La suerte de mi destino

An exceptional biography of the incomparable Colombian romantic poet and author examines Pombo not only as the excentric lover and admirer of the night, and a man inclined to dress himself as a woman, but also his rarely mentioned sides--engineer, nihilist, military man, patriot, and advocate of Bogotá's nineteenth-century culture.

El dolor de sufrir una pérdida es lo que marca el inicio de un proceso de duelo. Cada pérdida es única y solo la puede sentir y calificar quien siente lo que perdió. Pero hay algo común en todas las pérdidas: la importancia de sanarlas y trascenderlas para poder seguir adelante y fortalecidos. Y la única forma es haciendo un duelo consciente. ¿Cómo se hace un duelo consciente? Responder esta pregunta es el propósito del libro. Si bien es cierto que hay pérdidas para las cuales estamos más "preparados" debido al orden natural como, por ejemplo, perder a nuestros abuelos o a...

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...

Philip Norman's family considered themselves genteel yet somehow became involved in the opportunistic world of seaside trade on the Isle of Wight. With masterly skill, Norman recreates his upbringing among this gallery of social misfits - his handsome but unstable father Clive, once a dashing RAF officer, now a reluctant showman at the end of Ryde Pier, his pub-owning Uncle Phil, who dresses as a woman every New Year's Eve, and his irresistible Grandma Norman who presides over her rock kiosk and rules the troubled family like a Mafia don. The year is 1953. While Britain celebrates the...