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Parafraseando sus propias palabras podríamos interpretar que para ella no había problemas del hombre ni de la mujer, sino problemas del ser humano. Sin embargo, no podemos prescindir del hecho de que en sus novelas estos problemas están encarnados en su mayor parte, al igual que en las de las autoras que inician su producción después de la guerra, en mujeres; mujeres fuertes e independientes, que tienen el valor de enfrentarse, casi siempre, a su destino, para bien o para mal, solas. Alba Grey se presenta desde el primer momento como un personaje fascinante, fuerte y carismático, cuya...

George MacDonald Fraser (1925-2008) es autor de numerosos guiones cinematográficos y de varias novelas de tono humorístico, entre las que destaca la serie sobre Harry Flashman (Royal Flash, ¡Tres hurras por Flashman!, Flashman a la conquista de Abisinia...), publicada íntegra en Edhasa.

The aim of this anthology is to present a selection of plays that are representative of a fresh spirit and of societal pressures and changes in Spanish American culture. The plays shun the earlier realistic, sentimental, and melodramatic conventions of Spanish American theater. Instead, they reflect the tenor of the dramatic imagination of the mid-to-late twentieth century—an imagination that sought new forms and ways of expressing a new awareness of the Spanish American dilemma. In selecting these plays, William I. Oliver looked for more than mere illustrations of these changes. As a...

"La Quijotita y su prima" (1818) The Quijotita and her Cousin is Joaquin Fernandez de Lizardi's (1776-1827) second novel. Written two years after his best known novel "Periquillo sarniento" (1816), regarded as the official initiator of the novel genre in Spanish America, in "La Quijotita..." Fernandez de Lizardi extends his view on society to encompass the female condition. In tune with his liberal stance the author states with clarity the active role women should play within the new Mexican society, and highlights the importance of educating them along modern principles. Composed mainly of...