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William Godwin (1756-1836), padre de Mary Shelley, escribió abundantes ensayos sobre política, donde fue exponiendo su pensamiento de carácter anarquista -además de participar activamente en movimientos radicales de la época-, como su célebre Investigación sobre la Justicia Política. Caleb Williams surgió precisamente del estado mental en que le sumió la redacción de este ensayo. Las «aventuras» de Caleb Williams es una oscura y envolvente novela sobre la culpabilidad, la curiosidad malsana, el acoso y la persecución obsesiva. La primera parte describe la decadencia del noble...

"First-person narrative does not always fall under the genre of autobiography. In the centuries before the genre was defined, authors often patterned their personal narratives after prestigious discourses, such as hagiography, historiography, and the literary miscellany.Caballero noble desbaratado: Autobiografía e invención en el siglo XVI: "Noble Knight Disrupted: Autobiography and Invention in the Sixteenth Century analyzes several first-person narratives from Spain and the conditions of their writing and reception. It focuses on the sixteenth-century Libro de la vida y costumbres (Book...

During the 20th century in Mexico, Mexican literati formed literary groups and created new movements in poetry, short story, and essay centered around significant literary journals. This book is a study and analysis of the literary journal El Hijo Prûdigo and the generation of the early 1940s which brought Mexico into literary prominence. Outstanding collaborators of El Hijo Prûdigo include Octavio Paz, Agustin Y- Rò Rez, Josè R Vasconcelos, Alfonso Reyes, Josè R Revueltaz, and Francisco Rojas Gonzalez. This study also offers a complete critical indexing of the journal's contents.

Making a pact with the devil is not as easy as it looks. On one hand, you get fame and fortune for over 800 years, but, on the other hand, you have to become a vengeful being willing to condemn yourself to a lifetime of servitude. Prosper will try to avoid this by returning the devil Alastor to his world before he destroys her family. In order to accomplish this, she will have to avoid numerous traps, tricks, and Alastor's wicked sense of humor with only the help of her Uncle Barnabas, a witch's apprentice, and a cat with bat wings.