Cuentos de reflexión

Success-it's something everyone hopes for but few have the fortitude and endurance necessary to achieve it, especially when confronted by one adversity after another. Lupe Cordoba knows that hard work and determination are the traits necessary to achieve success, and she used these strong personal qualities to rise to her position as a nationally acclaimed restaurateur. Cordoba seemed to encounter nothing but hardships and obstacles throughout her life, and in La Morenita: The Story of Lupe Cordoba, she candidly illustrates how her life developed from an idyllic childhood in a small Mexican...

• Cuento para la noche de Reyes • Historia de la criada Gudule • La princesa de las azucenas rojas • Narración del estudiante • Los agujeros de la máscara Jean Lorrain es el seudónimo de Paul Alexandre Martin Duval (Fécamp, 1855 - París, 1906) escritor francés del movimiento simbolista.

Utilizando un amplio acervo de datos, citas, textos y ensayos de autores del siglo pasado y, por supuesto, considerando fundamentalmente lo expresado por Freud, el autor analiza los ideales erticos y la conducta sexual de la clase media victoriana.

The fourteenth-century Spanish classic in which Juan Manuel sets out to solve some of the most important problems facing man, and illustrates his solutions by a series of short stories which have delighted readers for centuries and have inspired major Hispanic writers ever since, is beautifully adapted for young readers.