Garcia Moreno

Las apasionantes biografías de unas fascinantes mujeres que abandonaron el confort de sus mansiones por una vida nómada, y en ciudades como Bagdad, El Cairo, Damasco o Estambul aún se las recuerda. La lectura de Las mil y una noches despertó en un buen número de damas británicas, aristocráticas y aventureras, la fascinación por un Oriente de harenes, bazares, caravanas y nómadas beduinos. A comienzos del siglo XIX viajar más allá de El Cairo o Estambul era una peligrosa aventura: el pillaje, los despóticos pachás turcos, las epidemias, las duras travesías por el desierto,...

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...

This is the story and background of how an orphan Chinese boy, with Gods blessing, created the world-renowned Jade Pagoda and its priceless companion collection and how it was lost to not only 1.4 billion Chinese but also to the people of the United States and the world. The centerpiece of this jade collection is the Jade Pagoda that took the blood and sweat of 150 Chinese jade artisans over ten years to complete. It was carved from the largest jadeite boulder ever mined from a quarry in Northern Burma (Myanmar). These jade workers labored between 1922 and 1933 by hand-and-foot power, using...

El mundo literario chileno de los años 50 a los 70 tras bambalinas a través de la mirada de un testigo privilegiado Hernán Valdés, el autor de Tejas Verdes, convoca a varias generaciones de literatos y sus mundos literarios -los fantasmas-, y nos conduce por una aventura novelesca en la que sus vidas, su cultura, ideas, pasiones y andanzas, aparecen ante nosotros en su inmediato acontecer, en su presente, en las décadas del 50, 60 y 70: pobreza, sueños y amoríos; grandezas y flaquezas en las vidas de Jorge Teillier, Teófilo Cid, Stella Díaz Varín, Enrique Lihn, Pablo Neruda, Esther...