of the most formidable, original, and influential thinkers of the last century. “The most interesting ideas are heresies,” she remarked, and indeed, her writing rejects the familiar and refuses party lines. On Women presents seven essays and exchanges, spanning a range of subjects: the challenges and humiliations women face as they age; the relationship between women’s liberation and class struggle; beauty, which Sontag...